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DB @ DB's Guide to the Galaxy
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Big reader, occasional writer, both mainly fantasy. ND, ♿ Read diversely, audiobooks are reading
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This post isn't about me bragging at all! Just me sharing my tips and tricks! And if you can't maintain a reading streak, you're still a reader!

#readingstreak #TheStoryGraph #booksread #audiobooks
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November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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This post isn't about me bragging at all! Just me sharing my tips and tricks! And if you can't maintain a reading streak, you're still a reader!

#readingstreak #TheStoryGraph #booksread #audiobooks
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November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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I had the best of times reading these books! I can wait to read more from Odette, what do you recommend (if you've read any)? If you haven't read anything from her, maybe try this?

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October 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Texting with another YA author friend this morning about the rough state of the market, and our consensus was, publishing keeps looking for the next Hunger Games, but they wouldn’t acquire the original if it were in their inboxes today
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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“You muzzled APPA!?”
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Please say she can sing. I can't go through another gal Gadot 😂
empiremagazine.bsky.social Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · Oct 9
Disney's live-action Tangled movie is back in early development — and Scarlett Johansson is circling the role of villainous lead Mother Gothel.

Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
October 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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A brilliant engineer must work with the scientist who trapped thousands in small gems to save them, but to do so, they will need to learn to trust one another—with the science, with their loved ones, and with their confused aro hearts.

Aromantic fantasy novel! buy.bookfunnel.com/prdyz5509q

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September 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The Chronicles of Nerezia is a big fantasy series in fun bite-sized format! It has...

✨ aro, ace, non-binary main characters / worldbuilding
✨ high stakes and quieter moments around games
✨ found family road trip

claudiearseneault.com/nerezia/

🌈📚 #booksky #QueerAdultSFF
The Chronicles of Nerezia
Book 1 Details Book 2 Details Book 3 Details Book 4 Details Book 5 Details Book 6 Details BOOK 7 DETAILS Your story is my story … Fate and friendship bring Horace (an ever-failing apprentice)…
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September 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Good night, Bluesky, here is a picture of a deeply relaxed dog to carry you through until we see each other again.
Charlie the dog, in full lounge mode
September 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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I've been dreaming about the day I'd see my own name on a book cover. A massive thanks to JV Artists for making the cover of my dreams! Child of the Dragon is releasing March 10, 2026 from @inkedingraypress.bsky.social and preorders are available now on their website!
A purple background with the cover for Child of the Dragon (A cover with fire on the left edges and ice on the right edges centering around a girl in shorts and a tank top, raising a sword high and summoning lightning in front of a massive purple-y european dragon inside some sort of arena. The title: Child of the Dragon is written across the center in a curly, silver font, and the author name is in a smaller version of the same and says Ashley N.Y. Sheesley). Fire and ice surround the cover in a way that gives it a somewhat 3D effect. The text reads Cover Reveal at the top and across the bottom it says Coming March 10, 2026
September 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Excited for the cover of Child of the Dragon by Ashely Sheeshley (@ashintheashes.bsky.social)! Out 10 March 2026 but preorders open from @inkedingraypress.bsky.social

Imagine Eragon but modern day and a girl finds out that she IS a dragon, has to defeat evil AND somehow still think of Maths!
September 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I really enjoyed the Belladonna series by Adalyn Grace! I can't wait for the novella and I think I'll reread everything (slower this time haha) next year! 🤩 www.instagram.com/p/DNWWr-mIOU...
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August 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Reminder that before I started writing novels I didn't study writing at university, attended no workshops/conferences, knew absolutely no one in science fiction publishing circles, and didn't start going to conventions until after I got a contract for my novel.

What I *did* do: Write. A lot.
lorekeating.bsky.social Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · Aug 12
Saw a post recently about what makes someone a "serious" writer. It included studying writing at university, partaking in multi-day workshops, attending conferences, attending awards ceremonies.

Sounds a lot like pay-to-play, to me.
August 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The Phantom Noctis by Dahlia Jade is out now and you should all go get it if you like Fae and/or vampires! Thanks so much to the author for letting me have an arc and I can't wait for the next one 🤩. My full review will be out later on my blog and review sites!
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August 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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My #wwwwednesday aka #lastnownext ! Any of these three you've read or looking forward to? I always recommend Nisha J. Tuli because I think she's such a great author. Tessa Bailey is slowly becoming a favourite of mine!
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August 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Yes this IS a lot of books (Don't count the ones I didn't get to from last month). Ether I'm mad or ambitious (or just both). Also I finished a book earlier but didn't feel like removing it here.
Which of these books have you already read/want to read? Hit me up for a buudy read! #booksky
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August 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I've now read 6 volumes of Saga and I'm liking them more and more! #booksky #currentlyreading
July 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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It's Tag Thursday and I'm doing the "In My Audiobook Era Book Tag!" cos I feel like that's where I'm at this year! 🤣 Do you like audiobooks? What're your favourites (esp. fantasy!)? #BookSky #BookTag
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In My Audiobook Era Book Tag
Happy Thursday, friends! I don’t know about you, but I am so excited for the weekend and the prospect of doing nothing but reading all day. 😍 But I digress… Today I’m doing a tag …
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July 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Full review up on my blog (link in bio) and also on Instagram if you wanna throw a like there. I absolutely loved Traveler of Heart by Elle Kish! It's out now so please go read it! It's perfect if you want a good fantasy
#booksky #audiobookarc
Yellow, light and dark green gradient background At the top are numbers in a row. 01 has a blue background circle. My Social media handle is at the bottom left and an arrow bottom right. The cover for Traveler of Heart by Elle Kish is in the middle. There are tropes all around the cover with arrows from it pointing to the book. Reading from left to right, top to middle to bottom: ADHD older FMC and she's a mom; banter; Portal Fantasy; He Falls First; Found Family; Pet "puppy" dragon Under the book cover is the text: swipe for more with a blue background Yellow, light and dark green gradient background At the top are numbers in a row. 01 has a blue background circle. My Social media handle is at the bottom left and an arrow bottom right Synopsis is the heading. There are 2 blobs. One is dark green and the other mustard yellow. Text: Thirty-six-year-old Daphne Silver thought she finally had it all; she was married to the love of her life, had an amazing job, and was the mother to three beautiful children. From leading The Hot Moms Book Club to running to after-school practices, nothing could stop her from living the perfectly normal life she had dreamed of, not even her ADHD. That is, until the accident. Now, she’s left with only two of those. Trying desperately to cling to the life she built, she signs up for a technology-free retreat. But it seems the stars have other plans for her. Instead of leaving for her trip, she is pulled into a world full of fae, dragons, and magic. After a handsome stranger, Silas, rescues her from imminent danger, he agrees to help her get home. They embark on a journey navigating Daphne’s newfound magic, a budding romance that could never work, and the vague predictions of oracles. With no one looking for her, Daphne has two weeks to find a way back to her world—she can’t allow her family to suffer two tragedies in less than a year. But in a world full of magic and mystery, will she be able to make it back? Yellow light and dark green gradient background. At the top are numbers in a row. 03 has a dark blue background circle. my Social media handle is at the bottom left and arrow bottom right. The heading reads: You'll Like This If... And then 3 different paragraphs you love Fae and want something different. Plus, dragons! you like banter and characters getting to know each other - and getting into... Situations you like a good balance between character and plot development
July 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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With itch delisting trans authors, here's a bunch of us you can support

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July 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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There's a certain allure to books which feel like childhood stories gone sour. @abporanek.bsky.social, author of A Treachery of Swans, recommends 5 atmospheric, haunting books that read like dark fairy tales:

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Atmospheric Books That Feel Like Dark Fairy Tales - Reactor
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July 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I've been seeing this around and decided to join in! If you've read (or dnfed) any of these 9 books, tell me which and what you thought of them! ##booksky
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July 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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BAKER THIEF is getting a sequel!

We return to Val-de-mer to follow Clémence, the scientist who trapped witches in exocores, as ol reckons with those consequences and finds a path forward (alongside *checks note* ols old crush 👀)

PAINTED FLOCK releases on June 26.

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An image split in two, with the upper half dedicated to Baker Thief saying "an aro bigender baker, a corporate conspiracy, enemies-to-QPR" and the bottom half dedicated to Painted Flock, saying "a quoiromantic agender scientist, saving ols victims, team scientist to found family"
June 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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"ai is inevitable" no you are just a weak coward
May 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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A horror/fantasy novel from the bard himself, Joey Batey (Witcher's Jaskier & The Amazing Devil) has been announced!

A band find their gigs take on a terrifying new significance in It's Not A Cult when they start to sing about supposedly fictional Northern gods of mishap & mayhem...

💙📚🪐
#horrorsky
The cover of the book. A spotlit red piano is on fire, neon yellow smoke billowing upwards and taking on pagan symbols around the edges. The tagline reads "they'd die for you. They'd kill for you".
May 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM