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Templeton Bennett
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Charleston, SC. College of Charleston Alum, Religious Studies 2012. Loves: Kayaking, Hiking, Creative Writing and video games.
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linseymiller.bsky.social
I don't think (though I may have forgotten because 2020 - 2021 is a blur) that any of my books have ever made a Best Of list, but THAT DEVIL, AMBITION is on The New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2025 list!!! 🥰

🎉 nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/best-books/teens?year=2025
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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wallacepolsom.bsky.social
Illustrations by Jules Guérin for Robert Hitchens, EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS (The Century Company, 1908). Post 1 (of 4).
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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tomduffinphotos.bsky.social
November vibe in Morningside

#Edinburgh
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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artikuta.bsky.social
I finished a new painting! Based off Japanese Folktale "The Crane's Gratitude"

If you're interested in getting a print of it I've even finally setup an inprint haha

www.inprnt.com/gallery/arti...
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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jwillustration.bsky.social
Portrait study 🗡️

Just north of 2hrs on this one, gotta get those numbers down (the guy who made made many pots something something) #dailyart

Ref from @trueref.bsky.social 👈 go check it out
Slightly stylised portrait of a woman wearing amour, short hair looking up.
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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point-maitimo.bsky.social
Happy birthday Dragon Age: The Veilguard!!! Thank you for changing my life for the better. I love you :)

#DragonAge #DragonAgeTheVeilguard
October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
The only system that seems to still work these days is the cat distribution system. It's Like Bast is the only old God who managed to modernize, and she's thriving.
October 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
please keep your eyes peeled for aces this week we're visible and experiencing the Terrifying Ordeal™
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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somartist.bsky.social
Yesterday was the day. First time I bought some prints from my own artworks, so at least someone is buying them 😂
Prints are the best way to support an artist. I lowered all prices a bit, and some a lot. Posters, art prints, canvas prints, metal prints. 🫶
urlich.art/store/art_po...
Philipp Urlich - Fantasy Artwork - Prints
Environment and fantasy artist from Switzerland.
urlich.art
October 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
💫THE EBOOK FOR PRINCE CHARMING IS $1.99 THIS WEEK💫

If you want to know what Prince Charming was up to during the movie, now is your chance! Pick it up from your favorite retailer.

🧵 shorturl.at/sRVjU
October 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
AO3 tags for book marketing? out
apple rankings tags? in

and this is the sort of humor you can expect in my 2026 book, which is a YA...fantasy...dark comedy??? we'll see
October 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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erikaleesears.bsky.social
Lemons 🍋 #art #oilpainting
October 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Is a tiny giant squid not enough for you? How about a giant giant squid??? The photo doesn't quite capture the magical rainbow iridescence of the sealant I used, it's amazing.

thebrokencircle.etsy...
A 3d printed giant squid (roughly palm sized) printed in a deep midnight that shifts between black and blue and green, and coated in a rainbow iridescent for that fun sparkle.
October 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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halseyberryman.bsky.social

I wrote and illustrated a book! You can preorder it right now at the link in my bio from wherever books are sold 📖📚(Please consider using the bookshop.org link to support indie bookstores!)

Read more about it over on my IG! (@halseyberryman)
September 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
apparently the mask of shadows audiobook is STEEPLY discounted on librofm right now, so if you love queer thieves & fantasy politics . . .

⚔️🖤⚔️ libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666597103-mask-of-shadows
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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laminda.bsky.social
Our bodies are ridiculous meatsacks that break in all kinds of unexpected and often unpleasant ways. But sometimes they just keep working as usual, even when they very clearly shouldn't
Diagnostic dilemma: A knife broke off in a man's chest, and he didn't notice it for 8 years
A man noticed pus oozing from his chest, and it ended up revealing a knife blade in his thoracic cavity.
www.livescience.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
Thank you for including THAT DEVIL, AMBITION! I can confirm - it features such spooky dark academia classics as crushing student debt and homework without a set deadline or rubric. And also murder.
popgoesthereader.bsky.social Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · Sep 12
☠️ 85 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Young Adult Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit ☠️
popgoesthereader.com/85-scary-and... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit
A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers organized by colour, beginning with blue, transitioning into red and pink, and finally ending with green. Books featured include Moonsick, Out of Air, Keep Your Friends Close, Deadstream, And The River Drags Her Down, Bad Creek, Hollow, These Bodies Ain't Broken, We Won't All Survive, Let's Split Up, Showstopper, The Devil's In The Dancers, Final Cut, The Protégée, Honeysuckle and Bone, The Devouring Light, Predatory Natures, They Bloom At Night, The Dead of Summer and You've Awoken Her.
September 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
ICYMI @armadillocon.bsky.social starts tomorrow!
linseymiller.bsky.social Linsey Miller should be writing. @linseymiller.bsky.social · Sep 3
FRIENDS!

So excited to share that I'll be at @armadillocon.bsky.social next week with a ton of other amazing people!

I'll be moderating several very interesting panels, chatting on two others, and signing. Come say hi and yell about SFF books!

schedule: armadillocon.org/d47/programming-schedule
September 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
FRIENDS!

So excited to share that I'll be at @armadillocon.bsky.social next week with a ton of other amazing people!

I'll be moderating several very interesting panels, chatting on two others, and signing. Come say hi and yell about SFF books!

schedule: armadillocon.org/d47/programming-schedule
September 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
Happy birthday, Sal🎉

To celebrate, I'm posting the short stories about Isidora and Rodolfo! Thank you all for joining Sal on their journey to avenge Nacea & figure out their life. Eight years after auditions, they're doing well (in my headcanon at least).

🖤⚔️🖤 archiveofourown.org/works/69600101
August 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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We're in the last stretch of the Fan Impact Challenge! Help Kate Del Fava secure Primary Children's Hospital a $10K donation 💛

Click here to get today's vote in, and keep voting daily until Aug 30th 🗳️➡️: bit.ly/VoteKateLHIA
A yellow graphic featuring Kate Del Fava kneeling on one knee in the center. The URFC logo is at the top of the graphic followed by "2025 Lauren Holiday Impact Award Nominee". At the bottom of the graphic it says "Vote Now" and has the Lauren Holiday Impact Award logo in the bottom right corner
August 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...
www.sciencedaily.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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rosieethor.bsky.social
Highlight of my week was watching Linsey’s book completely sell out at the event I was at with her. Teens absolutely clamoring to buy this one after her reading! The children yearn for murder 🤷

Y’all go pick this one up if you haven’t. It hits so hard!
July 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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linseymiller.bsky.social
🫀THAT DEVIL, AMBITION🫀

Three best friends must kill their devilish professor to win tuition waivers in this fantasy for fans of:

📖academic rivals to lovers to ???
🥀unlikeable ace girls
💀biblically accurate student debt

preorder: bookpeople.com/pre-order/home
special edition: shorturl.at/tO3Hg
a graphic reading that devil, ambition 3 June 2025 "stunning." - booklist starred review with a picture of the book (purple toned cover with a large unnatural snake slithering out of a bookshelf) 2 stars decorate review line graphic read comp titles you might love that devil, ambition if you also love features covers for the books all of us villains, the atlas complex, a deadly education, a study in drowning, and assassination classroom bottom has a link to netgally: netgalley.com/catalog/book/497241 graphic reading: preorder campaign order from bookpeople and receive 5 art prints, 1 sticker, and a signed book features pictures of the art prints (portraits of the trio, three student roster cards with character info, portrait of the professor) and sticker (holographic and reads "even death is a learning opportunity") bookpeople.com/pre-order/home graphic reading: special edition limited special edition from bookish signs & more ft. a human heart contains two pictures of the edition, the edges are printed with a picture of a person holding a bloody human heart
May 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM