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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 · 4h

oh, wow!

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 6h

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 10

Free Friday

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

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 7h

#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

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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?)

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 · 1d

#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

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#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

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 · 1d

#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
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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 1d

#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

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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!

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Surprise!

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 2d

#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 · 2d

#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

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 3d

#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

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 3d

#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

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 4d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 6

Monsters?

From a human perspective, there are A LOT. Even though they might not always look like monsters.

From Lior's perspective, there's only one.

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh, Rocky... 😂

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 5d

They would have only once [spoiler] would have done what he later says he always wanted to do.

Poor Philippa. Much better this way - for her at least.

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 5d

#TimeTravelAuthors 5

Why are you important to the story, Jules?

"Wtf? Without me, there wouldn't be a story! My siblings would have thought Philippa died or disappeared like our parents. Vera would have never gone to the center of time! Without me..."

We get it. You're one of the MC.

#TimeCurves

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 5d

#OctoberWorldbuilders 5

Desert myth?

Oh, there's plenty around the place of Mesa Roja. Gids thrive on myths, and the resident goddess wants people to admire her.

#SpiritChase

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 5d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 5
What are your characters afraid of?

Cami is dead scared of her people dying - and of her lady going insane.

Lior is terrified that his twin will never forgive him. He can't even entertain the thought.

#SpiritChase

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 6d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 4

Saturday snippet: Cami's first reaction to meeting the twins, Lior and Louan.

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#TheSpiritChapters

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Cami had trouble to control her breathing, and that was startling her. Yes, she knew her task was delicate and there was a reason to be nervous, but the extent of her nervousness amazed her. She was not used to it.
The guards had been a first surprise. She knew she was entering the abode of incubi and succubae and was bound to find creatures of desire. The allure of these two, however, was alarming. She had expected Asmode to be hard on her resolve, but if the guards were already getting to her, how would she be able to deal with their master?
Nothing about this was going to be easy, she just knew it.

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 7d

😂😂😂

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 7d

#OctoberWorldbuilders 2

The desert town architecture is very equal to that of Mesa Verde, but not quite. It's all in ruins, too - mere remnants of a city that found shelter beneath a great overhang.

#SpiritChase
#TheSpiritChapters

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 7d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 3

Free Friday / share

This is the beginning of #SpiritChase - how Lior and Louan got into trouble so deep,it triggered a change that would affect more than the chapter of Incubi and succubae

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The twins were out for mischief.
Knowing them, it could go either way — there could be a lot of fun or a lot of drama for those who were in the vicinity. A year ago, they had been declared old enough to join the clubs, and since then, they had proven they were capable of both, over and over again — twin incubi, ready and eager to take on the world and tackle whatever it had in store.
Asmode, the Lord of Joy, had great hopes for them.

Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 7d

#TimeTravelAuthors 3

My first appearance?

Jules: Uhm. I'm dead. But you know, not really.

Vera: I'm at the riverside, just having found a body who comes alive shortly after. Thank you so much. I really didn't need that!

#TimeCurves

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 7d

#WritersCoffeeClub 3 Oct: How do you transition into writing mode?

By re-reading what I write last, play a simple card game on the computer and think about the next scene.

When the words come, I switch programs and start writing.

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Anderlandbooks @anderlandbooks.bsky.social · 8d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 2

2. Do you/your characters like scary things?

Lior's best friend is a reaper, dealing in fear. Lior doesn't mind - although joy is way more up his alley, as an incubus.

Cami, as a shade, doesn't care.

#SpiritChase

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