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Sarah R. Chapman @sarahchapman.bsky.social · 10h

Colette has spent her adult life building her reputation as reality TV's sweetheart, but the performance has left her broke and burned out. When Bloodlines offers enough money to save her failing bookstore she accepts. Unfortunately her nemesis Brody will also be there. #DVPit #A #R #CR #RomCom #Dis

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Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 9h

DARK ACADEMIA HORROR

She made a pact to live out her dead sister’s dreams...but what happens when those dreams force her to study in a department that brainwashes its own grad students?

🩸 psychological horror
🩸 unreliable narrator
🩸 competition b/n grad students
🩸 disability rep

#DVpit #A #H #POC

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Lynn Wong 🐳 @lynngracewong.bsky.social · 10h

When 17yo budding playwright Nina stages the sleeping goddess myth, she unleashes a night hag from Filipino folklore. She must embrace her roots or risk turning Texas into the nexus of nightmares—with one caveat, she doesn’t exact revenge and turn into a night hag herself. #DVpit #YA #H #R #Asian

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talhe.bsky.social @talhe.bsky.social · 10h

Ryuko, warrior-nun and mech pilot, will kill warlord Nobunaga Oda for murdering her order, no matter how many armies she must cut down to reach him. When brute strength fails, she’ll ally with ninja, miracle-wielding priestess' and kitsune to infiltrate Nobunaga's army. #DVPit #F #YA

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Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 12h

DARK ACADEMIA HORROR

She made a pact to live out her dead sister’s dreams...but what happens when those dreams force her to study in a department that brainwashes its own grad students?

🩸 psychological horror
🩸 unreliable narrator
🩸 competition b/n grad students
🩸 disability rep

#DVpit #A #H #POC

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Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 12h

🩸 GET OUT x CRAZY RICH ASIANS 💰

When his fiancée invites him to her immigrant parents’ home, he learns they’re a wealthy Taiwanese American family with an import-export empire in New York City, but he must escape their mansion when he learns a deadly secret about the family business.

#DVpit #A #H

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Sarah R. Chapman @sarahchapman.bsky.social · 12h

Colette needs the appearance fee from reality competition show Bloodlines to save her failing bookstore. The problem: her former friend Brody is also competing, and he's been secretly assigned the vampire role in this Traitors-style game where deception is the strategy. #DVPit #A #R #CR #RomCom #Dis

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 11h

CHICKEN VS. ROAD
A conscientious fourth-grade teacher races to save her hippy mother’s farm from foreclosure—only to discover her elderly mother, acting on the urging of a voice in her head, is working at cross-purposes to pull off one final over-the-top climate stunt.
#A #MR #WF #JV #LGBT #DVPIT

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Sarah R. Chapman @sarahchapman.bsky.social · 11h

When journalist Cora Kelly discovers the king is stockpiling medicines while colonists die on waiting lists, she must decide whether to expose a conspiracy and risk her life-saving access to insulin, or remain safe within a system built on her people's suffering. #DVPit #A #F #OwnVoices #Dis

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Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 10h

THE WILL OF THE MANY x BLACK SUN 🌌

His family was murdered as heretics for their scientific views... but what happens when his only chance to prove them right forces him to live in the home of his family’s killers? Even worse, pretending to be one of them?

#DVpit #A #F #POC

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Esker Park @esker.bsky.social · 10h

CHICKEN VS. ROAD
As the grumpy daughter of an elderly hippy wages her campaign against her mother’s incessant activism, her mother, in cahoots with an alternate self from a parallel world, organizes a group of nursing home residents for the biggest climate caper of their lives.
#DVPIT #A #LGBT #MR

Two chickens staring in opposite directions

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The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to our brilliant Ubergroup author @angieellis.bsky.social !

Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to the brilliant @angieellis.bsky.social !

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A Snake and a Feathered Bird

This atmospheric coming-of-age tale follows Ben, a sensitive boy struggling to unravel his family history while caught in the vortex of other people’s lives. Vancouver Island, 1875. Three-year-old Ben...

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!! Please join us!! I am so excited 😍❤️🥰

SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure to register for @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's book launch event with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social over Zoom on November 7th at 7pm EST! buff.ly/CtKtA0k

Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET right here: buff.ly/3pPOviA
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to Ubergroup author S.C. Mills!

S. C. Mills @scmillsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

My story "His Soul Lives in the Air" is live on MetaStellar! I originally wrote this for a Writing Battle competition back in January.

read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

& my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein

Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!

His Soul Lives in the Air

Racing to see her dying grandmother, Rebecca confronts her fear of flying only to discover that some passengers carry more than just luggage from the past.

www.metastellar.com

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S. C. Mills @scmillsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

My story "His Soul Lives in the Air" is live on MetaStellar! I originally wrote this for a Writing Battle competition back in January.

read it: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

& my blog post: www.scmills-books.com/blog/open-vein

Thank you @metastellar.bsky.social & @writingbattle.bsky.social!

His Soul Lives in the Air

Racing to see her dying grandmother, Rebecca confronts her fear of flying only to discover that some passengers carry more than just luggage from the past.

www.metastellar.com

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Bookstack @thebookstack.org · 25d

New book review: I.S. Berry's "The Peacock and the Sparrow", from 2023.

“The coolest thing I noticed about I.S. Berry's 'The Peacock and the Sparrow' is definitely...”

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The Peacock and the Sparrow

Book by I.S. Berry (2023)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social · 27d

Check out this awesome microfic from Ubergroup author Aggie Novak!

Aggie Novak @aggie-novak.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to share my piece for Augur's micro fiction contest!
@augursociety.bsky.social l
#AugurMicros2025

Soothsayer for the 21st Century
by Aggie Novak

You come to me—
(fabric draped, costume jewelled, incense clouded).
You ask me real questions, but you don’t seek real answers.
You want—
Comfort. Platitudes.
It’s not your fault, there was nothing you could do.
Tell me, you ask—
What the future holds. Where I will be in 20 years.
How successful. How loved. How normal.
I draw the cards—
The Star, reversed. All hope gutters out.
The Tower. Cities, fire in their bones.
The World, reversed. The circle breaks.
Well? Your eyes wide, full of—
Hope, I say.
New constellations. Collapse clears the way.
The world resets.

@augursociety
#augurmicros2025

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The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social · 27d

So proud of Ubergroup author Glenn Orgias!

Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social · 27d

Got some news: my debut crime novel Teeth Kicker is being published by HarperCollins (Australia) 🎉

HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Aug 23

Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over import tariffs

Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · Aug 23

new horror bookstore opening in Brooklyn

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NYC’s first-ever horror bookshop will make its spooky debut next month

Happy news, horror lovers!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Aug 25

I before e, except after c
Or when sounded as 'a' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'
Unless the 'c' is part of a 'sh' sound as in 'glacier'
Or it appears in comparatives and superlatives like 'fancier'
And also except when the vowels are sounded as 'e' as in 'seize'
Or 'i' as in 'height'...

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · Aug 26

So excited 🥰🥰🥰

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · Aug 25

We launch in one week, humans!! Our very first issue presents five stellar micros and two chapbook reviews. Prepare for the 🔥

@yana.quest @tiffmzlee.bsky.social @dianelp.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Aug 26

PSA! We need to get September new members in today so that everyone has the chance to become familiar with the workshop site before the first September writing task (goes live on Sept 1st). Write with us. We are nice.
www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly

In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...

www.smokelong.com

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Bookstack @thebookstack.org · Aug 20

New book review: Charles Beaumont's debut novel "A Spy Alone", from 2022.

"The coolest thing I noticed about Charles Beaumont's 2022 debut ‘A Spy Alone’ is..."

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A Spy Alone

Book by Charles Beaumont (2022)

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