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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 30/09/2026

Either someone at Ecco is frantically fixing this, or they've invented a new short fiction format

Amazon page for Madeline Miller's new short story. The page say: Mestra: A Short Shory

M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 13/06/2026

One of the less convincing contact emails I've received. "fwminist" does have a certain Elmer Fudd charm to it, though #amwriting

An email that begins "Hello, I love to to connect with the author" with many grammatical errors and an email address that starts with "fwminist"

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 08/05/2026

Nomination highlights for World Fantasy con 2026 @wfc2026.bsky.social - Lifetime achievement: C.S. Friedman. I think I've read everything 😀 - Novel: Hungerstone 🩸 @katalicedunn.bsky.social (Kat, I loooved it!) - Novel: There Is No Antimemetics Division 🤯 @qntm.org (screenplay please)

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Well the thing is, if you COULD write for an audience and guarantee a living, we all would. But even hacks starve, so you may as well do your own weird shit.

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 26/04/2026

What the heck are Microsoft Rewards? On second thought, don't answer... I don't care, I'm just mystified why they think I have a "Microsoft Rewards account" at all

Microsoft-branded header announcing "Key updates to Microsoft Rewards"

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The Strawberry Post @tstrawberrypost.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today's my stop on @thewritereads.bsky.social @bbnya.bsky.social #BlogTour for #MissBennetsDragon by @mverant.com a #histfic #fantasy which came 10th in #BBNYA2025 Check out a #BookSpotlight on the blog today! buff.ly/k8DlPHv #bookblogger #books #BBNYA

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Mehsi-Hime @mehsi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Today I am part of the magical @bbnya.bsky.social / #BBNYA2025 Finalist #BlogTour for Miss Bennet's Dragon @mverant.com! I am shining a spotlight on this 10th place finalist~🐲 #BookBloggers #Blogging #Fantasy #Dragons #BookSky📚💙 @thewritereads.bsky.social twirlingbookprincess.com/2026/03/bbny...

Green tour banner (with gold in the middle with on it the text) for BBNYA Finalist Blog Tour for Miss Bennet's Dragon by M. Verant featuring the cover on the right with a girl holding a dragon

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Gina Rae Mitchell @ginamitchell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

💙📚 A Regency world—with dragons? Yes please. Miss Bennet's Dragon by M Verant reimagines a familiar story with magic, romance, and hidden secrets. It’s a BBNYA 2025 Finalist and such a fun concept. 🔗 ginaraemitchell.com/miss-bennets... #BookSky #FantasyBooks #BBNYA @mverant.com @AustenRetelling

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Gina Rae Mitchell | Indie Book Reviews & Literary Discoveries

Championing indie authors and stories worth discovering through thoughtful book reviews, indie spotlights, and reader-friendly recommendations.

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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Be on the lookout for reviews and posts about our 2025 finalist ‘Miss Bennett’s Dragon’ over the coming days! @mverant.com

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 14/03/2026

I don't promote my hardcopy editions -- they're more a stealth upgrade (added content and such). So it's a treat when I have a month where they contribute real revenue!

Kindle Direct Publishing revenue graph showing 56% subscription, 37% eBook, 4% hardcover, 3% paperback

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 13/02/2026

Just read Hungerstone by @katalicedunn.bsky.social Flat-out fabulous❤️Great writing filled with gothic stylings like "a pall of rain slakes across the dirt, churning it into mud; the weather has turned wild and violent"

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 04/02/2026

If you have NYT access, this piece on baby laughter is both fabulously cheerful (so many laughing babys!!) and psychologically fascinating on social interaction and early intelligence www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

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Opinion | The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 31/01/2026

You know you're critiquing work by an experienced author when the intro to the work includes notes like this: I take exception to the “no adverbs” advice and use adverbs freely. You can mark them if it makes you feel better.

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 06/12/2025

Now that Facebook is killing their metaverse, the company name seems rather Meta

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 29/11/2025

I'm warming up for my next writing project by reading books with similar age protagonists. I just finished Shut Up, This Is Serious, a YA book (not speculative) by Oakland author Carolina Ixta. I started just curious about the voice, but I read the whole thing! Great book 🎉 amzn.to/4pGHgF6

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Shut Up, This Is Serious

Amazon.com: Shut Up, This Is Serious eBook : Ixta, Carolina: Kindle Store

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 14/11/2025

Two days left in the Miss Bennet's Dragon 0.99 sale (US/UK) geni.us/MBD-bsky Wish I had scored the coveted BookBub US Featured Deal promo, but running this new ad which is performing well, so it's all good 😀

Ad image showing woman in Regency dress holding a swan-sized bronze firedrake. Book title "Miss Bennet's Dragon" with a large $0.99 display and Amazon button

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 28/10/2025

Author, are your queries summarily rejected? I have discovered the cause! Agents are busy signing characters from the comics. This is the third one this year

Rex Morgan MD comic strip. The male character's debut book is in a bidding war between publishers. Red markup has changed his dialogue "first novel from an unknown writer" to "...from a comics character"

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Another on-point marketing/web team.

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 01/10/2025

New #ARC for interested #booksky readers: o Releasing November 6 o Multi POV fantasy + romance, straight & queer o Noblebright (intense but not dark) o Gaslamp + Dragons o Completes a trilogy ARCs via #NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Kindle showing book cover for Dragons of the Great Wyves. Background is a Regency lady in white beside a huge scarlet dragon

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fiberartsjill.bsky.social @fiberartsjill.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Time to reuse some buttons and lace, and of course denim #embroidery #handembroidery #broderie #upcycling

Blue denim decorated with pink and white lace, black rickrack, and silver buttons.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I MEAN, this company - !!! 😍🦇

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Cassandra B. Leigh @cassandrableigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

#BookRelease #BookLaunch #NewBook Haunting Netherfield Star-crossed lovers whisper in the halls of Netherfield, seeking a path to the other side. #Ghosts #MrDarcy #PrideAndPrejudice #Regency #Romance #Romancelandia #KindleUnlimited #Books 📚💙 mybook.to/HauntNether

Cover art for Haunting Netherfield by Cassandra B. Leigh. A young woman dressed in a flowing blue cloak looks over her shoulder in the dark woods.

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 28/09/2025

I just texted: "I moved the dragon out of the toilet delivery zone for safety" Might be the first time that sentence has ever been written #dragon #toilet

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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Congratulations to Miss Bennet's Dragon by @mverant.com You are through to the #BBNYA2025 final!!!

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 30/08/2025

I'm out of ISBN numbers. Time to pay tribute $$$ to the Bowker shakedown of US publishing. Hmm - $295 for 10. That'll last 6 years. - $595 for 100 so I never, ever have to fork out these ridiculous prices again. (Peers longingly north at Canada: free ISBNs + health care + a non-fascist government🍁)

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 28/08/2025

The cover artist is working on book 3 cover, so I'm officially switching from writing to launch planning. Just roughed out the launch timeline. Egad, 75 items on it already!

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It's cover reveal day for The Seaglass Blade! Much gratitude to @alawinans.bsky.social for this incredible artwork. It captured so much of the feel and themes of the book (and it's just flat out gorgeous so I love to look at it!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

Book cover: The Seaglass Blade, by J.C. Snow. A phoenix wraps her wings protectively over a building perched on a cliff above the sea, dark blue and filled with hints of half-seen things.

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 18/08/2025

Reading Peter S. Beagle's: I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons. He's one of my favorite writers, and having a new book is sweeeet... #fantasy

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 18/08/2025

I really like NetGalley's new consumer site Booktrovert. But when gmail users with Enhanced Safe Browsing enabled click a book link, they get this error. Time to update to https, perhaps? :) @booktrovertcom.bsky.social‬

Gmail error message that says: url8747.booktrovert.com doesn’t support a secure connection with HTTPS

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Always liked how early the Royal Navy started down its path of giving its most lethal warships embarrassing names. Nothing worse than discovering you've just had the crap kicked out of you, in naval terms, by the "Peter Pomegranate"

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quantum katana @quantumkatana.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I want to give a shout out to an online writing critique group that I've been a part of since 2018: The group is welcoming and open to diversity in all its myriad forms. Check it out at www.meetup.com/east-bay-sci... !

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East Bay Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers | Meetup

Welcome to EBSFFW! The group is open to anyone 18 years old or older who is writing in the genre or who enjoys it enough to read other people's writing and provide serious and supportive critique. Wha...

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 22/07/2025

I woke up to wonderful news: Miss Bennet's Dragon has advanced to the semi-final round of @bbnya.bsky.social 2025! We got the new cover just in time 😅 This is turning into a big year! Jane Austen's 250th birthday is on Dec 16th, and book 3, DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES, will be out... November?

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Hi everyone, we are running out of time for our fundraiser. We want to keep doing what we do and uplifting writers at every stage of their careers. Please visit igg.me/at/locusmag2... to see all the ways your donation will be rewarded! We love you! Like and share if you can. Thank you. 💌

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 28/05/2025

Just saw #MissionImpossible. Thumbs-up if you ignore plot holes. A collage of: - Insane, impressive stunts - Long, redundant exposition - MacGuffins (note plural) - Tom Cruise running - Quite good acting - The Mission Impossible theme song, which I imprinted on as a kid so I never get tired of it

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 22/05/2025

Solving Rubik's cubes in 0.103 s! What I love is the engineering limit is the Rubik's cube itself -- they have to upgrade internal parts so it doesn't just explode! I wonder where the competition will take us... bespoke Rubik's cubes of carbon fiber... #engineering www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpFm...

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World Record for Fastest Puzzle Rubik’s Cube-Solving Robot

YouTube video by SciTech Daily

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 12/05/2025

BREAKING: The Authors Guild and a group of scholars and writers filed a class action lawsuit against the NEH, its leadership, and officials within the “DOGE” for unlawfully terminating millions of dollars in committed grants. Full statement: authorsguild.org/news/ag-file...

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M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves @mverant.com · 12/05/2025

BookBub is setting up a service to run websites for authors. It's in beta and I just got an invite -- I blurred the url because I can't share it, but hopefully this will become generally available before too long.

Partners email from BookBub describing their Author Websites beta program

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