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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For fans of Kings of the Wyld, Orconomics, and Dungeons & Dragons style adventure: meet the Bard of Seven Oaks and hear how he became unforgettable. Get it here 👉 tinyurl.com/246uj8ae 🌈📚🪐💙 #BookSky #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #QueerFantasy

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

60% off on Smashwords this month, a start date and details for The Sable Blade, and a review of storming the castle with William Goldman's The Princess Bride. Join me on Patreon for free monthly updates! 🌈📚🪐💙🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️ #BookSky #Fantasy #Romantasy #IndieAuthor #QueerFantasy #Patreon

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October 2026 Update | H. L. Fowler

Happy Spooky Season to all who celebrate! First things first: here's this month's special deal for Bard: Book 1! You can get it for 60% off

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How to win against someone trying to keep a low profile: make a scene 😂 The Sable Blade, coming to Patreon October 5! #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #BookBoost #WriteSky #Fantasy #BookSky #Romantasy #IndieAuthor #ReadingCommunity #Patreon 📚💛⚔️🪐📚🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Learn to recognize your crutch words (so you can easily search for them in your manuscript and save yourself god knows how much time) and find different ways to express them

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James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night" @jamesbennett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Haunted by dangling modifiers. But great editors don't just get your novel into shipshape. They also point out your bad habits so you can grow as a writer. I've always been open to and appreciative of that.

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is incredible advice for any genre

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Does anyone else remember when gas was $5/gallon during the Great Recession? I've been thinking about that a lot lately, for no particular reason

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bard: Book 2--What are bards for, if not a little encouragement? #WIPSnips #WriteSky #Fantasy #BookSky #QueerBooks #IndieAuthor #QueerFantasy 🌈📚🪐💙

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Breaking: Ed Sheeran dropped from his own tour

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Scary Hokum @yocham-ta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If Mitch McConnell comes out today, does that mean 6 more years of fascism, or how does this work?

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I haven't rewatched Game of Thrones even once in the seven years since it finished. Don't underestimate my ability to hold a grudge

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Jae Koyanagi @jaekoyanagi.com · 13/09/2026

Getting real tired of seeing closed-door referred to as "clean"

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Lioxor @lioxor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dragons Dogma 2 WILL save you

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Meet cute? Meet cute. The Sable Blade, coming soon to my Patreon! #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #BookBoost #WriteSky #Fantasy #BookSky #Romantasy #IndieAuthor #ReadingCommunity 📚💛⚔️🪐📚🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

(steepling fingers, gazing deep into my scrying disco ball) yesssss, white boy, yesss. play that funky music. play it ... until you DIE

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me too bitch, you're not special.

A Guardian headline which reads "Indonesian forager may have sucked on mond-altwring nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds"

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 09/09/2026

Also, lest we forget: Self promotion is bad and unwanted. Then people will cry that they can't find the very books we've written. Make it make sense.

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an intelligent and sensitive pervert @skibadanger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"you're so friendly and cheerful" thank you sir I am imagining two fictional men going at it filthy style to stay sane

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And if you think this is wrong and needs to be addressed they call you a communist

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Working people power our country. Every worker in America, the richest country in the world, deserves to live with dignity in an economy that works for all of us, not only the billionaires and corporate elites. Happy Labor Day to all!

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bard: Book 2--Prison breaks get complicated when everyone is hot 😂 Come and get your bisexual MMC read this Bi Visibility Month! #WIPSnips #WriteSky #Fantasy #BookSky #QueerBooks #IndieAuthor #QueerFantasy 🌈📚🪐💙

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I hope whichever studio ends up running with this understands that this is one of my top 5 favorite movies and I have already purchased a ticket to see the next one. and I am by no means alone in this

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I answered "pop" and it immediately pinged me from Kansas to Michigan

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

September: 30% off on Kobo, thoughts on The Poison Daughter, and more glimpses of The Sable Blade (including my fancy new map.) Join me on Patreon for free monthly updates! tinyurl.com/2wdyh6kw 🌈📚🪐💙🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️ #BookSky #Fantasy #Romantasy #IndieAuthor #QueerFantasy

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September 2026 Update | H. L. Fowler

Can you believe it's September already? It's officially been 3 months since the release of Bard: Book 1! That means exciting things for Amaz

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For fans of Kings of the Wyld, Orconomics, and TTRPG-inspired fantasy: meet the Bard of Seven Oaks and hear how he became unforgettable. Get it here 👉 tinyurl.com/va9zdu2a 🌈📚🪐💙 #BookSky #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #QueerFantasy

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 30/08/2026

The HBO miniseries "Chernobyl" is a bummer but my gosh it is a masterpiece. I think it's one of the finest depictions I've ever seen of the horrible domino effect that can be set into place by a sclerotic bureaucracy.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Bard: Book 2, meeting Chouncey's biggest fan and bard in training #WIPSnips #WriteSky #Fantasy #BookSky #QueerBooks #IndieAuthor #QueerFantasy 🌈📚🪐💙

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dodes888.bsky.social @dodes888.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When he’s finally gone, I never want to see another clip, flashback, or picture of him ever again. Make it like he never existed.

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another peek at The Sable Blade, my newest WIP. Every legendary figure needs a bard to narrate ✨ #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #BookBoost #WriteSky #Fantasy #BookSky #Romantasy #IndieAuthor #ReadingCommunity 📚💛⚔️🪐📚🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️

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Nerdic | buy my novel (fantasy/comedy) | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 19/08/2026

Character idea: Sorceror who so badly wants to be a bard that he sings all his spells and shit even though he absolutely doesn't need to. Just crazy powerful, but rolls those performance checks because he's just gotta do it, you know?

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026

A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A merchant's daughter, aspiring actor, and typecast damsel is traveling to marry a Duke when she's kidnapped by a notorious highwayman. She sways him to make it a ruse and split the ransom. Failed kidnapping, forced proximity, slow burn etc. It's Princess Bride meets HBO Barry. Check Patreon soon!

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm a sucker for "MC interacts emotionally with a friend/lover/family member who is revealed to have been dead the whole time and is a figment of their overwhelming grief" but searching for recs means knowing the trope is there in the first place which spoils it. Do you see my problem #BookSky

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H.L. Fowler @hlfowlerbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A peek at Bard: Book 2 and Whiskey the cat, exactly the pet you'd expect from Chouncey. Giving them a magical pocket to hoard cat things definitely doesn't bite him in the ass later (it does) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #Fantasy #BookSky #QueerBooks #IndieAuthor 🌈📚🪐💙

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

F*** that nice write-up I got in the Guardian. This is my all-time favourite review of one of my books.

"I am loving this book, I have genuinely laughed out loud when reading this book, which is a big achievement by the writer as I am mostly miserable."

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Jae Koyanagi @jaekoyanagi.com · 11/08/2026

I've bought and read a lot of books off of brief recs on Bluesky. Talking about the books you love *does* work!

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

One of the painful lessons of my 30 years of writing: Don't start a story you don't have an end-point for. It's FINE if the end changes, but you need a destination before you start. It can be vague! #writingA

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