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Shrike 🐦‍⬛

@shrikebait.bsky.social

Finally freed this beauty from box prison because I just knew it was going to be pretty and I needed to wait til I could get pics.

Swipe to see the absolutely ADORABLE presentation from @salientbooks.bsky.social This book was packed with so much love. 🥺💖

#queerhorror

Paperback of Lamb, Stag & Wolf by Airic Fenn surrounded by rosemary branches

Book box with yellow false flowers and a printed baggie with a reddish raccoon reading "thank you for supporting indie dreams"

Wrapped book with various bookish stickers (featuring various woodland critters and a cute ghost) and a bookmark from Salient Books.

November 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM

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Airic Fenn | 🌲🐑🦌🐺🌲Lamb, Stag & Wolf OUT NOW!!!

@airic-fenn.bsky.social

Nominations for the Indie Ink Awards are open, and Lamb, Stag & Wolf is eligible! If you read & enjoyed it, do consider nominating it <3
(Cover art was done by me, interior art by myself and @raediay.bsky.social )
💙📚

A dark green graphic announcing that the Write Hive Indie Ink Award nominations are open. To the right of list of eligible categories is a picture of the cover for Lamb, Stag & Wolf by Airic Fenn.

The list of categories reads,
"For your consideration:
- Best cover/artist
-Prettiest interior
- best use of tropes
- best setting
- side character mvp
- writing the future we need: LGBTQ+ rep"

November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM

📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

@kiennwrites.bsky.social

indie ink awards!
nominate dove's eyes, my experimental queer gothic horror w a trans, biromantic asexual mmc (today is the last day it's free on my kofi!

fun fact: i designed my cover with an illusion, the hill with the chapel on it is also a dove <3

🌈📚🩸

November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM

📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

@kiennwrites.bsky.social

ENDS TOMORROW!! GET MY GAY LOBOTOMY HORROR BOOK FOR FREE

Dove's Eyes: trans body horror, religious trauma, hidden ciphers

i need readers and reviewers and its free on my kofi for halloweekend!!

🩸📚🌈

November 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM

📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

@kiennwrites.bsky.social

gay halloween w ur local repressed doctor and scary trans detective who is a little autistic sometimes

October 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁

@ardenpowell.bsky.social

My short story SHE-WOLF is free to read online at House of Gamut Magazine. It's a gory, sapphic, erotic horror Red Riding Hood retelling and you should read it if you need some vengeful lesbian werewolves in your life this Halloween.

She-Wolf - House of Gamut

My sister has always lived by the dogwood tree, but her cabin is no longer her own. I return to it nightly, and every night there is less of her than there was the night before. The woods are constant...

houseofgamut.com

October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now!

@zanwrites.bsky.social

😁🖤

Everyone is queer, multiple BIPOC supporting characters (worked with two different SRs), multiple MH and physical disability rep

Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! @zanwrites.bsky.social · Aug 5

🌆 urban fantasy
🔮 witches & shifters & vampires (oh my!)
🩸 original lore
🪞 parallel world
⚔️ enemy of my enemy
🌈 everyone is queer (and a disaster)

📖 universal link: buy.bookfunnel.com/ypxhg00vsn

#BookSky #WriteSky

the cover for The Blood Divide by Zan Lowell depicting the sillouhette of a leafless tree with a thin layer of snow on its branches and a mound of snow around the base of the trunk. beneath the snow are cobblestones with blood running through some of the cracks. The background is mottled gray and the title is in red text while the author's name is in white text

October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Kara Jorgensen

@authorkaraj.bsky.social

The Reanimator Mysteries is a gothic yet sweet romance series featuring an autistic necromancer and his accidentally reanimated partner as they solve crimes in 1890s New York City.
There are 3 books with a 4th on preorder and 3 in between stories.

Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 14d

THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 4 books with
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!
#romancelandia #booksky 🌈📚

Available now in ebook, audiobook, or paperback The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen
Mm romance, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder/magic/mysteries, food tour of 1890s NYC, unbury your gays, an autistic necromancer, everybody's queer

The Reanimator's Soul by Kara Jorgensen is out now in ebook and paperback, book 2, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, mm romance, a sinister clinic, new powers, 1890s NYC, a murdered patient, a cure for magic, a horrible ex, rich people behaving badly, the tether becomes a #problem

The Reanimator's Remains by Kara Jorgensen, out now in ebook, audiobook, and paperback, book 3, mm romance, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, the trees are watching, dealing with trauma... poorly, dont go where I can't follow, family secrets, breaking the cycle, the dead are out for revenge

cover reveal soon. preorder now, out January 29th.
autistic necromancer x undead ADHDer, mm romance, book curses and malicious magic, mutual aid, support, community, a new beginning, if im not a weapon, what good am i?, gwen to the rescue, the paranormal society is in peril, book 4 final book

October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM

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Vivian Moira Valentine

@itsviviactually.bsky.social

OUT NOW!

The first book in my Gothic paranormal fantasy serial Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm is available today wherever books are sold!

Join Victoria as she investigates her mysterious inheritance in a haunted seaside town!

books2read.com/SOR1

A goth woman in a black and purple dress looks on in shock as a large black tarantula crawls across a stone shelf. Behind her, mist rises, obscuring the houses in the background. A full moon hangs just above her head.

Illustrated by Lauren Walke.

Text reads:
Top - Vivian Moira Valentine
Middle - Shadows Over Ravenkirk
Bottom - 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm

A promotional image for Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm by Vivian Moira Valentine. It depicts the book's cover, featuring a goth woman and her faithful tarantula against a misty cityscape. Text reads:

"A funny, flirty, freaky paranormal romp with everything to satisfy both the goth and the goth-at-heart reader, Shadows over Ravenkirk is the most fun I've had reading in ages!" - Bitter Karella, Creator of The Midnight Pals

From the author of the acclaimed books, The Amelia Temple Series

Haunting your favorite bookstore October 31.

A moodboard for Shadows Over Ravenkirk by Vivian Moira Valentine. It depicts a scary Edwardian mansion, a woman in a black dress lighting candles, Christopher Lee as Dracula, and the demon Astoroth as depicted by Mike Mignola in the Hellboy comics.

October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM

Reposted by 📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

Arden Powell 🍂🍁

@ardenpowell.bsky.social

Queer author writing queer horror! FLESH AND BONE is a gothic western horror-romance with cis gay MCs and physical disability rep. CWs for homophobia, gore, and werewolf body horror.

Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io/flesh-and-bone
Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1M52FFX
Wide: books2read.com/u/3yxrDV

Flesh and Bone: an MM horror romance novella by Arden Powell. Cover art: yellow silhouettes of two cowboys on horseback ride inside the body of a huge black dog on a crimson background under an outline of the Rocky Mountains.
Supernatural wild west, horror romance, short novella, gross werewolf body horror, queer Canadian author, historical Canadian setting.

October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM

Reposted by 📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

Steve Hugh Westenra

@stevewestenra.bsky.social

Thanks for this!!

Hi! I'm Steve and I'm a neurodivergent trans author!

My queer horror comedy about a cryptid-hunting YouTuber has a 99% queer cast and features an ADHD protagonist!

Sale: steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil...

Wide: books2read.com/u/boB9YL

A Queer horror comedy by a trans author. "Is it Possible to queerbait yourself?"

A cryptid-hunting YouTuber. His missing mom. An isolated island that may house the monsters he swears aren't real.

Horror comedy by a trans author, cryptid hunters, cowboy hats, small towns are weird (#ownvoices), Newfoundland but less strange, Queer Buzzfeed Unsolved/Ghost Files, Misfits + Shenanigans, Cake, Twin Peaks Vibes, Burned out Millennials

October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM

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Milo (he/xe) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦

@milosometimes.bsky.social

I do actually have the word 'monster', but I liked this snippet more so I opted for 'creatures'.

Happy Halloween!

#WipSnips #FtSF #amquerying

Outlined text over a dark blue ocean. The horizon is obscured by fog.
The text reads: From the Sea Fret.
I grit my teeth and jerked the wheel. Ferryman dipped dangerously close to the starboard side as I pulled her around and faced towards land again. I had to keep a tight rein on my anxiety, as I could feel the spark threatening to ignite in my chest. Facing land would be the only way I could keep my head clear.
Against my wishes, I thought of the superstitions that my dad used to tell me. Creatures of cataclysmic proportions. Whirlpools that sucked down the largest fleets of ships. Banks of fog that never end. In my mind, they all made the same deep groan that was haunting me. In that moment, I wished desperately that I was anywhere else.
The word 'creatures' is underlined.

October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM

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Disco (he/they) 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@discobooks.bsky.social

Queer/BIPOC/disabled/neurodivergent authors!

Drop a link to your gothic, horror, witchy books, plus a lil blurb mentioning the diversity and I’ll repost 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚♿️ 📚🌎 📚🤎

October 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM

📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

@kiennwrites.bsky.social

REMINDER THAT MY GAY LOBOTOMY HORROR BOOK NEEDS READERS AND IS FREE ON MY KOFI TODAY FOR HALLOWEEN 🌈📚🩸
use the code HALLOWEEN

📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author @kiennwrites.bsky.social · 12d

halloween freebie...!!
my debut queer horror novel, dove's eyes
trans body horror, religious trauma, lobotomies

i need more readers... comment below if interested and get a free ebook copy! 🌈📚🩸

October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM

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📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

@kiennwrites.bsky.social

halloween freebie...!!
my debut queer horror novel, dove's eyes
trans body horror, religious trauma, lobotomies

i need more readers... comment below if interested and get a free ebook copy! 🌈📚🩸

October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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Royal W. Isaac

@r-wi.bsky.social

I am a queer disabled artist and writer from East Europe that's trying their best to enter the world of self-published indie books. I'm also currently pursuing a master's degree in German Intercultural Studies.

Click below to check out my patreon, newsletter, and other cool stuff

rwiii.carrd.co

Royal W Isaac

Writer and Artist

rwiii.carrd.co

July 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM

Reposted by 📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

Royal W. Isaac

@r-wi.bsky.social

I try to use curse words whenever they would suit the narrative and not just as often as i would say them lol

Snippet from Entangled

Soon enough, they reached a sharp incline in the terrain, indicative of a mountain that seem to have sprouted out of nowhere from the tectonic plates below.

"Where to now?" Faer inquired before a quick scan of the area.

"The traces we've been following seem to just disappear in this wall of stone and minerals." Exo pointed to a specific location that was covered in moss and other plant life.

Faer laughed. "If this is anything like the video materials we've watched, when I pull these plants aside, a small cave entrance will be revealed." As she said that, she did the exact motion she described and…

"THE FUCK???!" The two said in unison. This felt like a plot point taken straight from a cheap adventure film made for the lower classes.

October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM

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Isaac X Isaac

@isaacxisaac.bsky.social

There is a metaphorical spell in the book! 👀 Here it is with spoilers redacted for today's #WIPSnips.

It was inexplicable, insane. And as he watched the pair fly like a silver bullet to the wall, a strange pall of wonder draped over him. An evening’s nightmare had turned unexpectedly to a midwinter dream, a spectacle so absurd, it transfixed him. And he felt himself unable to do aught but watch the flying cloak and flying hooves and wait to see when the spell would break, and how.

October 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM

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Milo (he/xe) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦

@milosometimes.bsky.social

🐟FROM THE SEA FRET🐟

Callum Point moves to the dead-end town of Perne to scrape together a new life. He’s hoping to get what he always wanted; peace. Unfortunately, what greets him is a place rife with secrecy, conspiracy and creatures beyond comprehension.

#GhostPit #A #H #Q #LGBT #OWN

Outlined text over a dark blue ocean. The horizon is obscured by fog. Arrows point to words scattered across the image.
The text reads: From the Sea Fret. Revenge. Queer Transmac MC. Cosmic horror. Paranoia. Thalassophobia. Creepy small town.

Underwater, over a coral reef, rays of light shine through the water. A few fish swim through the reef.
Text reading "From the Sea Fret, Comps" is bordered in the centre. 5 arrows point towards posters.
The poster are: Dredge by Black Salt Games, Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner, The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers, The Fisherman by John Langan, Blood in the Bayou by Just Roll With It

A moodboard consisting of 5 pictures, each outlined in navy blue. The 5th picture is in the centre.
A foggy wooden dockyard at night.
The inside of a tackle shop. Nets, buoys, and fishing paraphernalia hand from the wall and ceiling.
A pile of grey fish.
A hand reaching out of grey water, the sky above is overcast.
A fishing boat on the ocean. Seagulls swarm it in the air.

Underwater, over a coral reef, rays of light shine through the water. A few fish swim through the reef.
A sheet of paper with text on it is centered.
The text reads: From the Sea Fret. Excerpt.
My thoughts were snowballing, adding up all the bullshit I’ve dealt with since moving to Perne, and my heart was beating faster at each uneasy memory that passed behind my eyes. I was gripping the wheel with white knuckles, forcing myself to breathe through clenched teeth.
The rope on the net creaking from strain pulled my body into automation. The thoughts momentarily shut off as I set about pulling the fish in. With each haul on the rope, I took a little bit extra time, as I knew what would be in the net. It seemed like no matter where I turned, things were waiting to fuck with my mind.
The word 'forcing' is underlined.

October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM

Reposted by 📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

Vincent Lore [Coffee]

@vincentlore.bsky.social

Tis the season 🎃

Like short stories? Victorian gothic fantasy? Queer-accepting settings? Women's wrongs, restless spirits, terrible fates? MCs with very complicated relationships with the villain?

You might like this story, the first in the Runner Owen series.

books2read.com/u/bwxaAY

Four of the check your Halloween candy memes, with the story title FRIEND OF THE DAMNED in the candy bar and the following in the blank space over it: autistic trans man detective, Victorian class conflict, tragic lesbian mediums, letter to the villain (homoerotic)

Cover to the short story Friend of the Damned

October 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM

Reposted by 📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

Airic Fenn | 🌲🐑🦌🐺🌲Lamb, Stag & Wolf OUT NOW!!!

@airic-fenn.bsky.social

On that note, here's the current list of places you can find THE DREAMER AND THE MARKED and LAMB, STAG & WOLF at in addition to itchio or the usual Bookshop/.org, B&N, etc. 🧵
💙📚

Airic Fenn | 🌲🐑🦌🐺🌲Lamb, Stag & Wolf OUT NOW!!! @airic-fenn.bsky.social · 14d

This! Ive been trying to make a greater point to push readers towards other platforms, especially as I've gotten my books into a few indie bookstores and libraries now & most of them ship at least within the US, but the majority of readers still buy my books from Amazon +
💙📚

Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 14d

There's a discourse again on indie (self-published) authors and Amazon, with the suggestion that those authors should boycott Amazon.

The truth is that many of us are "wide", meaning we publish on every available platform, as well as Amazon. But readers do not buy on those other platforms.

1/2

October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Dan F. Bispo

@danfbispo.bsky.social

To celebrate spooky season, my horror flash fic collection "The Cryptic Parade & A World Unfurling" will be free to download until November 1st. Make sure to snag it while you can!

Scares! Humor! A pretentious title! It's got it all. Check it out!

barrows.itch.io/the-cryptic-...

#WriteSky #Horror

The Cryptic Parade & A World Unfurling by Dan F. Bispo

A horror flash fiction collection.

barrows.itch.io

October 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM

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Vivian Moira Valentine

@itsviviactually.bsky.social

Want to know The Vibe for my next book, which I cannot stress enough comes out tomorrow? Check below!

Vivian Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · Oct 10

Hey, queerly beloved! Let’s pretend I’m getting a television adaptation of my gothic paranormal fantasy serial, Shadows Over Ravenkirk. How would I cast it? /🧵

books2read.com/SOR1

October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM

📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

@kiennwrites.bsky.social

halloween freebie...!!
my debut queer horror novel, dove's eyes
trans body horror, religious trauma, lobotomies

i need more readers... comment below if interested and get a free ebook copy! 🌈📚🩸

October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM

Reposted by 📚 kienn nguyen 🖤🪦🕊️✝️ | horror author

C. M. Rosens

@cmrosens.com

"Completely absurd, violent and absolutely wonderful. Perfectly blending eldritch horror with family drama that's both tender and hilarious." - Hester Steel, author of The Faceless Thing We Adore

Queer horror with tentacles, bad men, angry girls.

#Horror #BookSky 🌈📚😱

buy.bookfunnel.com/kwqd6x2s9w

Lovecraftian horror meets kitchen sink drama in this dry, darkly funny tale of toxic families, killers and cannibals, eldritch body horror and antihero female rage.

Completely absurd, violent and absolutely wonderful. Perfectly blending eldritch horror with family drama that's both tender and hilarious. The world said, "You shouldn't go around making people feel ...

buy.bookfunnel.com

October 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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