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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd

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Writer, bookaholic, Bluenoser, cat lover. 🇨🇦 Links to some of my shorties: https://elleboyd.com/ Unsolicited DMs will be ignored like the scourge they are.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · Jul 13

A shy store clerk. A plain Jane. A near-hermit. An unlikeable jerk. An ambitious perfectionist. Their common link? A new pill that promises lucid dreams, but delivers scary side effects. The line between dream and reality blurs as they discover its origin. #BluePit📖 #Q #SF

Three vertical fantastical images: Reddish tree in distance, some reddish-coloured grass, what looks like sand; Asian woman sitting holding glowing white orb in blue "room"; city scape at night.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 1d

#9 is the reason I'm such a slow reader.

Jerry Smith, writer, motorcyclist, Sophie's dad. @jerrysmith6559.bsky.social · 4d

This reminded me that I once posted something with a spelling error and five minutes later my ex called me on the phone to make sure I was all right. #booksky #amwriting #authors

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2d

I don't normally read thrillers, but Catherine Steadman's Mr. Nobody caught my eye.

Catherine Steadman on top, Mr. Nobody on bottom, large tall letters. Beach nearing sunset, nice yellows and oranges, silhouette of a man standing on purplish sand.

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Penstricken @penstricken.bsky.social · 2d

There are exactly 20 days left to enter our Flash Fiction Competition for your chance to win £25 + your story and author interview published in our winter issue, Glamour 👠✨. See link for competition rules and how to enter. 👉🏻 Penstricken.com/competitions

#writersky #flashfiction #writingcontest

Competitions

Competitions Winter 2025 Flash Fiction Competition Subtext: the delicate art of saying one thing while meaning another. It’s also one of those things that separates good writing from exceptio…

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 2d

What kind of October is this??

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 3d

A book I didn't know existed that I need in my life. Love Simple Minds. 💙

Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 3d

My first sightings in the wild. Good to see a stack of copies of Our Secrets Are The Same at Waterstones in Princes St this weekend

A table of books at Waterstones in Edinburgh under the signage Favourite Faces, including several copies of Our Secrets Are The Same

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 4d

If you see this post a picture from your device without explaining it

White painted wooden owl on a little unpainted wooden base on a wooden TV tray. Lotta wood here.

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MoonLit Getaway @mgliterary.bsky.social · 4d

Read "The Road Between" by A Chung: moonlitgetaway.com/short-fiction/the-road-between

Winner of the MoonLit Getaway Grand Opening Contest (2024)

Our 2025 Short Fiction contest is open for submissions until OCT/12/2025 at 11:59 pm (MT)
#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #LitMag #WritingContest

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 4d

Jealous. All I've done so far is think about thinking about Christmas. I tip my Santa hat to you! 🎅

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Caturday! My new favourite photo. Our treadmill is now a big cat bed. 😄 Ayden and Kjill lounging together, as brothers do. #Catsky

Overhead photo. Ayden (black & white) half-loafing next to Kjill (ginger and white), who's lying on his side. Catnip toys between them. They're on a fringed blanket from their former home, which is on a blue sheet, which is on a treadmill. Which is just a big cat bed now.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 5d

Oh! I'm so sorry for your loss. That is heartbreaking.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 7d

We lost a literal hero today. 💔

Jane Goodall, conservationist and chimpanzee researcher, dead at 91 | CBC News

Jane Goodall, the world-famous primatologist, activist and environmentalist whose discoveries about chimpanzees forever changed what it means to be human, has died at 91.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 7d

Even though they drive me crazy (they looove trying to jump on the kitchen counter), it gives me the warm fuzzies when my cats hang together. #Catsky #Cats

Two cats on windowsill looking out open window, backs to camera. Left: Kjill (Chell), ginger and white; right: Ayden, black and white (mostly white).

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 7d

Holy crap, congratulations! 🎉🎉That is a huge honour and a testament to your talent.

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Jennifer Ruth Jackson @jenruthjackson.bsky.social · 8d

72 Specialized Publishers Open to Manuscript Submissions
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» 72 Specialized Publishers Open to Manuscript Submissions

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Jennifer Ruth Jackson @jenruthjackson.bsky.social · 8d

51 Writing Contests in October 2025 - No entry fees
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51 Writing Contests in October 2025 - No entry fees

This October there are more than four dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes rang...

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Brandon Nadeau @bnadeauwriter.bsky.social · 9d

Winners of this short fiction contest receive cash and a physical copy of the anthology they are published in! Simultaneous and multiple submissions of all genres are accepted.

Follow: @mgliterary.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #LitMag #5amWritersClub #WritersLift

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 9d

I just started An Accidental Villain by the uber talented Linden MacIntyre. Packed full of info right from the first page.

Front cover of An Accidental Villain by Linden MacIntyre: A Soldier's Tale of War, Deceit and Exile. Large title in red, bottom half of cover is black and white photo of ... fire being put out in background? Foreground right, guy in 1920s garb walking, and middle ground two boys in short pants walking away from camera.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 9d

You know what messes up your writing schedule? Adopting two rambunctious, inquisitive cats. The last week has been kitty wrangling, litter sweeping, toy tossing and hair collecting. Hopefully I can get back on track this week. #WritingCommunity

Cat tax!

Kjill, ginger and white cat, chillin' in half-open dresser drawer. This fat cat is determined to fit ~everywhere.~

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Penstricken @penstricken.bsky.social · 12d

#Writersky We're open to entries for our #FlashFiction competition NOW! Everyone welcome!⚡

Word limit: 1,000 max (no minimum).
Prize: £25 (or equivalent via PayPal), author interview + your story published in our Winter issue.
Deadline: 26th October 2025

How to enter: penstricken.com/competitions

Competitions

Competitions Winter 2025 Flash Fiction Competition Subtext: the delicate art of saying one thing while meaning another. It’s also one of those things that separates good writing from exceptio…

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 13d

I really enjoyed this book too. Definitely a memorable ending.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 13d

It's #ThrowbackThursday! Mike and I watched an episode of Miami Vice last night (don't judge us) that featured this song. I completely forgot it existed. 😄

Steve Jones Mercy Video Clip

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 15d

your rapture name is: Saint+First Pet Name+The furthest South you've been.

I'm St. Frieda of San Antonio.

Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 15d

your rapture name is: Saint+First Pet Name+The furthest South you've been.

I’m St. Hopper of the Philippines.

Rocky N. Bullwinkle @lproulx.bsky.social · 16d

your rapture name is: Saint+First Pet Name+The furthest South you've been.
I'm Saint Miki of Singapour.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 15d

That's awesome! Congrats on having so many readers. 🎉

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 15d

Subtly downgrade a band.

Five Inch Nails

Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 15d

Subtly downgrade a band.

The Off-white Stripes

Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 15d

Subtly downgrade a band

The Rolling Pebbles

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social · 16d

Yes! This photo is from their former home, but we have stools for them in our place as well. So far they haven't needed them, they're very energetic cats!