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Avalon Roselin

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🌹 Indie Author | 30s | They/Them 🌹 https://linktr.ee/roselinbooks

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · Dec 1

🌹 Welcome to the Rose Garden 🌹
I am Avalon Roselin, a queer indie author in my 30s who writes Horror and Fantasy books. You can find my work anywhere books are sold online. Full information about my books, including content warnings, are available on my website.
Enjoy your stay~ 🌹

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 14h

Wishing you a speedy recovery 🤞

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Looking for a community of authors, writers, and editors? Wanna learn more about writing, editing, and honing your craft? How about helping me access life-saving medications?

You can gain all this and more by joining my patreon! Whatever your budget, whatever your goals, I've got a tier for you!

👇🏼

Promotional graphic for the Charlie Knight Patreon (that's me) with tiers listed along with prices per month and the link for my patreon at the bottom. The tiers listed on this image: Squires for $3 USD, Knights for $5 USD, and Knights of Discord for $5 USD.

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hey Horror Fans,

How many of these books by #StokerCon2025 attendees have you read?

There are 50 books in this thread.

> Repost your faves
> Share your scores ??/50
> Or just add to your tbr!

#HauteCover
#HorrorSky
💙📚 🩸📚

Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · Jun 1

Haute Couture looks for Horror books! 🧵

Welcome to the blood-red carpet of #HauteCover
#StokerCon2025 Edition

Featuring author attendees & Stoker Award nominees

An ongoing thread:
💙📚 🩸📚

#StokerCon is hosted by @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social

A pale model with bright red lips wears a Christian Dior Fall 2009 ensemble consisting of a white shirt hidden between the vivid red of a fitted but unfastened riding jacket. A dark gray skirt hits below the knee and is gathered at one side. The model also wears a black top hat with a veil, small black gloves, black boots and what looks to be a riding crop. Mary Wyrd would wear this at StokerCon 2025.

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Alex Larkspur 💛 Queer Fantasy @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sweet & Wild, is out now! 🐝💛🍃
Sweet & Wild is a MM Fantasy Romance featuring nature magic, a sunshine MC, and mysterious spirits in the forest!

Universal Link: books2read.com/u/bzNng9
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...
Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/sweet-wild
Cover by the wonderful @northyme.com

A young man, Micah, kneels in a field of purple flowers. He holds a bundle of purple flowers in one hand while reaching to gather more with his other hand. He has peach skin, golden hair, and brown eyes. He wears a white shirt, brown pants, and a wide-brimmed straw hat with flowers woven through. Behind him, there is a verdant forest of trees. Bees buzz around the man as he looks down towards his work. The title, Sweet & Wild, is above him and the author’s name, Alex Larkspur, is below him.

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 8d

Grab a new Event Horizon-inspired cosmic horror for #SpookySeason 🎃

A rescue mission to a stranded starship turns into a nightmare for Helene Cross and her crew when their minds are ensnared by an entity from beyond the stars.

books2read.com/thego...
alankdell.itch.io/th...

📢📚 | 🩸📚🪐 | 🤏📚

Tablet mockup of The God Sun on the right in front of a space background of an ominous red dwarf star. On the right are selected review extracts. The text reads: “Brutal, bloody, and disturbing”, “Brilliant read. Well written. 100% recommended”, and “It had that creeping discomfort I’ve come to expect from space sci-fi stories that lean towards the dark side”. Underneath the book, the text reads: “Available widely. Books2read.com/thegodsun.”

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 2d

📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 2d

I also appreciate reposts of my pinned!

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 3d

I was tagged to complete the Outline Snapshot tag on Tumblr, and I thought a video was the best way to show off my outlining! #indieauthor

Outline Snapshot Tag

YouTube video by Roselin Books

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 4d

The video is now live!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl3c...

Roselin Rants: TheHorrorZine

YouTube video by Roselin Books

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 4d

For US peeps, bookshop.org is having a free shipping sale for print books as an anti-amazon sale! That's really neat! Did you know you can find all my paperbacks there, too? And so many other cool indies? You should check it out!!

bookshop.org/shop/earlron...

S. Jean Bookshop

My name is S. Jean (they/she pronouns are OK) and I am a queer writer who specializes in sci fi & fantasy, particularly contemporary stories with a magical twist. I'm also an artist and do my own ...

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 4d

two cats are hugging on a wooden table

ALT: two cats are hugging on a wooden table

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 4d

ALiCE Faux Insta Profile
I'm trying to make more marketing materials for my books. And why not start with ALiCE, the perfect book for spooky season? You can get the ebook for just $1 from my Ko-Fi, as well as its newly published companion novella, WHiTE RABBiT!
Or anywhere books are sold online~

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Choosing to read indie books is great, solid pat on the back material.

But choosing to read AND REVIEW indie books? You, my friend, are the stuff of legends.

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Coming Soon!
My husband and I take on The Horror Zine's list of do's and don't's. When your submission guidelines disallow genre staples like slashers, gore, and religious or political themes, we're left wondering: what's left in Horror to write about?

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

OKAY SO no spoilers for the ending or what was going on,
But this very much reads as the start of a very, very interesting serial series and I'm hype as heck for the next installment. I need more details about the world! I need relationships fleshed out! MORE PLEASE?

Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Goddamn rich people and their seances.

Interested about the time shown on the clock, and what that has to do with what's going on...

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Let's go spooky lesbians!

Also, this plot is intriguing. I legitimately have no idea what may have happened to Gayle Littleton, or that anything could have happened to her...

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Will be cross posted to my Tumblr too!

Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

I am maybe one page in to Friend of the Damned by @vincentlore.bsky.social and OBSESSED what do you MEAN "Don't hurt her, I'm the one you want?" what do you mean using second person POV to cast the reader as the antagonist WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S ONLY 30 PAGES HELLO????????
Anyway, get it and read it!

Buy Vincent Lore a Coffee

Become a supporter of Vincent Lore today!

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Got it, I'll stick to Blue Sky then!

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

I think Hymn of Memory by @earlronove.bsky.social is actually set in the late summer, but it is GIVING fall vibes. Like, PEAK first-day-of-fall, crisp-autumn-air, time-to-make-soup-for-dinner mood. And if anything bad happens to Morgan or Fin I will cry.

leaves are falling from trees in a park

Alt: leaves are falling from trees in a park

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

This happens to me all the time, too. I think the body recognizes that it's "allowed" to slow down and actually feel the pain/stress/etc., so it does...on the day that's supposed to relieve those things! Good luck, Jean.

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

You should read this book! It's good!

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 6d

🕯️🥀🍂 SHORT STORY 🍂🥀🕯️

One night, Jace finds a runaway in his barn. A boy with a horrifying story.

❌ no romance
🕸️ gothic-horror
📔 26 pages

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/b4aB7L
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/someone-else...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

#booksky

kindle cover for someone else's horror story by rebecca crunden; shows an old wooden room with candelabras and rising fog

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

What IS Threads? I've heard of it a few times, mainly wrt book community drama, but have never visited the site myself lol

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Avalon Roselin @roselinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Showed this to my students before fall break this year. I don't think ANY of them had seen it before. They loved it!