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Dear Edgar 45 ~ A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Medusa's sister in a charity shop in Cheem
Among other stories...
#urbanfantasy #scifi #fantasy #amreading #booksky #books
#readers

www.amazon.co.uk/Rum-Rosemary...

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Medusa's sister in a charity shop in Cheem
Among other stories...
#urbanfantasy #scifi #fantasy #amreading #booksky #books
#readers

www.amazon.co.uk/Rum-Rosemary...

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Dear Edgar inventing genre's again, but with less success than latterly
#amreading #blog #bookblog #blogsky #scifi #reads

markhayesblog.com/2025/10/31/d...

Science Fiction is awash with tales of procession or bodily transference… This one by Poe, may have been the first

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 5d

The Fimberwinter comes, and the howls of the wolflings can be heard on the wind...

so might need to turn on the central heating

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 5d

The frost giants are stirring again...

Dear Edgar 44 ~ The Spectacles

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · Feb 10

A post Newtonian Magic Victorian Urban fantasy
In Kindle, Paperback, or hardback
#newbook #scifi #steampunk #urbanfanasy #booksky
#magicalrealisum #newreads #kindleunlimited #amreading

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWMWJ927

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 6d

Edgar Alan Poe does comedy again. With the predictable results
#blog #reads #bookblog #blogsky #readersky

markhayesblog.com/2025/10/29/d...

love at first myopic blur

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 6d

ten words
don't try to write a thousand
don't try to write a hundred
just try to write ten words a day
They don't even have to be good words
but write ten words everyday
and a some point you will write an eleventh

this was advice given to me, that I now pass on to you

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 7d

My beard is currently (mostly) green
Tomorrow it might be Pillar box red,
or it may not
That is the end of this update...

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 7d

'He thought he was but a flouncy blouse and case of syphilis away from being the next Bryon.'

I do love a damning observation

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 7d

The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers / philosophers and the occasional Pagan (which are often the same people)

#quotefortheday #quotes #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #quotesky

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 8d

The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers / philosophers and the occasional Pagan (which are often the same people)

#quotefortheday #quotes #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #quotesky
#pagan

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 8d

Occasionally, serendipity happens
You are writing a chapter on the concept of the universal feminine,
When, entirely separately and on a whim you buy a book which discover includes the perfect example...

May need by quoting horns

Because one is as ever behind on reviews, as well as general book news here is a catch up in general on my book news and a few new releases form authors I have reviewed before and recommend. Firstl…

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 11d

Contains reviews of new books by @katebaucherel.bsky.social @bensawyerwriter.bsky.social @shelleyadinasenft.bsky.social and others, and news of my new non-fiction project because i have too many novels to write and need a distraction.
#booksky #books #bookblog

markhayesblog.com/2025/10/24/f...

Friday book news

Because one is as ever behind on reviews, as well as general book news here is a catch up in general on my book news and a few new releases form authors I have reviewed before and recommend. Firstl…

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 11d

Contains reviews of new books by @katebaucherel.bsky.social @bensawyerwriter.bsky.social @shelleyadinasenft.bsky.social and others, and news of my new non-fiction project because i have too many novels to write and need a distraction.
#booksky #books #bookblog

markhayesblog.com/2025/10/24/f...

Friday book news

Meanwhile…. (Things the last couple of weeks have been somewhat hectic in the Passing Place of late hence the blog has been quiet… normal service will resume shortly, but until then , b…

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · Mar 7

There may possibly be things in this image that are more than mere window dressing. Subtle clues and subtext that hint at secrets within the novel shown...

or its just random stuff from around the house,

#books #fantasy #newreads
mybook.to/LuciferMandr...

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Reposted by Mark Hayes

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · Aug 12

Tuesdays being what they are...

#steampunk #books #reads

markhayesblog.com/2025/08/12/t...

Tuesdays…

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 22d

A new Harvey Anthology has joined the family...
A return to Dark/Urban Fantasy
There are no bonus points for guessing out who came up with the title for this one

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FV3HRRVG/

#newbook #urbanfantasy #newreads #amreading #fantasy #horror #SpookySeason

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 13d

Ommmm!

The Quantum Pagan an Introduction

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 14d

Okay Lunchtime was slow and I needed to faff, about so I made a cover for a book that may be getting written this year/next year on quantum physics, phycology and paganism
Subjects I am in no way an expert on
pretty cover though 🙂
#pagan #books #2026

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Reposted by Mark Hayes

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 15d

pagan mysticism, faith and quantum physics
You know, small subjects to start writing a book about...
#paganisum #mystisicm #pagansky #blog #blogsky
#amwriting #writer

markhayesblog.com/2025/10/20/t...

Last week, because I don’t have enough to write, I started work on a project that has been kicking about for a few years. While it may never see the light of day, as it is in part a personal …

Fascinating Folklore, Taurus and the book pile

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 14d

Its fabulous , I reviewed it on my blog last year alongside Stephen Palmers book on pagan bull-worship

markhayesblog.com/2024/11/22/f...

fascinating insight as that may be to the beside cabinet of a bibliophile, on to some reviews, starting, as a delightful Flemish research witch has me on a folklore kick at the moment with with Fas…