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Bloodlust featuring my spicy paranormal short story, Out of the Shadows is available at all major retailers 🥀 #spicyhorror #horror #BookSky #indiepub books2read.com/BHP-BloodLust

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BloodLust books2read.com/BHP-BloodLust Where desire burns hot and fear runs deep. #HORROR #SUSPENSE #THRILLER #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙#bookblogger #bookblast #bookpromo #bookworm #tbrpile

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THORNS books2read.com/BHP-THORNS Stories of survival & despair, where nature turns predator. Where life is a gamble, & death waits just beyond the horizon. #HORROR #SUPERNATURAL #OCCULT #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙 #bookbloggers #bookblast #bookpromo #tbrpile

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IF THINE EYE OFFEND THEE by Mike Adamson books2read.com/THINE-EYE-ADAMSON Treacherous mind games between a doctor & a telepathic psych patient lead to a harrowing escape & a life-threatening confrontation #THRILLER #HORROR #SUPERNATURAL #readingcommunity #bookbloggers #bookblast #booksky 🌎📚💙

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“BLOODY VOWELS” by BERNARDO VILLELA A Dark Moments drabble. Enjoy! #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #drabble #microfiction #amreading #amwriting #FREEfiction #writerslife #bookblogger #bookblast #Horror https://www.blackharepress.com/bloody-vowels/

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This steamy spicy horror anthology includes my short story Out of the Shadows 🥀 #horror #spicyhorror #shortstory #BookSky

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FILTH by Joseph Meyer books2read.com/Meyer-Filth In Russell’s life cleanliness & routine are necessities. When a spot on his arm appears, his quest for purity escalates into a chilling fixation. 🦠 #HORROR #THRILLER #readingcommunity #bookbloggers #bookblast #bookboost #booksky 🌎📚💙 #tbrpile

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ESCAPE ISLAND by Robyn Fraser books2read.com/Fraser-Escape-Island Trapped on an island Abra & her group must fight for survival against the twisted games designed to break them #HORROR #SUSPENSE #THRILLER #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙#bookblogger #bookblast #bookpromo #bookworm #tbrpile

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“BLEED RED” by DON MONEY A Dark Moments drabble. Enjoy! #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #drabble #microfiction #amreading #amwriting #FREEfiction #writerslife #bookblogger #bookblast #Horror https://www.blackharepress.com/bleed-red/

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BloodLust books2read.com/BHP-BloodLust Where desire burns hot and fear runs deep. #HORROR #SUSPENSE #THRILLER #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙#bookblogger #bookblast #bookpromo #bookworm #tbrpile

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DARK STORMS by J. Harris books2read.com/Dark-Storms-Harris When darkness falls, no one can trust their mind—or their senses—as the line between reality & nightmare blurs beyond recognition. #HORROR #SUSPENSE #THRILLER #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙 #bookbloggers #bookblast #bookpromo #tbrpile

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DARK STORMS by J. Harris books2read.com/Dark-Storms-Harris When darkness falls, no one can trust their mind—or their senses—as the line between reality & nightmare blurs beyond recognition. #HORROR #SUSPENSE #THRILLER #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙 #bookbloggers #bookblast #bookpromo #tbrpile

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Have you heard about the amazing 99c Daily Deal from @jmsbooksllc.bsky.social. ? There’s a different ebook priced at 99c on offer every day! www.jms-books.com/pzen_dailyde...

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This V-Day 40 off is all ebooks, not just mine. Drop @jmsbooksllc.bsky.social recs if you have them! Here are my most and least romantic offerings. jms-books.com/mere-rain-c-...

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Their love was impossible. Their attraction was dangerous in a time when a homosexual act could put a man in prison. Can Rafe and Ivo carve out a life for themselves in 1920s England? Historical gay romance by Fyn Alexander now available from JMS Books! www.amazon.com/dp/B0...

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Death comes, spiraling down from on high like indignant desert birds. But Jimmy Rivers can talk to death. Sometimes, death talks back. Gideon the 9th (aesthetic) X Story of Your Life (theme) X Sandman Slim (structure) ❤️Grief 🍺Recovery 👻Spooky 🕵️‍♂️HOWdunit? 👪Family #2025PIT #F #A #ParanormalNoir

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IT'S ALIVE!! 🌳🌳🌳 Happy book birthday to CHLOROPHILIA! 🎂🎉 Celebrate with us and author Cristina Jurado in our latest interview on writing, sandstorms, and the best-ever recipe for zaatar pizza! 🌱 Interview: www.patreon.com/posts/new-re... 🌱 Order here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/chl...

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I AM OBSESSED THIS IS SO GOOD

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Perfectly encapsulates a cyberpunk aesthetic || @ctphipps.bsky.social reviews BEHIND BLUE EYES: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL by Anna Mocikat || www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-behin...

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ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll? Try "The Golden Tooth: A Solo Show by Orion Cabrera" by William Alexander! (@willalex.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://buff.ly/40WT1fQ

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Four years worth of gorgeous books, all on one shelf 📚 😍 Ghost Orchid Press was established in January 2021 and it’s been a journey! We’re so proud of everything we’ve published since then.

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This week's guest is Lyndsie Manusos! First up is "She Builds Quick Machines." You can read it in Apex's ROBOTIC AMBITIONS anthology or you can listen at LeVar Burton Reads! @lmanusos.bsky.social

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Another book coming from me next year - a scifi novella about how we face death set on a plague-ridden planet. This one's been 20 years in the making, hopefully it was worth the wait. Doubly exciting for me as it means I'm being published again by the brilliant @lunapress.bsky.social

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ARC REVIEWERS!! You absolute heroes 😍 We're looking to grow our ARC team at Big Thinking Publishing. Fill in the form to be added to the list for future releases!! 📚 forms.gle/DrZd7EqG6ECt...

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#Authors #AncientBluesky #RomanHistory I own several copies of Tacitus' Annals because one is never enough. However, none of the paperback versions I own have all the chapter numbers in them, which annoys me so much that I decided to edit and publish my own.... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DTB29GJV/

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It is time for an introduction for all the newcomers ☺️ I am Laura, former #librarian. Now steward of a Read in Color #LittleFreeLibrary . I have a deep love for #GraphicNovel, #Kidlit, #YAlit, #Fantasy and #Romcom. I am known on #Bookstagram and #Booktok as @ablueboxfullofbooks. #books #booksky 💙📚

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I made it into the Best Australian Yarn 2024 Top 10! Not bad when it's out of 6020 entries. Excited and humbled that my writing has come this far. Enjoyed the opportunity to meet more #aussiewriters If you're one, would love to connect with you and grow our #writingcommunity

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Don't forget to submit your story before the deadline (15 February). Full information and rules here: www.raynehall.com/writing-cont...

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Hunted. Transformed. Betrayed. In New London's neon-lit depths, Hiro ruthlessly hunts artificial intelligence—the same machines that murdered his family. But when a vicious cyber-gang attack leaves him transformed into an AI himself, he faces an impossible choice. #ClimateFiction #SciFi #Dystopia

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I write stories about art, history, folklore, and bad medicine. 🔗 linktr.ee/verityholloway

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We are honoured today to show a series of incredible #ekphrastic #prosepoems by Paul Hetherington from his collection, Gallery of Antique Art. "The crypt is a delicacy of design; air remembers blood that lodged here." www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...

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The latest in my recent series of cosmic horror catastrophes and horrifying apocalypse scenarios; the birth of a dark god and the making of its cradle. 'Blood Like Rain' degen3rate.art/2025/01/20/b... #darkart #dark #darkpoetry #cosmichorror #horror #poem #poetry #poems #poets #photography

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My short story “Thorned” is now available! You can find it in the “Thorns” anthology published by @blackharepress.bsky.social. So excited for people to read it and all of the other excellent stories in this anthology! #horror #horrorbook 💙📚👀📢📚😱

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Issue #2: SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN! Send us your best speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, sci-fi, weird, afro-surrealist, afro-futurist fiction! We also want your reviews of African SFF books! Deadline: 16th March, 2025 Read our guidelines for more details: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/submissions/

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Book #6 with @authorangelagrey.bsky.social is coming soon! #booksky #books #murdermystery

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The Colored Lens Winter 2025 issue is available RIGHT NOW! Do you have your copy yet? Pick it up in paperback OR Kindle electronic version right here on Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS8VCW35 #booksky #books #kindleUnlimited #scifi #SFF #fantasy #WritingCommunity

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RUE MORGUE rings in the new year with iconoclast CLIVE BARKER who shares a new GALLERY OF BEASTS that have bled from his brush along with new poetry & words on the recent passing of TONY TODD in RUE MORGUE #222 Jan/Feb 2025 issue. ON STANDS JAN 1! ow.ly/ZANB50UurMF

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“Why the ‘15-minute city’ is not a neighbourhood menace…The “15-minute city” is what used to be known, simply, as “a city”… has been hijacked…Perhaps it just needs a new name. Maybe, just shorten it. How about: “a City”?” (Well said @edwinheathcote.bsky.social) on.ft.com/42LrfFF

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Okay, NOW it's Half-Price Chocolate Day. Which means we're in the final leg of the 3-day Huldra House Valentine's Day sale! Right now, everything at huldrahouse.com/shop and on our itch.io page is 33% off through end of Saturday. So come get your steamy queer comfort reads for the long weekend!

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Feast your eyes on the cover of my dreams by the supremely talented @jennicoutts.bsky.social! Dark Crescent gathers dark reimaginings of Scottish folklore, and it's out on June 3rd via @lunapress.bsky.social! You can also pre-order now! www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page... ✨️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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And in the spirit of making myself official, i now have a newsletter sign up as well! With my debut newsletter going out on the winter solstice and then quarterly after that 😊😶‍🌫️ marie-croke.kit.com/9933797d42

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Welcome to 681. We have two tales, about an artist whose work has universal impact (by @frankoreto.bsky.social), and the caretaker of a very unique hotel who has trouble leaving her work at work (by @kathleenschaefer.bsky.social). talestoterrify.com/episodes/681-frank-oreto-kathleen-schaefer

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Starter packs are the thing to do, so we did one of our authors. A few are still missing as we haven't found everyone on Blue Sky yet. go.bsky.app/6KVRi8p

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LAWLESS is out! 💜⛓️ It features my story, “The Saint in the Stone,” in which a fearless outlaw prays to a forbidden power in a desperate attempt to save her mother. 🪨✨🗡️

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We are live people! Get your preorder in for Soul Food Wars 2!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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If you're looking for queer-normative sci-fi involving some combination of drama, political intrigue, hopeful world building, and nonstop banter, check out Triple Strike! Available here! www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1TDW9LJ Quarterly newsletter: eepurl.com/h8NfEz Discord: discord.com/invite/HtDtV...

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#Booksky Intro: H! Queen of Swords Press is a small queer woman-owned press based in Minneapolis (Catherine Lundoff, publisher, writer & general dogsbody) and we specialize in science fiction, fantasy and horror w/queer MCs. Mostly for grownups. We have a newsletter and stuff! queenofswordspress.com

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Hey I've got a story in this! 😊 It's about a grieving garden witch and called "Wolf Roses."

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