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Paulina with an A

@paulinaamongbooks.bsky.social

❤️ Enjoyment: 5/5 | 🖋 Writing: 4/5 | 🎭 Immersion: 4/5

An Instagram ad that paid off with a compassionate story of healing. Though I wish that it didn't shy away from going deeper just to preserve the cosy vibes.

#ZSDiamanti
#CosyFantasy
#IndieAuthor
#BookSky

Z. S. Diamanti's "Guard in thr Garden" amongst green plants, the one behind which is flowering with small five-petal blossoms.

October 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Planet Nem

@planet-nem-reads.bsky.social

My new vid! I'm reading books with cosy, autumnal witchy vibes! (Also I had someone be quite mean to me about my videos so it would be nice if someone enjoyed this!)

#booksky #booktok #reading #cosyfantasy
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Cosy Fall Books - a Reading Vlog

YouTube video by Planet Nem

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October 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM Everybody can reply

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MH Tomas

@mhtomas.bsky.social

Windless days are worse than Mondays… especially if you’ve got a full load of washing. Some solutions go… hilariously wrong. Find out what happened to Mr. Fenton. 🌬️🧦 #cosyfantasy #lifehacks #homelife #cozyreads #magicalmundane #smalltownlife #quirkytips #everydayadventures

October 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM Everybody can reply

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MH Tomas

@mhtomas.bsky.social

🎉 Wow… we did it! Over 100 amazing subscribers! 🎉

Check my stories here
moonbridgechronicles.substack.com

#Grateful #100Subscribers #WritingCommunity #cosyfantasy

Moonbridge Chronicles | MH Tomas | Substack

Stories, gossip, and quiet magic from the cozy fantasy town of Moonbridge — part of the book I’m writing. Click to read Moonbridge Chronicles, by MH Tomas, a Substack publication. Launched 12 days ago...

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October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM Everybody can reply

J E Hannaford

@hannafordjenny.bsky.social

It’s coming in for spooky season… and I have a cosy, witch novella about a group who lose their familiars, just before the intervillage games…

Trouble is brewing in Unfamiliared, with a few soggy boots!

📚🐉 #cosyfantasy #autumn #witch #book

October 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM Everybody can reply

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Isabelle Arne

@isaarne.bsky.social

A cosy new calendar? Fancy enamel pins? The shop updates October 23rd with extra cosy cat wizards!
#cuteartshop #artshop #cosyfantasy #calendar #watercolorartshop #cuteart

October 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM Everybody can reply

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Librairie Chimères

@librairie-chimeres.bsky.social

... avec un objet important, et va partir à sa recherche.

La plume de l’autrice est poétique et très agréable, dans un Japon réinventé et onirique

Lecture parfaite pour cet automne, avec un thé chaud sous la couette.

#SFFF #CosyFantasy #Japon
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October 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM Everybody can reply

Isabelle Arne

@isaarne.bsky.social

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I have been working on a calendar all year. You've seen some of the artworks already, carefully painted in watercolor during this time and soon I'll be able to reveal it!

#calendar #cottagecore #cosyfantasy #watercolor #illustrations

October 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM Everybody can reply

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Golam Soulpats

@golamsoulpats.com

Get a FREE copy of ‘The Wrong Summon: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Novella’ from my newsletter! 🌈 😊

www.golamsoulpats.com/newsletter

#queerbooks #sapphicbooks #cozyfantasy #cosyfantasy

Graphic showing the book cover for The Wrong Summon by Golam Soulpats and text next to it. The background is light green. The title text reads: The Wrong Summon (FREE Novella). The subtitle text reads: A cosy sapphic fantasy romance. The tagline reads: She was trying to summon a slime but got a demon instead. The blurb reads: Ever since she was a child, Bou has had an unhealthy obsession with slimes. Now a student at Starfall Academy, she hopes to further her understanding of the creatures by getting her hands on a legendary species—dark slime. But attempting to summon one with a magic circle from the discount bin was probably a bad idea. Shalendra, the demon who appears in place of the slime, offers Bou a bargain—Bou’s desire in return for her soul. As Bou spends time with Shalendra, she discovers she wants the demon more than a dark slime. But the contract’s been signed, and it can’t be broken.

October 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM Everybody can reply

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Brekekekiwi

@brekekekiwi.bsky.social

I've also seen some early drafts of the cover illustration and I'm really happy! It's in the illustrated style that I've been pleased to see on #CosyFantasy covers recently, much better than the "Big Words and Swirlt Abstract Shapes" trend in my opinon

October 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM Everybody can reply

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Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

Glunda The Veg Witch, my standalone novella, is a commentary on two party politics all by itself! 🥕🧙‍♀️

#CosyFantasy #Pratchettesque

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 21d

It's getting cold. You need good soup. Luckily my cosy fantasy Glunda The Veg Witch has a recipe in the back that I wholeheartedly recommend. Why not check it out? 🥕🧙‍♀️

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#CosyFantasy #BBNYAfinalist #Pratchettesque

The cover of Glunda The Veg Witch. Illustrated in a simplistic and colourful style. The cover is flat dark green with a garland of various fruits and vegetables around the outside edge, a pair of black boots with a witch's hat resting on them in the bottom half, and the yellow title Glunda The Veg Witch at the top.

October 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM Everybody can reply

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Le Suricate

@lesuricate.bsky.social

📚 Oui, #WelcometoFaeCafé est une superbe #cosyfantasy.

Oui, c’est une lecture réconfortante qu’il serait franchement dommage d’ignorer en cette saison.

Et oui, on déprime un peu de l’avoir déjà terminé.

Welcome to fae cafe, lecture automnale à consommer sans modération • Le Suricate

Une cosy fantasy aux doux effluves de café, avec quatre faes drôlissimes et une histoire de meurtre pas piquée des hannetons.

www.lesuricate.org

October 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM Everybody can reply

Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

It's getting cold. You need good soup. Luckily my cosy fantasy Glunda The Veg Witch has a recipe in the back that I wholeheartedly recommend. Why not check it out? 🥕🧙‍♀️

books2read.com/GlundaTheVeg...

#CosyFantasy #BBNYAfinalist #Pratchettesque

October 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Nikki Flynn

@flynnbulwinter.bsky.social

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A D&D-esque mystery adventure!
#fantasy #fiction #readers #books #novels #novellas #readers #bookt #indie #indiewriter #cozy #cosy #warm #cozyfantasy #cosyfantasy #indieauthors #indieauthors #writer #writing 👀😱📢📚 #books #book 🪐📚

Anthologies of Ullord: The Gifting Spirit

Fantasy | Cozy

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October 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM Everybody can reply

Aaron Dick- Author

@author-aarondick.bsky.social

I have decided the title of my next book, with help from a lot of you!

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#FunnyFantasy #CosyFantasy

October 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM Everybody can reply

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Jaz Pate Author

@jazpate.bsky.social

✨ Cozy sapphic romantasy alert!
Quest through cursed forests, enchanted dungeons, & romance w/ WLW joy 💖 📚 YA friendly LitRPG standalones

👑🎤💎 All on KU!
Series 🔗 ➡️ mybook.to/PpX77yS

#BookSky #wlw #Sapphic #Fantasy #LitRPG #Cozyfantasy #CosyFantasy #Romance #QueerBooks #KU #YA #Books

October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Aaron Dick- Author

@author-aarondick.bsky.social

I could really use some outside perspective on which title gives more of a cosy, funny, friendly, witchy impression.

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#FunnyBooks #WritingCommunity #CosyFantasy

September 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM Everybody can reply

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Alexander Way-B

@alexanderwayb.bsky.social

A #cosyfantasy that reminds us that:

'It is our beautiful difference that unites us, not our sameness!'

mybook.to/WJ15IMz
(Only $0.99)

A novel about #neurodivercity. That helped me process and reflect on what it is to be #dyslexic , or indeed different.

September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM Everybody can reply

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Alexander Way-B

@alexanderwayb.bsky.social

A #cosyfantasy that reminds us that:

'It is our beautiful difference that unites us, not our sameness!'

mybook.to/WJ15IMz
(Only $0.99)

A novel about #neurodivercity. That helped me process and reflect on what it is to be #dyslexic , or indeed different.

September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM Everybody can reply

Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

Okay, I just reread these reviews for Glunda for the first time in ages and quite frankly I got a bit teary eyed that these readers not only got what I was going for but really liked it as well. 🥲❤️

#BookSky 📚💙 #BBNYA #BookReview #CosyFantasy 🥕🧙‍♀️

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September 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM Everybody can reply

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Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

... as did the lovely @acreativegirlnadia.bsky.social 😁

#CosyFantasy #BBNYA #BBNYA2024 #Review #BookReview #BookSky #GlundaTheVegWitch 🥕🧙‍♀️

Glunda The Veg Witch by Keith W. Dickinson (Book Tour)

Glunda the Veg Witch was the 7th place finalist in BBNYA 2024! About BBNYA BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, e…

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September 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM Everybody can reply

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Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

Get the fantasy novella that people have described as "Pratchettesque" now! You won't regret it. It's got a recipe for Bendy Veg Soup in the back and everything! 🍲👩‍🍳

#CosyFantasy #GlundaTheVegWitch🥕🧙‍♀️

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September 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM Everybody can reply

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Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

And as for romance? A decent witch doesn't have time for such frivolities, but it doesn't stop other people from thinking about it. 💘❓

#CosyFantasy #GlundaTheVegWitch🥕🧙‍♀️

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Graphic promoting the book Glunda The Veg Witch. A very sweet, very practical looking witch stands on the left, holding a tall walking stick and a traveling bag, her black hat and dress augmented by a grey shawl and a green wrap around her waist. She has solid looking boots on, and a bunch of carrots tied at her waist. To her right is a quote from the book:

“Clum arrived at Glunda’s cottage to find her hard at work in the garden. She had ripped out most of the flowerbeds, and was now busy turning the lawn into nice, neat furrows of freshly tilled soil. Her skirt was hiked up to keep it out of the dirt, her top, damp with sweat, hung against her in a most distracting way, and her hair, all loose and wild, flew gently in the softly blowing wind. She looked... normal, in a do-you-fancy-going-to-the-village-dance-with-me kind of way, which Clum was not prepared for at all. He had to remind himself not to stare. Terrible things happened to farm boys who stared at witches for too long... or so he had been told.”

Get your new favourite fantasy at https://books2read.com/GlundaTheVegWitch

September 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM Everybody can reply

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Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

Every good hero needs a villain, and there are none more villainous than the dastardly Drupe Mages. 👎🧙

#CosyFantasy
#GlundaTheVegWitch🥕🧙‍♀️

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September 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM Everybody can reply

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Keith W. Dickinson

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social

Every good witch needs a friend. Glunda has Ellsa Puddleglump. 🙏🫂

#CosyFantasy #GlundaTheVegWitch🥕🧙‍♀️

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September 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM Everybody can reply

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