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V. S. Holmes is querying
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Dark spec fic, from snarky archaeologists in space to slow-burn gothic fantasy and everything in between | STARS' EDGE: NEL BENTLY BOOKS and BLOOD OF TITANS | Writer for SolForge Fusion

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V. S. Holmes is querying @vsholmes.bsky.social · Oct 8
Querying: THE PASSING OF EIR LAHREN, folkloric fantasy + gothic romance inspired by death, sex, and Frisian folklore

Snarky sapphic sci-fi archaeologists:
books.vsholmes.com/cnzvzl8ab2

Fantasy with bloodthirsty gods + broken heroes: books.vsholmes.com/m4juo9rp4d

Free shorts: vsholmes.substack.com
A promo image on a dark space background showing the six books in the Stars' Edge Universe with the tagline: Dr. Nel Bently discovers her pristine archaeological site is the center of an intergalactic feud. Tossed into a world of high tech and higher stakes, she only has her trowel, her attitude, and her badass and alien girlfriend, Lin. A promo image on a dark forest background showing the four books in the Blood of Titans World with the tagline: When Alea's home is destroyed by a mad kin's genocide, she is forced to choose between mortals who play at gods and gods who pray for mortality. With the gods at war with the titanic creatures that created them, the only heroes left are as broken as the world they must reforge.
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One thing I'll say again: if you can, localize your prices. It goes for books, indie games, etc. Everything that is sold in a global marketplace can benefit from taking into account that 20 USD is different for USians and Brazilians.
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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eliwoodsgheist.com
I've held off on this too long.
In honor of the third Bludeye book being drafted:
1 like = 1 fact about Milo Vance.
A dark haired man in a red shirt holding a brown haired woman in two braids; she's holding a cell phone up as if taking a selfie of the two of them. They're very clearly stupidly in love. Art by @nushdeco.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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mavisdeluna.art
Hi! I'm an Indigenous disabled artist who has been the sole income. We need help with rent and utilities. I need to buy new shampoo and toiletries. Anything helps ♥

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Support Mavis DeLuna ❤️
Support Mavis DeLuna on Ko-Fi!
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November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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otterkit.bsky.social
Hey #Hopepit! For pitch/ promote day I'm going to offer my extant work: the Aces High Jokers Wild series. This is one path out of corporate control and into a solarpunk future. Shenanigans, solidarity and good trouble all the way along.
www.oetearmann.com/store
#Hopepunk #CliFi #Solarpunk #resist
Get The Books — O.E. Tearmann
www.oetearmann.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
You have until the end of the day to grab any book for half price or all of them for 20 bucks!
danifinnwrites.bsky.social Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 7d
🌸beep boop 🌸

For no reason at all

50% off all my books on itch

Or $20 for everything

Now through midnight EST Sunday 11/9

Go nuts!

itch.io/s/167176/hal...
Dani Finn layout with 6 rows of books. The Maer Cycle (hollow road, the archive, the place below); The Weirdwater confluence (the living waters, the isle of a thousand worlds, unpainted, the world within); The time before (the delve, jagged shard, wings so soft, cloti's song); winnie and crela: barrow maid, sleeping willow, little deaths, untethered; short stories: user not found, fly by night, the last solstice gift, the witch's flute; new worlds: they of the west, grey angel, disposable magic; WATCH THIS SPACE
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
vsholmes.bsky.social
Playing around with a new project today for #WIPSnips

#gothic #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #fantasy #lgbtqia #amquerying
An excerpt written in black text on white with the word "picture" highlighted in grey. Excerpt reads: They gave us each a docket on the mission itself, and of course our fellow team members. I spent the long, sleepless train ride from Ossgen reading over the material and the overview of our tasks for the next few months. I stare at the picture open before me. A short biography, detailing half a dozen impressive achievements—awarded a Kirkhân second-class by nineteen being the most notable—and a single grainy photogram. Long pale hair, curled for the occasion. There’s only the one photo in our family before this one, when grandmother died. We all assembled around her in our black huiken. I’m prettier in this picture than in that one, than in person.
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
vsholmes.bsky.social
started a writing sprint an hour ago, so now my kitchen sink has been deep cleaned
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.

And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
On behalf of all self-published authors, I authorize you to reach out & tell us if you really enjoyed something we wrote.

We’re all dog-paddling in a sea of self-doubt & impostor syndrome & those little messages mean a lot.

Unless stated otherwise, our DMs/inboxes are always open for kind words 💞
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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littlestpersimmon.bsky.social
One thing I can not understand about bigots is that they are so highly resistant to the most basic forms of compassion
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
I write M/M romance but I make damn sure that there are always sapphic side couples in my books. In my upcoming Black trans demon monster romance 'A Damning Desire' I have a human sapphic side couple and then I have a non-binary sapphic side couple.
yellow, white, purple with purple flower sapphic non-binary flag.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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catgirlfingies.quest
Been a while since i shared my trans & non binary starter pack
Help out by reposting to give some creators and businesses a boost 💙
Trans people are doing it tough so this helps lots
go.bsky.app/4DUhFUd
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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riengray.bsky.social
I will never use AI for my covers, editing, translation, or anything else. It is not only useless to me as an author, it is actively hostile and harms every skill related to book production.

If you're an author against AI used to generate writing, you better back everyone else in the chain too.
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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assignedmedia.org
Don't talk to the NYT. They've betrayed families' trust before.

They will lie to you and use you and then turn around and tell you it was their job.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
This is so good—and in particular, I feel like in all the buzz about what a great campaign Mamdani ran, this point often gets lost

He started by—guess what—*talking to people who voted for Trump.* He went on the Bulwark podcast. He went on Fox News. He demonstrated a willingness to talk to anyone
Meet the people where they are, in the streets or in the media. This is another point that just ties to the core humility of earning every vote. From that very first famous video on Fordham Road, where Zohran went to meet voters in the Bronx in a district that had swung very hard away from the Democrats, he literally took the campaign to the people and met them where they were, and listened. Since then, he's been at every event in the city from bar crawls to bar mitzvahs, showing not just a superheroic stamina that shames opponents twice his age, but an enthusiasm for both the city and its people that simply can't be faked. The same thing happened online. No matter what platform you use, or which influencers or outlets you get your information or entertainment from, Zohran was there, smiling and on-message, welcoming you in. Nothing was beneath him, and nothing was inauthentic, because he believes in his story.
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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mrscrabapple.bsky.social
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
In which @stevewestenra.bsky.social gives intriguing answers to excellent questions from @alexpuncekar.bsky.social at @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social about his novella we're releasing next year, THE BARBARIAN AT STAR'S END!

www.grimdarkmagazine.com/interview-wi...
INTERVIEW: with author Steve Hugh Westenra
We got a chance to speak with Steve Hugh Westenra about their upcoming sword & sorcery novella The Barbarian at Dream’s End. We talk about the sword & sorcery genre, He-Man, and the funding campaign b...
www.grimdarkmagazine.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.

OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.

A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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captmarkkelly.bsky.social
It's Election Day in Arizona and across the country. Your vote is an opportunity to help shape the future of your community.

If you haven't voted, find your polling place at IWillVote.com.

And if you live in NJ or VA, vote for Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger. 🇺🇸
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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mikechenwriter.bsky.social
This is why sustainable change only happens from the ground up. Let's start by winning local and state elections today.
whatashrinkthinks.com Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 12d
So: one of the foundational principles of liberation psychology is that when a population is succumbing to fatalism- it helps to gather in small community groups. Healthy small group practices spread- seeding more groups.

Eventually coalitions form.
Power is reclaimed.
The Group Group | Build Community Resilience — What A Shrink Thinks
Join workshops and discussions to explore and nurture community groups for support, study, and recreation. Sessions focus on balance, facilitation, and welcoming environments.
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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oleandercraw.bsky.social
THE WARDS WILL FALL release day! (M/M dark fantasy)
Come read the first chapter. New chapters release for free on Mondays.

www.oleandercraw.com/chapter-one/

👁️ Expedition to a rotting magic city
👁️ Possessed and becoming Something Else
👁️ Ancient magic is returning

Cover by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social
Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM