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Halley D. Roache
@halleydroache.bsky.social
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Writer/artist, working on YA & Adult Fantasy ✨ (She/Her)
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Halley D. Roache @halleydroache.bsky.social · Nov 9
Hiya!
My name's Halley & I'm working on a YA fantasy mystery series & 2 adult fantasy romcoms. I'm also working on 2 contemporary WIPs under a pen name. I love blending humor with dark themes & writing about diverse characters in alternate versions of the UK. Let's be pals 🥰

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A half-South Indian, half-Caucasian Canadian in her thirties with tan skin, dark wavy hair and dark eyes. She's standing in front of rolling hills covered in autumn trees and wears a dress with burgundy, gold and black stripes. A mood board with three columns. The first column contains a boy in shadow holding a knife, lightning striking the sea and a dagger embedded in the ground. The second column contains a seaside town and a silhouetted girl standing atop a rock. She's leaning back as crows swirl around her. The third column contains a spooky girl reaching towards the camera, a pair of gravestones covered in vines and the dark staircase of a manor house.
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
red leaves on the sea
north wind
steals me away

🍂

#DailyHaikuPrompt (north wind)
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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wolfskulljack.bsky.social
The Moon Eater- 2020
Digital art, my work. A raven
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly.
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
The 12 photos that make up my 2026 botanical calendars-looking at each image is very likely to alleviate anxiety & lift mood
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social
Here is a fairy
drawing of a fairy with antennae on a paper background decorated with moss
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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atypicaltiff.bsky.social
Also waaaateeeer
A dark, shallow creek flowing over rocks and spotted with fall leaves
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
creatives walking through a haunted house of horrors, but it's jsut monsters jumping out asking: you're still working on that? when will it be done? what are you going to do with it? how much money are you making from this?
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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lindzmcleod.bsky.social
It's absolutely wild to me that a book I wrote for the love of my life (@pegasusunder.bsky.social, if you didn't already know) woven through the language of flowers and two Jane Austen characters who frankly NEEDED their sapphic freedom, already has over 800 ratings on Goodreads.
My heart 😭
The pale yellow cover of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET by Lindz McLeod, against a background which fades from pink to green and is bordered by leaves and bright flowers.
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
halleydroache.bsky.social
Jenny’s a master wordsmith. The Hollow Pool totally enchanted me 🥰

#writingcommunity #booksky
jennygaitskell.bsky.social Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 25d
Hello lovelies. Ghost Light Lit's Myths and Monsters finds beauty and hope in the darkness.

I'm so excited that my story is included with these inspiring works of poetry and fiction.

Hope you enjoy. 🧡

#amwriting #fiction #writingcommunity

www.ghostlightlit.com/read.html
Read
Ghost Light Lit
www.ghostlightlit.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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caasbrey.bsky.social
Reasons to Visit your Local Haunted Bookshop 1. Open until very late. 2. Staff with nine hundred years of experience. 3. Home delivery by headless horseman or flying fiend. 4. Readings from famous authors. 5. Stay and browse forever.
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
halleydroache.bsky.social
Hey #writesky let’s take a little walk to a haunted beach together 🥰

First we walk through this marsh… (1/4)
A boardwalk zigzagging through a marsh at sunset. In the distance are rolling hills covered in pine trees. (Don't fall into the marsh, Smeagol isn't here to pull you out 😅) We're still walking, and to the right is a small forest on an island. An old fellow once told me that the island is home to some Swamp Soggers (octopus-like creatures with human heads) but you shouldn't believe him because everyone knows that the Swamp Soggers actually live in the water 🐙 Now we've left the boardwalk and we're heading up a little sandy path that cuts between some pines 💕
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
halleydroache.bsky.social
Things are getting very spooky & cozy on this server 🎃

Everyone is welcome if you want to pop in - we chat about books, folklore, writing and all-things Halloween 🥰

#booksky #WritingCommunity
An ad for the Writers & Readers of Ghost & Magic Discord Server. There are three picture in a row: a woman reading a book while sipping coffee and sitting amongst autumn leaves a smiling witch with her face half-covered by a cloak’s hood ...and a latte with a ghost made of foam swirling on its surface ☕
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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timothyhelmuth.com
my spell worked
a black cat on a yellow rug surrounded by a circle of tiny orange pumpkins
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
by the way, you're not doing nothing. Slow creative days happen. Rough days happen. Believe me, I get it. But staring at your WIP, visualizing, adding a note for later, hell even just italicizing a single word. that shit counts. it's something. you're making an effort. that's never nothing.
May 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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elizmanderson.com
what if. you asked me anything

about THE LORD OF THE WOOD, my cozy horror about a 43yo autistic guy who has a gay/lowkey monsterfucker awakening after getting lost in an enchanted forest

(both to reward me for starting line edits today and to cheer me up bc I'm Sad tonight)

#AMA
cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood, which is blue, darker at the edges and paler in the center, with an image of a stag of flowers and foliage growing from a tree, with a scar over his eye, and black ooze dripping from a tree branch above him. the tagline reads, "Even a beastly woodland protector needs saving..."
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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theangrynoodle.com
Made cheesecake. 🍰 Specifically New York cheesecake. With some chocolate drizzle and some blueberries and raspberries on top.

Don't know what to name this silly little guy yet. Y'all got any ideas? 🤔 🧶

Pattern by CosFamily! www.etsy.com/listing/4353...
A crocheted happy New York cheesecake with little dark brown legs, a chocolate drizzle, three blueberries, and two raspberries on top. Top of the crocheted New York cheesecake showing the three blueberries and two raspberries on top of the chocolate drizzle.
September 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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simzart.bsky.social
S'mores 🤍
A witch making s'mores in pumpkin patch surrounded by ghost cats phasing through the pumpkins. The setting is night time and there's fire lighting the scene.
October 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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abigaillarson.com
just passing through
illustration showing a room with a shadowy ghost hiding behind open double doors that lead to a gloomy hallway and staircase. A small grey cat looks up at the ghost.
October 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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orcspiration.bsky.social
PUT AWAY YOUR SPEAR, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE SELF DOUBT. AND YOU WILL WIN.
October 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a very mild charm that will make you feel extra cozy for a while.
October 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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vanessagillings.bsky.social
I've gotten a lot of questions about prints from my solo show -- and yes, there are prints!

If you're interested in one, follow this link and scroll to the bottom and you should see them! 💛

gallerynucleus.com/events/1045
photograph of various prints laid on top of each other
October 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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simzart.bsky.social
A character taking a nap with their ghost cats. They have a magic wand in their hand and magic symbols and trinkets are all around their room.
August 27, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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gdbee.bsky.social
Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s
Illo of a celestial person reaching up to grab a star. Based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995. Drawn by gdbeeart in autumn 2021, photoshop.
July 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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vanessagillings.bsky.social
My fourteenth piece for my solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social! Two more days to see my show in person!

#illustration #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache #fantasyart #storybookillustration #fantasyart #fantasyillustration
watercolor and gouache painting of a woman in a feather cloak standing before a series of standing stones in sunset, sword in hand, three crows alighting on her finger
October 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
Please keep going, bro. Take breaks if you need them. Take care of yourself. Shut things down for a bit. Surround yourself with your favourite things. Just keep going. I get it's easier said than done. I've been through this. It's crushing sometimes. Please don't give up. Don't let anyone else win.
October 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:
A collection of seedheads, acorns, sycamore keys, dried flowers, lichen, a little owl feather & a piece of Baltic amber on a white watercolour paper background
October 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM