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Kate Brazier @katebrazierartist.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Good evening! I've spent all day fighting with this painting. Thankfully I won...

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This week's Saturday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, which is currently on sale in the UK in ebook for just 99p! And of course it's still available everywhere else at ordinary prices (& available in KU in some places). ♥️ stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen #romancelandia

An image of the British cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a man in a cloak riding headlong through the night towards an ominous castle with an illuminated, crowned female figure in its doorway and bats flying overhead in the moonlight. A potion vial surrounds that central image and is further framed by leaves and branches. Crows sit on the branches, and a tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sarah Beth Durst reads, 'Absolutely irresistible!'
Above and beside the cover is this snippet from the book:
Felix had never been more grateful for his concealing mask and cloak than when he'd emerged onto the tower roof to find Queen Saskia with her head thrown back, lips parted, a cloud of crows swirling around her and energy crackling so intensely through the air that it lifted the hair at the back of his neck.
It should have been a terrifying sight: the wicked witch of Kitvaria no doubt summoning a terrible storm of magic to rain down upon her enemies.
But it had stopped his breath for quite a different reason.

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's fall, time to draw a cat sitting in a tree

a small black cat sitting in a leafless tree back lit by the sunset

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Emily Rae 📚 @emilyrae.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

WWDITS x SIGN HERE Cenzo is thriving as a vampire, until a hunter injects him with a serum & turns him human. Now he has to EAT & BREATHE? Ridiculous. 😤 Cenzo must work with the hunter to reverse the effects—if his new human conscience doesn't get in the way. #QuestPit #A #FA #AG

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Amalie/AR Frederiksen @arfrederiksen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Publisher's Marketplace announcement of my book deal with Titan Books.

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Halley D. Roache @halleydroache.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Crawling out of my self-imposed writing isolation to squeal about this!!! Happy book birthday @elizmanderson.com 🥳🎉 So excited to get lost in the woods with Arthur 🥰🥰 #writingcommunity #booksky

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SimzArt @simzart.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Immemorial. 🦜

A character enjoying some fresh breeze on their patio. There's a ghost jackal/dog sitting next to them. The main subject is covered in tattoos showing bandages and symbols. On the patio there are a few plants and inside the house visible in the back there's a kitchen.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This week's Friday snippet comes from my fantasy rom-com Wooing the Witch Queen, which is out in ebook, paperback, and audiobook: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen #romancelandia

An image of the front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. Above and beside it is this snippet from the book:
Saskia’s crown of bones was poking into her skull, and it itched. She would have reached up to rearrange it—or at least to give her head a good scratch—but Morlokk loomed on one side of her massive throne while Mrs. Haglitz crouched on the other, both looking appropriately doom-ridden and forbidding. She couldn’t bear the looks of disappointment she would get if she let them down so badly.
So she lifted her chin and curled her upper lip into an appropriately disdainful sneer as she flicked her fingers in the direction of the great doors at the opposite end of the reception hall. They crashed open in response to her command, and she prepared to look unimpressed.
It wasn’t difficult.

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Bryanna/Brioche, Angry Noodle @theangrynoodle.com · 26/04/2026

I found the cutest fucking pattern on Etsy. My sisters loves gardening. She hasn’t grown any carrots yet, but she wants to. I made her this lil’ dude. Hopefully he will provide some encouragement and moral support. No name for him yet. He’s carrot dude. 🧶 🥕 🧑‍🌾

Crocheted carrot with arms and legs, wearing overalls and a neutral expression. Three leaves sprout out of its head. In the background is a bookshelf.

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Amalie/AR Frederiksen @arfrederiksen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Super excited and honored to have a short story in this one, among some truly amazing names! ✨

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be greetinge each othir "hey, miracle!" We sholde be daunsinge.

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Something a little different today -- a digital experiment! When I first found out about my paint allergy, I gave digital a try by painting on top of one of my color roughs from my last solo show in procreate. I didn't enjoy it enough to produce my finals this way, but it was fun to play around!

digital painting of a blonde-haired girl in a feather cloak hovering over a stone and holding her hand out to a crow as dark storm clouds roll in

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 12/04/2026

Entranced

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a gothic re-imagining of the "Beauty and the Beast" fairytale. A 19th century woman reaches for a door knocker on a pair of tall dark double doors. She's surrounded by goblins and twisting thorny branches.

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Splashhhh @splash52.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I just found out that tiny little field mice climb into flowers like tulips and take little naps in them like hammocks and I feel like this information is too important for me not to share with anyone. 🥹

A highly detailed photo of a field mouse snuggled up asleep inside a purple and yellow flower.

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crumbum @fuwolfman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I’m always impressed by someone who can do something well that I am bad at, so I am impressed a lot.

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Sebastien de Castell @decastell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I’m delighted to be in the upcoming “Into the Deep Dark Woods” anthology with such fantasy luminaries as Charles de Lint, who I’ve admired forever. It’s coming out in July and you can pre-order here: wordfirepress.com/products/int... #anthology #fantasy #comingsoon

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I'm getting married in TWO DAYS 👰👰🏿 and it would mean a lot to me to have the giveaway for my upcoming book promoted more (twenty copies up for grabs! I don't want to worry about social media this weekend!) so good people of Bluesky, please do your thing and repost this like mad.

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Book giveaway for The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley (Austentatious, #2) by Lindz McLeod Mar 06-Mar 31, 2026

Enter to win one of 20 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Mar 06-Mar 31, 2026. We’re giving away 20 copies of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLE...

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Fossilized Tree Resin @jamberee13.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Fun spring things: -starting a garden -picnics with friends -donning a gauzy dress to flee from a secluded manor into the misty woods and become something powerful and terrible that strikes fear into the townsfolk

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

my best guess is a vampire fell asleep on it last night

Water evaporating from a park bench in sunlight.

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Brian Condra (he/him) @briancondra.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

A stray day dream passing me by #clouds #photography

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Hemant Nayak -Fantasy Writer, ER doc, CROW & SHADOW 3/27 Del Rey @stillwriting.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

That's Crow coming straight at you! He's actually a raven, but when Shadow named him he didn't know that and thought he was a crow. Love this painting by @axelperugino.bsky.social Coming 3/23/27 @delreybooks.bsky.social

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ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

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Photo taken from the bus. The window is grimy and is obscuring the bottom half of the photo. Above that you can see the sun going down, really bright, below some lilac and white clouds. The sky is eggshell blue. There is a tree next to the sun. It has a thick branch forking up to the right. It looks like it is waving. Syreeta x

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Halley D. Roache @halleydroache.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I love this short with my whole soul so you should totally read it. Amazing world building and a ton of emotional depth packed into just a few pages 🥰 #writingcommunity #booksky

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

What's something that helps you in some way that you wish more people knew about?

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Gabriella Buba - Preorder Daughters of Flood and Fury @gabriellabuba.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We're ✨️Publishers Marketplace ✨️ Official! The Alchemist of Bohemia is a dark academia gothic romantasy delving into the haunted reputation of Hrad Houska a castle just north of Prague If these are the vibes you're after, I can't wait to take you with me 💜

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Saraiphim 🖤🩶🤍💜 @saraiether.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Yesterday my #locallibrary held a free class to make a mini bookshelf craft. I enjoyed it emensely and would highly recommend. Libraries aren't limited to borrow books. If you haven't recently, check to see what offerings yours may have. #supportlibraries #booksky 📚💙 #crafting

A tiny 'library' within an a tin the size of an Altoid container. Additional embellishment of a miniature cat on top of mini books and stickers of plants.

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

SHE’S AN AWARD WINNER!! Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear is the 2025 Mass Book Award winner for YA/MG. I wrote a weird genre mashy story about a Korean American adoptee with no special skills who just happened to be there when a magical zombie apocalypse hit. And now, it’s an award winner 🥹

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Kim M. Watt @kimmwatt.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

I will never get tired of catching the moon set over the hills first thing in the morning. This place is magic. (Although would not complain about sleeping past moonset, if brain could take a rest for five minutes...) #indieAuthors #funnyfantasy #CozyMysteries

Nearly full moon setting over winter trees and hills. There are scraps of clouds and a jet trail, and the light is all shades of blue

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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Here is a quick drawing of angry fairy and silly frogs.

a drawing of a fairy with long hair and a bat on their head, wearing a dress and wielding a sword, there are also pencil drawings of human shaped frogs.

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 17/02/2026

reminder that my queer cozy fantasy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS is Hugo eligible, and I'd love if you nominated it! it's about an old man cursed with immortality who hunts ghosts rather than making mortal friends who will die one day. also it's about grief. and home. and a bunch of other stuff

E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits. the cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline "living forever is mighty lonesome"

1-star review for The Keeper of Lonely Spirits from E.M. Anderson, reading, "Zero point five stars. Everyone is gay, the ghosts have no corporeal form, and the author is obsessed with death and grief. the immortal MC doesn't even look like a hot 25-year-old! I was promised a comfort read, but this is misery. also, what's with all the waistcoats." attached is half an aesthetic for the book, with images of faded flowers, a lonely cottage, an antique diary, yellow flowers in the sunset, headstones, a sprout growing through a crack, a mortuary statue, and a man in silhouette sitting alone. two textboxes read (1) "you get used to it" and "I hope I never get used to being alone" and (2) "that's what life is. you lose people you love and you love more people and you (text cuts off)"

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 14/02/2026

Asleep in the library 📚 Prints are available here: gallerynucleus.com/detail/41938/

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a fantasy library scene. A woman with auburn hair in a cream and gold ensemble sleeps on a sofa. Bookcases line the walls behind her. A goblin sleeps next to her, and another goblin climbs down from a bookcase behind them. A faint shadow of a figure falls over her.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Please sign my petition to start an Autumn Olympics where all events empty into a pile of delightful leaves and whatnot.

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Fabio @solitudinario.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🎨 Ulla Thynell

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Jeff de Boer @jeffdeboer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Another day another 16th Century mouse. I know this is not an in-depth demo of riveting I’m just sharing my day. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #rivetedjewelry #miniatureartist #metalarts

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 06/02/2026

The thing about trying a new thing like drawing or writing is you have to be willing to suck at it, sometimes for quite a long time. In our age of instant gratification, people don't want to go through that stage but I'm here to tell you it makes the day you produce something you truly love so sweet

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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver Not everyone will understand our choices. Living authentically is about trusting ourselves, caring for others where we can, and letting go of the need to explain everything. 🧡 #kindness Artwork by Katie Abey

Illustration on a bright orange background featuring a smiling cauliflower wrapped in green leaves, arms raised in celebration. A rainbow arches above with the words “I know what feels authentic for me. I am allowed to live a life that some people don’t fully understand.” Below is the caption “The cauliflower of self confidence.” Playful sparkles are scattered around. Picture by Katie Abey.

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

all at once the hedgebirds tell me look up #DailyHaikuPrompt (twittering)

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Daniel Cummings @nathanbrazil.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

With the scarcity of #souls these days, is it wise to buy from a merchant in a darkened alley? What are they really selling? Maybe gravedirt laced with gibbering madness. I've lived without for years, and rarely feel its absence. Only in the deepest night, when I feel the moon tugging at me. #vss365

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WIRED @wired.com · 30/01/2026

Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened. So here’s a quick thread to help.

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