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Diane M. Johnson
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Writer of horror. Fan of the supernatural (and Supernatural). Think twice before you DM me. If it’s phishy it’s block-worthy. HWA member.

#ScriptSky #HorrorSky #IndieHorror #BookSky

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Diane M. Johnson @caseyadamsstark.bsky.social · Nov 19
Let’s share our work! Here’s my #PerfectProphet trilogy. A death metal atheist with a surprising gift becomes a Satanist’s target.

#SatanicPanic #horror

In the 2nd book, the MC becomes the target of a #Christian #cult.

Book 3’s theme? Redemption for the antagonist.

www.amazon.com/Perfect-Prop...
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#scriptsky / #filmsky community

We are excited to announce that the submission portal for the 2026 Grey List is NOW OPEN!!

Head over now and nominate the best scripts you've read from writers over 40 (that includes yourself).

You can scan the QR code in the image below 👇or use the link in my bio.
November 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I found local five times on one page! Here’s a paragraph from that page #WIPSnips
We have our own savings and loan, a sturdy brick building the has a drive thru window with an actual teller to engage your business with and not one of those new fangled money exchanging machines. Inside is an open lobby with a total of three teller windows, and there is never a line. Across the street from that is a bank of local businesses, a five and dime, a tavern, a small grocer, the pharmacist on the corner and in between the pharmacist and the grocer, a bonafide news stand complete with magazines and copies of the local and neighboring town papers.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽🔥
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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#WIPSnips 10/11:

'Some days Jessica could work from home since she was one of only three local reporters in the Dunraven area, but every Monday an important editorial meeting was held.' - #WitchChild
wipsnips.bsky.social ✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 1d
Here are the words for the next week of #WIPSnips

November 10th through November 16th

- Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine
- Use Alt text on graphics
- Use Trigger/Content warnings when necessary
- Don't line edit others. Typos happen!

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
The WIPSnips words for November 10th through November 16th. November 10 - local; November 11 - burger; November 12 - shirt; November 13 - build; November 14 - week; November 15 - progress; November 16 - run.
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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#NSFW #WIPsnips

"punishment" 🥵

#queerotica #queererotica #eroticsky #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
Sal wasn’t able to see Melori’s face from the angle xe was at, but xe certainly heard her take to her own punishment with vigor. Beris gave a contented sigh, loosening her grip on Melori’s hair just a little. “What a good girl,” she purred. Sal quite literally began to salivate at the vision before xem. The women Sal loved loving each other, both in their element—it was picturesque.
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Ludo wanted to prod the body with a foot, like he'd seen people do in the pictures. Try as he might, his foot wouldn't obey.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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'‘I want to be recognised as an artist, Jenny. I’m going to produce images that inform, educate, surprise, and maybe even shock. I want viewers of my pictures to ask questions, especially ‘Why?’ and ‘What’s it saying?’. Art should speak to people, don’t you think? And make them see what they view.'
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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From Opus Eternal: Tess confronting the grim reality that Lorcan Harte is hot. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy
“Why are you called that?” I picture him as he was in my dream—with a crown of antlers and a raven on his shoulder—holding a blood-coated sword. It’s … really hot, actually. I’m not even going to deny it.
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Have a few pictures. #WIPSnips
Do you remember the day we met, skirting along Main Street, Zimmerman’s Corners our first meeting of Tiny Sanders while she slapped fliers for an event under the wipers of every curbside car? The day has come for the event she wanted everyone to attend, the first ever Zimmerman’s Corners Psychic Fair. Anne has been preparing for it all day, in that she's done her chores early, then organized her notes to ask questions of these seers of past, present and future. She's tucked that picture of young Run away in her notebook too, sparking my hope that she may try to find him, contact him with the aid of one of these mediums.
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#WIPSnips

Virgil explains that while Lucifer only created the first seven “sins.”

The Chairman took the power to create away from angels and gave it to humans.

Humans invented evil.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writers
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I love writing about books by Bay Area authors for @baycitynews.bsky.social. Please check out our latest releases. And stay tuned for my interview with Meg Donahue about her beautiful new novel, The Memory Gardener.

localnewsmatters.org/2025/10/31/b...
Bay City Books: New books from local authors—October-November 2025  - Local News Matters
These are among the new titles with local themes or released by local writers, listed in alphabetical order by author names:    Jason
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November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.

This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.

Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
Barnacle. Written by Kate Elliott. Illustrated by Juan Bernabeu. Edited by Oliver Dougherty. A rocky cluster of barnacles rests on a beach. Crows fly over head and two have landed to pick at the barnacles. Red sky, white cloud/background, and green-toned beach.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Out today! BLACK DIADEM: MAGAZINE OF THE FANTASTIQUE #1 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXWFZ7J...? featuring #fiction, #poetry and #articles. Published by Nocturnicorn Books. And a little something by me. 🖤🦇📖🤘
Black Diadem: Magazine of the Fantastique: Fall/Winter Issue 2025/2026
Black Diadem: Magazine of the Fantastique: Fall/Winter Issue 2025/2026 [Johnson, Alex S., Betz, Zachary Gene, Haskins, David J., Shrewsbury, Steven L., Bailes, Lee, Williams, Alea Celeste, Maybe, Ellyn, Thomas, Jeffrey, Nichols, Natasha Lyn, Baldwin, Adrian] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Black Diadem: Magazine of the Fantastique: Fall/Winter Issue 2025/2026
www.amazon.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Also... In the meantime, here's another style of advert I've been working on to publicise the book —once it's fully available.

I think it has the right mix of silly-seriousness/small-to-grandness (or perhaps vice versa).

But I might also be off my rocker.

Let me know what you think.

#BookSky
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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#wipsnips #fantasy
Hellooooo, I'm your narrator and I am going to enjoy toying with - I mean, telling you this story.

There's just one #little warning I should give you first: I'm an unreliable narrator - you absolutely cannot rely on me to tell this tale in a lifeless, linear mon-o-tone!

con't >>
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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They were useless little nothings that should have held no meaning, and yet she risked life and limb to get them back. And, for what? To find herself right back starving on the streets?
- my WIP, Seven Years Love

#WIPSnips
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Instead, I stared into the little flame between us. It guttered, then steadied, as if reminding me that fragile light could still hold back the dark—at least for a while.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Remember the rush of adrenaline when your crush logged on....
From "HatWIP"
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Wipsnips
I hear a little door opening noise. Not a real door, it is worse. It comes from my Instant Messenger. I don’t know why I keep this open. No one ever talks to me. I usually just look at the bizarre screen names of my classmates and imagine them chatting away with each other. Look at those names. XxBaByGiRlxX or something equally stupid. They call me psychotic.
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Evening rays added a harsh glare to the building’s brilliant veneer. The little white flower crucified the day before was still tethered to the cross above the double-doors, shriveled and desiccated.

#WIPSnips
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I use little too much

“A little dangerous may be an understatement.” Magnar had returned with an armful of sticks and twigs. “I have a feeling Loke is going to get us all killed at some point. Oh, and I’m adding all this labor to my bill, too.”

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Too many choices for this word. Here's one from Death & the Dreamer, where Tova is about to show the brigands how tough she actually is #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #DarkFantasy
Tova sat calmly in the saddle, her crooked smile a blade of ice in the gloom. She was using her menacing, accented voice, but it was going to take a lot more than accented menace to keep these men from murdering us. The friendly voice laughed. “Is that so, little lady?” “Indeed,” she said. “Line up along the road now, and keep your weapons to yourselves. Once we have passed, you may resume your criminal activities with the next group of travelers you encounter.” Now they were all laughing. “The little lady is tough!” the friendly one crowed. “Why would we do that, sweetheart?”
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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But Stella was used to being the center of attention when her machine arrived in some out of the way place where planes were little known, and it bothered her the people packed in the lodge had barely given her a glance before they resumed their aimless milling.
#WIPSnips #SavageBeasts
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A 'Casablanca' vibe in today's little WIPSnips:

He pored over every detail in search of something he could run to with the little cash left in his wallet, when a hand reached across to light the candle on the table.

“Well I have to say, Oskar, you’re the last person I expected to walk in here.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Little is said after that. Cleared throats and utensils clattering against plates. I hear muted small talk among the invited party, and my heart sinks at the cowardice they share.

#WIPSnips (kept it short and sweet today)
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#WIPSnips #fantasy #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #movement

Well, they’re trying to get it together, but Rush is in poor shape for escape.

Note: “waiden” is the plural of “waidin,” a little boat.

- Brother’s Keeper, book one of my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power.
"Where's Cerel?" Drisal asked. Rushak glimpsed him sigh and look around, that simple MOVEMENT betraying his fatigue. "He's gone to seek a way for the horses to get around the cave to the ridge top," Theris said. "Shouldn't you be doing that?" "Ideally, but we have to tend to him. We may not have another chance." Theris knelt beside Rushak and eached for his things as Drisal dithered anxiously, finally settling on his other side, andhanded over the basin. "You have wrecked your waiden if you think you're going to touch me again." Rushak lifted an arrow to his eye, testing it for straightness. Brother's Keeper A.C. Turek
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM