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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky
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THE LORD OF THE WOOD (Hanover Square Press 2026). THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (Mira 2025). BLM. Queer. ND. She/they. Rep: Keir Alekseii, ALA.

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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · Oct 15
new pinned post! hellooooooo I'm E (she/they) the #author of THE LORD OF THE WOOD (@hanoversquarepress.bsky.social,
2026) and THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (MIRA Books, 2025), as well as various short stories

check out my links below!
E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood and The Keeper of Lonely Spirits against a starry night background, above a link: ElizMAnderson(dot)Com(slash)Links. The Lord of the Wood's cover is teal with a stag of flowers and foliage growing from a twisted tree with flowers growing around it and black ooze dripping from a branch overhead. the title "The Lord of the Wood" is in large white serif text to the left, with foliage growing through the letters closest to the tree, and the author "E.M. Anderson" is in all-caps yellow text at the bottom. the tagline, in smaller yellow text, reads, "Even a beastly woodland protector needs saving..." The Keeper of Lonely Spirits's cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers. the title "The Keeper of Lonely Spirits" is centered in all-caps sans-serif yellow text, with "E.M." Anderson in smaller white text at the bottom. Tagline in still smaller text at the top reads, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome." "When lonely clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton loses his way in an enchanted forest, he meets the hero of his childhood bedtime stories: the Lord of the Wood. But instead of the mythical figure of his dreams, the Lord of the Wood is a grim man turning into a beast and losing power over a dying forest. If they can’t save the forest before he becomes a beast completely, Arthur will lose the man he's falling for—and never see his family again." Text is in a textbox against a murky image of a forest, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood below the text, all against a dark teal background with gold curlicues in the corners. "An old man cursed with immortality hunts ghosts rather than making mortal friends who will die one day. When residents of an Ohio town beset by a vengeful spirit adopt him as their own, he must decide: leave to protect his heart, or stay to save their lives?" To the left of the text is E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits, above a QR code linking to the book at Bookshop(dot)Org in either hardcover or ebook. Text is in a translucent textbox against a background of yellow flowers in the sunset.
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anotherindiewriter.com
It has come to my attention that my countdown posts for Opus might be confusing. And you know what? Fair. If you don't know what I'm selling, you won't know what I'm selling from those countdowns.

So. Let me halp.

anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
ko-fi.com/anotherindie...
Handwritten black text on a white background reading "Book. Buy it."
December 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
elizmanderson.com
first firing and glaze for #ArtAdventCalendar! while I won't get to take this home until May, my friend who was helping run the event is planning to send pics once the bird houses get fired again

can't wait, the colors are gonna look SO DIFFERENT and I'm excited
A fired but unglazed clay birdhouse made to look like tree bark with an upturned blossom roof. The base includes a door around the entry hole, spotted toadstools and unfurling ferns, and shelf fungi protruding off the side. The roof is simpler, with a partial flower stem coming off the top and a 3D butterfly sitting on the side with partially opened wings An clay birdhouse, glazed but not fired again, made to look like tree bark with an upturned blossom roof. The base includes a door around the entry hole, spotted toadstools and unfurling ferns, and shelf fungi protruding off the side. The roof is simpler, with a partial flower stem coming off the top and a 3D butterfly sitting on the side with partially opened wings. The colors are super pale and not what they will be in the end: the flower roof and bark look extremely pale pink, the door looks white, the leaves and stem are green but extremely pale. Some colors will darken significantly in firing, while others will show up as different colors entirely.
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
elizmanderson.com
...Charlotte handles it very well when other people are ill, since she's a healer, but very poorly when SHE is ill, which is like a major thing in her POV chapters in THE LORD OF THE WOOD

bc she's newly physically disabled due to an illness and is frustrated about it
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social Charlie Delta 🦊🐐 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 10h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

A bit under the weather tonight, apologies if I am slow to respond!

On a related note: how does your character deal with illness?

Are they stoic? Whiney? Immune to it altogether? Just drink a healing potion?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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viannemax.bsky.social
Mood:
#survival
Text says, “Honestly, we should text like 1800s adventurers. ‘My trusted friend, I remain alive yet another week. The terrors do not cease.’”
December 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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kellyesparza.bsky.social
Ahh! A reporter at the Auburn Journal wrote an article about my new poetry chapbook about lupus & me! I’m happy to use my voice to spread awareness! 💜🥄

Read the whole article here: goldcountrymedia.com/news/338640/...

Buy my book here: kelly-esparza-merch-and-books.square.site/s/shop
Folsom author spotlights chronic illness in new book, by Dan Araujo, Kelly Esparza has an infectious laugh, usually punctuating the end of her sentences with a light chuckle brimming with positivity. An avid reader, she’s a book and magazine editor who earned her Bachelor’s degrees in English and Creative Writing before the age of 30.
December 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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yumewrites.bsky.social
It’s holiday gift season and I’m sitting in a cafe right now by myself so here’s a thread of some books I read this year that I really enjoyed… 🧵
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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nora.zone
Happy Saturday everyone! I'm Nora and I have a glass jewelry shop! Here's some of the jewelry I have in stock; in the replies I'm going to share some of the glass wreaths I've been making.

nora.jewelry

Shares appreciated!

#bsnm
Nora Reed Designs ad featuring a variety of cluster pendants made from murrine cane that had been arranged in a pattern and then only partly melted so that the final piece looks a bit like clustered fish eggs. Ad featuring pendants in the collage line, with one that's in a teardrop shape with swirling blues and then a bunch of oval ones with different swirling color designs. Ad sign a variety of earrings in speckled, swirling patterns, with one pair that's trans pride A variety of bolo ties in organic abstract shapes and colorful patterns.
December 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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tjalexandernyc.bsky.social
Great news! A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN is going back for a second printing. Fresh copies mean it's a great time to sign up for this?
tjalexandernyc.bsky.social TJ Alexander @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 18d
In the new year, I'll be hosting a read-a-long of my bestselling trans Regency romance A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN. Read it again or for the first time, everyone is welcome.

Sign up: buttondown.com/a-gentlemans...
You are Cordially Invited to a Most Distinguished Read-a-Long. January 18 – March 7, 2026.
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
elizmanderson.com
they loooooooooove talking about this government service in particular like a freaking for-profit business to try to get you to agree to privatize the postal system 🙄
2house2fly.bsky.social The Comfy Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 1d
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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abigailtaylor.bsky.social
Well deserved! It is a splendid book.
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
elizmanderson.com
oh 🥹 THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS hasn't been on many lists, but it's on Library Journal's list of Best Books of 2025 so if you need me I will be a puddle on the floor

www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...
Stellar Selections | Best Books 2025
Throughout the year, LJ’s expert reviewers consider thousands of books, reading titles across a myriad of genres and subjects. These are the nearly 800 works they judged as the best, most notable, sig...
www.libraryjournal.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
Picture a lesbian Data and a cybernetically enhanced butch lesbian Tasha Yar exploring a planet with strange life forms that begin to look eerily familiar the farther they go
danifinnwrites.bsky.social Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 8d
"There was so much to learn about women, and so little time."

🪐Terra Flux🪐

A mechanical lesbian sci-fi novella about the exploration of planets & women

🤖Robofuckers need apply 🤖

MURDERBOT

X

THE MACHINE MANDATE

X

PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT

danifinn.itch.io/terra-flux

books2read.com/b/boQL2L
Janky text from the "you wouldn't download..." meme: You wouldn't fuck a planet Cover of Terra Flux, a planetary adventure by Dani Finn, showing a mechanical woman with long flowing hair against a retro neon sci-fi background
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
elizmanderson.com
Arthur's afraid of finding out he's the reason his life sucks, like just bc of who he is as a person
susansavagelee.bsky.social Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · 2d
What is your MC’s greatest fear? Ginger is afraid of rejection and being alone #writingq #WritingCommunity
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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diannalgunn.bsky.social
A5: I'll say the same thing I say every week: if you have a little bit of wiggle room in your budget, consider joining the #WeeknightWriters Pro Discord. You get a TON of community support & help bring me a little closer to being able to escape my day job & save my mental health
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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vriccithode.bsky.social
🚨I FINISHED A SERIES🚨
want HTTYD with firebending sword lesbians? I GOT YOU! and the whole series is on sale right now, only on itch. 6 books for $20! #WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall
itch.io/s/167057/com...
Black Friday. Fireborn series bundle. 6 books for $20. Book cover art for Dragon Whisperer, Trueflame, Fireborn, Firebound, Favour Fire, The Dragon Next Door. Itch.io logo.
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
elizmanderson.com
well obviously there's the selfie that spawned the whole "the author too hot for Bluesky" thing lmfao
E taking a selfie in a full-length mirror, wearing a strappy purple pole outfit with a polka doted black tie-front shirt over the top. despite the fact that you see less of E in this photo than you would if they were wearing a bikini at a public beach, Bluesky's auto-mod routinely marks this selfie as sensitive content (adult, sexual, non-nudity)
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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abegoldfarb.bsky.social
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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roannelau.bsky.social
Awards eligibility post to wrap up 2025! Sincere gratitude to those considering my book as they cast their ballots.

If you haven’t snagged a copy yet, the ebook is currently on sale for $4.99! Otherwise, you can find the gorgeous hardcovers at your local bookstore or borrow one from your library.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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mishiiarts.bsky.social
I know a lot of people aren't familiar with Common Bonds, but it's a series of all-aro anthologies to combat the way aro stories in anthos are often fully eclipsed by ace ones.

Book 1 released in 2021 and now we're back by popular demand with all new stories! Check it out 👇🏽
clh2oars.bsky.social Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 2d
COMMON BONDS 2 Late Pledges close on December 10! Don't miss your chance to get your copy alongside all of our backers!

💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!

Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

🌈📚
An orange leafy background with a blue thread of wool passing over it, as well as the occasional autumn leaves. In the centre is the cover for Common Bonds 2 (two friends knitting a sweater within a frame of autumnal leaves). The image says describes this book as “an aromantic SFF anthology” that is coming in 2026 and can be preordered through Kickstarter’s late pledges.
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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elizmanderson.com
it's awards season, and my queer cozy fantasy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS is eligible for a Hugo, a Locus, and a Nebula!

there's a brief book description in the post, or you can click this link: www.elizmanderson.com/keeper-of-lo...

#author
The Keeper of Lonely Spirits: awards eligibility. Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and Nebula Award for Best Novel. Text is in a translucent text box against a background of yellow flowers in the sunset, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits to the right. The cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome..." An old man cursed with immortality hunts ghosts rather than making mortal friends who will die one day. When residents of an Ohio town beset by a vengeful spirit adopt him as their own, he must decide: leave to protect his heart, or stay to save their lives? Text is in a translucent text box against a background of yellow flowers in the sunset, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits to the right. The cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome..."
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
elizmanderson.com
don't mind me, just gonna keep sharing until I turn in my copy edits (and then probably bring back for proofs)
elizmanderson.com E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · 4d
give me a number 9-459 and get a line from THE LORD OF THE WOOD

I'm doing line edits and I hunger for line shares

#author
cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood, which is blue, darker at the edges, paler in the center, featuring a stag of flowers and foliage growing from a tree whose upper branches drip black ooze. Cover is centered on a dark graphic with gold text reading, "plant magic; sentient forest trying to oops! murder people; intensely homoerotic shaving scene; the one who heard the stories and the one who was in the stories; wound tending; love interest slowly turning into a beast; dual POV brother and sister; Beauty and the Beast inspired but not a retelling; hopeless romantic who's clueless about his sexuality
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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jebdarsh.bsky.social
Tried to write a thread 3 times and bluesky kept deleting it while I was getting links.

So fuck it. Support disabled creators.

Here's some you should:
@mxfee.bsky.social
@bibiblossoms.bsky.social
And buy this bundle organised by my good pal @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social

itch.io/b/3409/end-o...
End-of-Year Indie Fantasy Mega Bundle by T.C. Smith and 64 others
End-of-Year Indie Fantasy Mega Bundle: 64 items for $45.00
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December 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
elizmanderson.com
...Arthur and Ira met when Ira found Arthur asleep in his bed, threw him out of the house, and lowkey threatened him with being murdered by the forest
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social Charlie Delta 🦊🐐 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 3d
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Tell me a bit about the first time your character met someone important to them.

This could be a close friend, love interest, mentor, etc.

Did they like each other right away? Did they warm over time?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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adwills.bsky.social
no no, that's not my thinly veiled author fetish. It's out there like a cartoon pie on a windowsill for anyone to see and devour
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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mishiiarts.bsky.social
Also, I've been struggling to compile this, so if you work at an indie bookstore that will take books direct from authors/any distributor that isn't Ingram or the Big 5, can you please let me know below?

I have a small list but would love more!
December 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM