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S.H. Cooper
@pippinacious.bsky.social
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Author of horror and wholesome. Voice actress.

BOTTLING HIS GHOSTS out now from @rdspress.bsky.social!

I'm better in writing. Florida HWA. Profile pic by MoonPendent13. Header by CarrionHouse.
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S.H. Cooper @pippinacious.bsky.social · Aug 4
Horror is my happy place. If you're a fan of good books featuring strong women, all kinds of thrills and chills, and stories told with lots of heart, it can be your happy place too! Won't you join me? #booksky

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pippinacious.bsky.social
300 words written today. Progress is painfully slow. Hopefully I'll find my stride soon ✍️
Text: Behind me, the door on the left creaks open, a sliver barely wide enough for a gaze to slip through. Silence spreads from within like creeping fingers, sliding up my back and coming to rest upon my shoulders. I stiffen beneath the weight, eyes pulled so hard to one side they ache, but I can’t see past the hanging strands of my hair. My grip curls tighter into my flannel. I don’t turn. Whoever – whatever – lives in the unit beside mine has never opened the door before.
February 9, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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pedroiniguez.bsky.social
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
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February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
pippinacious.bsky.social
Realizing 3 of my current WIPs, which all look like they're going to be novelette/short novella length, share a theme. Can 3 stories be a collection? 🤔
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
pippinacious.bsky.social
Blown away that REAP, SOW is a #SFINCS finalist! Thank you to the judges and congratulations to my fellow finalists!!
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
pippinacious.bsky.social
Yeah, I can generate a massive dump in a day too, but I'm not trying to get people to read it.
mbkplus.bsky.social Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 1d
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 11:42 PM
pippinacious.bsky.social
Returned to an older WIP and added a couple hundred words. Not concerning myself with which story I'm working on, just writing whatever appeals to me in the moment ✍️
Text: But whatever was before and whatever the Elsewhere is exists behind a black curtain with no part or edges. I’d say I sprang fully formed from the ether, except I remember a beginning. Waking up in the bed I now call my own because I have nowhere else to go, looking out the window at a street I’d never seen, stumbling through a house I didn’t recognize, running through a town I had no name for. The gray overcast smothered me, snatching up my footsteps before they had a chance to echo off the empty buildings, muffling my hard breath like it resented being disturbed. This was a place meant for silence and I tore through it with screams.
February 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
Sunday self promotion!
authorizedmusings.bsky.social Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 5d
🌊⛵👻

The Drowned Heir is a #SFINCS finalist!

take advantage of the $2.99 sale!

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blurbs, reviews, and buy links!

authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/the-drowne...

also on itch!

jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/the-drowned-...
Hardcover copy of The Drowned Heir in focus against a soft library shelves background the cover art is a pale woman wearing a tricorn hat with a brimstone tattoo on her left shoulder, her head turned to the left, writhing tentacles in the darkness behind her. art by Yorgos Cotronis, and I bought the art in a premade cover pack on his website https://cotronis.com/ and put the text on it myself.
February 8, 2026 at 3:50 PM
pippinacious.bsky.social
My books are crying for marketing, my WIPs are crying for words, and I'm just sitting here thinking that a bunch of unconnected story ideas should be called a harassment. And that Load Bearing Boner would make a hilarious band name.
February 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
pippinacious.bsky.social
A screenshot from Iron Man depicting one character admonishing another with the text, "Indie authors are able to build this in a cave, with a box of vowels!"
February 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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tcparker.bsky.social
Last day of me trying to persuade you to check out the currently bargain-priced Tradwife!

Here: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DM...

Or, if you'd prefer - here: payhip.com/b/TDowG

#booksky 📚💙
One of those arrow-laden book promo images for Tradwife Image, titled Tradwife: Deconstructed, shows a thumbnail cover of the book in the centre, with arrows shooting off it promising: fictional true crime feminist rage Handmaid's Tale & Penance vibes found footage format misogynist cults Quote from MJ Mars, reading: "In Cold Blood meets The Stepford Wives" TRADWIFE Family. Community. Tradition. Annihilation. Everyone remembers the Heart of Solomon murders: three young married couples [REDACTED] around the dinner table, their bodies desecrated, in the UK's first and only purpose-built Tradwife community. And no suspect ever charged. Writer Gina Lewis wants to know. Her plan: talk to the people who knew the three dead couples best, and try to understand what brought them to the Heart of Solomon. Puzzle out why they REDACTED] - and how the "traditional marriage" Arcadia they were promised turned so dangerous, so quickly. And she'll keep going until she finds the truth. No matter what it costs her.
February 6, 2026 at 9:02 AM
pippinacious.bsky.social
Reminding myself rejection is not a reflection. Even if it keeps happening over and over...and over again 🥲
February 5, 2026 at 11:46 PM
pippinacious.bsky.social
I still see people saying "self-published" like it's a dirty word. Something you should only admit to with shuffled feet and muttered shame. Something Less Than, a last resort, a sign of failure. And to those people I say...
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February 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
pippinacious.bsky.social
A tip for authors: Eliminate dialogue. Nobody wants to read a boring conversation between characters. Instead, have them perform interpretive dances at one another to convey their thoughts. Remember, the golden rule is show, don't tell.
February 4, 2026 at 9:27 PM
pippinacious.bsky.social
"It's just an idea," says the writer.

But it's never *just* an idea. You're already attached. Look, you've gone and given it a name. You absolute pickle chip, this is how they get you!
February 4, 2026 at 1:39 AM
pippinacious.bsky.social
#booksky!
February 3, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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I'm so pleased to help reveal the cover of @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social's next book, INTO THE DARKENING DUST! Blood magic, lost relatives, and the unforgiving desert trying to swallow it all whole. #booksky

Coming May 1st! Pre-order here: www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/shop/into-th...
February 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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mariahaskins.com
So thrilled to see my story "Piglet Delivers" in the amazing new issue of Apex Magazine! It's my dark-ish take on Milne's books about Winnie the Pooh and the creatures in the Hundred Acre Wood.

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...
Apex Magazine Issue 152
EDITORIAL"Musings from Maryland" by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Unsettled Nature" by Jordan Kurella"Piglet Delivers" by Maria Haskins"Ascension" by P.L. McMillan"The Island of Sea Turtles and…
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February 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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laurelhightower.bsky.social
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pippinacious.bsky.social S.H. Cooper @pippinacious.bsky.social · 6d
I'm so pleased to help reveal the cover of @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social's next book, INTO THE DARKENING DUST! Blood magic, lost relatives, and the unforgiving desert trying to swallow it all whole. #booksky

Coming May 1st! Pre-order here: www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/shop/into-th...
February 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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angelasylvaine.bsky.social
Cold Snap is now available on @netgalley.bsky.social 🪱❄️🍹
I am also still accepting direct requests for ARCs (both links are available in my bio)🖤

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
February 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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katsilvaauthor.bsky.social
Behold! The cover for Into The Darkening Dust: Book One of The Dust lands is here! Janet and Co. return to bring down the f-ing fascists still roaming the land.

Pre-orders for the paperback are up on my website shop. Read the full synopsis and order at buff.ly/pfuBfSG
February 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
pippinacious.bsky.social
I'm so pleased to help reveal the cover of @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social's next book, INTO THE DARKENING DUST! Blood magic, lost relatives, and the unforgiving desert trying to swallow it all whole. #booksky

Coming May 1st! Pre-order here: www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/shop/into-th...
February 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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sheydgarden.bsky.social
i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter
a handmade marionette monster photographed in front of a snowbank. it has long arms with branch-like hands, a long neck with a false human face & a lower jaw like a sperm whale, & is dressed in all white/off-white lace & rags with pearl accents. watermark says "Ezra Rose" a close up of the face of the marionette with its open jaw & teeth visible below.
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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SALE TIME
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digital ink illustration in warm greyscale with lots of fine line work. two hands each coming from opposite corners, one palm down and one palm up, one's middle finger lightly touching the other's index finger. the entire canvas, including most of the visible arms, are covered in tangled, gnarled roots. veiny, branching masses spread just under the skin of the forearms. Digital greyscale ink drawing that uses lots of fine lines and hatching. A portrait of a zombie horse from the neck up. Its decayed, mostly skeletal mouth is open and its ear is perked up. Its neck is torn open, revealing bands of muscle underneath. Its dark mane flows in movement. Digital illustration in flat, muted, cool earthy tones, title at bottom: The Blighted Conjurer. A six-limbed being comprised of gnarled, twisted vines and roots has a horse skull head. The vines/roots are attached to its arms as if the arms are growing from them. It is in a forested body of water with its head leaning out and over. Black viscous fluid flows from the cavity in its nose down into a mass on top of the water. The piece is not shaded, using intricate line work and flat colors to show depth. digital color illustration, colored in only blues. a portrait of Ranni the Witch from Elden Ring, as seen from slightly below her. She is a pale-skinned woman with long, flowing dark hair. Her four hands are held in front of her gesturing. A spectral light blue half face overlaid on her right side. She is wearing robes and a furred cloak, as well as a very wide-brimmed witch hat with the design of a bed of roots overlaid in the underside of the brim.
February 1, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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stevestred.bsky.social
Return to the Rockies
March 15th, 2026

#mastodon #kaiju #booksta #stevestred #bookpromo
February 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM