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If you’ve ever kept a secret just to keep the peace, The Thorn and the Rose will speak to you.

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December 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM

David Wesley Williams

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Thrilled that my story "Southern Dogface" is a Pushcart nominee! #ponderreview #pushcartnominees #southernfiction #ivycoldwater

Ponder Review @ponderreview.bsky.social · Dec 1

Congratulations and good luck to our Pushcart nominees!
Fiction
David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1
Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1
CNF
Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1
Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2
Poetry
Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2
Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2

December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM

Sunshine State Book Festival

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Meet Jimmy Deas, storyteller of Southern fiction. Fun fact: Jimmy brings Florida life and culture to vivid storytelling. 📚 Catch him at SSBF 2026! #SSBF2026 #SouthernFiction #FloridaAuthors #BookTok #WhatsGoodAlachuaCounty #visitgainesville #whyilovegnv #FromPiratesToThePresent

December 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM

AJ Wright

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The novel #petrochemicalnocturne by #amosjasperwrightIV & his short story collection #nobodyknowshowitgotthisgood More about him, the books & his other writing at www.amosjasperwright.com #southernfiction #literaryfiction #books #indiebooks #indiefiction #indieauthors #louisiana #alabama

November 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM

Huntsville Independent Press

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A psychological novel that asks: what have you sacrificed for safety? The Thorn and the Rose is hauntingly honest.

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November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM

Crooked Lane Books

@crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

🥳Happy #pubday to @thomasdannauthor.bsky.social's 🔍MIDNIGHT IN MEMPHIS🔎!

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November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Jendia Gammon

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And there’s a proof! Can’t wait to share GODFESTATION, my Appalachian weird #horror road trip novella, in August 2026 via @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social. Cover reveal soon.
#books #2026books #appalachia #southernfiction
jendiagammon.com/godfestation/

November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM

Kindle Daily Deals

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In the Midnight Rain: A Novel

"A singer who followed her dreams and disappeared. A writer looking for the truth."

Sale: $4.99 to $2.49

by Barbara O'Neal
Rating: 4.5/5 (11,931 Reviews)

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In the Midnight Rain: A Novel

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November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM

Jendia Gammon

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Thank you @voidcricket.bsky.social for this beautiful blurb for GODFESTATION, my Appalachia weird horror, arriving August 2026 via @sleyhouseeditor! Cover reveal and preorders are coming soon.
#horror #appalachia #books #southernfiction

Early Praise for
GODFESTATION
by
JENDIA GAMMON
"Slinking through the cracks between the familiar and the uncanny, Godfestation evokes the glimmer of something surreal lingering at your periphery. Jendia Gammon's poignant prose captures the melancholy ache of nostalgia, the monstrous manifestations of loss, the liminality of grief, and the resilience of confronting what haunts us before we can move forward."
- Ren Hutchings, author of The Legend Liminal and Under Fortunate Stars
August 2026 via Sley House
Publishing
Preorders Forthcoming

November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM

Jendia Gammon

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Here's a lovely new blurb for my Aug. 2026 Appalachian weird horror novella, GODFESTATION, from Emmy Award winning writer @quantick.bsky.social!
#horror #books #Appalachia #southernfiction #southernappalachia

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Early Praise for
GODFESTATION
by
JENDIA GAMMON
"Appalachian Gothic meets organic horror in this atmospheric, claustrophobic tale. Creepy and lingering like poison ivy."
- David Quantick, Emmy Award winning writer for VEEP and author of And Other Stories
August 2026 via Sley House Publishing
Preorders Forthcoming

November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Book!BlaBla

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📚 Run for the Hills by: Kevin Wilson

Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm i...

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Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Mostly.

Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister. Reuben—left behind by their dad thirty years ago—has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all.
As Mad and Rube—and eventually the others—share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mad’s previously solitary life on the farm?

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November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM

The Main Channel 📚

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J.D. Wilkes sets about on a cattle drive that will introduce him to the challenges of being a better man.

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Into Exile by TL Davis.

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#westerns #frontier #pioneers #fiction #political #southernfiction #coa #Kindle #books

November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM

readingreality.bsky.social

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A- #BookReview: Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social #torbooks #tordotcompub #fantasy #horror #gothic #historicalfantasy #gaslamp #southernfiction

A- #BookReview: Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce

My Review: I didn’t know what I was getting into with this book. I’ll confess that I picked it up because it was short and fantastical and that was exactly what I was in the mood for. It turned out to be fantastic and beautiful in ways that I was not expecting it all. But was so very happy to read.

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November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM

StoreyBook Reviews

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Seven weeks. One killer. A soul on the line. The Devil’s game has begun.

Read what I thought about his book, and then go buy a copy for yourself! https://bit.ly/47mn19u

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