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Chief (T.C. Smith) || comms open!
@chiefwritesbook.bsky.social
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I write and do art things, just your average local gay | he/she/they | 🚫 AI/NFT 🚫 | don't steal my stuff I'm watching

my socials (and comms info): https://tcsmith.carrd.co/
I wrote a sequel: https://books2read.com/scarsoftheraven
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It's Black Friday season! Book 1 will be FREE Friday 28th - December 4th for Black Friday all the way until its 2nd book birthday! Get started on STORIES OF THE ANCIENT LANDS today, we have:

✨ epic fantasy battles
👑 political intrigue
🐺 an adorable werewolf
❤️ slow burn romance
🌈 queer & ND rep

🔗👇
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
chiefwritesbook.bsky.social
PSA to my fellow indies that if you're going to sign up for an itch-io bundle, make sure you actually check your emails and socials bc-

I mean this is ridiculous. 63 people might have to re-approve the bundle soon because ONE person couldn't be bothered checking my three emails or Insta DM
A screenshot of an itch.io bundle stuck in draft mode with the status "waiting on one participant"
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I'm running an end-of-year fantasy bundle for indie books! If you have a fantasy book on itch-io, you can sign up below:

forms.gle/45t5y5NVCP...

📦📚 #BookSky
A green graphic for the end of year fantasy bundle with a silhouette of a man in a hat standing on a cliff looking at a hovering dragon. text reads: "end of year indie fantasy bundle. december 1st to 15th. sign ups open"
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Only a few days left to grab the ace pride week bundles! You do in fact need more books in your TBR so go get all of these ones

itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
itch.io/b/3322/ace-p...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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There's still time to grab the ace pride week bundles on itch-io! Check out all these awesome books by aspec authors or with aspec rep (or both!) you know you want to

itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
itch.io/b/3322/ace-p...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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#WritingCommunity
A meme of a koala halfway through eating some leaves, looking shocked. caption reads "authors when they discover they have to write their book to publish it"
October 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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In case you saw earlier and forgot about it (looking at you, fellow ADHDers), there's still plenty of time to grab the ADHD bundle! 22 books featuring ADHD rep by mostly ADHD authors! You know you want it:

itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚
October 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
chiefwritesbook.bsky.social
We all like indie books here yeah? Good news! We have a mega bundle of relatively unknown indie books that deserve more readers! You can get the whole thing for just $38:

itch.io/b/3305/under...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚
A graphic featuring some of the books in the under-rated books bundle, surrounding some text in the middle. Text reads: "itch.io under-rated bundle. oct 9th to 13th. bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." two rows of five stars can be seen above and below the text.
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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I'm still drafting book 3 and I'm already at the second one (someone save me)

#WritingCommunity
meme of a regular full colour Mr Incredible vs black and white 'traumatised' Mr incredible. first picture is captioned “How it feels when you start a new project” and the second picture is captioned “how it feels by the time you get to the final proofread”
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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My writing career summed up in one image:
Meme of salt bae captioned “sprinkling trauma onto my characters be like”
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
chiefwritesbook.bsky.social
Get ready for the ADHD Awareness Month bundle! 22 awesome books by ADHD authors and/or featuring ADHD characters! Check it out:

itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚
A graphic for the ADHD awareness month bundle, featuring 22 books on an orange background. Text reads: ADHD awareness month fiction by mostly ADHD authors. Most with 1+ significant ADHD character(s)
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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long cat
photo of a grey and white cat lying down with her back legs stretched out behind her
September 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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shoutout to that time I walked into a bookstore looking for work and walked out with a $50 book because it looked pretty

#BookSky
front cover of a special edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes collection, featuring swirling orange, silver, and gold designs on a leathery brown cover. A portrait of a man with a deerstalker hat and pipe can be seen at the top. Back cover and edge of the same book. The cover features similar swirling designs as the front and lists the various Sherlock Holmes stories featured within. The pages have a gold sprayed edge.
September 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Last chance to get the secondary worlds bundle! 22 books for $25 and you get to add more books to your TBR, what's not to love

itch.io/b/3254/new-w...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚
September 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Thanks for hosting!

I have books they are very good

books2read.com/rl/sotal

#LateNightWrite
A trope map graphic for Song of the Wolf by TC Smith on a dark orange night sky background. Starting in the top left corner and going clockwise, the tropes listed are: epic fantasy, slow burn romance, bodyguard x royal, female MC, queer & ND rep, low magic setting, high stakes battles, and political intrigue. A trope map graphic for Scars of the Raven by TC Smith on a blue starry night background. There are eight arrows pointing in different directions away from the cover, each with a trope attached. Going clockwise from the top left corner, the tropes are: political intrigue, found family, high stakes battles, epic fantasy, mental health rep, queer & ND rep, bodyguard x royal, and forbidden romance.
September 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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hi. yeah. go buy this bundle you won't regret it

itch.io/b/3263/bi-vi...

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meme of a hand rushing to hit a blue button captioned "what you should be doing this week". button is captioned "bi visibility bundle with 50 books by bi/pan authors" and has a bisexual flag pasted over it
September 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
chiefwritesbook.bsky.social
Why not both

itch.io/b/3263/bi-vi...
itch.io/b/3254/new-w...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚
meme of the comic-style man unable to decide which button to press, except he presses both at once and then gives a thumbs up. The buttons are captioned "bi visibility bundle" and "secondary worlds bundle".
September 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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look I'm lazy and don't want to make graphics so this bundle will be solely marketed on memes

anyway, the secondary worlds bundle is live! get your speculative fiction set in a place that isn't Earth!

itch.io/b/3254/new-w...

#BookSky 🩵📚 📦📚
meme of yoda from star wars captioned "buy the secondary worlds bundle, you must. make you happy, it shall." the bundle banner, featuring a cloaked person with a hat in a field of glowing flowers, is pasted over yoda's hands.
September 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
chiefwritesbook.bsky.social
Get ready for the bi visibility bundle! you get 50 books from 50 bi/pan umbrella authors for $50 AND you get to support a bunch of queer creative folks at the same time, sounds like a pretty good deal to me:

itch.io/b/3263/bi-vi...

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A graphic for the bi visibility week bundle featuring a dragon silhouette with a spaceship going through it on a bisexual flag background. Text reads: bi visibility week itch.io mega bundle september 16-23 50 books by bi/pan authors for $50 fantasy, sci-fi, romance, horror, and literary fiction
September 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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If you see this quote with the energy you bring to bluesky.
low resolution picture of a rabbit captioned “post this cat when they least expect it”
September 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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cat loaf
photo of a grey and white kitten sitting on a baking tray covered with baking paper
September 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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What's this? Another itch-io bundle?

Sign-ups are open for the under-rated bundle! If your book has AT MOST 15 ratings on Goodreads or Amazon (or another rating/review site if it's not available there), go fill out the form:

forms.gle/BUisCjLQqC...

📦📚
A simple yellow/gold-themed graphic with five stars on the top and bottom. Text in dark brown reads: "itch.io under-rated bundle. october 9th to 13th. sign-ups open. bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of."
September 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Bittersweet Freedom

Submission for #AugurMicros2025
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A snippet graphic on a light yellow background with dragon silhouettes in the top left and bottom right corners. Text reads: Seeing a horde of dragons take to the skies should not have been a bittersweet moment. This should have been a triumph, a victory—cause for celebration at knowing the world was saved. Seeing those iridescent scales catch the dawning light, Vos'Therronh should have felt relief. A thousand years of imprisonment. Finally free. But the dragons did not sing of victory; they sang of loss. Loss for their fallen kin, those whose strength failed in their millennium of torment, and for the one who gave everything to save them. Free from their shackles, they mourned the death of an empire.
September 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Last day to get the epic fantasy bundle! 22 books for $20, AND you get to read both book 1 and book 2 of Stories of the Ancient Lands, it's a win-win situation either way

itch.io/b/3251/an-ep...

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A grey and red banner for the epic fantasy bundle featuring a vector illustration of a dragon on the right hand side. Text on the left reads "itch.io epic fantasy bundle. 22 books for $20. september 4th to 8th." Below the text is a lineup of the 22 books featured in the bundle.
September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Be like this guy. Buy the epic fantasy bundle and then have too many awesome books to choose from.

itch.io/b/3251/an-ep...

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A remix of the indecisive man choosing which button to press meme. The buttons in the first frame have been replaced by the 22 books featured in the epic fantasy bundle and is captioned "buying the epic fantasy bundle for $20". The second frame is captioned "trying to decide what to read first"
September 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM