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Passionate writer, tiny little publisher of my own work and selected others', avid reader - in love w/ stories full of imagination & empathy Deutsch/English (open to all genders & skin colors 😁) all books of my portfolio are on https://anderlandbooks.com/

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 33m

#WIPSnips

Ray Ingles @ringles.bsky.social · 6h

#WIPSnips 14: ultimate

Jim finds out his workday isn't going to go smoothly.

#ScienceFiction #SciFi

(I wish BlueSky would fix the bug where some people's posts aren't showing up in hashtag feeds. 😞)

Marilyn and Shaheen barged through the control room door. “Everyone out,” Marilyn called with authority. She glanced at me. “Good, Jim, you’re here. You stay.”
All we did was stare at them. Sure, Marilyn was ultimately in charge of the Time Eye, but you did not scrub a run five minutes from initiation on anyone’s say-so. Each Viewing cost an ungodly amount of computer time in precalculations alone, leaving aside the millions of Euros in prep costs.

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 34m

#TimeTravelAuthors

Julie Bihn (Titanic Voyage free on Hoopla!) @juliebihn.bsky.social · 1d

If any other #TimeTravelAuthors aren't coming up in hashtag searches, feel free to post or repost under this post. (When I use the hashtag, it doesn't come up in searches, which is pretty annoying.)

Day 13 from a characters' POV: What does someone else in the story think of you?

#TimeTravelAuthors
October 2025
Answer as a character!

1. Introduce yourself and the story
3. Your first appearance and/or line of dialogue in the story
5. Why are you important to the story?
7. Something odd/weird you've experienced
9. Favorite person
11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: most)
13. What does someone else in the story think of you?
15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: give/gave)
17. What life advice would you give?
19. Proudest moment
21. If you got to write the story, what would you change?
23. Tell us about your enemies
25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: back)
27. How do you feel about time travel?
29. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: now)
31. Character's choice/promo

All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome!
To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors
On even days, post what you like!
Questions? @juliebihn@bsky.social

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 2h

What a $%%%&.

I'm gonna look up your post extra until this is solved. Will it help to repost?

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 9h

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 14. Villain’s henchmen & followers

Blaize is the son of Lady Hate who indulges him. Thus, all the devils do his bidding. Neighboring chapters as well as associated witches are inclined to help him.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity

Fantasy Indies October prompts by @ChesneyInfalt & @LydiaVRussell

1. Introduce yourself & WIP
2. Do you/your characters like scary things?
3. Free Friday or share something you are proud of
4. Saturday Snippet
5. What are your characters afraid of?
6. Monsters in WIP
7. Villain’s goals
8. Spooky month book recs
9. Favourite paranormal creatures
10. Free Friday or explain your WIP with emojis/gifs
11. Saturday Snippet
12. What do your MC and villain think of each other?
13. Spooky Shelfie
14. Villain’s henchmen and/or followers
15. What would you/your characters wear to a Halloween ball?
16. Tricks and/or treats in WIP
17. Free Friday or share a photo of autumn decorations
18. Saturday Snippet
19. Scary moment in WIP
20. Morally grey character(s)
21. Scary movie/tv show recs
22. Creepy poem or flash fiction
23. Who would your characters dress up as for Halloween?
24. Free Friday or share your Halloween plans
25. Saturday Snippet
26. How would your MC react to a haunted house?
27. Goosebumps or Point Horror?
28. Guilt or regret in WIP
29. MC’s worst nightmare
30. Is your MC brave?
31. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Cover of Spirit Chase:
Black background with multicolored smoke. Lower half filled by a golden gem set in yellow metal. Text above: Bree Nan - Spirit Chase. Text below: The Spirit Chapters

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 9h

I don't think I do - but I can't see your posts anymore, I believe?

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 9h

#OctoberWorldbuilders 14: Strategy for winning

Always, always have a surprise up your sleeve.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

October Worldbuilders prompt list

WEEK 1: DESERTS
1: Name of a desert in your world
2: What’s your desert society like?
3: Desert town architecture
4: Desert animals/plants
5: Myth/legend/religion about
desert
6: How do they survive?
7: Clothes/dance/music from
desert society

WEEK 2: SPORTS AND GAMES
8: Does your MC play a sport?
9: Board games in your book’s world?
10: Competitive game/sport
11: Cooperative game/sport
12: Equipment/pieces
13: History/famous figure involved in a sport/game
14: Strategy for winning

WEEK 3: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES
15: Trade routes
16: Fire/police/hospital services
17: Where does their food come from?
18: Tech: Electricity? Steam power? Mills?
19: Sanitation, sewer system, hygiene
20: Who developed the infrastructure? Government employees? Soldiers? Private business? Are taxes or slaves involved?
21: Housing (Style? Architecture? Amenities available in your world?)

WEEK 4: AESTHETCS/VIBES
22: Share a moodboard or art
23: Aesthetics of a town/city
24: Overall vibe of your story/book/wip
25: Religious/cultural vibes/influences
26: Clothing and accessories
27: What feeling or thoughts do you hope your readers come away with after reading your story?
28: Something special about your world

Extra days:
29: Plans for next month
30: Recent character you’ve created
31: Which of your characters would you like to see someone cosplay? (Or who would you cosplay yourself?)

