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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 4h

Indie Authors,
I know we're not fond of marketing, but whether you're new to it or looking to extend your efforts; read this blog. @daxaeterna.ink is thorough, and provides many service recommendations along the way.
Read over multiple sessions if needed. Its worth it.

Marketing Your Books During Lulls - What To Do When You Do Not Have an Upcoming or New Release

This post is dedicated to Ladz, author of one of my newest favorites, Cradle of Eternal Night. They asked over on BlueSky about marketi...

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 4h

Check out these hidden gems on Kobo Plus and find your next favourite read!

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#booksky #readersky #readersonbluesky #koboplus #bookfunnel #books #whattoread #bookrecs #newbooks

In the background, an apocalyptic landscape and a samurai is standing in the foreground holding a fiery sword and at a distance on a hill a person with another fiery sword is standing. Caption says Kobo Plus Fantasy and Sci Fi. Covers of The Stars in Your Soul by Niranjan, Vampires in Space by Niranjan and The Elite and the Rogues by Niranjan on the foreground

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 11h

Setting up the eBook ARCs... They will be sent out tomorrow morning. ✌️

Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 16h

It's your last chance to get ARCs for my upcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS! eBook and audio versions are available.

Special thanks to Molly Macabre and @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social for their amazing early reviews.

🔗 www.adamcbassett.com/copper-ash 💙📚🪐

A graphic that features some early praise for COPPER SKIN OAKEN LUNGS from Molly Macabre and J. Patricia Anderson. They praise the book's "strong female leads," and various aspects of the worldbuilding.

A graphic showcasing the early pre-orders of the paperback with sprayed edges currently only available at The Craft Bookstore (other distributors and formats available soon).

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 12h

Chillingly invasive, damnably haunting and wicked as hell. Yeah, I freaking loved THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT by @michaelwehunt.bsky.social. Lots of thoughts on this one at fanfiaddict.com/review-the-o.... Many thanks to @stmartinspress.bsky.social for the @netgalley.bsky.social ARC. #booksky 🩸📚 💙📚

Review: The October Film Haunt | FanFiAddict

Synopsis Horror Movie meets the scope and emotion of Stephen King in this heart-pounding, magnetic tour de force novel, destined to become an instant c ...

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 16h

It's your last chance to get ARCs for my upcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS! eBook and audio versions are available.

Special thanks to Molly Macabre and @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social for their amazing early reviews.

🔗 www.adamcbassett.com/copper-ash 💙📚🪐

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 1d

Just popping in to say that I'm about to go live on BOOKED, chatting about my books and writing at large with host Saffron Asteria. It started in about 45 mins (8:00PM EDT / UTC-4). 💙📚

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BOOKED with Author Adam Bassett | Season Two Episode Six

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ADRIAN M. GIBSON 🍄 SFF Author & Book Designer @adrianmgibson.bsky.social · 2d

Come hang out with me and these bearded beauties on Oct. 10th!!!

DB Rook.bsky.social @dbrook.bsky.social · 2d

10th of the 10th!! The Fungal Maestro, @adrianmgibson.bsky.social will be joining The Four Beardsmen of the Bookpocalypse for panel chats and chats about panels, with @davidtlist.bsky.social @tombookbeard.bsky.social @charliecav.bsky.social
9pm UK 4pm US, 3pm Ecq
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Adrian Gibson Joins the Beardsmen!

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Kris - A Fictional Escapist @afictionalescapist.bsky.social · 2d

🥖 Cover Reveal 🥖

Check out this delightful cover for @hermansteuernagel.bsky.social’s upcoming release, Flour & Forge! This is the third standalone novel in the wonderfully cozy, Greatest in the Multiverse series!

Cover by the team over at Miblart!

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Laura from OWWR podcast @myyypod.bsky.social · 2d

Hannah and I had the pleasure of speaking with @nghivo.bsky.social about the newest book in her Singing Hills Cycle, A Mouthful of Dust! Nghi shared some really powerful insights on the ways stories shape us, how food can bring people together, and facing difficult times. A great interview! #booksky

BONUS EPISODE- "There are a lot of things in the world that want to eat you a little bit. Don't be surprised when they do." an interview WITH NGHI VO

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

You lost me at waffles.

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

Okay so the Internet is just overanalyzing stuff again? Nevermind lol.

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C. J. Daley (BestGhost Out Now!) @cjdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

THE WAIT IS OVER, Tales From Cemetery IS OUT NOW!

This collection is the perfect range of stories for the Halloween season for horror fans both new and old.

Ebook and paperback available now, hardcover to follow.

Reshares welcomed

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

Wait, what?

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

Her arm is so good 👏
(Everything else a great too btw)

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

Just ordered a physical proof of the paperback 👀

Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 3d

Also, this is the last week to sign up for ARCs of COPPER SKIN OAKEN LUNGS, my upcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy novel.

Signups end after Thursday October. 9th! ARCs are available in eBook and Audio format!

So, get your application in now. docs.google.com/forms/d/1iqy...

Cover art for COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS, feat. three siblings + a cat in the dark, illuminated by an odd torch.

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 3d

My novella of trans self-discovery is now up for pre-order! You can get Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina (short name Opus) for preorder now. Release date December 12,2025. Ebook $3. Paperback $8.

Thread time.
Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb

Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina by S. Morgan Burbank

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

A question I don't see enough authors ask: What *type* of map does your book need? 💙📚🪐

In AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN I spend a chapter breaking down different types of maps, from general reference and topographic to time zone and postal code maps.

🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

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Kris - A Fictional Escapist @afictionalescapist.bsky.social · 3d

A little while ago, I asked the community for some indie horror recs. Good heavens, did you deliver!

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Indie Horror for Spooky Season

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Grimoire Ink Reviews @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social · 3d

Of Ancients Unbound by T.C. Edge

"It doesn’t get much more Epic than this series, T.C. Edge is set to give us one more entry in a journey that will no doubt shatter expectations once again!"

Read Jeremy's full review here!
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Of Ancients Unbound by T.C. Edge

Reviewed by Jeremy Schwab ★★★★★ T.C. Edge and his 7th entry in “The Bladeborn Saga” is nothing short of WOW! ‘Of Ancients Unbound’ has everything…I’m not kidding…

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Bill Adams - Willow Wraith Press author/owner @williamjadams3.bsky.social · 3d

Another banger month of reads by the Willow Wraith Press crew! #booksky

Check out all our reviews below!

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 3d

Needed a change of scenery, so I took EVERY DARK CLOUD by @marisca.bsky.social to a park today. Excellent little novella to read on a sunny, cloudless afternoon. 😂

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 3d

Also, this is the last week to sign up for ARCs of COPPER SKIN OAKEN LUNGS, my upcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy novel.

Signups end after Thursday October. 9th! ARCs are available in eBook and Audio format!

So, get your application in now. docs.google.com/forms/d/1iqy...

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 3d

The AGSD Kickstarter is half complete, and 150% funded! 🎉

THANK YOU to the nearly 100 of you who had already supported this project, I am so excited to share it with you.

🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

A graphic showing AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN: WORLDBUILDING AND CARTOGRAPHY and some of the maps inside of it, both of real and dictional places. The book is divided into three parts: Worldbuilding, Life, and Map Design.

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 3d

Congratulations 🎉

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sunyi @handle.invalid · 3d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS

A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.

Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.

But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood.

As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

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