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Shane💀Blackheart (they/them) @shaneblackheart.com · 9h

ICYMI

This is a bundle of books on Itch that have little visibility and really need a boost! 💙📚 #discountbooks

Shane💀Blackheart (they/them) @shaneblackheart.com · 1d

This appears to have gone live early!

Grab a bunch of great books that have/had 15 or fewer ratings on Amazon or Goodreads! Maybe you'll find your next favorite.

2 of my books, Everything Is Wonderful Now & Open Wound, books 1 & 2 in The Requiem Series, are in the bundle 💜
itch.io/b/3305/under...

Itchio under-rated bundle. October 9th through the 13th. Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of. Five stars are above and below the text in the center of the graphic. Surrounding it are several books included in the bundle.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 1d

Slow month and I'm between jobs. Long story short, my husband got let go.

If you want to support me directly, I sell signed copies of my books for the same price as if you bought them on Amazon and they come with a cool bookmark!

ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita...

#Books #Store #KoFi #SFF #Scifi #Support

Visit Rebecca E. Reyes's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

ko-fi.com

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 1d

🚨Pin for pin!📌

I could really use the help!

Please share my pin & I'll share your books, shop, art, cause, or etc. as long as it's not AI or hateful.

Comment when done so I don't miss you.

#WritingCommunity #Authors #Artists #Teachers #Writers #SmallBusiness #Creatives

A digital black and white sketch of an automaton, or magic robot, called a harpy, resembling a woman with spikes for feet, wielding a spear, and dragonfly like wings.

Art by me, Rebecca E. Reyes

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Marlena Dutch @marlenadutch.bsky.social · 1d

Retail therapy I've had this past week: a new hoodie, a new coffee mug, and an art print. All wrestling or horror related. ❤️

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 3d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Marlena Dutch @marlenadutch.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know, but they're definitely in the wrong genre!

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Marlena Dutch @marlenadutch.bsky.social · 5d

No serial killers or slashers, but they have a picture of Michael Myers on their home page? And who the fuck is writing stories in Old English? Hwæt???

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 8d

Then what the fuck is the point of you

Important: The Horror Zine does NOT accept any material that contains adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of women or children; any rape scenes; serial killers; slasher; gore for gore's sake, or splatter punk. We do NOT accept any religious or political themes. We do NOT accept any submissions written in Olde English, Victorian, or 19th Century styles. We do NOT accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as dialogue (someone recounting past events). We do NOT accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance form, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do NOT accept fan fiction.

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Marlena Dutch @marlenadutch.bsky.social · 5d

I'm really enjoying the entire horror community collectively roasting The Horror Zine right now.

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Apollo Celeris 🔞 GPOSE COMMISSIONS OPEN! @apolloceleris.bsky.social · 6d

Two men behind the counter at a pizzeria. One says "Hey, Jimmy! Gimme a horror zine with nuthin'!"

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 15d

#Scream star on why he calls Billy and Stu the franchise's 'first gay couple'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/23/scream-star-on-why-he-calls-billy-and-stu-the-franchises-first-gay-couple/?utm_content=1758745200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Scream star says Billy and Stu were franchise's 'first gay couple'

Scream alum Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich reflect on the iconic queer-coded relationship between their characters, Stu and Billy.

www.thepinknews.com

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Lorian Merriman @ m/m novel kickstarter!!!! @lorian.bsky.social · 21d

the boys are hanging out!! 😍🐎⚔️🦎 If you're in Austin you can pick up both series at local queer indie favorite Birdhouse Books~ Also check out Triple Strike for an super fun M/M novel with lovely illustrations and a romance that develops during the main adventure (which is my favorite!)

G.M. Gray @gmgray.bsky.social · 21d

Signed the copies of Triple Strike at Birdhouse Books while I was there to pick up a couple volumes of The Summer Hikaru Died! (Also see how TS is hanging out with @lorian.bsky.social’s gorgeously illustrated MM light novel?? 😍)

A picture of a book display at Birdhouse Books. There are all four volumes of Triple Strike and book 1 is pulled out with a “signed at Birdhouse Books” sticker. On the table below this shelf is Lorian’s book “For a Horse and Horseman”

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G.M. Gray @gmgray.bsky.social · 27d

Every time I hear someone use the word Luddite incorrectly, I am obligated to go on a rant about how it was anti-exploitation of worker not anti-technology, so finding this article that just covers the basics has been game changing 😌.

I’m a Luddite. You should be one too

Why a workers’ rebellion in 19th-century England is relevant in the age of data extraction, gig labour and management by algorithm.

theconversation.com

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G.M. Gray @gmgray.bsky.social · 21d

Signed the copies of Triple Strike at Birdhouse Books while I was there to pick up a couple volumes of The Summer Hikaru Died! (Also see how TS is hanging out with @lorian.bsky.social’s gorgeously illustrated MM light novel?? 😍)

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 21d

Do you like free books? Check out this multi genre short story bundle!

🌈📚💙📢📚📦📚🌎🌈💜🧡🦄📚🌈🚀💫

#booksky #freebooks #shortstory

itch.io/b/3272/free-...

A graphic with the text "Free itch bundle - support 20+ indie authors - Sept 15-22" with images of eight book cover style images.

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J.B. Warrick @jbwarrick.com · 27d

It's a 99¢ sale! The first two books in my series are both on sale - get that spicy gay fated mate vampire romance while it's hot! www.amazon.com/Tenors-Shado... #mmromance

99-cent sale for the book series The Vampire Impresario. Two book covers are featured: one for The Tenor's Shadow and one for The Baritone's Rival. Both by J.B. Warrick.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Aug 31

🗡️ 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 by 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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Marlena Dutch @marlenadutch.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have two short stories in CAMPFIRE AT THE CROSSROADS. Available from bookshop.org or Amazon or your local bookstore can order it for you.

bookshop.org/p/books/camp...

Campfire at the Crossroads: An Anthology of Dark Fantasy and Sci-Fi

An Anthology of Dark Fantasy and Sci-Fi

bookshop.org

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Marlena Dutch @marlenadutch.bsky.social · Sep 3

Cleaning my office today. ☕

Marlena Dutch @marlenadutch.bsky.social · Sep 3

I want to read this series so badly!

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · Sep 1

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”

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Marlena Dutch @marlenadutch.bsky.social · Sep 1

I live in Texas. I will be dressing like it's summer until at least November, maybe longer. Last year I couldn't even wear a sweater on Christmas day.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · Aug 28

Reminder to the reading public: if you report a book to Kindle for "typos" Amazon may yank it off publication completely and demand the author fixes the "typos". Even if the typos are vernacular English and YOU are the idiot who didn't check a big enough dictionary.

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · Aug 28

I'd like to give a big, sincere and wholehearted thank you to the reader who's just reported Copper Script to Amazon for errors including "reader doesn't know British English exists", "reader doesn't know the word 'insuperable'", and of course this. For a British book about two British people.

Screengrab of an error notification in which the British phrase "you berk" is flagged as an error because, apparently, it should read "jerk".

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · Aug 27

LAWSUIT UPDATE: Anthropic and the plaintiffs in the case of Bartz v. Anthropic have reached an agreement.

More info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

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Colleen Doran @colleendoran.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you were at DragonCon in 2019 and commissioned an ancient Greek themed piece of color art from me, I have your commission. I lost it in my office, then lost your contact info.
I am not going to show or describe the piece. The person who commissioned it will know exactly what I mean.

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