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Sci-fi Author | Autistic & ADHD | Chronically ill & chronically online | TN 💜🤍🖤 she/her | 🚫A.I Website: juliemarchbooks.wordpress.com Buy my book: juliemarchbooks.itch.io Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/juliemarchbooks

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 1d

This is live! In addition to itch, here's everywhere else you can find the sale:

Kofi: ko-fi.com/s/4e26369e09
All major booksellers (Amazon is on here but it won't be discounted): books2read.com/bridges-of-s...

Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Got an email trying to get me to buy Prime Day ads for my book so you know what that means: Spite Sale! *thunderous applause*

Oct 7-8, Bridges of Smoke will be $1 everywhere *but* Amazon. Plan accordingly.
💙📚🪐
itch.io/s/161465/ant...

Graphic showing the cover for Bridges of Smoke along with white text that reads: "Anti-Prime Day Deals. October 7-8. $1 Everywhere except Amazon. Long live spite. Long live independent booksellers." The background is purple smoke texture.

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 17m

My beloved Appalachia

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 12h

Happy Spooktober!

Choose your fighter:
- the ocean? 🌊🖤
- the gardens? 🤎🪱
- everything? 💀⏳

Or all of the above??
Spooky short stories only 99c thru October!

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

📚💙
🩸📚

Promo picture of Now and the Hour of Death, Dirt You Shall Become, and Drowned Hearts.
Dark background photo with a tree in moonlight.
Text (from above): Spooktober Sale. 0.99. Available wide, KoFi and Itch.
Arrows pointing to each book> "Everything is evil" (Now and the hour of death). "The gardens are evil" (Dirt you shall become). "The ocean is evil" (Drowned Hearts.)

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 11h

✨IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: an asexual romance ✨

b2r: books2read.com/beholder
itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io/in-the-eye-o...
etsy: spilledinkcoffeebook.etsy.com

#booksky #acebooks
💙📚 🌈📚 🌶️📚

“You’re just….” I sighed, trying to find the word. “Spectacular? Amazing? Incredible?”

Curvy plus size heroine.
Disabled hero.
Asexual romance.

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 39m

So many gems in here!

Kaylynx @kaylynx.bsky.social · 9h

✨Under-Rated Books✨
‼️ 63 items for $38.00 ‼️
A bundle highlighting some lesser-known works in the indie publishing sphere.
➡️ itch.io/b/3305/under...
💙📚📦💸📢📣

Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 40m

THEY

Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 44m

They look so gooooood!!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 9h

HI CHAT. DID YOU KNOW IT IS INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY? BECAUSE I TOTALLY FORGOT.

Please look at Erika, my dumpster fire lesbian lead of the Azaes Realm series, and her girlfriend Abby. Art by @bmwillows.bsky.social.

And maybe buy the books too please?

anotherindiewriter.itch.io

A colored digital sketch of two women. On the left is Erika (fair-skinned, brown eyes, light brown hair tied in a messy bun, orange shirt, blue jeans). On the right is Abby (light/warm complexion, long dark straight brunette hair, gray-blue crop tank top, dark blue leggings). Erika looks somewhat coyly over her shoulder at Abby as Abby kisses her shoulder and teases down the collar of her boatneck shirt.

A drawing of two women sitting on a bench. The one on the left (Abby) has very straight brunette hair. She's wearing red and black flannel with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows. She has a black shirt underneath the open flannel and black leggings. The one on the right (Erika) has light brown hair that is mostly hidden under a grey beanie hat. She's wearing an orange hoodie and blue jeans. Erika is resting her head on Abby's shoulder and looking at her lovingly.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 5h

“I ain’t dead yet!” The dearly beloved Dolly Parton creates a “proof of life” video, assuring those who adore her that, even though she is dealing with some things, she is fine and still going strong 💛

Long live Dolly Parton ✨📚

📹: Via Dolly Parton

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Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 4h

Keep Your Sense of Wonder Deer - one of my portfolio posts where I post my older art. This is still one of my favorites, I feel like the art and the words line up so well!

My original art made in Procreate #deerart #keepyoursenseofwonder #fantasyart #procreate #bskyartists #artsky #theoportfolio

Digital art of a reddish brown doe with golden, glowing eyes. The deer stands on a grassy hill in front of a short, rocky cliff with more grass. The night sky is purple above, and the deer lights up the dark surrounding grass with warm light from glowing eyes. Around the deer are the words "Keep Your Sense of Wonder" in semi-transparent glowing letters.

The same digital art of the deer with the glowing eyes on the grassy hill at night, but without the words.

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 1h

I'm also here for the stubbornness

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 11h

Sharing again for today! Please consider preordering my new novella 🌈🚀💫 #booksky 🌈📚

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

anotherindiewriter.itch.io

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 1h

If we're talking their normal lives, Luke. His family low-key sucks but at least he's rich and healthy. Do I get to take my allowance back with me when we switch?

Daily OC questions @dailyocs.bsky.social · 1d

If you could turn into your OC for 24 hours and could live their life for one day - which one of your OCs would you want to be and why?

#dailyocs

Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 1h

Lafayette (la FAY ett). Quebeck (with apologies to my Canadian friends)(KWEE beck)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 1h

And 252? I didn't realize there was text on the back

Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 1h

Hey so uh. Can anyone send me a picture of page 251 of Sunrise on the Reaping? I'm reading my friend's copy and she got so mad at it she ripped it out

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 5h

For Cary, his attitude problem and defiance
For Balthazar, his charisma

To be honest I don't have room to fully flesh out the whole squad in a novella, but they're all viciously protective of each other in an unbelievably hostile environment. And I think that's pretty cool

Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 5h

It was! Thank you for getting me to this auspicious milestone!

Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 6h

For Leecie, her bloody-knuckled perseverance
For Bolton, his gentleness
For Luke, his protective nature and humor
For Rose, her principles

Space miners in the replies:

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 7h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

What is your character's most endearing/compelling trait?

What is something about them that you think will make a reader invested in them and their story?

Is it also the thing you like best about them?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 7h

Ah I love a pair of ride or dies

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 7h

The "too obvious vs too obscure" struggle is eternal for me I'm afraid

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 7h

ATTENTION EVERYONE: I HAVE HIT 69 PAYMENTS ON ITCH. THIS IS NOT A DRILL BUT IT IS VERY NICE

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 7h

I apologize in advance

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning. Halloween story. 👍🏻

Take a peek inside Luke's head as he does his best to keep his friends from falling apart on the world's last Halloween (mind the TWs). 4500 words, free of charge but not free of angst! Standalone...ish.
📚💙

juliemarchbooks.itch.io/the-last-hal...

Appendix 2: The Last Halloween by Julie March

Achilles Protocol Supplemental Material

juliemarchbooks.itch.io

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Spoopy Joolie @juliemarchbooks.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you so much!

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