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Sage T. Greene, Author

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📚🐈☕ I’m that friendly acquaintance from way back when—hope you’re doing well! I’m all about the vibes. I write whatever tickles my fancy, whenever my fancies are tickled. Website, books, socials & more! https://linktr.ee/sagetgreene

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to everyone who liked my cover in the AllAuthor Cover of the Month Contest 🥰

Made it thru round 1, which was my main goal 😅

If u already voted, you're allowed to vote again in round 2! If u don't want to make an account, you can do the anon vote (see 2 at a time and pick ur fav each time)

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M. Walsh - Author @m-walshwrites.com · 1d

An evil artifact.
A city of brigands.
A fool trying to make something of himself.
A fallen princess hitting rock bottom.
A family caught in the middle.

Everything burns.

LINKS: www.books2read.com/jinxedpirate
also: m-walshwrites.itch.io/the-jinxed-p...

#BookSky #ReaderSky #Fantasy #IndieBooks 📚💙⚔️

Banner for M. Walsh's fantasy novel "The Jinxed Pirate" with a blurb reading "Being dead inside isn't for everyone" and positive quotes and star ratings from Kirkus Reviews, Literary Titan, and the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards.

The book cover depicts a black-bladed sword covered in blood and stuck in the ground. Around the sword, a medieval city is on fire.
Art by Anthony Jensen

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💘Beth C Greenberg✍️ Cupid's Fall series @bethcgreenberg.com · 9h

Blurred figures rush past each other in the storm. Heads bowed, bodies hunched, not seeing anything but pavement. Avoiding puddles, avoiding exposure, avoiding umbrella pokes.

Not me. Ever since I found this orange #raincoat, I am the brightest spot in the dull day.

#vss365 #writersofbluesky

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

I mean, I guess it’s a “win” if you like regular, boring turtles who don’t know martial arts or anything.

A screenshot of a BBC article showing a swimming turtle and the headline “Green turtle bounces back from the brink in conservation win.” The word “win” is in quotes, which could be taken as it being used ironically.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 2d

📝 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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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 2d

Any reposts of my pinned would be lovely! Have had almost no traction re: sales lately so I’d very much appreciate it! 🫶

Drop any links you also need boosted below and I’ll repost them! Boost each other too if you’d like 💪

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 2d

That is now a ✨decorative bowl✨

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 2d

pumpkin patch #art (wallpapers below!)

A drawing of black cats playing in a pile of pumpkins

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Maya Rose @ohreallytheatre.bsky.social · 2d

By popular demand, here is my #agentsguide for my #YA #SF #romance as featured in #DVpit!

An overly stabby heiress falls for her cleaner: the cyborg orphan cinnamon roll heired by a rival fam to kill her. Nobody besides them are happy. SCYTHE x ROMEO & JULIET but probably worse,

#BookSky #writing

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Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · 2d

Gracing your timelines with the fact that dudes rock. 💜💚

Art was commissioned from @letoyga.bsky.social.
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A halfbody commission piece by letoyga.bsky.social featuring Morgan and Therion on a beach in Oratoa at sunset.

Morgan, a young man with purple eyes and near shoulder length ash blond hair, is backed up against a palm tree with a hand gripped on his boyfriend's shirt as he looks up at him. Pink swirls decorate his face like a mask around his eyes and his hand, a sign that he is probably very excited by the situation he's in that his mutation is behaving uncontrolled.

Therion, a tall, very thin man with green eyes and golden blond hair tied up in a messy bun, stands over him with one arm resting above Morgan's head against the tree and the other grasping Morgan's chin as he leans in for a smooch.

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 3d

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A drawing of a black cat resting under a blanket. The caption reads, "please be patient with yourself; it all feels overwhelming because it IS overwhelming"

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Lilly Lockwood 🔥Pre-Order Broken Bells!🔔 @voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social · 3d

Happy International Lesbian Day to my favorite idiots who totally aren’t completely in love with each other. This was a completely casual candlelight picnic and a totally platonic hug.

"Oh, Líadan. You didn't have to." Tears welled up in Aila's eyes.
"I know, but...I wanted to. You've looked so stressed ever since you got back. I know this isn't much, but I wanted to try and bring you a little comfort. Ebha helped me with the food. Hopefully it turned out okay."
Aila pulled her into a hug, and they both melted into the embrace. Their faces were flushed when they pulled away. Líadan busied herself with the food, and Aila pretended to study the small stalactites on the ceiling of the cave.

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d

Someone needs a Vitamin D supplement and a therapy lamp 😅

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Walker Harris @walkerharris.net · 3d

Pyntal is not pleased about having had to move back to #Felcrown, the megadungeon that became a city. She'll learn to love it, tho - especially a certain friend she meets. 🥰

#WIPSnips

Screenshot of a work-in-progress manuscript with the word 'dungeon' highlighted.

Stepping out into the hallway where her parents waited, she was reminded that a dress wasn’t the only thing keeping her from running. Running anywhere just to feel the wind in her face. Running away. Back to her real home.
“Ugh, there’s even more of them sleeping in the hallway,” she whispered. A family of dragonborn had set up a make shift tent next to a similar one that housed three duergar dwarves. The dragonborn parents and their two small children were playing a dice game of some sort. They seemed happy, but Pyntal had no idea why.
Not only was this massive dungeon of caverns and carved tunnels ridiculously calling itself a ‘city’, but it was a poorly run one at that. Cities didn’t have one room she had to share with her mothers and communal washrooms and cafeterias she shared with hundreds of others. Cities didn’t have families living in hallways.
Cities had streets. Cities had buildings and trees… and sky! There was nothing but stone here, and no area open enough for even a jog.

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d

THE HAND THAT FEEDS by @sasseverett.bsky.social

Romantasy x Indecent Proposal x 🏳️‍🌈:

🌶️Spicy scenes that are NOT shy
🌼Cozy setting
🔺Love triangle
✨Healing magic
💜Queer Rep

Check out the full review!
(Slight spoilers, more details at beginning of review ✌️)

#BookReview #BookSky

THE HAND THAT FEEDS by SASS EVERETT: A Review (Spoilers!)

There is much to enjoy in The Hand That Feeds. I was drawn to this book because of the succinct and intriguing premise, as well as the beautiful cover (simple and effective!).First, let me say that th...

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats! 🎉

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 3d

I sold my first book off of my Kofi shop! Woo!

Lilly Lockwood 🔥Pre-Order Broken Bells!🔔 @voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social · 3d

Done and skittering over to buy the book 💕

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday has just become the Moth King's prisoner #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #Romantasy #AuthorSky #AmQuerying

One of the schrats wears a wide leather bandolier outfitted with skeleton keys dangling from brass rings. He looks like Chewbacca if Chewbacca was dumpy and a janitor. Every step he takes makes the keys clink.
At least we’re going upstairs, which can only mean I’m not about to be put in a dungeon.
We enter a long corridor lined with identical, plain wooden doors. Key Master Schrat unclips a key from his bandolier and unlocks one of them. I listen for the sounds of prisoners begging for food or death, but it’s quiet as a church on Tuesday.

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PapaDjinn is querying @papadjinn.bsky.social · 3d

I love writing from Tok's perspective, it makes it easy to drop lore naturally~
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #bvm #bipoc #amwriting #Fantasy

“You shuffa up wit one of I brodas in a time of tragedy strange steppa”, Nazhe began
addressing Tokonus now. “Before it all, I am Nazhe, Septu of da Quxion and dis great city of Sakydra. Around ‘ere are me shimmers and Zepta of Sakydra, who are you steppa to address I family?”

Although not all clear, Tokonus was stunned at what he did learn from Nazhe short introduction. To call the other eight members his shimmer, were the Zepta all his mates? If Septu meant that Nazhe was the leader of the people, did that mean that the Zepta were his harem or were they something more? Then there was his speech, Nazhe did not speak exactly as the other Zhaly and even the Ghuly did. There was a strange mix to his accent that stood out to the Lukshen.

“Septu Nazhe, I am known as Tokonus and I have traveled with the broda Aesus as a leader of my own people. In good faith, I ask that you address me as Tok for that is the name that those closest to me name me.”

“But why dis man come, me Nazhe”, Jniaja spat with a click of her tongue and a wave of her hand.

“A rightly thing to ask, you know”, one of the furred males agreed. “You don’t think their arrival be a coincidence my Nazhe. They did come together, you know?”

“Dat be da step of it”, the Septu agreed with a nod. “Me Zepta be showing rightly concern on dis. Why him come, Tok, why shuffa ‘ere?”

Aesus, puffy eyed but collected looked over at Tokonus with a mix of concern and uncertainty. It appeared that the Zhaly wished to jump in, and indeed his mouth opened as if to speak, yet no words tumbled out.

“I am the one who found your broda locked away in a dungeon”, Tokonus replied noting the sharp clench of the Septu’s fist at the words. “My story is long and complicated, but I assure you I arrive as a friend of the Quxion, not as a rival or enemy-”

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M. Walsh - Author @m-walshwrites.com · 3d

#amwriting #WIPsnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Krutch and Celeste were brought to a dungeon in the lower level of the palace. But unlike others that he’d encountered, SPOILER’s prison was cleaner and better kept. He saw no sign of rats or vermin, and though he couldn’t smell with his stuffed nose, he suspected there was no stench to be found.
The walls were painted a light shade of taupe, and the floors were polished and spotless. The cells were tidy, containing a cot complete with fresh sheets, and each even had a toilet. There were no bars, but rather thick panes of glass that slid across the floor like big windows.
As they were locked in their respective cells, he wondered if SPOILER cared about his prisoners’ comfort, or if he just preferred every chamber of his palace kept in pristine condition. Probably the latter.

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d

My dad and I used to sit on the back porch and watch the rain together. He'd tell me, "I love you in the rain."

I Love You in the Rain turns “I love you” into a phrase for all occasions. It is about the unwavering nature of a parent’s love for their child.

I love you during DVpit 😉💚

#DVpit #PB 🌈✒️

A parent and child are sitting under an awning, holding hot chocolate, and watching the rain fall. "I love you in the rain."

A parent and child are at the beach building a sandcastle. "I love you at the beach."

A parent and child are at the kitchen counter preparing a meal. "I love you making breakfast."

Parents and children in different places at different times (playing, at the beach, in the kitchen, watching the rain, making snow angels, outside, in the evening). "I love you always."

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