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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 15h

Saturdays after the flu jab were made for comfy pj's, fluffy blankets and reading 📚💙

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 1d

Yay!!!!!! Best news ever

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 1d

Oh hiii you 😋

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 1d

Hello!

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 1d

Thank you 🥹

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 1d

I havent been on here to actually post in a while, and I'm too nervous that my first post back will be rubbish, so using this to get over my nerves

Hi again bluesky!

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 1d

Spooky short stories on saaaaaalleee!!

You can get 11 little horrors for just $3 ✨

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 3d

Happy Spooktober!

Choose your fighter:
- the ocean? 🌊🖤
- the gardens? 🤎🪱
- everything? 💀⏳

Or all of the above??
Spooky short stories only 99c thru October!

Ko-FI: https://ko-fi.com/k_lykkebo/shop
Itch: https://klykkebo.itch.io/
Other: https://books2read.com/karenlykkebo

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Promo picture of Now and the Hour of Death, Dirt You Shall Become, and Drowned Hearts.
Dark background photo with a tree in moonlight.
Text (from above): Spooktober Sale. 0.99. Available wide, KoFi and Itch.
Arrows pointing to each book> "Everything is evil" (Now and the hour of death). "The gardens are evil" (Dirt you shall become). "The ocean is evil" (Drowned Hearts.)

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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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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 21d

Perfect, that's the major concern out the way!

One of my cats is 14, and she chokes on anything and everything. I will give her the back claps, which sometimes help. Or if it's more of a swallowing cough I'll tilt her head up and use 2 fingers to stroke from her jaw down her neck. It helps clear it

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 21d

Is he vaccinated for cat flu?

Try giving some firm slaps on their back when they're next coughing

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 23d

If you grew up on Twilight but enjoy well written, non problematic reads - this is for you! Perfect for hoa hoa hoa season

❤️‍🔥 A forbidden romance
🌛 A blood moon ritual
🗡 Murder mystery
✨️ Tension & yearning
🧛🏼‍♀️ Vampires
🐺 Werewolves

Extremely well written & out on 1st October

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#booksky

The Blood Of Dawn front cover by Katherine o'malley

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 24d

✨️ New INDIE ARC review ✨️

This is Spaids best writing to date.

From one of the best series I've ever read. This book, in particular, was sensational. I am in awe of Spaid, the power she holds, and her care for her community. The emotion conveyed is stunning.

Out October 10th

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️♾️

#booksky

The front cover of savage fates by meagan spaid, on KU & amazon for preorder now, with release on 10th October. The following tropes surround the cover: feisty fmc, torture, fated Mates, self sacrifice, humans vs shifters, love triangle, multiple povs, defying family, big battles, betrayal

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 26d

As it's officially midnight in the UK, I can shout at you that it's release day for Red Demon by the wonderfully talented @sillauthor.bsky.social RD is an absolute sensation of a book!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Huge congratulations on your release Sill, here's to an amazing launch & all the success!

#booksky

Its release day, the front cover of red demon by Sill bihagia is in the centre of the picture. Either side is art work of the main characters. Beneath this the text, combine these and add a dash of spice. The combination options are: The poppy war trilogy, the blighted stars by Megan O'keefe the red rising series and mononoke

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 26d

'A queer and disabled danmei author in China is facing incarceration for writing queer stories if she doesn't pay the exorbitant fines placed upon her.'

No author should be sent to prison for writing about love. If you can, please donate below

chuffed.org/project/1422...

Help a Chinese queer disabled writer escape incarceration

Hi folks! I'm cherrie (they/she), a queer Chinese reader in diaspora, currently settled on Tkaronto ("Toronto"). I've started this fundraiser for a writer of Haitang (a platform for web novels based i...

chuffed.org

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 27d

A fun high fantasy with talking Dragons and an absolute villain of a Queen. With a fantastic magic system that brings an almost cosy vibe. If you like quests, DnD and adventurous vibes, this is for you!

#booksky

The front cover of to speak with the stars by K.V Wilson. Tropes: tyrant Queen, immortality, gods, mind reading, mind talking, dragons and cute goats. 5 stars. ARC read

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 29d

I've just seen folks on threads using the genocide in gaza to market their books, and no one has an issue with it? What world are we living in

#booksky

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · Sep 10

What was he wearing?
Bet he asked for it

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · Sep 10

As you should!

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · Sep 10

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Text mounted on a screen reads as follows:

WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION?

1. DOESN'T MATTER
2. WHO CARES
3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM
4. NOT YOURS

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · Sep 10

I forgot alt text because I'm inconsiderate 😒 I apologise its here: the front cover of Kissed by the Gods by Caty Rogan. Tropes: First woman with power, feminine rage, magical beings, gods and fates, war and "She's mine." 5 stars. This was an ARC read

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · Sep 10

I loved this read so much! I was left with a book hangover after, I did not want to move on to the next read. I cannot wait to see where this series goes & to follow along with the growth of Rogans writing talent. This is a fantasy for the exhausted women, the down trodden women.

#booksky

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · Sep 10

Thought I could finish a 720-page book in one day. I've read 300 pages so far, and I'm exhausted 😩

I just have this overwhelming drive to achieve 1 day per book reads, anymore than 2 days makes me feel like a failure

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · Sep 8

Over 1,200 actors & filmmakers have signed a pledge stating that they will refuse to work with Israeli companies that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against Palestinian people.”

Olivia Colman, Aimee Lou Wood, Mark Ruffalo & Ayo Edebiri are among those who pledged.

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · Sep 8

📢 ARC READERS WANTED 📢

Help an indie author out and sign up to be an ARC reader!

#booksky #arcsky #arcreaders

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Inheriting Armageddon, an epic urban fantasy about the four horsemen as karaoke loving, motorcycle riding, hipster assassins. Illustrated by author. Morally grey characters. Bildungsroman, angelic academia, multi-pov. Mental illness representation. Literary bent. Found family. Releases November 11th 2025

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Sep 6

TWO AWAY! TWO AWAY! 🥳🥳🥳

Keeping the sale up for a wee bit longer to try and reach this goal! Reposts appreciated, homeskillets 🫶💪

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