Preview the @darkhorse.com's One-Shot Issue of HELLBOY IN LOVE: Black Eyes #1 by @mikemignola.bsky.social, @cgolden.bsky.social, @alexnieto-art.bsky.social & Clem Robins #NCBD #HellboyinLove #BlackEyes #DarkHorseComics
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Gearing up for a busy weekend!
FREE online writing workshop on Saturday 25th April - more info: elspells.com/2026/01/04/e...
Bournemouth Writing Festival session: The Writer's Obstacle Course on Sun 26th April - book here: www.pdsw.org.uk/book/instanc...
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I can’t afford an author website so I have this free widget instead:
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I’m working on a Bildungsroman set in Nazi Germany.
After that I’ll be writing a thriller about the serial killer Peter Kurten.
On 29 June I’ll be part of an author panel at Middlesbrough library.
Water's Edge cover: photo of a dark lake at night Water's Edge in light blue Uncanny Encounters in white Ellie Lieberman in light blue in a glitchy font Arrows around cover reads: Ghost Stories Urban Legend with a creepy rhyme Friendships Comfort food Halloween Riddled with references Women sleuths
Midnight on Halloween, supernatural investigative reporter, Gretchen Mallory Belle receives a phone call that sends her chasing the urban legend of her hometown.
Amazon: www.amazon.com/Waters-Edge-...
Itch: ellielieberman.itch.io/waters-edge
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/s/19a0c20d1a
Hello! I'm Lou, currently editing my romance-with-a-speculative-twist novel, For All This Time (out 2027 from Penguin Michael Joseph). I'll be at Llandeilo LitFest this Sunday on a panel about the Fight Like A Girl #2 anthology I have a story in
www.llandeilolitfest.org/programme/23...
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Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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Hi there, last year I released my debut novel Whispers of Static, a sci-fi detective adventure set in a neon feudalistic future.
Currently I'm working on my next book, the first of a 4 book series that mixes urban fantasy and time travel.
The cover of a book written by Connla Stokes called Falling for Saigon — a collection of essays about moving to, and falling for, Ho Chi Minh City.
Nice one. Here’s my intro: I’m an Irish writer based in Vietnam. I have a collection of essays called ‘Falling for Saigon’ about moving to (and falling for) Ho Chi Minh City.
And I write regular long reads that dig into the history of Saigon (HCMC) and the food culture of Hanoi:
connla.substack.com
Officially launched my first novel not written under a pen name last week so I can finally comment on one of these! I write the kind of books I want to read which means character driven, low-angst stories that work out in the end (one way or another).
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Hello BBB. I have again shared some thoughts on here about the lessons writers working in English can learn from poetry in other languages. Here are my thoughts on the great symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé 👇
The front and back covers of Odyssey of the Twins, a novel by Troy Preston Dillon. The front cover depicts brothers Loran and Jerin, and Loran has his arm around his brother. In the background is a wooded area, with a floating city high above in the sky.
Hello there. I recently released my debut novel, Odyssey of the Twins, and I'm in the process of writing book two. I'm pretty excited with the progress! I love to write, and hope to make a career of it.
Here's my author's page, which also has links to the book:
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A redheaded woman in a white dress walking through a forest, book cover.
Hi Stephen, thank you as always for your support for the community.
Your post is a great place for a cover reveal:
The Revenge Of Saint Vitalis & Other Stories - June 2026
A dark & spicy short story collection, inc. paranormal, fantasy and sci-fi.
#book #booksky #readresky #paranormal
I’m spending time today at a local library. Nothing formal, just spending the day writing and chatting to customers about my work. Done it before and it is always rewarding and fun.
Polishing up draft #5 (please be the last) before the novel is finally ready to go for agent queries... and to then be rejected into oblivion. Kidding. Maybe. I dunno.
A sketch of a small pile of books with the words “Meet the Author” superimposed
Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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Image with purple background with criss-cross designs, the New Visions Award seal, and the words "New Visions Awards Open for Submissions! This writing contest is open to unpublished writers of color or Native/Indigenous writers for a middle grade, young adult, or graphic novel manuscript Enter by June 30, 2026" above book covers of Ahimsa, Rebel Seoul, Boys of the Beast, Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key, and Twin Flames.
📢Calling all aspiring authors: our New Visions Award is open for submissions! Lee & Low Books is looking for unpublished authors of color or Native/Indigenous writers hoping to break into the publishing industry with their middle grade, young adult, or graphic novel manuscript.
Motteux, Léo Schilling, Joseph Laredo. Magnetic Press (224p) ISBN: 9781962413572. Graphic Novel, read 20/04/26, ebook ★★★★☆ Once more it was the beautiful cover art that drew me to this immediately,...
Striking Purple and read background, with a gnarled old tree with flashes bursting from the leaves. The artist must have been on some sort of alternative medication, but I have never asked him! Shoreline of Infinity's Event Horizon rides to Dundee with Gavin Cameron (poet) Rafael Torrubia (prose) Erin Farley (storyteller) Ash Alexander (another local poet) and featuring T L Huchu (prose) Hosted by MK Hardy 7.30pm-9pm 23rd April 2026 Stenecki Coffee 18a Exchange St Dundee DD1 3DL Tickets £5/£0 - www.shorelineoflnfinity.com
Thursday night in Dundee! Shoreline of Infinity's Event Horizon for a *GREAT* night of fantastical readings, poetry and storytelling
with
Gavin Cameron
Rafael Torrubia
Erin Farley
Ash Alexander
T L Huchu
Hosted by MK Hardy
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Bay Area friends! I'll be at SF in SF on Sunday!
and it's a hell I'd share!
read 42 of 2026, Hana and Taru by Motteux, Léo Schilling, Joseph Laredo
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So well deserved, one of my favourite comics ever, the use of blank space is masterful and the condensing of the story elegantly done
Just saw a couple of hares bezzing around a field, they’re much bigger than you think
A book cover depicting an old house and black/dying flowers beneath that. The title is Temple Fall. By R.L.Boyle.
Better late than never.
I've just started Temple Fall by R. L. Boyle.
A big ol' trade paperback cover of an Element Books book by Nigel Pennick, _The Complete Illustrated Guide to Runes_. It's a mostly red cover, with a darker red frame around the red main field, and thin light red lines framing that inner area and providing some sort of graphic element dividing the various words on the cover, of which there's the title, with the word "RUNES" between two of those graphic element lines, and the author's name at the bottom, and just above that (still towards the bottom) is the subtitle of the work: "How to Interpret the Ancient Wisdom of the Runes", and then in the center of the field (there's other pictures strewn across the cover in Photoshop or whatever cover-generator program they use at Element Books, which … ahem … 'elements' we'll be getting to in just a second) are words which are gonna turn out to be powerful runes and I guess just putting them on the cover brings up powerful magic and like that, and those words or rune names are: "Fehu" & "Uruz" & "Raidho" & "Gebo" & "Wunjo" & "Hagalaz" & "Thurisaz" & "Eihwaz" & "Jera" & "Sowulo" & "Ansuz" & "Isa". Whew! (And whynot you try typing those out with spell-check constantly trying to 'correct' you?) And then there's the pictures, which are beaten metal artifacts tending to prove the ancientness of this 'wisdom', and some stones with runes on them (I'm not gonna list them all out) (such stones are available wherever books of ancient wisdom are sold), and a carved stone figure of an armored man on horseback (it's cute!), and, at the bottom right corner, a stone with carved markings on it (the markings highlighted in more red so you can see clearly the picture (again a guy on a horse) and some runes carved above it. Oh, I forgot a metal thingie with runes on it. Ah, me
Finished the Shirer yesterday, and am cleansing my palate (so to speak) with an air-filled piece of piffle, Nigel Pennick's _The Complete Illustrated Guide to Runes_. (Though I did enjoy his _Sacred Geometry_, this is much more the 'DK Guide' to runes and rune 'magic'.)
"The Testaments" by Margaret Atwood
Audiobook
The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear. Cover is of a space station to the lower right, space suited person central-ish with a white space hole behind them all framed by black deep space.
The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social
Cover of After That Night showing a person in boots standing in a blue puddle, their reflection visible; dark, moody thriller design.
Been working my way through Will Trent series. Right now I’m reading this one.
If I’d designed this cover, I’d have given her reflection in the water only one shoe.
