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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 19h

I now have a Substack! Here I’ll be sharing my more long-form reflections and musings, talking about horror, fantasy, writing, book and movie reviews, etc. This month I’m posting my Halloween themed posts every Friday. Give it a follow so you don’t anything! #spookyseason #halloween #substack

A Scream on Burke’s Circle. Starting a community on Substack (finally!) and looking back on one of my favorite Halloweens. Marlena Frank. Marlenafrank.substack.com

I’ve lurked on Substack for a while, but here I am finally creating a little home here. My hope is for this space to be different from my other homes, namely my monthly mailing list updates and my Ko-Fo blog posts.

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy release day to The Mortician’s Secret and Other Haunting Tales by @morbidsmile.bsky.social 🎃 This is her debut collection featuring short horror stories with a gothic style and an intense edge. Be sure to grab your copy for spooky season! 👻 #horrorbooks #gothichorror #spookystories #halloween

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This Saturday join us in Marietta, GA for the Georgia Indie Book Faire! There will be tons of indie books, indie authors, and panels too! Come join us! 📚📖

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

On September 18th The Sea Witch Follows, comes ashore. A love story to lonely lighthouses, the dim light of oil lanterns, and the scent of sea spray in the air. Of dark thunderstorms looming and light rain pattering on the windows. Books2read.com/TheSeaWitchFollows #booksky #yalit #booklovers

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Happy cover reveal to The Sea Witch Follows! 🕯️🌊 A battered castaway, a mysterious girl, and a sea witch lurking in the shadows. Releases September 18th Pre-Order now Books2Read.com/TheSeaWitchFollows MarlenaFrank.com #booksky #yafantasy #yadarkfantasy #booklovers #indiebooks

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Happy title reveal day to The Sea Witch Follows! My next YA Dark Fantasy novel will be coming out September 18th! It has: 🕯️ A gothic romance 🕯️ A lonely lighthouse 🕯️ A dangerous mystery 🕯️ Weird horror Cover reveal coming soon! #theseawitchfollows #yalit #darkfantasybooks #booksky #yafantasybook

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Editing my lighthouse book while listening to a lightning storm outside really helps to set the mood. 🕯️🌊 #booksky #writersky #amwriting

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Dive into this heartwarming YA fantasy series with faeries, dragons, & a magical world. Perfect for ages 12 and up. The Stolen trilogy is on sale, & on Amazon, for a limited time! Grab the whole series for only $4.99 while you can! Available everywhere #yabooks #yafantasybooks #booklover #booksky

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Anytime I get to add the word like “grotesquerie” to a book, it always makes me happy. 😁 #booksky #writersky #amwriting #amediting

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Had a great time with @morbidsmile.bsky.social at AuthorFest today! It’s great when we can make time to visit library events. 📚❤️ Festival season is underway and April is packed. Keep up with it all by signing up for my mailing list: eepurl.com/kgRm9 #authorlife #booksky #supportyourlocallibrary

Marlena Frank smiles at the camera. She is a blonde white woman with glasses, wearing a black and white polka dot blouse and a yellow cardigan.

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Kobo worked with indie authors to do a special feature highlighting indie fantasy and sci-fi books in Kobo+! This includes everything from standalones to full series. ➡️ www.kobo.com/us/en/p/kobo... Find my books on Kobo+: ➡️ www.kobo.com/us/en/search... #indiebooks #koboplus #booksky #booklover

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Come see us at the Dalton-Whitfield County Public Library this Saturday! I’m excited to be back with a bunch of other authors for a day filled with books, readings, and crafts. Come join us! 📚

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Author J. Scott Coatsworth @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We’ve all seen the meme. In a world that seems to be burning down around us, it captures that horrible frozen feeling many of us have. Lately a new version has been making the rounds, where “This is fine” is replaced with “Buy my book.” ... www.jscottcoatsworth.com/point-of-vie...

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Author J. Scott Coatsworth @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Hey Spec Fic authors and readers: sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal and horror. Join us at LimFic.com. We're building an alternative spec fic book community/directory that's also queer friendly (gay owned) and progressive. Help us grow! Authors: www.limfic.com/membership-a... Readers: www.limfic.com

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Happy release day to The Collectors: A Short Story! This weird little horror short is sure to crawl under your skin. Now available wherever ebooks are sold. ➡️ books2read.com/TheCollector...

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Bobby Nash @bobbynashwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Now this is my kind of math.

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Come join us this Saturday at Pontoon Brewing in Atlanta! Wear some green, grab a drink, and come browse art and books with us. 🎨📚🍀

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The End. Those two little words always make me happy. I finished the 1st draft of my Lighthouse Project a while back, a YA dark fantasy book. Now I’m deep in transcribing and doing edits & I’m loving it even more on the read-through. This one is going to be fun! 🕯️🌊 #authorlife #booksky #amediting

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Cats are very scientific.

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j.e. pittman @jepittman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Got a most wonderful review of the first Felix from C.N. Rowan @cnrowan.bsky.social — author of the badass imPerfect Cathar series — the other day. Quite thrilled by what he had to say. Check it out ! halfacrepond.com/2025/03/c-n-...

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C.N. Rowan Reviews Felix Chance – Halfacre Pond

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Looking to buy my books without supporting Amazon? Direct: marlenafrank.com/shop/ Kobo (Plus too): www.kobo.com/us/en/search... B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Marlena...; Google: play.google.com/store/info/n... Apple & Smashwords too! Order direct and get signed copies! 🥰📚📖 #booksky #indieauthor

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Happy cover reveal to The Collectors: A Short Story! This spooky little horror short is Book 3 in An Ominous Hour series and comes out March 18th. AND the amazingly talented @morbidsmile.bsky.social did the cover! Isn’t it spooky? 💀 Pre-order at: Books2read.com/TheCollector... #writing #horror

A concerned person holds up a picture a tablet with the cover for The Collectors: A Short Story on it. On the cover a black shape looks down from the side and black hair falls, entwining around the bottom and up the opposite side of the cover. Behind them blue light comes in from a partially closed curtain.

She thinks the creature is harmless, a figment of her imagination. She is wrong. Features the cover for The Collectors: A Short Story on it. On the cover a black shape looks down from the side and black hair falls, entwining around the bottom and up the opposite side of the cover. Behind them blue light comes in from a partially closed curtain. Pre-order at https://books2read.com/TheCollectorsAShortStory

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

“Hey, you should break out some cat treats instead of just sitting there.” 🐱

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Sarah. 🥀🦇🕸️ @vampireghuleh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I will never cease to be amazed by books. Seriously. Just think about it; thousands of people read the same book, but in everyone’s brain’s the characters look different, the setting changes etc. We are all reading the same thing, but it's so unique to each of us. That is a beautiful thing.

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

There’s something really wonderful about how you finish reading a fantastic book and you come out of the little cocoon you’ve been living in for hours. You’re surrounded by sleepy cats, your tea cup is empty, and you’ve got that satisfied glow of completing a well-told story.

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I’m only about a third of the way through and really loving this book so far! Nice to escape into a high fantasy with such incredible world-building for a little while. It’s like taking a mini vacation with every chapter. So well put together! ✨💕 @ashchap.bsky.social

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Anybody else still wiped from Thanksgiving? Surely it’s not just me.

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Prepping YouTube videos! Dropping one on writing a book series by hand tomorrow. 📚 #authorlife #writingbyhand #bookseries www.youtube.com/@MarlenaFran...

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Jさん( ֊’ ワ ‘֊)🌸 @soukatsu.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

>RP PSA—Bluesky has a feature to prevent casual browsing and data scraping. it can help artists especially minimise the chance of non-bsky users scraping and reposting their art elsewhere by preventing logged out users from seeing their account Settings > Moderation > Logged out visibility

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My goat, Leeroy Jenkins, reenacting what it's like to edit the first draft of a book. #humor #writerslife #writer #books #goats #thegoat

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

There’s something about rainy days that always soothes me. Add in some hot tea and cuddly kitties and it’s perfect.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

“Doomscrolling” is so limited. Today I have also doomedited, doomresearched my next story, and I’m about to doomeat a frozen doomburrito. You gotta be open to new doomexperiences.

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Excited to take part in the 9th Annual Broadleaf Writers Conference hosted by @broadleafwriters.bsky.social this September! Come join us! 📖📚

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Forgot I had drafted a Christmas horror story a year back. The anthology I had for it fell through. I started transcribing it again today and it’s super creepy and fun. Trying to figure out what to do with it. 😂 #writerproblems

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Marlena Frank Author @marlenafrank.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Snagged a beautiful shot of the moon last night! Had to share. 🌙💕

Overcast night sky with waxing moon behind the clouds.

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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com · 16/11/2023

Great news! We'll be opening to submissions in January for the first time in over a year! Check out our submissions guidelines page for details: adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

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