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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 4h

Starting to feel ill and rundown. I better get this cold over with before Fantasycon!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 9h

So it's almost October here in the north east and I'm outside with just my hoodie, no coat, and it is WARM 😬

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 21h

So I shared the issues I had with my cover for The Thirteenth Hour's special edition in my newsletter today, and the reason why I had to cancel the crowdfund, and someone responded by sending me a AI version of my cover 🙈

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 29/09/2026

So the "universal toilet" is hidden in a corner behind the first aid office. Gonna go on an expedition to take a piss I guess?

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 29/09/2026

On Oct 29th, come with me on another wild ride for a new novella: The Gone Machine 🤖 Follow depressed cyborg Sylvan as he gets adopted by bots, struggles with regret/grief, gets his dream chance at fashion design, & cements his place in the robot resistance. #TGM #IndieAuthor #TheMachines

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The Gone Machine: Coming October 2026!

From Aimee Cozza Illustration - The Gone Machine: Coming October 2026!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 29/09/2026

I'll be at Fantasycon on three panels and I'll also be doing a reading from the Cruel Gods short story collection! I'll be bringing some books with me, but let me know if you're going and want one, and I'll bring extra.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

I've assembled 24 Authors to bring you Punk Spec Fic We've got Cyberpunk (+ cards), & bio☣️ or nanopunk🧬 Steam & Dreampunk Hopepunk for dark times! Ecologically sustainable Solarpunk Aetherpunk w. magic tech. Elfpunk &dragons!✨ Most have Queer Rep. All have Mini Blurbs. 🌈📚🪐 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.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 29/09/2026

Coming back to work today to discover that as of yesterday, trans and non-binary folks are now banned from the single sex toilets. I don't know where the "universal toilets" are. I'm about to become a headache for my boss!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 29/09/2026

In The Chosen One Con, Max's perception and sense of self is quite warped and only gets worse by the end (for spoiler reasons). But this is something I plan to play around with more in the sequel 👀

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 28/09/2026

I have wrote a newsletter for tomorrow! Incredible, amazing.

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why you should use a PHYSICAL scene separator (e.g. asterisks) in your books instead of an empty space: 1) Some ereader / app somewhere may simply not show the empty space. 2) Some people read on devices with the text REALLY BIG. Your chance of the empty space being at the end of the screen is...

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looking for something short? Try my short stories! I have a nice handful of them. We've got a vampire grieving for a life that once was, an immortal chasing after someone already lost, an oracle bringing silence to the cosmos, and body horror feat. flowers! shop.earlronove.com/collection/s...

a graphic for S. Jean's short stories. They are lined up with descriptions underneath them. They are The Ghosts Left Behind with its red and black cover as a punk young man leaps out of a red window, Immortality in the Marrow with its blue, white, and black cover with a young man opening his shirt to reveal a ribcage beneath it as magic lines float around him, You and I Are Eternal with its black and white cover of a young man kneeling before a celestial being and holding its hand, and finally summertime blossoms with its cover of a young man standing with a bundle of roses as he reaches into it to touch it and holds one to his lips to kiss it.

The descriptions of each are below each cover and are as follows:
The Ghosts Left Behind: A vampire returns to the home he left 30 years ago and has to grapple with the life he left behind.
8k words, familial grief, vampire
Immortality in the Marrow: After living countless lives, an immortal finally finds his other half in a skeleton displayed for study.
6k words, magic & memory, letting go (or not)
You and I Are Eternal: An oracle searches deep space for an ancient eldritch being to bring the cosmos back to silence.
7.6k words, cosmic horror, villain protagonist
summertime blossoms: When your best friend turns to roses after you finally kiss, what else can you do but tend to the blossoms?
4k words, body horror flowers, regrets & lost dreams.

Below the short stories, the graphic indicates their price ($2 USD each) and lets viewers know they are available on the author's itch.io and personal store.

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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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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 28/09/2026

Also FUCK TESCO again because I bought something that was already out of date when I bought it and yes I should have checked the date when I bought it and I have literally only just noticed but still, fuck you Tesco!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 28/09/2026

Me when I'm thinking about what's for dinner.

A photo of Bayley the ragdoll cat sitting crouched on a cat shelf attached to an inner door. He has a blank look because he doesn't have a single thought in that fluffy head.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 28/09/2026

Just looking at @ravenswordpress.com's online shop like 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

A screenshot of AK Faulkner's online shop which has the following text: No AI has been used in any aspect of the creation or production of these books, or associated merchandise and materials.
I’m perfectly capable of writing this demented shit on my own. The planet-burning plagiarism machine is for fucking losers.

I hire real human editors, artists, designers, and narrators.

Visit the shop here: https://ravenswordpress.com/

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 28/09/2026

I've paid off one of my credit cards today! That leaves two left with 3k total to pay lol please buy my books 🤣

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congratulations to all of the authors who will be part of SFINCS4!!!! We wish you all the best of luck! Next steps are for us to sort the novellas into teams for judging which we will announce later this week! #booksky #authors #writers #publishers www.sfincscompetition.com/post/accepte...

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Accepted SFINCS4 Submissions!

Here you can find the accepted SFINCS4 author submissions!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 27/09/2026

Well I didn't sell any 😂 But you can get paperbacks on Amazon! And I'm gonna add these leftovers to my Kofi. books2read.com/thechosenone...

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 27/09/2026

Lots of people at this con asking about the maps by @sorayastories.bsky.social!

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 27/09/2026

Final day of Once Upon a Tyne today!

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I decided to do some fake #covertart for my website to show them along the stuff I do for my authors just to help people make their choice and see what I can do. AND OH BOY I lost myself in time. Spent 3 hours brainstorming and it was SO MUCH FUN! #bookishart #illustration #art #digitalart

Fake book cover that says Broken in blond pink font. It has a cyberpunk style portrait of a young man looking at the camera

Fake cover that Says "Mine" with a neon font. It shows a couple of men laying in the dark.

Fake cover that says "No more heart ache" it shows to men in a passionate embrace

Fake cover that says "Echoes of midnight, tales of desire" that shows one man on his knees before another man who wears a black suit and hold the kneeling man by a silver collar.

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Spotlight Indie @spotlightindie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We're excited for this one! Our Marketing for Introverts panel goes live in 15 minutes, with Alex, GJ, Trudie, LL and Steve, come and join the chat here ⬇️ #writingcommunity #authorevent #indieauthors #bookmarketing www.youtube.com/live/627x7QY...

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Marketing for Introverts

Part of The Big Weekend: Does the idea of speaking at a convention leave you in a cold sweat? Is TikTok your idea of torture? Alex and guests discuss the cha...

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 26/09/2026

Today was great! This was my first con and I've learned a lot! I paid for the table and earned a little profit and GODS BLESS the person who bought all three of my Cruel Gods books! 😱

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 26/09/2026

Set up at Once Upon a Tyne this weekend!

A photo of Trudie Skies holding the paperback of The Thirteenth Hour at Once Upon a Tyne. They are standing at a stall with books and art prints.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 25/09/2026

Have you talked about your book yet today?! Drop and give us: Title: The Chosen One Con Genre: Gaslamp Fantasy of Bad Manners Word count: 219,000 🙈 Funniest moment: Ah, you really have to be there! 🔗: books2read.com/thechosenone...

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𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒫𝒶𝓇𝓀ℯ𝓇 @philspeculates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many thanks to @authoriseult.bsky.social @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com @anthonyaddis.bsky.social & Helen Fray for joining me on The Art of the Plot Twist at the spotlightindie.bsky.social Big Weekend! Lots of great advice, insights and fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kMB... #indieauthors #writers

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The Art of The Twist

YouTube video by SpotlightIndie

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 25/09/2026

The first panel is going live soon on writing twists!

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𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒫𝒶𝓇𝓀ℯ𝓇 @philspeculates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hope you'll join us later to talk about #writing, #books, #authors and things like that. The Big Indie Weekend is free! @spotlightindie.bsky.social is where it's at this weekend and it starts tonight! #writingcommunity #lovereading #indieauthor #indieauthorcommunity #booksky #authorsky

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 25/09/2026

Selling at a con for the first time this weekend, and my period STILL hasn't stopped with its bullshit.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 24/09/2026

Well now I'm not doing crowdfunds anymore, I can focus on saving up and paying off my debts... Got three credit cards I need to pay off 💀

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 24/09/2026

All the worst things that happen to my characters in my books are because of an abusive god.

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 24/09/2026

Echoes of Chaos is out today in ebook!! It’s set 200 years after Reborn in Ash but is a separate story. - epic fantasy - empathic bonds - animal companion - prophecies - elemental magic - romance subplot Ignore that the website says pre-order. I’ll update it when I’m properly awake 😅 #BookSky 💙📚🪐

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Echoes of Chaos - Gabrielle Steele

Echoes of Chaos, an epic fantasy book by Gabrielle Steele. After years of failing to destroy the twisted beast that was once the woman she loved, Eryn makes a costly deal with an imprisoned immortal, ...

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 24/09/2026

I'm officially cancelling the crowdfund for The Thirteenth Hour on Backerkit as it's too late to change course. I may come back and try again next year. In the meantime, I'll do a giveaway or something to celebrate the 5th anniversary.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 24/09/2026

This is my Cruel Gods series. In a world where there are fish and lion people walking around, the rest don't matter.

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Final decision: It's potentially edible, although not as edible as the Barbarian at Dream's End. To be fair, it *is* a much bigger bite. @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com @stevewestenra.bsky.social

A brown spotted tabby rubbing on a copy of the Chosen One Con, by Trudie Skies.

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AK Faulkner @ravenswordpress.com · 23/09/2026

Big up @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com for sending me a brick in the post, I feel suitably threatened 😁😘

A photo of a thicc book, The Chosen One Con by Trudie Skies.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 23/09/2026

Discovering my phone can't take card payments a couple of days before my first con, excellent.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 23/09/2026

Happy Bi Visibility Day to Max from The Chosen One Con and also Charlie who hasn't had chance to come out yet, but they will! Art by the great @aowna.bsky.social

Character art for the main character from The Chosen One Con, designed by artist Aowna. This is a portrait of Max Farrow, who is a handsome young white man with neat combed hair and wearing a suit with a cravat. He is surrounded by bluebells. The image is painted in a blue monochromatic style.

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 23/09/2026

If anyone would like a review copy of Echoes of Chaos, DM me! I missed my window for ARCs and it's only with 2 people for reviews at the moment 😅 Desperate to destroy the twisted beast that was once the woman she loved, an outcast makes a costly deal with an imprisoned immortal. #BookSky

The book cover for Elements of the Fallen Book One: Echoes of Chaos by Gabrielle Steele. The background is dark blue with a cracked texture. The title is silver with a metallic almost 3D effect. Behind the title is a circular emblem of abstract dragons circling each other, one dark the other light. Beneath the title is a flame-coloured eagle in a watercolour style. Layered over the bottom of that is a marble-effect silhouette of a woman riding a horse with a cat beside it, surrounded by vine-like roots. The horse is rearing and the cat is up on its back legs reaching a forepaw towards the nearest root.

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For this month's instalment of the Ask an Expert column, you wanted to know more about running a stall at conventions - so we asked con stalwarts @dcartwriter.bsky.social & Claire Cartwright to take your queries. britishfantasysociety.org/ask-an-exper...

A text-heavy graphic features the combined bio of David and Claire Cartwright, plus their image

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 23/09/2026

I've already eaten my emotional support toffee apple.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 23/09/2026

I'm having the absolute worst period of my life right now, which all 8k of my followers needs to know 😭 Also wow, 8k of you!

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