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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 14h

The good news is we got hold of some candycorn (it's an import item here), so I will be filming dipping some in Marmite at some point.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I sorted out a lot of stuff including booking everyone's flu vaccinations. After this, and the dentist, hoping that'll be all the medical stuff for this year.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have so many mushroom plushies now.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There were geese on my walk! Flying in formation really low. Also a few people have put autumn wreaths on their doors.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

My latest #BookReview is for an enjoyable follow-up to one of my favorite indie books. If you're looking for found family, disability, ND, & queer rep, delightful aliens, and lots of unexpected shapeshifting shenanigans, I can recommend this series (but start with the 1st one for greatest effect!)

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Book Review: Wereconifer by Polenth Blake — HELEN WHISTBERRY

Lovely and surprising slice-of-life fantasy sequel…

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Five days (and end of the first calendar month) of Wereconifer. So far, sales are a little higher than I usually get at this point, plus some sales of Werecockroach. I should have enough to cover my website costs until the new year, so that'll relax things a bit.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

28 hours left! We are SO CLOSE!!! Who can help us cross the finish line??? A little over $100 to go! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

screenshot from the campaign for OPPORTUNITY WINDOW

$1879/$2000 with 110 backers and 28 hours to go

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Artemis @venatrixlunaris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PLANET SICKNESS by Kat Giles! Small press published sci-fi book about a disabled archivist who discovers discrepancies in the archival records regarding a disasterous space mission 70 years ago. Themes of climate justice, disability justice, and critical librarianship, in a tight sci-fi mystery.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ate some of the cabbage soup I froze. I have a few more days left, so that's easy suppers.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Getting back into some writing today, though at a relaxed pace. In longer stuff, I have a horror novel (probably next) and then a third Werecockroach book. It'd also be nice to finish a few short stories.

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's time to reintroduce The Chronicles of Nerezia as a whole <3 With FRAGMENTED releasing on October 9 and concluding Disc One, I thought we could go back to some basics. Always feels weird to try to encompass so much in so little words 💚 DISCOUNTED ON ITCH: itch.io/s/200863/fra...

The Chronicles of Nerezia. Displays nine covers in a row that form a continuous canva with text below.
An ever-failing apprentice, an anxious artificer lizard, and an amnesiac elf with strange powers travel within a sentient self-propelling wagon, seeking the forest haunting the elf’s dreams. In their quest for answers, they will need to traverse a world haunted by Fragments, dangerous shards that can possess travellers--and will slowly unravel the mystery behind those, too.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yay! And yes, I have notes for another one for sure. After that, I'll see how things go.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only two dice still in my dice soap! 🎲

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WERECONIFER is the sequel to WERECOCKROACH. Some months after the first book, Rin and their friends are asked to help find a missing shapeshifting tree. Generally gentle with a queer found family and also aliens. #AroAce #QueerBookSky More information: www.polenthblake.com/words/weretr...

The cover of WERECONIFER by Polenth Blake is at an angle on a brown background. The cover has hand drawn letters and a Scots pine tree with multicoloured round decorations (lights) drawn with felt tip pens. Captions surround the cover in a childish messy font with arrows pointing at things.

Captions pointing at the tree: pine needles, festive lights, tree.

Captions for the book: aliens wearing socks, book two, queerplatonic, also cockroaches, bonus cats, this is a sequel, i drew this, rainy winter, multiple aspec characters.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been decorating for Hallowe'en in Second Life! Should have a nice clear month to visit the stuff people have set up.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

LibraryThing has a cake hunt going on. I'm a completionist, so hunting the cakes (I have a few). www.librarything.com/hunt/45

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's odd to see what's been going down whilst I've been working on the book release and finding out you've all been discussing iced coffee for over a week apparently.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Putting the release and vaccine on the same day wasn't my best move, but I'm getting things done slowly. Goodreads and Tumblr messages are posted.

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 24/09/2026

Holy crap, CHAMELEON MOON Book 3's crowdfund starts in just over one week! If you enjoy queer (super)heroes with a 'punk as in fuck you, we're ALL surviving' vibe, you might get a real kick.

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Chameleon Moon Book 3: Call The Storm

Get notified when Chameleon Moon Book 3: Call The Storm launches on BackerKit!

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing I like about the X-Men is that if you join it doesn’t matter if you were an assassin or raised in a murder cult or worshipped as a god, at some point they will make you try to teach geometry to a bunch of fifteen year olds.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm back after food and I have tea. Taking it easy this weekend. So far, I have sold a few books, so thank you! Amazon and itchio were about even for preorders.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Back from getting my covid vaccine! About to sort the promo thing and then I will nap.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's the 25th for me, so itchio for Wereconifer is now live. Other stores will switch from preorder to live based on your timezone, rather than mine. I'll make the fancy please-repost-this message later today when it's the 25th in more places.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I made coleslaw today, so I've got a bunch of spare cabbage and peppers and stuff to cook later for suppers.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm personally down for them translating things into Old English for films, though the funniest would be to do something set in the modern day where everyone talks Old English and nobody mentions it.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This happens on Reddit sometimes. You get waves of the same topic as people all appear to have discussed it with their chatbot at around the same time (and all think it's a new insight). Also from that, they can learn to write like the chatbot even though they technically wrote it themselves.

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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 21/09/2026

A Study on Magic and Crystals is a story about a princess, a fairy and a necromancer traveling to the fae kingdom to learn magic to help human society. I've been informed it fits in the Hopepunk genre, so I'm part of this bundle with other incredible authors! 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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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cleaned up my notes from Flights of Foundry. Three (virtual) conventions in a year was a lot of notes, so might need another new notebook soon. I also want to sort a plain paper one for playing some solo TTRPGs (so I can do drawing).

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The preorders are live in most places now. The ones pending are Kobo and Apple. Active ones include Smashwords, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble and Amazon. I also have the itchio one up: polenth.itch.io/wereconifer

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Wereconifer by Polenth Blake

A novella of aliens and trees.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's an odd feeling that my main work for the next few days is a couple of promo graphics. I can watch stuff. Maybe do some spinning. Read something I didn't write.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A bit of a longer break now before the last few panels I wanted to catch. I sorted some small errors in the Wereconifer file, so that's sorted before release (unless any of the stores mess it up). It turns out itchio is really weird for preorders, but I'm working on it.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wereconifer is going through the system at Kobo, D2D and Amazon. It can be preordered when it does (it's the final file, so I shouldn't need to do anything else). I'll update the book page once I see preorders going live. www.polenthblake.com/words/weretr...

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Polenth's Nothing: Words: Books: Wereconifer

Wereconifer - A science fantasy novella by Polenth Blake.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is the last Flights of Foundry thing I'm watching today. Tomorrow will be calmer as I've got the ebook stuff sorted now, so don't need to do that in the gaps.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Polenth's Nothing: Words: Books: Wereconifer

Wereconifer - A science fantasy novella by Polenth Blake.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Things still going as planned. By the end of tomorrow, I should be ready to start updating stores. That'll include altering info for Werecockroach, as I need to set it up as a series before I set up the Wereconifer release.

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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"In the Ancient Hallowed Places" Ovenbird with Six-spotted Tiger Beetle 10"x24" oil painting on panel The beautiful conglomerate rocks of an ancient sea floor; buried and lifted and revealed and eroded, the life that once was and is again, complex and beautiful and interconnected across time. 🪶🐡

A long format oil painting showing a cropped rock formation of ancient conglomerate, cracked and looming in its current form by water, ice, and time. A wash of moss and lichens crawls across the surfaces that allowed it to grow, with stunted mountain laurel taking root in the mossy nursery, and large brownish rock tripe lichens clinging here and there. A few aged white oak leaves sit in the moss, bug eaten and worn, and near the center sits an Ovenbird, the tiny stripy warbler pausing in its day. On the rock closest to us on the right is a metallic green colored Six-spotted tiger beetle. The artist watermark reads: copyright 2026 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Still on target for having the book ready before the weekend (release is aimed for the 25th). I ate dumplings and now have tea.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The back to school stuff at the local supermarket, they seemed to have most of the Harry Potter stuff left and on the discount shelf once the season was done. Whereas a lot of the other big brands only had a couple of things left (K-Pop Demon Hunters and various Disney).

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Editing went well! This is final error checking stuff. There will be a brief preorder, which I'll announce, but the bulk of marketing will be once the book is out. Soft launches and all that. The book is called Wereconifer! (People are still going to say "Wait, you have a new book?" in six months.)

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think YouTube has finally noticed me going "don't recommend channel" on anything with an AI thumbnail because now I'm getting recommendations for comedy videos making fun of AI.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Honestly, this is probably what would happen if I tried to write a romance.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So, in busy times, this weekend is family time (we've got snacks for a home film watch). Next weekend is Flights of Foundry, which is new to me. Between things, I'm still editing/formatting with a goal to be done before the con starts. (New book out at the end of this month!)

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