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Selene Kallan

@selenekallanwriter.bsky.social

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Author of spicy as hell, woke af, ANTI-ALPHAHOLE #paranormal #fantasy books with LGTBQIA+ mürder kittens.

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hello everyone! I'm Selene, a dyslexic paranormal fantasy author, artist, and symphonic metal lover. My stories feature powerful, morally gray, queer supernaturals who curse like sailors. My heroes are NOT "alpha" males, and my heroines are badasses.
Here are some of my books 🧵

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Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social · 16h

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Listen to a song you like and dance around. Drink some water, take your meds.
-You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others.
-The Distant Ominous Music may try some new instruments; be prepared for extra weirdness.
❤️Auntie Jilli

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 22h

Quote with two characters you like and since I don't know five people it’s a free for all 😊

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · Jul 1

New trans girl Claire just found out the members of her fav Portland band are magical girls - and she's one, too! Now she’s out of the closet as the newest member of Magica Riot!

Check out the book Strange Horizons called "brilliant trans joy," in print, ebook, and audio. magicariot.com/magicariot

Artwork of the cover art of "Magica Riot," featuring protagonist Claire in her purple magical girl costuming posing in front of the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Across the top, artwork of her and the other four main characters in a park is placed. Around the book art are placed several blocks of text: "trans protagonist," "entirely queer cast," "found family energy," "thrilling action," "music-based magic," "goopy monsters," "useless lesbians," "modern-day Portland." A quote from Strange Horizons Magazine calling the book "Brilliant trans joy" comes next. Finally, text at the bottom reads: "Recommended if you like Sailor Moon, Symphogear, Pretty Cure, Power Rangers"

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4d

One of the things that sucks about this era is having to think about the racists all the time, because they’re so boring. They have like, three tools in their toolkit, so we get to say things like “oh look, they’re using the hammer again”

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 22h

Choose a Horror Queen 👸

I’ll start… 🖤

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Author Amie Lynne Martin @amielynnemartin.bsky.social · 2d

How Wild Are We is part of CL Cannon's Romance Book Fair! Check it out alongside other amazing titles! fictionatlas.com/romancefair/

Featuring:
🏘️ small town romance!
🐺 werewolves!
👨 brother's best friend!
🎲 D&D rep!

#writingcommunity #booksky 💙📚 #indieauthor #romancebookfair 📢📚

The cover of How Wild Are We by Amie Lynne Martin. A wolf howls against an orange moon. A redheaded woman gazes off to the left. A dark haired man in a business suit looks to the right.

A woman in a red dress flowing out behind her faces away from the screen, hair spilling down her back. An image of a Kindle Fire Audible gift card, and a white mug with "just one more chapter" written on it are in the lower left corner. Text reads: C.L. Cannon's Romance Book Fair, featuring 100+ Free & Discounted Books Enter to win a Kindle Fire, one more chapter mug, & a one month audible gift card.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
🌲 enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship

🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

#booksky

Ebook cover for ‘A Light for the Dead to Follow’ by Rebecca Crunden. Cover image is of a skull surrounded by red-pink flowers. There are vines at the top beside the title. The title font is black and maroon, the name font is white.

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 1d

"Who did this to you?"

Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Pegasus is mine!

a cartoon character is standing on top of a pile of rocks with the words " maniacal laughter " written below him

ALT: a cartoon character is standing on top of a pile of rocks with the words " maniacal laughter " written below him

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg has more courage & moral clarity than any world leader I have ever seen.

Bar none.

Period.

That tiny 22 year old is often accused of being annoying, but what she is, is unyielding to moral ambiguity. If it’s wrong, she says so until someone listens.

She deserves the Nobel Prize

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 1d

He's going to bully her until she develops an eating disorder, and all because his mommy is a nosy fat-phobic dunce. She needs to dump his mama's boy pathetic ass.

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Completely bonkers movie 😂 But yeah, was great.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 2d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 1d

This cover ahhhh 😍
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Jessie Thomas @jessiethomasauthor.bsky.social · 1d

🕯️🫀COVER REVEAL 🕯️🫀

A big thank you to Fay Lane for creating a beautifully gothic cover for THIS HIDEOUS HEART that evokes a haunted Victorian séance parlor! The details are absolutely stunning — I can’t get enough of them.

THIS HIDEOUS HEART will be releasing this winter.

A darkly gothic pink and black book cover. The pink background has a subtle damask pattern. The design features an elegant black frame adorned with black candles dripping wax, ravens, and an anatomical heart framed by skeleton keys. THIS HIDEOUS HEART is at the center in a Victorian style font. The surrounding graphic with the blurred cover as the background reads, “ Step into the parlor. Montresor House awaits…” with “Coming this winter” at the bottom.

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Gods. I'm glad the bastard is the ex. And I'm so sorry you had to endure such cruelty.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 2d

She's got more bravery than 99% of world “leaders”

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon character says i 'm shocked in front of a blue wall

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d

📝 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...

#booksky

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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Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Shake out your hands, drink some water, take your meds.
-Perfect is the enemy of done.
-I asked the Cursed Object if today was also “no”. They blinked at me and hid under a blanket.
❤️ Auntie Jilli

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6d

Israel committed piracy by illegally intercepting the #GlobalSumudFlotilla in international waters.

Human rights defenders, from 46 countries, including Greta Thunberg, were abducted as nearly 40 vessels carrying aid, for genocide & starvation stricken Gaza, were stopped. #3E

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 5d

Kind Giant Panda🐼

ジャイアントパンダちゃんと待ち合わせですっ☆

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Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Blood Moon is a spicy paranormal romance with a golden retriever hero, and a heroine who loves sweet mooncakes. So, cinnamon? lol

Selene Kallan @selenekallanwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks!