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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Publishing isn’t one door. It’s a hallway full of doors: trad, self, small press, or a mix...You don’t have to walk the same one everyone else does.

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote this thriller as a warning. The rich and entitled are not listening.

Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sometimes exciting news comes in the middle of the night. I'll have two releases in 2026. My publisher has accepted the second Robert Hannah thriller "Echoes of Death". The stand-alone "With My Little Eye" in the early spring, with "Echoes of Death" in mid-summer. Big year!

Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is why book signings, no matter how big or small, how well attended or sparse, is so vital. You develop the pitch for your book, immediate feedback whether it hits the feels, and the joy of discovery on a potential reader's face. Check your local library. Many have writer's festivals. Join.

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Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · Sep 1

Another decision you must make as a writer is to become trustworthy. Your writing must ask the reader to trust you from word one. In building your career you must present yourself through trustworthy actions as well. Trust is key. Take good actions and hold firm.

#writingcommunity #booksky #trust

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Sep 1

@margaretatwood.bsky.social I am so sorry to miss your talk in Kingston in a few weeks as Belleville has an author's fair at the same time. Knowing you are an hour away will have to do! You have been such an inspiration and I wish you continued success.

Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will ensure that school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers will continue unabated in Texas."

There. I fixed it for you.

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Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · Aug 24

What some writers don't understand is that the editor is their first collaborator. This is the human brain trying to bring the scatter of the writer into focus, to reduce tangents and eliminate all that excess prose. They co-write the writers side of the novel.

#writingcommunity #booksky #editors

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 24

If you haven't found that summer thriller yet, I can take care of that in 10 hours and 42 minutes. And it may only cost you a credit.

Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · May 18

Twelve months, Twelve cities, twelve victims.
The calendar is ticking.
Enjoy this twisty thriller with puzzles, patterns, riddles, and rhymes from the author's voice.
Order it on Audible now!

www.audible.ca/pd/Kill-Them...

Kill Them All

Check out this great listen on Audible.ca. Robert Hannah, a brilliant Harvard-educated numerologist, had let his once-promising talents languish, burying them under stacks of poker chips. But when his...

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Echoes of Death"

Throughout history, murder has always been in the cards

#PosterPit #T #A

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Echoes of Death"

Some things refuse to stay buried.

#PosterPit #T #A

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Echoes of Death"

History can be a killer.

#PosterPit #T #A

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Echoes of Death"

5 taunting emails
5 infamous historic recreated murders
5 planted playing cards
1 relentless pace ahead of The World Series

Only Robert Hannah can put it together and save 40,000 fans before the world witnesses his failure.

And his death.

#questpit #T #Q

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

Echoes of Death - In the follow-up to this year's "Kill Them All", Robert Hannah is plunged into a gauntlet of historic recreations from the likes of Lizzie Borden & Jack The Ripper. What a time for Boston to be hosting the World Series and a series of murders.

#questpit #T #Q

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Echoes of Death" A serial killer taunts FBI recruit Robert Hannah, drawing the agent into a gauntlet of history's most evil atrocities, including Lizzie Borden & Jack The Ripper. With all eyes on Boston for the World Series, Hannah must atone for the past, or he's history. #questpit #T #Q

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Echoes of Death" - Humanity has long been traumatized by the atrocities of such fiends as Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and The Boston Strangler.

With all eyes on Boston, FBI recruit Robert Hannah has 10 days to solve their recreations.

Or he's history.

#questpit #Q #T

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Jul 30

I would pick up fast food lunch AFTER taking a blood test. Gaming the system. 😁

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Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Jul 13

Have an Audible credit burning a hole in your pocket? Use it on a "certified banger!"

Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Jul 13

If you struggle while querying wondering if it will be worth it, I can tell you that reviews like this hit home.

Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Jul 13

"The Handsmaid Tale" has been moved from Fiction to Memoir.

Mark Philbin🍁 @mphilbinwriter.bsky.social · Jul 9

ECHOES OF DEATH - Robert Hannah's new nemesis is recreating history's most notorious atrocities in a murderous scheme haunting Boston. From Lizzie Borden to The Boston Strangler, Hannah has until Game One of the World Series or face a deadly showdown with 40,000 lives at stake.

#UnhingedPit #Q #T