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Diane Youngblood @dmyoungblood.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sad trombone: it's the LAST DAY of the GINORMOUS @narratess.com indie book sale! Hundreds of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror books on sale for 1.99, 99 cents, or FREE.

➡️ indiebook.sale

And yes, my contemporary fantasy trilogy is included - each book is only 99 cents! WOO!

#BookSky📚

Keeper of the Sphere trilogy: Legacy, Chrysalis, Prophecy
All 3 books only 99 cents each
Indie Book Sale at indiebook dot sale
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror
August 23 - 25

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Alicia Warne @aliciawarne.bsky.social · Aug 25

LAST FEW HOURS!!!

@narratess.com is hosting an Indie Book Sale featuring HUNDREDS of fantasy and sci fi titles!

Every book, including my historical fantasy cozy mystery, Death on the Loper, will be $2 OR LESS 💙📚 🪐📚🌈🚀💫

Browse the sale at indiebook.sale

ENDS SOON!!!

Image of cover of Death on the Loper by Alicia Warne

Next to Text: A sprinkle of magic, a reluctant sleuth and a boatload of suspects combine in this compelling cozy mystery with a historical fantasy setting.

Above a banner for the Indie Book Sale designed by Arden Powell

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Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

August 23 - 25

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · Aug 25

last day of the #Naratess Indie Sale!

an absolute bounty of indie SF, fantasy, horror and all the weird mutant sub-genres inbetween, including my surreal cyberpunk detective noir The House on Utopia Way, which is only £1.99 on Kobo and Kindle!

head to indiebook.sale to catch some final deals!

The House on Utopia Way by Stefan Mohamed

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JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th @jd-rivers.com · Aug 24

Find me at the @narratess.com indie sale!

🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer

Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw

Now: 1.99$

Full sale: indiebook.sale

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

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Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

August 23 - 25

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The Edge of a World by JD Rivers. Left is cover in beige tones with two people staring down at a ruin with a big domed building.
To the right: Possess scholar on the hunt for a cure to his possession, finds out the truth of his predicament is more far-reafching than he'd ever imagined.

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Cat Rector @catrector.com · Aug 24

Looking for a series about a country (closeted) queer and a centuries-old dainty bi vampire who are super cute with each other but are also perpetually haunted by an abusive spouse, lost loves, and a foreboding sentient trauma creature?

Now you are: books2read.com/b/b5JAGR

An image with six square images of different media titled "If you like..."
And the rest reads:
The closeted grief of Summer Sons. The devoted, kill-for-you love of Spike. The gentle comfort of the Astarion hug. The rising up against abuse of A Dowry of Blood. The dark, vibrant setting of Old Gods of Appalachia. The righteous coming into one's power of Hungerstone.

The text reads "You'll love" and shows the cover of Coal Gets in Your Veins.

The cover to the queer dark fantasy/horror vampire novel, Coal Gets In Your Veins by Cat Rector. Two characters lie on a dark, rocky background dotted by fireflies. The title of the book is in shape red font between them. On the bottom, Spencer looks up at Laurel, who looks down at him. Spencer is an effeminate man with pale skin and short, messy blonde hair and red eyes. He wears a white blouse with the chest open and a web of silver strands of jewellery spans across the opening. Laurel is a woman with long brown hair and brown eyes. She has white skin and wears a dark green t-shirt under black suspenders. The pinprick points of a vampire bite sit on her throat. The art is by scherville.

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · Aug 24

As part of @narratess.com's Indie Book Sale this weekend, you can grab these eBooks on sale for $0.99–1.99 each through August 25th!

Find them in Campfire's online bookstore or on the mobile reading app. Some of them include or offer bonus reading and artwork!

🔗 www.campfirewriting.com/explore

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Narratess @narratess.com · Aug 25

So true!!!

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Narratess @narratess.com · Aug 24

Check the FAQ at the top of the screen. All info is there.

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · Aug 24

Find your next amazing read at the @narratess.com indiebook.sale TODAY!
All books for $1.99, $0.99, or FREE! #IndieBookSale 💙🌈📚

Promise of the Betrayers Dagger and Legacy of the Vermillion Blade are both FREE! So be sure to grab the first two parts of the series before Book 3 comes out next year!

Top half features the cover of Promise of the Betrayer's Dagger with the tagline "Sometimes to find yourself, first you have to find your family." Below is the banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

Text: Indie Book Sale

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Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

August 23 - 25

Banner designed by Arden Powell

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Hel ✨ || Untwining... 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · Aug 24

Introspective dark fantasy Dragon Age X Shadow & Bone X Star Eater

Now $0.99 in the Narratess Sale!!
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🌱 rogue mage/enigmatic magehunter slow burn
💜 lush, tropical realm
🌱 lost history, dead gods, violent magic
💜 cPTSD rep
🌱 dreams & visions galore
💜 poetic spiralling style

#BookSky

The banner of the Narratess Sale on the bottom, Imbued's cover and a tagline above. The tagline is:

A wounded woman with a missing past must face the cruel origins of her violent magical powers. But will her healing break her war-torn world?

The cover of Imbued by Helyna L. Clove in the middle with labels around it pointing at it with arrows. The cover features a white calla lily surrounded by lush, thorny vegetation, its stalk pulled towards the ground by golden magical threads. The style is painting-like and the main colors are white, purple, green and gold.

- childhood trauma-induced amnesia
- violent magic
- manipulation
- very reluctant hero (crossed out) villain (also crossed out) ???
- telepathic flirting
- queernormative society
- failed magic experiments and dead gods
- dreams & visions galore
- demisex romance (slowburn no spice)
- "I am a weapon."

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · Aug 23

The latest itch.io bundle is here: Narratess Indie Sale! 20 long reads featuring ‘Children’ for $23:

itch.io/b/3246/narra...

A graphic with 20 covers with text "Narratess Indie Book Sale August 2025. Large Novels &
Chonkers Bundle”

When the Stars Alight by Camilla Andrew
Non-Player Character by Veo Corva
Shadows Dark and Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson
The Grand Duke’s Masseur by Rori Thornton
Petition by Delilah Waan
The Revenge of Captain Vessia by Leslie Allen
Usurper by J. M. Rose
Merchants of Light and Bone by Erika McCorkle
The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra
My Lord by L. B. Shimaira
Lost Blades by Liz Sauco
The Dragon Next Door by Vanessa Ricci-Thode
Coal Gets in Your Veins by Cat Rector
Children by Bjørn Larssen
Sidetracked Part 1x by S.K. Kelley
Child of the Sun by Audrey Simmons
A Path of Endless Crossroads by M.C. Burnell
Song of the Wolf by T.C. Smith
Birthright by M. A. Vice
Between Starfalls by S. Kaeth

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Conrad Altmann 📚🪐🌱 @conradaltmann.com · Aug 24

The @narratess.com biannual sale is on! 300+ books by indie authors for $1.99 or less. This year there are various @itch.io bundles as well! Grab a story for the day, a week or a bundle that’ll last you months!
📚💙

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Moral Laundry is available for only $1.99.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · Aug 23

Today is the annual summer Indie Book Sale - and you can snap up my cozy-spooky rom-com A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c/99p, along with SO many other great books! Find AMoUI here: books2read.com/UndeadInconvenience

And find the whole sale here: indiebook.sale

A promo image shows the cover of Stephanie Burgis’s novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience, along with the tagline: An unwanted marriage leads to a battle of wits and nerve (and debates over tea leaves!) in this gothic fantasy rom-com novella.
Part of the fantasy, sci-fi and horror Indie Book Sale.
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August 23-25.

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B.L. Brown - Fantasy Smut Peddler 💗💜💙 @brittawritesthings.bsky.social · Aug 23

✨Today is the day!✨

From Aug 23-25, 320+ Fantasy books across ALL subgenres are on sale for .99¢ or FREE!!

Head to indiebook.sale and grab your next favorite read!

📚💙

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Delilah Waan | Epic fantasy author @delilahwaan.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hey #booksky, #ICYMI: there's 320+ #indiebooks on sale this weekend ($1.99 or less). The handy filter on the @narratess.com sale page indiebook.sale will help you find EXACTLY what you're looking for.

Me, I've been scoping out the epic fantasy titles 👀 there's 21 of them, including mine.

🪐📚💙

Indie fantasy sci-fi horror sale: montage of all 21 covers for epic fantasy titles in the sale.

Juniper Butterworth - Priest-Queen
Talli L. Morgan - The Oracle Stone
Emma L. Adams - Death's Disciple
Patrick Samphire - Shadow of a Dead God
Audrey Simmons - Child of the Sun
Joanna Maciejewska - By the Pact
M. A. Vice - Birthright
T.C. Smith - Song of the Wolf
Nikky Lee - The Rarkyn's Familiar
Brendan Noble - The Crimson Court
Delilah Waan - Petition
J.D.L. Rosell - A King's Bargain
Scott Marlowe - The Assassin's Blade
Courtney & Clarke Collins - In the Name of Honor
Leslie Allen - The Revenge of Captain Vessia
Elise Carlson - Walking the Knife's Edge
Erika McCorkle - Merchants of Light and Bone
Morgan K. Bell - Broken Sky
M.C. Burnell - A Path of Endless Crossroads
Dylan Madeley - Prince Ewald the Brave
Hannah E. Carey - The Shifter

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Cory | Flameinc @flameinc.bsky.social · Aug 24

The @narratess.com Indie Book Sale is on again! Honestly I recognize a couple dozen things I’ve read, reviewed, and loved - far too many to link individually, you really can’t go wrong here. I’ve met so many amazing authors in the last two years, for .99 you can be introduced too!

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Narratess Indie August Sale

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Luke Tarzian @luketarzian.bsky.social · Aug 24

The @narratess.com book sales is in full swing @ indiebook.sale

Grab over 300 indie SFF titles (including Vultures and House of Muir) for just .99 through Monday.

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Nancy Foster 😼💉🇲🇽 @drafoxter.bsky.social · Aug 24

Okay, I promised I would make some fanart for the @narratess.com #narratess indie book sale for some of the participaring books. Art will be simple because it is late and I have to work in a few hours.
Here is Pawly and a sorta antagonist Hana from Werecats Emergent by @mark-engels.com

Two shifter catwomen from werecats emergent by Mark engels.
Left Hana a siberian tiger North korean woman
Right Pawly a blond lynx Polish-American

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Nancy Foster 😼💉🇲🇽 @drafoxter.bsky.social · Aug 24

Going to bed but I drew two characters that appear in Coward by @ayrtonmsilva.bsky.social a very cool Dark fantasy veering into bug horror territory participating in the @narratess.com sale this weekend. Great read and I hope to read book 2 sometime.

Fanart of two characters in Coward by Ayrton Silva. A green centipede bug and a concerned young woman with red hair and a maroon dress looking back.

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Alicia Warne @aliciawarne.bsky.social · Aug 23

From August 23-25, @narratess.com is hosting an Indie Book Sale featuring HUNDREDS of fantasy and sci fi titles!

Every book, including my historical fantasy cozy mystery, Death on the Loper, will be $2 OR LESS 💙📚 🪐📚🌈🚀💫

Browse the sale at indiebook.sale

Montage of book covers for books in the Narratess Indie Book Sale, with the banner for the sale in the centre:

Text: Indie Book Sale

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Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

August 23 - 25

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Louise Nicholas @louisenicholas.bsky.social · Aug 23

The @narratess.com sale is on and it's epic. Added so many amazing books to my tbr! Indiebook.sale is the place to check it out!
🪐📚💙 #sff #booksky

a woman in a blue dress is reaching for a book on a ladder

Alt: Belle from the Disney version of beauty and the beast is sliding around on a ladder in the village book shop, singing about how much she likes books. I still don't understand how that bookshop stayed in business, given Belle seemed to be the only literate resident. According to Belle, anyway. Maybe she's an unreliable witness.

media.tenor.com

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D.C. (Desi) Heart @desiheart.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ahhhh it’s happening! One of my books is listed in this sale. Unfortunately, it’s rather difficult to put the Kofi link up for sales like this, so I’ll post it here in case you prefer an alternative to Amazon and itchio.

Kofi: ko-fi.com/desiheart013

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VMcClain @vmcclain.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hey fam, it's time for the August indiebook.sale run by @narratess.com! There are more than 300 books in this one (including Dungeons & Dragon Dating by yours truly)! You should definitely check out all the books if you have the time, but for those who want help here's a thread of recommendations:

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Bella Dunn @belladunn.bsky.social · Aug 23

@narratess.com Indie Sale IS LIVE! You can snatch The Sorrow of the Wise Man for F R E E today!

And don't forget to check the other 300+ amazing titles on sale!

#freebooks #freebooksaturday #fantasybooks #indiebooks #eileereansaga #booksky

🔗👇

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Diane Youngblood @dmyoungblood.bsky.social · Aug 23

It's here! The big @narratess.com indie book sale is live!

Hundreds of awesome fantasy, sci-fi, and horror books for dirt cheap! (free to 1.99)

My Keeper of the Sphere trilogy is sort of witchy, sort of Old Godsy, sort of weird. 99 cents for each book!

Go here: indiebook.sale

#BookSky📚

Keeper of the Sphere contemporary fantasy trilogy Legacy, Chrysalis, and Prophecy for 99 cents each in the Indie Book Sale for August 23 through 25 2025

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