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Derek Wagner @dmwagner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

My contributors copy of The Kindread Coast finally arrived! Very excited to be a part of this anthology of writers from Western Canada! Thanks to @shanonsinn.bsky.social and @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social for inviting me to take part in this!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The French adaptation of my novel is sitting in a dozen editors’ inboxes right now, plus one hard-copy in transit. I should hear back anytime between a few weeks and never! 🤞 #writingcommunity

Paperback copy of the YA paranormal novel Devil by the Tail sitting on top of a printed manuscript written in French.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I always wanted to translate my work into French, but I was always too lazy to do it. 😅 But finally, the deed is done and I’ve revised two chapters so far (and having fun!). I hold the translation rights, so I will try my luck with francophone publishers this fall.

Picture of a laptop with a Word document in French opened on chapter three. A paperback version of the English version of the YA novel Devil by the Tail rests on the keyboard.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I’m on the strawberry diet. Happiness in every bite! 🌱

A brimming bowl of ruby red, garden fresh strawberries.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Today’s soundtrack: wind chimes with a side of hungry raven fledglings. 🐦‍⬛🖤

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Did I mention how thrilled I am @gravesidepress.bsky.social acquired my short story Winter Wings for their upcoming #YA & #MG horror anthology? What's more, #kidlit writing friends, submissions for their Gradeside Stories young readers program are still open. 🖤 graveside-press.com/call-for-sub...

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Call for Submissions: Gradeside Stories | Graveside Press

We're asking for your tales again, this time not for Graveside Press, but for Gradeside Stories!

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Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Some days when you are writing you have the whole world to choose from in a story. Other days you only have the few words you can eke out for that day. #amwriting ..Keep #Writing, the story will grow and change as you do. - Wrtr #writer #author #authorsky

Creativity is a bit like a stubborn weed that won’t die: the roots run deep enough that it will keep growing back. - Doug Savage @savagechickens Keep Writing. Be Creative. ~ Background photo shows a tire track road through a field.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Going to the store for carrots on this fine spring day, in a snow storm, uphill both ways. The woods are windy and deep, and something is watching. 🌱

Root cellar door cut into a hills in the woods.

Fuzzy brown and white border collie dog watching through the trees.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🤍 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 📖 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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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I only managed to read one book so far this year, but I can already tell it will be one of my favourites of 2025. It’s a YA supernatural horror rooted in Indigenous culture, and it’s also about coping with grief for lost loved ones. This aspect of it spoke to me one a deep level. 📚💙

Book cover if the novel Beast, by Richard Van Camp. It features silvery swallows and a fiery chickadee flying against a smoky purple background.

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Elanor Landrie @elanorlandrie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#Writers, #readers, and #authors of #writesky and #booksky, who wants to help me decide my #novel tagline? The title of the #book is "The Witch of Toledo." I want to hear which one would make you want to read the blurb or the book! Here are the finalists. Cast your vote in the comments.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Dystopian/sci-fi nightmares are the worst! Thank goodness this fearsome goof was in there with me!

Close up of a long-haired, brown-and-white dog rolled onto its back, with a toy-bone with candy-corn patterns in its mouth.

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DM De Alwis @dmdealwis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We're all hooked by rejection and negativity. Kids (just like adults) feel rejection. Clinging to rejection leads to missed opportunities staring you in the face. I wrote BEST FRIENDS as a response to an experience my daughter had. Please share. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYPLTF3S

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 16/03/2025

Looking for Canadian #KidLit #YALit authors, illustrators, organizations as well as book bloggers who focus on boosting #CanKidLit? I've created a Starter Pack to help get you started: go.bsky.app/CzuFhAd

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I was waiting in line at the store and feeling sad, then an old man walked by me and said, "Tomorrow will be a better day." I hope he's right, but he made today a better day too. 🥲

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Sometimes you’re having a hard day and then something like this comes along. ☺️ #ya #novel

Except from a review for my book, which reads as follows:

“Devil by the Tail is an enthralling and haunting read that will resonate with fans of supernatural fiction and those who appreciate a compelling exploration of the human heart.”

Review by Jeyran Main in Book Review Magazine 2, Winter 2025.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Grief was hitting hard this morning. Later, I went to get some firewood from the huge stack my husband made sure we had. Riding out of the woods, I saw a bald eagle sitting in the big cottonwood, and I like to think it was a sign that he’s watching over me. 🩶

A yellow and black snowmobile in woods blanketed in snow.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

#writingcommunity, what's your least favourite thing about writing? For me, it's all the sitting involved, but I finally did it! I invested in a standing desk and walking pad! So far, I've written 0.45 miles :)

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Katie L. Carroll @katielcarroll.com · 16/12/2024

Have a reader that is starting to move on from middle grade but isn't quite ready for older-skewing YA books? My novels Pirate Island and Witch Test are perfect for readers 12-15 years old! #kidlit #bookrecs #middlegrade

The illustrated cover of the upper middle grade book Pirate Island by Katie L. Carroll. A 13-year-old boy dresses as a pirate with a suspicious expression. A blazing orange sunset, a turquoise sea, and an island are behind him. A pirate ship sails in the water, treasure is to his side.

The illustrated cover of the upper middle grade book Witch Test by Katie L. Carroll. A 13-year-old girl dressed in a black witch outfit and hat. A full moon and crows are in the dark sky. The girl is surrounded by corn stalks with a jack o' lantern at her feet.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

“Don’t give up” might not always be the best advice, but after 2 years, 53 subs, 5 long lists, and one declined acceptance, my short story found the perfect home. 🎉 I am thrilled! #writingcommunity

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It costs me to cut a living tree, but I don’t want a plastic one, so here’s my zero mile/tree spacing Christmas tree.

Four-foot tall subalpine fir and saw in a snowy landscape.

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Cat Melville @catmelville.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Does anyone have useful tips or resources for creating a Moodboard for #pitch events? A free app, article, template, etc… #writer #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Celebrating being an Amazon #1 New Release Best Seller! I love my publisher! Thank you for all you do! 📚🔥 #WritingCommunity IT’S “THE BOOK THAT SHOCKS EVERYONE”!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"A trickster cursed Alex to lose someone she loves, but her fear of loss is a curse of its own." My #YA novel, Devil by the Tail, looks pretty under the Christmas tree. For lovers of wilderness adventure, cursed girls, and tricksters! Set in snowy northern BC! books2read.com/Devil-by-the...

The book Devil by the Tail propped up beneath a Christmas tree.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

That true for me. I start with plot, but it always takes me a few drafts to truly get to know my character.

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MY NEW BOOK [DISCIPLINE] IS OUT NOW!! @iammarcavery.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Being an AUTHOR is wanting to be an international best selling sensation while simultaneously living off the grid in a cabin by the woods with the only connection to the real world being written messages distributed by carrier pigeons. #writersky

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Tammy Welton @tammywelton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Wormwood As the battle between good and evil is fought in this small farming community, who will prevail? Will the good people of Wormwood need a miracle… #NewRelease coming November 2024 shorturl.at/aNSZ0

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R. Dawnraven - Author @rdawnraven.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The Hidden Crystals is a queer YA novel about two elves and their new human friend who must collect a set of magical crystals to stop a traitor. Linktr.ee/rdawnraven

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 07/12/2024

Can I share "Books I don't see talked about that should absolutely be promoted more" Too bad, I am! The Prince with Six Faces: Disability & Gender Fantasy Romance amzn.to/3ZqHFzL They Came in the Night: Queer, Poly Why Choose with Vampires, Witches, AND Crime Syndicates: amzn.to/49pcj1e

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The Prince with Six Faces

Amazon.com: The Prince with Six Faces eBook : Holmes, Anna: Kindle Store

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 07/12/2024

It will be released March 2025 and it’s called “The Cat Operators Manual“. It’s a parody of a small appliance instruction manual. It also has stickers. thecatoperatorsmanual.com

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Cat Operator's Manual

Get the most out of your domestic cat with this helpful and handy Cuddle Unit 5™ operating instruction manual.The Cat Operator's Manual is a fresh and quirky guide to understanding your cat, complete ...

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Heather Turner @techielibgrl.com · 06/12/2024

Just a reminder that BlueSky works a bit differently. If something resonates with you be sure to repost to let others know it is agreat idea! While likes are great, reposting highlights great ideas for the communities we are building. #TLSky #EduSky #KidLit #Skybrarian #Edtech #Education

This image serves as a reminder about social media sharing on Bluesky. It features a blue sky background with white clouds and a bold heading reading "REMINDER" accompanied by an exclamation mark in a red circle. The text emphasizes:

Bluesky's algorithm is not based on capitalism, so it works differently.
Engagement operates differently compared to other platforms.
While likes are good, reposting boosts visibility.
To support the community, repost content you resonate with to increase its visibility.
The message is designed to encourage users to engage through reposting for greater community impact.

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Great Plains Press @greatplainspress.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We are new arrivals! 🦋 Based in Canada, we publish fiction, non-fiction and books for middle grade and teens. Find us at greatplainspress.ca!

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Home - Great Plains Publications

Meet our Authors The Bookshelf What's New

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Haunted Words Press @hauntedwordspress.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

we are officially here!! if you know us from the other places, say hello and spread the word! 👋

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Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

PSA for newbies: Please include ALT text on your images. This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people. Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people. Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered. Thanks!

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L.L. Madrid @llmadridwrites.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

go.bsky.app/AEAZZ24 Hi! I created a small press author starter pack. If you’re a small press author or a small press and want to be added—reply to this post!

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Haunted Words Press @hauntedwordspress.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

📣Submissions are currently open for Issue Nine: Blood-Bound! Give us your oaths, omens, pacts, and prophecies. Show us the deals made in the dark, your families found and forgotten. We want short stories, flash fiction, poetry, art, and cover art for YA and MG, now until Nov 21st! ❤️🩸

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

First significant snowfall of the year! To celebrate, I took my debut YA novel Devil by the Tail on a little trek. For fans of unreliable teen narrators, even more unreliable snowmobiles, and, of course, Very Good Dogs™️.

A brown and white dog sitting in snow beside an old orange snowmobile. The book Devil by the Tail is propped on the hood.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

À propos of nothing, my spooky YA paranormal novel Devil by the Tail released today.

Picture of a book and e-reader on a background out dark-purplish forest, surrounded by the book’s tropes and a silvery Reader’s Choice five-star review sticker. The tropes are: an axe is a girl’s best friend, emotional self-sabotage, remote mountain town, a good dog no matter what, a shape-shifting trickster, an angsty bi main character, and French-Canadian folklore. The book cover shows the silhouette of a girl gazing at a dark mountain peak. The sky is awash in auroras and faint predator’s eyes show through.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

My YA paranormal novel releases in one month and it has a book trailer! youtu.be/Vm_h2Q6f8Cw

My YA paranormal novel releases on October 4! Watch the book trailer on youtube!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I recognize some names! I’m looking forward to reading the newest anthology!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Very proud to see my little book all grown up and ready to fly!

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

COVER REVEAL🎉 I am thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel DEVIL BY THE TAIL, publishing October 4th, 2024 @DeepHeartsYA! Stay tuned for preorder swag and other fun stuff!

Image of the book cover in purple, grey, and blue, showing the silhouette of a girl against a dark mountain peak. Faint predator eyes show through a sky awash with aurora borealis.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Edits are completed and there's a book cover on the way. I can't wait to share more details! Meanwhile, here's a trope-thingie I made for my #YA novel Devil by the Tail.

Image of a girl carrying an axe surrounder by the tropes found in my upcoming novel Devil by the Tail, which are: YA paranormal, French-Canadian folklore inspired. Shapeshifting trickster. backwoods setting,
bisexual MC, emotional self-sabotage, white privilege and pitfalls of allyship.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

Hey, #WritingCommunity, we’re doing intros? I’m Caroline. I write YA speculative fiction. All my stories, including my upcoming debut novel, are set in the woods or on the farm where I live and write. Here’s me on a firewood-stacking day last fall.

Selfie of the author in a black hoodie and camouflage baseball cap.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

Office with a view. It’s really hot out there, and it’s haying season. This is also the setting for my WIP, a story set on a haunted farm during hay season. 👻

A field of mowed hay viewed from the seat of a green John Deere tractor.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

I agree! My epiphanies rarely happen while I’m sitting at the keyboard.

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Happy pub day, Amelinda! People, read this book. You’ll never sleep soundly again! 🖤💀

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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦 @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

PSA for the #writingcommunity. If you need an eye-freshening activity, thinning carrot seedlings is NOT it. 😵‍💫

A pair of blue reading glasses and some pink tweezers lie on the ground beside a thick row of carrot seedlings.

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