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Bruce Buchanan @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social · 3d

Book review: THICKER THAN WATER. Going to college is a big transition - especially when you're a half-vampire! @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social explores the issues of belonging & identity for new college students in this compelling NA fantasy. 5⭐️
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Bruce Buchanan's review of Thicker Than Water

5/5: Going to college is a big transition for most kids. Leaving home, making new friends, even reinventing the way others see you are all part of leaving high school behind and starting fresh in coll...

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 7d

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Fired Up - Avery Timmons — Bulb Culture Collective

Kerria touched every bouquet that she passed, in case something were to happen.

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 7d

by the way!

this fantasy short story of mine was re-published in @bulbculture.bsky.social’s Chandelier: Blazing e-zine a month ago, but now you can also read it in its own post! :)

🔗 in replies!

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 21d

only TWO more days to enter!!!

avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Sep 6

🚨 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🚨

enter on Goodreads to win a print copy of my YA fantasy THICKER THAN WATER! 🧛‍♀️🩸

find the 🔗 below!

avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 23d

thank you!!🫶🏼

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 23d

IT’S PUB DAY!!

I want to thank EVERYONE who was a part of this journey, from the wonderful @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social team to everyone who has ordered or even just shared my content over the last two-ish years

I can’t wait for you all to meet Lydia and her friends! ❤️🩸

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 24d

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Thicker Than Water by Avery Timmons

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · 24d

TOMORROW!

(and no, I still can’t believe it!)

find the 🔗 to get your copy below! 🩸

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Wild Ink Publishing LLC @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social · 26d

TUESDAY!!!!! If you love a good vampire story, this one is for you!

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Sep 6

🚨 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🚨

enter on Goodreads to win a print copy of my YA fantasy THICKER THAN WATER! 🧛‍♀️🩸

find the 🔗 below!

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Book giveaway for Thicker Than Water by Avery Timmons Sep 06-Sep 20, 2025

Enter to win one of 5 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 06-Sep 20, 2025. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Ross wants nothing more than to be normal, ...

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Sep 6

🚨 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🚨

enter on Goodreads to win a print copy of my YA fantasy THICKER THAN WATER! 🧛‍♀️🩸

find the 🔗 below!

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Sep 3

THICKER THAN WATER is part of its first B&N pre-order sale!!

use code PREORDER25 at checkout for 25% off both ebook and paperback :)

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Sep 1

i’m so thrilled my fantasy story “Fired Up” is included in this, alongside some other amazing stories. go check it out!

Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔥 CHANDELIER: BLAZING IS LIVE! 🔥

Chandelier — Bulb Culture Collective

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Aug 25

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Aug 25

Fifteen authors. One prompt.

this blended genre anthology has fantasy, romance, and even thriller stories, all inspired by one prompt and written by fifteen talented authors

it comes out September 6, but you can pre-0rder NOW!

🔗 in the comments!

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Aug 25

so thrilled to be a part of this! 🔥

Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · Aug 25

🔥 Announcement! 🔥

CHANDELIER: BLAZING is coming September 1!

Here are the ten incredible contributors whose writing will amaze you: 

Jon Fain
Clare O'Brien Wright
Lauren Kardos
Patricia Q. Bidar
Eric Robert Nolan
Teresa Tumminello Brader
Elad Haber
Brad Rose
Avery Timmons
Dan Brotzel

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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · Aug 21

Reviews don’t just boost sales—they help a book find its people. Here’s how to get more of them without feeling spammy:

7+ Tips for Getting More Book Reviews

Getting book reviews can be a challenge for children's book authors. Check out these 7+ tips to help you get more book reviews and promote your picture book.

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Aug 21

thanks for sharing! this is super helpful!

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · May 7

#questpit, welcome to an #editorsguide to WELL PLAYED!

this rivals-to-lovers #YA romance about high school trumpet players will be #OS SOON 💛

#AG #R

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

A humorous, illustrated middle grade like LAST KIDS ON EARTH with aliens. For reluctant readers. Author-illustrated and repped by @KristaVanDolzer #PosterPit #AG #SF #F #MG

An illustration of a 12-year-old boy in an epic stance looking off into the distance. He wears a T-shirt/tank and shoulder pads. It’s a closeup shot of a coliseum behind him with red flags waving. Sunlight glints off his shield as he prepares for a fight.

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

DUNGEONS & DRAMA x BETTER THAN THE MOVIES

when the new kid takes first chair, 17-y/o trumpeter Julissa fake dates him to impress her drifting friends and teams up with her rival Logan to sabotage him—only to realize Logan might actually be the one she’s falling for

#PosterPit #AG #YA #R

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Abigail is ✨Agented✨ @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · Aug 16

TANGLED X ANASTASIA

In a Swiss realm where people forget their worst memory, an orphan with Tourette's recruits a flirtatious thief to help restore her forgotten past.

🪻Found Family
🪻Disability & LGBTQ Rep
🪻Cozy Setting
🪻Swoony Romance

#PosterPitAG #PosterPit #F #YA

Titled “WHERE MEMORIES BLOSSOM”. Poster has a blue background featuring flowers. Art includes four young adults: one girl with braided black hair and blue eyes wearing an old-fashioned blue dress, one girl with black hair in a bun and a pink shirt, one boy with orange hair and a brown vest, and one boy with long brown hair and a red cape. YA COZY FANTASY. FOUND FAMILY. Directed by Abigail Wadlington and repped by Rebecca Williamson.

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

When 12-year-old Gregory Hernandez wishes his sister would disappear, she's kidnapped by aliens. His living room is turned into an intergalactic gladiator ring, and he's got to fight warrior aliens to get his sister back before he’s grounded for life. #PosterPit #AG #SF #F #MG

This is a faux movie poster for a debut middle grade novel called GREGORY HERNANDEZ & THE GLADIATOR STARS. It's nighttime. A boy stares at the viewer, his mouth wide, hands stretched forward as if jumping toward you—an explosion kabooms behind him as aliens crash-land in his backyard.

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · Aug 16

Forthcoming 10.21.2025 at Brick & Bloom, a spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue and dangerous magic ✨

🌹 Historical fantasy
🇫🇷 Belle Époque
🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance
🩸 Body-based magic system
🗡️ Family feuds
🗝️ Gothic vibes

#PosterPit #P #A #F #HF

Request an ARC here: forms.gle/N6awtckRwFGy...

A poster, featuring an illustrated portrait of Aubeline de Sterraux from A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE. She is a white woman with brown hair tied in an intricate hairstyle. She wears a black dress with puffed sleeves and white earings. Aubeline is shown kneeling and praying, her head looking up.

The top of the poster is colored, and the bottom part is black and white, the two part being separated by a red stain reminiscent of blood.

The title of the book is in the center. Underneath is more text reading "A novel by Millie Abecassis," then a quote by April Yates reading "A gothic gem, rich with dread, desire, and a magic system as haunting as it is original."

Under the quote are the names of several characters, listed as if they were actors: Aubeline de Sterraux, Vinnie Anneton, Damarisse de Sterraux, and "unhinged dudes."

At the top are Cannes festival-style quotes reading "dangerous body-based magic" and "slow-burn sapphic romance."

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