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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 03/10/2026

My ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of 'Spiderlight' by @aptshadow.bsky.social #Books #Reading #Fantasy #Fiction #BookSky www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 03/10/2026

Interested in a short, haunting read that brings together gritty action, revenge, and possession? Free to read online: paulgzareith.ink/books/mmm/ #Horror #DarkFantasy

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 03/10/2026

October doesn't have to be just about fictional horrors... What has hairy feet, legs dotted with eggs, and a mouth loaded with tentacles like a Sarlacc from Star Wars? nautil.us/theres-a-new...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get this amazing deal of October-themed reads that'll last you until next year! 93 books for just $69! Book sizes range from short stories to longer, full-length novels filled with all the autumn and magical vibes! itch.io/b/3904/chill... [ #booksky ]

Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a wonderful world that would be.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 29/09/2026

Scifi folks - check this out: Best of Brian W. Aldis Humble Bundle www.humblebundle.com/books/best-b... #Scifi #HumbleBundle

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 29/09/2026

Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins is currently only $1.99. It's mind-blowingly weird and original contemporary fantasy about a group of adoptive siblings trying to figure out what happened to their father who has gone missing. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #booksale #fantasy #booksky

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The Library at Mount Char ebook by Scott Hawkins - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Library at Mount Char A Novel" by Scott Hawkins available from Rakuten Kobo. “Wholly original . . . the work of the newest major talent in fantasy.”—The Wall Street Journal “Freakishly compe...

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 28/09/2026

Are you an indie SFFH author with a new book release or launching a crowdfund in October? Let us know and we'll include it in our monthly new release roundup! www.readindiefantasy.com/new-releases/

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New Releases – Read Indie Fantasy

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 27/09/2026

New book review: Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater #1) by Christopher Ruocchio An ambitious space opera with sprawling world-building and a deep focus on grief, suffering, zealotry, human cruelty, moral dilemmas, art, and linguistics. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews... #BookSky #SciFi

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 23/09/2026

Happy release day! Loved this duology. #BookSky

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 22/09/2026

Nothing to see here. Just a cat eating raspberries...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 22/09/2026

Check out Shadow Box Archives if you haven't already. Great collection of short stories. shadowboxarchives.com #BookSky #Horror

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Shadow Box Archives

Stories and Art

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 21/09/2026

SFINCS4 is currently accepting applications for self-published novellas across all genres of speculative fiction docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #BookSky

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 18/09/2026

New ARC Review: The Unraveling by @beronikakeres.bsky.social A gothic tragedy with a deep focus on love and grief. If the gorgeous cover doesn't convince you to read this book, I truly hope that my review will. This book absolutely needs to have a place on your shelf. #BookSky 🔗🧵⬇

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 16/09/2026

New ARC Review: Dweller in Darkness by @samflynnwrites.bsky.social A doomed quest through haunted subterranean depths where your own companions transform into vicious killers. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews... #BookSky #DarkFantasy #EldritchHorror #BodyHorror

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 14/09/2026

The Unraveling by Beronika Keres. Beautiful depiction of grief and suffering from the perspective of an eroding mind.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 13/09/2026

You hold the space bar for too long - because you know, it also moves the cursor - some random AI thing pops up. It is beyond annoying. Should have stuck with my Nokia.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 13/09/2026

Setting up a new Androd phone made me realize just how deep the AI psychosis has percolated into the mobile stack. The SMS app needs permissions to analyze messages with AI. You select some text anywhere, first option in the popover before copy/paste etc is to rewrite content with AI...

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Divination Hollow Reviews @divinationhollow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's here! #QueerYoureReader divinationhollow.com/queer-your-e...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 12/09/2026

Queer your eReader! Book blast event organized by Divination Hollow happening now. divinationhollow.com/queer-your-e... #BookSky #BookPromo #FreeBooks #QueerBooks

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Queer Your eReader — Divination Hollow Reviews

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 11/09/2026

Grimdark Fantasy + Galactic Empires + Eldritch Horror mybook.to/rowp-i

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 11/09/2026

Setting up a new phone. I had forgotten how much of junk android vendors ship out of the box.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 08/09/2026

The pieces to make it happen already exist, but none of the bigtech have any incentive to make it happen.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 08/09/2026

The only advancement that will truly excite me at this point is seamless continuity without depending on the cloud. Zero headache call sharing, file sharing, network sharing between my laptop, phone and tablet. As if it were all one machine.

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As we prepare to open the entry form on September 19, 2026, we've established the timeline for judging rounds! We've also outlined when reviews are required and how many. 👀👀 #booksky💙📚👀 www.sfincscompetition.com/competition-...

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Competition Timeline | The Speculative Fiction

Competition timeline details for The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (SFINCS, pronounced “sphinx”)

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Rosé Black (🍁🍂🍠🍎🍏🎃) @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

#HorrorWriter #Writing Time for a new pinned post, so I can promote The #ShadowBoxArchives website. If you've ever been on a subreddit like r/NoSleep or r/ShortScaryStories, it's pretty much like that except you can post more than written work like #Art. We hope to see you soon shadowboxarchives.com

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Shadow Box Archives

Stories and Art

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 07/09/2026

Interesting. Would love to chat of course.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 07/09/2026

Might be a good idea. I'm also half way into the next, and glad that we see more of Faron.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 07/09/2026

New book review: The Mystery of the Pale King by @samflynnwrites.bsky.social An atmospheric grimdark fantasy novella that brings together flintlock action, esoteric cults, eldritch deities, and haunting cosmic horror. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 06/09/2026

New Book Review: Mercy's Gate by Nick Snape Fun fast-paced sci-fi action-thriller with a focus on corporate greed, humanity in the aftermath of war, and a vengeful planet from where nobody returns alive paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews... #BookSky #BookReview #Scifi

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 03/09/2026

Eye-opening article on how entrenched fascism has become in Tech/VC scene. DHH was someone I looked up to for years and in many ways, my multi-decade tech career was built upon software developed by him, and others like RMS linked in the post. This is disheartening. brennan.day/normalized-f...

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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026

"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase

CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 01/09/2026

After a few years of hard work, The Chosen One Con is out now on ebook with paperbacks to follow soon! Available on Kindle, Kobo, Itch and more to come. books2read.com/thechosenone... But of course, I couldn't publish this book without help, and I have a lot of people to thank! 👇

A promo image for The Chosen One Con, out now on Kindle, Kobo, and Itch. It shows the book cover to the Chosen One Con (a young white man in a trench coat holding a glowing blue potion bottle as though trying to steal it) and the following text: Magic spoke to me, whispering promises of fortune and fame. It spoke when I switched on the old MV and the screen came alive with the blue glow of magic, the faint spark and pop of aether flowing through the cables.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 01/09/2026

New book review: Heretic by @noahisaacs.bsky.social Intriguing high-fantasy novella that brings together an interesting FMC and expansive world-building in a very short read. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 01/09/2026

This epic sale comes to a close. Many thanks to @narratess.com for organizing this and to everyone who picked up my esoteric slice of dark fiction. Hopefully some of you will actually try it out 😆

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 31/08/2026

New Book Review: The Shapeshifter's Gambit by @gpierceauthor.bsky.social. A dark twisted plot that keeps you on your toes throughout. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 31/08/2026

Now that I am done tossing free copies of my book into the abyss, it's time to catch up on some pending reviews...

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Narratess @narratess.com · 31/08/2026

I'm going to share some standout book from the sale, ones I've read, that are on my tbr, or that I discovered now. But the other books are also worth checking out since my taste might not be the same as yours :) Check them all out on indiebook.sale!

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale surrounded by a collage of participating books. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

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Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

29 - 31 August

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 30/08/2026

The @narratess.com eBook sale is live! There are hundreds of books available for just $2.99 or less—here's a few of the sci-fi books you can find! Visit indiebook.sale to browse the hundreds of other fantasy, sci-fi, and horror books on sale this August 29–31! 💙📚

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