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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann

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Author of the epic fantasy adventure Servants of the Moon and Sun series: an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil? Servantsofthemoonandsun.com

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 7d

Manifesting sales for October.
My books are an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil?
The latest is Queen of Thorns.

www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D

Book cover for Queen of Thorns by Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann.
Across the top is a banner announcing "Book Five of Servants of the Moon and Sun" in a clean silvery white font.
Against a deep red background with ominous dark thorny trees and fog, an armored knight dressed all in black and wearing a silver helm and breastplate rides a black horse, which is also armored at the head and body. The knight holds a crossbow loaded with a bright silver bolt in his right hand. The book's title is placed under the mounted knight in large silver letters in a fantasy font with thorn serifs. The author's name is centered below that over two lines in a smaller clean silvery white font.

A cartoon raccoon looks out from behind the cover and pink Raccoon footprints circle the cover.

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Nectar Vam @nectar-vam77.bsky.social · 7h

#OctoberWorldbuilders 8 #WritingCommunity #Booksky #Fantasy #Writesky

Barbara Culann (one of the Protags) is the sporty tomboy one of the Gang (as well as the outdoorsy & gymnastic one). She likes soccer the best. And in the world of Nequinum, the common favored sport is Football (European soccer).

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Chesney Infalt @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social · 7h

📚 What are your spooky book recs? 📚

I like vibes without a ton of scary stuff, so most of these fall into the category of creepy vibes but nothing too intense (Jurassic Park being the most gruesome).

#fantasyindiesspooktober hosts: @lvrussell.bsky.social & I @fantasyindies.bsky.social

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Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 7h

Day 8. Spooky Month Book Recs.

Final Girls.
One of Us Is Lying.
A Good Girls Guide To Murder.
Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel.

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Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 7h

Day 8. Does your MC play a sport?

Vivian is a swimmer.

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W&S_BOOKCLUB @wsbookclub.bsky.social · 7h

Via @1bookmore.bsky.social

Can't Wait Wednesday: The Forsaken and the Fated by Camilla Raines - One Book More

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme to spotlight a future release that you’re excited about. It’s hosted by Wishful Endings and was previously hosted by Breaking the Spine. This week’s anticipated b...

onebookmore.com

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Lou ✍🏻 🧶 @loustardust.com · 8h

Men I’ve written this year:

1: Abusive asshole
2: Lesbian’s brother
3: An employee named after cheese
4: Proper gentleman
5: Nameless goon
6: concerned father

bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 9h

Men I’ve written this year:

1. Ace Himbo
2. Grumpy but soft ace
3. Flaming homosexual drag queen
4. Taiwanese trans man
5. Canadian tourist/artist
6. Demon
7. Greedy antagonist
8. Billionaire murderer

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 9h

Men I’ve written this year:

1. Unnamed goons
2. Trans man bestie to ghoul girls
3. Ace dude who helps magical cephalopods do ecoterrorism
4. Male magical cephalopod who <redacted positive gender related thing>

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 5h

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 5h

Men I've written this year
(WIP, When Morning Comes, edition)
1. Struggling & grieving new King/ adoring father & husband
2. Grieving older brother/Uncle
3. Star-crossed lover trying to fulfill his dead love's final wish
4. Father reuniting with his children
5. Carpenter who chooses family over work

Joharra Harper @joharraharper.bsky.social · 6h

Men I've written this year.

1. Yearning bisexual.
2. Wholesome cinnamon roll.
3. Edgy but has heart.
4. Shy but masculine bisexual.
5. Do anything for his wife kind of husband.
6. Heart of gold Asexual.
7. Sweetheart.
8. Protective older brother gay dude.

#WritingCommunity.

Lou ✍🏻 🧶 @loustardust.com · 8h

Men I’ve written this year:

1: Abusive asshole
2: Lesbian’s brother
3: An employee named after cheese
4: Proper gentleman
5: Nameless goon
6: concerned father

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Diane Youngblood @dmyoungblood.bsky.social · 7h

Day 8 of #FantasyIndiesSpooktober

I got nothin' for this. I don't read spooky, so I can't recommend spooky. Sorry.

Oh wait. I do have one: The Staircase in the Woods by @chuckwendig.bsky.social was pretty damn good.

#WritingCommunity

List of daily post prompts for indie fantasy authors for October. Today's is: Spooky month book recs

Hosts: @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social and @lvrussell.bsky.social

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 5h

Just an amazing article about one guy's AI slop empire. I can't help wondering if, like AI itself, this kind of AI-driven snake oil entrepreneurship is a bubble that will burn itself out eventually, but in the meantime it's destroying human content creators' livelihoods.

Sheesh’s Pieces @last-pict.bsky.social · 8h

might as well drop this here too. not totally related but he does go into the process and motivations. futurism.com/slop-farmer-...

Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women

Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.

futurism.com

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 10h

In this week's Shadows & Sorcery, the Demiurge world gets some fresh new worldbuilding as the red wizard Carloman meets with a shaman of the Khurcham nomads to help banish a bad spirit...

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#Fantasy #FantasyReads #FlashFiction #IndieAuthor

Shadows & Sorcery #184

This week, the red wizard Carloman meets with a shaman to work the Winds of Sorcery, we join a cursed woman who seeks to fulfil a Demon’s Dream, and a castle wizard quests for one who has fallen to th...

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com

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M Pepper Langlinais/Amanda Innes @mplbooks.bsky.social · 10h

Here's a reminder that you can grab an ARC of my forthcoming book "Manifesting Destiny" (first in the Changer series) on Book Sirens: booksirens.com/book/TF17LJP...

Manifesting Destiny (Changers: Book 1) by Amanda Innes - Review Copy | BookSirens

Join the review team for Manifesting Destiny. Read it for free before the rest of the world does. Share your honest review. Discover hundreds of other books in your favorite genres.

booksirens.com

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Willow, Monkey of the Pen @willowmoon7.bsky.social · 9h

#DavidsMonthofMusic

8. A song about love without "love" in the title

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU8O...

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Azshure Raine 🍎 🌹 Romantasy and Retellings @azshure.bsky.social · 11h

Watch this space.

In the coming months a few things will be happening, including the release of my second Twisted Retelling: Death Like Sleep at the beginning of 2026.

Something exciting is coming for ReBirth.

One more, one last time

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 8h

Most recent indie reads! Highly recommend!

Baker Thief @clh2oars.bsky.social
Taken @katkinneywrites.bsky.social
Artifice & Access @ellatholmes.bsky.social
Dirt You Shall Become @karenlykkebo.com
Moonshadow's Guardian @diannalgunn.bsky.social
The Wisdom of Cerridwen @tristahendren.bsky.social

Collage of six indie book covers from top left to bottom right...
Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
Taken by Kat Kinney
Access and Artifice organized by Ella T. Holmes
Dirt You Shall Become by Karen Lykkebo
Moonshadow's Guardian by Dianna Gunn
The Wisdom of Cerridwen by Girl God Books

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 8h

For the Exile Forest, it will probably be something fun and will teach survival skills.
Fairies, magic and flying based.
Humans, brutal and aggressive.
We'll see what springs to mind.

Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 8h

#OctoberWorldbuilders
Does my MC play a sport?

Since Canin is sort of me, playing sports is not something he thinks about. I want to develop some kind of game or games for the Exile Forest, and the Humans and Fairies, but I've not had the time or inspiration.

@kiraofthewind.com

#OctoberWorldbuilders
Does your MC play a sport?

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D.C. (Desi) Heart @desiheart.bsky.social · 11h

Secret added bonus to supporting this Kofi goal, you’ll have access to all of my Kofi blog posts (including my latest post evaluating whether or not you should open the latest Pokemon Pocket reprint set).

D.C. (Desi) Heart @desiheart.bsky.social · 2d

The itchio launch bundle has ended, but I’ve officially set up a Kofi goal to get Elven published in paperback! If we meet this goal (which covers formatting and print costs) by October 31st, then I’ll be able to offer Elven in paperback and list my first ever book boxes! 💙📚

ko-fi.com/desiheart013

Elven by D.C. Hart (a dark scenic background with a green hued mirror in the foreground).

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 11h

🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🎭 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🐛 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈 a rescue cat

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

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Lou ✍🏻 🧶 @loustardust.com · 13h

Practically ✨brand new✨ shoes and boots for sale!!

Oxford loafers: women’s size 10

Journee combat boots: women’s size 11

ko-fi.com/loustardust/...

#shoes #forsale #kofi

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Lou ✍🏻 🧶 @loustardust.com · 11h

Me, reading your posts

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Ayrton Silva | 🐛☠️🔥 @ayrtonmsilva.bsky.social · 19h

#SFFChat 08

Still reading Pale, lmaooooo. I should finish this month or the next, though.

I'm also reading Tears of the Maelstrom by @timwolffauthor.bsky.social, and it's been very good so far.

SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 5d

Apologies that the October prompt list for #SFFChat is so late! When I wasn't able to get it done for the first I wasn't sure if I should do it, but in the end I made one.

Hope the continuation of the spooky theme isn't a bother--interpret the prompts as broadly as you need to (including snippets)

1. Introduce yourself!
2. First Costume you ever wore
3. Share something positive
4. Snippet: Haunting
5. Character fear
6. Favourite spooky or horror book!
7. Snippet: Orange
8. What are you reading?
9. Have you ever scared yourself reading or writing?
10. What are your characters dressing up as for Hallowe’en?
11. What would your mc do if their doppelganger showed up at the door?
12. Snippet: Blood
13. Share something visual (character art, moodboard, cover, etc)
14. Snippet: Night
15. Does your world have any spooky holidays or traditions?
16. Do ghosts exist in your world?
17. Character most likely to survive a horror movie
18. TBR Check-in!
19. What’s your opinion on Bigfoot?
20. Is space inherently spooky?
21. Snippet: Hunt
22. Favourite monster
23. Reimagine your book as a horror story (or, as another genre if alreadu horror)
24. Ask a question of your own to #sff participants!
25. Share some writing advice
26. A story you hope to write but haven’t
27. What’s the value of horror?
28. Snippet: monster/creature
29. Friendship(s) in your story
30. Reading plans for November
31. Snippet: Share a scary scene!

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M Pepper Langlinais/Amanda Innes @mplbooks.bsky.social · 15h

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober Day 8

I can rec a couple of my own books: THE GHOSTS OF MARSHLEY PARK and the Drew & Rayze series (first one is free on most platforms!).

Other favorites include classics like "The Haunting of Hill House." Check my video for more: youtu.be/tV-UoFPsdSQ?...

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M Pepper Langlinais/Amanda Innes @mplbooks.bsky.social · 14h

#OctoberWorldbuilders Day 8

Amaurodios can barely walk without tripping over himself, so sports are pretty much out of the question. Hopefully he gets more coordinated over time.

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