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Jen Donohue

@authorizedmusings.bsky.social

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Doberman owner, SFFH writer, 💀, SFWA member, library clerk. Exit Ghost https://books2read.com/ExitGhost Werewolf trilogy: https://authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/learn-to-howl-trilogy.html Burn Up In Victory: https://books2read.com/burnupinvictory/

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · Jul 15

🔥⚔️🔥TODAY IS THE DAY TO BURN UP IN VICTORY 🔥⚔️🔥

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the first hardcover in the world of Burn Up in Victory. It's sitting on the flat-ish part of a dark gray stone, in front of a bunch of greenery that's in soft focus behind (it's a smoke bush, but it isn't "smoking" yet)

Book cover for Burn Up in Victory: a woman with loose red hair, waring a blousy white shirt and black gloves, holding a fencing sword vertically in front of her, her head bowed. The background is dark, but embers surround her.

(I bought this image from a photoset on Shutterstock and added the words to it in Canva. To my knowledge and the best of my ability, no AI is involved)

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 21m

dracula flow voice: im getting flummoxed by that wumpus

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It's beautiful 🤩

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 6h

it is WEIRD WEST WEDNESDAY

Between the Blood and the Sun is about faith and dying, and being middle-aged

inspired by Tombstone, and then I of course had to make it weird

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The cover for BETWEEN THE BLOOD AND THE SUN: a female figure, face shadowed, the sun rising or setting behind her. She's wearing a smallish cowboy hat (i.e. not ten gallon), and has two guns.

with cover blurb: "Hazel Smith rides west on a mare she won at a poker table.

When she reaches the town of Silence, she finds a tiny but welcoming community bookended by a church and a saloon. A good place to die. But the saloon has no mirror behind the bar, and nobody but the priest himself goes to the church. The only horse in the only stable is hers.

In her final hours, Hazel has to make a choice between living forever and making her death matter."

cover by Elyon from thebookcoverdesigner.com .

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 6h

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 10h

happy WITCH WEDNESDAY, buy/read/review my debut novel (2023) EXIT GHOST!

queer, gender-flipped Hamlet in Asbury Park, NJ, in the post-college, post-dad-assassination flail

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a hardcover copy of Exit Ghost ( (Exit Ghost book cover: a black background with a wisp of smoke curling up, a sketched/stylized sun with an eye in the middle of it in the upper left corner, a sketched hand in the lower right corner wearing a ring in the first finger, with the same eye in the palm, with a single tear falling from it, "Exit Ghost" above it in a cursive/handwrite-y font, Jennifer R. Donohue to the bottom left in the same font. ) leaned against a driftwood log on Asbury Park beach, with sand and the ocean beyond, and a partially-submerged jetty of dark rocks in the water.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 6h

Meme of Timothee Chalamet excitedly leaping to his feet with Zendaya sitting behind him with a dissociative look on her face, with NOVELLAS really big over the whole image.

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 1h

you can only pre-order this design throughout the month, then we're delisting it again. printed locally.

Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 4d

BANNING BOOKS ONLY MAKES US SCARIER. T-shirts, tanks, and bags available to pre-order throughout October only. Get yours reserved here: ghoulish.rip/product-cate...

a graphic advertising t shirts tanks and tote bags with luke spooner's commissioned art for our BANNING BOOKS ONLY MAKES US SCARIER quote

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 10h

get a COIN

get some PRINT MAGS

JOIN THE DEAD

okay not that last but you get a COIN 😇

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 11h

things you can do to help a skeleton crew out:

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spread the word 🖤💀🙏🙏🙏

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Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 6h

My goal for the day is one new patron. Signing up helps support my writing, my fabric art, and me as a human being and unofficial town sorcerer.

You'll gain access to fun posts such as my weird affirmations and Mothman's monster-based etiquette advice.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

fabric art, weird little guys, puppets

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 3h

The African Translation Project is at 2% of its $3575 goal!

Help fund the translation of these books by October 31!

Share if you can't donate
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Share if you already donated

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Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3345, 67%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

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Colleen @grouponlobotomy.bsky.social · 3h

Étant Donnés (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas)

Based on 1966 assemblage by Marcel Duchamp, his last major work. Hand embroidered on cotton. Custom order.

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Colleen @grouponlobotomy.bsky.social · 3h

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Commission Information

Accepting embroidery hoop customs for January processing period of 4-10 weeks. All prices are in Canadian and have $20 tracked shipping added for Canada and the US and $25 international. (prices are ...

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maezanilla @ MCM London @maezanilla.bsky.social · 4h

“This two-handed soldier’s sword was huge and aberrant and frankly malicious, and utterly your responsibility.”

A drawing of Harrowhark Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb series, dressed in hospital clothes while hugging a glowing two handed sword and crying, her gaze a little lost.

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Canadian Snark Lady and Potato Lover @kristadb1.bsky.social · 4h

OH THANK GOD.

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 5h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

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Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 3h

This book is so good.

erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · 19d

For a limited time signed and personalized books are once again available from Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley MA! Orders open through October 31st. Books ship in November. More info here: www.odysseybks.com/morgenstern

A stack of hardcover copies of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern in front of a silver tabby cat with an expression on her face that seems to say "why do you have so many copies of the same book?"

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 4h

and it'll always be like, some random keysmash combo that you did accidentally that unlocks the secret code to destroy the world, and you'll never again replicate it, you have no idea what you did

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 6h

Never forget she didn’t just sing it its her damn song

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 4h

LRS: I sometimes forget that Bristol is a place where people live and do things, vs. one of the main characters in Run With the Hunted (whose aliases are all place names)

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 4h

Looking forward to seeing some friendly faces at BristolCon in a couple of weeks' time.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 8h

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 8h

To be clear: like the real KDP (which has also been impersonated by scammers), the real IngramSpark does NOT charge any fees to create an account & upload a book, and does NOT sell paid adjunct services like editing and book cover design

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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 1d

Missed our chat about 120 MURDERS? Catch up right here! www.youtube.com/watch?si=hMu...

120 Murders Q&A

YouTube video by Ruadán Books

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 4h

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I used to love this place as it has a really interesting outdoor seating area great coffee, and interesting vibe but the owner of this place I have watched verbally abuse her employees and it's disgusting. I remember going in one day and watching one of the baristas look like she was noticeably afraid of her employer like she was walking on eggshells and it was very odd and noticeable. I thought this lady might've been stressed out to work there. A few weeks later, I was going by this place as I live nearby and I saw this owner of this coffee shop, screaming at the top of her lungs in the face of this same barista.
Just verbally ripping into her verbally, abusing her something is wrong with that lady. Anytime I'm around that owner of this shop. I get the icky feeling. I've watched her scream at the top of her lungs in the face of someone who was just trying to do their best working for her. Everyone is stressed lady, some of us more than others, you don't take your stuff people.... I felt incredibly bad for that barista who appeared to be a middle-age mom type of person. I will never return to this place even though it was so close by and had an interesting unique vibe, loving small business. I will never go here again lady you need therapy to apologize to that chick..
Food: 4 | Service: 1 | Atmosphere: 1

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you 😭

Like I GET that it's a business decision okay fine BUT ALSO

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 5h

Are you a librarian, bookseller, or reviewer? Do you have a Library Thing account? Check out the Souvenir Anthology from Stokercon 2025, essays, interviews, and stories, curated and edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail. Great reads from great horror authors!
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Book Giveaway for StokerCon 2025 Souvenir Anthology by Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Enter to win one of 5 free copies available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 11h

things you can do to help a skeleton crew out:

support our fundraiser: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

join our patreon: www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

spread the word 🖤💀🙏🙏🙏

Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground

psychopomp.com

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