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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you're a writer who hasn't been published yet, I know it's hard and stressful, and I wish you every success. But also, please, savor the freedom of this time. Right now, you literally can write anything; your storytelling belongs entirely to you. And that is magical and impossible to reclaim.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In case you missed it yesterday, I wrote a short thing about how writing is art but publishing is a business, not earning out your contract, how hard marketing sucks, and selling your soul to the Devil. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

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Let's talk about $$$!

Or, you know, whatever

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

No matter what else happens, today is book club day, and that's always an awesome thing.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Where are the moderate Democrats already in Congress who've been b!tching about the radical left, saying they got this? Shouldn't they be drafting legislation to make electric shock gloves illegal for law enforcement? "Yeah, the world did end, but technically, we were on summer break, so . . . "

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Me and the hubs are sharing workspace today - y'all keep us in your thoughts. :D #amwriting #ampainting

Cover art for my romantic fantasy novel, The Dragon's Wife, depicts a fairy tale-like manuscript page with a drawing of a dragon behind the title. #hotdragonsex

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Y'all, I am so sick of being taken "inside the mind of a killer." I could not give less of a f*ck why or how this serial killer or that rage killer or whichever disconnected asshole with no sense of empathy decided to take somebody else's life away. It's boring; the market is glutted. Move on.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Parents and grandparents of children who attend the charter school across the street from me line up 2 hours early for pickup every day. The line moves fast when it starts; that's not why. They want those two hours to sit in the car and stare at their phones. All of them. Sooo creepy. #america2026

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Having a pretty good writing day--transcribing, actually. I write first in longhand then transcribe into a Word document, chapter by chapter. Anywho, today is all about spiders ... #amwriting

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

TFW you know the editing project you have on deck is going to be an excellent read, but you're still so trifling you can't seem to make yourself get started. #amediting #seriouslyIpromise

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I used to wonder why people who had time & space to write at home would pack up their stuff & move to a coffee shop. Now, trying to write in the house with two loud & anxious terriers, a clingy cat, a washing machine, & a year-round grammar school across the street, I absolutely get it. #amwriting

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Good morning. Hope y’all have a great day.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Snagged from @natania.bsky.social , and all I can say is same, my dear one, same.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Starting a new editing project this morning--sci fi this time from an author I know as a human but not as a writer. Initial pages look really promising! #amediting

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Having watched two parents waste away slowly in a morphine-induced nightmare between life and death (one in a facility owned by one of McConnell's biggest campaign donors), I know wherever he is, his spirit is in agony. I wish I didn't think it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. I wanna be better.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I made the happy mistake of opening up Joe Abercrombie’s The Devils while reorganizing my TBR pile. Now it’s got me and won’t let go. Sorry, book(s) I was already reading.

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I Will Be Right Back Dr Baran Al-hashimi

ALT: I Will Be Right Back Dr Baran Al-hashimi

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Wednesday night is book club night, so that always helps. Amazing books, amazing people who read them. And usually cake! It’s a great way to survive at midweek.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Pray a moment's silence for the harvest gold toilet my mother chose in 1973. It has finally and irreparably cracked and will be replaced today with a generic, white, low flow thing with no personality. But it is survived by its avocado green sibling, still hanging in there in the back bathroom.

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If Cher sees her shadow tomorrow we get six more weeks of Pride.

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Samantha Bryant | She/her @samanthabwriter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In an unlikely confluence of events, projects I’ve been working on for the past six months are all coming out within one month of each other. So this is the summer of Samantha‘s stories!

Sunset on the water background and covers for four of my publications this summer

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

It's hot, y'all. Stay inside in the air conditioning and read a lovely, engrossing, 1920s-Paris-set murder mystery. And while you're reading this one, I'll be working on the next one.

Lady Stella Barrington, aka silent movie actress Stella Hart, and her new husband, George Barrington, on their honeymoon in Paris--the cover of Le Jazz Hot by Lucy Blue

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L. Marie Wood @lmariewood.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The Tryst makes you feel...Origins breaks your heart... Imprint will make you curse out loud. Dive into The Red Thread Saga. BOOK 3 is available for pre-order now. #slipstream #fivebooks #journey #sexyscary #psychologicalhorror #poly #mmf #mustread2026 a.co/d/05KAY4vm

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sometimes love is just standing there listening to your Best Beloved explain why the roof rack isn't fastening properly until he figures out for himself why the roof rack isn't fastening properly. You're not fixing the problem; you're providing extra brain space for them to park data and processing.

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Samantha Bryant | She/her @samanthabwriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Since the first time I read Frankenstein, I’ve wondered what happened to Adam after he jumped off that ship at the end and ran off into the Arctic. Check out the story to see what I imagined for him. #NewStory #Frankenstein

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Luxury would be an environment out of reach of any kind of electronic or mechanical beep, buzz, rumble, or bong. No alarms, no alerts, no background grind.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Editing other people's work today, much good stuff. But has anyone else noticed everything taking so much longer to get done lately? Reading I used to do in a day now takes a week; writing my own stuff takes forever. Just getting the dishwasher loaded has become a full-on project. Is it just me?

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Finally reading James by Percival Everett. On the one hand, I'm irritated that it took me so long. On the other, I get to read it for the first time NOW. My fellow former lit majors, if you haven't read it yet, paperback copies are cheap and readily available, and trust me, you want one.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

About to get up and make an old school tuna noodle casserole with shredded cheddar and soups from cans. Does anybody else still eat this stuff?

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

As general advice: 1. Anyone can say they are a publisher and doesn't mean they're one 2. If a press has shit covers, no advances, no distribution, they're not doing you any favors. This is a business relationship. They have to business 3. You have power and don't have to accept shit--

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Writers who think having adorable pets to post on social media would make their process easier have no adorable pets. #thisbutthole #catpix

Tuxedo cat in front of laptop displaying cover of Gabino Iglesias’ House of Bone and Rain

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hello! Sorry to interrupt your scrolling, but the hardcover of House of Bone and Rain is about $12 right now. That’s cheaper than the ebook. Also, I’m home, where the real story behind it and the novel take place. Perfect time to read it! Thanks. Much love. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Keep pushing. For weeks, I've thought my whole fat-ass book was a bust because I couldn't find the next keystone. Yesterday writing felt like torture, a waste of time. And in the midst of it, I found it. A whole scary scene that clicks everything together just fell out of my pen. #amwriting #horror

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Official day 7 of a “con crud” virus that keeps evolving. Now my husband has it so of course he feels ever so much worse.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Stella says her human mom is lazy AF and needs to get up and do useful stuff. She’s so judgey! #caturday

Small tuxedo cat sitting on the foot of a quilt-covered bed.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I miss the days when con crud lasted a couple of days at most; two good nights’ sleep, and I was ready to roll. It’s been a week, and I’m still in shattered pieces. Still worth it, but dang, y’all.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Nothing cures a writer's block more efficiently than an appointment they can't miss away from the computer. Why does my muse hate me, y'all? #amwriting

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AJ Hartley @authorajhartley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

After a glitch earlier today, the Hideki Smith books are back up on Amazon. The second in the series is (bafflingly) yet to get any reviews! If you've read, please consider posting a quick response. Thanks! www.amazon.com/dp/164554371...

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Hideki Smith and the Omukade (Hideki Smith Demon Queller)

Hideki Smith and the Omukade (Hideki Smith Demon Queller) [Hartley, A.J., Osako, Hisako, Hartley, Kuma] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hideki Smith and the Omukade (Hideki Smith Demon Queller)

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Home repairs and headaches got between me and accomplishing much as a writer or editor today. But then I see a truly fantastic debut novel I edited earlier this year, The 12th of Never by Oje Kendi, released today, and that helps a lot. If you love Stranger Things, this might hit the spot.

Cover of The 12th of Never by Oje Kendi--a frightened young girl crouched on the snowy ground in a forest.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Somehow I’m twice as busy now as I was working a day job. I have a book of mine with an editor;I’m editing someone else’s. And oh yeah they’re rebuilding my kitchen. And I’m writing the beloved new thing. #writerlife

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Not only am I in this anthology, if you scroll down thru the rewards, you'll see a Tuckerization in my story. So if you've ever wanted to unleash a cosmic horror on the Beautiful South, this could be your chance! #kickstarter #southerngothichorror www.kickstarter.com/projects/fal...

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Disruptive Intent

An anthology that challenges expectations, subverts tropes, and fights the power.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Happy Friday, kids! Has everybody filed their claim in Bartz v Anthropic? The search list and claim forms are now live at anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

So hey, y'all, I'm going to be in this! Short fiction by a bunch of writers who are ready to fight the darkness with their own kind of light. #truthtopower #artcansaveus #anthology

Graphic for a new anthology from Falstaff Books - Disruptive Intent. Includes QR code.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It’s #FridayReads time and Hispanic/Latine Heritage month! Let’s boost all signals. This month is great, but I write with an accent every month. Here’s a (45% off!) novel full of sazón and magic, waves and monsters, storms and revenge, crime and friendship. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My last Friday at the day job I've had for two decades. Gonna be a full-time writer for a bit, something I've never allowed myself to do before. Y'all wish me luck, 'cause this feels really, really weird. #writerlife

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 10/09/2025

Oh look, it's that day again! And it's my turn to set you some mind-stretching questions. Four questions about you and your horror work, coming at you 7pm UK time. That's 2pm Eastern for North America. #HorrorWritersChat

Image shows creepy figures behind a curtain. All text in post.

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Lucy Blue @lucybluewriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi are beautiful people & wonderful actors. But Cathy & Heathcliff weren't beautiful adults playing 50 Shades of Bridgerton; they were abused, twisted children acting out physical attraction & patterns of abuse. Their story is sexy in a broken way, but it isn't pretty.

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