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Rebecca Buchanan
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Tree-hugging witchy poet. Author of fairy tales, fantasy, and mystery. Books are magic, and those who burn books are never on the right side of history. Editor of the Pagan literary ezine, Eternal Haunted Summer.

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Book mail! A true life #archaeology literary adventure; an #historicalromance mystery set in a creepy British country estate; a #sapphic #regency #romance with an Anne Lister-ish love interest; and a #psychic murder mystery romance set shortly after the Great War. :) #booksky
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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New interview up at Forests Haunted by Holiness! Sit down with #witch and author Katie Ness about her new book, Word Witchery. Fascinating discussion about women poets, priestesses, and more. #witchsky #booksky #poetry #paganism

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Interview: Katie Ness
[Today, we sit down with witch and author, Katie Ness. Here, she discusses her personal spiritual practices; her new book, Word Witchery, and the research that went into it; and her upcoming projec…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Book mail! A how-to writing guide that looks to be eye-opening and inspiring; a #romantasy inspired by Beauty and the Beast; and a #cozyfantasy with recipes! #booksky #fairytale #amwriting
The cover of Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird by Henry Lien. The cover is pale brownish-yellow, like old parchment, with a flowering tree, a green tree, an asteroid, and a bird arranged around the edges. The cover of Unsightly by Jeanna Mason Stay. A large red rose fills the center and is surrounded on all sides by green leaves and vines. The cover of Cookies and Claws by Camilla Vavruch. The title is in black text in the center. It is surrounded by a wreath composed of cookies, pastries, swords, and axes.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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New interview up at Forests Haunted By Holiness! Here, we sit down for Five Questions with Irisanya Moon! #witchsky #booksky #mythology #paganism #polytheism

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Five Questions With: Irisanya Moon
[Here, we sit down for Five Questions with author Irisanya Moon, and discuss their new book, Pantheon: The Greeks.] Forests Haunted by Holiness: Your next book, Pantheon: The Greeks, will be publis…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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The Adventure of the Faerie Coffin is now available for pre-order in paperback! Woohoo! The ebook is available at all major retailers right now, and the paperback will be out 1 December 2025. #booksky #witchsky #fantasy #occultdetective #gaslamp #sherlockholmes

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The cover of The Adventure of the Faerie Coffin: Being the First Morstan and Holmes Occult Detection. A woman in red dress stands to the left, weaving bluish light through her hands. A man in a vest and holding a pipe stands to the right. Victorian-era brick buildings fill the background.
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Book mail! #booksky #urbanfantasy #fantasy #sciencefiction #romantasy
The cover of the sapphic romantasy Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray. The cover of the romantasy Seure the Tempered by Rien Gray. The cover of the sapphic romantasy Martis the Brazen by Rien Gray. The cover of the urban fantasy A Skirl of Sorcery by Helen Harper. A woman with ink hair, dressed in black pants and a black tank top, stands in an alley. Two black cats stand to either side while the city looms in the background.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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The new issue of The Fairy Tale Magazine is here! Thank you to Kristen Baum DeBeasi and the rest of TFTM crew for including my poem "A Troll's Feast" alongside so many other amazing works :) #poetry #fairytale #myth #troll #witchsky

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The Troll Issue is here!
We are delighted to present The Troll Issue! The first poem and story are meant as invocation—the call to enter the realm of the trolls. From there, the issue is created as a “choose your own troll ad...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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New interview up at Forests Haunted by Holiness! This time we sit down with Dawn Leith Dougherty to discuss her new book on smoke cleansing and blessings. Check it out! #witchsky #booksky #incense

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Interview: Dawn Leith Dougherty
[Today we sit down with Dawn Leith Dougherty, author of Sage Advice, A Practical Guide to Energetic Smoke Cleansing and House Blessing. Here we discuss her book; the research that went into it; and…
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November 2, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Call for submissions! Eternal Haunted Summer is open to submissions of #fiction, #poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews from 1 November to 1 December 2025. The theme is the Good Neighbors or the #fae. Full guidelines below. #witchsky #fairies #myth #pagan

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What is Eternal Haunted Summer? EHS is an ezine dedicated to 1) original poetry and 2) short fiction about the Gods and Goddesses and heroes of the world’s many Pagan/polytheist traditions. W…
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November 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Book sale! The amazing #poetry and #shortstory collections at Jackanapes Press are 30% off right now -- including my collection "Not a Princess, But (Yes) There Was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution." #booksky #witchsky #horror #weirdfiction

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Jackanapes Press
Jackanapes Press is devoted to the odd, the antiquarian, and the eldritch, with an emphasis on weird fiction and poetry.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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New #interview up at Forests Haunted by Holiness! This time, we sit down with Anu Dudley to discuss her new book "The Goddess Casts the Runes." :) #witchsky #rune #goddess #divination #earthspirituality #booksky

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Interview: Anu Dudley
[Today, we sit down with author Anu Dudley. Here, she discusses her personal spiritual practice; her new book, The Goddess Casts the Runes and the research that went into it; and her upcoming proje…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Book mail! The inaugural issue of Raven Tongue appeared in my mailbox this morning. :) It looks amazing! #witchsky #wisewomen #herbalism
The cover of Raven Tongue, a sacred living magazine. A raven sits front and center, balanced on a grey tree branch. A full moon fills the background.
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Now post up at Forests Haunted by Holiness! Looking for a new #fantasy to read? Or an analysis of #myth and #fairytales? Check out these awesome titles! #booksky #witchsky

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Climbing Mount TBR: Witches and Fairies and Devils, Oh My!
At the beginning of 2025, I made a resolution to not purchase any new books for the rest of the year. I wanted to work my way through some of my personal library before I added to it. Plus, I was r…
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October 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Call for submissions! "Witches Save the World: Hags, Harridans, and Hexes Gone Right" opens to subs on 1 January 2026, so you have plenty of time to write that awesome short story, poem, or essay. :) Complete guidelines below. #witchsky #amwriting #fantasy

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Call for Submissions: Witches Save the World
Draft cover by Mutartis Boswell; not final image Call for Submissions: Witches Save the World: Hags, Harridans, and Hexes Gone RightSubmission Period: 1 January through 31 March 2026Maximum Word Co…
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October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Oooh, now this is a cool #kickstarter! Homeward Books is hoping to fund their first book, The Witch of Prague. Magical realism, fighting authoritarianism, and unicorns! #booksky #witchsky #unicorn

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The cover of The Witch of Prague by JM Sidorova. The title is in bright green at the top. The main image is greyscale. A unicorn sits in front box a mirror on the edge of a devastated forest. Miniature tanks roll towards the unicorn, gun turrets raised to shoot.
October 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Book mail! The latest adventure of Lord and Lady Riven by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social. A #sapphic magical detective tale from @clpolk.blacksky.app. And a #paranormalromance between a #horror author who can see ghosts and the (wrong) actor cast to star in the film of her novel. #booksky #fantasy
The cover of A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence by Stephanie Burgis. The title is in the center. The border is composed of vampiric imagery such a bats, vines, roses, and a creepy carriage. The cover of Even Though I Knew the End by C L Polk. The image is cream and gray scale. The cover is in the center foreground. Two women embrace in the background, their faces obscured by a flock of birds. The cover of Love at First Fright by Nadia el-Fassi. A woman with red hair, tattoos, and glasses sits in a fancy upholstered chair next to a pair of sunlit windows. A man with dark hair stands over her and touches her chin. A ghost dog lays at his feet.
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Well I'll be darned. My novella "Asphalt Gods" has a five start review on Goodreads. :)

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The cover of Asphalt Gods: A Walking the Worlds Adventure by Rebecca Buchanan. A brown-skinned woman stands in the middle of the cover with her back to the viewer. She is wearing a dark blue backpack. In the background are the images of different landscapes, including a jungle, a field of pink flowers, and a desert.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Book mail! The proof copy for my next novelette has arrived. :) The digital copy is already available, and the print copy will release in December 2025! #fantasy #mystery #sherlockholmes #gaslamp #witchsky #booksky
The cover of The Adventure of the Faerie Coffin. Two figures stand back to back on a cobblestone street. The woman is Caucasian, has light brown hair, and is wearing a red dress. She is weaving magical blue vapors through her hands. The man is Caucasian, and is wearing a vest and long sleeved white shirt. He holds a pipe in one hand.
October 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Looking for something spooky to read this Halloween? Check out "Vampires Save the Night!" a brand-new anthology of short stories and poetry available in print and digital formats! #horror #fantasy #poetry #vampire

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The cover of Vampires Save the Night: Heroes, Anti-Heroes, and Not-So-Reformed Villains. The title is in the center, with Night written in bright red. The title is surrounded by vampires symbols, such as skulls, chalices, coffins, graves, bats, and more.
October 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Woohoo! My poem "A Troll's Feast" has been accepted for the upcoming issue of The Fairy Tale Magazine! Thank you to the editors, and congratulations to the other contributors. Your work is amazing! #amwriting #fairytale #folklore #fantasy
Art by John Bauer. Four curious trolls gather around a young woman. The trolls are taller than humans, with long hair and large noses, and are dressed in furs and beads. The young woman is smaller than the trolls. Her skin glows gold and she is wearing a golden crown.
October 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Book mail! The latest issue of Occult Detective Magazine (highly recommended to anyone with an interest in that genre); a new lady knight #romantasy; and the second book in Charlotte Bond’s epic #fantasy series starring a resurrected knight and her clever mage. Yummy! #booksky
The cover of Occult Detective Magazine #11. A woman dressed like a flapper from the 1920s is in the foreground. She is frightened and running from the undead monster in the background. The cover of The Second Death of Locke by V L Bovalino. The image is the close-up of the armored chest of a woman knight. The armor is covered in beautiful scrollwork, and a scar is just visible on the knight’s left cheek. She is holding a beautiful sword in her hands. The cover of The Bloodless Princes by Charlotte Bond. The title is in the foreground in gold lettering. In the background stands a woman knight holding a spear. At her side stands a woman in a red dress holding a cat.
September 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Not-so-hypothetical scenario: if you were running or participating in a group book promotion (like Storybundle or something similar) would you want to be informed that one of the books is AI? And the author is fake? Or would you want the matter to just be dropped? #booksky #fakebook #amwriting
September 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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New book review up at Forests Haunted by Holiness! Do you love lady knights? #Dragons? #Magicswords? Then check out this review of the wonderful short novel The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond. #fantasy #booksky #sapphicseptember

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Review: The Fireborne Blade
Title: The Fireborne BladePublisher: TorAuthor: Charlotte BondPages: 164pp Maddileh was a knight. And she will be again, if she can reclaim her honor. And how better for a knight to do so than by s…
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September 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Book mail! The next book in Harper’s urban fantasy The Cat Lady Chronicles; the kickstarter edition of English’s cozy-creepy fantasy, Faerie Fruit; Charlotte Bond and her lady knight/dragon adventure, The Fireborne Blade; and a wisewoman wandering the countryside in Ravenwood by Lowell. Woohoo!
The cover of The Dark Hiss of Magic by Helen Harper. A middle-aged Caucasian woman with purple hair sits in an alley. She is dressed in a black tank top and leather pants and is accompanied by several cats. The cover of Faerie Fruit by Charlotte English. The title is in gold letters in the center. It is surrounded by curling vines bearing a variety of fruits in bright pink, green, blue, and purple. The cover of The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond. A Caucasian woman with short dark hair, dressed in armor, and holding a sword stands in the foreground. In the background looms the giant head of a white dragon. The cover of Ravenwood by Nathan Lowell. The title and author name cover the bottom half. The top half depicts a figure wearing a large, floppy hat and carrying a heavy backpack. They hold a walking staff in one hand and stare down the road ahead of them as it extends into the distance. They are surrounded on both sides by wide fields of grain.
September 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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New book review up at Forests Haunted by Holiness! If you love #romantasy and #fairytale retellings, check out this review of "A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience" by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social :) #booksky #vampire

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Review: A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience
Title: A Marriage of Undead InconveniencePublisher/Author: Stephanie BurgisPages: 80pp Margaret Dunhaven just wants to be left alone to pursue her academic studies. Lord Riven of Shadowcroft Manor …
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September 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM