We at #Fantasy-Faction have our first 5 cuts in #SPFBOXI #SPFBO
Thank you to the authors for submitting your books.

#self-published #indie #fantasy📚🪄🐉#booksky💙📚 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

👏👏👏 I've ALWAYS had trouble spelling necessarily and for some reason the simple word VISIT. For years when I was a typographer id always forget the second i and spell "vist" - constantly had the graphic artist make me reset the word 🤦🏼‍♀️🙈

Kiwi Cosy Mysteries cover image with silhouette of New Zealand and a selection of book cover designs.

Sleuths, scroll through for your next investigation… 🕵️🇳🇿

I've gathered together a few of my wonderful local cosy mystery author friends. But why? To shout about each others' books! To help our readers discover more delightful tales from our home in NZ! Also, why not!

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Love Naomia Kuttner's Assassin Guide books. Learnt heaps about native Orchids and the Pūriri Moth in the last book.

@drafoxter.bsky.social @helynalc.bsky.social

@kitvaria.bsky.social
@devildauta.bsky.social

Team Jake's Quarter Finalists for #SPSFC5 #SPSFC

#selfpublished #indie #scifi🚀🪐 #booksky💙📚
#pukapuka📚🇳🇿

A graphic showing seven book covers and the Team Space Girls and SPSFC logos on a starry background (a spiral galaxy imaged by JWST). The books are: - Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles - The Girl in the Tomb by Thomas Knapp - The Cataphract Oath by Marc Edmond Best - Our Simulated Selves by Nikki Null - The Quantum Entanglement by Aaron Benmark - Run Like Hell by Eira Brand - The Seeds of Dissolution by William C. Tracy

Team Space Girls of #SPSFC #SPSFC5 is announcing our Quarterfinalists!

Some really cool books in this first round. Congrats to these authors, and thank you to all authors for sharing their novels with us! #BookSky #scifi

YUM!! LOOKING FORWARD TO THEM 💚💚

Clockwork Orange

Culture ministry axes Gallipoli site

A penny-pinching decision to dump a Gallipoli website 'spits in the faces of these communities where our dead lie'

Bring back Tiriti-based, inclusive Relationships & Sexuality Education in schools The importance of effective violence prevention cannot be overstated: for example, around a third of women in Aotearoa NZ have experienced sexual violence [8] and many more experience non-sexual relat...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/br...

Save State Housing in Pōneke Wellington City Wellington City should be a place where everyone has a stable, healthy and suitable home whatever their income. A place where children can grow up together and where people can put down roots near the...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/sa...

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Prevent Discord from implementing ID verification

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A kākāpō egg being candled, showing development. Credit: Andrew Digby

A female kākāpō on a nest with two eggs. Credit: Andrew Digby

We found a 4th egg in #kakapo Waikawa's nest yesterday and found it was fertile. Waikawa has maintained her incredible 100% fertility record: 5 clutches of 4 fertile eggs in 4 breeding seasons. That's unmatched by any other kākāpō. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026.

THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW.

Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

Or in visual form - crimes against humans up

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

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2025 FFA AWARDS!
Sponsored by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social

The categories are:
Best Traditionally Published Novel of 2025
Best Self-Published Novel of 2025
Best Traditionally Published Debut Novel of 2025
Best Self-Published Debut Novel of 2025

TIME TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS!

Cartoon. Title: Man on a mission. Shane jones sits upon a heavy duty steamroller. Rolling over frogs, fish, birds - ripping up the countryside whilst shouting, "look at these elites! They don't care about the working man".

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Shane Jones & his portfolios of destruction.

He's been picking fights with people, groups & our environment.

Shane is only interested in Shane & the pursuit of money...

#Cartoon #ShaneJones #NzPol

Our Simulated Selves A mind-bending quantum thriller about simulated realiti…

Read Our Simulated Selves by Nikki Null as a judge in team #SpaceGirls for #SPSFC5
This is an unequivocal YES from me to move forward to be read by our whole team. I’ve completed it and you can read my review on Goodreads
#SPSFC #Self-publishedSci-fi #🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

In today’s NZ Herald

A graphic saying "Win me!" Showing the covet for A Good Day to Die by GR Matthews

You have no allies.
You are already bleeding, though you are not sure why.
Rawlins is nearby, and he is absolutely not here to help you.

To survive even ten minutes, you may take one completely ridiculous weapon.

Not useful.
Not sensible.
Just delightfully stupid.

Comment your answer to win this;

A graphic saying "Win Me!" And showing the covet for the audiobook omnibus of Corin Hayes by GR Matthews

The pressure is crushing.
Your suit is beeping in a way that feels personal.
Corin Hayes is present, grumpy, sarcastic, and already halfway through a drink.

You are offered one coping mechanism to get through the day.

Comment with your absurd coping mechanism to win a UK/US audible code!

A graphic saying "Win Me!" Showing the covet of The Silencing of the north by GR Matthews

Winter is coming.
The Empire is marching on the clans.
Everyone looks tired, armed, and deeply unimpressed by your existence.

You are offered one role to justify why you should not be immediately sent to die in the snow.

Comment your choice of role to win this!

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social is doing a giveaway on the amazing books by author G.R. Matthews @grmatthews.bsky.social as his sequel to Seven Deaths of Empire releases TOMORROW!! Be in to win these excellent books

#BookGiveaway #NewRelease #GRMatthews #Booksky💙📚 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

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Earth Sucks It’s the apocalypse. And Feng has a knack for pissing p…

I read Earth Sucks by Heather Chambers as a judge 4 team #SpaceGirls in #SPSFC5. Whilst it's a No to moving on, this was an enjoyable read, with some comic relief scattered throughout. I do recommend giving this book a read.
#SPSFC #Self-publishedSci-fi #Aliens #dystopia #Booksky💙📚🪐 #pukapuka📚🇳🇿