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Wren MacAlister @wrenmacalister.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

“Oh dear, an Iliana stipulation, those never end well.”

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 16/04/2025

if your moral compass can be thrown off by a broomstick and a british accent, maybe it’s time to read literally any other book. they made more, i promise. books did not stop in 2007 when voldemort exploded like a glitter bomb full of hate crimes.

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G @therealg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Next up in my 2025 thrift store only reading finds…To Sir, With Love… 📚💙 #booksky #books #thriftstore #antiquestore

Photo of E.R. Braithwaite’s novel, To Sir, With Love…

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Author Christine Gray @christinegray69.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

CELEBRATE BLACK LOVE. All available on Kindle. www.christinesappgrayauthor.com #booksworthreading #booksky #urbanromance #romance #romancebook

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Jessie Thomas @jessiethomasauthor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

If you’re snowed in like I am and find yourself wanting something appropriately wintry to read:

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Wren MacAlister @wrenmacalister.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

For every like I get. I’ll edit / write 200 words - lets have a productive day #writercommunity

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Still only £2.63 on UK Amazon, which means you can buy yourself a copy and have enough left over to buy one a friend. Or an enemy. Or a casual acquaintance. Ten stories of horror and archaeology for less than a cheap coffee.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🌠 EBOOK ON SALE FOR 99c 🌠 🕯️ a spell in a cabin 👻 a phone call from beyond the grave ❤️ true love 🏡 small town setting 🎃 hallowe’en time 🌄 second chances 🔦 friends solving a mystery 🔖 book: mybook.to/Lnobp 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/57... [ #booksky ] [ 📚💙 ]

cover for haze by rebecca crunden; shows a girl with long brown hair, eyes closed, trees line the bottom and background.

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Sean R. Frazier @seanrfrazier.com · 28/01/2025

Oh hey. My Mage Breaker books are an urban fantasy series set in a city and a world completely powered by magic. At heart, it's 2 women trying to overthrow a corrupt government while becoming found family. Certainly nothing relevant to this. very. moment... #BookSky

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

👾 SCI-FI NOVELLA 👾 🚀 spaceships 🌡️ dark conspiracies 🎭 brotherhood ❌ no romance 🐛 strange creatures 🤖 futuristic 🪐 other worlds 🐈 a rescue cat 🔖 book link: mybook.to/schU 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56... [ #booksky ] [ 🪐📚 ] [ 📚💙 ]

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

212 years ago, Jane Austen published PRIDE & PREJUDICE. Last year, I published the book I always wanted to read: NETHERFORD HALL, which is basically an unapologetically queer P&P with witches! The sequel is out in two weeks! Do with that what you will. La! #booksky📚💙

The book Netherford Hall on a background of rosss

A copy of the Viscount St Albans on a yellow floral background

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Finished reading Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis, coming out on February 13th! I loved this book, an incredible sapphic space fantasy with cool magic and fantastic world-building! See my full review here! app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b7da...

The cover of Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #766: Writing is a community. Participate in it if you can. Engage with other writers. Lift them up, and they’ll do the same. Try to go it alone, or treat other writers as rivals, and you’re more likely to sink than swim.

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Wren MacAlister @wrenmacalister.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Which familial relationships do you like reading about best? Sibling? Parent or child? Etc?

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Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire @azaleaforrest.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Rowan reflects the fear and hedonistic apathy that resides within all of us. Some of us need a bit of a nudge to veer those destructive tendencies in a more positive direction. Thank the goddess he has Dagan. A BITTER DRINK mybook.to/ABitterDrink 💙📚 #books #indie #author #writer #reading

A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest. SPFBO semi-finalist 2022. A dark green cover with gold text, featuring a wine glass, a pile of gold, and a dagger. Character images feature Rowan, the green skinned plant-man in lavender robes holding wine with a smirk, a dark skinned dreaded traveller with a bo staff and a large pack on his back, grinning, a grumpy looking purple haired elf in all black, and a redheaded grinning female dwarf holding a massive hammer. Words surround the book: magic & misadventure, anti-hero MC, elves & dwarves, lgbt+ fantasy, plant people, idiots to lovers. azaleaforrest.wordpress.com

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Karsyn @karsynwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Val Kilmer’s THE SAINT X KILLING EVE Codename Saint is ready to cash in a decade of loose morals. But when her cover is blown on her final job (while in bed with her mark), she’ll have to find a way to save her target’s life after betraying her trust. #bluepit #a #r #lgbt #w

A moodboard, from top left to bottom right:
A tall blonde woman cornering a shorter brunette woman (threateningly and sexily), a woman holding a gun, a roll of blueprints, a brunette in bed, a blonde woman being photographed, a map of Europe, the French Riviera, a text photo that says "I'm not in danger, I'm the danger", a woman applying dark lipstick, a blonde woman in bed. Across the moodboard are the words "beautiful," "dirty," "rich," "espionage," "seduction," "murder."

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Jen DiArenzo - 🧜🏼‍♀️ Fantasy Author @jendiarenzo.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

As mermaid queen, her duty to save her newfound family means becoming a human siren and 💀 men. But there’s a certain one on the shore that fills a void in her soul and calls to her magic. Is he a means to an end or just the beginning? Character illustrations by me. #BLUEPIT #Q #A #F #R #P 📖

Sketch of mermaid coming out of the water.

Sketch of human man with longer hair and dimpled smile.

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Melody and Lyra have shared a body for over 20 years, and they're doing great... until Lyra is stolen from under their skin. Melody teams up with Lyra's girlfriend Annie (who had no idea Melody exists), and an angel to go on an awkward rescue road trip. #Bluepit #W #A #F #LGBT 📖

My Sister's Stolen Soul in black and purple text with white angel wings behind it
A car mirror reflecting the sunset, an eye with a purple iris, an angel statue, a silhouette of two hands with linked pinkies, a snowy road at night

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Lisa P @leperez333.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I really enjoyed reading Mr. Warren's Profession (Aubrey & Lindsey #1) by @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social. It's a historical romance set in the dawn of industrial age in England. Aubrey is a mill clerk; Lindsey the wealthy owner. Hidden love; class difference; betrayal; unconditional love #mmromance

Book cover: Larger blond man and smaller brunet in suits leaning against a wall, kissing each other.

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In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Do you have a favourite book? It’s a tough choice but Strange Sally Diamond by @liznugent.bsky.social is definitely up there for me. Here’s my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review, if you haven’t read it yet I can’t recommend it enough! 💙📚

UK and US editions of Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

When Sally’s dad dies she puts him out with the trash - literally, starting a snowball of events that threaten to upend her sheltered life in the small village of Carricksheedy. It isn’t just the unwanted attention from the Police and the media that’s upsetting Sally, someone from her past is reaching out to her - but who are they and what do they want?

Intricately crafted between two viewpoints and timelines we find out more about Sally’s backstory and the events made her into the person she is today.

This book is absolutely brilliant and I was completely engrossed in the story from the first page. It’s a really complex novel and about so much more than a young woman who has taken her dad at his word. I feel like its one of those books where it’s best to go in not knowing too much as I really enjoyed the element of surprise as we find out more about what’s really gone on in Sally’s life.

I loved how the characters in the book were portrayed, you’re never quite sure who you’re meant to be rooting for and who Sally needs to be wary of. Liz Nugent has an uncanny ability to make you wrestle with your feelings about the actions committed by some of the characters and just when you think you’ve figured them out everything changes! I particularly enjoyed the way Sally was written - in a few books I’ve read recently characters who could be neurodivergent are often portrayed as being someone to be made fun of or pitied and Sally is neither of those things. Sure, she makes some unusual decisions and thinks about things in a non-typical way but she’s smart and caring and talented and so many more things besides.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

🌌🛰️👾 SCI-FI NOVELLA 👾🛰️🌌 🚀 spaceships 🌡️ dark conspiracies 🎭 brotherhood ❌ no romance 🐛 strange creatures 🤖 futuristic 🪐 other worlds 🐈 a rescue cat 🔖 book link: mybook.to/schU 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56... [ #booksky ] [ 📚💙 ]

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Get the chills in the desert this May with a new speculative #thriller: ATACAMA. If you love @portersqbooks.bsky.social, you can preorder from them! www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9781957... #horror #scifi #scifihorror

Banner of Porter Square books and the image of the novel ATCAMA by Jendia Gammon with pre-order information

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Emma (emreadsthebooks) @emreadsthebooks.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

You all have bookmarks to match all your books right? #BookSky

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

ahhhh so close to ✨ 80 ratings ✨ 👀🥰

Goodreads page for Someone Else’s Horror Story by Rebecca Crunden. Summary: Jace Venable lives a quiet life in the house his father left him. He dreams of fixing up the barn out back so that he doesn’t have to return to the city he’s only too happy to leave behind. He likes to be left alone, thank you very much.

And then, one night, he finds a runaway in his barn. A boy with a horrifying story that’s about to upend Jace’s quiet life permanently.

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Annabel Campbell @annabelcwrites.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#bookblurbmonday! This week’s blurb comes from the talented @shaunalawless.bsky.social. Her series, The Gael Song, is Irish mythology and history intertwined. Viking kings, immortal beings, fire magic, gorgeous characters and heartbreaking drama. Seriously, check it out. @orbitbooks.bsky.social

An array of magical symbols surrounds the bottom half of flaming sun in red, orange and yellow. Below it stands the silhouette of a girl with long hair and flowing cloak standing on the silhouette of a sand dune. On the background are more dunes.

In the sun, the text reads: ’The Outcast Mage is beautifully crafted epic fantasy that is full of all the things I love - powerful magic, political intrigue and vivid worldbuilding.

Shauna Lawless, author of The Gael Song series’

A copy of the book is in the foreground - the same magical array and girl on the cover. Text reads ‘Truly enchanting’ - Trudi Canavan, bestselling author
THE OUTCAST MAGE
Annabel Campbell

Out 28 January 2025
Available for pre-order now

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Fantasy Book Critic @fantasybookcritic.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Checkout the new cover for @michaelrfletcher.bsky.social’s THE STORM BENEATH THE WORLD by @claymorecovers.bsky.social. Plus Lukasz chats with Michael about the new cover, his incredible book & when the sequel might be coming out

fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com

Cover Re-Reveal: The Storm Beneath The World by Michael R. Fletcher

Speculative fiction book reviews.

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Wren MacAlister @wrenmacalister.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New Year , New WIP What are your writing goals for 2025? #writing #authors

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

What if the hero is a woman in her 60s?

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Wren MacAlister @wrenmacalister.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

In the Trail of Fire - Blurb Princess Iliana flees her country after her parents' deaths as a revolution sparks. Along the way, she meets Alex, who agrees to help her escape for a fee. As they travel together, feelings begin to grow but Alex has many secrets some of which threaten Iliana's survival.

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Wren MacAlister @wrenmacalister.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Iliana tried to keep her breathing steady. It had taken all she had not to scream as the body of her lady’s maid, Raina, had crashed to the floor above her head. She could hear their footsteps above her. Starting lines of In the Trail of Fire #sapphicfantasy #writercommunity

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Stayed up late finishing the 1st in @ellygriffiths.bsky.social new series - The Frozen People. Original, exciting, and with a brilliant main character. The historical fiction aspects are wonderfully done. Out in Feb. Go order it.

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In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Great review of An Ethical Guide to Murder from @shonaholmes23.bsky.social #BookSky

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E.V. Belknap @evbelknap.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I’m at 46 reviews on Amazon 🥰 So close to 50 👀 #writer 💙📚 🌈 📚 #indieauthor

Screenshot of my book, the tenfold tenants, on amazon. It shows reviews at 46, with an average of 4.6 out of 5 stars. It also shows 4.3 average on goodreads, out of 89.

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Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Looking for a taut Parisian thriller? May I suggest 👇👇

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The Drowned Heir, THAT contains a creature Its what the narrator's uncle insists killed him; a tremendous monster, not a monster wave books2read.com/drownedheir

Hardcover copy of The Drowned Heir in focus against a soft library shelves background

the cover art is a pale woman wearing a tricorn hat with a brimstone tattoo on her left shoulder, her head turned to the left, writhing tentacles in the darkness behind her.

art by Yorgos Cotronis, and I bought the art in a premade cover pack on his website https://cotronis.com/ and put the text on it myself.

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Wren MacAlister @wrenmacalister.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

In the Trail of Fire - My Sapphic Fantasy Debut Novel Coming Soon #writercommunity #fantasybooks

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Jessie Thomas @jessiethomasauthor.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Craving more gothic vampire horror after seeing #Nosferatu? This one’s sapphic with a dreary, foggy coastal setting, a Victorian fantasy aesthetic, haunted, crumbling ruins, and blood curses. 🦇📖: books2read.com/u/4AM9Qk

An ebook mockup of Once Upon a Dark October set against a background of dark red leaves. A 5 star review excerpt reads:
“This book is perfect for anyone who needs a story of hope wrapped in the darkest bow possible.”

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Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I stopped making New Year’s resolutions years ago, but I’d like to suggest one to everyone on #BookSky for 2025. ENCOURAGE 2 PEOPLE TO GET A LIBRARY CARD! That’s it. It won’t overwhelm us, but if we each push just 2 people towards the public library, we might make a difference. Cheers! 🥂📚 📚💙

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Wren MacAlister @wrenmacalister.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I feel so ill today :( I just wanted to celebrate Hogmanay

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Wren MacAlister @wrenmacalister.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I stayed up late last night to write but instead just watched 20 year old clips of eastenders on YouTube… why am I like this?!! 😭😭

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