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J.T.Gates | Author-To-Be ✒️
@jtgates.bsky.social
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Book lover & aspiring author. 📚✒️

Writing my first novel & sharing the journey. ✍️✨ Come along for the ride!

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J.T.Gates | Author-To-Be ✒️ @jtgates.bsky.social · Mar 19
Reached 100 followers on both accounts today! 🎉 Just wanted to say thank you for your interest in my work, whether it's #photography, #writing, or my #bookish posts. 🥰

Short story: substack.com/@jtgates/note/c-99274867

Photography: @artfulgates.bsky.social

#booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
Purple and pink sunset behind bare trees. Cute Shiba in a sun puddle.
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Legends & Lattes turned out to be the coziest of all cozy fantasies. 💖 I highly recommend this one. ☕✨

#booksky #books #highfantasy #cozyfantasy
jtgates.bsky.social J.T.Gates | Author-To-Be ✒️ @jtgates.bsky.social · Mar 23
*Exhales* I finally finished 1984 by George Orwell. 👁️📕
Thought-provoking, nightmare-inducing, and unforgettable—I’m sure I’ll return to it someday.
But for now... it’s time for a ✨cozy fantasy✨ to soothe my soul. ☕🥰

#booksky #bannedbooks #resist #books #highfantasy #cozyfantasy
The New York Times Bestseller, Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes
May 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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You ever write a plot twist so good you gasp… and then immediately spiral trying to figure out how to make it make sense? Because, uh… same.

#writesky #writingcommunity #booksky #books
April 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I swear, I'm still writing, I'm just so hyper-focused I forgot BlueSky existed. 😅

#booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #books
April 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I always love these little comics, but this one is too perfect not to share.

IG: @nathanwpylestrangeplanet

#booksky #comic #art #books
"You appear furious" "I am" "I'm enraged by a being in this narrative" "An actual being?" "The being is fictional. My anger is real... This is how I relax" "Ok"
April 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I haven’t been reading much lately, but I’ve been making real progress on my book! ✍️✨

Four characters named, a solid outline in the works, and the magic system finally makes sense. 🥳

It’s all coming together, and I’m so excited!

#writingcommunity #writers #books #booksky #writesky
April 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I've been chatting with #AI a lot lately. I asked for personalized book recommendations, and it suggested Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. I’m really excited to check it out! Has anyone read it?

Also, look at this super cute cartoon it made of me! I love it! 😍😄

#booksky #books
March 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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*Exhales* I finally finished 1984 by George Orwell. 👁️📕
Thought-provoking, nightmare-inducing, and unforgettable—I’m sure I’ll return to it someday.
But for now... it’s time for a ✨cozy fantasy✨ to soothe my soul. ☕🥰

#booksky #bannedbooks #resist #books #highfantasy #cozyfantasy
The New York Times Bestseller, Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes
March 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
jtgates.bsky.social
Reached 100 followers on both accounts today! 🎉 Just wanted to say thank you for your interest in my work, whether it's #photography, #writing, or my #bookish posts. 🥰

Short story: substack.com/@jtgates/note/c-99274867

Photography: @artfulgates.bsky.social

#booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
Purple and pink sunset behind bare trees. Cute Shiba in a sun puddle.
March 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The sky is the same for everyone. ✨🌙

#bannedbooks #dystopian #dystopia #books #resist #booksky
"And the people under the sky were also very much the same everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.” (1984, 220)
March 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I didn’t get much reading or writing done this weekend, but I made some progress developing my protagonist’s personality and motivations—she even has a name now! ☺️ A little progress is better than none! ✨📖✨

#writesky #writingcommunity #booksky #author #wip #books #fiction #fantasy #novel
March 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Trying to squeeze in some reading this weekend before diving into another exhausting workweek. Here’s another 1984 excerpt for you all.

#bannedbooks #dystopian #dystopia #books #resist #booksky
"If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate." (1984, 196)
March 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Ladies, ever see a woman so stunning you just feel like a Hobbit?
#booksky #lotr #peoplewatching
March 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I'm so proud of myself for writing this weekend and so grateful that people enjoyed my short story! 🥰✨

#booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #resist #bannedbooks #dystopian #dystopia #books #substack
jtgates.bsky.social J.T.Gates | Author-To-Be ✒️ @jtgates.bsky.social · Mar 10
This is what happens when you read 1984 before bed...

A haunting nightmare led me to write a #dystopian story—of captivity, suffering, and a desperate fight for escape.

🔗 Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/jtgates/p/erased-in-plain-sight

#booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #resist #bannedbooks
March 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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🎨✍🏾🖤 Today’s edition of 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆:

“𝘓𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘶𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦; 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬, 𝘯𝘰 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥.” - Virginia Woolf

𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜.
#resist #amwriting #writingcommunity #bannedbooks
March 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This is what happens when you read 1984 before bed...

A haunting nightmare led me to write a #dystopian story—of captivity, suffering, and a desperate fight for escape.

🔗 Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/jtgates/p/erased-in-plain-sight

#booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #resist #bannedbooks
March 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Spent all morning lost in writing a short story… and just like that, my Sunday seems to have vanished! 💨✍️😅

Story coming soon!

#booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #dystopian #resist #bannedbooks
kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
ALT: kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
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March 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I didn't read enough today. #booksky
March 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I love when stories include animal companions—they add so much heart! ❤️ I'm thinking about how to weave a dog into my story.

What are your favorite animal companions in fiction? 🐾📖

#writesky #booksky #writingcommunity #books #photography #dogsky #dogs #pets #petphotography
March 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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It’s #InternationalWomen’sDay. Treat your lady like the queen she is.

And by that I of course mean take her to Barnes & Noble.

#Booksky
March 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Happy Amazon Boycott Week!

Remember to shop for your indie ebooks on places like Itchio, Kobo, Smashwords, and B&N!

#booksky
March 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky
A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
March 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Really looking forward to reading this book.
quotesbyher.bsky.social Quotes By Her @quotesbyher.bsky.social · Mar 4
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

#parableofthesower #bannedbooks #reading #booksky
March 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The perfect start to a Saturday—tea, a good book, and a slow morning. ☕📖✨

What are you reading today? I’m hoping to finish 1984 this weekend before another busy workweek begins.

Sharing an excerpt below! 📚

#bannedbooks #resist #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #quotes #books
March 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This book is amazing—but I’m definitely craving a cozy fantasy read after this one! ✨🐉🌈

"In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it."

📚 (1984, 156)

#bannedbooks #booksky
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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It’s not hoarding if it’s books… right? 🤭📚
February 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM