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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Aug 1

Indie Sci-Fi Recommendation:
The Europan Deception: A Science Fiction Thriller (Dark Galaxy Book 1) by @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social
It was fast-paced and fun with great characters and a mystery that leaves you wanting more. Check it out if your looking to support another indie author!

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Jul 25

New short story just dropped.
A father makes a deal with a demon to save his daughter’s life.

A Deal Beneath the Moon
Now live on Substack.

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Jul 9

This writing stuff doesn’t get any easier, but finally consistency is beating motivation. I've written for 15 days in a row now.

Four sprints yesterday. Only one felt “good.”
Still got the work done. Still showed up.

I'll take it.

#amwriting #indieauthor #WriterDiscipline

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Jul 8

Just dropped a new Substack post!

A long overdue “Mid-Year Update” featuring marathon training, life updates, writing progress, and a sneak peek at Bards & Bargains Chapter 3.
👇
open.substack.com/pub/robmorte...

#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #WritingLife #SubstackWriters #FantasyFiction

Mid-Year Update

It's long overdue

open.substack.com

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Jul 8

I've been really trying to get up a write first time in the morning. I was a little groggy today but hey, I did it!

Woke up at 4:51. Wrote 282 words.
Did yoga. Packed lunch.
Audiobook in the car instead of screen time.

We'll see how long I can keep this up.

#WritersLife #Booksky #indieauthor

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Jul 7

Been awhile so here's a quick writing update:

Finished Chapters 27 & 28 of Bards & Bargains. Draft 1 at 85,000 words

Started the next interlude.

The POVs are starting to converge. It’s tense. It’s messy. It’s fun.

#FantasyWriter #WritingCommunity #Booksky

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Jul 7

Now is your best chance to find my book, Tales & Treasure, available for FREE at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my book and many more at www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords

Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · May 7

Absolutely worth reading!

Ryan M. Patrick @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social · May 6

The Europan Deception releases today! It's a sci-fi thriller that's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity. Go check it out!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQKKMSV

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Rick Danforth @rickandwrite.bsky.social · Apr 23

This wonderful solarpunk anthology launched at Eastercon!

It's edited by the brilliant @wishusdonna.bsky.social and has lots of great stories, including my first ever solarpunk short! I may have got a bit weird with it.

If you want solarpunk short stories then please check it out!

Book cover for vivid worlds anthology, edited by Donna Scott.

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 22

Wrote over 2,000 words yesterday for the first time ever. Feels really good. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going today. #writing #writingcommunity

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 21

I'm really trying to figure out how to balance growing an audience and actually writing. Anyone have any tips? It's hard. Anyway, better get back to actually writing something. I can worry about this marketing stuff later. #writing #writingcommunity

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 11

Another 100 word flash fiction story and a closer look at a character coming in Bard's & Bargains. #flashfictionfriday #writingcommunity #writing #fantasy

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 9

"Birds sang. The melodious chirping seemed different this morning, slightly softer, less enthusiastic. There was no echo, no annoyingly accurate echo. Vidmar watched Vatis. The bard sat in the dirt, hugging his knees to his chest." Excerpt from Tales & Treasure

#writing #fantasy #indieauthors

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 8

I drew a rough sketch first, then collaborated with an artist who used Inkarnate

Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 8

Here's the map to my world called Emre. #maps #fantasy #writing #writingcommunity

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 7

The best writing tip I've ever gotten is: "Embrace a bad first draft."

I would edit extensively as I wrote my first draft, while the draft was fairly clean, the process took 10 times longer than just getting all of your ideas out and worrying about the editing later.

#writing #writingcommunity

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 7

I like it. It sounds like a great idea. I released several short stories that didn't within my first book, but I didn't plan it in advance.

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 3

What #fantasy race do you want to see more off?

I think we need some more giants and orges, personally.

#writingcommunity #writers

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · Apr 3

Meet these great indie authors who write fantasy at the Fantasy Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #writingcommunity #fantasy #authorsky #writersky bsky.app/starter-pack/inventi...

Fantasy Genre Indie Authors

Join the conversation

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 2

"I could make you a hero known throughout Emre. I can make you more than a whisper on the tongues of thieves. By the new moon, you’d be on the mind of half the world...

Want more? Check out my novel Tales & Treasure a.co/d/a1DJWAD

#writing #fantasy #writingcommunity #indieauthor #selfpublished

Tales & Treasure

a.co

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Apr 1

I'm not great at naming things, example:

The name for my fantasy world Emre is just my son Remy's name in poorly pronounced pig latin.

#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Mar 31

What’s your favorite fantasy world and why?

#fantasy #writingcommunity

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Mar 30

"Vatis stepped over the corpse of a man he didn't think could die."

-#firstline from Tales & Treasure

#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing #indieauthors

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Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social · Mar 29

Hi!

I realized that I haven't really introduced myself here. I'm Rob Mortell, a #fantasy author. I write adventure stories based in my world of Emre. Tales & Treasure, my first novel, came out last year. I have an amazing supportive family and like to play golf whenever I can sneak away. #writers

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Mar 28

‘People mad about generative AI would be mad at the printing press and cameras! We’re the future! This is evolution! My prompt is art!’

The printing press and cameras weren’t stealing art or polluting the environment. But whatever you have to tell yourself, you lazy planet hating thief limp noodle.

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