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Rosetta Yorke Author
@rosetta.bsky.social
1.7K followers 1K following 1.6K posts
Gothic romance, horror & time travel author. Writes short stories & drabbles. #TurtleWriters

Published by Black Hare Press, Stygian Lepus, Undertaker Books, Mocking Owl Roost, HorrorAddicts.net Press, Dark Rose Press, & Dragon Soul Press.
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‘A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.’
~Maurice Sendak

Put your heart & soul into your writing, #turtlewriters! Your readers will feel it when you do. Good luck with your WIP.🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity
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December 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible’!”
– Audrey Hepburn

Follow your dreams, #turtlewriters! It's amazing what you can achieve if you do! Good luck! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀
#WritingCommunity
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December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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“Employ an unreliable narrator, preferably one who doesn't know he is insane & has no recollection of such events as digging into a grave to rip out the teeth of his recently departed lover.”

– falsely attributed to Edgar Allan Poe, but good advice! #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️

Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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“Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.”
– Henry Miller

Trust your gut instincts, #turtlewriters! Put your heart & soul into your writing. Good luck with your WIP. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity
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November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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‘Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.’
- Ernst Lubitsch

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 ((hugs)) #WritingCommunity
A writer's desk with a Panama hat propped on an old typewriter, next to an empty whisky bottle with, beyond these, a wrecked, rusty plane and the planet Saturn in a cloudy night sky.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
~William Somerset Maugham

Remember, #turtlewriters, when you write, you're constructing a refuge both for yourself & for everyone who reads your story!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.”
— Wayne Dyer

Think positive, believe in yourself & follow your dreams, #turtlewriters! You can do this & we're right here cheering you on. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment & to say in his heart of hearts, ‘To hell with you.’”

– Saul Bellow

Start a new WIP whilst submitting, so you stay upbeat & motivated, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
— Thomas Edison

Keep going, #turtlewriters! Write one word, one sentence, one paragraph after another until, one day, you'll find you've finished your book! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books."
~Julian Barnes

Never underestimate the power of your story & your voice, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely & isolated from anyone. You belong."

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

You're never alone when you have #turtlewriters cheering you on! Good luck!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head.”
— Jon Acuff

Have confidence in your writing, #turtlewriters! You have a great story & you're the only one who can tell it! So keep writing!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”
e.e. cummings

Love your story, #turtlewriters, & then it will be *true* for your readers! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
- Oscar Wilde

Write at your own pace, #turtlewriters! However slow that might be, your characters will wait for you because It's your story & you're the only one who can tell it how it should be told. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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It started, as these things often do, with a whisper that made me tremble. A murmur on the radio, a voice that spoke of change, of a world on the cusp. “History unfolding” they called it. A grand, sweeping narrative that led only to a tangle of broken promises and autocracy

#RetroArtPrompt #tremble
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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It is now #PiDay / #PieDay, so Sweet Dreams is now live!

A #TTRPG module for Apocalypse Keys pits Omen-class monsters against a candy landscape

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Calenmir’s RPGs: www.calenmirsrpgs.com/Shop/p/Sweet...
Itch: calenmirs-rpgs.itch.io/Sweet-Dreams
DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Sweet Dreams. An Apocalypse Keys Mystery from Calenmir's RPGs. The central figure is a bear made of blue gummy candy that is standing on its hind legs, baring its teeth. The Calenmir's RPGs logo, a yellow knight, is in the lower right-hand corner of the cover.
March 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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"Just as one candle lights another & can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart & can illuminate thousands of other hearts."
- Leo Tolstoy

Put your heart into your WIP, #turtlewriters, & it will illuminate your readers' hearts, too.🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️

Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I'm thrilled @blackharepress.bsky.social have accepted my horror sci-fi story 'The Gift That Keeps Giving' for their forthcoming anthology 'Eerie Christmas 4'! 🎄🎅!
Perfect Christmas reading for all #horror fans!

Pre-order link books2read.com/Eerie-4
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November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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“…the beginning of my stories is always very promising & looks as though I were starting on a novel, & the middle is huddled & timid, & the end is...like fireworks.”
- Anton Chekhov

Everyone struggles with the muddy middle, #turtlewriters! Trust yourself & keep going! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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'Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, & which are completely unnecessary to know.'
- Leo Tolstoy

Good luck with whatever you may need it for, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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"The kinder & more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy & dull things become cheerful."
- Leo Tolstoy

#turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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'It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.'
- William Shakespeare

Believe in yourself, like we believe in you, #turtlewriters, and anything is possible. Good luck with your WIP. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
- Henry Miller

Pass on a little love, hope, encouragement, a kind word, or even a smile, #turtlewriters, & everyone's day will be a hundred times brighter! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM