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Nathan Pettigrew
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Writer. Author of TALES FROM TERREBONNE, forthcoming in 2026 from @rhppress.bsky.social. Editor at Mythic Picnic. Awarded 2nd Place in the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for his story "Yemma."
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Nathan Pettigrew @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social · Sep 18
Cheers, Bluesky! Very proud to share that my Debut Crime Collection TALES FROM TERREBONNE is being published in 2026, courtesy of Rock and a Hard Place! Thank You Everyone on here who’s supported my writing! Thank You @robdsmith.bsky.social and the @rhppress.bsky.social Team for the dream come true!
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rhppress.bsky.social
AVAILABLE NOW: How will the world end, fire or flood? 15 of the best crime fiction writers today have an idea, including @kmwriter01.bsky.social. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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With his followup to DIRTBAGS, @erykpruitt.bsky.social revisits the sleepy Southern town of Lake Castor through the lens of Internet celebrity and America’s addiction to true crime stories. RHP Press is proud to bring this book back into print now more than ever. Get your copy now: bit.ly/4oQRov0
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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From the author of BOISE LONGPIG HUNTING CLUB and RATTLESNAKE RODEO comes the latest book in the Jake Halligan series: RIGHTEOUS TRASH, by @nkolakowski.bsky.social. Listen to H.C. Newton and get your copy today: bit.ly/3J1ekYN
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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A year's worth of bad decisions and desperate people. Makes the perfect stocking stuffer this holiday season. Listen to @meproctor.bsky.social and get your copy today: bit.ly/42IyT2W
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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November's STONE"S THROW: In wartime Saigon, a missionary working in the red light district tries to save the souls of those around her, but soon wonders if her own salvation is what's needed. This story by AT Kessler is a gut punch! Read it today: bit.ly/4nCG7wX
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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SUBS WINDOW OPENS DEC. 1: For January, give us noir about dreams. Maybe it’s petty dreams about gangland glory. Let’s kick off 2026 by taking a look at “what dreams may come,” and what happens next when all your dreams come true . . . or don’t. Subs open from Dec 1-4: bit.ly/4fQLeGx
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Saw this shoutout for my ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER story over at the Little Big Crimes blog. Thanks Robert 🙏

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Poison is the Wind That Blows, by C.W. Blackwell
"Poison is the Wind That Blows," by C.W. Blackwell, in On Fire and Under Water, edited by Curtis Ippolito, Rock and a Hard Place Press, 20...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Big thanks to @todgoldberg.bsky.social for his kind words on my story "Bad Man Down" in BAMS'25. Honored to be part of this great ToC, including Tod! Get your copy today: bit.ly/4drzg5P
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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curtisippolito.bsky.social
Well, shit. Was just reading a couple stories in the new issue of Dark Yonder when I came across this. What a class act Eryk Pruitt and Katy Munger are! Thank you, both!
Now grab the new issue. I mean, have you even seen the table of contents?!
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I created, contributed to, and edited this series... so when it was orphaned by D&O Books closing down, it only made sense to publish them. I'm proud to announce that Code 4 Press (my imprint usually reserved for my own work) will re-issue A GRIFTER'S SONG!
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Yessssss! If you’ve never an @anniejowrites.bsky.social story, you must change that!
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Buy yourself a present for @heatherlevy.bsky.social 's birthday! bookshop.org/p/books/this...
This Violent Heart
Check out This Violent Heart - <p><b>In this haunting journey into the confusion and desires of growing up, a therapist reluctantly returns to her hometown, where she revisits the memories that could ...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I got some shiny new graphics from @minotaurbooks.bsky.social and this one has, BRAG, my starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social on it. WRECK YOUR HEART comes out January 6!
Image of cover of a book, illustrated woman country singer in spangles with guitar ABSOLUTELY KILLING IT. You should pre-order this book!
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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WHO WILL YOU SAVE? Is the definitive collection of my short fiction. Available now from @titanbooks.bsky.social and all good book sellers.
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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whiskey-leavins.bsky.social
This proof ain’t gonna proof itself. I gotta put it through some paces. See if it can hang.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Honored to be part of this great profile on multi-genre authors, including pals @rachelhowzell.bsky.social and @almakatsu.bsky.social, by the talented @johncopenhaver.bsky.social at ITW's The Big Thrill! www.thebigthrill.org/2025/11/cros...
Crossing Genres: Three Authors on Risk, Reinvention, and Creative Freedom – THE BIG THRILL
What happens when writers leave their literary comfort zones?
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November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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the first page of blood meridian goes so hard
orma MeC Cormac McCarthy author of The Road BLOOD MERIDIAN THE EVENING REDNESS IN THE WEST 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION "A classic American novel of regeneration through violence. McCarthy can only be compared with our greatest writers, with Melville and Faulkner, and this is his masterpicce." - Michael Herr I Childhood in Tennessee - Runs away - New Orleans - Fights - Is shot - To Galveston - Nacogdoches - The Reverend Green - Judge Holden - An affray - Toadvine - Burning of the hotel - Escape. See the chid He spale and sin hey ere atin nd raged turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmas-ter. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire and watches him. 192 Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove. The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off. The father never speaks her name, the child does not know it. He has a sister in this world that he will not see again. He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man. 3
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Hey, here’s another book I liked. You might like it too. #BookSky
#MondayRecs
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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keithroysdon.bsky.social
When you buy my 1984-set high school crime novel from Ink Drinkers Anonymous through bookshop dot org, you support the Black-owned, woman-owned bookstore in my hometown, where the story takes place.

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That October -- by Keith Roysdon | Ink Drinkers Anonymous LLC
Too many liars. When family betrays you, make your own.It's October 1984 and high school friends in an Indiana town should be thinking about football, MTV, Halloween hayrides and must-see movies.But w...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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BILLY, the KID - A 99¢ Stage 3 Short Story

In a global apocalypse, there's no height requirement for heroes
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FREE on Kindle Unlimited

#FREE #Kindleunlimited #HORROR #zombies #suspense #WalkingDead #mustread #zombieapocalypse #bookboost #99cents #zombie 📚💙
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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There is only one thing more frightening than facing your greatest fear...
Facing your greatest fear ALONE.

Read STARK TERROR
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FREE on Kindle Unlimited

#FREE #Kindleunlimited #horror #shortstories #HorrorRTG #mustread #suspense #BookBoost #IARTG #readers 📚💙
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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kevharrison.bsky.social
Somehow managed to miss this fabulous review of #Pyres from fellow writer @sjbudd.bsky.social!

If you want some supernatural, arty, atmospheric folk horror from the New Forest with more than a smattering of political intrigue, look no further: books2read.com/pyresnovel
#HorrorBooks #BookSky 📚😱
A review of Kev Harrison's book Pyres, written by author Sarah Farr on Goodreads
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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tractusfynn.bsky.social
This Day in #History 1859
English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species," radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology.
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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✍️ The Reviewer 99¢
💙📚💙 #Humor #Satire #ShortStory #WritingCommunity
A short story about a mentally unstable Indie-Author and the review that destroys his life…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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NASA’s final mission?

🛸 Pioneer Sun… LATEST RELEASE
#Scifi #Wallops #NASA #JPL #Goddard #KU #Amazon
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM