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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 7d

Rough-neck grouse
struts his stuff
across my lawn
His timid mate
warms their eggs
waiting...
#randomactsofpoetryday #poetry #wildlife #nature
#wildlifephotography

A fine rough-neck grouse struts his stuff across my lawn-- British Columbia

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 9d

Singing the songs of their people...
Sea lions on a log boom in Howe Sound. #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 9d

Caught this mama eyeing the raccoons on my deck. #Wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #photography

A mama coyote pauses while stalking raccoons on my deck.

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 14d

No, it's non-fiction. I'm writing another book about women serial killers and the FBI estimates there are 200 women serial killers active in the US today...

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 15d

A History of Women in Piracy #UnhingedPit #NF #A #P #CS
Meet some of the most successful, swashbuckling pirate women ever to sail the seven seas! Available for pre-order Pen and Sword, Amazon, B&N, etc.

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 15d

Beyond the Gate #UnhingedPit #A #Historical #Thriller #Women's
Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus must divorce Marcella as only officer's can be wed. Unwilling to wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond the fortress gates with the other 'wives' when an officer goes missing...

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 15d

Midnight on Olympus #UnhingedPit #A #Historical #Thriller #Spec #LGBT The Gladiatrix Chronicles
Breaking news from the 1st century's Gender Fluid Times!
Unable to save Germania's Shining Sisters, Aoife leaves Germanicus Caesar for Greece. Entering the Mysteries she discovers her Dark Mother.

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 15d

Gladiatrix Daughter of War #UnhingedPit #A #Historical #Spec #Thriller #LGBT
Available on Amazon now!
Looking for a producer.
See Aoife's award-winning trailer on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=rToo...

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 15d

BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN KING #UnhingedPit #A #Q #F #R #R

Newspaper with a smiling bride standing in front of a burning village with the headline, local woman marries mountain king burns down village. Subtext is did the villagers deserve such an end? Yes. They are literally evil.

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 15d

The Name of the Rose x Eaters of the Dead = VIKING, NUN, MURDER, CHICKEN #UnhingedPit #Q #A #R #Historical

The Name of the Rose x Eaters of the Dead = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken. Two stick figures stand at the right of a green background, one with a Viking helmet swooning over a stick figure dressed as a nun and give two thumbs up. A pile of dead stick people is on the right with a pool of blood. A wee baby chicken is in the bottom right

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Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱) @delandjessica.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 ESCAPED FUGITIVES ALERT 🚨

3 high-risk fugitives vanished from Agency prison without a trace

When: unknown

All very powerful & dangerous

If you think you see something, DO NOT ENGAGE. Report to your local Agency representative immediately

#UnhingedPit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH

Fake wanted poster for #Unhingedpit. Top reads "Wanted" with an image of the head and shoulders of a malicious-eyed man with bat wings and a barbed tail holding a copper vial in a hand with a bound palm and forearm. Below reads, "Kinito-inato, psychotic and malicious, disposed to drastic shifts in mood, expert in ice and gravity magic." Bottom reads, "Approach with extreme caution, If you have any information regarding his whereabouts, please contact your nearest Agency outpost."

Fake wanted poster for #Unhingedpit. Top reads "Wanted" with an image of the head and shoulders of a sad-eyed man wearing a face mask and an eye patch over his right eye in a button-up shirt with a metal-studded chest and his long slate hair covering his right eye. Below reads, "Altis-iacus, mild-mannered but powerful, drawn to reading and sculpting, expert in earth and mental magics." Bottom reads, "Approach with caution, If you have any information regarding his whereabouts, please contact your nearest Agency outpost."

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 15d

RESPITE
Stranger Things x Silent Hill

Or

How to take care of a narcissist with dementia who was born, raised, and thrived in a cult. Based on a true story with fictional plotting to process the trauma (because nobody would believe the shit she said)

#UnhingedPit #Q #A #NF #Memoir #autofiction

a group of people walking in a line with a woman standing on a pole

ALT: a group of people walking in a line with a woman standing on a pole

media.tenor.com

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 15d

A History of Women in Piracy Life Under the Black Flag #UnhingedPit #A #NF #P #CS
Meet some of history's most infamous sword-wielding women.
Available now for pre-order at Pen and Sword, Amazon, etc

A History of Women in Piracy non-fiction available now
Sword and axe wielding pirate woman and another with a pistol

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 15d

Beyond the Gate #UnhingedPit #A #Thriller #Historical #Women's #Q

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 15d

Midnight on Olympus #UnhingedPit #A #Historical #Thriller #LGBT #Q Tabloid

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 15d

#UnhingedPit #A #Thriller #Historical #LGBT #Spec #P
Gladiatrix Daughter of War

First Century--A young British barbarian Druid is enslaved by Rome as a gladiatrix becomes Rome's celebrated champiuon

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Aug 7

Love & Lust A Legionary Romance - Castra Vetera's top doc Medicus Galenus falls for Marcus, a disgraced siege-works engineer plagued with survivor's PTSD. In a May/Dec romantic thriller, Marcus & Galenus find love while facing bloody barbarians, ghosts, plague & Caesar. #questpit #A #H #T #LGBTQ #Q

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Aug 6

Gladiatrix Daughter of War - I am Aoife, survivor of the Druidic Ynys Môn genocide, Piso's brothel slave, witch of Roman General Germanicus, Hand of the Dark Mothers and I will have blood justice for my people! Book I in the Gladiatrix Chronicles avail now. #questpit #A #H #T #W #P

A first century British barbarian woman stands in the corridor of a Roman temple

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Aug 6

Psychics gather@Pompeii's gladiator's school, awakening the ghosts of the untimely dead - spirits tied to where they died. Homeless boys, surgeons, whores, patrician women & their gladiator lovers share their last days in Thirteen. #questpit #A #T #HF #OS

a volcano with flames coming out of it 's mouth

Alt: Mt Vesuvius explodes-- a volcano with flames coming out of it 's mouth

media.tenor.com

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Aug 6

Lose the farm or join the legions? Titus divorces Marcella as only officers can wed.She lives outside his Germania frontier fortress with the other 'barbarian wives', when an officer goes missing. Who killed Quintus & why? Who survives Varus' doomed command? Beyond the Gate. #questpit #A #H #T #Q

First century Germania, the Roman frontier a solider stares across the landscape, a woman turns her back,a gate into the fortress is open.

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Aug 6

My History of Women in Piracy a series of short biographies of women pirates from around the world published by Pen & Sword is available for pre-order now! #questpit #A #NF #H #W

A History of Women in Piracy non-fiction available for pre-order from Pen & Sword now. Short biographies of women pirates from around the world.

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Aug 6

Midnight on Olympus - Aoife & Roman gen. Germanicus face mutiny & murder, but when he commits genocide against the Shining Sisters she leaves for Greece, where she enters the Mysteries & becomes the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the Brotherhood of Sol #questpit #A #H #T #OS

Midnight on Olympus - Greek Ruins with Praetorian's and Gerrmanicus Caesar. Druidic Magic, Mystery, Murder and Revenge follow Aoife as a Shining Sister she goes to Greece and enters the Mysteries becoming the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the Brotherhood of Sol.

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Jul 12

I just submitted "Gladiatrix Daughter of War -" to Film Revolution via FilmFreeway.com! #Blueskyfilm #Film

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Jul 6

Gladiatrix Daughter of War - I am Aoife, survivor of the Druidic Ynys Môn genocide, Piso's brothel slave, witch of Roman General Germanicus, Hand of the Dark Mother and I will have blood justice for my people! Book I in the Gladiatrix Chronicles #MiseryPit #A #HT #WFT

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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · Jul 5

Love & Lust A Legionary Romance - Castra Vetera's top doc Medicus Galenus falls for Marcus, a disgraced siege-works engineer plagued with survivor's PTSD. In a May/Dec romantic thriller, Marcus & Galenus find love while facing bloody barbarians, ghosts, plague & Caesar. #MiseryPit #A #HT #LGBTQ #Q

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