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Dylan Altoft - Author @altoftauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌕 October's spooky season is here! 🎃 Building your TBR list? Add BEAST BORN. 🐺 Dark fantasy. Werewolves. Vampires. Supernatural adventure. 📖 Available on Kindle Unlimited. Is Beast Born joining your October TBR? 👀 #Werewolves #KindleUnlimited #Halloween #spookyseason #Booksky

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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reminder: signed copies of some of my titles are available at Toronto's Book Bar (600 Markham Street). Autographed books include these two shown below. Details: tinyurl.com/msazf7wr @dundurnpress.bsky.social @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social

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Armand Rosamilia @armandauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Down & Dirty - Book 1 FREE Thru October 5th amzn.to/3TY020o

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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 23h

My short story "Last Call" was published by AntipodeanSF today. It's flash fiction and a free read. antisf.com/the-stories/...

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Last Call - AntipodeanSF

AntipodeanSF publishes the best speculative flash fiction (SF, F, H) on the web.

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 23h

Delighted to have a new poem "Queerness of Our Species" in @rowanglassworks.bsky.social Issue 33! Also a special "Looking Glass" feature with meta-discursive insights about my poem plus a video reading 🔥 Thank you to EIC Katie Budris for including me in this gorgeous issue! Link below 🤍 #poetry

Queerness of Our Species

Vikki C.

Male penguins raise three young, said the headline.
The two had chased the female off, right after she’d laid eggs.
By dusk, the couple had planned the whole family.

Another cruelty to convention. Another soft survival.

It isn’t for us to know if the mother is still alive,
so the story pickaxes at unknowns,
becoming thinner as days glow and contract.

The moment we chose each other, the soft down
between us began to molt, leaving the bare cage of our hands,
the bony lamps of our shoulder blades.

There’s no word for such quickening anymore.

My own weather froze the feather I witnessed on my
way out to Portobello—but never enough to fix it
to the icy ledge. The same ledge I was known

to lean out from—man-watching with a bear’s hunger.

The tiny plume lifted sharp on a white wind,
sailing off to the place where the tender ring.
Later, I read that the mother penguin was found,

circling her young—but now thinks them all corrupt.

The two males clean out of sight—still famed
for their strange deed. It’s unclear who abandoned whom,
only that things circled, our feet slipping beneath dun grass

—till we raised each other again, out of more-than-human nature.

That Sunday, armed with market flowers and brown paper bags,
I brought back your favourite fish for supper—though
you were unlikely to attend. I hoped we’d dine together again.

Late light flooding the kitchen. Scent of herbs and fatigue,

the fish glittering on the large wooden board.
Its one marble eye turning from clear to cloudy
—a small heaven, keenly looking out for your return.

That Sunday, armed with market flowers and brown paper bags,
I brought back your favourite fish for supper—though
you were unlikely to attend. I hoped we’d dine together again.

Late light flooding the kitchen. Scent of herbs and fatigue,

the fish glittering on the large wooden board.
Its one marble eye turning from clear to cloudy
—a small heaven, keenly looking out for your return.

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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social · 22h

Delighted that my Skin Hunger is among these great fall offerings from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social . I'm especially pleased that River of Dreams by my friend Robin Blackburn McBride is among them, but I am looking forward to reading them all.

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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social · 22h

The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974 to 2018 Mary Mackey writes of life, death, love, and passion with intensity and grace. rebrand.ly/hjv44l1 #PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

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Jory Lane @jory-lane.bsky.social · 22h

Fourteen days until the trilogy closes. The Sanctuary's Secret arrives October 15.

A calendar-quiet winter morning: snow on the herb shop roof, smoke from the chimney, blue pre-dawn light, one lit window. Text on image: 14 DAYS The trilogy closes THE SANCTUARY'S SECRET — OCT 15.

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Jonathan Nevair @jnevair.bsky.social · 22h

Bookbub deal on The Curse of Dragon Tail Island today. Yo Ho Ho 🏴‍☠️🏝️🦜 "The crew, the Salty Scoundrels, are a treat. Their interactions are hilarious and Nevair drops line after line of witty comebacks and barbed shots, all laced with heart..." -Bill Adams (FanFiaddict) LINK: books2read.com/u/bMgWJ7

a book cover with fantasy characters dressed as pirates on a ship's deck, done in a playful style with the title, "the Curse of Dragon Tail Island" and the author name, Jonathan Nevair against a white background. Below it reads, "Now only .99c" with a small diagonal red Bookbub tab in the top left corner.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 22h

above/ground press: 2027 subscriptions now available! , anticipating the press' thirty-fourth year of activity, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/10/abov...

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Jeremy 🪐📚 @jeremyiswriting.bsky.social · 22h

It’s officially spooky season. Instead of being terrified by the news or the weather, allow us to entertain you with our new anthology. Featuring stories by some of the coolest indie authors around in fantasy, sci-fi, and horror.

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Jennifer van der Kleut - Thriller THE BETTER MOTHER Out Now! @jennvdk.bsky.social · 21h

Looking forward to appearances at DC's newest @barnesandnoble.com store Saturday and in NoVA for Fairfax's #FallForTheBook festival on Tuesday night with some amazing fellow women thriller authors! Get all the details in my latest newsletter: jennifervanderkleut.substack.com/p/washington...

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Washington D.C. and NoVA This Week!

Come see me and some super-cool author friends on Saturday or Tuesday!

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Linda K Sienkiewicz @lindaksienkiewicz.com · 21h

Whoot! There’s my book, LOVE AND OTHER INCURABLE AILMENTS!

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Mandy Schimelpfenig @riverstonesaga.bsky.social · 21h

The first 3 books in my historical fantasy Daughters of Riverstone series are 25% off on my website the month of October: riverstonesaga.square.site Pick up the series if you enjoy stories of courageous women taking control of their fates.

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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A flurry of activity behind the scenes on the @noexitpress reissue of The Fountain in the Forest, comes out 3 December ‘26! Can’t wait to share. Fountain follow-up Phantom at the Feast is out now obvs🫡🙏✊ ICYM here’s Sukhdev Sandhu’s Guardian review of Fountain 👉🏼 www.theguardian.com/books/2018/f...

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ok, so every day's National Poetry Day in our household (to groans from my long-suffering wife!), but if this means poetry's on your mind today, I might just have a book for your consideration! Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy for you...

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Mandy Schimelpfenig @riverstonesaga.bsky.social · 17h

Meet authors, buy books, and enter to win FREE books! This Saturday!

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Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy National Poetry Day! This year's @poetrydayuk.bsky.social theme is "Wonder" so if anyone is "wondering" what to read next they could give my UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award winning collection New Famous Phrases a go. Message me if you would like a signed copy. #NationalPoetryDay

A copy of the poetry collection New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds

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Melisa Quigley @mquigley1963.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘Throughout the novel, the cave serves as a powerful metaphor. In Bereft, it embodies the delicate tension between intimacy and isolation, offering readers a lens through which to examine their relationships with love and identity.’ – Ink and Horizons mybook.to/Quigley_Bereft #bookreview #poetry

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My #poetry chapbook Speeding Through Familiar Curves won the Apogee poetry chapbook award, and will be coming out in summer 2027 from April Gloaming Publishing!!! #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 www.instagram.com/p/Dd2MZgcpvF...

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Nick Snape 💙🐉⚔️🪐📚 @nicksnapeauthor.bsky.social · 16h

Choked up about this. The final book in a 6 book #scifi series and it’s hit 50 ratings. Three and a half years ago I hadn’t written the first line on any book. Thank you #scifireaders so much!

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Mark Olynyk @markolynykpoet.bsky.social · 13h

What if the stones of time could speak? What would they share about our existence, the paths we traverse and the profound questions that echo in our minds? KINDLE eBook bit.ly/3SZKjx9 #MarkOlynyk #StonesOfTime #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #BookSky #BookBoost

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PHILOSOPHY MEETS POETRY

YouTube video by STONES OF TIME

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Samantha Terrell @samanthaterrell.bsky.social · 19h

Humble thanks to Jane Cornwell @janes-studio.bsky.social for the many wonderful collaborations...and for this celebratory post! Happy National (UK) Poetry Day! 🎊 #nationalpoetryday #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #internationalcommunity

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Dave Blackwell @daveblackwell.bsky.social · 18h

The Future of Healthcare Isn't Looking Well books2read.com/humanerror 5 October 2026

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Human Error by Dave Blackwell

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 18h

Very excited to have my story Echo in the new issue of @epistemiclit.bsky.social. Read it along with lots of other great writing here: epistemiclit.com/current-issue

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DAMON HUBBS @hubbsd.bsky.social · 18h

New poem up today in the always stunning Azarão Lit Journal. A warm thanks to poet and visionary Sandrine Letellier. www.azarao-litjournal.com/damonh2

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Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social · 18h

Wow! I'm so honored!!!!

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Sharon Bradshaw @sharonbradshaw.bsky.social · 19h

A haunted house on the edge of a wild, and desolate moor; deception; greed; violence, and tainted love.💜 It's gothic, and scary. Also, 'highly recommended' for #paranormal lovers, and things going bump in the night. Click the link... for Amazon near you mybook.to/CurseOfTrela... #KindleUnlimited 💜

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J.G. Chayko @jgchayko.bsky.social · 19h

Welcome October 🍂 My favourite month, packed full of literary events, like the Vancouver Writers Festival and the Surrey International Writers Conference, an open mic night with a local literary zines, and the month to celebrate my Celtic heritage with a new year on Samhain 🎃

A woman stands in a gazebo wearing a houndstooth cape, black leggings and boots on a fall day.

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marandina @marandina.bsky.social · 20h

My latest story 'Frankenplot: Ghost Story - Uphill' Halloween shenanigans www.abctales.com/story/marand...

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Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 20h

PRE-ORDER link is live! THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella A cosmic horror that explores identity, ceramics, and murder cults!

THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella, by Z.K. Abraham cover, illustrated black woman, underwater, choking on light coming out of mouth and eyes. "A sharp, compelling read." - Tiffany Morris

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Dede Montgomery @d2montgomery.bsky.social · 20h

Sometimes you are surprised by a book review that stuns you in its perceptiveness. This one is long…and, to me, truly heartening. Thank you readers. dedemontgomery.com/a-map-of-her... #writingcommunity #books #dualtimeline

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Victor De Anda @victordeanda.bsky.social · 20h

ARRIVING IN YOUR DIMENSION NEXT TUESDAY! Like this taste? Big thanks to Matthew David Goodwin and @richienarvaez.bsky.social for including my story, "Hecho En Mexico." Pre-order your copy today from @diversionbooks.bsky.social : bit.ly/4tpEXbT #supernatural #fantastic #speculative #anthology

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Michael Shotter @michaelshotter.com · 20h

There are going to be all sorts of exciting things happening related to The Nod/Wells Timelines over the next six months, starting with this new "spooky season" giveaway. If you enjoy reading speculative fiction, begin your journey along The Timelines today! ❤️📚🙂👍

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 20h

For my grandfather Brian, who passed away over 20 years ago and suffered from dementia. 😔 Thanks to Jack from the Candyman’s Trumpet and guest editor @carolynthomas.bsky.social #grief #dementia #dementiaawareness💜

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Charles Welch - Horror Author @charleswelchauthor.bsky.social · 20h

Join Within The Fog Haunted Mobile Bookstore for a special pop-up at The Ritual Haunted House! Browse books and merchandise before stepping into a night filled with frights. Friday, October 2, 2026 7:00 PM to 12:00 AM The Ritual Haunted House 895 W Hampden Ave Englewood, CO 80110 #fyp

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Ape House Magazine @apehousemagazine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today in the Ape House: Three Poems by Richard LeDue Read it on the stack apehousemagazine.substack.com/p/three-poem...

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Michael Amos Cody @michaelamoscody.bsky.social · 21h

Union Avenue Books at 6:00 on Friday October 2! Looking forward to a trip to Knoxville, where I hope to see old friends and meet new ones, especially the writers with whom I'm sharing the evening.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 21h

Huge thanks to the Laurel Review for nominating "Three Deaths Near a Body of Water," a poem I wrote collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, for Black Lawrence Press' Best Small Fiction Anthology! What a delightful surprise!

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AJ Aberford/Anthony Aberford @ajaberford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who bought HAWK AT THE CROSSROADS in the kindle deal. If you missed out, you can buy the first three books in the #inspectorgeorgezammit #crimeseries in an e-boxset for less than a posh latte! #action #thriller www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMPS9TXC www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMPS9TXC

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John Dredge @johndredge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s @poetrydayuk.bsky.social and the theme is ‘Wonder’ so here is a new poem on that theme for kids of all ages! #NationalPoetryDay

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James McCrone @jmccrone.bsky.social · 21h

Come meet us this Saturday, October 3rd, at the 24th annual Collingswood Book Festival #philly #books

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Debra Purdy Kong @debrapurdykong.bsky.social · 20h

$.99 Sale! Casey Holland #mystery , A Gold Satin Murder. #humor #novella. Is artist & exotic dancer Eduardo a killer? While the men are peeling off their clothes, Casey’s peeling back layers of secrets. books2read.com/u/md6ZWy. Amazon: a-fwd.com/asin=B0B8LRF...

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