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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 07/08/2026

Big news, readers: Ebooks are coming! 🎉 We’re excited to share that in the coming months, you’ll be able to enjoy both ebooks and audiobooks on Libro! Every purchase you make will benefit your chosen independent bookshop. What are we most excited about? 🔽

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If you're going for a slow burn make sure you pack the right kind of fuel, and enough of it. Two people who can hardly keep their hands to themselves from the word go probably don't have a lot of good reasons to keep them apart for say, three to four whole books.

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Ok, this is very pleasing to my brain. Thank you cover artists! (Audrey Benjaminsen and Sam Hadley) #SFF #Romantasy 💙📚🪐

Vile lady villains by danai christopoulou next to nemesis mine by amy archer. On the first, two women hold daggers at each others' throats, on the second two men do the same.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

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Ossei Odontidae @filitadraws.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

When the human of a vampire-hating werewolf family turns into a vampire, he must hide his new fangs from his nosy sister all while suppressing his hunger for blood and deflecting the suspicion of his sister’s (very hot) 🐺 bodyguard. That and to avoid a 🧛 vs 🐺 war #SEAsianPit #A #PR #Q 🌈 filo mc

moodboard composed of 10 images (left to right) silhouette of a hand with claws, outside restaurant during the evening, vampire red eyes, wolf necklace, random alleyway in Puglia, silhouette of two men staring at each other longingly, golden eyes, a bucket of garlic and herbs, Fangs Out in Italy with a red background. Silhouette of bats going across the moodboard

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I was about to say you've put me in an early grave but I guess it's just a grave

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Going through my old (like 2015) artworks and found this - shoutout to young Lysander who thought he was gonna make a whole web-comic lol I think my record was about seven pages. Writing novels might not be 'easier' but it's certainly less intensive.

A twinky blonde making the yandere face stands at the centre of the cover over the title 'Bitter Sweet Memenise' behind him is a weird butterfly skull with a proboskis looking thing (your guess is as good as mine) leaking black butterflies, and the face of a smiling demon with long hair and brown skin, glowing blue eyes and similarly glowing blue piercings.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

#NotQuiteWritePrize Let this be a lesson to all, sometimes that one vote cast in either direction really does make all the difference 😂 Sorry Ed

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I think I messed up somehow, I followed some book related packages and now my feed is all politics suddenly and like, that's not what I am using bluesky for. I prefer to get my news seperate. Gotta find a way to fix it. 😬

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Some truly gorgeous art right there

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Does your cat also lie like this? She looks like one of those fancy shell shaped chocolates #catsky

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

MORNING BLUESKY! My book THE GODS OF ATALANTIS #1 is out on digital today!!! 🥳🥳🥳 2 teenagers get chosen as the new gods & must learn to work together as they face scheming leaders, fanatical cults & a prophecy of doom for their island! ❤️‍🔥 Slow-burn romance! 💎 Magic crystals! 🌏 Deep worldbuilding!

Cover of THE GODS OF ATALANTIS, designed by me. The bottom half shows a girl with long flowing hair sleeping in a fetal position, wrapped up in flowing cloths; she is painted in shades of light to dark blue, and her flowing hair and cloths are reminiscent of ocean waves. At the top, upside down, a boy with curly hair and a tattoo on his arm is also sleeping in a fetal position, wrapped up in cloths; he is painted in golds and reds, like the sun. The two of them mirror each other almost like yin & yang, with the title written between them in shining reddish-gold letters. A reddish-gold border frames the cover, and each corner features a small symbol: a marigold flower, a phoenix, an orange & blue striped fish, and a wolf. Along the left and right sides of the border, pale bluish-white crystals are growing. Along the bottom the author's name EMILY KLOTZ is written in the same reddish-gold letters.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Make it interesting or don't even bring it up. If she just happens to never get pregnant accidentally that's equally believable to me. Stop lampshading. Grumble grumble grumble.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Anyone else sick to death of reading about magic herbs in every romantasy? Am I the only one who thinks this is immersion breaking and lowkey boring? Make them use animal bladders. Give the herbs side effects. Contraception isn't free. This message brought to you by post iud cramping.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's so specific for a lie. You're good at this game, I won't underestimate you again,

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

But b seemed so YOU, wow, I'm a fake friend

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

There was no age gap, not that big anyway. It was like, less than 12. You're an 8-year gap person.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I don't think you've ever been to Montreal

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Hmm I know I asked the question but I think the answer for me is that beginnings are sort of by definition compelling- the human brain loves beginnings. Endings? Not so much. It's hard to create an ending that leaves the reader satisfied, because we don't like endings.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I know the feeling, what is it about ending a book that's so damn hard?

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I got really excited about all the various words that contain 'disco' and then had a flash of undeniable inspiration and pivoted. What's that one story about the bat switching sides in the war between animals? Is that Aesop? #NotQuiteWritePrize #FlashFiction

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I started on one team's prompt then had an epiphany and flip flopped but we'll see if it sticks. Wikipedia has been involved so you know it's getting real.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The audio book for Swordheart by T. Kingfisher was perfectly delivered for me. Jesse Vilinsky did a great job.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

How long until Google Ads decides my disabled ass is looking for dance classes? lmao

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's the Lysander Guarantee 🤝

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm psyched to use my powers for evil!!

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thankyou!! We support women's wrongs (except tailgating that's reprehensible.)

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In my case they call it "adhd" but that works too lol. I think the truth of the matter, for me, is that it is more productive to create 20% of twenty projects, than 30% of one project because I was forcing myself to try and finish. I know that won't work, so I may as well harness the creativity.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

What a wild take, everyone's process is different lol

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Who says that??? My whole writing process involves harnessing the desire to procrastinate to get something else done. I wrote a whole book while editing my first manuscript, because I felt like writing.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Or just being succinct, or sometimes I think a short telling sentence is very powerful in its simplicity. Or providing internality for a character by having them acknowledge their feelings - Or my favourite use case, creating an unreliable narrator by conflicting show and tell.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I heard someone say that the real issue is that people tend to use adverbs as a crutch in sentences that are already weak, and so paying attention to them can reveal places where actually the whole thing could be better worded, which I thought was a reasonable middle ground.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It's been said before but, "show don't tell" is very reductive. Telling is great actually, telling gets us where we need to be. There's so many good ways to use telling when you write, and people shouldn't be afraid to do so.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

That much world building in 500 words? Crazy impressive.

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thankyou! It was basically the only thing that survived from my first draft. 😅

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

My piece 'Six Feet Above' made this month's Furious Fiction showcase!! :D I think my favourite is probably 'Mining Echoes' by Rebecca Hefron just for like, sheer creativity and style. #FuriousFiction #flashfiction #writersky www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/furious...

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Thankfully these are still fairly early lol - I guess spoilers the romantic interests do in fact grow to like each other over time 🫣

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L. S. Vervain @lysanderskyw.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

From Mare's perspective to Sebastian's during their first week of working together and then from his back to hers later in the chapter - I thought if these instantly.