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✨Author Joy Shaw✨
@joyshaw.bsky.social
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Mom • Teacher • YA/NA Writer of Myth-Tech fantasies ✨
CPTSD survivor.
Scarred heroines—fierce, like their readers.
Scars aren’t endings; they’re the sparks that start the blaze.
Here to share the journey.
➡️ www.joy-shaw.com
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✨Author Joy Shaw✨ @joyshaw.bsky.social · 11d
✨ Rebuilt my author website! ✨
It’s myth-tech, moody, and full of fierce vibes—just like my stories.
Come explore the new world I’m building. 🌌🔥

➡️ www.joy-shaw.com

#WritingCommunity
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Writing advice often consists of principles like: keep up the forward momentum, make your point efficiently, get in and get out of a scene.

Yes, and...don't forget your characters experience happiness, too, which helps with story richness and believability. Insight from @lesleykrueger.bsky.social.
Please Allow Your Characters Moments of Happiness | Jane Friedman
When a story barrels from one conflict to the next, hitting pause for a well-placed glimmer of light can benefit both characters and readers.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
joyshaw.bsky.social
Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes it whispers, “Try again.” ✨
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December 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Superman punching out Thor while referencing Rob Reiner’s directorial debut,, “This Is Spinal Tap”, with art by the late George Perez and writing by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social.

Comics don’t get more perfect than this.

#RIPRobReiner
Superman punching Thor while referencing “This Is Spinal Tap” (Rob Reiner’s movie directorial debut) in JLA/AVENGERS #2 by Kurt Busiek and George Perez.
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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An agent’s guide to THE SLOW BURN 🚒🎄

She’s an event planner with her promotion on the line. He’s a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. Together, they have to pull off the fire department’s holiday gala 👀

#questpit #r #q #amquerying
An agents guide to THE SLOW BURN an 82,000 word romcom by Rebeccah Sheridan The Pitch She’s an event planner with a promotion on the line. He’s a firefighter, and her dad is his chief. Together, they’re planning the fire department’s holiday gala. When the spark between them fans into a no-strings flung, they’ll find out how complicated “casual” can be. Comps Just My Type by Falon Ballard: Workplace politics, toxic boss Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan: From fling to feelings, “no one gets hurt” Lovelight Farms by BK Borison: small-town, holiday romance, found family Tropes Small-town Slow burn Holiday romance “Keep it casual and no one gets hurt” Found family MMC in uniform (firefighter)
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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A quiet milestone I almost didn’t share: my earlier work on Booksie has passed nearly 200,000 reads.

Grateful for every reader who found those early stories while I was still learning, healing, and becoming the writer I am now. 🤍

Onward. ✨

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Portfolio Page of Joy Shaw on Booksie
Read 45 pieces of work from Joy Shaw's writing portfolio on Booksie.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Practicing French midterms with my child today and the playback flashcards said “je suis en colère.”

My kid: “Yes, exactly.”

💀
December 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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✨ SPAMBITCHES BE DAMNED ✨

Every Saturday I open social media, sip my coffee, and immediately block three “fellow authors” with zero posts, zero followers, and haunted Roomba energy.

No, Mark74Publisher. You cannot DM me.

Writers of Bluesky: I see you. We block together. 🧹🔥

#WritingCommunity
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December 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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There’s a door in me you almost opened. I’m still standing on the threshold.

Read the expanded version →
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Words & photos:
Christian Paul Kusch © 2025
#poetry #photography #substack
December 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The Clearing is available now!

Imagine dying in a mass shooting, then waking up on the other side right next to the person that put you there...

Get it today in paperback or on Kindle!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HPTMM...

#newrelease
#bookrelease
#horror
#bookcommunity
#writingcommunity
#read
#reading
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
joyshaw.bsky.social
Feeling grateful for forming a plan. The unknown is scary—but plans empower when your light feels unsteady. ✨

#WritingCommunity
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December 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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First attempt at Finnish S-cookies (Ässät).

Cinnamon, cardamom, sugar, and a quiet evening.

Even #writers deserve a break.
🇫🇮🍪
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Today I’m choosing progress over perfection.
Even a tiny step counts.
Writers deserve to cheer the small wins. ✨

#writingcommunity
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December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Today, I’m honoring a little soul who touched my life twelve years ago.
This poem is for her. 🕯️

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Song of my heart, poem by Joy Shaw
For the one I never got to hold long enough.Happy would-be 12th birthday,Song of My Heart I held the shape of you in my palms— pieces slipping through my fingers, a blessing waning, crumpling, ...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Winter always reminds me that rest is a kind of courage.
Today’s goal: warm drink, soft light, and giving myself permission to slow down. ❄️✨
#writingcommunity
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A Guide to
🌿UNDERNEATH THE FOREST FORSAKEN🌿

Ft.
🌿#Ownvoices ND Rep
🌿A Sentient Maze
🌿Childhood Friends to Doomed Lovers
🌿Gothic, Botanical Atmosphere
🌿Individual, Consequential Magic
🌿Bloodthirsty roses

#editors, reach out to my agent Rachel Estep (at D4EO Agency) for more info!
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
joyshaw.bsky.social
My brain: “Let’s write today.”
Also my brain: opens document… immediately reorganizes 47 folders instead.
Creativity is wild. 😅✨
#writingcommunity
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December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Introducing AND THE DARK WILL KNOW MY NAME

a novel I'm currently #amquerying #querying

🖤Adult contemporary #horror 💙📚

🖤**68,000** words of neopagan witchcraft, murder, mental illness, and some romance

#writing community reposts appreciated
skull with the words and the dark willk now my name. adult horror cj subko 68000 words fake texts over a picture of a witch doing a ritual. they read: witchcraft gone wrong. found friends and family. depression and self-harm. grad student stuck at home with parents. murders most foul. a supernatural killer, perhaps? pitch: girl interrupted x eric larocca Ash has just been released from a psychiatric hold following a suicide attempt, and her life is in shambles. Her parents are angry and overprotective; her best friend Kelsie has abandoned her for being too exasperating; and her graduate school work is suffering, bringing her to the brink of expulsion. Spiraling and overwhelmed, witchy Ash tries to put a curse into the universe, so that anyone who tries to fuck with her will hurt like she hurts. Later, in a moment of clarity, she recants the curse. Then a man who ghosts her for a date is murdered. Surely it can’t be the curse she recanted? At first, she’s able to shake off the impending emotional spiral with the help of her therapy group friend Leticia and crush Dara. However, strange things continue to happen. Her window is broken by an unknown stranger. Kelsie’s apartment is broken into and Kelsie blames her. But when her skeazy professor is murdered right in front of her, she has to accept the facts—someone is stalking her and the people around her. Someone who looks exactly like her. With the clock ticking until someone makes the connection between the murderer and Ash, Ash turns to her friends for help. To save everyone from the monster, Ash and her friends will have to work together to figure out what it is and how to slay it. But killing it might mean, for Ash, facing her darkest inner demons, the ones she’s been ignoring for years. If she doesn’t, it could mean the deaths of everyone around her. a woman screaming with the words reach me and contacts underneath. www.cjsubko.com cjsubko at gmail dot com bsky cjsubko at bsky.social insta sarcasmlemons
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Your monthly reminder:

Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
joyshaw.bsky.social
Cool milestone: I just crossed 100,000 reads on Booksie! 🔥📚
If you want to peek at my early writing, here’s the link:
www.booksie.com/users/joy-sh...

#writingcommunity #poetry #shortfiction
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December 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
joyshaw.bsky.social
Some stories start with a whisper, some with a whoop.
Mine start with myth-tech sparks that never stay quiet for long. 🦋🔥
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December 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
joyshaw.bsky.social
✨ Rebuilt my author website! ✨
It’s myth-tech, moody, and full of fierce vibes—just like my stories.
Come explore the new world I’m building. 🌌🔥

➡️ www.joy-shaw.com

#WritingCommunity
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
joyshaw.bsky.social
Weekend plans:
• waiting for beta readers
• inhales
• exhales
• refreshes email 47 times
🧘‍♀️✨
#WritingCommunity #amwriting
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November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Dove back into writing after 5 years.

Already smell the sharks 🦈… or maybe it’s just my coffee. ☕️

At least they respect good blood on the page.🩸

#AmWriting
August 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM