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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 16d

I do love that the left did more damage and had more impact on Disney in less than a week than the anti-woke grifters of youtube had in a decade.

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"We have been observing your Earth."

Those were the words that came from the stars when Humanity stood on the brink. War had devastated the Earth but The Jada offered the surviving humans a new world. A chance at redemption and to give something to the Galaxy.

#SFF #Amwriting #writingcommunity

In the Service of Gods & Admirals.

A Novel By James Keller.

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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 23d

Congrats, Comrade

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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 23d

Check out this Thread👇

Support Trans Authors.

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 23d

Cancel Your Disney+/Hulu subscription. Donate to the ACLU. Go to a protest. However big or small.

Just take care of yourself, your friends and loved ones. Manage your mental health and help with theirs.

Fascism is ultimately Self-Defeating. But it will get much worse before it gets better.

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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 23d

Cancel Your Disney+/Hulu subscription. Donate to the ACLU. Go to a protest. However big or small.

Just take care of yourself, your friends and loved ones. Manage your mental health and help with theirs.

Fascism is ultimately Self-Defeating. But it will get much worse before it gets better.

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Nov 25

Looking for a supernatural queer read?

🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality

Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Available here:

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SFF Reviews @sffreview.bsky.social · 23d

You've got this! 🌟 Embrace the journey—every author faces doubts. Remember, "The only way to write is to write." Keep pushing through! 💪✨ #AmEditing #WritingCommunity #SFF

✨Charlotte Saulter✨Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars out 14th October! @writerlythings.bsky.social · 23d

Imposter syndrome is hitting so HARD!!!!! today and actually probably for the first time. But the proofreading must go on, and luckily Chapter 19 has a "difference" to offer.
#amediting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky #writingprompts #fantasywriters #WIPSnips #PRDS4G #fantasy #sff #debutauthor

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Longwei approached his companions. “If you two have
settled your differences, can we !nally eat? Can’t !ght evil
Empresses on an empty stomach,” he joked.
Hu Jindai, his mouth open as if about to say something,
stared at him for a moment, then laughed. “Should you not be
sated already? I believe it was you who kept tasting the rabbit
stew after every stir.

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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · 23d

"We have been observing your Earth."

Those were the words that came from the stars when Humanity stood on the brink. War had devastated the Earth but The Jada offered the surviving humans a new world. A chance at redemption and to give something to the Galaxy.

#SFF #Amwriting #writingcommunity

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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · Jul 17

Still have 2 credits left on Audible.

Any indie SFF novels on there I should check. Could be your book or a book your a fan of.

#reading #writingcommunity #SFF #indieauthors

James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · Jul 15

I have credits on audible. Any one in the #writingcommunity have a book on there i should check out.

Looking for scifi, fantasy, or SFF.

#reading #indieauthors

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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · Jul 17

Got it. Look forward to listening to it.

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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · Jul 15

I have credits on audible. Any one in the #writingcommunity have a book on there i should check out.

Looking for scifi, fantasy, or SFF.

#reading #indieauthors

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James Keller @thekellerverse.bsky.social · Jul 15

I have credits on audible. Any one in the #writingcommunity have a book on there i should check out.

Looking for scifi, fantasy, or SFF.

#reading #indieauthors

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Bry @rhymeswithfry.bsky.social · Jul 13

THE CIVIL WAR OF AMOS ABERNATHY X THE BOOK OF BOY

🏳️‍⚧️ Transmasc protagonist
🐎 Journey of self-discovery
⚔️ Historical adventure
🏰 Medieval quest
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Found family
📚 Based on true events

📖 #bluepit #writesky #writingcommunity #writers #amquerying #Q #MG #TR #HS #LGBT #OV

Bry @rhymeswithfry.bsky.social · Jul 13

An AFAB teenager living in 12th-century Germany is abandoned in the Holy Land while “disguised” as a boy named Joseph. He embraces his male identity in order to survive, and finally feels confident in his own skin.

📖 #BluePit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #MG #HS #Q #TR #OV

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Matis Kogan is querying CHOSEN 21✨ @matiskogan.bsky.social · Jul 13

Are you ready to dive into your next YA sci-fi obsession?🫵🏽 Meet CHOSEN 21 🛸⚔️🌒 #Bluepit #YA #SF #amquerying

An agent’s guide to : CHOSEN 21 - A fast-paced YA sci-fi

The pitch - Peter Miles’s ordinary adolescent life shatters when he’s brutally thrust into ruthless trials, designed to select the best 21 teens for a humanity-saving mission to planet Nor. Trapped with no way out, Peter must push past his own limits and face an impossible choice: Fight to become part of the chosen ones - and leave his old life behind forever. Fail on purpose - and face a terrifying fate.

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Literate Lawyer @therealsec.bsky.social · Jul 13

SHEET MUSIC: A burned-out investment banker trades high finance for rock & roll and accidentally falls in love with a guitar-shredding singer 10 years her junior.
Effervescent 80s version of Deep Cuts with a TJR heroine and the heart and humor of Jojo Moyes.
#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #UP #HS #WF #R

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Theo @theozukowski.bsky.social · Jul 13

ELYSIUM — #bluepit📖
ice planet barbarians x omegaverse x mass effect

✨ alien x human
🌱 crash landing
💫 mysterious ruins
🌿 omegaverse inspired biology
🌙 1st in a series?

#bluepit #a #sf #r #w #lgbt #dis #nd #tr

A grid of 9 images. From top left, clockwise:
1. a crashed plane in the forest
2. a reaching hand with a vine twisted around it
3. a rocket in the night sky
4. a person standing in front of an opening metal vault door
5. an open hand with smoke above it
6. jungle leaves
7. a grid of lights
8. the crown of trees under a night sky
9. a person wearing an astronaut suit, sitting in the grass

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Emily Ree @ NYCC (Sunday!) @reemily.bsky.social · Jul 13

GRAVITY FALLS x DERRY GIRLS

Fever Dreamers: an episodic urban fantasy graphic novel series about coming of age in a city haunted by ghosts, literally and figuratively.

#bluepit💥 #bluepit #YA #NA #F #PN #W #WF

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anker @thecojsz.bsky.social · Jul 13

A story about the mortifying ordeal of being known (by someone you hate).

In 1848 Hungary, a young servant learns that navigating a revolution kinda dwarfs next to navigating other people and his own identity.

#BluePit 💥 #GN #A #HS #OV #TR #W #Q

An illustration with two men, though none of their faces are visible. One of them is lying on his back, dying, pulled onto the other man's lap, desperately clutching at the dying man's torso. In the upper right corner the text reads Youth of March

A page full of digital pencil sketches of two characters.

three sketches of the main character, in the first he's wearing a skirt carrying a basket, followed by him trying on men's clothes and standing proudly in the bottom sketch

one panel from the comic wip of two young women (questionable) looking towards us, the first one saying "Look, Ágota, there he is"

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Raven Youngblood - Author @ravenized.bsky.social · Jul 13

#bluepit #a #hs #q #bluepit📖
GRAVEWATER

84,000-word historical suspense novel with a gothic undercurrent.

GRAVEWATER is Erin Brockovich by lamplight: the atmospheric tension of Rebecca meets the character-driven mystery and dual timelines of The Secrets of Rose Briar Hall.

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Sharon Peerless @sharonpeerless.bsky.social · Jul 13

SOME KIND OF BEAUTIFUL: While her mom is in the hospital, a perfection-seeking ballet student attends a free- flowing summer workshop for dancers with and without disabilities where she develops the grace, strength, and improvisation skills to face her uncertain future.

#Bluepit #MG #Q #Amquerying

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Lara Willard @larathelark.bsky.social · Jul 13

1940, San Diego Zoo. When Trudy, the new tapir, breaks loose, the only female zoo director in the world must not only save Trudy from angry suburbanites, but she must also figure out how to tempt the tapir to stay put. TAPIR ESCAPE! is a #nf #pb based on a true story #bluepit #bluepit📖

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Tara Lewis ✨ Querying ✨ @taralewiswrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

Sharp Objects meets The Silent Patient

A ritual killer. A fractured detective.
A journalist digging too close to the truth.

Some monsters aren’t born.
They’re remembered.
WHERE THE HOLLOW BREAKS
#bluepit #A #T #Q

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky

$WHERE THE HOLLOW BREAKS Adult Psychological Thriller • 74,000 words Detective Dominic Calhoun is no stranger to darkness—but nothing prepares him for the ritualistic murders terrorizing Gravemont County. The victims are posed, mutilated, and marked with eerie symbolism. The deeper Dominic digs, the more unsettling the case becomes. And when he begins losing time—waking up disoriented, with memories that don’t match—he’s forced to question what’s real, and what he’s forgotten. As his grip on the case—and himself—begins to slip, Dominic teams up with a journalist chasing leads of her own. What they uncover points to buried corruption, a pattern of overlooked victims, and a past neither of them is ready to face. WHERE THE HOLLOW BREAKS is a haunting psychological thriller about fractured identity, buried trauma, and the weight of truth. Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient and Sharp Objects, it asks: What if the killer you’re chasing… is already inside the house?$

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😼🎃 Erin Hiss-ka 🙀👻 @erinsiska.bsky.social · Jul 13

When Coco challenges Fluff to an Easter Games contest to see who will be crowned Candy Queen, the two get so carried away they don’t notice the danger lurking outside their Easter basket - until it’s too late!
#BluePit 📖💥 #PB #Q #HA

Mock picture book cover, drawn by me, shows a grumpy chocolate Easter bunny and an anxious young marshmallow chicken. The title of the book is Chocolate Versus Marshmallow.

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