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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 1h

Just popping in to say that I'm about to go live on BOOKED, chatting about my books and writing at large with host Saffron Asteria. It started in about 45 mins (8:00PM EDT / UTC-4). 💙📚

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BOOKED with Author Adam Bassett | Season Two Episode Six

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ADRIAN M. GIBSON 🍄 SFF Author & Book Designer @adrianmgibson.bsky.social · 1d

Come hang out with me and these bearded beauties on Oct. 10th!!!

DB Rook.bsky.social @dbrook.bsky.social · 1d

10th of the 10th!! The Fungal Maestro, @adrianmgibson.bsky.social will be joining The Four Beardsmen of the Bookpocalypse for panel chats and chats about panels, with @davidtlist.bsky.social @tombookbeard.bsky.social @charliecav.bsky.social
9pm UK 4pm US, 3pm Ecq
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Adrian Gibson Joins the Beardsmen!

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Kris - A Fictional Escapist @afictionalescapist.bsky.social · 1d

🥖 Cover Reveal 🥖

Check out this delightful cover for @hermansteuernagel.bsky.social’s upcoming release, Flour & Forge! This is the third standalone novel in the wonderfully cozy, Greatest in the Multiverse series!

Cover by the team over at Miblart!

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Laura from OWWR podcast @myyypod.bsky.social · 1d

Hannah and I had the pleasure of speaking with @nghivo.bsky.social about the newest book in her Singing Hills Cycle, A Mouthful of Dust! Nghi shared some really powerful insights on the ways stories shape us, how food can bring people together, and facing difficult times. A great interview! #booksky

BONUS EPISODE- "There are a lot of things in the world that want to eat you a little bit. Don't be surprised when they do." an interview WITH NGHI VO

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 1d

You lost me at waffles.

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 1d

Okay so the Internet is just overanalyzing stuff again? Nevermind lol.

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C. J. Daley (BestGhost Out Now!) @cjdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

THE WAIT IS OVER, Tales From Cemetery IS OUT NOW!

This collection is the perfect range of stories for the Halloween season for horror fans both new and old.

Ebook and paperback available now, hardcover to follow.

Reshares welcomed

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 1d

Wait, what?

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 1d

Her arm is so good 👏
(Everything else a great too btw)

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 1d

Just ordered a physical proof of the paperback 👀

Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

Also, this is the last week to sign up for ARCs of COPPER SKIN OAKEN LUNGS, my upcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy novel.

Signups end after Thursday October. 9th! ARCs are available in eBook and Audio format!

So, get your application in now. docs.google.com/forms/d/1iqy...

Cover art for COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS, feat. three siblings + a cat in the dark, illuminated by an odd torch.

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 2d

My novella of trans self-discovery is now up for pre-order! You can get Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina (short name Opus) for preorder now. Release date December 12,2025. Ebook $3. Paperback $8.

Thread time.
Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb

Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina by S. Morgan Burbank

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 1d

A question I don't see enough authors ask: What *type* of map does your book need? 💙📚🪐

In AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN I spend a chapter breaking down different types of maps, from general reference and topographic to time zone and postal code maps.

🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

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Kris - A Fictional Escapist @afictionalescapist.bsky.social · 2d

A little while ago, I asked the community for some indie horror recs. Good heavens, did you deliver!

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Indie Horror for Spooky Season

YouTube video by A Fictional Escapist

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Grimoire Ink Reviews @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social · 2d

Of Ancients Unbound by T.C. Edge

"It doesn’t get much more Epic than this series, T.C. Edge is set to give us one more entry in a journey that will no doubt shatter expectations once again!"

Read Jeremy's full review here!
grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/o...

Of Ancients Unbound by T.C. Edge

Reviewed by Jeremy Schwab ★★★★★ T.C. Edge and his 7th entry in “The Bladeborn Saga” is nothing short of WOW! ‘Of Ancients Unbound’ has everything…I’m not kidding…

grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com

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Bill Adams - Willow Wraith Press author/owner @williamjadams3.bsky.social · 2d

Another banger month of reads by the Willow Wraith Press crew! #booksky

Check out all our reviews below!

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

Needed a change of scenery, so I took EVERY DARK CLOUD by @marisca.bsky.social to a park today. Excellent little novella to read on a sunny, cloudless afternoon. 😂

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

Also, this is the last week to sign up for ARCs of COPPER SKIN OAKEN LUNGS, my upcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy novel.

Signups end after Thursday October. 9th! ARCs are available in eBook and Audio format!

So, get your application in now. docs.google.com/forms/d/1iqy...

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

The AGSD Kickstarter is half complete, and 150% funded! 🎉

THANK YOU to the nearly 100 of you who had already supported this project, I am so excited to share it with you.

🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

A graphic showing AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN: WORLDBUILDING AND CARTOGRAPHY and some of the maps inside of it, both of real and dictional places. The book is divided into three parts: Worldbuilding, Life, and Map Design.

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 2d

Congratulations 🎉

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sunyi @handle.invalid · 2d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS

A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.

Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.

But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood.

As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 3d

Congrats!

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JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th @jd-rivers.com · 3d

Otar's story continues! Preorder today!

🐲 dragons! in space!
🛣️ more roadtrip
🏛️ more ruins
⁉️ archaelogy! in space!
❤️ idiots in love

"The Wish of a Dragon" out: October 15th

Preorder:
tinyurl.com/ysxyvfk6
books2read.com/u/47p7XL

TBR:
GR: tinyurl.com/yc6a7xke
TSG: tinyurl.com/ya34yu4w

📚🌈📚💙📚 🪐

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 3d

I've added more products to my Payhip Store and many of them are on sale right now!

#booksky #queersky #queeradultsff #sff #readers #readersonbluesky #booksonbluesky #readingcommunity #indieauthor #queerauthor

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Niranjan's Books

An author and editor, Niranjan’s biggest ambition is to have a character named Garth in every book they write. Niranjan writes books rooted in mythical worlds, and their stories are often a combinatio...

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Dave Lawson @dlawsonauthor.bsky.social · 4d

The Pawns of Havoc is available on Audible—and ready for you to listen!
Once again, the fantastic @laurenceknott.bsky.social
lends his narration skills, and I think you’ll love this darker prequel novella.
Hope you’ll give it a listen!

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 4d

Did you know that AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN contains commentary from DOZENS of other authors and artists on worldbuilding and map design?

Some of my favorite comments come from Brandon Sanderson's map designer, Isaac Stewart.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

An excerpt from AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN, a reference book on worldbuilding and cartography for authors and game masters. The excerpt quotes a portion of the book which includes three questions from Brandon Sanderson's map designer, Isaac Stewart: 1, Who commissioned the map and why? 2, are there accidental inaccuracies or intentional inaccuracies on your map? 3, Who owns the map now, and how is it being used?

A graphic showing mockups of the digital and hardcover versions of AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN which contains three parts: Worldbuilding, Life, and Map Design. There are 120+ maps inside plus commentary from dozens of other artists and authors.

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