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Coastal Kate
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Coastal Kate @gabbrogirl.bsky.social · Sep 27
A handy list of my books…

SFF (Kate Kelly):

Permafrost. amzn.eu/d/0utB8Fj
The Arid Lands. amzn.eu/d/iRIMCnK
Dragons of Dunmoray. amzn.eu/d/35JDCdo
Red Rock. amzn.eu/d/6dyNcGQ

Thrillers (KM Kelly):

The Sleepers. amzn.eu/d/j2XQimr%EF...
Permafrost eBook : Kelly, Kate: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Permafrost eBook : Kelly, Kate: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
amzn.eu
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
My latest Flash of Strangeness is now live. Just a short one this week. Enjoy.
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A Flash of Strangeness
3. Oak and Ash
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November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
Last chance to enter this years SPSFC5 - and they’re are still openings for judges if if you’re an avid SF reader!!!
spsfc.bsky.social The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social · 5d
The fifth #SPSFC is about to close for entries and we're looking for a few more judges:

spsfc.space/2025/11/07/l...

Come for the free books. Stay for the Discord community full of self-published authors and avid science fiction readers.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
The Indie Ink Awards are now open for nominations. Time for us to give some love to our favourite indie books!!

www.indiestorygeek.com
Indie Story Geek
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November 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
My latest Flash of Strangeness is now live - I give you Rosemary Lane - a flash piece that I hope you enjoy

Rosemary Lane is a real place - an ancient Holloway near the village where I grew up - not dissimilar to the one in the photo which near where I live now

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An ancient Holloway, a narrow lane bounded by vertical rock walls full of ferns and fallen leaves
October 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
A frozen world. A besieged city. A hidden diary.

Oskar takes up arms to fight alongside his friends.

But there is another way for him to save the city –

The key to the future is a book from the past. #SciFiPit #A #PA #Cli #Spub #sfpit
October 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
They tried to save the world, but only made things worse. Now it is up to Oskar, and the words written in a diary, hidden in the library nearly 200 years ago that tell of what happened and why the world froze.

The key to the future is a book from the past.
#SciFiPit #A #PA #Cli #spub #sfpit
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
The world has frozen. Oskar must take up arms to help defend the city.

But perhaps fighting isn’t the only way – for Oskar has found an old diary, hidden in the city library -

The key to the future is a book from the past

. #SciFiPit #A #PA #Cli #spub #sfpit
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
A roundup of what I’ve been reading recently. Have you read any of these? What did you think?
Book covers for: Slow Horses by Mick Herron Dead Lions by Mick Herron The Resort by Sarah Goodwin Ascension by Nicholas Binge Fair Stood the Wind for France by HE Bates The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
And I’m in!!! Can’t wait to see all the other entries!!! I’ve found some amazing SF to read through this competition ❤️❤️
October 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
Welcome to A Flash of Strangeness: flash fiction and drabbles for your enjoyment.

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A Flash of Strangeness.
1. The Cat in the Chimney
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October 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
A handy list of my books…

SFF (Kate Kelly):

Permafrost. amzn.eu/d/0utB8Fj
The Arid Lands. amzn.eu/d/iRIMCnK
Dragons of Dunmoray. amzn.eu/d/35JDCdo
Red Rock. amzn.eu/d/6dyNcGQ

Thrillers (KM Kelly):

The Sleepers. amzn.eu/d/j2XQimr%EF...
Permafrost eBook : Kelly, Kate: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Permafrost eBook : Kelly, Kate: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
amzn.eu
September 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
My September newsletter is now live and I have a question for my readers 😎

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September Mists
Welcome to my September newsletter.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
If you fancy joining the judging team now is your chance!
spsfc.bsky.social The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social · Sep 19
With the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) taking book entries next month, we're looking for a few good volunteers to join us as judges:

spsfc.space/2025/09/19/j...

More than a few, actually. #SPSFC
A photo of the retro raygun awarded to the winner of the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition alongside a plague that notes the winner of SPSFC 4 as Saint Elspeth by Wick Welker. Next to the trophy is Welker's book, which has a cover of a hovering ovoid spacecraft above San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The sky is orange and full of portent.
September 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
All you amazing people who picked up a copy of Permafrost last week, firstly I hope you enjoy it 😁 and second if you can spare a moment do leave a review 📚📚❤️❤️
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
How interesting and timely is this - geoengineering gone wrong is a theme of both my CliFi novels Permafrost and The Arid Lands but both present very different, in fact almost opposite, outcomes!

Protect Arctic from 'dangerous' climate engineering, scientists warn www.bbc.com/news/article...
Protect Arctic from 'dangerous' climate engineering, scientists warn
Controversial approaches to cooling the planet are unlikely to work, according to dozens of polar scientists.
www.bbc.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
There’s another book sale taking place this week and two of mine are in it! I’ve just been scrolling through the titles and oh so tempted to go a bit wild!!

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Sale - for one week only The Arid Lands and Permafrost by Kate Kelly only 99p The image shows a snowy background with the r covers of both books overlain
September 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
Keep an eye out for this one!
scifipit.bsky.social #SFPit @scifipit.bsky.social · Aug 25
Dear friends, writers, #agents, interstellar travelers, interdimensional aliens, and otherwise paradoxical time hoppers!

We would like to invite you to set your favorite time-traveling device to October 21st, 2025, for the pitch event dedicated to Science Fiction, #SFPit! 🧵
August 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
Final day of the Narratess sale and you can still find over 300 amazing books either free or at reduced prices!

If you like exploring possible futures and distant lands then The Arid Lands, a conspiracy thriller set 600 years from now, might be the book for you! Do check it out - indiebook.sale
Cover image for The Arid Lands which shows silhouette of girl against desolate background. Accompanying text: A dried up ocean basin A people struggling to survive A deadly conspiracy Can one girl hold back the flood? The Arid Lands by Kate Kelly 99p/99 Indie book sale indiebook.sale Fantasy SF and horror Aug23-25
August 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
If you're looking for more Narratess #IndieSale books, check out Riyati Rebirth-- persona 4 x buffy-vibed, complete with generational trauma, examining the effects of classism, and a bunch of snark (and angst, and more trauma)

Direct 🔗 riyati.ink/store

📚📢📚💙 🌈📚🌎 🪐📚⚔️🌈🚀 #queerAdultSFF #QueerSFF
Header text reads: “With great power comes your past incarnations and future self playing chess with your existence.” A 3d mockup of a paperback book with Riyati Rebirth’s cover is on the left. On the right, the following bullets are listed: First book in series Demi, ND fMC “I don’t like future me” Teenagers making bad decisions Found Family Contemporary & low fantasy Dark Fantasy 1st Person & Multi PoV Childhood Friends Slow Burn Generational Trauma Intricate Magic System Elemental Magic Reincarnations 67k words (~275 pages) Below this list and cover is the text “Retailers,” with the following retailer logos: itch.io, ko-fi, Campfire, Payhip, Apple Books, Smashwords, Google Play Books, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon Kindle. A plus sign with “more @ riyati.ink/rebirth” is at the bottom The cover for Riyati Rebirth is on the left side. On the right side is the text, “Riyati Rebirth - The first book in a contemporary, low dark fantasy series that seeks to explore themes of identity, legacy, generational trauma, and finding your own path in life.” A the bottom is the Narratess banner, with skulls, planets, and a dragon. The text says, “Indie Book Sale - indiebook.sale Fantasy, SciFi & Horror - August 23-25”
August 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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jeremyrayne.bsky.social
Who doesn't want to watch a pristine, elegant man get in his first ever bar fight?! Trying to figure out how to be a normal person is a work in progress for this ancient hero....

spice + romance + MM + fantasy
🌶️📚 🌈📚
indiebook.sale
jeremyrayne.itch.io/how-to-sooth...
Image of a book cover, several strands of pearls on wet sand. The book is called How to Soothe a Fallen Hero by Jeremy Rayne, The Throneless King book 2. "He wants to turn over a new leaf. Learn to be a boyfriend and a businessman. But figures from his past won't make it easy on the elven king." The Narratess banner with dragon, skulls, and planets. Indie Book Sale, Fantasy Scifi & Horror, August 23-25. indiebook.sale
August 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
quick!! go grab my fantasy novel in the big indie sale!! 🎉

it's 400+ pages and features protective siblings and an unexpectedly caring vampire and demon. 🥹

universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
itchio: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
book sale general link: indiebook.sale
Narratess Indie Book Sale, August 23-25. Banner shows several ebooks around a graphic of a dragon reading. Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.
August 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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aimeecozza.com
The Narratess indie book sale continues! SO MANY BOOKS SO LITTLE TIME. You can get The Warm Machine ebook for JUST $1.99 *right now*! Order here at your retailer of choice: www.thewarmmachine.com#order

#BookSky 💙📚🪐 #Scifi #Narratess2025 #Robots
"The Warm Machine" - "Two bots fall in love and start a journey of self-discovery on their way to the fabled robot utopia Root." "Indie book sale; indiebook.sale, fantasy, sci fi, & horror, Aug 23-25" Multiple book covers spread across a landscape orientation composition with the text in the middle "indie book sale; indiebook.sale, fantasy, sci-fi, & horror, Aug 23-25"
August 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Kotov Syndrome is part of the #Narratess indie sale. You can find over 300 books on indiebook.sale, all ranging from free to $1.99. Plus there are tons of bundles on Itch you can grab like the two below.

Mid length novels: itch.io/b/3245/narra...

Scifi books: itch.io/b/3241/narra...

More links ⬇️
Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text. Text: Indie Book Sale indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror August 23 - 25 Banner designed by Arden Powell
August 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
gabbrogirl.bsky.social
Day 2 of the Narratess sale is well underway. I often think SciFi gets a bit overlooked in these events which tend to be quite fantasy heavy. But there are some great SF books to choose from over at indiebook.sale including The Arid Lands if you like a future set conspiracy 😎
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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mcburnellauthor.bsky.social
Want to know what it's like to feel lies and hear feelings? Start your adventure in THE TIPPING WORLD for just .99

A Path of Endless Crossroads and 300+ SFFH books at indiebook.sale

Or find it with friends in a fantasy bundle at mcburnell.itch.io/a-path-of-en...
#fantasy #sale #ebook
Indie Book Sale indiebook.sale Fantasy, SciFi & Horror August 23-25 A Path of Endless Crossroads - MC Burnell $4.99 is crossed out, .99 has arrows pointing at it.
August 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM