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Bruce Buchanan
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Writer of fiction. New Adult fantasy novel THE BLACKSMITH'S BOY (2025) and THE RETURN OF THE CERULEAN BLUR (2026), both from Wild Ink Publishing.
https://brucebuchananauthor.com/
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Bruce Buchanan @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social · 21d
THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD
Witchy 1980s high school adventure: A goth music-obsessed teen unearths a secret coven’s plot to summon a demon king, Charlotte risks her life to save the people she loves, even as confronts uncomfortable truths about them.
#questpit #Q #YA #F
The Goth Girl Who Saved the World - a music-fueled YA contemporary fantasy set in the 1980s Charlotte Sumner loves 1980s post-punk music - high school, not so much. But while working her after-school job, new classmate Ian Morris alt-rocks her world. Not only is Ian a good witch, but an evil coven operates at their school and plans to summon a demon king! The only thing standing between earth & apocalypse is a teenage girl in black lipstick and Doc Martens. Meet the Characters: Charlotte - The lonely goth girl finds herself in an ancient rivalry between two covens of witches: one good and one evil. Ian - The mysterious new kid in the Depeche Mode t-shirt. Ms. Moore - Charlotte's mentor and after-school boss. Mrs. Allison - Charlotte's mean trigonometry teacher and Charlotte's anxiety fuel. The Grindylow Coven - the evil witches! Charlotte must discover what they are up to. Tropes: Unlikely hero. Coming-of-age. High stakes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Pretty in Pink. Supernatural Young Adult high school adventure with a 1980s post-punk soundtrack.
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My publisher hasn't realized MARYNEAL is still for sale. Let's call it a Black Friday special!
Support small press & indigenous stories!

#horror #blackfriday #gothic #queer
abigailtaylor.bsky.social Abigail F Taylor @abigailtaylor.bsky.social · Oct 9
#Spookyseason reminder MARYNEAL 1962 is just $2.99 on payhip!

💁‍♀️Native Rep
⛽ 60s vibes
🪦 Slasher
🐺 Shifters
🏘️ Small town secrets
👯 Sapphic
⭐4.5

Get it here ⏬⏬⏬
payhip.com/b/mwZbH
Two teenagers from the 60s holding hands at a moonlit window. Their shadows show that the girl is just a girl but the boy is a coyote
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Got a great update on THE RETURN OF THE CERULEAN BLUR. Nicole DeVincentis will edit the book for @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social. Heard wonderful things about Nicole & can’t wait to work with her!
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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abigailtaylor.bsky.social
Being told I'm not allowed to write native stories even though IM BLOOD to the former Lt Gov of the Chickasaw Nation is so messy. Sorry not sorry I'm going to ensure my family history isn't erased by engaging with MY generational trauma through art.

If you want to read a #landback revenge story 🔽🔽🔽
A desert image with the caption all who once belonged to her or not welcome from packs of yellow eyes and by Abigail f Taylor published in new myths online magazine
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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emilystmarie.bsky.social
I’m on a tight deadline to find the right buyer for this collection before December 1st. If any piece speaks to you, reach out, I’d be happy to share more about them.
#art #tarot #paintings
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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ghostlyverse.bsky.social
Yes! Bruce Buchanan, novelist of note, has a copy of "Vampire Verses."
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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ghostlyverse.bsky.social
Reviewers: 🧛 ⚰️ 🖤 "Vampire Verses" is on StoryGraph! 🩸🖤
LindaAnn LoSchiavo (author) with Giulia Massarin (Illustrator) @giuliadrawsstuff.bsky.social
@hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @sffreview.bsky.social @behindthepages.bsky.social
👇
app.thestorygraph.com/books/11a872...
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
Loved the tribute to Bob Caudle on #aewdynamite. Growing up in North Carolina, he was THE voice of professional wrestling.
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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#degreeofseparation an incredible Holiday gift! @watchfulwizardp.bsky.social
watchfulwizardp.bsky.social Watchful Wizard Publishing @watchfulwizardp.bsky.social · 10d
We are proud to announce our newest and @WatchfulWizardP's first Sci-fi book, Degree of Separation by Stephen C. Evan! Follow him at @C00LpenNAME This incredible book comes out November 24th!
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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abigailtaylor.bsky.social
I must shout-out my sapphic historical horror MARYNEAL 1962!

A small town girl must find a cure before the next full moon or she'll have to kill the boy next door!
#QueerWritersChat

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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fballandrea.bsky.social
Hey I'm a great copy editor, a better fact checker and if someone would need an ombudsman, it's the work I was born to do.

Who am I kidding, but hey, hit me up.
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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abigailtaylor.bsky.social
A grizzled force yanks Kitty to the ground. I hear the wind knock out of her followed by a little, wet gasp. I shatter my vocal chords as I throw myself toward the massive thing. With a wild snarl & another empty, long howl, it turns on me.
-MARYNEAL, 1962
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A 60s ad for 7up. A couple dressed in red and yellow are laughing in front of a fun house mirror, holding bottles of soda
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
I've been in a "rejection rut" these last 2 months. Lots of passes in the inbox. Bu this morning, I got a short story acceptance from a "Probably don't have a shot, but I'll send it anyway" lit mag. 🥲 Nice way to start the weekend!
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
Didn’t get any good photos from #aewdynamite last night in Greensboro, but we had a fantastic time! The women, in particular, absolutely killed it!
The Blood and Guts cage from All Elite Wrestling. Photo taken in Greensboro, NC
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ghostlyverse.bsky.social
My book "Vampire Verses" was inspired by Bram Stoker.
Come read my guest post & celebrate Dracula's Daddy.🧛‍♂️

@dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social
@hwany.org @gnofhorror.com @trishcwilson.bsky.social @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @horrorreads.bsky.social @hdwp.com @alpbeck.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
WATCHMEN is near the top of my favorite novels ever list. The fact we get this fantastic art is a bonus!
ianzpotter.bsky.social Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 16d
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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mariahstillbrook.bsky.social
It's the last day for Indieverse voting! I would appreciate your vote❤️.

I am nominated for:
🦋 Author I Want to be Besties With
🦋 Auto Buy Author

THE LOST ERWAIN is nominated for:

🦋 Meet Cute I Adored
🦋 Jaw Dropper
🦋 LGBTQIA+ Rep

www.indieverseawards.com/voting
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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ghostlyverse.bsky.social
🖤 Pleased to say my latest poetry book on DEATH ✒️ 📕 🏆 "Cancer Courts My Mother" [Prolific Pulse Press, 11-7-2025] won 2 awards 🏆
A press release went to 312 news outlets
@hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @alpbeck.com
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Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo Wins Accolades
 Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo has received two literary distinctions: the BREW Seal of Excellence from The Chrysalis BREW Projec...
chennaivoice.net
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Give Diane your vote - her book is great!
dianebillas.bsky.social Diane Billas (she/her) queer YA author @dianebillas.bsky.social · 16d
Today is the last day to vote for the Indieverse Awards! My book SUPERFICIAL is up for:
Book Categories:
-Our Storytelling: LGBTQIA+ Representation
-I Feel Seen
-Chosen One I'm Glad Was Chosen
-What a Debacle
Social Categories:
-Newsletter I Love To Read
More info below!
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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“Unbarbing of Wire”

Shared-world collection in a solarpunk North American West

- city-roving taco trucks
- cussin’ cowboys
- airship farms and the cats that stalk their gardens
- borders? What borders?
- quite a bit of giddyup if I do say so myself

#HopePit #SF #Queryjng #CliFi #Solarpunk
Illustration of a person on a horse, towing a hovering greenhouse cart. The text says “Unbarbing of Wire”
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
bbuchananwomble.bsky.social
THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD
These Witches Don’t Burn X Pudge and Prejudice X The Cure’s Disintegration album
A shy, music-obsessed teen falls for the new guy at school - only to discover he's involved in an ancient feud between rival covens.
#Hopepit #Q #YA #F
Charlotte Sumner listens to Siouxsie & the Banshees while Ian Morris enters the library
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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elizabethtitus.bsky.social
Long after #Collapse, an empath leads an odyssey across the former US, using the power of meditation, wilderness survival skills, and archaic tech to save her people.

Her mission grows to offer humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
#hopepunk #hopepit #clifi #Q #ecofiction
closeup of a pastel drawing by @arachnereid.bsky.social of the lantern in the Hermit tarot card a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
Nomadism…in space! Eco-sci-fi collection of stories about migration, wandering, and general transience through the great unknown. With:
- space witches
- rediscovering purpose through bicycling
- screw these space colonizers
And more!

querying “True Stories of Cycling on Ceres”

#hopepit #scifi
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 18d
Saturday, Nov 8

#Hopepit community connect
share a snippet of your creations

Post a quote, image, or music you created that illustrates a light in the darkness, bringing hope

Tomorrow will be the big event to share / promote WIPs, pitches, and finished/available works!
background: photo of wind-patterned sand and coniferous trees in Columbia River Gorge by @arachnereid.bsky.social words: #Hopepit Sat Nov 8 share a snippet of your creations 🌞 all styles, formats, and media welcome!! (no AI) 🌞 post a quote, zoom in of your art, song, anything you made with a #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, etc theme 🌞 Use #Hopepit hashtag & engage with others to uplift hopepunk & build community
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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thestripedbananas.bsky.social
Hope hides in a lush forest on Nariah IV, a planet colonized by a technocratic regime. Cowboy & Christa flee into the perilous woods seeking meaning & love. Rescued by an Afro-futurist group, they must use creativity & science to survive a harsh winter, or die trying.
#OS #HopePit #Hopepunk #Novella
hopepit.bsky.social #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 17d
#Hopepit pitch/ promote
post up to 3 times Sun, Nov 9 (your time zone)
🌱
Use #Hopepit tag
we highly encourage: #Hopepunk, #CliFi, #IndigenousFuturism, #Solarpunk, and other #-punks, if applicable
🌞
any media, any stage, including:
#P : Published: drop links!
#SC : Seeking Collaboration/ Community
background: pic of yellow & pink roses in Portland by @arachnereid.bsky.social text: #Hopepit Sun Nov 9 pitch/ promote 🌞 all styles, formats, and media welcome!! (no AI) 🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞 Share your writing, music, and/or art telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation 🌞 Use #Hopepit hashtag & engage with others to uplift hopepunk & build community 🌱≤ 3 posts per participant 🌞Please use ALT text on images 🌱NO generative AI 🌞build community & help uplift these genres background: pic of yellow & pink roses in Portland by @arachnereid.bsky.social GENRE #Hopepunk, #CliFi, #IndigenousFuturism, #Solarpunk, and other #-punks encouraged #Hopepit Sun Nov 9 pitch/ promote STAGE #WIP : Work In Progress #Q : Querying #OS: On Submission/ in process of publication #P : Published / Available: drop links! #SC : Seeking Collaboration/ Community AUDIENCE #C : Children #YA: Young Adult #A : Adult
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM