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I’m a big SciFi nerd. Indie author, I write #spicy #scifi #SFF. Four novels and many short stories. My most recent novel Ariana Takes Command is available on Amazon, free to read with KU. #booksky 50+ https://linktr.ee/simonwolfe

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Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 12d

My #spicy #scifi novel Ariana Takes Command is on Amazon.

www.amazon.com/Ariana-Takes...

It’s a sequel to Galactic Seductions, so here’s some of the characters in my blog post.

simonwolfeauthor.wordpress.com/2025/07/27/c...

It’s free to read if you have KU or $4.99 otherwise. #BookSky 💙📚🛸

Ariana Takes Command (Ariana Joins the Scouts - Full Length Novels Book 2)

Ariana Takes Command (Ariana Joins the Scouts - Full Length Novels Book 2) - Kindle edition by Wolfe, Simon. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Ariana Takes Command (Ariana Joins the Scouts - Full Length Novels Book 2).

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 23h

📝 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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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 16h

While I'm between jobs with my husband, I can't afford my usual editor. I'm not sure what to do.

#WritingCommunity

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 21h

The mission is to get a perfectly preserved cadaver with a mysterious implant back to her home world, but will the reward be worth it?

Only $1 for a novelette with a sequel coming soon!

books2read.com/u/bxx9kP
rebeccaevita.itch.io/the-sarcophagus-of-lamia

#Books #scifibooks #scifi #Booksky📚💙

The book, The Sarcophagus of Lamia, in front of a planet with the following selling points:

Firefly X Dracula
Gothic Sci-Fi Adventure
Doctor Female Main Character
No Romance
Short Read

Website is: www.RebeccaReyesWriting.com

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 21h

As the arcane vanish in the sacred imperial capital, a circus showgirl learns the city’s secrets.

books2read.com/u/mvw8Pe

Other characters include:

💀Glamorous necromancers
📸A ghost detective in a camera
✨Awkward holy people with guns
💪A shirtless strongman

The below⬇️

#Booksky💙📚 #SFF #Books

The book, Sigils of Malice, with arrows pointing to all of the awesome stuff in the book.

Flawed, Masculine female MC
The World's Smallest Unicorn
Reluctant partnerships
Magitek Science Fantasy
Cactus Dryad Entomologist
Tested Loyalties
Unique 1910's worldbuilding

Website is: www.RebeccaReyesWriting.com

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 1d

New Review - happy publication day to the excellent When There Are Wolves Again by @catamaroon.bsky.social - a science fiction novel for the 21st century that gives us hope. Run and get it I think we need this. One of the best reads of my year! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift — Runalong The Shelves

I would like to thank Arcadia for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and valid review Publisher – Arcadia Published – Out Now Price – £20 hardback £9.99 ebook   Dec...

www.runalongtheshelves.net

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 1d

Check out these awesome LGBT sci fi books! My superhero book is part of this!

💙📚 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #booksky #queersky #scifi #queerauthor

October LGBT Science Fiction (Sci-Fi Romance included)

Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of books.

books.bookfunnel.com

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Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great deal. It has some really good books (and one of mine too). 63 books from 42 authors for only $38!

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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 1d

Want to be one of the first fans of some great indie books? Check out this bundle on itch! Includes books from a wide selection of genres including my Pagans & Pop Stars contemporary angsty romances, Love in the Liner Notes & Love at the Rock Show.

📚💙🌈🌶️📢📦♿♾️

itch.io/b/3305/under...

A collage of book covers from the bundle. Text says: Itch.io Under-rated Bundle. Oct 9 thru 13th Bringing your attention to the best books you've never heard of

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Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever been to Edinburg, TX? My Scottish friends think the pronunciation is hilarious. Hint, it starts with a long E.

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LK Morgan @lkmorganx.bsky.social · 10d

Anyone want to fill in the XX’s for me, as it appears I am out of date for word count ranges 🙈

#writingcommunity #YA

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Laura Livingstone @zombieirishgirl.bsky.social · Aug 16

A love letter to the sea, and the turmoil of the teenage heart, The Boy with the Heart of Sea Glass explores how we heal when the world tries to break us.
#PosterPit #YA #R #F

💜Goodreads adds appreciated

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Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

Men I've written this year:

1. Transhet count who is best friends and former lover to the MC's wife.
2. Cishet duke who is hellbent on preventing war even if it means torturing false confessions out of scapegoats.
3. Cishet scribe and sex slave to 500 year old vampire countess.

Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 1d

Men I've written this year:

1. Married gay paramedic who helps a lesbian with her mad science schemes.
2. Sleezeball fascist politician who gets killed.
3. Possibly actually an egg.
4. Gay older reporter who helps a young lesbian find the gay community in a fascist dystopia.

Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 1d

Men I've written this year:

1. watches his not-male coworker promoted past him
2. exiled and never heard from again
3. dead
4. forced to join a priesthood

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Emily Miller @emilymillerlit.bsky.social · 1d

Happy International Lesbian Day, some great @literotica.com stories here:

forum.literotica.com/threads/happ...

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H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 1d

We like to root for the underdogs, right? Well, here's a bundle of books that haven't received the attention they deserve.

It includes the 4th book in my Lost Humanity series, Predators! If you never got to continue past Bridges, this is your chance!

itch.io/b/3305/under...

Graphic that reads "Itch.io Under-Rated Bundle, Oct 9th-13th, Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." Text is brown on an off-white background with five yellow stars bordering it above and below. Around the text box are the following book covers: Predators by H.S. Kallinger, Zinmages by M.C. Burnell, The Spider's Friend by M.C. Burnell, Disappearance and Other Short Stories by PD Loupee, Memories of Sorcery and Sand by Joanna Maciejewska, Kranlian Rendezvous by Simon Wolfe, The Shadow of Arcadia by Alan K. Dell, Devil Deal by Janina Franck, The God Sun by Alan K. Dell, Water's Edge by Ellie Lieberman, The Third People by Lee Burton, The Crimson Knight by Zeta K. Pierce, The Lion by Lee Burton, Adventures In GameWorld : Game Start by Robert Rumery, All Through the House and Other Tales from a Random Place by Joachim Heijndermans, Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans, Blue by Niranjan, Wizard's Debt by Niranjan, Ambushed by Natasha O'Connor, At First Belonging by Rob MacWolf, and Demon Hunters Inc : The Infestation by Robert Rumery.

Image of a redwood forest at night containing shadowy shapes with glowing eyes in the blue spaces between trees. H.S. Kallinger is written in green at the bottom. Title text, Predators, is a gradient of gray fading into blood red over the thin trees. The top reads 'Book Four of the Lost Humanity series' in white text.

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPSnips 8. "Dungeon"

A plan is forming.

(Yes, all the [one or two] times I said the Dragon Gods of Outworld are extinct... well, they aren't. Not yet. And this has implications for the one who claimed to have killed the last one...)

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Contemplating the possibility speared her mind with hate. A god brought down from its throne, worms gnawing at its divinity. Yet… it also struck her with a pang of clarity: she followed Datusha’s train of thought and realised where it was going.

I can free the corrupted god with your blade.

“Precisely! You can end Onaga’s misery, and by doing so, bless your soul with divine Breath.”

She imagined it: climbing down the unforgiving dungeons of the Chasm, assaulted by the stench of decaying flesh and rotting hope. Discovering the restless grave of the Last Dragon God, and upon the profane altar, the magnificent being reduced to a husk of its former glory. Begging her to thrust Datusha’s light into its hollowed heart. And its essence, by the blade purified, flowing into her soul. Cleansing it. Hallowing it.

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Pumpkin Spice Laura @slowlaurus.bsky.social · 1d

ONE LAST STOP x DANI BROWN

🩷#upmarket genre-blend
💜 #own bi pride
💙 naughty puns

When Iris wakes up in her past, her decisions alter her present. To keep her perfect man, she must relive her breakups, but this time, make the right choices.

#DVPit #A #R #CR #LGBT #ND

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 4d

In the Eye of the Beholder: The Menu

A full meal in a book.

b2r: books2read.com/beholder
itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io/in-the-eye-o...
etsy: spilledinkcoffeebook.etsy.com

#booksky #romancelandia #acebooks
💙📚 🌈📚 🌶️📚

In the eye of the beholder.
Starter: asexual heroine meets secretly ace hero. There’s also a cat.
Main: romance builds and drama ensues. No one knows how to deal with unloving mothers and stalker exes.
Dessert: a happily ever after for the hero and heroine but it is only just beginning of their story.
Beauregard + Felix.

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JCollins70 @canberra70.bsky.social · 7d

Shady Places – Fan Fiction

The phrase "Never meet your heroes," emphasizese the risks of disillusionment. However, a positive encounter with fan, brought inspiration and shared creativity and, highlights the value of mutual admiration among artists.

Shady Places – Fan Fiction

The phrase "Never meet your heroes," emphasizese the risks of disillusionment. However, a positive encounter with fan, brought inspiration and shared creativity and, highlights the value of mutual admiration among artists.

scheyplacebooks.com

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 2d

Request for writers who consider me a friend, especially those of you who do WIPSnips or other engagement posts talking about your wip:

If you have the time and energy, post here about your wip. Give me CONTEXT. Tell me who your characters are and their relationships. Tell me about your setting.

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Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 2d

These are the paperback versions.

Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 2d

I just got an email from bookshop.org saying that they are offering free shipping for the next two days. Both of my books in the Ariana Joins the Scouts series are a available there:

Galactic Seductions: bookshop.org/p/books/gala...

Ariana Takes Command: bookshop.org/p/books/aria...

Galactic Seductions: Ariana's Scout Adventures

Ariana's Scout Adventures

bookshop.org

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Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men .

Alt: destroying the evil printer in Office Space

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Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Has been slow over this way too. I’m sure things will pick up soon for you. Your stories are so good.

Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Hope you will be able to
post some here.

Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry to hear that. it’s terrible that it’s so easy to compromise the security of these things.