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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

www.reddit.com/r/CozyFantas... Coming this weekend - cozy fantasy fans, grab your fluffy socks, a good pot of tea, and get ready for both the Cozy the Day Away book sale and Hearthcon Online! 130+ books, dozens of authors. 💙📚🌈📚🪐📚🌶📚

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From the CozyFantasy community on Reddit: Cozy the Day Away group book sale is next Sat/Sunday, Oct 3-4th!

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 2h

Flora was hoping for some peace and quiet. Instead, a stream of unexpected guests set her wheels in motion. Wishes and Waterwheels - a new Flora the innkeeper story available now in Wish Upon a Falling Leaf 🍂 books2read.com/WUFL

Wish Upon a Falling Leaf cover with tropes against peach background: cozy fantasy, magic trees, hearty food and drink, make a wish folklore, fall vibes, One world. Eleven stories.

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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote a book-full of words on dyspraxia in adults, full of ideas, tips and tricks, and rants about transport. Now I'm serialising it on Patreon. You can read and support here: patreon.com/untanglingli...

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Untangling Life by Andi C. Buchanan — words!

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My cozy mystery Cheddar Luck Next Time is on sale in the UK & US through October 4th! 1.99 for Amazon ebook. Autistic (like me) lead character! Oodles of cheese! Chonky orange cat! Sequel out in February! amzn.to/3ZlFfnR [promo link]

A green book cover is bold against a red background. Amazon Kindle deal for Cheddar Luck Next Time $1.99 limited time offer: 28 September- 4 October 2026.

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The guy in The Princess Bride does not list all the classic blunders but I guess one is doing Nicky Hager damage control when Nicky Hager was not thinking about you.

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Aargh Wordle 1,921 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I published a short story this year in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social that I'm really proud of. It's about the attention economy, flavors of provocation, and what a superhero would even look like if it was invented today. It starts with a dare.

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Welcome to Heroism - Uncanny Magazine

Nobody read the Terms of Service. They were in a rush to watch the latest unbelievable must-see content from someone who probably died seconds later. It seemed like as soon as anyone knew The Dare exi...

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Nora Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am super proud to share the cover of the 2nd book in the Descendants series, No Sky Like Midnight! 🌤️ Grumpy-sunshine (Sorta!) 🏳️‍🌈 Explicitly Bi/Pan MCs 🤐 Evil Secret Society 🍯 Sentient Honey Cover designed by Getcovers using stock art. #BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #CoverReveal

A book cover for the book No Sky Like Midnight, by Nora Shear. It centers a gray, cobra-esque snake with wings of fire, surrounded by seven light gray feathers, floating in the air. The background is a purple night sky, and from the top of the cover image drips three long streams of what looks like honey. The title is in ornate silver capital letters with flourishes, and there is a small meteor that flies through the title and sparks on the middle serif of the G in Midnight.

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Minute Cryptic - 15 September, 2026 That was a fun one! "Scramble, scrambled, scrambles" (8) 🟡🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 1 hints – 1 under the community par (16,230 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

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Minute Cryptic

Minute Cryptic is a free daily cryptic crossword clue. Solve today's puzzle, learn how cryptic clues work with free guided courses, and build your solving streak.

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cozy autumn books 🍂https://books.bookfunnel.com/poppyscozyclues/4pbu2jeey4?fbclid=IwdGRzaAUKxs1jbGNrBQrGxnBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeHTmSq8QcEDo-d_SAD1pLu9pTRodmBwtu_ctbsy1otd1X8hMG4uHrCAA5Bss_aem_v3Z42mub_TKMx6OY4kh87w

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For Readers Who Like It Cozy

Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 02/09/2026

Help fund 3LBE magazine for 2027 on Kickstarter and we’ll all get to read new stories by these amazing authors… and more on the way! 🖌 A.T. Greenblatt, Shane Hawk, Jordan Kurella, Arkady Martine, Sam J. Miller, Sarah Read, Eden Royce, A.D. Sui, Michael Wehunt, Kelsea Yu 🖌 kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a short story that’s been stuck in me for years. The parallels between Poe’s Masque of the Red Death and life in the 2020s are plentiful. Chords creates a version of the Red Death from the perspective of a physician-in-training moonlighting as a waiter. It lingers. Long Red Death.

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I had a full sci fi short story knock on the door and introduce itself to me last night. That hasn't happened to me in a few years. #scifi #booksky

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/08/2026

[reading a science fiction novel set in the future] man you don’t know

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's the big Indie Book Sale! Snap up my madcap Regency fantasy rom-com Scales and Sensibility for just $2.99 this weekend only: books2read.com/scalesandsensibility ...And check out the HUGE array of other amazing fantasy, SF, and horror books on offer! indiebook.sale #booksky #romancelandia

This promo image for the sale shows the cover of Steph's Scales and Sensibility: a determined-looking young woman in Regency dress standing outside a large country house with a small blue and green dragon curled around her shoulders. Beside it is the title Scales and Sensibility and the description: Nervous pet dragons and magical mixups in 1817 England may be a recipe for chaos...but they'll also lead to unexpected romance! $2.99.
Below all of that is a banner for the sale, beautifully illustrated with a dragon, skulls, diamonds, and a planet all floating in space. That text reads: Indie Book Sale: Fantasy, Sci Fi and Horror, 29-31 August.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

📚 The shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, including Audition by #NZ’s @pipadam.bsky.social www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26

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Ursula K. Le Guin — 2026 Prize for Fiction

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wish Upon A Falling Leaf 11 warm and magical stories 🍂 Pre order: books2read.com/WUFL

A rust brown book called Wish Upon a falling leaf sitting on autumn leaves and forest floor

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hooray! The ebook of my fun werewolves-in-Pittsburgh short story, "Pack Dynamics," is available on Patreon now: www.patreon.com/stephaniebur... Subscribe at any level from $5/month to snap it up along with all the other ebooks available to Dragon Ruler subscribers. ❤️ #romancelandia

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Your Ebook Copy of "Pack Dynamics" | Stephanie Burgis

Your Ebook Copy of "Pack Dynamics" by Stephanie Burgis on Patreon. Join Stephanie Burgis's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Have you heard about the legend of the Wandering Wishing Oak? It's a magical tree, thought to be created from the magic of the acorn that created the vales. When it appears, you have a chance to make a wish if you are lucky enough to catch a falling leaf.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This auction opens TODAY! Want me to critique your short story? Now's your chance! bsky.app/profile/effi...

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey pals, come follow my next BackerKit campaign and help me bring a TIME LOOP ANTHOLOGY to life next month!! (It will have an open submission period for writers in October.) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

<alt>opportunity window: a time loop anthology, with artwork by Mildred McMillen edited to be framed within multiple smaller frames; it shows a person in a painting studio by an attic window</alt>

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Rural Suspense ARCs available booksirens.com/bundle/rural...

A pink image of rural suspense ARCs you'll love with book covers

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Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙 @caradelaney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Kobo Plus has been getting gloriously good lately, I'm glad I made the move. Here's 19 really cool fantasy books that are free with a subscription, and also one of mine! :D

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dear companies: I'd rather get your reply email a few days after sending it, than get an AI slop one instantly afterwards.

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 12/08/2026

If you're looking to get away from Amazon and replace Kindle Unlimited while supporting authors, then you need to check out Kobo and Kobo Plus! They're also partnered with Storygraph. Here are 20 indie fantasy & sci-fi books on Kobo Plus to get you started: www.readindiefantasy.com/read-fantast...

A promo banner featuring eight book covers to indie fantasy and sci-fi in the background with the text: Kobo Plus Fantasy Reads.

Find more at: https://www.kobo.com/en/p/kobo-plus-fantasy-reads

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hello beautiful people. If you didn't catch my post from a few weeks ago, I've been spending the past 4 months setting up a pay-what-you can/affordable indie writing festival that will be both in-person here in Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand, but also online. (Ooohh ahh.) www.beautifulwords.net

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Beautiful Words Con | Writing festival

A writing convention based in Nelson, New Zealand & Online that focuses on Independent, alternative & underground writing and publishing.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The sooner we fund, the sooner we can reopen to submissions and achieve our awesome stretch goals!!!!

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One of my grad students is doing a survey about what it is like to live with a writer, the anonymized results will be shared on an LA Worldcon panel: form.jotform.com/262105640565... Help out or pass around to your non-writing partners if you feel so inclined!

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Living With An Artist: The Real Experience

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hey! Do you want to hear "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", which is nominated for a Hugo, read by an actual professional reader? Here you go, it's on the awesome Cast of Wonders podcast!

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Huzzah! This month's Dragons' Book Club post is up now. Just subscribe to my Patreon at any level from $1.99/month upwards to read all of my reading recs from this month and share your own with fellow club members in the comments! patreon.com/stephanieburgis #romancelandia

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Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Oh shoot, the Dunedin Arts Festival didn't recieve Creative NZ funding. Between UBS, the downsizing of the uni music programme, the struggle to fund the arts fellowships... there's a ton of good fresh stuff happening in Ōtepoti, but there's so much bad news at the moment.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Finally watching Project Hail Mary and if this fucking adorable rock alien dies I’m gonna set this place on fire

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

YES! It is my author copies of A DUBIOUS CLAMOR! Dreadfully hot humid day but WHO CARES I HAVE MY BOOK

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thank you @rsagarcia.bsky.social for the lovely words about my book. 😊 Pre-orders are open now: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-as...

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Raven Oak @ravenoak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Head's up Authors! Ingram is apparently trying to sell our shit to AI. Kid you not. Go opt out and then complain. LOUDLY. #WriterSky #AuthorSky

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Jackie Lee Morrison @jaxies.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Next session for Marginalia is coming up at 11.30am — come join us for ROMANCE BUT MAKE IT QUEER 😘 www.youtube.com/live/N1WbSt2...

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Marginalia '26: Romance but Make It Queer

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Gavin / G. B. Ralph @gbralph.com · 18/07/2026

Investigate Fright on Stage Right under the cover of night for: 💅 Ghoulish drag queens 🎃 Pumpkin carving 🎭 Community theatre 🍸 Themed cocktails 🔥 Bonfire night 🕵️‍♂️ An amateaur sleuth 👮‍♂️ A handsome officer 👵 An elderly sidekick

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Fright on Stage Right

It’s opening night at the theatre and Addison Harper has front-row seats with Sergeant Jake Murphy. This might just be his perfect date. The variety show promises spooky Halloween fun, ghoulish dra…

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My story "Wiggle All Happy" is live on @gavagai.com ! It's a story abt loss and what grief might look like, from the other side of the veil. Read it here: gavagai.com/posts/6097 CN for animal death offscreen.

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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Julia Kitvaria Sarene 📚🐉⚔️☠️ @kitvaria.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Happiest release day to this beauty by @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social ! Book 2 with my favourite autistic main character in the center of a cosy fantasy with a dash of mystery! Find the full review here: fantasy-faction.com/2026/charms-... #Austistic #CosyFantasy #AutisticFiction #AutisticFantasy

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Charms, Charts, and Conspiracies by David Green – Review

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Kim @kjackways.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My new shiny book, Quartet Killer, is now available to be requested in libraries. It's full of secrets, folklore, and witchy things. #mystery #witches #urbanfantasy

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

For myself, as someone with ME/CFS, I would have scored this mostly in the red. We really do need a ME/CFS/LongCOVID care and treatment and referral pathway established in Aotearoa New Zealand. #nzpol

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C. L. Schneider, Fantasy Author @clschneiderauthor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Summon yourself the perfect summer read with over 30 titles witchy titles just waiting to put a spell on you! Some may be discounted or FREE to read with your #kindleunlimited subscription. #darkfantasy #paranormal #witchyvibe books.bookfunnel.com/witchyfictio...

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