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Tao Wong @taowong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In case you missed it, The Blade That Remains is coming April 2027. The adventurer retired. His friends moved on. The sword was put away. Then a demon lord kidnapped his son. More details coming soon.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah it was clued as if there was an 'O' when it was an 'E'

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ONLY ONE MORE DAY!!! I’ve heard from a few folks that sales have been on the slow side, so please do check it out, grab a book and make an author’s day! ⭐️ indiebook.sale ⭐️

Indie Book Sale. Indiebook.sale. Fantasy, sci fj and horror. 29-31 August. Image shows a dragon reading a book.

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Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some big news... I'm thrilled to have signed with Vinci Books for my Odyssey Earth Series, which will be getting fab new branding plus much wider audio & print exposure in the coming months. What a boost for my first baby, Orphan Planet, the book still closest to my heart #scifi #booksky #amwriting

Caption says Odyssey Earth series - book covers shown are Orphan Planet, Twin Landing and Star Bound

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Nils O @nils.readindiefantasy.com · 25/08/2026

The Narratess Indie Book Sale is coming.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Same criticism applies to BBC Sherlock. These characters work a lot better as outsiders who wade into storylines, fix (or break) shit, and then head off for the next one. They can have personal growth, relationships, baggage etc but the external world doesn't need to bend around those things.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What I don't like about the Bond movies after Casino Royale is that they start trying to turn him into the centre of his universe. You can give him a backstory and character development, but when you make all the important players obsessed with Bond it makes the world seem tiny and kinda' dumb.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I find the hypothetical use-cases pretty funny too. "Gemini, tell me what colour to paint my bedroom. I just can't decide." Like is the target userbase for AI just people with terminally barren personality?

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Airplanes.gov.uk @planeyboys.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

happy pride month

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TOXIMA🔞 @toxima.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

yuri plane

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My one main criticism would be that the protagonists' development felt quite rushed, especially towards the end. Big changes happen quite quickly and I think they either needed to let things sit a bit longer or lay more groundwork.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It explored some aspects of the setting in a way that I really would have liked to see more of in Star Wars, especially the prequels. And it didn't messily stomp all over the existing stories or canon like certain other shows produced by a guy whose name rhymes with Bologna.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I had Star Wars fatigue when it first came out, but last night on a whim I binged through all of The Acolyte. It was... decent? Interesting and fun most of the way through but the final episode fumbled a bit. Not exactly groundbreaking, but way more watchable than things like Ashoka and Boba Fett!

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/05/2026

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

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Janice S. Smith @janicessmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I attended Viable Paradise 15 years ago. It was life-changing for me as a writer. I didn't think I'd ever make the cut. I almost self-rejected. But I got in. So, don't self-reject. Apply. There's so much knowledge waiting for you there. So much community and so many connections to make. Apply now!

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 14/05/2026

Timeline cleanse

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The saddest and most frustrating thing is this sort of behaviour by the political establishment only incites *more* bigotry by shoehorning a wide range of issues into a simplified "us or them" narrative. Which is probably deliberate. The elites do love using vulnerable minorities as human shields.

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Ravven @ravven.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's #portfolioday and I thought I'd reintroduce myself. I'm a book cover artist, originally from California but now living in Staffordshire, England. Colder but happier. :D

A girl dressed in leather leans on a tree trunk, hands outstretched. There are cats, autumn leaves, and a hawk around her. Owned by Charles de Lint.

A young woman in traditional Asian dress stands against the sky, surrounded by white cranes. Owned by Tessa Hastjarjanto.

A woman with long silver hair hangs suspended against a background of urban decay. White horses run in the background.

Cyberpunk girl wearing a gas mask sits on an oil drum in front of an alley covered with graffiti.

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Last day of the Narratess Indie Book sale! Shadow of a Dead God normally sells for $5.99/£4.99 but for the rest of today, it's only $0.99/£0.99. books2read.com/ShadowGod (See all the books in the sale: indiebook.sale)

Promotional graphic showing covers of a selection of books in the Indie Book Sale. Fantasy, sci fi and horror. 11 - 13 April.

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Nick Snape 💙🐉⚔️🪐📚 @nicksnapeauthor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The Wrecking Squad is 99c/p as part of the Narratess sale. Find via my lin/ktr/ee alongside hundreds of #sciencefiction and #fantasy #books. While you’re there my #darkfantasy meets #steampunk trilogy isn’t in the sale but is 99c/p linktr.ee/nicksnape

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 11/04/2026

It's been five years since we did our first sale! I'm so excited for this one too. I've worked on it the last three weeks so I hope you'll check it out :D Maybe grab my free book? Sale: indiebook.sale Get my book: books2read.com/AD2K4

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Narratess Indie Sale

The Narratess Indie Sale features self-published books and books published by small/independent presses. Use the filters to find the books you prefer to read and discover your next favourite author! We cannot guarantee the prices listed below. Sign up to be notified when the next sale starts here.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Erika McCorkle - Merchants of Light and Bone Audaciously bonkers, and that's a compliment. If you want to get lost in strange new world, give it a shot! Z.B. Steele - Whispers of the Storm I haven't read this specific book, but based on the authors other work you can expect some fantastic prose.

Merchants of Light and Bone by Erika McCorkle

Cover shows a dinosaur-like skeleton covered in colourful mushrooms.

Sculptor Amierie could be set for life when a trove of demon-slaying crystals is discovered, but grief overwhelms him when his daughter dies in the crevice.

Whispers of the Storm by Z.B.Steele

Cover shows a cloaked figure sitting in shadow.

A grim dark framed-narrative, Whispers of the Storm chronicles the story of Redlin, a fallen hero sentenced to be executed. Features banter, elegant prose, and lots of blood.

$0.99

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

HJ Tolson - Liches Get Stitches Cosy, crafty, horrifying, progression fantasy. Face paced, funny, and well written. Steven William Hannah - Icebreaker Psychedelic Eldritch horror on a land submarine in post-apocalyptic Scotland. The sort of unique premise you usually only find in indie.

Psychedelic Eldritch horror in post-apocalyptic Scotland. The sort of unique premise you usually only find in indie.

Icebreaker by Steven William Hannah

Cover shows a large snowflake with a human eye set in its centre.

Bird box meets Das Boot

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It's that time again! A dragon's horde of great indie books are available for free or cheap right now on indiebook.sale Go check them out! My book 2 is the one in the sale, but the book 1 is free too if you want to pick them both up. Below are a few of the other books I can personally recommend.

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. 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.

Text: Indie Book Sale

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Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

11 - 13 April

Banner designed by Arden Powell

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just out of curiosity what made you think it might be AI?

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Understandable that you have to check these days. The cover image is actually a stock one from 2021. stock.adobe.com/uk/images/A-...

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Client Challenge

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

My take is the imperium is our greatest enemy. It is a factory farm for the suffering that feeds chaos and its ignorance leaves us helpless against more advanced races like the Necrons (and one day the Tau). But it is the "safe" choice to survive the next century and we're bad at thinking ahead.

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Your Paper Quest @yourpaperquest.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

All good things must come to an end! For years we’ve been sharing our favorite indie authors with our subscribers, but unfortunately we have just sent out our very last boxes. It’s been an honor to be part of this wonderful community. 🧵1

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I might be a dog because I was entirely distracted by a squirrel for a full 45 minutes today.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

How did I miss that Duran Duran were still around and putting out the occasional banger?

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It's not just a _failure_ really. Most mainstream media is owned by people that want people like Trump to win, even if the average individual journalist might personally skew a bit more central or left.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I don't think that'll really work that well though. It's like trying to fill an ocean trench with sand instead of just building a raft.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

AI bros don't understand basic commerce... or anything really. The market is already oversaturated. Readers would have to get through a truly monstrous amount of books per year before they got desperate enough to read AI slop.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I mean, fuck AI obviously, but I do find multi-pens really handy for editing writing. Green = Remember this Blue = Change this but dunno how yet Red = Typo! Black = Other shit

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

More people are reading book 2 than book 1 right now. That's heartening to see. Must have done something right!

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 09/01/2025

⭐2025 READS THREAD⭐ Saw more people doing it, and I think it's a good idea. Anyways, I try to keep my GR updated, and also I will keep the monthly recaps.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas all. Nice to have such a supportive family!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Proud to help with the cover reveal of When Darkness Blinds, book 2 in Lindy Enns Shadows of the Vale series. Coming Jan 19th '26 As an expert on books with the word "Shadow" in the title, I can heartily recommend the first entry too! Check out her site for more info t.co/K5XocH0lhc

Cover for When Darkness Blinds by Lindy Enns

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

My wife’s favorite book is Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and for her birthday this year I made her a Gideon custom figure and diorama #thelockedtomb

Gideon Nav standing among reanimated skeletons

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

It's mostly people who conflate being boring with being sensible.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

No, actually, kindle. I'm mainly thinking about the next one.

Push Notification from Kindle App.

Still thinking about this book?

"Theater of Blades" by Jennings Zabrinsky

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This free promotion has gone really well. Over 1000 books given away and they've hit the top of some of the free categories. Thank you to everyone who has taken part! Also, it will never not be hilarious to me that Amazon's algorithm decides Troupe of Shadows belongs in "sibling fiction." IYKYK.

Bar chart showing books given away this weekend. Friday ~350. Saturday ~450. Sunday ~100. Totalling 1070.

Best Sellers Rank section from an amazon store page, showing #1 in Asian Myth & Legend eBooks, Sibling Fiction, and Travel Adventure Fiction.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

My fantasy series Strange Frontier is free this weekend to celebrate the release of the second entry. Until midnight monday, grab a copy of either or both and it's yours forever. Book 1: geni.us/TroupeOfShad... Book 2: geni.us/TheaterOfBla... #BookSky #fantasy #free #indie #amwriting

Strange Frontier Free Weekend 21st to 24th November. Grab Now - Keep Forever.

Troupe of Shadows (Book 1) Short Blurb: Once the heir to an empire. Now just a shadow. An ousted warrior princess and her barely loyal bodyguards fight for their life across a strange flintlock frontier filled with bizarre creatures known as 'humans'.

Theater of Blades (Book 2) blurb: War is deception. Stories are lies. A frontier warlord ventures into a web of intrigue and violence in order to carve out the alliance that will see her restored to her throne.

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Brian, nope too perilous @priorplanning.life · 19/11/2025

A link to the Scrivener article, since the one going around is a screenshot, doesn't have the actual link, AND no alt-text, making it useless. Please share this. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...

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Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Manuscript is locked in. ARCs have been sent. Locking in the release date of Strange Frontier Book 2: Theater of Blades for November 19th. The weekend after, I'll be doing a free book promo for this and book 1. If you're interested, watch this space! #fantasy #selfpub #booksky

Stranger Frontier news. Book 2 (Theater of Blades) releases 19th November. Book 1 (Troupe of Shadows) and Book 2 will be given away for free over the weekend of 21st to 23rd November.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Yeah I was so disappointed by this whole shitshow. Thankfully Polanski and the Greens have been really stepping up to fill the void.

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Yeah anyway. Book is done. ARCs are going out. If you'd like a free copy in exchange for an honest review give me a nudge!

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Jennings Zabrinsky @jzabrinsky.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

WHY DOES IT TAKE FIVE FUCKING SECONDS TO SWAP BETWEEN CHAPTERS IN ATTICUS OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD!

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