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Tamara S. Harker @tamarasharker.com · 31/08/2026

This is the last, glorious day for the August #NarratessIndieSale! As we squeeze in some last-minute buys, let's not forget to thank @tessahastjarjanto.com, aka @narratess.com, for putting this all together! Thank you so much, Tessa! 🥰

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Jon Dixon @jondixon-writer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The final day of the Naratess Indie Book Sale! Time is ticking on a chance to get 280+ incredible indie fantasy, sci fi, and horror books, all priced at under $2.99! 🙂 indiebook.sale 29th - 31st August. #NarratessIndieSale #bookrecs #fantasybooks #sciencefictionbooks #horrorbooks #cozyfantasy

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Fantasy SciFi and Horror
29-31 August 2026

Book cover for The Improbable We Can Do Today - Jon Dixon - six cozy fantasy stories about a disabled ex-thief and her partner solving small, low-stakes mysteries in an ancient city. Positive disability rep, romance, and cozy crime! FREE

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Jon Dixon @jondixon-writer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Narratess Indie Book Sale is on until tomorrow! 280+ indie fantasy, science-fiction, and horror books at $2.99, $1.99 or even FREE... including The Improbable We Can Do Today. indiebook.sale 29th - 31st August. #NarratessIndieSale #bookrecs #fantasybooks #sciencefictionbooks #horrorbooks

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Indie Book Sale
Fantasy SciFi and Horror
29-31 August 2026

Book covers for:
Recipes for the Coppersnake - J S Ruff
Crying Out For Magic - P S C Willis
An Uncommon Curse - Devan Barlow
Tavern Tale - Kristina W Kelly
Chai and Charmcraft - Lynn Strong
Hills of Heather and Bone - K E Andrews
Getting Lucky - Jessica Olin
The Improbable We Can Do Today - Jon Dixon
The Last Speaker - Lee Burton
Lucianus - C J Beshara
Tales of a Stranger Sister - J Robert Matthewson
Kindred of the Sea - Raina Nightingale
Talios's Codex - J Alexander Cohen

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Nancy Foster 😼💉🇲🇽 @drafoxter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have to finish writing the last scene of my wip, but I will need beta readers willing to read a story with vampires and spice in a sci fi setting. Around 12,000 words. Going to send it for an anthology and hope for the best. #tbbchat

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Alicia Warne @aliciawarne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Check out this huge indie book sale: nearly 300 #fantasy, #scifi and #horror titles on offer! The sale runs from Saturday 29 August to Monday 31 August. Books are all free, $1.99 or $2.99, including my book, A Crooked Sixpence for $2.99 indiebook.sale #NarratessIndieSale🧣📚 💙📚📚🌍 🪐📚🌈🚀💫

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. Montage of book covers arranged around a banner in which a chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

💙📚🪐📚🌈📚💕📚☠️ So many indie books on sale! (I think both fantasy and sci fi use the planet; IDK if horror folks use the skull emoji for their genre but it seemed like a fair guess.)

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Misha Maxwell | Queer Fantasy Author @mishamwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Time to fuck up my tbr let's gooo

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 29/08/2026

Hi #BookSky friends! Did you know the #Naratess Indie Sale is going on this weekend? If you haven't picked up The Backwards Knight, go snag the ebook for $1.99 across any ebook platform. On top of that, there's hundreds of other books also on sale or even free! Check it out! indiebook.sale

Cover image for The Backwards Knight, next to text that reads "The Backwards Knight. A Snarky knight, a stabby princess, and a farm boy marked by magic. What could go wrong? 1.99"

All above a purple banner with various illustrations (dragon, skulls, gems, planets, stars) with text that reads "Indie book sale. indiebook.sale. Fantasy, Sci Fi & Horror. 29 - 31 August"

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Jon Dixon @jondixon-writer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Six cosy fantasy stories where the stakes are personal not world-ending, and kindness always matters. 🔎Low stakes mysteries ✅Positive disability rep 💝Mature, mixed-ability relationship 📚Bookshops & bakeries 🪄Gentle magic indiebook.sale #NarratessIndieSale #booksky #cozyfantasy #cozyreads

The image is an advert for the indie Book Sale: in the top half of the image, in a candle-lit, book-lined room a tall bearded man carrying a steaming mug looks down affectionately at a dark-haired woman with an eye-patch sitting at a desk and writing with a pen held in her mouth, while a cat licks its paw and looks on. The bottom half of the image is a dark blue and purple panel with images of skulls, planets and a dragon.

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Jon Dixon @jondixon-writer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One more day to go until the Narratess Indie Book Sale: 250+ indie fantasy, science-fiction, and horror books on SALE or even FREE... including 'The Improbable We Can Do Today'! indiebook.sale 29th - 31st August. #indieauthor #bookrecs #fantasybooks

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Jon Dixon @jondixon-writer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Second Assistant Treasurer Alvius Fruckle has had a very good quarter, and he's feeling rather smug. He’s about to meet Meriva Secaret, an ex-master thief with no limbs, seven orphaned children to feed, and a plan. A cosy fantasy heist novella bookhip.com/TFLPGSD #booksky #cozyfantasy #cozyreads

Book cover. Seven diverse children in worn clothes gather by candlelight around a heap of silver coins on the floor of a shabby room. A wooden wheelchair stands empty in the shadows behind them. In the foreground, a dark-haired limbless figure - Meriva - watches them fondly from a pile of cushions with her back to the viewer. Title: A Touch of Class: a Meriva Secaret Story.

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Jon Dixon @jondixon-writer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3 days to go until the Narratess Indie Book Sale: 250+ indie fantasy, science-fiction, and horror books on SALE or even FREE... including my own 'The Improbable We Can Do Today',and @lynnstrong.bsky.social's wonderful 'Chai and Charmcraft'! 29th - 31st August. #indieauthor #bookrecs #fantasybooks

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Fantasy SciFi and Horror
29-31 August 2026

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Jon Dixon @jondixon-writer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

5 days until the Narratess Indie Book Sale. 250+ wonderful fantasy, science-fiction, and horror books by indie authors, all on SALE... including my The Improbable We Can Do Today! Read it for FREE! #indieauthor #indieaugust #readingchallenge #bookrecs #fantasybooks #sciencefictionbooks #horrorbooks

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Indie Book Sale
Fantasy SciFi and Horror
29-31 August 2026

Book covers for:
All That Glitters - S L Dove Cooper
The Fall Is All There Is - C M Caplan
Scurry - Seann Barbour
Idyllian - R Z Held
The Improbable We Can Do Today - Jon Dixon
The Hand That Feeds - Sass Everett
The Spider’s Friend - M C Burnell
Ajakava - Chaitanya Murali
Empress of Dust - Alex Kingsley
Roadkill - Helen Whistberry
The Rescue of Damndrake - N E White
Fungal - Adrian M Gibson
Written In Water - Elizabeth Schechter
A Crooked Sixpence - AAlicia Warne
In the Name of Honor - Courtny and Clarke Collins
The Beginning of the Bounty Inc. Universe - Adam Holcombe
Distant Gardens - ed. J S Fields and Heaher Tracy
The Flaws of Gravity - Stephanie Caye

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Jon Dixon @jondixon-writer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just over a week to go until the Narratess Indie Book Sale with 250+ wonderful fantasy, science-fiction, and horror books by indie authors for $2.99, $1.99 or even FREE! #indieauthor #indieaugust #readingchallenge #bookrecs #fantasybooks #sciencefictionbooks #horrorbooks

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

💙 📚 🌈 📚 🪐 📚 ♿ 😺 Hi! I'm Lynn. I write #cozyfantasy with scampering kittens, feisty book-witches, & kind priests who nourish everyone, even the mice. Joyfully body positive, inclusive, & welcoming. (So many bonus recipes!) Come for the chai; stay because everyone is treasured. lynnstrong.com/books/

Three book covers: Chai and Cat-tales, Haroun and the Study of Mischief, and Chai and Charmcraft by Lynn Strong

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Food provider, bounty maker, who creates all that is good! Lord of awe, sweetly fragrant, gracious when he comes. Who makes herbage for the herds, gives sacrifice for every god. (Hymn to Hapy) (ALL)

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

💙📚🪐📚🌈📚🌶️ There doesn't appear to be a body positivity pride month? So I'm doing a body+ pride month in August, because every body deserves to be celebrated. Here's some more detailed reviews and recommendations for books where fat folks get to be the heroes too. eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

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📚🐱 Body-positive books for every body 🍵🎁

For anyone who'd like to see more books appreciating every shape and size people are

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

💙📚🪐📚🌈📚♿️ Amazon seems to have chosen Chai and Cat-tales for a 99 cent Kindle deal? I am as surprised as anyone else, but hey... anyone want a fluffy book for 75% off? :D amzn.to/4yRRvf7

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Discord chat: hey several of us are interested in historic food and recipes, got a list? Me to self: Self, you have an MLIS. Why have you not organized ALL your research instead of citing within individual recipes? Self to me: Oh yeah we should do that! lynnstrong.com/recipes/reso...

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Resources

In case anyone would like to read and/or watch along with the recipes, resources, and inspirations… The Reference Game Threads Research and reference books, videos, inspiration points, and ca…

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

💙📚♿️ Sheila Jenne's Disability Pride sale is here to finish out July with books with disabled heroes getting to be at the heart of their own stories. sheilajenne.com/disability-p...

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Disability Pride Sale

Welcome to this month’s theme sale: Disability Pride! This week I’m highlighting books with disabled characters in the main cast.

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

💙📚♿️📚🪐 Connecting more dots: @raenbowpunk.bsky.social has a fantastic list of a dozen books for Disability Pride Month, in addition to Sheila's sale and Jon's review (and recipe!) below: everybookadoorway.com/disability-p...

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Disability Pride Isn't Fantasy: Fantasy Recs For Disability Pride! - Every Book a Doorway

12 of my favourite Fantasy books with disabled protagonists

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

And I just recently met @jondixon-writer.bsky.social but I am entirely blown away by how he not only writes cozy mysteries with a disabled and uncompromisingly determined heroine, he also did all this amazing artwork himself as a vet of TSR and Dragon Mag! www.jondixon.co.uk#author

The Improbable We can Do Today by Jon Dixon, with gorgeous cover art of the main characters and their cat working at a medieval desk by candlelight. URL in the image: https://mybook.to/8Vmo1O

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

I'd like to connect with more Disabled Writers this Disability Pride, but I figure many of us may be low on spoons. So; who'd like to be tagged in a Disabled Writers Thread? Open to neurodivergent (broadest meaning), chronically ill & other disabled writers -especially invisible illness!

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Jon Dixon @jondixon-writer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Six cosy, character-driven fantasy stories where the stakes are personal rather than world-ending, and kindness always matters. mybook.to/8Vmo1O 🔎Small scale, low stakes mysteries ✅Positive disability rep 💝Mature, mixed-ability relationship 📚Bookshops & bakeries 🪄Gentle magic 😼An occasional cat

A book cover depicts a cozy book-lined study lit by candle light. A young woman with dark hair, wearing an eyepatch, sits at a cluttered desk writing with a dip pen held in her mouth, while a tall, well-built bearded man with long greying hair stands behind her holding a mug and looking down at her affectionately. Another mug with a drinking straw sits beside the young woman. A calico cat sits on the desk, cleaning its paw.

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