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A.S. Miyasaki
@asmiyasaki.bsky.social
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🪐💫Author of Moon, Have Mercy (Farodun Down Book 1)🚀✨
writing, art, music, maybe some fiber art, physics, mom of 2
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Better a pig than a fascist 🤷🏻
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Pick-a-page for Moon, Have Mercy: p. 121, and some updates! Thanks to ⏰ user sagebloomcloud for the page suggestion!! #booksky #Indiebooks #moonhavemercy #farodundown #meettheauthor #booktok #amreading #sciencefiction #excerpt #meettheauthor
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Pick-a-Page! Moon, Have Mercy: p. 222 and 5 interesting things about me! Thanks for the page suggestion Armando’s Reads (⏰: armandoriverabackup) ! I tag anybody who wants to do this tag— lemme hear about your interesting things!

#moonhavemercy #pickapage #farodundown #scifi #booksky #indiebooks
August 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Pick-a-Page! Moon, Have Mercy: pages 99 and 258 (I’ll be getting the backlog up eventually 😅) Thanks mikelmelwasul.bsky.social & lyndsayconstable.bsky.social for the suggestions!

If YOU’D like to pick-a-page, call out a number between 1 & 420! I’ll flip to that page and read a line for you!
August 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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So, St Patrick’s Day is also St Gertrude’s Day today, and St. Gertrude is patron saint of… Cats! I did not know act of this when I named our cat, but here is Gertie having a snooze on her saint’s day. #catsofbluesky #cats
A little white and orange cat sits curled up on a pile of fluffy blankies the sweet tiny soul she is
March 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Started reading The Puzzled Heiress by @lyndsayconstable.bsky.social on Friday during the kids’ taekwondo class! Got about 30 pages in during class, and absolutely obsessed with this story already! I knew I would be— this is the second book I ever bought that I found on Booktok 1/4
A hand holding up a copy of The Puzzled Heiress by Lyndsay Constable in a martial arts studio, with just the mat, the wood floor, a couple chairs, and some blurry ID-less legs running around in the background. The cover is blue, has the title written in a wavy style at the top, and features a silhouette portrait of Pomona Moriarty (the main character). The portrait dissolves into puzzle pieces at the bottom.
March 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Urgghh we all got hella sick. Kids’ll be home tomorrow too, so I doubt if I’ll be able to record again before Wednesday at best. In any event! I’ve finished the first novella length episode in book 2 of the Farodun Down series, and am on to the first of the short story length ones.

#sciencefiction
Screen cap of Pages on my phone showing the rough draft of the most recently finished line of book 2: “Trials have all gone well! And it’s better than nothing. Better than being left to desiccate on a mountainside, surely.” a message from me that says “We all got sick this weekend 😭🤧😷 No videos today for me but here’s a writing update from my sickbed 😂🫠!” It also includes a word count— 40,722 words!
March 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I saw part of a live where someone was talking about a condition referred to only as “nj” and, though it looked severe, was described as only a “skin condition”. So, curious, I tried to look up what she was talking about. To be fair, it wasn’t a very good query but still.
Screencap of google search results where I tried to search “nj skin condition” and got a top AI Overview result of “New Jersey has many skin conditions, including acne, eczema, psoriasis, and hair loss.”
February 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Looking for something to do other than watch the #Superbowl? You could pick up an indie #sciencefiction novel about a kid on a distant moon trying to find his way in an indifferent and often dangerous universe. Moon, Have Mercy is available wherever books are sold, and Kindle/KU! #booksky
A promotional mock up featuring the Moon, Have Mercy front cover (a boy sits on the ground in the dark looking up at a few moon beams) overlaid on an image of an alien moon with a gas giant just visible through the atmosphere. The text says “Follow Farodun as he finds his way,“ “Available in print everywhere,” and “ e-book on Kindle/KU.”
February 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Okay— new Artist’s Journal video is up on YouTube. I made this thumbnail on my phone bc I’m stubborn in very specific ways, and it took way longer than it ought to considering how bad it looks 😂. Anyway, see the content timestamp list and link below! #booktok
Photoshopped image of me, an old mixed Asian lady with a bad short haircut, sat in front of by bed, looking at a cut n pasted collection of books and doodads relevant to the video. A white and orange cat (Gertie) is perched above my right shoulder on the bed behind me.
February 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Pick-a-page! Page 77 was suggested by @spwashi.com ! Moon, Have Mercy is available wherever books are sold in print and on Kindle/KU! (Signed copies are available through ASMiyasaki.com)

#pickapage #booktok #moonhavemercy #farodundown #indiebooks #indieauthors #sciencefiction #booksky #booksta
February 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I made it in! Now, unfortunately, although I did link my tiktok account weeks ago, it seems to have failed to work. Anyway, I’m ASMiyasaki on Tome, too! #booksky #booktok #tome #tomeapp
Screen cap of my Tome page, showing my user id: ASMiyasaki, and my first post!
January 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Trying to log into #tome to set up my account and profile. The get along is indeed hitchful, but the app itself seems cool! Kind of #Lemon8 meets #TikTok but for books. Fantasy books, specifically, so I’m not sure if I’m actually even supposed to be there but 🤷🏻😬 #booksky
Screencap of the Tome book app front page, featuring mushrooms and a gnome. I am currently stuck here lol
January 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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For example: Ed (not MC, but close) gets cold easily, then takes forever to warm up again 🥶Ed’s ship, the Jhoarat, has a long heating unit installed in the lavatory for this reason 😆
A black and white drawing of a humanoid in opaque black armor, hanging onto someone’s sweater, saving them from falling into a pit.
January 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Started a new spin tonight ☺️ It’s been so long since I got this top, and it was just in a bag, without a label. I can tell it’s merino/plant fiber. I’m guessing bamboo? Feels like bamboo 😅 Planning to do a trad three ply. #yarnsky #knitsky #spinnersofbluesky
Three bundles of green combed top stacked on a red couch.
January 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Cat content bc I’m not feeling too verbal atm 🫠🙃 If you miss me (I’m kidding obv) my book, Moon, Have Mercy, is available like pretty much everywhere atp, I think? I have it in KDP, Ingram Spark, and then the ebook on Kindle/Kindle Unlimited. #booksky #yarnsky #cats
January 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Further correction lmaooo: I have melted my brain crossposting and accidentally left a line in referring to an announcement. That was for my yarn acct— on a different platform entirely 😅 The announcement was I have been MIA because I wrote a book (picture of the book in question for reference) 🤣🤣🤣
Picture of Moon, Have Mercy, the book I wrote, lmao. It has a predominantly black cover with a boy sitting on one knee, looking up towards a distant light source.
January 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Final stats for the merino/tencel are:

Brown & Gray Merino/Tencel
Yardage: 510 yards/464 m
Ply: 2
WPI: ~17
TPI: ~4.5

3/4
A twisted hank of brown and gray merino/tencel handspun, sitting on the back of a red couch, in front of a window with a snowy backyard behind it.
January 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Final stats for the Polwarth are:

Neon Rainbow Polwarth
Yardage: 464 yards/424 m
Weight: 4.4 oz / 125 g
Ply: chain
WPI: ~13
TPI: ~5

2/4
A twisted hank of neon rainbow Polwarth Handspun yarn, sitting on the back of a red couch, in front of a window with a snowy backyard behind it.
January 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Cleared a couple finished yarns off the bobbins yesterday! I have an announcement after the final stats for anyone interested. These yarns aren’t washed yet, so the yardage is over what it will ultimately be. 1/4 #yarnsky #yarn #knitsky #handspun
Two twisted hanks of yarn, one neon rainbow, one brown and gray, held up in front of a window with a snowy backyard in the background.
January 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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It’s just a small canon error, and there IS an argument to be made it doesn’t impact canon at all 😅. But IF you happened to get a print copy of Moon, Have Mercy and it HAS this canon error in it, I’ll send you a sticker or a bookmark (let me know which.) 1/2 #booksky #booktok #scifi #moonhavemercy
January 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Okay everything is still terrible and you absolutely do NOT gotta hand it to anyone, but at least #CapCut is back. Also sorry for the annoying audio lol.
#Booktok #booksky #tiktok #videoediting #capcut #bytedance #tiktokban
January 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
January 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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But seriously. Free CapCut 😩 #tiktok #booktok
January 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Huh— the pop up thing is gone. Well, hopefully it is roughly the same when resurrected but this seems ominous 😬 #tiktok #zombietok
January 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM