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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now!

@morningstaruk.bsky.social

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Fantasy/spec fic jockey, Amazon bestselling author, Unusual Type DEN OF SHADOWS COLLECTION: http://author.to/CByford THE DEATH IN ALL THINGS: https://amzn.eu/d/64sTiN1 THE BONE CARAVAN: https://mybook.to/BoneCaravan Web: http://www.thetenwings.co.uk

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hello new followers! Quick intro. I'm Chris, a disabled Amazon bestselling author who writes fantasy/spec, dabbles in astrophotography and loves English folklore. I wrote a series about a show train which got published by HQ/HarperCollins and I also wrote a book about people hunting mimics.
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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 7h

Wild that people are dunking on the Tron franchise because the latest stuff. 1's vfx was so revolutionary it put Disney animation into depression. Legacy's aesthetic was fresh & soundtrack went so hard it could have been added to the periodic table as a new element. Leto sucks but don't lie.

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Charlotte Francis @cfranciswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Been waiting a long time to share this. My husband's band, Mit Hiss, just released their first album. It's a collaboration with a close friend, and it's been a long time in the making. In the last track, I sneak in with my flute.

It's perfect music for writing to, and generally just awesome stuff.

Mit Hiss

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Mark Stay @markstay.bsky.social · 1d

Ready to sell, sell, sell at Southend on Sea today!

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CarmenFFLV @carmenfflv.bsky.social · 1d

The Promise #ffvii

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 1d

A Mari watching the autumn leaves fly past while sitting on an arch.

A mari sits on a lesge watching the autumn leaves blow past under the moonlight

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 2d

My vote goes to Blood Machines.

† BLOOD MACHINES † OFFICIAL TRAILER †

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 2d

Getting to the point where I'm inclined to knock up an entire concept album for Night Market before writing the sequel...

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 2d

The wife: I'm going to get a throw for the bed
Me: it'll match the decor, right?
Her:

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✍️ Gabrielle Steele 🐉 Reborn in Ash out 23/10/25 @eldris.thellian.com · 2d

Do you love character-focused secondary-world fantasy books with thieves, elemental magic, and power struggles? Read chapter 1 of Reborn in Ash free on my website now! Plus the next 3 if you sign up to my newsletter 🥰

thellian.com/reborn-in-ash/

💙📚🪐 #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor

A book cover. Towards the top, large golden text reads "Reborn in Ash". Below is small white text reading "A Thellian standalone fantasy novel." At the bottom is medium white text reading "Gabrielle Steele." The background is a digital painting of small autumnal hills leading to a mountain range in the distance. In the foreground is a ledge where two characters stand. On the left, a woman wearing a dark cape wields fire in her left hand. On the right, a woman wearing a long dark coat raises her right hand which is engulfed in bright green light. Hovering near her hand are three stones. The cloak and coat at flapping in the wind. The women look down over the hills at a large chasm that stretches across the cover. A waterfall drops into the chasm on the far side.

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starryfull13.bsky.social @starryfull13.bsky.social · 2d

I can't word. It's all just too good!

The extras are wonderful. And the Grafic Novel is just, Ineffably beautiful. I'm really looking forward to reading it!

Congratulations, and thank you so so so much. @colleendoran.bsky.social @goodomenshq.bsky.social and @terryandrob.bsky.social

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 3d

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 2d

I so wanted to like Alien Earth but it's dropping off for me. The thing about the Xeno is that, like any movie monster, it should never be fully revealed in hard light. Because no matter how great the design is, seeing it strutting down a white-lit corridor makes it just look goofy.

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 2d

It's it me or is there rarely anything coming out these days that's remotely exciting? Since I got a steamdeck it's basically a Stardew Valley/Binding of Isaac/Vampire Survivors/Fallout 4 machine. I'm finding older stuff just more enjoyable to go through.

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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Take a look at the finished copies of Shadowplay! With the interlocking spines, we’re 2/3 of the way there! Preorder Shadowplay to get the book with sprayed edges and interlocking spines! Fill out the link on our Insta bio to receive a limited edition set of magnets!

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 3d

Still remains golden even after all this time

whenever i watch "t.A.T.u. - 30 minutes"... - (garth marenghi - "i have never exploded....")

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 3d

I think we all know who's going to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 3d

One of my joys is when walking the kid to school in the morning; we talk about the strangest and most inane things, and for a little while, the craziness of the world just doesn't matter.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 4d

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 5d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 4d

THEY HAVE RISEN
ACT III IS HERE

Act III: This City Made Us, by The Protomen

4 track album

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 4d

To celebrate Spooky Season, and the UK release of @isabelcanas.bsky.social's 3rd standalone Horroromance - THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ - UK readers can grab her second book - VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE - for just 99p for a limited time!

Snap it up now from Kobo, Apple, Google & Amazon! geni.us/VoEN

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// Christopher Boo-ford // "THE BONE CARAVAN" out now! @morningstaruk.bsky.social · 5d

Going down with the sickness is nowhere as fun as the song would lead me to believe.

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Tarot Interviews @tarotinterviews.com · 5d

Enjoying Britain’s Folklore Year by Mark Norman: maypoles, wicker giants, antler dances. A perfect autumnnal read! Pairs well with piping hot apple and cinnamon tea.

#booksky #folklore #customs

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 5d

My copy of NORTH IS THE NIGHT arrived and it’s an absolutely GORGEOUS special edition with illustrated end papers that is worthy of the incredible mythic snowy underworld quest vibes of this epic and beautifully written sapphic fantasy! 😍

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