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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW!

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The world's 101,803rd best selling author. I make music under the name Hazel Bee and write books under the name Hazel E. Baumgartner, which is also my name. 30, she/they, 99% lesbian, USA 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Buy my book: linktr.ee/HazelEBaumgartner

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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 3h
Who'd he threaten to bomb tonight? Us or a different country this time?
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 3h
Age yourself with a childhood crush She's an adulthood crush too, let's be real.
Mythbusters' Kari ByronMythbusters' Kari Byron
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 7h
(Reposting with alt text)
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 7h
Done though
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 7h
My second novel, #Heliruna, is out now! What happens when you start to find love after losing the love of your life, only for your dead lost love to come back as a jealous ghoul? Read it here: a.co/d/06QPF9M1 #WriterShareWednesday
Full book cover spread for the horror novel 'Heliruna' by Hazel E. Baumgartner.

Front cover: A misty gray landscape with several standing stone monoliths. A large stone formation stands in the foreground on the right, with smaller stones fading into fog in the background. At the top, large green text reads: “HELIRUNA”. Below it, smaller white text reads: “A HORROR NOVEL”. At the bottom, large white text reads: “HAZEL E. BAUMGARTNER”.

Back cover: White text on a black background reads:

“DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?

That’s the question that Sabine Stutz is forced to ask herself after a catastrophic accident kills her best friend and soulmate Cynthia Sullivan and leaves her partially paralyzed. With the help of her Oma, and a strengthening psychic connection to the long line of Cunning Women from which she is descended, Sabine must move past the tragedy that changed the course of her entire life if she ever wants a chance of rebuilding or finding love after death – especially when her jealous ex-fiancee may still be lingering...

Hel·i·ru·nas /ˌhɛl.ɪˈruːn.æs/ noun
 (Plural Heliruna or Helirunæ)
 [ORIGIN: from Old High German ‘Hel’ (‘death’) + ‘Runaz’ (‘Magic’)]
 FUTHARK ᚺᛖᛚᛁᚱᚢᚾᚨᛊ

A Gothic witch mentioned in Jordanes’ ‘Getica’ c. 551 CE
A seer or cunning woman”
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 7h
Hate that Bluesky still won't let us just add alt text after it's posted (or edit posts at all for that matter) 🙄
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Bradley Ramsey @imagine2create.bsky.social · 10h
Hello everyone! Bradley Ramsey here, writer of cosmic horror, sci-fi horror, and comedy horror as well. I have two answers: the first is life. There are organisms we've found living and growing in places they shouldn't. Second is potatoes (see the image below 😆) #HorrorWritersChat #AuthorSky
A man stands in a doorway saying "holy shit" while a plant monster asks "Where is the soil?"
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 8h
I'm like if your uncle who's obsessed with ghosts and Bigfoot and disappears into the mountains for days at a time were actually a lesbian.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 8h
My second novel, #Heliruna, is out now! What happens when you start to find love after losing the love of your life, only for your dead lost love to come back as a jealous ghoul? Read it here: a.co/d/06QPF9M1 #WriterShareWednesday
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 9h
My second horror novel, #Heliruna, is currently on sale until the end of October. Just $13.99 for the paperback right now, will go up after Halloween. Get it while it's hot! a.co/d/06QPF9M1
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 8h
I never had to deal much with kudzu, but bush honeysuckle has successfully taken over the state of Missouri.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 9h
My first book had a Chekov's Handgrenade 🤣
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 9h
My second horror novel, #Heliruna, is currently on sale until the end of October. Just $13.99 for the paperback right now, will go up after Halloween. Get it while it's hot! a.co/d/06QPF9M1
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 9h
I can go both ways on foreshadowing. I love to have a Chekov's gun that just doesn't go off. I also love a Chekov's Gun that goes off in an unexpected way. Or sometimes a red herring ends up being deadly. The best thing about knowing the rules is breaking them. #HorrorWritersChat
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 9h
My horror projects are actually somewhat on hold right now while out to beta readers. Instead I'm currently working on a silly fantasy book where my main character is learning that he's not just really tall for a gnome, he's secretly human! #HorrorWritersChat
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 9h
I'm Hazel, I write weird gay cryptid horror, and I also have a background in botany so the worst thing to find growing in a place where it shouldn't to me is any of a long list of invasive and aggressive plant species. #HorrorWritersChat
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 11h
I'm enjoying writing this silly little fantasy novel as a break from horror because an idea that started as a silly "what if bridge trolls were just six inches tall" ends up as a 3 1/2 page rant about why girl scout cookies are radicalizing our girls into hating capitalism (and rightly so).
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 12h
(This is just a mockup with unfinished artwork that's still in the pencil sketch phase to see how it looks on a book cover)
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 12h
Been playing around with pen names for my fantasy writing side gig. How do we feel about Corylyn Mellifera? Corylyn from Corylus, the genus that hazels belong to, and Mellifera from Apis mellifera, the honey bee. Corylyn Mellifera = Hazel Bee, the name I've been playing music under for five years.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw that the new Kindle is $500 😬 You know what's not $500? A paperback copy of "Heliruna: A Horror Novel", which is just $13.99 until November 1. a.co/d/00JtERSl
The cover for "Heliruna: A Horror Novel" by Hazel E. Baumgartner, showing a grey shadowy landscape of standing stones, similar to stonehenge, standing in single file and disappearing into dense fog as they get further from the viewer.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I got 1,718 done today. Not every day is a 10,000 word day I suppose.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Heliruna isn't on the #BannedBookWeek official list, but it certainly could be. While reading works by long dead authors is great, reading brand new releases by queer authors that They WANT to ban is arguably a better way to stick it to the man. If you like lesbian horror, try this. a.co/d/017Gf3NA
The cover of 'Heliruna' by Hazel E. Baumgartner. The title is in green in a medieval looking font, with a grey picture of standing stones fading into the fog. At the top of the book cover is an endorsement quote which reads, "The scariest goddamn thing I've ever read!" ~ Echo Porter
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
See that's a Blumhouse film and I'm looking forward to seeing it.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My hot take is that Blumhouse films aren't *bad* per se, they're just very often safe, predictable, and PG-13. I still enjoy a good many of them.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also, "president" should be in quotation marks. He was NOT duly elected, Kamala should NOT have conceded, and we should NOT sit quietly by and let him steal the midterms too.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I used to wonder how we were supposed to believe that cartoon villains like Lex Luthor existing could be believable, much less them holding power. Yesterday, the President of the United States asked an enemy to nuke Los Angeles. I don't think the cartoon villains were cartoonishly evil enough.
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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Enjoy my series: Book Marketing Sucks. I'm Going To Get Stupid With It. A series where I insert my book, Lost Infernal, into random photos because I decided this was a good idea while whacked out on cough syrup. I honour past me and her weird decisions. Lost Infernal: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBLTY4TJ
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You gotta hand it to Polis though. He showed America that a gay politician can be just as corrupt and unprincipled as a straight one. 🌈
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I suspect the real reason starts with a B and rhymed with "bribe".
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jared Polis is a spineless fucking coward. He better be apartment hunting in Mar-A-Lago 'cause the people of Colorado don't want him here.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ice can not be reformed it must be destroyed.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I like the president because he says things we're all thinking but not allowed to say." The 'president': "Bing bong. Shynah. It's called ultimate intelligence. Covfefe. Arnold Palmer was hung like a horse. The Islamic Republic of Japan. Epstein was a great guy, but I didn't know him."
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HELIRUNA IS LIVE! You can now grab a paperback copy over on Amazon! a.co/d/09uW87fc
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I also just noticed the error with the pronouns lol oops
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From #LastExitToMidnight. #WIPsnips
Something itched behind Fox’s ear, and they instinctively reached up to scratch it. There, they found a small bump, about the size of a grain of rice, protruding from the skin at the right side of the base of their skull.
	“What the hell is that?” they asked herself, scratching the bump. “Has that always been there?”
	Suddenly, a memory which they had been suppressing subconsciously for a very long time came flooding back. They were a
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There's some pretty good episodes and some not pretty good episodes.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The newest season of Futurama
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Idk, at this point "republican" is synonymous with "pervert". Hastert's legacy lives on in Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump, and Ken Paxton.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(And if you do have a Kindle already, the Kindle version is $3.49 for the foreseeable future, or free with Kindle Unlimited!)
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw that the new Kindle is $500 😬 You know what's not $500? A paperback copy of "Heliruna: A Horror Novel", which is just $13.99 until November 1. a.co/d/00JtERSl
The cover for "Heliruna: A Horror Novel" by Hazel E. Baumgartner, showing a grey shadowy landscape of standing stones, similar to stonehenge, standing in single file and disappearing into dense fog as they get further from the viewer.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Incidentally, Wyld Magick just hit 10,000 words.
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Meet my newest fabric art creation: Thundercloud Cuckoo the Neolithic Bird Statue. I designed and hand-sewed him, and I first created this style of bird in a dream a few months ago. Thundercloud enjoys appearing to people in their dreams. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
Here's a lovely photo of Thundercloud. He's a fabric art bird. He's a mottled dark and light gray, sort of like granite. He's a roundish bird with two tiny wings and a little face in the center of his body. He has two light gray eyes of slightly different sizes and an open light gray beak. There's green fur in the background.Here's another lovely photo of Thundercloud where he's resting on my palm.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This has got to be on top of every girl's Christmas Wish List, surely? #BookSky
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have to do this one 'cause it's silly. Excerpt is from my silly fantasy novel "Wyld Magick" that I'm working on as a palette cleanser between horror projects. #WIPsnips
somewhere. No, the current crowded condition of the MacDougaltyre-Gromble family, which consisted of only three members, was primarily caused by Glenda and Doug’s adopted son, Domnall.
“Son,” spoke Doug Gromble in his best ‘loving father’ voice. “It’s time that we had a little chat. See, I suspect that even a boy of your intelligence has come to notice that there’s something odd about you, something different between you and the other little gnomes at school.”
Unlike his parents, who sat on wooden stools, Domnall sat squarely on the floor, his back firmly against an interior wall of the mushroom house, his head craned against the ceiling at an odd angle, one foot sticking out the front door, and the other foot sticking into the kitchen where his toes were warmed by the wood-burning oven that baked cookies twenty four hours a day.
“Whatever do you mean, father?” He asked, shaking the ceiling-plaster loose from his unruly head of orange hair.
“Well, son,” Doug stuttered, his ‘loving father’ facade breaking for a moment as he struggled to find the best words. “You’re, uh, you’re a growing boy, and I’m sure that you’ve noticed that you’re growing, erm, much faster, perhaps, than the other lads in your class?”
Domnall looked down at his own body stretched across the living room. He nodded, shaking more plaster chips from the ceiling. “Sure,” he replied. “It’s what makes me so good at bugby. I’ve been telling you that I plan to go pro. Use those little pillbugs to be the first of the MacDougaltyre-Gromble clan to go to college…”
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rest in piss. Thanks for your instrumental role in turning the Republican Party into the party of pedophiles, abusers, and rapists. Your shit legacy lives on in Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, and Ken Paxton.
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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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