Author Discovery
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Spotlighting powerful writers • unforgettable books • Indie authors • small presses • amplifying marginalized voices.
Community-run, volunteer-curated.
Our spotlights are always free and will remain free.
➡️ Submissions via DM please. 🦋
Community-run, volunteer-curated.
Our spotlights are always free and will remain free.
➡️ Submissions via DM please. 🦋
Pinned
I’m going to go quiet for a while.
Giving, promoting, helping, and then being blocked or ignored for it wears you down more than people realize.
Time to step back, protect my energy, and write.
#Booksky
Giving, promoting, helping, and then being blocked or ignored for it wears you down more than people realize.
Time to step back, protect my energy, and write.
#Booksky
January 23, 2026 at 11:55 AM
I’m going to go quiet for a while.
Giving, promoting, helping, and then being blocked or ignored for it wears you down more than people realize.
Time to step back, protect my energy, and write.
#Booksky
Giving, promoting, helping, and then being blocked or ignored for it wears you down more than people realize.
Time to step back, protect my energy, and write.
#Booksky
This one really hurts.
I featured someone only to support their work, and instead of a message or a conversation, I was simply blocked.
I’m only trying to do good here.
Sometimes that lands harder than the block itself.
#Booksky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indieauthors #AuthorDiscovery
I featured someone only to support their work, and instead of a message or a conversation, I was simply blocked.
I’m only trying to do good here.
Sometimes that lands harder than the block itself.
#Booksky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indieauthors #AuthorDiscovery
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
This one really hurts.
I featured someone only to support their work, and instead of a message or a conversation, I was simply blocked.
I’m only trying to do good here.
Sometimes that lands harder than the block itself.
#Booksky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indieauthors #AuthorDiscovery
I featured someone only to support their work, and instead of a message or a conversation, I was simply blocked.
I’m only trying to do good here.
Sometimes that lands harder than the block itself.
#Booksky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indieauthors #AuthorDiscovery
FFS I’m still writing 2025 on everything! 😳
January 22, 2026 at 6:33 PM
FFS I’m still writing 2025 on everything! 😳
Reminder for Featured Author Friday
If you’d like to be considered, please DM your work or recommend an emerging author.
Otherwise, I curate independently
Poetry.
Excerpts.
Short stories.
#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting #Unagented #IndieAuthors #DebutWriters
If you’d like to be considered, please DM your work or recommend an emerging author.
Otherwise, I curate independently
Poetry.
Excerpts.
Short stories.
#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting #Unagented #IndieAuthors #DebutWriters
January 22, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Reminder for Featured Author Friday
If you’d like to be considered, please DM your work or recommend an emerging author.
Otherwise, I curate independently
Poetry.
Excerpts.
Short stories.
#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting #Unagented #IndieAuthors #DebutWriters
If you’d like to be considered, please DM your work or recommend an emerging author.
Otherwise, I curate independently
Poetry.
Excerpts.
Short stories.
#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting #Unagented #IndieAuthors #DebutWriters
This is how I write my poetry, scraps, crossings-out, pages that argue with themselves until a line finally stays.
And you? How does your process look?
#poetry #writinglife #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #firstdrafts #Booksky
And you? How does your process look?
#poetry #writinglife #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #firstdrafts #Booksky
January 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM
This is how I write my poetry, scraps, crossings-out, pages that argue with themselves until a line finally stays.
And you? How does your process look?
#poetry #writinglife #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #firstdrafts #Booksky
And you? How does your process look?
#poetry #writinglife #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #firstdrafts #Booksky
1/3
Feature Thursday
@upfromsumdirt
A poet whose work moves by sound and association,
where language does not explain itself so much as unfold.
This is poetry that trusts the reader.
#Booksky #Poetry #BlackPoets #PoetryCommunity
Feature Thursday
@upfromsumdirt
A poet whose work moves by sound and association,
where language does not explain itself so much as unfold.
This is poetry that trusts the reader.
#Booksky #Poetry #BlackPoets #PoetryCommunity
January 22, 2026 at 3:46 PM
1/3
Feature Thursday
@upfromsumdirt
A poet whose work moves by sound and association,
where language does not explain itself so much as unfold.
This is poetry that trusts the reader.
#Booksky #Poetry #BlackPoets #PoetryCommunity
Feature Thursday
@upfromsumdirt
A poet whose work moves by sound and association,
where language does not explain itself so much as unfold.
This is poetry that trusts the reader.
#Booksky #Poetry #BlackPoets #PoetryCommunity
Before we learn to read words,
we learn to read beauty.
A child holding Miles Davis,
already listening for a life.
I 💙 this photo! Many could learn so much from this child’s perspective. #MilesDavis #Jazz #Bebop
we learn to read beauty.
A child holding Miles Davis,
already listening for a life.
I 💙 this photo! Many could learn so much from this child’s perspective. #MilesDavis #Jazz #Bebop
January 22, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Before we learn to read words,
we learn to read beauty.
A child holding Miles Davis,
already listening for a life.
I 💙 this photo! Many could learn so much from this child’s perspective. #MilesDavis #Jazz #Bebop
we learn to read beauty.
A child holding Miles Davis,
already listening for a life.
I 💙 this photo! Many could learn so much from this child’s perspective. #MilesDavis #Jazz #Bebop
@jay.bsky.team a little blue birdie told me “reskeet” has been banished to the gates of Musk’s wet dream. Please confirm. As one of the OGs, I quite like the term. 💙🦋
January 22, 2026 at 9:47 AM
@jay.bsky.team a little blue birdie told me “reskeet” has been banished to the gates of Musk’s wet dream. Please confirm. As one of the OGs, I quite like the term. 💙🦋
This reads like a sound-driven piece, more about rhythm and motion than explanation. Interesting textures here.
P.S. I grew up on Supertramp. Visions of cafeteria food and sticky fingers behind the bleachers.
P.S. I grew up on Supertramp. Visions of cafeteria food and sticky fingers behind the bleachers.
Go
On demand
Dandy holes
Filled with words
And power
Fire spreads
Warmth springs
From the juices
Dinosore
2 bare
#poetry #words
youtu.be/0dJ30dREjaE?...
On demand
Dandy holes
Filled with words
And power
Fire spreads
Warmth springs
From the juices
Dinosore
2 bare
#poetry #words
youtu.be/0dJ30dREjaE?...
Give A Little Bit
YouTube video by Supertramp - Topic
youtu.be
January 22, 2026 at 9:42 AM
This reads like a sound-driven piece, more about rhythm and motion than explanation. Interesting textures here.
P.S. I grew up on Supertramp. Visions of cafeteria food and sticky fingers behind the bleachers.
P.S. I grew up on Supertramp. Visions of cafeteria food and sticky fingers behind the bleachers.
January 22, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Today at Author Discovery
Poetry Micro Flash Thursday
Short work.
Small forms.
Lines that carry more than their length.
Sharing poems and flash pieces that prove brevity can still leave a mark. DM me or I curate. 💙🦋
#PoetryCommunity #FlashFiction #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky #AmWriting
Poetry Micro Flash Thursday
Short work.
Small forms.
Lines that carry more than their length.
Sharing poems and flash pieces that prove brevity can still leave a mark. DM me or I curate. 💙🦋
#PoetryCommunity #FlashFiction #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky #AmWriting
January 22, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Today at Author Discovery
Poetry Micro Flash Thursday
Short work.
Small forms.
Lines that carry more than their length.
Sharing poems and flash pieces that prove brevity can still leave a mark. DM me or I curate. 💙🦋
#PoetryCommunity #FlashFiction #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky #AmWriting
Poetry Micro Flash Thursday
Short work.
Small forms.
Lines that carry more than their length.
Sharing poems and flash pieces that prove brevity can still leave a mark. DM me or I curate. 💙🦋
#PoetryCommunity #FlashFiction #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky #AmWriting
Many have told me I’m only here to charge for services.
That’s fucking bullshit.
I’m not.
They’re running scared — and they know it.
#Booksky #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors #AuthorLife #AmWriting
That’s fucking bullshit.
I’m not.
They’re running scared — and they know it.
#Booksky #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors #AuthorLife #AmWriting
January 21, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Many have told me I’m only here to charge for services.
That’s fucking bullshit.
I’m not.
They’re running scared — and they know it.
#Booksky #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors #AuthorLife #AmWriting
That’s fucking bullshit.
I’m not.
They’re running scared — and they know it.
#Booksky #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors #AuthorLife #AmWriting
My services are free.
If you don’t believe in that,
if you have a problem with that,
or if you’re afraid this platform will surpass your pay-for-play—
then run.
Don’t look back.
Fucking scabs.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #FreeArt #NoPayToPlay #SupportWriters
If you don’t believe in that,
if you have a problem with that,
or if you’re afraid this platform will surpass your pay-for-play—
then run.
Don’t look back.
Fucking scabs.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #FreeArt #NoPayToPlay #SupportWriters
January 21, 2026 at 10:38 PM
My services are free.
If you don’t believe in that,
if you have a problem with that,
or if you’re afraid this platform will surpass your pay-for-play—
then run.
Don’t look back.
Fucking scabs.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #FreeArt #NoPayToPlay #SupportWriters
If you don’t believe in that,
if you have a problem with that,
or if you’re afraid this platform will surpass your pay-for-play—
then run.
Don’t look back.
Fucking scabs.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #FreeArt #NoPayToPlay #SupportWriters
I’m not collecting followers.
I’m writing for people who actually read.
If that’s not you, fuck off and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #NoAudienceNoProblem
I’m writing for people who actually read.
If that’s not you, fuck off and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #NoAudienceNoProblem
January 21, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I’m not collecting followers.
I’m writing for people who actually read.
If that’s not you, fuck off and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #NoAudienceNoProblem
I’m writing for people who actually read.
If that’s not you, fuck off and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #NoAudienceNoProblem
3,500 followers.
Five likes.
If you don’t care what I post, stop pretending and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #SupportWriters
Five likes.
If you don’t care what I post, stop pretending and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #SupportWriters
January 21, 2026 at 10:34 PM
3,500 followers.
Five likes.
If you don’t care what I post, stop pretending and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #SupportWriters
Five likes.
If you don’t care what I post, stop pretending and unfollow.
#WritingCommunity #Booksky #IndieAuthor #AuthorLife #RealWriting #SupportWriters
Yes.
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Yes.
Anybody building in the queer book-o-sphere, this is a great follow. If you’re looking for community, readers, and fellow authors here on BookSky, J.M. Weaver is one to connect with. Wishing you a smooth path to publication. 🌈📚 #Booksky
January 21, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Anybody building in the queer book-o-sphere, this is a great follow. If you’re looking for community, readers, and fellow authors here on BookSky, J.M. Weaver is one to connect with. Wishing you a smooth path to publication. 🌈📚 #Booksky
In 1969, at the height of America’s racial tension, Maya Angelou published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a Black woman insisting her story mattered when many said it didn’t.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
#BlackAuthors #BlackLiterature
#Booksky
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
#BlackAuthors #BlackLiterature
#Booksky
January 21, 2026 at 7:40 PM
In 1969, at the height of America’s racial tension, Maya Angelou published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a Black woman insisting her story mattered when many said it didn’t.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
#BlackAuthors #BlackLiterature
#Booksky
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
#BlackAuthors #BlackLiterature
#Booksky
This is a draft of my poem Mirror Lies.
Unfinished.
Crossed out.
Still arguing with itself.
This is what the work looks like before it pretends to be clean.
#AmWriting #PoetryDraft #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky
Unfinished.
Crossed out.
Still arguing with itself.
This is what the work looks like before it pretends to be clean.
#AmWriting #PoetryDraft #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky
January 21, 2026 at 3:17 PM
This is a draft of my poem Mirror Lies.
Unfinished.
Crossed out.
Still arguing with itself.
This is what the work looks like before it pretends to be clean.
#AmWriting #PoetryDraft #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky
Unfinished.
Crossed out.
Still arguing with itself.
This is what the work looks like before it pretends to be clean.
#AmWriting #PoetryDraft #AuthorDiscovery #Booksky
Tomorrow at Author Discovery
Featured Author Friday begins.
One writer.
One body of work.
One voice worth knowing.
Submissions via DM or I curate.
Expect a curated spotlight on an emerging author you should be reading now.
#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting
Featured Author Friday begins.
One writer.
One body of work.
One voice worth knowing.
Submissions via DM or I curate.
Expect a curated spotlight on an emerging author you should be reading now.
#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting
January 21, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Tomorrow at Author Discovery
Featured Author Friday begins.
One writer.
One body of work.
One voice worth knowing.
Submissions via DM or I curate.
Expect a curated spotlight on an emerging author you should be reading now.
#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting
Featured Author Friday begins.
One writer.
One body of work.
One voice worth knowing.
Submissions via DM or I curate.
Expect a curated spotlight on an emerging author you should be reading now.
#FeaturedAuthor #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky #AmWriting
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This week’s Voice and Craft Wednesday Winner is Freya Anduin.
Her piece stood out for its calm authority, its gentle confidence, and the way it trusts the reader. A voice that doesn’t perform — it guides.
Congratulations, Freya.
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
This week’s Voice and Craft Wednesday Winner is Freya Anduin.
Her piece stood out for its calm authority, its gentle confidence, and the way it trusts the reader. A voice that doesn’t perform — it guides.
Congratulations, Freya.
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
January 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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This week’s Voice and Craft Wednesday Winner is Freya Anduin.
Her piece stood out for its calm authority, its gentle confidence, and the way it trusts the reader. A voice that doesn’t perform — it guides.
Congratulations, Freya.
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
This week’s Voice and Craft Wednesday Winner is Freya Anduin.
Her piece stood out for its calm authority, its gentle confidence, and the way it trusts the reader. A voice that doesn’t perform — it guides.
Congratulations, Freya.
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Stay tuned.
Something special is coming to Author Discovery later today.
A new feature focused on voice, craft, and the choices writers make on the page.
Posting soon.
#AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky
Something special is coming to Author Discovery later today.
A new feature focused on voice, craft, and the choices writers make on the page.
Posting soon.
#AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky
January 21, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Stay tuned.
Something special is coming to Author Discovery later today.
A new feature focused on voice, craft, and the choices writers make on the page.
Posting soon.
#AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky
Something special is coming to Author Discovery later today.
A new feature focused on voice, craft, and the choices writers make on the page.
Posting soon.
#AuthorDiscovery #WritingCommunity #Booksky
I was offered a significant amount for my handle and refused it. I don’t need money. I need a clean ecosystem.
#booksky
#booksky
Let me guess. Once you submit, your poem is accepted and you're presented with an opportunity to pay a significant amount for a copy of the book that will only ever be purchased by the people inside it?
January 21, 2026 at 10:16 AM
I was offered a significant amount for my handle and refused it. I don’t need money. I need a clean ecosystem.
#booksky
#booksky