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The Book Bazaar: Coming October 29th, 2026 @the-book-bazaar.com · 10h

Starting October 29th, we’ll be streaming something daily. Tune in for author interviews, book trailers, drawing sessions, let’s plays, and more. Check out our streaming schedule, and tune in on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/thebookbazaar #BookBazaar26

Streaming Schedule
Live on Twitch.tv/TheBookBazaar
From Oct 29th- Nov 19th enjoy book related streaming! All times EST

Oct 29: 12:30 PM ET – Live Launch Party with select TBB authors

Oct 30: 8 PM ET – Spooky Pickle reads spooky poetry

Oct 31: 2 PM ET – First chapter reading of Thistles & Thorns and more with Kate Butler

Nov 1: 1 PM ET – Prologue reading of The Forgotten Princess with Matthew Siadak

Nov 2: 7 PM ET – Reading Becoming Neptune’s Cat with Kit Muse

Nov 3: 7 PM ET – Amara & Primrose discuss Fire & Feathers

Nov 4: 7 PM ET – How to write a difficult book with Tucker Lieberman

Nov 5: 6 PM ET – Read & draw with V.E. Phemera

Nov 6: 4 PM ET – Emil Bronze makes a map

Nov 7: 7 PM ET – Character Q&A with Sherrie Bakeler

Nov 8: 6 PM ET – MTG Commander night with select TBB authors

Nov 9: 6 PM ET – Vampire lore building with Subvertebra

Nov 10: 6 PM ET – Book trailer night with select TBB authors

Nov 11: 3 PM ET – Reading Monster Bracket with Aaron Fox

Nov 12: 1 PM ET – Space Wizard’s How to Sell Books!

Nov 13: 5 PM ET – MTG Commander night with select TBB authors

Nov 14: 6 PM ET – Interview with J.S. Living

Nov 15: 12:30 PM ET – Reading Halfsoul with Susanne Schmidt

Nov 16: 12 PM ET – Read & draw with T.E. Lamonte

Nov 17: 5 PM ET – Read & draw with Tycho Dwellis

Nov 18: 7 PM ET – Below the Blue Circuits podcast episode

Nov 19: 4:30 PM ET – Live Closing Party with select TBB authors

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Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 20h

Her trust is dead. Can he resurrect it? This slow burn, romantic fantasy romp is filled with ghosts (some helpful, others less so) graveyards, conniving thieves, and nefarious necromancers. Available for pre-order. Out Oct. 29th. 💀 🪦 #Booksky #Wrencer 📚️ ❤️ books2read.com/u/b61YR0

An advertisement for the romantic fantasy book Thief of Death by Samantha Breaux. The ad shows the book cover in the middle with the title in large purple font on a gray background. The title is flanked by white skeletal trees and tombstones. Text around the cover reads graveyard meet-cute, thief with a heart of gold, priest of the dead, slow burn, hurt / comfort, and states that the book is available on October 29th.

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JD Rivers | Otar 3 out now! @jd-rivers.com · 15/10/2026

*kicks in the door* IT HAS ARRIVED! MY WORK OF THE LAST THREE YEARS IS FINISHED! Follow Otar's journey now to the unavoidable end! Now with more ruins, questions, and mysteries! (And romance!) And more exclamation marks!!! And totally queer. buy.bookfunnel.com/u3j5ztvj83 🌈📚📚🪐📚💙

The cover the novel "The Death of a Universe", a ball of light with a figure in it, surrounded by darkness and red glowing eyes. The background is the middle of the cover but enlarged and muted, above the cover Out now! in brownish-red.

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY TO THIS STUNNING CONCLUSION TO AN INCREDIBLE SERIES. 😍😍😍😍😍 #BookSky

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Sylvie Helstaff @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! The ravenous lesbian mermaid audiobook is here! My sapphic horrormance, Swim With Me, Darling, is now available for your listening pleasure at the following places with more coming soon! 🎧 link.amazon/B00XPcKhS Audible - tinyurl.com/swimaudible Chirp - tinyurl.com/swimchirp 💙📚

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Welcome to Translunar Travelers Lounge. Submissions for new stories close on 15 October. Please form an orderly queue at the submission portal, and read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

translunartravelerslounge.com

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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🐐 @wyldfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

character art for @barrows.itch.io of Yana (she/her, on left) and Rook (they/them, on right) from his First Light book series 🚀

Digital art of two people standing side by side. Both are wearing smart sci-fi uniforms in dark bluish-grey with light blue trims and silver UNCA badges. On the right is Rook, a tall pale skinned person with long wavy black hair and stubble, who has their hands on their hips and is grinning at Yana. The jacket of their outfit is open for a more casual look. On the left is Yana, a shorter Black woman with warm brown skin and cropped dark brown hair, who is crossing her arms and looking at Rook with a small smile and a raised eyebrow.

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Tfw you're a big, scary, shark-looking person, but you've got a squishy human girlfriend who matches your energy. 😆 Thanks so much to @faindriart.bsky.social for this doodle! It really makes me happy. 💜🦈

A tall humanoid with a shark-like head wearing a coverall holds out one arm, from which is dangling a shorter white human woman with short dark hair and dark clothes who is hanging on biting like a feral puppy.

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Aowna @aowna.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh I heard it's #PortfolioDay ! Here's a creature art edition with my recent work 🪲🦌🐺🐦

Fullbody illustration of a stylized giant centipede-like creature, but much longer and with stylized features, such as a sort of golden helmet over the head and many golden ornamentations across the back. The centipede is curled around a japanese pine tree and a floated piece of grey-purple land.

Commissioned painted artwork: a diptych of two magical deer-like creatures. On the left is a healthy deer with moss, leaves, and flowers growing on its back, tail, and antlers. The forest behind it is warm and sunny, full of greenery. On the right is an undead deer with exposed bones and moss growing around its innards. There are spiderwebs in its antlers. The forest behind this one is dark and gloomy.

Digital painting, a commission, depicting a snarling black wolf with one white paw, amber eyes, and blue fire on his flanks. There's lightning and a stele in the background.

Fullbody illustration of a giant phoenix with red, orange, yellow, and blue colors in his plumage. He is soaring over a city, and his long tail feathers encircle a pagoda. An aura of flames emanates from his open wings.

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My voice doesn't need to take up any of the conversation on Indigenous Peoples' Day, so let me just point to my favorite television show of all time instead. Please watch Reservation Dogs. It's a damn masterpiece, and I'd love to see more Indigenous stories brought to film/TV.

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The Book Bazaar: Coming October 29th, 2026 @the-book-bazaar.com · 12/10/2026

Happy indigenous peoples day!! An easy (and FREE) way to support an indigenous creator today is by following one of The Book Bazaar's indigenous author's projects! 📚 ⬇️

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Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Fiasco am give slow blink to u Which means KEESS Cos u looked like u needed one

me, fiasco, a big fluffy grey tabby with white toes, giving you a sloooow blink from my shark bed. i am facing the viewer, with my feet on the edge of the bed.

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Friends and anyone who picked up (but esp. read) TETK--what convinced you to pick it up? Was it any kind of marketing? Trying to work out what I should focus on in terms of promoting it, because I often feel very clueless in terms of what works & what doesn't 😂

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Barrows @barrows.itch.io · 11/10/2026

Reposting some First Light art today for no reason in particular 😉 #FirstLightArt

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Get this amazing deal of October-themed reads that'll last you until next year! We've got ghosts, goblins and gothic tales! Witches, warlocks and werewolves! Demons, dreams and Hallowe'en themes! itch.io/b/3904/chill...

Graphic for the Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon 10: OOF, I started this month with such high hopes, then got an unexpected gut punch on the 2nd and immediately fell off all my goals. 😅 I'm gathering myself up to try again. We're only a third of the way through the month, right? There's time to bounce back. Round 2: Fight!

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Arcane's Vi: Intense Close-Up

Alt: Arcane's Vi with bloody nose and lip, her fists up ready to fight

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42 Fold Studio @42fold.studio · 09/10/2026

🎨 Looking for a cover, character art, or illustrations for your book or project? Support independent human artists & let’s create some magic together✨ We are looking forward to working with you! Don’t hesitate to get in touch. No art request is too big or too small💖 🌐 42fold.studio

100% human-made art from renowned industry professionals at indie-friendly rates. That's our commitment. At 42Fold, we care about your creative projects as if they are our own. We want to collaborate with you to bring your vision to life and make your books stand out y providing outstanding art. Contact us to commission one of our artists!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

GO GET YOU A REALLY INCREDIBLE QUEER ROMANTASY WITH LOTS OF AMAZING ARRRRTTTTT!!!

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Revealing something really cool TOMORROW 👀 #BookSky

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

not to be dramatic but this is legitimately one of my favorite books and I NEEEEED this shiny special edition in my little gremlin hands so can we pleaaaaase make it happen 👀

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 09/10/2026

It's Friday! For those of you who have made it this far, have you saved your progress? books2read.com/u/4A9nxq pemry-janes.itch.io/unsaved

A game menu asking "Are you sure? Any unsaved progress will be lost."

Beneath are the buttons Confirm and Cancel.

And beneath that the meme asks "Is there a choice?" and at the botom is the cover of Unsaved, my new science fiction novella set at the end of time.

To buy or not to buy, can you afford to miss this story?

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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you're in the DMV area, come by the Howard County Fairgrounds in Maryland on Oct 24-25 for FrightReads Book Festival! I will be selling copies of THE DEVOURING alongside many other local authors, artists, and businesses. #BookSky Get tickets here: events.leapevents.com/event/fright...

An announcement for the upcoming FrightRead Book Festival at Howard County Fairgrounds in Maryland on October 24-25, 2026. In the upper left is a smiling portrait of the author, a woman with shoulder-length black hair and glasses. To the right of her photo is the cover of a book, THE DEVOURING by A. M. Shilling, which features a red inkblot shaped like a skull and white text against a red background. In the lower right corner is a drawing of a raven, perched atop a skull and reading a book.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 09/10/2026

👻🎃 ! SPOOKY SEASON SALE ! 🎃👻 Big discount on spooky books! Discount on spooky jewelry! Discount all over the place! Check it out my peeps! 👻 --> www.karenlykkebo.com/category/spo...

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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Have you read @elwolfsblood.bsky.social? They are very fun and nice and cool. Go take a look! linktr.ee/Wolfsblood

https://linktr.ee/Wolfsblood
@elwolfsblood.bsky.social
liminal space romance about falling in love in your dreams

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AdorkaStock @adorkastock.com · 08/10/2026

Book trailer just dropped 💅 @the-book-bazaar.com #BookBazaar26 #Pose #PoseRef

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you're looking for some unusual horror for your Hallowe'en reading list, may I offer . . . steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil... books2read.com/u/boB9YL #onsale for cheap! Less than a coffee! And it comes with accessories: * murder * a drag queen * strange forest #indiehorror #booksky

"Almost all the graves are grown-over with weeds. Tall grasses and creeping vines smother granite slabs and stretch like grim green fingers toward gently sloped mounds. My hindbrain deliberates the likelihood that most of those buried here predate the island’s liberation, but then, why would the organizers of a conversion camp bother with tombstones? An unmarked pit is surely good enough for delinquent bones." - The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One more week before we close submissions for the year. Please read the submissions page before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

translunartravelerslounge.com

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Teresa @dimreaper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BUY THIS BOOK it's wonderful and Lizzie is a cool person so you'd be a cool and wonderful person for buying and reading it

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Barrows @barrows.itch.io · 07/10/2026

If you like my books, you'll LOVE Lizzie's! If you dislike my books, first off, rude? But also, you'll probably still like Lizzie's.

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 07/10/2026

I beta read an early draft of this novel and it was amazing and a wild ride and you will love it! #amReading #BookSky #BookTok 🪐📚

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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The Book Bazaar: Coming October 29th, 2026 @the-book-bazaar.com · 06/10/2026

The Book Bazaar is thrilled to announce the late addition of @sandratayler.bsky.social's project A Year of Creativity. Sandra's activities will help you adjust your life to allow your creativity to thrive in 2027. Funds in late Oct for delivery starting in January! CHECK IT OUT!! #BookBazaar26

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A Year of Creativity

Get notified when A Year of Creativity launches on BackerKit!

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Aubrey is agonizing over book two 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For the record, the hardcover art is some of my favorite, so if you love a hardcover now’s your chance 👁️✨👁️✨👁️✨

Hardcover artwork of Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis. Cover features a dark swirling moon wreathed in muted mauve and ochre flowers

Back cover for Name Her Holy. Features three windows, one with Jude looking down at a black sword, flowers crawling up her armor. One with Kye holding a black flame, trailed by stars. One with a prayer, “the seeker find me on the path, the stars take me in their arms, keep me as a lantern, so I might light the way”

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OUT NOW: SHATTERED CITY, the sequel to SILVER BLOOD! 🖤 Get the ebook: books2read.com/cos-shattered-city Get the paperback from Bookshop: tinyurl.com/5czuhmyk Or the hardcover: tinyurl.com/5fcnd3mu

They made it out. Now can they make it work? Shattered City (City of Silver, book 2) is available now from Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, itch.io, Ko-Fi, and more.

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was an absolutely gorgeous day for a book photo shoot 🥰 And goddamn those are some beautiful books. @thistlearts.bsky.social I owe u my life for these covers 🙏🏻

A photo of my books Silver Blood and Shattered City in the grass with a bright blue sky behind them.

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Roan | busy w/ new job! @faindriart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Commission for @isaacxisaac.bsky.social of Alexander as a terrible horse. 🐴

Digital artwork in a cartoony style of a blond horse making an angry expression. He holds a sword in his mouth and wears a fancy hat with feathers. He is covered in frilly blue harness tack.

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The Book Bazaar: Coming October 29th, 2026 @the-book-bazaar.com · 29/09/2026

It's 30 days until The Book Bazaar 2026 launches... We have 35+ HUMAN authors funding! YOU can help! You can!! Here are some ways: 📚 Support your favorites (back them) 💙 Share Bazaarian campaign posts! (Spread the word!) 🎉 Join us for launch night live, nightly streams, and #TBBChat (Saturdays)

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SHATTERED CITY releases TOMORROW!!! 😱 This is your last chance to pre-order the ebook at a discount! Grab it from itch: silvercrescentpress.itch.io and everywhere else: books2read.com/cos-shattered-city

Shattered City (City of Silver, book 2) releases tomorrow!

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Roan | busy w/ new job! @faindriart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📣 Hello friends, IT'S COMM TIME. Form: forms.gle/2i5Zyf9uyv46... Comm Info: faindriart.carrd.co#commissions TOS: faindriart.carrd.co#tos 👉 Available Styles: - monochrome sketch (1 character, bust or half body) - doodles/memes I will email you to let you know you've claimed a spot. Thank you!

Monochrome sketch of two boys. One is hugging the other from behind.

Doodle of my OC Kasandra making an uwu face and sitting demurely.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For #spacetober_challenge day 2: galaxy - astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci

My linocut portrait of astronomer Vera Rubin with short hair, glasses and resting her face in her hand in burgundy on a background of outer space with stars and galaxies in black with blue and pink splotches to mimic how dust bends light in space. At the base of the print is a large spiral galaxy with a plot of orbital velocity versus distance going out from its centre (so the distance axis is indeed distance from centre). There are two lines labelled “observed” which goes up from the origin and then is a pretty flat wavy line all the way across. This line marks the bottom of Rubin. Below it is a wide empty gap of visible white paper down to the second line labelled “predicted”. The Predicted line goes up from the origin to a peak where it diverges from the observed and falls smoothly back down in a gentle curve.

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JD Rivers | Otar 3 out now! @jd-rivers.com · 02/10/2026

It's on my people! The release party has come early! In preparation for the last book, book 1&2 are 50% off! Snag them now before the last releases October 15th! Join the release party & get an epic adventure with lots of drama, mystery, intrigue and queerness. 😉 itch.io/s/202797/rel...

The cover the upcoming novel "The Death of a Universe", a ball of light with a figure in it, surrounded by darkness and red glowing eyes. The background is the middle of the cover but enlarged and muted, above the cover is the release date October 15th! in brownish-red.

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One week left !!

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ooh, #Octember sounds like a blast! In a world where Jenna isn't stuck working for bigoted plutocrats, I imagine she'd find gainful employment with the Flatwoods Monster. It's clearly a being with rizz and refinement who just needs a good cultural advisor to help smooth over introductions!

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please try to remember, the 1st of #Octember! We'll be hosting a ridiculous, nonsensical prompt game for October for drunken party game bullshit questions, and including various insane interludes of our skeletal host, Satchel Cumberland. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Octember

A month long series of non-sensical
promps abou your characters and stories!

This is deliberately unplanned nonsense. Expect drunk party game questions about things like how your characters would take on Godzilla, what a monster would employ them for, what fae creatures would find them hot... Etc.

Hosted by
@zprospero.bsky.social & a talking skull

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Greetings all for another #LGBTQWriteAThon! I'm Lizzie Blackwood, writer of queer romantic speculative fiction, author of the sci-fi romance The Stars Will Be Our Ocean, and this month I'm going to try to remember how to draft a novel in order to get myself in a flow state for writing Nov/Dec.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

September was a fantastic reading month for me! #sff #horror Enjoyed books by: @coyhall.bsky.social @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social @pemryjanes.com @kristalstittle.bsky.social @mererain.bsky.social @polenth.bsky.social Readers can check out my full reviews at: www.helenwhistberry.com/blog

Graphic of six book covers: Devilry in Godling Wood by Coy Hall showing a mounted figure with 3 faces and dagger on a strange horse pig hybrid rearing over a dragon like figure with long tail; The Stars Will Be Our Ocean by Lizzie Blackwood showing a humanoid figure and alien with shark like features floating or dancing in space; Unsaved by Pemry Janes showing a robot wearing a cowboy hat and long duster holding a gun and sitting on a fallen mech head in front of a red sky and white sun or moon. Kayak by Kristal Stittle showing a view from above of an orange kayak and paddler moving through blue water between green islands. Come Away Again by Mere Rain showing a person standing with back to viewer in a misty forest, surrounded by glittering lights. Wereconifer by Polenth Blake showing a hand-drawn pine tree with round colored lights.

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