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Matthew de Lacey
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Author, The Voice of Kings (OUT NOW worldwide)
Print: https://amzn.eu/d/6zSFP9I
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--Fantasy Epic--
The Voice of Kings

🔮Renaissance & tradition; magic and new thinking collide
📚Scholarship and exploration against violence and closed thinking🗡
👑Exploring obsession
🎭Deep characters
🪐Mysteries

In ebook & hardback
Links below📎⬇️

#booksky #booklinks 💙📚🪐
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This week the temperature has dropped, and the Witch is decoding the symbols on the thermostat... Join her for freshly brewed tea, some folklore, and some new poetry.
ko-fi.com/post/When-Wi...

#WritingCommunity #Folklore #Berchta #WitchSky #MHHSBD#Poetry
When Winter Was Welcome
The Witch and the Chihuahua published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"

As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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With people talking about Nolan, my view is he is an excellent director/filmmaker but his screenplays are more mixed. The more Nolan-y he gets, the more overwrought they become.

On another note, wasn't this film shot partly in some occupied territory in Western Sahara or something? #film #odyssey
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Trans rights are human rights.

Holding space so everyone can live their truth seems even more important than usual these days.

We made these pieces as holiday gifts for family — and a few more for anyone who’d like to pass that care along.

🏳️‍⚧️

#art #transrights #lgbtq
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Ohhh what's dropping right now??
Our Sarnath by @judithsonnet.bsky.social
Check out my little mini review and possibly droop over that cover

#purgatorymedia #booksky 💙📚🩸 #horror
youtu.be/8TAKZoVGHjY?...
Isn't It Neat Books Reviews with Scarlettanomalyreads
YouTube video by Purgatory Media
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November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With people talking about Nolan, my view is he is an excellent director/filmmaker but his screenplays are more mixed. The more Nolan-y he gets, the more overwrought they become.

On another note, wasn't this film shot partly in some occupied territory in Western Sahara or something? #film #odyssey
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Let me tell you the tales from a world of High Adventure.
Eighteen stories. Eighteen genres. A universe like no other.

Delve into the world of Nemus
www.amzn.com/B0FNS4YP4M

#FantasyLiterature #worldbuilding #nerdlings #fantasy #litsky #booksky #Writersky #bookish #fantasyreads #dnd #rpg
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Author Postcard Auction for @commonmag.bsky.social! Bid on a postcard from me or another writer (there are so many good ones!). Could be for yourself or to give as a gift. #booksky
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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It's Indie Author day, so let me take the time to thank all of you readers for supporting all of us during this time. Whether it's in the libraries, on your phone, or the physical book, all of you are making a difference in an author's life. Most of us wouldn't be here without you. Thank you. 📚🌈 📚💙
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Without good sleep you cannot recover, and nightmares stand in the way of good sleep. Good thing for the Baku, the Eater of Dreams: this anteater-looking oddity of Japanese folklore devours bad dreams and the spirits that produce them. #FolkyFriday
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Thanks to whomever gave me my 2nd rating on goodreads (if it wasn't a machine ghost!).

#booksky
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221645565-the-voice-of-kings
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November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you like.

✨Cats (I have six!)
✨Teaching people to watercolor
✨Daydreaming
✨B&W photography
✨People who make me laugh
✨Smart people
✨Dad jokes
✨Etymology
✨Open windows in spring & fall
✨Slightly green bananas
Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you like

🎃 Cats
🎃 Yunnan black tea w/ rooibos
🎃 October
🎃 Making oil paintings
🎃 Survival-crafter-builder games
🎃 Cherries
🎃 Denon AV receivers
🎃 "This meeting has been canceled"
🎃 Hermitcraft
🎃 58°F with light winds
get to know your mutuals! list 10 random things you like

Oldies
Ghost stories
Cats
Poison rings
Margaret Keane paintings
Street Tacos
Petrichor
Stereoscopic Cards
Coffee
Magic Hour
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Thanks to whomever gave me my 2nd rating on goodreads (if it wasn't a machine ghost!).

#booksky
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221645565-the-voice-of-kings
t.co
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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As a suicidal person, I cannot express how absolutely vile it is. I can understand why people would ask ChatGPT because when you're desperate you're going to something you're comfortable with and this is it for certain people. But this is going to kill them (and it already did). Very disgusting.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Whimsical Illustrations and Motifs Dyed with a Traditional Wax-Resist Method Cover Caroline Södergren’s #Eggshells

More info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/caro...
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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It's time!!

Show me how you draw/paint snow ❄️
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Insurrections Under Henry IV: Two of them nearly condemned him as the shortest reigning monarch in English history. What could possibly have gone wrong? buff.ly/3sQXEel
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Watercolour painting of a Siamese cat called Sammy! The hardest part to paint was the scarf!
#cats #catsofbluesky #whiskerswednesday #petportraits
#art #watercolours #paintings
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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||Fantasy Epic||
The Voice of Kings

🍃Renewal & decay
⏳️Perceptions of the past abound, violence meets academia
👑Exploring obsession
💀Deep characters
🪐Mysteries of magic and gods
📚Epic scale

In ebook & hardback
Check it out below.

#booksky 💙📚🪐 #fantasy
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I NEED to get the edits of GODDESSwip done by the end of the month because I want betas to be reading it while I am on winter break… but oh man do I have a lot of work to do to get there #writingcommunity #booksky
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Larent is gone, but Collette has a plan to set things right.

With knowledge of an ancient spell, Collette convinces the others that she needs to go to Quenall to retrieve the spell. Link in Bio

#BookVibes #BookLovers #fantasybook #EscapeWithBooks #fantasybooks #LegendsofCoralia #grief
November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Indie author transparency post! ✨

October wasn't a good month considering I had my 3 spooky books on sale. 4 sales was all I could pull in,
BUT
I did have a sale for a bookplate on Ko-Fi!
And according to my multi-complex excel sheet, I've earned in $200 in 2025 and 12.4% of my total expenses!
November 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM