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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures

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Author. Linguist. Scholar of interdisciplinary subjects. ✒ Understands about semicolons 🐺 Myndil's mum 🕹️ Games and Narrative @spaceboat.bsky.social 🎵 Metal enthusiast and vocalist 📖 33 books published https://www.patreon.com/newshortstories

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · Aug 24

Okay, kids. If you want me to write this, you have to read my other romance books.

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Indieventure: A Podcast About Indie Games @indieventurepodcast.co.uk · 8h

Absolum releases today, and our Liam has had a blast playing its opening few hours.

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Absolum's roguelite structure is the secret sauce that's made beat 'em ups feel accessible - Indieventure

Hits different.

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 1h

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 8m

Love it!

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 6h

What does shoes on a wire mean?
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What does shoes on a wire mean?

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 2h

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 9h

📝 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.

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 2h

One for Canadian Thanksgiving!🦃

Saving turkeys and enjoying Orc holiday games:

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𝕄𝕣 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕡 @mrsoup.bsky.social · 11h

Primary School Prehistory going well this morning :D

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 6h

What does shoes on a wire mean?
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What does shoes on a wire mean?

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 14h

His ideas of saving Maedlynn from a house of madness had brought him here, and though he knew that the master of the house was a werewolf, he had no idea what to say or do with one who looked like a formal lord. He sat in the chair like a wounded krill and withered.
#booksky #amwriting #books

Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · Aug 24

Okay, kids. If you want me to write this, you have to read my other romance books.

Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 16h

Here we go

Dolly Parton with Granny Weatherwax's I ATEN'T DEAD sign

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16h

We need these kinds of magazines to publish nonfiction. It's a tough time for literary criticism, essays about ideas, creative non-fiction, and I'm thrilled to see Apex is going to take pitches. Support if you can!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 17h

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 19h

Krampy would:
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Krampus' Bad Fur Day

Amazon.com: Krampus' Bad Fur Day eBook : Franklin, Michelle, Burrello, Jonathan: Kindle Store

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 19h

I see an @bookspotlight.bsky.social special in there!

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 20h

Would you get your haircut here?

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 1d

We've added 14k YouTube subs to noclip_2 in the past month, pretty much exclusively covering underground and indie games like this. Please come be part of what we're building over there.

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House of Necrosis by @warkus.bsky.social wears it's influences on it's sleeve. But it's roguelite loop and mystery dungeon gameplay presents a whole new challenge.

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