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Seraph, Purveyor of Nightmares
@seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
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🇧🇩Dark Spec-fic writer, Artist, They/she, ace, spoonie, ND
Astrophysicist & Programmer
I drink coffee and write fever dreams
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Seraph, Purveyor of Nightmares @seraph-i-renn.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hello #writingcommunity #booksky! Had a ton of new followers so time for a new intro!

I'm Seraph and I'm a dark fantasy writer on sub with my nightmare magic book, OF DREAMS AND DESPAIR. Follow me for writing memes, random WIP excerpts, 1am hot takes, some art, and a wildly erratic posting schedule
Trope map with book title "Of Dreams and Despair" in center in stylized light blue text over a cloud of blue and purple sparkles. Around the title are curved white arrows pointing inward, labeled with elements of the book. Listed are slow burn asexual villain romance, bengali rep, deception and betrayal, overcaffeinated astrophysics major, "oops I caused the apocalypse", unsugarcoated mental health talk, parallel redemption/corruption, everyone is UNHINGED, Astral projection and lucid dreaming, enemies to forced allies to ??, evil nightmare eating dream lord, ominous cracks in reality
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kwcollins.bsky.social
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
SO EXCITED TO HAVE GOTTEN AN ARC OF @cclim.bsky.social's THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT
It's a near-future eco-apocalypse book about genetically engineered ocean people which is just ✨️Everything✨️
An Advanced Reading Copy of The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage
March 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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millieabecassis.com
Today is the day! DAUGHTERS OF THE BLUE MOON is out and available everywhere books are sold.

Get your copy now: millieabecassis.com/buy-daughter...
A visual of the book in paperback and ebook, over a background of a forest. The text reads "out today, order your copy now!"
February 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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millieabecassis.com
#BookSky Did you know that women are still underrepresented in the horror genre? Time to read more horror books by female authors!

In honor of International Women's Day, books by female authors are 25% off on @tonyanuci.bsky.social's store this weekend. Get my book and many other gems!
A visual showing 4 books: 1) DAUGHTERS OF THE BLUE MOON by Millie Abecassis 2) BEACH VIBES by Madison McSweeney 3) DARK DESCENDANTS by Stacey L. Pierson 4) THROUGH THE BLUR by Yolanda Sfetsos
March 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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tavyliasin.bsky.social
I'm hoping to maybe put some of my silly fun art up on VGen for a few pennies now and then, but I will need a little help to do it 🥺
This post - with my dreadfully cursed but fun samples - will need 20 Reposts and 100 likes minimum for the #VGenCode
vgen.co/TavyliaSin
Speedpaints in the replies~
A stylised 2D head only portrait of Hag Ethel from Baldur's Gate 3, on a purple gradient background with the artist's name in the bottom right in infernal font (Tavylia Sin) A 2D art piece of Volothamp Geddarm wearing his usual blue hat and Mystra's black and gold dress with thigh high stockings. He's standing bent slightly forwards with one hand on his hip and the other over his mouth in a cheeky and provocative pose. The background is a purple-pale yellow gradient with a beam of light effect and a thin border frame. The artist has signed Tavylia Sin in the lower right using the infernal font. A 2D art piece of He Who Was from Baldur's Gate 3 designed as a plastic minifigure toy style. He is on a dark black and blue gradient background. The artist has signed Tavylia Sin in the lower right using the infernal font. A 2D lineart image of Sovereign Spaw's head with the word Sovereign beneath in cursive handwriting and a simple geometric pattern above. The background is black and all the lines are highlighted in a bright rainbow gradient with red on the left and violet on the far right. The spots on the myconid's mushroom parts are coloured in a faded gradient going the opposite direction (red on the right, violet left).
February 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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danidonovan.com
therapist: and what do we do when we’re feeling stressed?

me: stop making plans, avoid text messages, and accidentally alienate myself from all of my friends

therapist: no
February 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
The way my migraines decided to slam me on my ass at just under 100k on my WIP is NOT FAIR
February 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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antoinettev.bsky.social
Contract signed! Excited to share that my new afrosurreal short story ‘The Astral Dream of Passage’ about a oarswoman, astral lutanist, and nobleman together on a desert boat will be published in the 6th issue of @innerworlds.bsky.social

☁️ 🛶 ✨
February 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
I AM LITERALLY INCAPABLE OF EXPRESSING HOW EXCITED AND PROUD I AM
wordsbychloe.bsky.social Chloe | Writer, Journalist ✨✒️ @wordsbychloe.bsky.social · Feb 14
✨NEWS✨

I'm SO excited to announce that I'm now represented by Maria Whelan of Inkwell Management!! I was beyond blown away by Maria's vision for my weird, gothic ode to libraries, ill-fated love, disability & sapphic women & I can't wait to see what this next chapter holds 📚🥀
Two photos of a typewriter and a red rose with a graphic of a white piece of paper reading: Now represented by Maria Whelan of Inkwell Management. For the Library of Lost Shadows by Chloe Johnson moodboard of LibraryBook themed pictures such as a Spotify image of The Prophecy, a picture of big Ben, historical paintings, a circus ticket, champagne, paints brown eyes, books, and statues
February 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
Somehow, immediately after posting this I got two new pro AI followers 🤷‍♂️
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social Seraph, Purveyor of Nightmares @seraph-i-renn.bsky.social · Feb 9
Hi hello, apparently I need to say this but if you are "pro AI" or think using AI to "crank out books" is good and okay, please unfollow me, block me, etc
February 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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antoinettev.bsky.social
Story acceptance announcement!

My flash fiction about meteorite hunter clans who scavenge beneath a cosmic desert has found its home with LAWLESS, Myriad 🪨 🪐 ⚔️

Keep your eyes open for We The Deep next week!
@hexagonmagazine.bsky.social @rhinobeetl.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
Hi hello, apparently I need to say this but if you are "pro AI" or think using AI to "crank out books" is good and okay, please unfollow me, block me, etc
February 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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millieabecassis.com
Hey California friends, I will be at Beyond Text in Los Gatos on March 9th at 1 pm to celebrate the release of my debut novella!

More info and RSVP at millieatbeyondtext.rsvpify.com

#BookSky #Fantasy #BayArea #Debut
A visual advertising the event with a picture of Millie and of the book.
February 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
So i stopped updating daily word counts bc it was stressing me out but I crossed 90k om AlchemyWIP yesterday THE END IS SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social Seraph, Purveyor of Nightmares @seraph-i-renn.bsky.social · Jan 1
Hi hello for 2025 I will attempt to write everyday and this is my accountability thread! No word goals, just going to write a little each day even if its just one sentence
February 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
I think people tend to forget that the reason AI writes a way it does is because it was trained on actual people who write like that. A lot of actual people.
hannahfergesen.bsky.social Hannah Fergesen @hannahfergesen.bsky.social · Feb 9
If AI is using em dashes excessively it’s because the **human writers** whose work they stole like em dashes. This is just stupid.
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Feb 9
Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.
February 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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cclim.bsky.social
Friends, my book is coming out this spring!

Originally pitched as FRANKENSTEIN x THE LITTLE MERMAID, it’s about two disgraced genetic engineers who are hired by a mysterious billionaire to alter humans to live on the ocean floor and escape eco-catastrophe on land.

Can’t wait to share it with you!
Red and pink tentacles on a midnight blue background with “The Midnight Project - Christy Climenhage”
February 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
In case anyone needed to feel the crushing weight of time today, 2060 is the same number of years away as 1990.
February 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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mariettav.bsky.social
I’m excited to introduce the AGENT’S GUIDE to

Dandelions Don’t Die, a YA speculative romance with horror elements.

#litagents, if ghosts, slow burn romance and a curse that breaks hearts sound like a good fit, leave a 💔
#agentsguide #amquerying #YA
Background: An eerie image of an old tombstone, which is slightly tilted and taken over by nature. Text: An agent’s guide to Dandelions Don’t Die, YA speculative romance with horror elements, 82K words Background: An eerie image of an old tombstone, which is slightly tilted and taken over by nature. Text: Pitch: 16-year-old Stella is cursed to die if someone breaks her heart. Forced to take a summer job at an abandoned cemetery with the one boy she can’t afford to fall for, she must fight against her growing feelings or risk an eternity as a ghost. Background: An eerie image of an old tombstone, which is slightly tilted and taken over by nature. Five book covers and text attached to them with curving arrows: Practical Magic - Subtle magic The Wicked Deep - Dual ghost timeline House of Hollow - Atmospheric horror For the fans of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch Background: An eerie image of an old tombstone, which is slightly tilted and taken over by nature. Text: Dandelions Don’t Die has: Ghosts Sisters Generational curse Complicated family dynamics Diary entries from the past Loneliness Forced proximity Angsty slow burn He falls first She saves him
January 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
It finally happened. I got a query rejection a year after signing with an agent. I feel like I've had a publishing rite of passage 😂
January 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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kadoore.com
"Sometimes being a writer means crafting elaborate metaphors that lose their internal logic halfway through."
oh no you're not supposed to point that out 🤣
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jan 21
"Before you can write professionally, you must first learn the rules so that you can break the rules, then fix the rules, then send an invoice to the rules for the repair costs."
How to Become a Professional Writer
Do you enjoy writing? Do you like the idea of taking the thing you love doing the most in the world and turning it into work? So that your access t...
buff.ly
January 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing: a reminder to US friends that you can get free audiobooks through your local library on the Libby app and it's the best thing ever
January 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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wordsbychloe.bsky.social
my birthday may have been yesterday but today...is a good day 🥰👁️
January 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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taylorlgrothe.bsky.social
Hello hello! This is your periodic reminder that I wrote a book that's coming out THIS YEAR (ahhh!) and you can add it on goodreads!

Hollow is a YA horror novel about an autistic teen who gets lost in a terrifying forest, and ends up in an off-the-grid compound 👀

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Hollow
HOLLOW, coming from Peachtree Teen in Fall 2025, is a Y…
www.goodreads.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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taylorlgrothe.bsky.social
My next book is up on GR!!

A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE x THE WITCHER in this YA horror fantasy 🥰 a girl with migraines falls through an aura and into an autumnal Otherworld, and falls even harder for the sharp-edged girl who protects her—even as a cult with designs for war wraps them in its clutches.
Of Auras and Shadows
The romance of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE meets the horro…
www.goodreads.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
seraph-i-renn.bsky.social
ADHDers, today it finally happened. I did not procrastinate or get distracted from a task I thought would take 5 minutes...and it took half an hour
January 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM