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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 9h

Get this amazing deal of October-themed reads that'll last you until next year! 93 books by 78 authors for just $69! Less than a dollar a book and all the jokes you can make about the price! You can't beat that! ;) itch.io/b/3904/chill...

Graphic for the 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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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 12h

Finally finished the artwork for Azzie's Character Corner video. Now I just have to record it, and it'll be up tomorrow!

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 18h

There's free shipping on bookshop.org for anti-prime day! Support some indies and get some books while also supporting local bookstores! You can find my paperbacks below! bookshop.org/shop/earlron...

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My name is S. Jean (they/she pronouns are OK) and I am a queer writer who specializes in sci fi and fantasy, particularly contemporary stories with a magical twist. I'm also an artist and do my own co...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 19h

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇 “Fealty” WIP 17.5k/100k @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 19h

Who doesn't love a good title drop?? A story about love, loss, and healing, The Witch of Eden Hollow is out THIS Friday! 🌈📚️ Uni Link: books2read.com/u/mZR9kD Itch: gt-anthony.itch.io/witch-x-hunter

Background image: a patch of daisies in the middle of the forest at sunrise.

Snippet: "For the one sliver of hope left within your line lies within the Witch of Eden Hollow."

Background image: a patch of daisies in the middle of the forest at sunrise.
Top Text: A Grieving Witch, His Vengeful Hunter, and a Feud between Piety and Magic

In the middle is the book cover for "The Witch of Eden Hollow" by G.T. Anthony
Forest green cover with pale goldenrod font. There is an emblem centerpiece in the middle of the cover depicting a ring made of woven branches with wilting vines wrapped around it. In the middle of it is a brown hare. Behind it is a background of a patch of daisies.

Bottom Text: Coming 9th October, 2026

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Andi is 🏳️‍⚧️ RE-DRAFTING DESECRATE 🏳️‍⚧️ @andromedaexists.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Hi! Hello! It's me, the author of your next fav read! If you're looking to read books about: - queer & autistic folks - dysfunctional found families - fighting the gov't - reading ancient texts to prove the Vatican wrong - and more!! Then you're in the right place! linktr.ee/andromedaexi...

Genres & Themes
Queer & Trans Myth Retellings
Exploring the myths that used to be a means of explaining the way the world worked and trying to see if I can’t apply them to the modern day to explain our modern issues.
Religious Horror.
Finding beauty in the monstrous and horror in the holy and learning to balance them. Asking too many questions that don’t have answers...
Stories about grief.
Grief is a part of life, especially when you’re chronically ill. These stories are an outlet for that grief.

My Books.
ΔΆΙΟΣ: A Call Me Icarus Novel. Anti-Establishment Retelling of the Fall of Icarus. Available on Kindle Unlimited. Dysfunctional Found Family.
Incorrect Eyes. Available on Kindle Unlimited. A psychological religious horror about angels with too many eyes.
l'eclipse ardente. a short story about the eclipse. sun & moon.
More stories are in the works!

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 19h

In Cloudless Rain, both Baltan and Eureka fear not being enough–that they can't be enough for each other romantically, that they won't be good enough guardians for Azzie, that their rusty detective skills aren't enough to stop an impending tragedy. They're really going through it. #LGBTQWriteAThon

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 19h

Love that Shattered City and The Witch of the Wood are book birthday buddies, lol. My TBR grows once more...

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 20h

Come on, guys, it's 37 horror for 10 money. Normally 37 horror for 78 money. That's 68 money saved that you can spend on the other bundle.

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 21h

OUT NOW: SHATTERED CITY, the sequel to SILVER BLOOD! 🖤 Get the ebook: books2read.com/cos-shattered-city Get the paperback from Bookshop: tinyurl.com/5czuhmyk Or the hardcover: tinyurl.com/5fcnd3mu

They made it out. Now can they make it work? Shattered City (City of Silver, book 2) is available now from Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, itch.io, Ko-Fi, and more.

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 21h

Now available! 🪾THE WITCH OF THE WOOD🏚️ 📖Novella 🖤MM Fantasy Romance 💀Breaking a Curse 🪾A Spooky Forest ❤️‍🔥Fast Burn 🏚️A Search for a Witch 😟Nervous x Confident Uni: books2read.com/u/bw6gwP Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/the-witch-of... Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur... Cover by @isthiseva.bsky.social

The cover of The Witch of the Wood by Alex Larkspur. It features two men in a dark and gloomy forest. Milo stands in front, a man with tan skin and short, dark hair. He’s dressed in a cream tunic and a green cloak around his shoulders. He has a bow and arrows. He is clearly afraid as he stares at his left hand. His fingers are blackened due a curse that is spreading across his hand. Another man, Cam, is turned the other way and holding Milo’s right hand. He’s looking over his shoulder and looking at Milo with concern. His clothes are bright, colorful, and patchwork. The gloom of the forest mutes their color. The trees seem to close in around them.

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our internet decided today was NOT the day for a stream. Fortunately I had the foresight to also have our playthrough recorded separately, so here's the replay for Angela He's visual novel, "missed messages"! CW: suicide and self-harm.

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Writer's Block: missed messages [2026 Spooky Special]

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon Goals: - Upload the rest of my books to avalonroselin.itch.io - Finish recording The Eye of the Phoenix audiobook & post it to my Ko-Fi and Itch - Post reviews for recent indie reads on Amazon and Goodreads

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today's spooky visual novel stream is Missed Messages! Each playthrough is estimated 15-30 minutes, with 4 different endings, so we may do several playthroughs to get them all. TW for suicide and self-harm. See you in 30 minutes~

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This Banned Books Week is an excellent time to find queer creators whose work has been deplatformed due to payment processor nonsense, and buy from them direct. Folks, has your work been booted off Itch.io and other platforms? Post it below and share and let's buy some dang books, yeah?

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OUT TOMORROW! 🪾THE WITCH OF THE WOOD🏚️ 📖Novella 🖤MM Fantasy Romance 💀Breaking a Curse 🪾A Spooky Forest ❤️‍🔥Fast Burn 🏚️A Search for a Witch 😟Nervous x Confident 🍂 Coming October 6, 2026 Uni: books2read.com/u/bw6gwP Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/the-witch-of... Cover Art: @isthiseva.bsky.social

Over the background of a foggy forest at night, the cover of The Witch of the Wood by Alex Larkspur
OUT TOMORROW!

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SHATTERED CITY releases TOMORROW!!! 😱 This is your last chance to pre-order the ebook at a discount! Grab it from itch: silvercrescentpress.itch.io and everywhere else: books2read.com/cos-shattered-city

Shattered City (City of Silver, book 2) releases tomorrow!

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Poltergeist, at like...six years old. My grandpa had a big, in-ground pool we would swim in during summer. He also had a habit of leaving his television set on at all times. Guess which part I walked in on with zero context while walking past the living room to use the bathroom...

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hi #LGBTQWriteAThon 4! I don’t have the word “foreboding” in my draft, but I have some instances of it! Here’s the first moment, Danny, one my narrators, notices something amiss. (He has no idea what he’s in for.)

In this passage from early in the draft of Reunion Tour, Danny, a bass player for hire, is auditioning to tour with a band he’s loved since he was a kid. Nicola, a former bandmate and romantic partner, has already been hired as the drummer. Sanders and Pearle are the rhythm guitarist and keyboard player; Scyther is the lead guitar player (and also? really kind of a jerk).
There were two tricks to “Seventh Step”: It had a weird tuning, and the guitar and keyboard parts didn’t rock. Sanders played choppy, open-string staccato furnace-blasts of sound, Scyther’s fingers crawled over the fretboard, every note out of tune in a way that was somehow perfect, and Pearle’s drone hung over it all like some funereal cloak.
Nicola and I had to fit a groove to it. I tried to bring just a touch of caveman swagger. She went wild on the floor tom. It felt so fucking good to play with her again, if only for a tour, or even just these two songs.
After the first pass through the chorus part, Scyther looped the verse part with a digital delay, then took off on a wild, swirling solo.

And then things got weird.
The lights didn’t flicker or dim as Scyther soloed, but the room felt less bright. The air seemed to thicken. There were flickers of motion high in my peripheral vision, like a phalanx of swallows was swooping around the room. When I turned to look, they receded.
Scyther’s lips were pulled back in a sort of manic grin. Nicola grabbed a pair of mallets and abandoned the cymbals and snare for a loping beat defined only by the kick, the floor, and the larger of her rack toms. I let the bone-rattling low C-sharp ring out through entire measures, making more space for Scyther’s spider skitter tones.
It was no-shit eerie, and it was a relief when Scyther stomped on his delay to cut it off, and we all careened together out of the solo break and into the song’s coda.
The hazy sensation was dispelled immediately, and the flutters at the edge of my vision lifted.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There’s a lot of back and forth, like “omg can you believe this totally innocuous book got banned?” To me, that inherently sets up a category of “yeah, I totally see why that one was banned” that is useful to banners. “Why was it banned?” “Queer.” “Oh, yeah, makes sense.”

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🪾THE WITCH OF THE WOOD🏚️ Milo Ashton goes into Hatwick Wood to find a witch and a way to break a curse. He discovers much more. 🖤 🍂 Coming October 6, 2026 Universal: books2read.com/u/bw6gwP Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/the-witch-of...

Over the background of a dark forest, the cover of The Witch of the Wood by Alex Larkspur with the blurb of the book next to it.
Blurb:
There is a witch hiding in the trees of Hatwick Wood. They are a steward of the wood, caring for the alders, maples, and cedar within, watching over the home of the beasts and birds. The people who survive on the generosity of Hatwick Wood—every denizen from Farbreak at the south edge to Northpost on the opposite side—respects the witch. Everyone knows the witch is the forest caretaker, and if anything ever went wrong, they need to be found to mend it.
When Hatwick Wood is cursed, the witch must be found. It is up to Milo Ashton, an unremarkable member of the Ashton hunting clan, to venture into the cursed forest and find the witch. But soon, he is cursed himself. A mysterious hermit named Cam finds him and swears that he can help Milo lift the curse. Milo is torn between the magnetic draw he feels towards Cam and the certainty that Cam is hiding something from him. Milo must find the witch, lift the curse, and reckon with his own feelings before he is consumed by the wood.
Releasing October 6th

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

October deep dive topics are up for voting. If you're a member of my Patreon, go forth and make your voice heard. If you're NOT a member of my Patreon...well, there's no time like the present! www.patreon.com/tlbodine/pos...

Happy month of haunting, gays and ghouls!

I have been excitedly working behind the scenes on Nightmare Marginalia and have already received some stellar story submissions. Y'all are in for a real treat.

I'm also working on the October monthly zine and testing a new layout technique that should, hopefully, make the formatting errors from last time impossible. Sorry again for the unexpected "choose your own adventure" style page ordering!

Anyway. The air is crisp, pumpkins and apples are everywhere, trees are crowned in gold...and it's time to vote for this month's essay topic.

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To celebrate beginning my edits for SPACE ANGELS (real title pending), I did the character portraits for the main cast. If you want to learn more about them, I'll be posting more next year! For right now, have their lovely faces. Albireo in the center, Alya to the left, and Syeir to the right!

a digital illustration of the main cast of SPACE ANGELS by S. Jean. There are three individuals against a basic background of dark purple with a lighter purple to draw the eye. Starting from the left, there is a short young woman with short and messy black hair, tan skin with freckles, and green eyes. She is wearing a white and black body suit underneath a vibrant yellow jacket. She looks off to the left and has her arm bent across her torso as her glove shows a small screen. The middle is the main character and they are standing with their hands cupped as something glows within their palms. They have pale skin, lavender hair that's side swept to one side, and spectral hued eyes that bleed from orange to purple. They are wearing a set of pauldrons with feathers peeking out while a sheer cloak hangs from it. Their body suit is black with white sleeves and they have colorful sashes across their waist. They are looking to the right with a small smile. The last character to the right is a tall man with the same features as the young woman, except he has beads in his hair and tucked behind his ear. He is grinning and has his hands on his hips. He is wearing a vibrant red jacket over a black body suit. Around his waist is a blue sash and belts.

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ALiCE: Out of all the content warnings, book banners would target the M/M assault scene and married lesbians The Eye of the Phoenix: M/NB romance, and the NB partner uses ey/em/eir pronouns Cloudless Rain: Atheist gay trans lead, M/M romance, and child abuse by a religious cult #QueerPromptsOctober

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Trans Authors, For Trans Awareness Month (exact dates Nov 1st-15th), I'm putting together a Trans SciFi & Fantasy Bundle. (Note: its best to submit a book you won't be using for my Trantasy & Queer Fantasy bundle, running Dec 20th -Jan something 😉) Sign up form: is on my discord or I can DM it!

Trans Fantasy & SciFi
Itch Bundle
Nov 1-15th

Eligibility & Genre:
The author is trans -including nonbinary- and the book is some form of Fantasy or Scifi.
Plot-central trans (and LGBTQIA+) themes are welcome, but not required.

Genre NOTE: I am hosting a Trantasy Bundle in Dec (20th-Jan 10th) for fantasy, so if you wish to participate in that too, please enter a different book in each bundle, if possible.

Preorders: Pre-orders are welcome, if your book releases within 5 weeks of the bundle's end date. Please state the release date in your Itch book description, so readers know when they can download your book.

Categories: YA and Adult Fiction, novellas and full length novels.

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just a reminder this is happening today! Come on #albuquerque readers and say hello at @booksonthebosque.bsky.social

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Four fun facts about Honoria A Runner Owen Short Story: 1. The MC is a trans man to a prince 2. It's set in a gaslamp fantasy suburb 3. The behavior of the central couple is jaw droppingly scandalous and vile 4. The prince the MC serves is black vincentlore.itch.io/honoria

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Honoria: A Runner Owen Short Story by Vincent Lore

A queer gaslamp gothic murder mystery

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just found out that the douchebag from Do Revenge is the courier dude in Resident Evil, so my mind is blown.

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V. S. Holmes @vsholmes.com · 03/10/2026

Dig into everything creepy and dark: I joined 30 other speculative fiction authors for this LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. Get all these titles for less than filling up your tank, so stay home and read! 10/3 - 10/17 itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq... #booksky #writesky #fantasy #horror

A promo image with a dark, foggy forest as the background. Text reads: LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10! Oct 3 - 17

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saturday in October means a movie marathon and candy charbooterie!

A 90s Halloween plate is topped with an assortment of candy

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🌳 Shifting Roots 300 Pages, Xenofiction 🐾 Warriors x Ratha’s Creature 🌎 Large Cast 🪦 Character Deaths ✨ Cats with Magic 🕊️ Systemic Prejudice 📹 Multimedia Project See More: tas.roselinbooks.com Signed Paperback: SOLD OUT! PWYW eBook: ko-fi.com/s/7ae8307031 #booksky #indieauthor

The Alliance Saga: Clouded Moon #1 – Shifting Roots cover by Tennelle Flowers. A dark cat with white spots makes a determined expression as she claws into a tree branch, a full moon shining over treetops behind her. The scene is awash in purple hues.

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🔪 ALiCE 216 Pages, Slasher Horror 🍄 Silent Hill x Alice in Wonderland 🧠 Psychological Torment 💀 No Happy Ending 🐇 Short Story Tie-In ✏️ Chapter Illustrations See More: alice.roselinbooks.com Signed Paperback/PWYW eBook: ko-fi.com/roselinbooks #booksky #indieauthor A perfect read for spooky season~

ALiCE cover art by R. Hamlin - A playing card Two of Clubs with a large eye in the center sits atop a King of Hearts, which barely peeks out from behind the Two of Clubs, on a black background.

WHiTE RABBiT, an Alice novella, cover art by R. Hamlin - A King of Hearts card with a warped face sits on a black background.

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon No writing, BUT I did get ISBNs assigned to my two most recent projects, prepped their files to be uploaded to IngramSpark for wide distribution, and made a moodboard~ The Eye of the Phoenix is available now (for free!) on my Ko-Fi; Cloudless Rain will be out on November 24th!

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Pax Asteriae @paxasteriae.northsky.social · 13/01/2026

For newly-dumped psychic Gabe, maybe Hallowe'en isn't such a dead end: distractingly hot Jude has also been ghosted on the steps of this haunted house. But will Gabe's light-hearted livestream turn dark in the shadow of the house's curse? #BluePit 📖 #W #A #PN #R #LGBT

Moodboard for the story Ghosted. The book cover, showing two men in jeans holding hands with 'Ghosted' in a handwritten font across the middle, is at the top left corner. Beneath is a gloomy shot of the haunted mansion with some windows lit. Top middle-left is shattered glass, bottom middle-left is a dark, stained doorway with shadowy hands pressing at the windows. Top middle-right is a faded image of an oxygen mask, bottom middle right is Jude with his hood up standing at the steps of the building. Top right is a faded image of the dilapidated hallway, with missing and cracked tiles and a stained carpet running up the damaged stairs, and bottom right is two mens' hands reaching for one another.
In the middle is the text, "He'd never screamed and run from anything before, but he had absolutely no problem with there being a first time."

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon I'm working on 3 stories for sure: - Halloween omegaverse mystery short story, currently an AU of my PSI series - the sequel to Honoria, another mystery short story starring Owen - Flesh of the Deep, aka fish Bloodborne, a gothic(?) fantasy novella(??) There are others though...

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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 03/10/2026

#LGBTQWriteAThon I will be talking about A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ and associated spinoffs and sequels this month. It's a sapphic fantasy romance... and it will be out one day, I promise. Currently in third draft (out of... four maybe?) In lieu of a moodboard, have some images to vibe with.

A woman in a red dress with auburn hair blushes and looks very pleased as another woman with short light brown hair receives the gift of a fine blue coat. They sit on a bench which combines Greek and Polynesian design elements. Behind them, there is a thematic collage of a sailing ship, a compass, and a pink serpentine dragon.
Art by NushDeco

Digital illustration of two chibi characters; Geni, on the left, a woman with brown hair, fair skin, and wearing a red dress, is kneeling with a weary, slightly concerned expression, next to Kallista, a woman with short blondeish hair wearing captain's clothes, who is unconscious on the ground. Art by Birdko

A map of Northern Iunia and the Iunian Archipelago in the Circle Sea. A large land mass down the bottom left leads to a chain of islands over the rest of the page.

Map is surrounded by border of small squares with art done in dark brown and white. Figures depicted include: a mythical parrot, a white flower, a nereid, a sphinx, a harpy, a cherub, a hippocampus, a seagull, a satyr, a dryad, a sperm whale, and a mermaid

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M. Clark @mcwrites27.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hello #LGBTQWriteAThon Nation! Looking for an Appalachian gothic paranormal sapphic thriller duology with plenty of complex dark themes? Yearning for that 'Fear Street'esque teen thriller vibes? May I present to you my coming soonish releases of 'The Canary' (Volume 1) and 'The Cage' (Volume 2).

A 9 panel mood board of images for the sequel to my current novel WIP, volume 2 in the duology entitled 'The Cage'. The images are described top to bottom, left to right: two girls kissing in the sunlight, a payphone on a dark street illuminating the space with amber street lights in the background, claw swipes on a grey locker, a person loading shells into a shotgun, a movie caption screen from the 70s or 80s in yellow lettering reading 'Summer of Fear', two girls with their backs to the camera in high contrast flashlight photography in the dark one is blonde wearing a brown hoodie and one is brunette wearing a black leather jacket, a dark hazy corn field with a full moon above, a brunette girl facing a sun shower with a ray of light obscuring her face and part of the image, a disturbingly isolated white steepled American Christian church.

A 9 panel mood board of images for the sequel to my current novel WIP, volume 1 in the duology entitled 'The Canary'. The images are described top to bottom, left to right: A newspaper article clipped into a folder titled 'Mystery Accident Causes Teen Fatality', a yellowed worn cover of a black and white composition notebook, the faceless image of a county police officer with a black brown tie and dark thick overcoat (uniform issue) with a name tag, a white house that at the right angle reads 'RUN' in all capital letters spraypainted on the roof and facade of the exterior, two pale faced teens laughing loudly with toothy grins as they hug with the image zoomed on their mouths, a newspaper article reading 'BODIES FOUND MUTILATED BY ANIMAL', two pale hands clawing at the dirt as they try to escape, two Ride Waite tarot cards laid over top of each other reading 'Love' and 'Death', an unpainted and weathered barn in rural Appalachia with a white and black lettered sign reading 'GET RIGHT WITH GOD' on the side.

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy Hoodoo Heritage Month! Today is Nat Turner Day and I always think about ROOT MAGIC. This novel is a great introduction for kids and adults to Hoodoo and Gullah Geechee culture AND the family in this award-winning Southern Gothic story shares this revered ancestor’s last name.

Cover of my debut MG novel ROOT MAGIC. Young Black twins (boy and girl) stand back to back in the middle of a marsh of blue, yellow and green mist lined with trees and reeds. She is holding a book, and her doll is peeking out of the pocket of her blue dress. He is wearing dark blue overalls and holding a bottle of magic potion and had a mojo bag around his neck.

Test Reads: Root Magic A Walter Award Honor Book Eden Royce

My trio of Hoodoo novels for kids. Root Magic, Conjure Island, The Creepening of Dogwood House.

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LGBTQwriteathon Day 2: Moodboard! The Eye of the Phoenix isn't quite a WIP, as a finished short story, but I am working on the audiobook and getting it into wider distribution! Get it for free (or leave a tip!) on ko-fi.com/roselinbooks

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

slowly but surely my space angel nerds! i have to redo syeir's arm because that was just not working out as sketched. i might work on more tonight, but fatigue is catching up to me.

lineart of two individuals in progress. The first has side-swept hair as they gaze to the right with a soft smile. They have their hands cupped together, ready for magic. They are wearing pauldrons with black feathers and a transparent cloak falls from it. The second individual faces the other direction, but he is gazing toward the first and he has a small grin on his lips. He is unfinished, but is wearing a jacket as he props his hands on his hips.

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🪾THE WITCH OF THE WOOD🏚️ 📖Novella 🖤MM Fantasy Romance 💀Breaking a Curse 🪾A Spooky Forest ❤️‍🔥Fast Burn 🏚️A Search for a Witch 😟Nervous x Confident 🍂Coming October 6, 2026 Uni: books2read.com/u/bw6gwP Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/the-witch-of... Art: @kalimpaszmadar.bsky.social

Two young men in under trees in the forest. Milo is sitting up. He has short dark hair and tan skin. He is holding a bloodroot in one hand and his other hand is resting on Cam's head. His fingers on his left hand are dark due a curse. He is looking fondly down at Cam, who is resting his head in Milo's lap and smiling. Cam has brown skin and long, dark brown hair. He's smiling as he rests in Milo's lap. His shirt is patchwork colors, but he is mostly covered by Milo's dark green cloak

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

🕯️🥀 SHORT HORROR STORY 🥀🕯️ One night, Jace finds a runaway in his barn. A boy with a horrifying story. ❌ no romance 🕸️ gothic-horror 📔 26 pages 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/b4aB7L 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/someone-else... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... [ #booksky ]

kindle cover for someone else's horror story by rebecca crunden; shows an old wooden room with candelabras and rising fog

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We did it. We FINALLY did it. The last chapter of our reaction series to Grey by E.L. James comes out TOMORROW. It has been a horrendous ride, but it's finally over! And this last episode is a doozy.

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