Del Hargraves
@delhargraves.bsky.social
Fantasy and Horror Author in secret.
Feral Biologist by trade.
Everything comes home to the wild.
Feral Biologist by trade.
Everything comes home to the wild.
✨Spotlight Saturday✨
Calling all
✍️ Indie Authors
✒️ Self Published Authors
💻 Authors
📝 Writers of all kinds
Are you published? Need ARC or Beta readers? Leave a link!
Marketing is hard and promoting oneself is awkward.
You're welcome to shout into this area of the void💕
#writingcommunity
Calling all
✍️ Indie Authors
✒️ Self Published Authors
💻 Authors
📝 Writers of all kinds
Are you published? Need ARC or Beta readers? Leave a link!
Marketing is hard and promoting oneself is awkward.
You're welcome to shout into this area of the void💕
#writingcommunity
May 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
✨Spotlight Saturday✨
Calling all
✍️ Indie Authors
✒️ Self Published Authors
💻 Authors
📝 Writers of all kinds
Are you published? Need ARC or Beta readers? Leave a link!
Marketing is hard and promoting oneself is awkward.
You're welcome to shout into this area of the void💕
#writingcommunity
Calling all
✍️ Indie Authors
✒️ Self Published Authors
💻 Authors
📝 Writers of all kinds
Are you published? Need ARC or Beta readers? Leave a link!
Marketing is hard and promoting oneself is awkward.
You're welcome to shout into this area of the void💕
#writingcommunity
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The book community would not be anything w/o our artists, our designers, our narrators and/or everyone else involved in making these books happen. If you use gen AI, you’re announcing your lack of respect and solidarity for everyone involved. So why would any of us buy your book?
May 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The book community would not be anything w/o our artists, our designers, our narrators and/or everyone else involved in making these books happen. If you use gen AI, you’re announcing your lack of respect and solidarity for everyone involved. So why would any of us buy your book?
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Read short stories. The markets you submit to want you to read their magazines. Some are free reads. Some are paid reads. Consider spending for 1 month of reads for 2 markets each month who are in your rotation. Get to know what those editors like.
#writingcommunity #booksky #shortstories
#writingcommunity #booksky #shortstories
May 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Read short stories. The markets you submit to want you to read their magazines. Some are free reads. Some are paid reads. Consider spending for 1 month of reads for 2 markets each month who are in your rotation. Get to know what those editors like.
#writingcommunity #booksky #shortstories
#writingcommunity #booksky #shortstories
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Do you have a microhorror story in 500 words or less? 🖤
Submit to Whispers From Beyond, Dark Descent's webzine for short, spine-chilling tales.
📖 Submission link: tinyurl.com/DescentSub
#HorrorWriters #DarkDescent #booksky #HorrorCommunity #DarkFantasy #Horrorlit #HorrorBooks
Submit to Whispers From Beyond, Dark Descent's webzine for short, spine-chilling tales.
📖 Submission link: tinyurl.com/DescentSub
#HorrorWriters #DarkDescent #booksky #HorrorCommunity #DarkFantasy #Horrorlit #HorrorBooks
May 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Do you have a microhorror story in 500 words or less? 🖤
Submit to Whispers From Beyond, Dark Descent's webzine for short, spine-chilling tales.
📖 Submission link: tinyurl.com/DescentSub
#HorrorWriters #DarkDescent #booksky #HorrorCommunity #DarkFantasy #Horrorlit #HorrorBooks
Submit to Whispers From Beyond, Dark Descent's webzine for short, spine-chilling tales.
📖 Submission link: tinyurl.com/DescentSub
#HorrorWriters #DarkDescent #booksky #HorrorCommunity #DarkFantasy #Horrorlit #HorrorBooks
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I have short stories available!
Erica is dumped on a crocodile-infested beach by a talking parrot. A village nearby could be her salvation, or her doom. Will she find a way home?
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Sci-fantasy, 18 pages quick read
0.99: books2read.com/u/mdqYqZ
Free/pay as you like on itch: itch.io/c/5748100/in...
Erica is dumped on a crocodile-infested beach by a talking parrot. A village nearby could be her salvation, or her doom. Will she find a way home?
-
Sci-fantasy, 18 pages quick read
0.99: books2read.com/u/mdqYqZ
Free/pay as you like on itch: itch.io/c/5748100/in...
May 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I have short stories available!
Erica is dumped on a crocodile-infested beach by a talking parrot. A village nearby could be her salvation, or her doom. Will she find a way home?
-
Sci-fantasy, 18 pages quick read
0.99: books2read.com/u/mdqYqZ
Free/pay as you like on itch: itch.io/c/5748100/in...
Erica is dumped on a crocodile-infested beach by a talking parrot. A village nearby could be her salvation, or her doom. Will she find a way home?
-
Sci-fantasy, 18 pages quick read
0.99: books2read.com/u/mdqYqZ
Free/pay as you like on itch: itch.io/c/5748100/in...
AI could never spend hours researching words and meanings and context to create a term only to forget where it came from like real writers ✍🏻
#fantasyauthors #writingsky
#fantasyauthors #writingsky
May 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
AI could never spend hours researching words and meanings and context to create a term only to forget where it came from like real writers ✍🏻
#fantasyauthors #writingsky
#fantasyauthors #writingsky
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Being READY for a writing career means putting the pieces in place to be ready. Literally. You cannot sit on your hands and be wishful. It takes time and lots of work. It may not be what you want. Thats okay. Just ignore me.
Do the work. Overcome your resistance.
#writingcommunity #booksky
Do the work. Overcome your resistance.
#writingcommunity #booksky
May 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Being READY for a writing career means putting the pieces in place to be ready. Literally. You cannot sit on your hands and be wishful. It takes time and lots of work. It may not be what you want. Thats okay. Just ignore me.
Do the work. Overcome your resistance.
#writingcommunity #booksky
Do the work. Overcome your resistance.
#writingcommunity #booksky
Don't forget to feed and water your characters today 🥖
🤺 Swords don't swing on pure will alone
(unless they do)
(it's your book)
(do what you want)
#writingcommunity
🤺 Swords don't swing on pure will alone
(unless they do)
(it's your book)
(do what you want)
#writingcommunity
May 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Don't forget to feed and water your characters today 🥖
🤺 Swords don't swing on pure will alone
(unless they do)
(it's your book)
(do what you want)
#writingcommunity
🤺 Swords don't swing on pure will alone
(unless they do)
(it's your book)
(do what you want)
#writingcommunity
May 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I want to stay home and give my dogs the pats and treats they deserve while I write. Not go to work 🙄
May 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I want to stay home and give my dogs the pats and treats they deserve while I write. Not go to work 🙄
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Our fear is that this pursuit of democratisation by AI will make automated and synthetic translation the norm, and human translation a luxury reserved only for writers with the highest of profiles, says Anna Ganley and Ian Giles ( @iangiles.bsky.social ) 👇 #BookSky
Canaries in the coal mine
www.thebookseller.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our fear is that this pursuit of democratisation by AI will make automated and synthetic translation the norm, and human translation a luxury reserved only for writers with the highest of profiles, says Anna Ganley and Ian Giles ( @iangiles.bsky.social ) 👇 #BookSky
May 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
One week to read two books for book club.
Two days to finish my personal-choice Libby audiobook.
Minutes since I lasted clicked “borrow now” on the first book of a whole-ass new series.
Don’t send help, I’m fine.
#booksky
Two days to finish my personal-choice Libby audiobook.
Minutes since I lasted clicked “borrow now” on the first book of a whole-ass new series.
Don’t send help, I’m fine.
#booksky
May 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
One week to read two books for book club.
Two days to finish my personal-choice Libby audiobook.
Minutes since I lasted clicked “borrow now” on the first book of a whole-ass new series.
Don’t send help, I’m fine.
#booksky
Two days to finish my personal-choice Libby audiobook.
Minutes since I lasted clicked “borrow now” on the first book of a whole-ass new series.
Don’t send help, I’m fine.
#booksky
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HEY ALL FOLLOWING THESE PAGES
This is the SAME dude, charging folks. THIS IS NOT MEEEEEE 😡😡😡
✨ I WOULD NEVER CHARGE FOR INDIE PROMO ✨
Please block these. Please do not pay for this. Please do NOT think this dude is me. He’s got 20+ websites and a Writer’s Beware article on him.
📚💙
This is the SAME dude, charging folks. THIS IS NOT MEEEEEE 😡😡😡
✨ I WOULD NEVER CHARGE FOR INDIE PROMO ✨
Please block these. Please do not pay for this. Please do NOT think this dude is me. He’s got 20+ websites and a Writer’s Beware article on him.
📚💙
May 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
HEY ALL FOLLOWING THESE PAGES
This is the SAME dude, charging folks. THIS IS NOT MEEEEEE 😡😡😡
✨ I WOULD NEVER CHARGE FOR INDIE PROMO ✨
Please block these. Please do not pay for this. Please do NOT think this dude is me. He’s got 20+ websites and a Writer’s Beware article on him.
📚💙
This is the SAME dude, charging folks. THIS IS NOT MEEEEEE 😡😡😡
✨ I WOULD NEVER CHARGE FOR INDIE PROMO ✨
Please block these. Please do not pay for this. Please do NOT think this dude is me. He’s got 20+ websites and a Writer’s Beware article on him.
📚💙
No books ever grip as strong as the ones you begin to skim in an aisle and end up reading, transported to another world while your body becomes an obstacle, unattended.
May 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
No books ever grip as strong as the ones you begin to skim in an aisle and end up reading, transported to another world while your body becomes an obstacle, unattended.
I’m extremely picky about sci-fi, to the point I usually tell people I don’t like it. My partner has decided to help broaden my tastes, and has a list of sci fi audiobooks we’re going to try on an upcoming road trip weekend.
Can it be done?
Can I be convinced?
To be determined…
Can it be done?
Can I be convinced?
To be determined…
May 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I’m extremely picky about sci-fi, to the point I usually tell people I don’t like it. My partner has decided to help broaden my tastes, and has a list of sci fi audiobooks we’re going to try on an upcoming road trip weekend.
Can it be done?
Can I be convinced?
To be determined…
Can it be done?
Can I be convinced?
To be determined…
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Words To Live By Number 202
March 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Words To Live By Number 202
Hello friends, here for my weekly Bluesky catch-up 👋🏻
This week I drafted 2 short stories, started revisions on a third, finished one beta read and started another, read 4 chapters of The Silmarillion, and drank 5 cans of suspicious fluids.
How’s everyone else?
This week I drafted 2 short stories, started revisions on a third, finished one beta read and started another, read 4 chapters of The Silmarillion, and drank 5 cans of suspicious fluids.
How’s everyone else?
March 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hello friends, here for my weekly Bluesky catch-up 👋🏻
This week I drafted 2 short stories, started revisions on a third, finished one beta read and started another, read 4 chapters of The Silmarillion, and drank 5 cans of suspicious fluids.
How’s everyone else?
This week I drafted 2 short stories, started revisions on a third, finished one beta read and started another, read 4 chapters of The Silmarillion, and drank 5 cans of suspicious fluids.
How’s everyone else?
Finally remembered this place exists again.
Hello everyone 👋🏻
Hello everyone 👋🏻
March 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Finally remembered this place exists again.
Hello everyone 👋🏻
Hello everyone 👋🏻
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It's short story day!
If you enjoy bite-sized spiels, strange little stories, occassional jellies, and tales of Tirrsian origin, check out the Black Ink Blooms substack, posting this evening!
#writersky
open.substack.com/pub/freysfic...
If you enjoy bite-sized spiels, strange little stories, occassional jellies, and tales of Tirrsian origin, check out the Black Ink Blooms substack, posting this evening!
#writersky
open.substack.com/pub/freysfic...
Black Ink Blooms | S.C. Frey | Substack
Tales from the World of Tirras Savehys -
A collection of short stories recounting snapshot moments from the lives of people who live there. Click to read Black Ink Blooms, by S.C. Frey, a Substack pub...
open.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It's short story day!
If you enjoy bite-sized spiels, strange little stories, occassional jellies, and tales of Tirrsian origin, check out the Black Ink Blooms substack, posting this evening!
#writersky
open.substack.com/pub/freysfic...
If you enjoy bite-sized spiels, strange little stories, occassional jellies, and tales of Tirrsian origin, check out the Black Ink Blooms substack, posting this evening!
#writersky
open.substack.com/pub/freysfic...
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Do you have KU? If so, then go check out the revised edition of The Tale of Tiernan available right now!
#fantasybooks #bookseries #indieauthor #writingcommunity #reading #YAFantasy #NAFantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWDTZM33/
#fantasybooks #bookseries #indieauthor #writingcommunity #reading #YAFantasy #NAFantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWDTZM33/
The Tale of Tiernan (The Graelian Chronicles Book 1)
Amazon.com: The Tale of Tiernan (The Graelian Chronicles Book 1) eBook : Colson, James: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Do you have KU? If so, then go check out the revised edition of The Tale of Tiernan available right now!
#fantasybooks #bookseries #indieauthor #writingcommunity #reading #YAFantasy #NAFantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWDTZM33/
#fantasybooks #bookseries #indieauthor #writingcommunity #reading #YAFantasy #NAFantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWDTZM33/
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Sharing character art??? Finally???
Ameria the of my WIP, "Call of the Beast". She is strong-willed and self-assured as captain of her squad, but behind the scenes, she had dark insecurities lurking. Find more about her on my substack below💜
#writercommunity #writersky
Art by corvidkusnos on bsky
Ameria the of my WIP, "Call of the Beast". She is strong-willed and self-assured as captain of her squad, but behind the scenes, she had dark insecurities lurking. Find more about her on my substack below💜
#writercommunity #writersky
Art by corvidkusnos on bsky
January 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sharing character art??? Finally???
Ameria the of my WIP, "Call of the Beast". She is strong-willed and self-assured as captain of her squad, but behind the scenes, she had dark insecurities lurking. Find more about her on my substack below💜
#writercommunity #writersky
Art by corvidkusnos on bsky
Ameria the of my WIP, "Call of the Beast". She is strong-willed and self-assured as captain of her squad, but behind the scenes, she had dark insecurities lurking. Find more about her on my substack below💜
#writercommunity #writersky
Art by corvidkusnos on bsky
“Do I pray to God or the devil? Does it matter if I or the King fell a deer, to the deer? We’re all deer in the end.”
— excerpt from short story releasing in May 👀🦌
— excerpt from short story releasing in May 👀🦌
January 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Do I pray to God or the devil? Does it matter if I or the King fell a deer, to the deer? We’re all deer in the end.”
— excerpt from short story releasing in May 👀🦌
— excerpt from short story releasing in May 👀🦌
What’s this? A rebrand already?
I’m all about community, sharing what we know, and access. So basic gist and goals of newsletter are staying the same, but the presentation is more refined (I hope).
Welcome to the Lost Writers Society ✨
open.substack.com/pub/delhargr...
I’m all about community, sharing what we know, and access. So basic gist and goals of newsletter are staying the same, but the presentation is more refined (I hope).
Welcome to the Lost Writers Society ✨
open.substack.com/pub/delhargr...
Lost Writers Society | Del Hargraves | Substack
Musings along the journey to becoming a self-published fantasy and horror author. Click to read Lost Writers Society, by Del Hargraves, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
open.substack.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
What’s this? A rebrand already?
I’m all about community, sharing what we know, and access. So basic gist and goals of newsletter are staying the same, but the presentation is more refined (I hope).
Welcome to the Lost Writers Society ✨
open.substack.com/pub/delhargr...
I’m all about community, sharing what we know, and access. So basic gist and goals of newsletter are staying the same, but the presentation is more refined (I hope).
Welcome to the Lost Writers Society ✨
open.substack.com/pub/delhargr...