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Mark J. Engels

@mark-engels.com
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Sojourner. Husband. Father. Railroader. Anime-manga-anthro fan. Author of the WERECATS series of urban fantasy thrillers in the FOREST EXILES SAGA. (@mj_engels on Twitter/X.) #werecat #werecats www.mark-engels.com

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 17h
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Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025)
Shadowbeast by Michelle Franklin “I think you have remained this way because you like being angry. You feel as though you are justified in your anger, which you are, but you wear it like a cloak an…
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Matt Doyle @mattdoylemedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Strongman comp season is done, so now I can focus on other stuff. Halloween: going to be selling/signing books and stickers at Medway River Lit Festival in Chatham Library. Fursuit Making: my Utahraptor mask is coming along nicely.
A collage advertising my upcoming book con appearance and showing progress for my fursuit mask.
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JLMeyer @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 21h
Artist! Quote with your art with the best shadows!
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The Book Badgers @thebookbadgers.uk · 29/09/2026
Heading to @pawsome.bsky.social? Looking to reserve a title? Please let us know on or before Thursday 1 October
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Pawsome 2026 - Beach Party - 1st-5th Oct 2026! @pawsome.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
✨ Dealers Spotlight 🛒 Meet The Book Badgers! 🦡 A bookshop specialising in anthropomorphic, animal and fantasy literature, with books, graphic novels, games and more to discover! 📚 www.thebookbadgers.uk
Text: The Book Badgers, see them at the dealers den! Pawsome Beach Party 2026, Gloucester 1st-5th October 2026.

Photos of furry books and comics.
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also, I've decided to set the price for Between the Blood and the Sun at a special $2.99 for the first round of #SFINCS4 (so until December 5) if I make it to round 2 again, I'll continue the sale (or make it lower? hmmm?) GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT
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Sami Sadek @skullgrin140.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Back a dump truck full of money onto Fernanda Dias's front porch to greenlight this into becoming a full length TV series. There's a story here just waiting to come to life & it's too cute to ignore.
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Aud Connelly: transcribing #Dogwood3 (65.2/95k) @audconnelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Casson Family series by Hilary McKay might be the single greatest reason I'm a writer at all.
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
As a kid I read "The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf" by Gene De Weese from the Weekly Reader Book Club over and over until the book's spine cracked. Years later I wrote urban fantasy thriller novels featuring the modern-day remnant of an ancient clan of werecats. 😼😼😼
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
Relatable. Painfully so.
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Doppelfoxx Publishing 📚🦊 @doppelfoxxpublishing.com · 28/09/2026
🏘️ NEW DISTRO TITLE - TWO SOULS OF FANGCREST MANOR by @domusvocis.bsky.social During a trip to a remote manor, supernatural events lead Daniel to befriending Nate, who not only recognizes him from dreams, but also resembles one of the manor's previous owners doppelfoxxpublishing.com/products/two...
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am seen 🤭
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025)
Shadowbeast by Michelle Franklin “I think you have remained this way because you like being angry. You feel as though you are justified in your anger, which you are, but you wear it like a cloak an…
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Mark J. Engels @mark-engels.com · 29/09/2026
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.
Gunsmith Cats: Mister V #11 (of 11)

It takes more than an out-of-control 18-wheeler to stop Bean Bandit and Rally from getting their man! But now that they've got the counterfeiter Jim Macks, what next? Macks is Bean's client, but he's Rally's bounty target! And they've still got their friend Misty's kidnappers on their tail! It's the endless runaround of a bounty hunter's life, and as Rally's 23rd birthday approaches, Chicago's fastest draw is looking for a reward that isn't counterfeit! It's the final regular episode of Kenichi Sonoda's long-running hit, Gunsmith Cats!

Creator: Kenichi Sonoda
Letterer: Susie Lee
Translator: Dana Lewis · Toren Smith
Editor: Mike Hansen
Designer: Darcy Hockett
Cover artist: Kenichi Sonoda
Genres: Action/Adventure · Crime/Mystery · Manga

Publication date: Aug. 15, 2001

Format: b&w, 40 pg.

Price: $3.50

UPC: 76156899238001111
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fame drew Jimothy to the bottom."
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Nils O @nils.readindiefantasy.com · 27/09/2026
I used to think werewolves were cooler than vampires (still do), and I wanted to write about them. Little did I know that werewolf books are supposed to have alpha males, hot knobly sex, toxic pack dynamics, and feral violence. So I wrote Last Fight of the Old Hound: mybook.to/LostDogs1
Cover image for Last Fight of the Old Hound. It's intended to evoke feelings of introspection and internal conflict.
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伊藤暢達/Masahiro Ito @adsk4.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sailor Jupiter, a sketch of her as fan art to scan into my PC for digital painting. Who is roughly in her mid- to late 20s.
A sketch of #SailorJupiter as fan art to scan into my PC for digital painting. Who is roughly in her mid- to late 20s. She glances at the camera out of the corner of her eye, resting her right hand—which is making a V sign—on her left arm.
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Sami Sadek @skullgrin140.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I never knew how badly I wanted to see an artist like Masahiro Ito illustrate a character from Sailor Moon until now.
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Sami Sadek @skullgrin140.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
QRP with a sketch ✏️
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me hugging my readers
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I think you have remained this way because you like being angry. You feel as though you are justified in your anger, which you are, but you wear it like a cloak and it is easier to use it to shun those who scorn you than it is to simply put it away.” rebeccacrunden.com/2026/09/27/b...
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Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025)
Shadowbeast by Michelle Franklin “I think you have remained this way because you like being angry. You feel as though you are justified in your anger, which you are, but you wear it like a cloak an…
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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 27/09/2026
Be patient and kind to those who are making art right now. We're all self-funded and the richest, worst people in the world are trying to plaster over and erase our hard work.
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Kate Shaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll be placing the hardback order within a day or two, so this is an ideal time to preorder a copy! Once I run out, I'm not likely to get more since they're expensive to produce--but they look really good!
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Kate Shaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you missed ordering your copy of The Moonhound during our Backerkit campaign, you can preorder a paperback or hardback NOW! #furryfiction #smokymountains #indieauthor #cozyfantasy #booksky ko-fi.com/s/e9e4d26aa2
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Moonhound PREORDER - Tigerbat Tails's Ko-fi Shop
This is a PREORDER of The Moonhound, a cozy fantasy adventure novella, about 30,000 words long. It's appropriate for kids in tone, but does have a few...
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WEARY and WARY are two different words, and the fact that you people didn't learn that by reading Jack London as a child really shows.
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James Lynch @jamesblynch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Drop some BUTTONS ☎️👚🖤🕹️🖲️
Button Gwinnett
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Ame ✨Comms OPEN✨ @autumnchildart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hello, BlueSky! Today is my birthday! As the age-old tradition dictates, I'll share some artworks and if you'd like to repost as a gift I'd appreciate that very much. I hope you have a great day! 🥰
Digital painting of a nature god. He has dark brown skin, long dark red hair and green eyes. He's naked, only wearing a flower crown and is covered with a large white snake with red diamond patterns.Digital painting of a faun boy in a pond. He has brown skin with white spots, akin to a deer's coat. He has blonde hair and blue eyes and small antlers on his head. He stands hip deep in a magical pond, holding a small blue fairy in his hands. Waterfalls feeds the pond, surrounded by otherworldly deep teal leaves and bushes with purple flowers.Digital painting of a fairy mid-flight. She has brown skin, copper red hair in a high ponytail, and amber eyes. She's dressed in clothes made of leaves and grass, and armor made of bark. She has large, iridescent dragonfly wings on her back and aim a bow at something off-screen. The background is a blurry sunlit forest, giving the illusion of movement.Digital full body painting of Serara from my book WIP. She's a plus size dark skinned young woman with dark curly hair and green eyes. She's dressed in a blue tunic with purple and gold pattern and blue pants. A green scarf is draped over her shoulders and she has a pink bag slung over her shoulder. The background is mostly white with a photo of a misty forest in a pale teal color.
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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 27/09/2026
Ame has made some gorgeous artwork for me over the years. Some of my original characters, and some fanart from my Genshin phase! Here are my characters that she's done. 💕
Aubergine drawn by Ame
Aubergine from the Good Thyme Inn books, a dark-skinned man with magenta eyes and jewels on his face. He’s wearing a lovely and elegant purple suit and ascot, which he is adjusting in this picture. He has long black hair, a chinstrap beard, and wings for earsSidonay drawn by Ame/Autumnchild
Sidonay from the Pentagonal Dominion books. Sidonay is a pale-skinned man with vampiric vibes. He has a fancy purple top with swirl patterns, black shoulder pads, a red cape, and a black and red hat that’s partially shadowing his face, with one red eye leering out ominously from that shadow. His hat has rubies dangling from the brim. He has silvery hair swooping down over one shoulder. He has a silver and ruby brooch, a silver ring, and red fingernails.Garlic drawn by Ame/Autumnchild
Garlic from the Good Thyme Inn books. He is a young man with white skin and short white/silver hair. He’s dressed in a white shirt with suspenders and bow tie, and blue pants. He is an alchemist and the background shows a cooking cauldron with green smoke and a shelf with potions. Garlic is holding a flask with a light green liquid in one hand and sniffing it with his forked snake-like tongue. He is a species of people who can detach their hands, as shown with his right hand, which has come off, connected by a thread of white smoke and fire. That hand is adding a substance to a mortar on a table.
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Enjoy Darren and Maedlynn's love story here: www.amazon.com/Shadowbeast-...
A picture of Maedlynn holding Darren's werewolf hand
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Many thanks to @bookspotlight.bsky.social for the lovely review of Shadowbeast! 🥹
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025) 🐺🏰🥀 rebeccacrunden.com/2026/09/27/b... [ #booksky ]
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Book Review: Shadowbeast (2025)
Shadowbeast by Michelle Franklin “I think you have remained this way because you like being angry. You feel as though you are justified in your anger, which you are, but you wear it like a cloak an…
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Zeclian Lord of life @kitbloodking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Post something random or you'll have an awful October!
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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 26/09/2026
What? Me, jump on a fuckin' bandwagon to market a book? Never! Don't ask me how long this took to make in Krita, along with looking up actual 1910's broadsheets in the Library of Congress. 💙 My store: ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita... 📚 Universal Link: books2read.com/u/mvw8Pe #BookSky #SFF #Fantasy #Book
A broadsheet I made for the hell of it in Krita to market my silly book. It says:

