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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her
@calling33.bsky.social
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Aussie published writer of spec fiction.
Caffeine enthusiast
Neurodivergent.
Massive nerd
Crusty punk rocker
Metalhead

Books out now at https://linktr.ee/Calling33
Website at http://www.natashaoconnor-author.carrd.co/
https://calling33.itch.io/
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Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her @calling33.bsky.social · 22d
Did you know all my books are available @ linktr.ee/Calling33

Short fiction to satisfy that reading itch 📚

🌈 Feral enby MCs,
🕵‍♂️ Morally grey spirits and
🧚‍♀️ Faerie spies trying to survive

(All reposts & purchases appreciated)

#WriteSky #AdultQueerSFF #fantasybooksky #shortstory #books #FantasySky
Pink and orange cloudy sky with Ambushed, The Reckoning and Into the Forest covers in black borders in the forefront.
calling33.bsky.social
Today's #writing conundrum: how to prove a god is real (said god is already blue).

📚

#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3 is coming in February 2026, so it's a great time to catch up on vol 1 and 2.

Signed paperbacks of THE GULP and THE FALL, sent anywhere in Australia, only $50 shipping inc.

alanbaxter.com.au?add-to-cart=...

Only in Aus, I'm afraid. And please do spread the word.
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
Head's up indie authors wanting to participate in the Anthropic class action.

WriterBeware has noted the ads this post warns about, and has some goods links and information on Anthropic: writerbeware.blog/2025/10/31/t...
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
Thanks for the interest in, boosts & purchases of this trans books bundle! (I've had to increase the goal multiple times 😄).

These books, some also including queer normative and or LGBTQIA+ joy, are available as this set for 4 more days.

🌈📚💙💕📚🪐 itch.io/b/3352/trans...
eliseswritings.bsky.social Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 10d
I'd like to kick off Trans Awareness Month with 32 stories of Trans People Taking On The World, by mainly trans authors

Your heroes may tackle; love, friendship, magic &war, self discovery, trauma & healing, demons (literal or metaphorical 😉) & or the world itself!

🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿ itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
calling33.bsky.social
Love when I have plenty of thoughts about the piece my writers group is workshopping.
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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diannalgunn.bsky.social
I realize there are so many fights going on right now and it's so, so hard to find the spoons to do shit like this

But censoring people, removing them from public life, is a massive step towards genocide, and we MUST fight it
diannalgunn.bsky.social Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 18d
Not seeing much on my timeline about it anymore, so here's a reminder: payment processors are still trying to censor NSFW content of all kinds, and are in fact getting more aggressive about it; I'm seeing stories of folks losing access every day

Call them & tell them THIS IS BULLSHIT
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
calling33.bsky.social
I write good books. Hell, some of them have five stars.

Tales of survival, & a ghostie mystery w/ a twist for those inclined, all featuring badass women & enbies.

Check 'em out, you know you want to 😉

Oh, & they're a bargain at no more than $2. Cheap as chips.

linktr.ee/Calling33

📚

#FantasySky
Natasha O'Connor | Linktree
Aussie neurodivergent writer of most stripes of speculative fiction
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November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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calling33.bsky.social
Every week I check my sales on a Sunday hoping for sales... & every week, baring co-op bundles, there are none. Probably because I suck at marketing.

So, if you want quick #fantasy reads ft women & enbies taking on tyrants, I'd be heaps grateful.

📚

linktr.ee/Calling33

#AdultQueerSFF #ReaderSky
Natasha O'Connor | Linktree
Aussie neurodivergent writer of most stripes of speculative fiction
linktr.ee
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
calling33.bsky.social
Every week I check my sales on a Sunday hoping for sales... & every week, baring co-op bundles, there are none. Probably because I suck at marketing.

So, if you want quick #fantasy reads ft women & enbies taking on tyrants, I'd be heaps grateful.

📚

linktr.ee/Calling33

#AdultQueerSFF #ReaderSky
Natasha O'Connor | Linktree
Aussie neurodivergent writer of most stripes of speculative fiction
linktr.ee
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
eeeeeeeeeee just three away from 100 sold on kdp this year!!

anyone in the mood for a short story about a knight and a dragon? 😏🐉
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November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
calling33.bsky.social
I don't think I can overstate how uninterested I am in the new Avatar movie, like it looks so generic. Have we really run out of new ideas?
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
calling33.bsky.social
Right now, I'm functioning on less than 7 hours sleep and I think I've ascended to the astral plane 😅

Worth it though.
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
calling33.bsky.social
So now I've talked myself into writing a story featuring a fury of serpents and ravens, which while it has elite vibes, any semblance of a plot is evading my sleep-deprived brain 😅

#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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diannalgunn.bsky.social
Did you buy the First in Series bundle back in August? You can now grab the second books in those series - including my own Moonshadow's Champion -- in this epic bundle
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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laikalgagarin.bsky.social
its almost the end of the first week, i still need to get up to 50% by the end of the month! If you can share, please do!
laikalgagarin.bsky.social Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 11d
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Alright, updated the Ko-fi goal for November
need at least 50% by the end of the month, but 100% is preferable to really start getting debt cleared up.
Support LaikaLGagarin
Support LaikaLGagarin
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November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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ormakal.bsky.social
This bundle of second in series books is the perfect blend of adventure and magic! Grab it today! Only one day more!

🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #booksky #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers

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Continue the Adventure by Niranjan and 19 others
Continue the Adventure: 20 items for $19.00
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November 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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jd-rivers.com
🐺 A downtrodden ex-soldier.
🦭 A lost inn-owner.
❤️ Blossoming feelings.
🗡️ A dead body.
🏝️ An island, where justice is deadly.

Selkie x werewolf
Urban fantasy!

Buy direct: tinyurl.com/DPPSalt
duckprintspress.itch.io/the-salt-in-...

GR: tinyurl.com/ys57r2rm
TSG: tinyurl.com/2shv5aed

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The front cover of a book entitled The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers. Stylized artwork shows two men in a loose embrace, one shorter, light-skinned, and pale-haired, the taller one dark haired and darker skinned, both in casual modern-esque clothes. The taller one kisses the shorter one on the forehead, his hand clasping the shorter one's cheek. They stand before a blood-red circle with a star on it, and a brilliant blue wave surges behind them. Illustration by: planetsandmagic Typesetting by: Hermits Writes
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Don't forget to grab this awesome bundle of second-in-series books and Continue the Adventure!

20 books for just $19. Give those second
books the love they deserve. Available until 10 November. Help us meet our goal 🙏🏻

itch.io/b/3359/conti...

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Continue the Adventure. Itch-io bundle of second-in-series books. November 5 to 10
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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karenlykkebo.com
🤎🪱 Dirt You Shall Become🪱🤎

Sinister toads, haunted garden-gnomes, an evil compost, weeds with a vengeance...
These gardens are not just roses and peonies.

Ko-FI: https://ko-fi.com/k_lykkebo/shop
Itch: https://klykkebo.itch.io/ 
Other: https://books2read.com/karenlykkebo

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Trope map for Dirt You Shall Become. Cover in the middle, white font title, shovel and pink peony in the background. Text: “A wood chipper not being used for wood… Spooky summer gardens, sinister toads, zombie deer? Zombie deer, lovecraftien horror, creepy gnomes, an evil compost, just a little bit of comedy, weeds you can’t get rid of.”
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Good morning, Bluesky.
Choose your own ending!

Today is a great day to...

...support trans folks.
...call your rep to decry trash legislation.
...boycott garbage companies.
...support your local library.
...lift up BIPOC/queer/disabled/oppressed voices.
...call for an end to ICE.
...not use genAI.
August 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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thinkingautism.com
ABA proponents often claim play-based methods are “evidence-based” bc they produce measurable outcomes. The problem is what they measure. Most studies in ABA research focus on short-term behavior change—not long-term psychological health, identity or self-regulation.
endseclusion.org/2025/10/31/t...
The Illusion of “Play-Based ABA”: The Gentle Mask of Control
One of the newest rebrands of Applied Behavior Analysis is “play-based ABA.” At first glance, it looks comforting to parents and teachers who may have heard critiques of traditional ABA. Instead of a ...
endseclusion.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
calling33.bsky.social
Apparently I've reached that age where I need to take nurofen after shows #gettingold
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
calling33.bsky.social
I'm so stiff from headbanging. So out of practice 😅 can feel muscles in my shoulders I didn't know I had lol
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
calling33.bsky.social
Metallica was so good. Worth every cent 🤘
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM