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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 1d

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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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 4h

Next, you’ll meet Prismer, an indentured servant at the Assembly Chambers. She’s committed crimes in the past and has been marked for them (which is why she wears a mask). She also has some useful skillsets. Standoffish on the surface, but very warm underneath. The 2 mcs inhabit different classes.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 4h

Well, we have my marine people evolved from corals: knyads. The first character you’ll meet is Oklas, who is a philanthropist and rebel sympathiser (the 5 sovereigns aren’t wonderful to live under). He's a politician and inventor who has founded a college.

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

🤎🪱 SPOOKTOBER SALE 🪱🤎
Only 99c thru October!

Sinister toads, haunted garden-gnomes, an evil compost, weeds with a vengeance...
These gardens are not just roses and peonies.

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

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Snippet from Dirt You Shall Become, short story in Dirt You Shall Become: The scent of rot was heavy in the shade behind the yew. Mille clutched the bucket of potato peels and coffee grinds to her chest and stared into the darkness behind the green archway of ivy twisting around a dead plumtree. Two beady eyes stared back at her.
“Is that you, Cleo? Ps-ps-ps.” She leaned forward and flicked her fingers to lure out the cat. A mosquito buzzed by her ear, and she waved it away, absentmindedly. Her heart drummed when the eyes in the dark blinked.
“Cleocatra? Come here, girl. Ps-ps.”

Mood board for Dirt You Shall Become, upcoming short story collection with a garden theme.
6 pictures. Top: earthworm, pink peonies, middle: garden gnome, weeds. Bottom: fat toad and a shovel with dirt. All with a brown hue.
Text: Dirt You Shall Become. Garden-themed horror short stories by Karen Lykkebo. Coming Spring 2025

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 1d

My review for this charming Hansel and Gretel retelling is on Willow Wraith Press. It is perfect as a quick Halloween read, and it's free for the next few days.
🧡🎃
willowwraithpress.com/2025/10/07/w...

What Coe’s Read: Hannah and Gregory

by J.C. Faust Summary: Trick-or-treating is the least of their worries when siblings find themselves left for dead on Halloween. Abandoned by their evil stepmother. Stranded in an endless forest. S…

willowwraithpress.com

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 2d

All these reviews can be found on the Willow Wratith website. Even Far Removed got a review (just in time for its 2nd birthday too).

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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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry you're experiencing that, Erika. I haven't been online much, but your worldbuilding always brightens my timeline. If you need a break from everything, please prioritise yourself for a bit 🫂

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 3d

Two books packed and ready to go.
Who else wants some?

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 6d

Every day, for the month of October, I am going to read (and quickly edit) 2 chapters of my manuscript for book 2. I'm finishing up with chapter 4 today.
Going at this speed, I'm getting my first impression of my WIP from a reader's perspective. It's... shaping up the way I hoped it would 🩶

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Bill Adams - Willow Wraith Press author/owner @williamjadams3.bsky.social · 6d

📚Happy Release Day!!!📚 #booksky

The City of Sun and Stars by Alex Robins, book two of his Mothers of Sorrow series

Check out my review at FanFiAddict: fanfiaddict.com/review-the-c...

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 6d

Yup, there are all kinds of payment thresholds that affect me in South Africa. Until a couple of years ago, you had to open a Payoneer account just to receive payments from Zon as they didn't deposit anything into you your bank account directly. We have to use the (dot)com site.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 7d

Andrés' lovely review for Far Removed is now on @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social 🩶

Andrés da Silveira Stein @andresstein.bsky.social · 7d

This book was a delight!
@cblansdell.bsky.social wrote an admirable sci-fi that is far from the usual adventure romp full of lasers and bling and swoosh!
It's a careful study into a being's sense and everything it entails.
I can't wait to get my hands on the second book of this duology!

Grimoire Ink Reviews @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social · 7d

Far Removed by @cblansdell.bsky.social

"It’s a book that explores how a broken person comes into their own after being broken."

Read @andresstein.bsky.social' full review
grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/f...

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Grimoire Ink Reviews @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social · 7d

Far Removed by @cblansdell.bsky.social

"It’s a book that explores how a broken person comes into their own after being broken."

Read @andresstein.bsky.social' full review
grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/f...

Far Removed by C.B. Lansdell

Reviewed by Andrés da Silveira Stein ★★★★★ It’s incredibly hard to explain this book without spoilers. But I’ll try. *sigh* Who are you, when you’re forbidden to be you? Who are y…

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 9d

I'm catching up on cross-posting reviews. This past month I finished reading the excellent Noxious by Ayrton Silva. I've also finished Faust's Hannah and Gregory (review on the way). Current read: Austringer's Wrath by E.L. Lyons. Plenty of Easter eggs in there.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 9d

#Fantasyindiesseptember @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social @lvrussell.bsky.social
Day 30: Wrap-up

I'll continue being a bit scarce in October as I prepare my sequel for beta reading in November. Aside from that, I have a few art commissions in progress and a couple of other writing projects...

Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · Sep 1

#fantasyindiesseptember @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social @lvrussell.bsky.social
Day 1: Introductions

I am Coe, writing the sequel to Far Removed (which turns 2 on 5 September).
I will stop by to look at other people's posts. Otherwise, I'll most likely be working on the 2nd draft of my last 10 chapters.

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 9d

#SciFiSeptember 30
A sci-fi book you've read with great worldbuilding

I want to mention one of my recent favorites here, because it doesn't get nearly enough attention.

Far Removed by CB Lansdell

It's fantastic. And there are no human characters! The knyads are a fascinating, semi-aquatic species

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for the shout-out, A.J. 🥹

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 9d

Agreed. So much exposure and so much negativity. Most of us are only on socials to sell our books or connect with like-minded authors who share that struggle. If your books are selling themselves, why be online at all?

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 9d

Audrie's review on Willow Wraith Press:
"[Far Removed] is a balance of alien concepts, sciences, and social structures that explores the familiar themes of class, morality, and self acceptance."
willowwraithpress.com/2025/09/25/w...

What Audrie’s Read: Far Removed

by C.B. Lansdell, Book 1 in the Apidecca Duology, Narrated by Amy Jensen and Christopher Tester Summary: On the moon of Knyadrea, the sea yields intelligent life. For a species shaped by tides, cha…

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G.J. Terral @gjterralwrites.bsky.social · 9d

I spent too long making this teaser video for my upcoming novel, but the good news is, ARC team wanted for a Princess Mononoke x Demon Slayer passion project.

#books

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Bill Adams - Willow Wraith Press author/owner @williamjadams3.bsky.social · 11d

Don't forget to vote for Willow Wraith Press' Indie Book Club book for October! Poll ends Sept. 30th at midnight PST.

ShadowBane by Cal Logan
Far Removed by @cblansdell.bsky.social
An Ambitious Woman & Her Very Normal Pet by @poppyalexanders.bsky.social
Coward by @ayrtonmsilva.bsky.social

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 13d

Today is the day!

www.amazon.com/Queen-Thorns...

Book cover for Queen of Thorns by Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann.
Across the top is a banner announcing "Book Five of Servants of the Moon and Sun" in a clean silvery white font.
Against a deep red background with ominous dark thorny trees and fog, an armored knight dressed all in black and wearing a silver helm and breastplate rides a black horse, which is also armored at the head and body. The knight holds a crossbow loaded with a bright silver bolt in his right hand. The book's title is placed under the mounted knight in large silver letters in a fantasy font with thorn serifs. The author's name is centered below that over two lines in a smaller clean silvery white font.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 13d

Happy release day, Joel!

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 13d

#Septopolis 25
Festivals. Apidecca has Beyashisik, the White Light festival. It commemorates their god and a historical event. The characters have something planned for this time.

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · 14d

#Septopolis 25

Moving into current events! Feel free to talk about multiple if you'd like to, but first and foremost I want to know what the characters might get to experience some R&R and fun times (this might tie into tomorrow's question, for maybe not so fun times!).

#WritingCommunity #Writesky

A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 25: Are there any unique festivals or public holiday events held here? Which would the characters within your plot end up a part of?

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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