Shadowfront
(artful designs)
Missing
Sorcerers, Arcanafauna
In the Imperial Capital of Grace, blue dust and silver vines were discovered at the scenes of every disappearance! Money, valuables were not stolen.
Astridante 10, 1913   Jane Doe

Slaver's Circus Comes to Grasslands
Boycott popular attraction!
The Clayton Enchanted Extravaganza is a sin! Do not believe Alder would condone such business. Mother Omera herself decries the evil.
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Sami Sadek @skullgrin140.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saki Yoshida - Goodbye Summer. #変身 #Metamorphosis
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘Pragmatism, along with lived experience, taught whenever one had good fortune, bad fortune would surely follow.’ — Werecats Emergent by @mark-engels.com
Chapter Two of Werecats Emergent (paperback)
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JLMeyer @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cheetara variant comic cover for Cheetara #4.  Out in Dec 2026
She is in an orange dress, Mucha inspired look, with so many roses that curl up the left side of the picture and come down the right. Some are in her hair. She has her staff.
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BOOK BUYERS OF BSKY DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE PUNK SPEC FIC BUNDLE ON ITCH 24 books 24 dollars includes Run With the Hunted! be there or be SQUARE (which is I think the actual correct usage??) itch.io/b/3913/punk-...
Punk Spec Fic Book Bundle Graphic, bordered by 24 covers, with bright blue, purple, pink, orange background.

Text: Punk Spec Fic, 24 books for $24, Sept 20-30.

Books & Authors;
Walking the Knife's Edge (Sythe Series #1), Elise Carlson.

CyberSnow, A.E. Bross.

Memento Moreau. Conrad Altmann.

Sting of the Shore: Stories & Poems. Devan Barlow.

Visual Snow. L. B. Shimaira.

Snowstorm & Overgrowth, Claudie Arseneault.

Run With the Hunted, Jennifer R. Donohue.

The Thirteenth Hour, Trudie Skies.

Erosion, Mcburnell.

Broken Sky, Morgan K. Bell.

Aether Beyond the Binary, Duck Prints Press.

Woodspell, Kapeo Press.

The Daily To-Do List, Rob MacWolf.

The Neon Garden, Alina Lee.

The Red Hourglass - Slaves of the New World #1, Ashley Capes.

A Study on Magic and Crystals, May Barros.

The Diamond Device, Mhthaung.

A Place of Refuge Omnibus, Victoria Janssen.

Grave Cold, Shannon Knight.

Punk Means Cuddle, A. Lee Welles Fiction.

War of the Space Dragons (An Empire of Dragons Collection), L’Poni.

Black Sails to Sunward, Sheila Jenné.

Locker's Rebellion, Jesse Pohlman.

Netwalk, Joyce Reynolds Ward.
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PRE-ORDER for SHADOWBAIRN IS NOW AVAILABLE!🐺 SHADOWBAIRN DIGITAL VERSION IS COMING OCTOBER 16th!❤️ Pre-order the book now, read it October 16th at midnight your local time! www.amazon.com/Shadowbairn-... #books #booksky #fantasy #romance
The cover to Shadowbairn, with Lord Darren and Maedlynn holding hands over the inn https://www.amazon.com/Shadowbairn-Michelle-Franklin-ebook/dp/B0HKC35LH9
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Almost finished with Shadowbeast! Werecats Emergent is behind it 😸💙 What’s everyone else reading this weekend?
Shadowbeast by Michelle Franklin
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🐺🖤🏰
“I think you have remained this way because you like being angry. You feel as though you are justified in your anger, which you are, but you wear it like a cloak and it is easier to use it to shun those who scorn you than it is to simply put it away.”

Finished! Perfect for fans of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Beauty and the Beast, and North and South! 

Full review to come.
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"My, what a pleasant evening it is, sir,” said Searle passively. He said no more, waiting for the men to state their business, so he had reason to abuse them. The men glared at each other and then at Searle. “You an't talkin' much,” said one of them. “A feature I wish we shared, sir.” #booksky
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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please buy Cry Wolf! 💙📚🌈🐺 Rieka is a lonely werewolf without a pack. Jiya is a charming bartender hiding deep pain. Can they heal each other before the Russian mob's werewolf ruins everything? Buy: pjccahill.carrd.co #booksky 📢📚 #sapphic
Art by Luigiix - extreme close-up of a wolf's eyes. The eye is yellow-gold, surrounded by dirty-blonde fur. At the top is the title 'Cry Wolf' in yellow lettering. At the bottom, in smaller font is 'To a Monster Bound 1' and 'PJC Cahill'
Luigiix's DA page: https://www.deviantart.com/luigiix
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David J. Stuart @djstu.art · 25/09/2026
My latest dark fantasy The Cruelest Gift is out now! It features disaster bisexuals, the destruction of a bigoted, fascist death cult, anticolonialism, and horror! books2read.com/thecruelestg... djstuart.itch.io/the-cruelest... #SpoonieAuthChat #WriteSky
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Available now at your favorite digital store!
The Cruelest Gift by David J. Stuart
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I entered this in the #SFINCS , and I think they've still got slots open for MORE NOVELLAS to compete!
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
my cousin isn't on here, but they did the covers for the Learn to Howl books and I could not be happier with them
all 3 Learn to Howl paperbacks flat on my blue desk at the library.

The cover for Learn to Howl: a black wolf with blue eyes in profile on a red background, her ear pinned back and her teeth and tongue visible. 

the cover for Baying the Moon: a open-mouthed wolf facing you so that you're staring down its labyrinthine throat) an at all those teeth, on a red background

The Company of Wolves cover: a black wolf, head turned to the left and mouth open as though its crying out, and part of it is shattering apart like broken glass or a mirror, with a bullet hole in it, revealing a haggard-looking human face beneath, just a blue eye and some black hair

all 3 covers are painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art .
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
buy Learn to Howl today! OR, borrow it on HOOPLA itch.io/c/5930931/le... authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/learn-to-h...
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Learn to Howl trilogy - Collection by Jennifer R. Donohue
A collection by Jennifer R. Donohue
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David J. Stuart @djstu.art · 26/09/2026
Have you talked about your book today? Title: The Cruelest Gift Genre: Dark Fantasy Word Count: 150k-ish Funniest moment: when asked by a hated politician "you know what else is funny?" Royce answers, "The pig you fell out of?" 🔗: books2read.com/TheCruelestGift djstuart.itch.io/the-cruelest-gift
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The Cruelest Gift by David J. Stuart
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here are some* of the many, many indie books I have thoroughly enjoyed which you should totally read! I have reviews for all of them, so if one looks intriguing to you and you want to read my review, please don't hesitate to ask! Check them out! 🧵⬇️ *I know I forgot some favs. Forgive me!! 🩷
static.klipy.com
The Sword In The Stone: Merlin's Magic
Alt: The Sword In The Stone: Merlin magically putting books into his bag
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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If we're going for 'innate' durability that doesn't require any skill, magic, etc. then it's Taegen by a mile. She's modified herself so heavily that you'd have to vaporize her bodily to /actually/ kill her/stop her. 🧵 #AwesomeCharacters
Art by Luigiix - character reference sheet for Taegen Atius, main character of NICEF. Left side shows a normal human appearance in an academy uniform (she has white hair in a ponytail and ice blue eyes with very pale skin). Right side shows a ferocious alien appearance, with red glowing eyes, black skin, black armor, and distorted tentacles in place of hair. Her open mouth shows shark-like teeth. The center features text with brief bio factoids. 'Taegen Atius; Pilot Candidate; Age 17 y.o. (ERR//101111); House Status 'Member of Aroi House'; Origin 'outer systems' (ERR//01101111011100000111010001101001011011100110000101100101); Known Skills 'Nicef piloting, software engineering, mechanical engineering'art by Luigiix - NICEF cast character Taegen Atius, portrait view, looking back furiously over her shoulder. Her eyes are demonic, her teeth sharp, her skin darkening, and her hair writhing up while turning dark.
Luigiix's DA page: https://www.deviantart.com/luigiix
Luigiix's Commission Info page: https://www.deviantart.com/luigiix/journal/Commissions-444182461
Luigiix's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/luigiix/
Best contact via discord: Luigiix #6037
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Roscoe G. Beetle @roscoegbeetle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New book for the pile! The Stumble Inn by @tyfoxface.bsky.social Excited to get around to this one! #furry #furrywriting #furrylit
The stumble Inn by Ty Fox lying on my couch.
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