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 1d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 12

What do villain and MC think of each other?

Lior detests Blaize.

Blaize thinks Lior is a spoiled, pesky little creature.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 1d

#OctoberWorldbuilders 13

Famous person?

Lilith is more infamous than famous, truth be told.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 1d

#TimeTravelAuthors 13
What does someone else in the story think of you, Jules?

Fabi is scared of me. Cai is angry at me and protective at the same time... and a little jealous, too.
But I didn't choose this! I'm doing the best I can!

#TimeCurves
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Reposted by Anderlandbooks

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 2d

#OctoberWorldbuilders 12

Equipment?

Lior has a skewer. Yup. But he can use pure essence to turn it into a deadly whip.

For dancing, he needs nothing. He sheds his shirt and of he goes.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 2d

#TimeTravelAuthors 11 (a day late but I was time traveling yesterday!!)

Ecxerpt: most

Vera is not doing ok with the events.

#TimeCurves

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

“Why is it so dark?” she whimpered.
“Because Cai’s most likely shut the door and keeps watch outside.” Slowly, his eyes were adjusting. Some slivers of light fell through the cracks of the door, letting him see the outline of the girl. Her hair had come undone and tumbled around her face. He could feel her trembling.
“It’s alright, we’re back,” he tried to soothe her. “You’re ok. You’re fine.”
“No, I’m not!” she snapped. “Apparently, I just died and went to the center of time, and watched the annihilation of Nagasaki, and Woodstock, and you…” A sob broke her voice.
He rubbed her back, but she only went stiff.
“I want out,” she sniffled. And then louder, “Do you hear me? I want out!”

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 2d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 11
(a day late due to travel, but I can't miss this).

Lior and Cami learn to get along ... much better.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

“Nothing,” Lior confirmed.
He had difficulties looking at Cami. If something had happened to him, she would have been doomed. Indeed, he had been reckless. He hadn't been this reckless since — well, since the bonding.
“I’m sorry for scaring you,” he said. “I forgot with all that happened… I forgot.”
“It’s okay,” she said, stiffening her spine. “I overreacted. I’m not used to… I’m just not used to it.”
To what? he wanted to ask. To missing someone? To missing me?
Of course, he said nothing out loud. Instead, he cleared his voice.

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 2d

So, I have been on my own personal time travel this weekend. Went this weekend with my old studdy buddies to our alma mater. Visited the places where we used to live, study, and party.

It was fun but also exhausting, and I missed all hashtag games yesterday.

picture of the "Göttinger Gänseliesel" - Metal figure of a young girl below an ornate metal roof over a well with a goose and a basket. in the background the old townhall of Göttingen

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 4d

oh, wow!

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 4d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 10

Free Friday

I don't have gifs that would work, so I'm sharing a little video instead.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 4d

#OctoberWorldbuilders 10

Competitive games?

Some may claim that the way the spirits fight over luring humans into their abodes to feed of their emotions is a competition.

What shall it be today? Awe? Fear? Lust?

#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 5d

#TimeTravelAuthors 9

Favorite person, Jules?

"Ahem." *blushes* "I'd say Angel, but you know, recently this girl entered my life, and now, um, I really do like Vera... like... a lot?"

#TimeCurves

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

Cover of "Time Curves"
Background blue color gradient with some petrol, plus light curves, like a slow motion shot of a starry sky. In front of it, pale, a clock face. At the top the author's name: Anna K. Thomas. Below it the title in italics. Below that, a white silhouette of a girl and a boy, looking at each other, but as if walking. Light streams from their joined hands.
At the bottom the subtitle: "The Travel of Jules and Vera"

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 5d

#OctoberWorldbuilders 9
Board games?
*snort*

I can just picture Maddie & Benni trying to introduce incubus Lior and shade Cami to that.
Cami wouldn't see the point, and Lior would make a mess of it on purpose 😂

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 5d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 9

Favorite paranormal creatures?

You need to ask? It's incubi, of course. I'm a big fan of Lior and his twin Louan.

#SpiritChase
#SpiritChant
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Surprise!

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 6d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 8

Book recommendations?

Weeeeellll... If you are interested in paranormal creatures that call themselves incubi, ghosts, reapers, gods, etc, you might wanna check out:

anderlandbooks.com/re/#spiritch...

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 6d

#OctoberWorldbuilders 8 Does your MC play a sport?

Lior wouldn't consider it sport. He fights to survive, and he dances to entice. He is a very good dancer, mind you.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

#Booksky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 7d

#TimeTravelAuthors Oct 7

Something weird you've experienced?

"To die and wake up at the center of time is by far the weirdest thing that ever happened to me. And then to die again in order to return..."

#TimeCurves

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 7d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 7

Villain's goals?

Blaize wants Lilith. He wants the gemma ardore.
Also, he doesn't want to pay for his crimes.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters