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Kate Rookery
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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 10d
The Master Thread of What I've Been Reading! 🎊🎊🎊
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infernulls.bsky.social
Need something for the anime fan in your life or maybe a gift for yourself?

Then how about the Light Novel #Infernulls The Golden Letter. Inspired by Anime and RPGs of the 80's and 90's, follow Lamya Cade and crew on their legendary journey!

Paper Back: $11.99
eBook: $4.99
#BookSky
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Cepheia from Infernulls, a light blue woman normally in a jester outfit, instead wearing a Santa outfit and holding a sack over her shoulder, waving to the camera. Lamya, the main character of Infernulls, in an reindeer outfit and looking like she's done with everything. A widget, a round robot with a red eye and four stubby legs, wearing a santa hat and elf ears, holding a present next to her. Art by Ishida1694 Characters created and novel wrote by Zeggy
December 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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charliedeltawrites.bsky.social
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Does your character speak English? Or another real language?

Do they speak a fictional language transcribed as another for the sake of the reader?

Are language barriers ever a problem in the story?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
katerookery.bsky.social
New books have been acquired from Kinokuniya after a day in the city playing Pokemon Go. 💙📚
A photograph of three books on a light hardwood floor, arranged in a rough, off-set triangle. The top left book is Yokai / Ghosts by Philippe Charlier from Prestel. The cover has cropped version of Utagawa Kuniyoshi's famous Gashadokuro: Sōma no furu-dairi (相馬の古内裏) or Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre. The top right book is YOKAI: Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade, translated by Zack Davisson. The cover is purple and green, with a group of one-eyed yokai dancing about a large tree. The bottom book is A Sign of Affection: Omnibus 3 (Volumes 7, 8 & 9) by Suu Morishita. The dover is light blue and depicts the series' main couple seated in one another's arms, surrounded by a swirl of stylised flowers.
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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spookyxpickle.bsky.social
It's been too long since I've done a #PoemsAbout. Here's my #YouShouldntHave entry. It has a bit or cliché. And, well, comes from something not so happy.

Wrote it just before bed last night.

Thank you, @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk!

#tistheseason #poetry #poems #childhoodfun
Oh what gifts A father gives his children The lifelong spats With the self, As the sweet little children contemplate their pain and worth, often feeling less than worthy, less than heaps of rotted shit, All thanks to father's gifts But how generous is he, A man of plenty, Handing out trauma responses That take years to unpack, And years more to heal from And my, my! Repressed memories! The best kind of surprise For later times Oh, father dearest! You shouldn't have!
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social
Hi! So I have a thing about buying books from Indie/Self Published authors. My main genres are: Murder Mysteries/Thrillers, Fantasy, and Horror. Drop your books on this pin and I promise at some point I'll get to it. And yes trad pub are totally able to drop their links here as well.
February 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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charliedeltawrites.bsky.social
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Does your character go by anything other than their name?

Do they have a nickname, a pseudonym, or a title people use for them? Or earn one over the course of the story?

Do they like it, or prefer their name?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
katerookery.bsky.social
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
It's time to talk to you about my cat.
Vital Cat Update
It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…
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December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
They’re loose: #PoemsAbout #Imps is live.
From now ‘til Thursday, write your chaos.
Use Alt Text. Tag your post.
#TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché
Read, repost, reply to 3+.
Krampus is watching.
Inbox prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
A shadowy, menacing figure resembling Krampus stands with glowing white eyes and gnarled horns. The scene is low-lit and atmospheric. Top left: The Broken Spine logo. Top right: "@thebrokenspine.co.uk". Bottom right reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #IMPS".
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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charliedeltawrites.bsky.social
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

What is your character's living situation like?

Do they have roommates? Pets? Live with family? Alone in a mansion? On the road? On a ship? Other?

Are they happy where they are, or striving for something else?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
katerookery.bsky.social
Still kiiiind of crook, but getting better? Mostly it seems to have transitioned into my ears so I get woozy if I turn too fast. At least reading means I can sit still, so let's do that, shall we?
December 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
katerookery.bsky.social
Insert a movie into another movie:

THE PAGEMASTER AND COMMANDER
garethlpowell.bsky.social Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 9d
Insert a movie into another movie:

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WAYNE’S WORLD
aggiebrett.bsky.social Brett Nicholson @aggiebrett.bsky.social · 9d
Insert a movie into another movie:

THE BOURNE IDENTITY THIEF
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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joannamasters.bsky.social
You matter. Survival is not a small thing, especially today.
White text on black background: There will be a lot of posts soon from people sharing how much they achieved in 2025. But, in case someone needs to hear this... it's okay if the only thing you did this year was just get through it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
Which kinds of stories do you enjoy the most?

I love the ones where I get to know the characters so well that I can anticipate how they'll react to things. I find stories most rewarding when I can anticipate the next step of the plot from the foreshadowing -especially when I'm wrong! (SFF 😉)

🌈📚🪐📚💙
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
katerookery.bsky.social
The Master Thread of What I've Been Reading! 🎊🎊🎊
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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infernulls.bsky.social
Happy Holidays from #Infernulls! I hope you have a great December, and a Happy New Year!

Gunna use this image for promotion post also, but this post I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who watched and made me feel at home here. I hope we continue to be friends. Thank you!

Art by Ishida1694
Cepheia, Lamya, and a Widget from the series Infernulls. Cepheia is wearing a stylized Santa outfit with a jester hat version, and holding a sack over her shoulder. Lamya is in a reindeer outfit and looking very done with this in chibi style. And a Widget stands there with an elf hat, elf ears, and holding a present. Art by Ishida1694 Characters by Zeggy.
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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charliedeltawrites.bsky.social
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

When do you consider a side character to have earned a name?

Is it when they speak a line of dialogue? Have a certain amount of importance to the story? When it is confusing to describe the scene otherwise?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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leeburton.bsky.social
Might be a long shot, but I'm looking for beta readers for my latest historical fantasy "Speaker Timeline" story, "Amends for the Everlasting."

➤ Medieval setting
➤ low fantasy
➤ wistful yet positive story
➤ standalone
➤ already fairly polished
➤ 60K words

#books 💙📚 #BetaReaders #Indie
Screenshot of the series blurb for the "Speaker Timeline" by Lee Burton. It reads... A handful of names were scribbled in the Book when the Speaker known as the Shepherd finally found it, some of them hardly recognizable as language. After the world was written, the book contained a list of the created, and when the Shepherd scrawled his name at the bottom his name was taken from him, part of the book now, and he, like the other names before him, became part of the everlasting story of creation. As magic slowly seeps out of the world, the Speaker Series follows the Shepherd, from his mountain village in a land now folded into history, down through the ages. Young Jad the shepherd boy, in his first true act of speaking, inadvertently initiates the collapse of an empire. The dust rises again, the dust falls, and the shepherd carries on. Some speakers spend a lifetime learning how to properly Speak some small piece of the world, but the Shepherd, for good or ill, has all of time. Tentative blurb for "Amends for the Everlasting" by Lee Burton. It reads... “Evil spirits,” Johan overheard the two monks say at the inn, “at the abbey.” Johan is conflicted. He has to check that out. But since an old friend sent him a message to come see him right away, he has been feeling an inexorable tug to keep moving north, stronger every day. Surely, staying for one day would be okay… In the village, however, he finds a family sundered, a girl in danger from her own friends and neighbors, and the evil spirit, it's not at all what everybody thinks. Johan is tugged away, with promises he'll return. But by the time he finally can come back, the whole world has changed, and now he's the one with a story to tell.
December 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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diannalgunn.bsky.social
This form also has an ARC signup space for folks who would like to read/review this delightfully fucked up book
December 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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the-book-bazaar.com
Correction! We're streaming at 9 PM EST. Just one more hour :)
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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aimeecozza.com
I think they look pretty nice together ☺️

(It's a proof, a bit darker than intended, placements off, but that's what proofs are for!)

#TWM #TLM #Writing
Two books, side by side, in paperback. The first is "The Warm Machine" featuring a silhouetted robot looking up at a sunset/sunrise. The second is "The Lucky Machine" featuring a silhouetted robot walking along a dark catwalk in a neon city.
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
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 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
katerookery.bsky.social
If you see this, post an anime you love
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer
Painting of a young girl wading through the water of a pond, we mostly focus on her reflection which shows her looking over her shoulder determinedly. She has an archery bow slung over her back and is holding an arrow. In the reflection we can see that cabins in a forest are a-blaze
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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wiswell.bsky.social
windows into the soul
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM