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🏳️‍🌈 Sophie Maddon 📚✒️ YA Mystery out now!
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Neurodivergent author | Weird (but why be normal when you can be weird?) | Troublemaker | Owned by a cat.
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🏳️‍🌈 Sophie Maddon 📚✒️ YA Mystery out now! @smaddonwriter.bsky.social · Apr 18
I got 3 this week, all on LibraryThing! 🥰
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A fun mystery, interesting characters, a world where things are a bit different, and a hint of romance await you in this fun YA book. I admit, Jason wasn’t my favorite character at first, and my heart really went out to Eva. Probably because I was the smart, bullied kid in school growing up, and had one of the popular kids pull a prank in chemistry lab, too. And while I didn’t have to regularly deal with spoiled rich kids, I hated it when I had to. As the story progresses, we really get to see another side of Jason, and see Eva come out of her shell a bit. I loved seeing the character development and light romance side plot. You’re really hooked quite quickly once you start reading, and by the end of chapter one, I absolutely needed to know what was going to happen next. The alternate-world building was done really well, and it’s clear Maddon put a lot of thought into that and the character development. Overall, an excellent YA book that even older readers will enjoy! 5 stars
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November means writing messy first drafts that include the stellar "shopping at his shop".

The important bit is to keep putting words on the page, without worrying on making them pretty, that's what editing is for!

#Nanowrimo #Novelvember #NovNov
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Hey Earlybirds, It’s @gertrudedaly.bsky.social! I managed to pull myself out of bed and am making a pot of tea. 🫖

Writing sprints begin at :10. But I will be back before then with details.

I am going with a Denmark Royals theme, but tea comes from the charity Historical Royal Palaces in the UK.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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PSA: Back up you novel!
#Nanowrimo #Novelvember #NovNov
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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That's why I use pacemaker.press, it allows you to completely customise your pace! Include the days you aren't planning to write (or do less), tell it the days you want to do more, and it does all the calculations! I love it!
#Nanowrimo #Novelvember #NovNov
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#nanowrimo / #Novelvember Day 5

I knew I would struggle to write after working, but that's why I wrote extra on the weekends. Hopefully my days won't be quite as draining. 😮‍💨
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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As a hardcore pantser, plotting is haaaaaard, but I've learned that it cuts down editing time from about 4 years to 2 months so I'm forcing myself (saying I'm embracing it would be way too much of a stretch 😅😂)

#Amwriting #WriteNovember #Booksky
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Embracing the thrill of emergency plotting feels like diving into a new adventure! Each blank page is a doorway to uncharted worlds. Let's weave our stories together this November! #booksky #AmWriting 🌌📚✨
smaddonwriter.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 Sophie Maddon 📚✒️ YA Mystery out now! @smaddonwriter.bsky.social · 11d
Who else is doing emergency plotting today, because tomorrow is (already) the 1st November, and despite #NaNoWriMo demise, you're conditioned to write something new in November?

#AuthorSky #Booksky #AmWriting #Pantser #Plantser #Plotter
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Who else is doing emergency plotting today, because tomorrow is (already) the 1st November, and despite #NaNoWriMo demise, you're conditioned to write something new in November?

#AuthorSky #Booksky #AmWriting #Pantser #Plantser #Plotter
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October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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People are loving the twist at the end of Forever Night!

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October 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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How I feel about sprayed edges 😍

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October 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Am I hunching because I have weak back muscles, or are my back muscles weak because I'm hunching? 🤔

I'm procrastinating on edits, can you tell?!

#WriterLife #AuthorLife #AmWriting #AmEditing
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October 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Like YA? Like bargains? Check out the YA Sci-Fi sale!

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PS: Your Knowledge Or Your Life is in there too 😇

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YA Scifi reads
Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Looking for a book with stabby sapphics? I've got a bundle of 19 books that features just that ^_^
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Find it here: itch.io/b/3296/the-u...
The Ultimate Swords & Sapphics Book Bundle: 19 sci-fi, fantasy, & horror books featuring weapon-wielding sapphics for $22, at tinyurl.com/sandsbundle. Includes the following books: Kiss of Death by Bryony Rosehurst Tide Breaker's Curse by Ivy H. Marikova Stars and Soil by Dax Murray Unchain My Heart by RJ Martin Her Lady of Steel and Fire by Fern V. Bedek Of Serpents and Sorrow by Katherine Shaw Shadows Dark and Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson Jagged Shard by Dani Finn Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray Dame Ophis by Merlina Garance Soul Flames and Dawn Weaver by Issy Waldrom The Gift of Blood and They Who Brought the Storm by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea Blood Bounty by Elena Abbott Beyond Bringers by visceralhit Born from Earth by Jake Vanguard My Lord by L.B. Shimaira The Price of Peace by Senka Heksum
September 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Like YA? Like bargains? Check out the YA Sci-Fi sale!

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PS: Your Knowledge Or Your Life is in there too 😇

#Ebooks #Ebooksale 📚💙 📚🪐 🧡🚀📚 #YA #YABooks #YANovels #Books #Bookworm
YA Scifi reads
Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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a tweet by toby fox that says "I didn't try to learn Japanese for a long time because I thought it would be too hard. But now I love learning it and I use it every day. If there's anything you want to learn, don't be stopped by thinking it'll be too hard! Try it! Game-making, music, art, language, anything!"
September 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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I'm reading an article on the rate of human body decomposition in the water (I swear, it's for a book!), and the site is suggesting I may also be interested in "Homicide by combination of methods of asphyxiation"... 😅😂😇

#AmWriting #AmEditing #IndieAuthor #CozyMystery #Authorsky
September 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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500 words deleted in this manuscript so far, and I'm not even halfway through this second round of edits... feeling proud! 💪

#AmWriting #AmEditing #IndieAuthor #AuthorSky
September 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I’m just ✨ eleven sales ✨ away from 100 KDP sales for The Wish and the Demon! And it’s still on sale! So this is the opportune moment to grab it and help me reach this goal! 😉

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
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September 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Anyone else destroying their mattresses way too early, from spending too much time reading in bed???

📚💙 #Bookworm #BookwormProblems #BookwormLife #amReading
September 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Real edit note in my manuscript 🤦
"grabbed" -> find less grabby word

#AuthorSky #IndieAuthor #amediting #amwriting #writingcommunity
August 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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The Narratess sale is still running. There are TONS of books discounted this weekend. Don't miss it!

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Indie Book Sale indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci-Fi, & Horror August 23 - 25
August 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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The big @narratess.com Indie Sale is HERE! From Aug 23rd-25th, get indie fantasy, sci-fi, and horror priced 1.99. 0.99 or FREE!

Check out the sale: indiebook.sale

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August 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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The Narratess Indie Sale is live!

Grab 320+ fantasy, science-fiction, and horror books for less than $2!

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August 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The @narratess.com Indie Sale is HERE!

If you've been thinking of grabbing The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, it's on for .99! indiebook.sale

Or as part of these Itchio bundles:

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August 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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It's here!!!!!
peterhartog.bsky.social Peter David (aka Peter Hartog) @peterhartog.bsky.social · Aug 23
To all the bookworms and bookworms-in-training, feast your eyes on this MASSIVE indie book sale going on now through August 25th!

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From $1.99 to FREE, there are dozens of great new adventures just waiting for you to download!

Maybe, just maybe, you'll find a new favorite or three!
August 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM