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Gary Kruse
@garykruseauthor.bsky.social
Indie Author of gripping, gritty thriller/horror fiction.
OUT NOW:
Badlands - 💀🏄🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒
Mistress of the Crows -🐦‍⬛👻🧙🏻‍♀️🧛🏻
Bleak Waters - 👻🛥️💀🔪
Pre-order Ruins here: https://mybook.to/Ruins
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Fancy picking up 3 tales of dark deeds and ghostly goings on, set in stunning British locations, for under a fiver?

Check out the Dark England supernatural thrillers here: mybook.to/Dark-England

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#booksky #horror #HorrorAuthor #thriller #crimefiction #cornwall #norfolkbroads #norfolk
The #Horror tropes of Ruins:

🏰The abandoned place
👀 Feeling of being watched
❓The mysterious stranger
👹 Monsters everywhere (but of the human kind)
👩 A “final girl”? Or not?
😱 A sinister warning
💀 Anyone can die

mybook.to/Ruins

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#booksky #HorrorAuthor
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’m upstairs in the Loft at the minute.

The lights are low and the rain is pattering on the windows.

A perfect autumn evening.
a silhouette of a cat looking out a window with rain drops on it
Alt: a silhouette of a cat looking out a window with rain drops on it
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November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
🌲 enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship

🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Book 1: A daring WWII mission. A pilot who risks it all.
Book 2: The true tale of Nancy Wake, the Gestapo’s most wanted spy.
Book3: A deadly cipher. A traitor in the shadows. A battle to protect Britain’s future.

mybook.to/HeroesofWar
#KU
#WWII #histfic #Booksky
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This #ThrillerThursday, dive into the dark heart of Cornwall with Badlands, a twisting #thriller of deception, betrayal and conspiracy.

Only 99p/c on #kindle or read for FREE with #kindleunlimited

mybook.to/Badlands2025

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#booksky #crimefiction
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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This winter I'm teaching Creative Writing Essentials Tues in-person at StoryStudio Chicago!

We're going to talk about prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essay, all of it!

Let's explore what is creative writing, how do we do it, and maintain a practice.

www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
Creative Writing Essentials Winter 2026 with Cynthia Pelayo - StoryStudio Chicago
What is creative writing? What is storytelling? How does one even get started writing? How do I build a creative writing practice? And well, what is it that we even want to write? In this eight-week w...
www.storystudiochicago.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Would you like some free horror books? There's a selection here for you to browse.

#Books #HorrorWriting #BFP
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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Now [re-]reading:

MG Mason @chaoticauthor.online: The Residents of James Hotel

Read it already [twice] and know it's good. Never wrote a review bc life, AuDHD burnout and scatter brain.

Time to repeat the experience.

A worthy candidate for review #100.

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#AmReading 👀📚💙📚😱
#KindleUnlimited 🩸📚📢
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Reviews for authors are like blood for vampires!

Essential for our very existence!

Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating a tad, but if you’ve read any of my books please do leave a review on Amazon/GoodReads.

Thanks! 😎🤙🏻

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#horrorauthor #thrillerauthor #booksky #indieauthor #bookreviews
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Good morning #skywriters! 😎🤙🏻

We’re halfway through the week.

Went back and fixed a scene that had been niggling at me in Badlands 2 last night. As written it threw up a couple of plot holes, so these are fixed now.

How’s your #WIP going?

#indieauthor #authorlife #WriteSky #writingcommunity
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
If an enigmatic stranger stirred up the dark secrets of your village…

And the ghosts of your youth returned to haunt you…

What price would you pay to find the truth?

Bleak Waters - a supernatural mystery, out now.

mybook.to/BleakWaters

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#booksky #HorrorAuthor
#horror #mystery
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

(Here's the opening of The Grotesque)
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Here's mine (opening of Flowers from the Black Sea)
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

(Here’s the opening of Ruins)
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Chapter 4: Liverpool Horror Book Con is going to be freaking massive 👻

Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe on 11 April for a day you won’t forget!

We are delighted to announce @killianhgore.bsky.social as one of our attending authors.

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November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
November sunrise over The Loft this morning.

Had an unexpected couple of hoers to write so hit 42.5K words on Badlands 2 last night.

Then I watched Point Break. Good night all round!

Have a good one #skywriters!

#indieauthor #authorlife #WriteSky
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Chapter 4: Liverpool Horror Book Con is going to be freaking massive 👻

Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe on 11 April for a day you won’t forget!

We are delighted to announce @bradthomasauthor.bsky.social as one of our attending authors.

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November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Long winter nights call for cosying up with a spooky tale or nine…

mybook.to/MOTC

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#booksky #writingcommunity #horror #HorrorAuthor
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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17 years after I wrote the first notes, my supernatural mystery Ruins was released on Halloween.

But why did it take so frigging long?

Well, the answer can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/garykrus...

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#booksky #writingcommunity #horror #HorrorAuthor
The story of a story.
It’s Halloween/Samhain which means it’s release day for my supernatural mystery, Ruins, which is book 3 of my Dark England series.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Ruins, a heart-breaking, suspense- filled supernatural mystery of vengeful ghosts, family secrets and dark revelations is out now on #kindle #KU & #paperback .

Grab your copy here: mybook.to/Ruins

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#booksky #writingcommunity #horror #HorrorAuthor
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Broke the 40K words barrier on Badlands 2 last night!

Target word count is 60K so I’m into the last third (although I reckon it’ll end up closer to 65 maybe 70K in this draft).

#indieauthor #authorlife #WriteSky #writingcommunity #skywriters
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Ruins, a heart-breaking, suspense- filled supernatural mystery of vengeful ghosts, family secrets and dark revelations is out now on #kindle #KU & #paperback .

Grab your copy here: mybook.to/Ruins

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#booksky #writingcommunity #horror #HorrorAuthor
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Out and about in Camden Town.
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM