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Emmalou
@emmalouauthor.bsky.social
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Indie author, Writer of Weight Of The World, gothic romance lover, folklore enthusiast, vampire simp, and aspiring cryptid. ﾟ ⋆ ﾟ ☂︎ ⋆ ﾟ

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⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆Currently working on a Gothic romance. ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆
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Emmalou @emmalouauthor.bsky.social · 12d
Am very shy to promote my published book but I'm putting my big boy pants on and doing it now
If you're looking for a good holiday read The Weight Of The World is a fairytale full of whimsy, blood bonds, and messages of hope and healing! 💙

#indieauthor #indiebooks #faecore #readersky #writersky
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
👾 futuristic world
☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📝 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships

🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
these violent nights by rebecca crunden kindle cover; image shows a neon city with four black figures, two men and two women; there's a moon in the background around the text.
December 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
I am once again going to rec this post about Black and Brown skin tones. This is my go to post when I am writing BIPOC characters.

Also, if you have another list of non-food suggestions for skin color suggestions please slide it this way!

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December 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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tracyrayauthor.bsky.social
Need something spooky to read? My first published book "13 Short Horror Stories for Bedtime" is out! Please share and review!

AMAZON

a.co/d/8ntRBDE

BARNES AND NOBLE

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/13-short-h...

Enjoy the season! #tracyrayauthor #Booksky
December 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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authorstephenson.bsky.social
Audiobook On Amazon amzn.to/4lOyXG2

or on Audible adbl.co/3SFAUXZ

FREE on KU

USA amzn.to/4cQmHj0

UK amzn.to/4eXVtIY

A Nile cruise time slip brings two couples together with consequences for the future of what becomes the Roaring 20s. Can they return or are they destined to live out the 20s?
December 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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bookishsff.bsky.social
Oh, this looks a lot of fun.

One of these years I'll find time in the mad retail run up to Christmas to go visit some of the UK's amazing winter folk traditions...

(but this is not that year, alas!)
terriwindling.bsky.social Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d
Musicians with a Solstice Tree puppet, and two of the three folkloric Obby Osses who danced down the aisles of our village church at this year's Winter Solstice gathering. Photographs by Claire-Shauna Saunders. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.
Tom Fynn on pipes, Matt Tanner on drum, and an enormous tree puppet created by Jim Crawley & Nat Simpson (creature-makers at Elfenwild), puppeteered by William Todd-Jones. White Oss dancing up the church aisle by candlelight. White Oss is designed and performed by naturalist Tony Whitehead. The Chagford Mummers Oss in candlelight, clacking his wooden mouth and shaking his coat of straw. This Oss is designed and performed by artist Ruth Webb. The second Oss dancing a jig, while folklorist & storyteller Lisa Schneidau looks on. There is a third Oss too, the Black Oss (designed by artist Nomi Macleod and performed by my husband, dramatist Howard Gayton). Alas, we have no good photos of this dark and elusive creature, but he was certainly there, dancing merrily and mischievously behind the others.
December 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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hollyolsonbcpa.bsky.social
First Christmas with the kitten and...
#caturday
Gray and black striped kitten in an artificial Christmas tree with white branches and white needles.
December 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
emmalouauthor.bsky.social
just finished watching the first two seasons of Apothecary Diaries!! Needless to say I am obsessed! especially with the slow-burn between Maomao and Jinshi <3
#apothecarydiaries #thoughts #anime #maomao #jinshi
a woman with purple hair and a green haired girl looking at each other
ALT: a woman with purple hair and a green haired girl looking at each other
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December 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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coreyafrazier.bsky.social
Excited to see the unpublished manuscript of ORION: Heavenfall make it to the Cygnus Award semi-finals! Fingers crossed we advance to the finalist stage! 🤞🏾

Congratulations to all the authors!

#scifi #writing #scifibooks #superheroes #novel #booksky #authors
chantireviews.com Chanticleer Book Reviews @chantireviews.com · 3d
The 2025 Cygnus Semi-Finalists for Science Fiction

The 2025 Cygnus Semi-Finalists are here! The competition this year is out of this world, and we can tell that several divisions are going to be down to the wire!
The 2025 Cygnus Semi-Finalists for Science Fiction
The 2025 Cygnus Semi-Finalists are here! The competition this year is out of this world, and we can tell that several divisions are going to be down to the wire!
www.chantireviews.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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chembarathi.bsky.social
I think the life I want

is the life I have, but how can I be sure? There are days when I give up on my body

but not the world. I am alive.

I know this. Alive now

to see the world, to see the river rupture everything with its light.
- Hieu Minh Nguyen
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Heavy Hieu Minh Nguyen The narrow clearing down to the river I walk alone, out of breath my body catching on each branch. Small children maneuver around me. Often, I want to return to my old body a body I also hated, but hate less given knowledge. Sometimes my friends-my friends who are always beautiful & heartbroken look at me like they know I will die before them. I think the life I want is the life I have, but how can I be sure? There are days when I give up on my body but not the world. I am alive. I know this. Alive now to see the world, to see the river rupture everything with its light.
December 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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lindahuberauthor.bsky.social
Her job in beautiful English countryside–that was the good bit.
The bad bit was when she went home...
mybook.to/TUF24 #KindleUnlimited 💙📚
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "When sibling rivalry turns toxic”
#writing #booksky #suspense #familydrama #mystery
December 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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pangeanchronicles.bsky.social
Do you have a 12-year-old who loves books like Percy Jackson and other fantasy titles? If so they will love The Pangean Chronicles and The Shadows of Pangea!
Adults also love them!
www.thepangeanchronicles.com

#fantasybooks #readers #booksky
December 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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stephaniewood.bsky.social
I’m creating a 12 days of #ChristmasCountdown as there are twelve #QuickReads in my festive book series!
🎄❄️⛄️🎅🎁
Get to know the #neighbours on The Close and discover if you can guess some of the secrets they are hiding!

Day 9 #4daystoChristmas A CHRISTMAS KISS 💙📚
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074C693D3
December 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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authorstephenson.bsky.social
Skye, happy to be human, finds canine removal frustrates her need to bite after sex, which holds until the goddess Satis tells her she will bear a daughter - vampire, witch and succubus.

Audiobook Amazon amzn.to/3EGNxyH

Audible? It's it's adbl.co/45aL9Lq

USA amzn.to/3Lhr8Yr

UK amzn.to/3zHQtIi
December 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
emmalouauthor.bsky.social
This one is for my fellow writers!! how do you get in the mood to write? I like to listen to my story's assigned playlist and look at it's Pinterest board!
#booksky #writersky #authorsky #writer #writing
December 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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paumurp.bsky.social
Book 98 The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar #BookSky This is a really nice novella - A fairytale about two sisters living near the boundaries between the land of fae and the 'real world'. One (Esther) is pursued by a unwanted suitor, but she is in love with someone from the fae.
Cover of the book, 'The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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aubryjoi.bsky.social
Star-crossed lovers 💫

[ #cuteart #traditionalart #posca ]
A wood slice ornament with a painting of two antlered deer nuzzling each other, surrounded by scribbly stars. One deer is colored in tones of purple, and the other in tones of blue. They’re against a burnt orange background. The artwork is illustrated with paint pens and colored pencil and has stylized texture to it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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littleevil0ne.bsky.social
✨️My End of Year Sale is Still Going! ✨️
Ends January 2nd

❤️All comms are $15 off❤️

❤️Anything on my inprnt is 10% with code YUPQUZY if no sales (if inprnt has a sale going I'll add 10% off to theirs)❤️

Here are my links!
littleevil0ne.carrd.co

#art #artsky #myart
A bride in a white dress stands looking out a stone arch at a red moon while holding a bloodied knife. Her hands and hair are red with blood. The bottom of dress descends into a puddle of blood dripping off the steps. a black ballerina with vitiligo wearing a gingerbread dress covered in frosting decorations. The background is pink with snow falling and a banner at the bottom reads Gingerbread An elf girl in a ball gown turns towards a starburst of light, hair trailing behind her A freckled fairy in a cream outfit with apple slice wings sits on one of the three apples surrounding her. Cinnamon sticks run through the apple pile trailed by Cinnamon dust and stars. Content warning for self harm scars
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Preorder. It matters more than most people realize. buff.ly/lvL8e5j
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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itsyaboimikey1.bsky.social
My Sculpture Final from my Intermediate Sculpture Class!
December 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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crissthecreative.bsky.social
My manuscript takes place during the summer but this scene gives off December vibes. The end of something with the promise of something new in the future…

#writing #author #querying #books #december #writingcommunity #writersky #booksky #writesky
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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kevin-gallant.bsky.social
Only 12 hours left to grab Beyond The Mark for FREE before it goes back to its regular price. I rarely ask for shares, but let's do one big holiday push-please share so others can snag it too!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9

#Booksky #eBook #Kindle #Free #Fantasy
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
emmalouauthor.bsky.social
little sneak peak of the current draft for my upcoming gothic romance 👀
#booksky #writersky #indiebooks #writingwips #gothicromance
December 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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williamfdevault.bsky.social
a poem of romance and mystical intensity. #poetrysky #booksky #author
December 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Episode 184, out now

THIRST: RIVERS AND FOLKLORE

Listen at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-184....

For more, watch the interview and music video at youtu.be/DLPIzpXBh3w

This episode features river folklore, a discussion with @darrensimpson44.bsky.social & music from @lunatraktors.bsky.social
Title card: a water background with the show title and episode number
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
Read my cozy plus size m/m romance 'More to Love right now for FREE on Koboplus or Everand. ❤️ Jamir’s all sunshine, Emmy’s peak resting-bitch-face—but sparks fly the moment they collide. Opposites or not, their chemistry is undeniable. Can they make it work? bit.ly/moretolovero... #mmromance
More to Love A Cozy Plus Size M/M Romance - Bi4Bi Relationship - Grumpy/Sunshine -Low Angst - Geek/Jock -Bookstore Romance
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM