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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d
🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
🌲 enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship

🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Ebook cover for ‘A Light for the Dead to Follow’ by Rebecca Crunden. Cover image is of a skull surrounded b y red-pink flowers. There are vines at the top beside the title. The title font is black and maroon, the name font is white.
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one of my wips finally hit 90K words just now heck yeah
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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"Do you take constructive criticism?"

I only accept three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky.
laikalgagarin.bsky.social Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 5h
"Do you take constructive critism"

I only take cash or credit.
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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BBNYA 2025 Semi-Finalist Spotlight: Card Snake by John Morey
Hello, reader! Today on the blog, I’m helping the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) spotlight all the books that made it to the semi-finals! There were so many incredible books e…
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December 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Monday’s First Sentence ~ Merrily Mine by Jennifer Chipman
The world outside my window was a perfect blanket of white, coating the Montana landscape.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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"Kairo"
(Part 1/2 of a double comission)

[#comission]
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Continuing yesterdays #artAdventCalendar plant theme with this happy little guy 🌱

Another one of my favourites from this year 💛

#cuteart #art #artyear #illustration #dragon #plantsky
A digital drawing of a green plant themed dragon sittinv in a hanging flower pot. The dragon is green with purple highlights and is folded into the pot with the end of its tail dangling out. Its upper body is sitting upright in the pot with its folded small arms resting on its tail. Strings of bead-like leafs with white spots are hanging from the tail, both sides of its head and two branches which take the place of its wings. It is looking into the distance happily with two small wisps of purple smoke rising from its nose.
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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🕯️🥀🍂 SHORT STORY 🍂🥀🕯️

One night, Jace finds a runaway in his barn. A boy with a horrifying story.

❌ no romance
🕸️ gothic-horror
📔 26 pages

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/b4aB7L
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/someone-else...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
kindle cover for someone else's horror story by rebecca crunden; shows an old wooden room with candelabras and rising fog
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Demelza, a world-weary witch, and Uliana, an even more exhausted vampyre, work together to send wayward demons, ghosts and otherworldly creatures back to where they came from. But some jobs are more difficult than others.

🔖 story: mybook.to/RXIIkD
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/on-demon-wra...
cover for On Demon Wrangling and Interpersonal Relationships Between Weary Immortals by Rebecca Crunden; purple background with a cat and flowers.
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🎭 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🐛 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈 a rescue cat

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...
kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below
December 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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WRITING TIP: If you feel the inescapable itch to write, but nothing done when you sit in front of your WIP, try journaling. Any topic you want, no one ever has to see it. Just you, your pen, and the page.
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Full disclosure: I've decided to pass on enrolling my books in the Smashwords End of Year Sale in 2025. The event has historically not been great for me, and I want to put my energy toward a more active and fruitful 2026.

Don't let that stop you from buying my books, though!
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Resharing for the later crowd!
#booksky💙📚🪐
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Here’s why you shouldn’t pull your punches as a writer:

A big part of the appeal of a book is how dedicated the author is to their idea.

That crackling energy only comes from compulsion, the true driver of creativity.

Restrain it at your own peril.
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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FYI... This #amazing #fantasy sale is still active for another week. #BookSky #ReadingCommunity 💙📚📦🧙
sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 7d
Looking for an end-of-year deal? You can buy your #fantasy in bulk. Get the my book Rescue from the Orc Fortress along with 63 other titles for $45 USD in the End-of-Year Indie Fantasy Mega Bundle.

itch.io/b/3409/end-o...

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End of the year indie fantasy bundle!!!
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Two short stories.

Both free.

Grab 'em whilst you can.

"The plot was tight and immersive, and it absolutely stuck the ending."

#ebook #scifi #urbanfantasy #booksky #sale #smashwords #writingcommunity
barryryerson.bsky.social Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social · 19h
Smashwords sale is now on! Get both of these short stories FREE!

Hacker: One man uses an illegal AI construct for revenge

www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

Secret Agent: a guns-and-magic story in a post-apocolyptic world.

www.smashwords.com/books/1621486

#scifi #dystopian #ebook #sale #booksky
Book cover for Origins: The Hacker by Barry Ryerson. A white man sits at a computer desk, programming using a glitchy holographic display. A bloodstain is on the left wall, whilst a window on the right shows a hot and arid landscape. Book cover for Origins: The Secret Agent by Barry Ryerson. A white man in a business suit walks away from the camera down a Russian street. The sky is bright orange from a distant explosion.
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I finished checking the paperback for errors. Yes, there were some, but not enough to make me embarrassed.

I'll fix them tomorrow.

For now, I'll leave you with the last line of my author bio:
Photo of a sentence in a book. It reads: Unlike every other author in the history of all authors ever (citation needed), Nils Odlund does not have a cat.
December 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨

🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
🏰 second pov

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-knight-s...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges
December 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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yesssssssssssssssss
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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why you gotta call me out like this yo
adwills.bsky.social A.D. Wills @adwills.bsky.social · 9h
What I say: I've outlined a new book to write!

What I mean: I've imagined a couple of really cool cinematic scenes, and now I need to figure out how to turn it into an actual story.
December 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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What I say: I've outlined a new book to write!

What I mean: I've imagined a couple of really cool cinematic scenes, and now I need to figure out how to turn it into an actual story.
December 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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As if having standards, ethics and morals and caring about the planet is somehow a problem 🤣😏
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Typo of the day:

That would be ‘comb’, Rebecca, not ‘tomb’ 🤣🤣🤣
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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7 Days in Hell and 7 Weeks in Hell are both 75% off the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale! Find your next favorite book this month at smashwords.com/sale #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks
A paperback copy of 7 Days in Hell rests next to a print copy of 7 Weeks in Hell upon a blue blanket covered in stars.
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Thank you to everyone who helped me reach 400 followers here on bsky <3 I'm so excited that my books are out of KU now so I can do a giveaway!

Follow me & RP for a chance to win my Sanguis et Fauna gay paranormal romance series!!

Deets in thread🧵
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM