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Helen Pryke, Author

@helenpryke.bsky.social
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British author living in Italy. Author of the popular Healer saga, and the Maggie Turner suspense series. Proofreader for indie authors. Also writes MG books as Julia E Clements. Sjogren's and chronic illness patient. She/her. #CovidAware

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Linda/Melinda Huber @lindahuberauthor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
What would you do if your best friend went missing? Search, ask friends, family - search again. Contact employers, police, search again... And then? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Tense and unpredictable” mybook.to/MRM #KindleUnlimited #thriller #weekendreading #mystery #booksky #dilemma
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Helen Pryke, Author @helenpryke.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
After a year off writing, I've started a series of short stories set in the healers' world. You can now get The Healers' Tales: Lucan's Breath on Amazon and my Payhip store! Please note that this is a longer version of a short story I previously published. books2read.com/LucansBreath
Photo of ebook cover, lilac background with a purple dragonfly, green flowers, and two flying dragonflies. Title reads: The Healers' Tales: Lucan's Breath.
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Brian (Stuttering Loudly) @stutteringloudly.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Pro wrestler Jonathan Gresham’s doctors told him it’s possible that he has complications from a COVID infection This is what happens when everyone acts like COVID doesn’t exist Even “young, healthy, athletic” ppl become “vulnerable” #LongCOVID #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisntOver #LongCOVIDAwareness
@TheJonGresham
Two days ago, I woke up and couldn't walk or move the left side of my body. I couldn't see and could barely talk. It took me 30 minutes to dial 911, but I finally did. I woke up in the hospital, couldn't remember what had happened. They told me they had done an MRI and I had two strokes.
I've had a lot of tests run but everything has come back clean. They're not sure what happened, and the only thing they said was it could have been a possible complication from a bad case of COVID I had a couple of weeks ago.
They said we may never know the exact reason.
Needless to say, I will be taking the next 2-4 weeks off from wrestling to recover and get cleared fully by my neurologist.
My wife saw me get carted off from the house on our Ring doorbell camera and somehow flew from Orlando to Atlanta in time that she was there when I woke up. I wasn't fully convinced I had a stroke until she showed me this photo of how my face looked. I never thought this would be something for me to worry about at 37 years old
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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I used to have a really good memory but now I can't seem to remember anything.
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Helen Pryke, Author @helenpryke.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Happy publication day! 💙📚
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Linda/Melinda Huber @lindahuberauthor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
These are fab books! 😍 #booksky 💙📚 #discountbooks
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Linda/Melinda Huber @lindahuberauthor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
#discountbooks 😍
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Helen Pryke, Author @helenpryke.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"The squalor in the streets was described so well and the witch trials, the cruelty carried out by the sanctimonious men, knew no bounds. It had a strong story line and characters you cared about." - GR reviewer Buy now for only £1.99/$1.99 in the UK and US! books2read.com/TheHealerCollection
Book cover showing a woman's hand and arm with leaves entwined around it, a flower on her palm, and 3 dragonflies.
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Helen Pryke, Author @helenpryke.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
***BARGAIN ALERT!*** For the next two days, you can download A Whisper Of Magic for only 99p/99c in the UK and US! And The Healer Collection is only £1.99/$1.99 for all 5 Healer books! books2read.com/TheHealerCol... books2read.com/WhisperOfMagic #witchbooks #magicalrealism #bookpromo 💙📚
Picture shows the ebook covers of A Whisper Of Magic and The Healer Collection.
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Stephanie Wood @stephaniewood.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The GREEK RETREAT is a trilogy of standalone tales full of sunshine, surprises and love ☀️😊❤️ Kynos island is an idyllic hideaway, offering the space and time needed to truly appreciate the traditional hospitality, with lots of friendly locals to meet #booksky 💙📚 amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DPLHNM12
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Helen Pryke, Author @helenpryke.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
***BARGAIN ALERT!*** For the next two days, you can download A Whisper Of Magic for only 99p/99c in the UK and US! And The Healer Collection is only £1.99/$1.99 for all 5 Healer books! books2read.com/TheHealerCol... books2read.com/WhisperOfMagic #witchbooks #magicalrealism #bookpromo 💙📚
Picture shows the ebook covers of A Whisper Of Magic and The Healer Collection.
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Helen Pryke, Author @helenpryke.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My latest #ArtBookReview is up on my blog! pinkquillbooks.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/a...
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#ArtBookReview for The Field Guide to Witches by 3d Total Publishing
My review for The Field Guide to Witches, published by 3d Total Publishing, 5/5 stars. Published in 2022, 307 pages, 22.5×26.5cm. You can watch the video version on YouTube: This is a beautifu…
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
You do not have to accept repeat Covid infections as inevitable. Mitigations work. Layers work best. Get your booster. Clean & ventilate the air. Test and stay home when sick. Perhaps most important of all, wear a well fitted N95. It protects you & those around you. Community care can save us!
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Joy Mutter @joymutter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
NEW RELEASE. The Kindle and paperback of CARAVAN OF NIGHTMARES and Other Short Stories are now available on Amazon. It is my second collection of short stories. “An entertaining and witty collection with a hint of darkness.” The Kindle is 99p/c until the end of May and free with KU. bit.ly/3ENJqRv
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miamibeachpi.bsky.social @miamibeachpi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#detective #policeprocedural #crimenovels #booksky #crime #thriller Miami Beach is the sun and fun center of the country. But when a detective's routine case becomes a battle with the local Russian Mafia, the nefarious side of this paradise is revealed. CLICK WEBSITE: snbronsteinauthor.com
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Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
#GetLOUD Covid is spread in the air.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
BREAKING: New COVID-19 Wave Hits Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Thailand Amid Surge in Cases. Covid-19 has quietly re-emerged as a growing concern in parts of Asia, notably Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Thailand, with a sharp rise in infections and severe cases.
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3dtotal @3dtotal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Got your eye on any of our books? Great news! Starting today, you can get an incredible 25% discount on books in the 3dtotal shop!
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Helen Pryke, Author @helenpryke.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
For the next few days you can download all 3 Maggie Turner books for only £1.99 from my Payhip store! payhip.com/b/8XqOE 💙📚 #discountedbooks #indieauthor
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Maggie Turner Suspense Series 3-book bundle
A suspense series set in Portsmouth, UK, featuring British journalist Maggie Turner and her police officer girlfriend Sally Northwood. Devastated by the murder of her nephew in 2015, Maggie is now suf...
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We need 2,300 signatures in the next four hours. This petition is to : Improve indoor air quality Keep elderly safe from airborne infections Keep vulnerable patients e.g Cancer, immunosuppressed/compromised safe with staff wearing ffp3 masks. 1 in 4 nurses have long covid currently. So it’s about 🧵
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Brian (Stuttering Loudly) @stutteringloudly.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
There is research that shows that COVID is an oncogenic virus Cancer can also be caused by genetic or environmental factors that are hard or impossible to control Along with diet & physical activity, you could control one more aspect (COVID infections), by wearing a mask in public spaces
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC101..
Deciphering the Relationship between SARS-CoV-2 and Cancer
The oncogenic potential for the COVID-19-causing B-coronavirus could be explicated by inhibiting the tumor suppressors pRB and p53 through the activities and...
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Oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2—targeting hallmarks of cancer ...
Sep 26, 2024 • Additionally, the potential reactivation of latent oncogenic viruses in COVID-19 patients could elevate cancer risk. Consequently, it is essential to...
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Is COVID Causing Pancreatic
Cancer: Key Insights
6 days ago • T-cell exhaustion, a phenomenon observed in severe COVID-19 cases, is particularly concerning.
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and natural killer (NK)...
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Is SARS-CoV-2 an oncogenic virus? - PMC - PubMed Central...
Dear Editor. Recently, in this journal, Wu et al. and Gao et al haun hath indinatad that hart aanntir unrintinn
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Instead of taking the lazy route and assuming that people who still wear masks and take precautions to avoid getting COVID are neurotic, do the hard work of looking at the scientific studies that paint a sobering picture of its long term effects. #CovidIsntOver #WearAnN95 #CovidIsAirborne
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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Signed. If you’re a European artist please take a minute to sign this open letter.
signed.xn--youre-1v3b
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Linda/Melinda Huber @lindahuberauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#recommended!
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Linda/Melinda Huber @lindahuberauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#99p on #preorder! She’s back at the Lakeside Hotel - But Stacy’s Swiss escape turns out a little more complicated than fondue and Alphorns... mybook.to/Lakesideseries #KindleUnlimited ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘I could almost believe I was there’ #booksky 💙📚 #travel #romancelandia #kindledeals #womenwriters
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
@drseanmullen.bsky.social An excellent article. whn.global/stuck-in-the...
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Stuck in the Middle with Masking: Playing the Long Game in a Short-Sighted Age - WHN
by Sean Mullen, PhD “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…” That line plays in my head more often than it should—especially when I’m the only one walking into a conference ballroom, faculty m...
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Joy Mutter @joymutter.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The 4 Kindles in THE TROUBLE SERIES of “outrageous” standalone thrillers are FREE with Kindle Unlimited. “Hits new highs in the shock and awe stakes.” The audiobook of book 1, The Trouble with Liam, is on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. My 23 Kindles are free with KU. amzn.to/2Zqce7C
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
✨ The BIG INDIE SALE is HAPPENING NOW ✨ My dystopian sci-fi series is on sale along with so many other books! Books range from FREE to 1.99! Mine are 99c! 🎉 Indie sale link: indiebook.sale My books on sale: mybook.to/rSMw0 📚💙
A Touch of Death's cover is on the left. Header text reads on the right, ‘A Touch of Death’ with the tagline beneath it: ‘A thousand years in the future, the last of humanity live inside the walls of the totalitarian Kingdom of Cutta.’

At the bottom is the Narratess Indie Book Sale logo, with fantasy, sci-fi, and horror decorations. 

The text reads: 

Indie Book Sale 
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Fantasy, Sci Fi, & Horror
April 5-7Poster for the Narratess Indie Book Sale; dozens of ebooks are shown around a central image advertising the sale for sci-fi, fantasy and horror indie books. There’s a dragon, a planet with rings, skulls, stars and diamonds on the ad.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🤍 estranged husbands 🥺 close brothers x2 🗡️ an mc who is 100% done 🐺 a love interest ready to grovel 🏫 a haunted, gothic school 🔍 buried secrets ❄️ snowy setting 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... [ 💙📚🪐 ] [ 📚🌈 ]
Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. text is gold and greyish-white.
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Helen Pryke, Author @helenpryke.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Check out the incredible books in this promo, including Walls of Silence (which will be £1.49 until May 17th! books.bookfunnel.com/resistancewo... 💙📚 #books #bookrecommendation
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Resistance/Inclusivity Women's Fiction
Looking for an inspiring read in challenging times? Check out these books that promote inclusivity and progress. Available for a limited time.
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Linda/Melinda Huber @lindahuberauthor.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Trip to sunny Cornwall, anyone? ☀️ All standalone psychological suspense 💙📚 viewAuthor.at/LindaHuber #KindleUnlimited #booksky #indie #suspense #mustread #travel
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Joy Mutter @joymutter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I’m having a busy decade. 14 thrillers. 3 novels. 1 nonfiction book. 4 3rd-person memoirs. 22 short stories. I’ve edited 20+ books. My 9 audiobooks are on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. My 23 Kindles are free with Kindle Unlimited. amzn.to/2b96qaj
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Patricia M Osborne @pmosbornewriter.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Thrilled to announce that The Woodhaerst Triangle has been selected for a kindle deal @99p throughout March for UK readers. This means the whole trilogy can be purchased for under a fiver! mybook.to/Woodhaerst1 mybook.to/Woodhaerst2 mybook.to/Woodhaerst3 #KindleDeal #KindleUnlimited
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RR Cara Clayton @rrcaraclayton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The start of a new series is always exciting.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
People keep saying Covid is here to stay and we’ve “learned to live with it”. No we haven’t. We’ve capitulated to it. We’ve accepted repeat infections as inevitable. Learning to live with it would involve clean air, masks in healthcare, better tests & treatments and free respirators
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If only anyone could have predicted this... 5 years late www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing...
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
No, Of Course Your Child Wasn’t Harmed By The Virus That Killed 30 Million People That You Made Them Catch Repeatedly.
A sick child
Headline:
No, Of Course Your Child Wasn’t Harmed By The Virus That Killed 30 Million People That You Made Them Catch Repeatedly.
Story by Juno Watt and Alberto Munrovia

Photo from Adobe
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/03/2025
Hey creative folks, a reminder NOT to feel weird or bad about promoting your new/upcoming work right now. Life is full of chaos; people are looking for new work to relax and restore and escape. And you have that work! Let them know it's there! IN FACT: Share your latest work in this thread! Do it!
Copies of Mary Robinette Kowal's The Martian Contingency, which is out March 18, and my When the Moon Hits Your Eye, which is out March 25.
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The vast majority of people have let themselves and others off the hook about caring whether they pass COVID on to others. If this describes you, I hope you’ll reconsider. At a minimum, please #WearAn95 in crowds and on airplanes and public transportation.
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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you want to know what you can do for Long Covid Awareness Day—mask! Masking is a visible sign of solidarity with Long Covid sufferers, prevents the reinfection of sufferers, and prevents you from becoming a sufferer. Best yet—keep masking even after Long Covid Awareness Day!
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Helen Pryke, Author @helenpryke.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
And the ebook is only 99p/99c for the rest of the month!
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today marks the five year anniversary of Covid being declared a pandemic. Some things I want people to remember: The threat is not gone. People are still dying and becoming disabled every single day COVID is airborne. It’s always been airborne. 🧵
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Five years ago I was worried about what might happen, and yet for all my worry I did not think that five years later this virus would still be taking more than 700 lives in a single week, yes, five years ago I was worried about what might happen, but I was not worried enough.
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This new work from @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is spot on. Denial of airborne transmission was the great crime (yes, crime) of the pandemic. It changed, and broke, everything healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
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How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Really important petition. Labour is taking away clinically vulnerable people’s right to peaceful protest safely by banning face coverings. This obviously has many implications for many other groups. Currently Labour has also taken away vaccines from most clinically vulnerable, even many who 🧵
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Please, please, please join me in contacting your congressional representatives IMMEDIATELY to tell Congress to STAND UP AND ACT. Call tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-... Email tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
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Reverse Funding Ban
Tell Congress to reverse the Trump Administration's decision to freeze all U.S. foreign aid spending on global health programs, including the delivery of lifesaving medicines to vulnerable patients.
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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The 3rd of short 2 min videos exposing the Covid Cover-up in the UK, and our government and public health bodies' complete failure to protect us, while lying, gaslighting and spreading disinformation. Not only a Tory disaster, but Labour abdication. Why? #LongCovid www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM4Q...
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Part Three: Mild
YouTube video by The Covid Cover Up
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