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Indie author Miranda Kate/M K Boers/Miranda K/M K Prince
Stories with a dark edge that'll leave a trail in your mind.
#Author #Horror #SciFi #DarkFantasy
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British Author based in Europe
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Here is a rather brilliant book trailer @vspearson85.bsky.social created of us all as our characters, for Agents of Secrets and Lies, Book One of The Summer Realm Trilogy, out on 26th December.

Pre-order it now!

mybook.to/SRAgents

💙📚👀📢📚 #books #newrelease #steampunk #fantasy #quest
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Book One of The Summer Realm Trilogy, Agents of Secrets and Lies, is now available to pre-order.

There's a discounted price for pre-orders & the first 24hrs of release!

mybook.to/SRAgents

💙📚👀📢📚 #books #newrelease #steampunk #fantasy #quest
Bookcover for The Summer Realm Book 1, Agents of Secrets and Lies by Michael Wombat, Victoria Pearson, Lisa Shambrook and Miranda Kate. It depicts a grey parrot with a bright red tail, grey and black-tipped wings open, flying over a snow-topped mountain range under a clear blue sky. It's framed by brass cogs and boiler plates.
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack

Lake McKenzie, a sweet water lake on the all sand & tropical rainforest island, Frazer Island, in Queensland, Australia. 1998. It was spectacular.
A clear water lake, on white sand. A strip of almost completely white sand, then the first strip of the still lake water is turquoise and drops to a royal blue. In the distance, on the other side, is a dark line of forest, under a clear blue sky.
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack

That time we decided to quit the standstill traffic on the motorway and go over the Gotthard pass in Switzerland, after our holiday in Italy. 2014
A view across the mountainous landscape of Switzerland in the summer. All the hills are covered in green forests and grass. In between, in the valley are clusters of buildings of the townd and the main road. The blue sky is scattered with white clouds.
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack

Botanical Gardens, Barbados. 1999. Back in my skinny days.
Me standing on a slanting grass hillside, next to a palmtree, behind there is a view to the sea.
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack

Recently in Bonaire (Dutch Caribbean). Lac Cai beach on Lac Bay. No one there. Stunning.
A white sand beach and calm turquoise ocean water, and mangroves running up to the shore in the distance.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
Australian outback - specifically Flinders Ranges in South Australia. 1998.
Looking out across the flat terrain of the Australian outback, with hills rising up in the right, part green covered and part orange sand. A white track of a road runs through it in the foreground. It runs out to the distance.
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack

Up in the mountains of Tignale opposite Mount Baldo range on Lake Garda. 2014.
Looking across at a large snow-topped mountain range, with at least five rounded peaks, further down it is green. In the foreground is green trees on the mountainside the photographer is standing in, including a couple of villages.
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack

75 mile beach on Fraser Island as seen from Indian Head. 1998.
Looking out from a cliff top back at a long white sand beach, with white waves crashing at the shore on the left. Inland is also white sand, with a line of green foliage, on this all sand beach.
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack

Lake Idro, Northern Italy, behind Lale Garda.
Looking up a lake with green covered mountains either side into the distance under a cloud scattered blue sky.
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack Ponacle Sesert, Cevantes, Western Australia.
In amongst yellow stone pinnacles in a yellow sand desert under blue skies. The eroded remains of large rocks and mountains. View across yellow stone pinnacles in a yellow sand desert under blue skies. The eroded remains of large rocks and mountains.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack

Looking out from the Olgas - Kata Tjuta. Northern Territories. 1998.
Looking out across flat, green and orange outback land at blue sky. On both sides the sides of the large rock formations form orange walls framing the picture.
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack

Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve. 1998.
A park with high grasses and a blood gum eucalyptus tree on the left with its branches hanging down over the top of the picture. In the distance the Todd River is running for the first time in 4 years. It's sunny dry and green.
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack Recently I tried a new walking route. It was much longer than my usual so I sat here for a rest. No one around. Its about a much of the beaten track as you can get in Holland.
Lpoking out from a picnic table across a grass park-like area at a lake, with a tree in the left. The sky is clear blue.
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Hey @fartsjohnson.bsky.social We were discussing you doing this at karaoke. And it's on the telly! Ha!
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Doing oromos, got a face full of make up now and no where to go. So took some selfies.
Me. Long dark blonde haired woman smiling at the camera. Me. Long dark blonde haired woman smiling at the camera. Me. Long dark blonde haired woman smiling at the camera. Me. Long dark blonde haired woman smiling at the camera.
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Everything he's done falls under treason.
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Book One of The Summer Realm Trilogy, Agents of Secrets and Lies, is now available to pre-order.

There's a discounted price for pre-orders & the first 24hrs of release!

mybook.to/SRAgents

💙📚👀📢📚 #books #newrelease #steampunk #fantasy #quest
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The sad news keeps coming. After my Godfather's wife died last week, just heard my MIL's bestie is now on morphine & may not last a week. 😥 She's 89. Heart muscles giving out, difficulty breathing. She's one of the lovest people I know. Here she is laughing with my MIL back in 2019 (MIL died 2022).
Two elderly women at a dining table. The one on the left is in a yellow jacket and in the middle of a huge laugh, while the woman in the right has hands clasped in front of her, eyes closed as she delivers whatever made the other laugh. They were bestie for decades. 💜
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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It's Oliebolle day! 😃 Hubby was up at 5am to go help bake. It's a yearly village event. Then they sell them round the village and the clubs divide the money. I've come home to find a bag of them - and his clothes to wash (stink off deep fat frying).
A bucket of oliebollen dough (like doughnuts but with bits of apple & raisins in). A large deep fat fryer with about 40 oliebollen cooking in it - round goldem brown doughnut balls. A thermal bag with three paperbags do of cooked oliebollen doughnut balls. An oliebollen on a plate broken open to reveal the doughnut inside, with some ice sugar shaken on it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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And here it is! Book One of The Summer Realm Trilogy, a dark steampunk fantasy - Agents of Secrets and Lies.

I also have a pre-order link for you!!

mybook.to/SRAgents

Discounted price for pre-orders & first 24hrs of release!

The paperback pre-order link will be here tomorrow.

💙📚👀📢📚
Bookcover for The Summer Realm Book 1, Agents of Secrets and Lies by Michael Wombat, Victoria Pearson, Lisa Shambrook and Miranda Kate. It depicts a grey parrot with a bright red tail, grey and black-tipped wings open, flying over a snow-topped mountain range under a clear blue sky. It's framed by brass cogs and boiler plates.
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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mmm, she's got more than a white bib. She's a bit more Phantom of the Opera.
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Fluffball. 🥰 #Cats
A black and white cat curled up on a red and white blanket in the corner of a grey sofa, fast asleep but with front paws help up and toebeaned feet sticking out.
November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Forgot to add the lazy pic. #cats
And tabby and white cat curled up next to their human in a bed.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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#SundayPixPictures A set my father gave me when he was moving house.
A painting of a white cat talking into a gramophone. A painting of two ginger and white striped cats sitting together in front of a book. A painting of a ginger and brown striped cat lying on its back in a garden playing with a blue butterfly. A painting of a ginger and brown cat sitting in a garden surrounded by colourful flowers and bushes.
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM