Water's Edge, part of the Disability Pride Bundle, was reviewed by the always fantastic @joharraharper.bsky.social!!!
Review:
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Bundle organized by @diannalgunn.bsky.social: itch.io/b/3198/disab...
#SPAAW #disabilitypride #booksky 📚💙
Well, my final day of Self-published Authors Appreciation Week didn't go as planned. An emergency popped up. However:
THANK YOU to the self-published who put so much of yourselves into sharing your stories. I'm in awe of all you accomplish.
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Still time to snag this bundle if you have not already!!! Support awesome authors who are part of the disabled community!! Read awesome books!
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#SPAAW #disabilitypride #booksky 📚💙
Last day but gotta mention a book I enjoyed.
Ierie by C.J. Sahadeo
It follows local folklore characters fighting to protect the land and its peoples from invaders that wish to steal it.
#SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek #SPAAW #selfpublishedauthors #indieauthors #blackbooksky 📚💙
Cover of comedy poetry book Sticky Ends by Carol Carman. A catalogue of misfortunes,mishaps and meeting the maker. Unlucky - and unlikely - demises from the fevered imagination of Carol Carman, illustrated by Jeremy Banx. Front Cover shows a graveyard. Foremost grave is large, has a bony hand sticking out from the ground clutching a bunch of fowers, and on the gravestone is written Sticky Ends. In the background is the rest of the graveyard, with a church at the back and trees to the left hand side. Also in the graveyard are a bride with a black armband holding a bouquet, and a Grim Reaper clutching a bottle. Across the top is the strapline '65% Victoria Wood, 25% John Cooper Clarke, 10% Joyce Grenfell'.
Back cover of comedy poetry book Sticky Ends by Carol Carman. It shows various illustrations including The God of Proper Spelling, ashopper clutching a flying stop sign, a Grim Reaper hugging a tree and a skeleton drinking booze from a bottle. Text is 'With comic poems featuring possessed gnashers, unstoppable shoppers, serial killer brides, crossword fanatics, telly addicts, a lonely school reunion, a bunch of drunks and the world’s worst outing to Blackpool, Carol Carman (with the help of award-winning cartoonist Banx) casts a wry, dry eye over the work of the Grim Reaper.' This is followed by the start of a poem: ‘Foolish Fred would bite his nails When he was alone; Then he bit his fingers Right down to the bone. Then he swallowed thumbs and palms Followed by his wrists and arms…’ Then in the bottom left is the text 'Sixteen poems. Seventy odd deaths. One funny book.'
For the last day of #SPAAW, here's what you can expect from my latest book, Sticky Ends. Yes, #comedy #poems about death, including one about death by fart. Sixteen poems, seventy odd deaths, one funny book. Wonderfully illustrated by the great @banxtoons.bsky.social
#comic #poetry #humour #humor
These are my final two picks for #SPAAW - two great anthologies with a ton of awesome authors contributing. :D
Banner for today's SPAAW spotlight. Includes the covers of the two anthologies Girls Of Might And Magic and From The Shadows.
With the Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week coming to an end and with today's category being Anthologies, Nils picked books created by two active and hard working groups of authors.
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I'm here with a guest post from author Peter Hartog (he's also written a delightful middle-grade fantasy under the name Peter David)! Here, he dives into Science Fantasy. Take a look!
#SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek #SPAAW #SuperSelfPublished #SuperSP #GuestAuthor @peterhartog.bsky.social
A spotlight banner image for Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week featuring the SPAAW logo and the book covers for Common Bonds and The Carnelian King and Other Stories.
It's the final day for Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week and we're shining a spotlight on anthologies and/or story collections! Here are Tru's picks:
www.readindiefantasy.com/self-publish...
#SPAAW #SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek
@wsbookclub.bsky.social One for your self pub promo
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Covers for short stories: Planetary Sentinels, Revenge Denied, Secret Tech
My self-published short stories can be found at:
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Self-Published Author Appreciation Week '25 Banner. Banner has a gray bird on a black disk. Around the disk are the words, 'Self Published Authors Appreciation Week.' In the top left corner, it says, 'July 21-27, 2025.' In the bottom right corner it says, '#SPAAW'
Looking Back at a Week of Spreading the Self-Pub Love #SPAAW #selfpublishedauthorsappreciationweek #SuperSelfPublished #SuperSP
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Today we're highlighting short stories and their writers for Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week! A format everyone should read more of. Here are Nils' picks:
www.readindiefantasy.com/self-publish...
#SPAAW #SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek
An image of 2 people and text that says 'Therapist: So you say you can't sleep because the book is too good? Me: Yes. Therapist: Have you tried stopping after you finish a chapter? Me: I don't understand. Goodwill Librarian'
Saturday Miscellany—7/26/25: #SPAAW '25; The Civic/Cultural Role of Indie Bookstores; Profound SF/F Quotations, Some (self-pub!) New Releases and a wee bit more!
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So excited to have Water's Edge be part of the Disability Pride bundles organized by @diannalgunn.bsky.social!!!
2 books bundles- 20 books for $30 each & each creator has set their revenue share to 0%!!!
itch.io/b/3198/disab...
#disabilitypride #BookSky 📚💙 #SPAAW
For self published author appreciation week and disability pride month I had a look at @nataliekelda.bsky.social 's sapphic romance 😊
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#SPAAW #booksky #disablitypride
I told the stories in Shadows & Sorcery that we're near the end of #SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek #SPAAW and they only got one new free sub, and well, snakes are manifesting in my house physically. Anyone up for some free dark fantasy flash fiction?
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
I'm happy to have had the chance to interview Seán Hill! Come read his thoughts on flash fiction and self-publishing.
@wizardhill.bsky.social #selfpublishedbooks #SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek #SPAAW #SuperSelfPublished #SuperSP
Image of a book, The Backwards Knight, in a crumbling ruins, with a backdrop of shadowy tentacles, and eight arrows pointing to words that read: Stabby princess, a sword of nothing, potatoes, tainted magic, knight in not-so-shiny armor, farmboy with magic, Beware..., Crumbling ruins.
We are days away from releasing The Backwards Knight. Since I have copies on hand, I am going to start fulfilling preorders *EARLY*.
We're close to the next milestone!
If a fantasy novel with an eldritch twist interests you? Look no further.
backwardsknight.bigcartel.com
#BookSky #SPAAW
A spotlight banner image for Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week featuring the SPAAW logo and the book covers for Elior and Forever Night.
Today we're shining a spotlight on short stories for Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week! A much under-appreciated format in our opinion! Here are Tru's picks:
www.readindiefantasy.com/self-publish...
#SPAAW #SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek
Here's a truly lovely review of Majordomo, just out today. Having missed the cut on a fairly big contest earlier in the week, this was the perfect counterweight. Thanks @wsbookclub.bsky.social
#SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek #SPAAW #SuperSelfPublished #SuperSP #BookReview
Self-Published Author Appreciation Week '25 Banner. Banner has a gray bird on a black disk. Around the disk are the words, 'Self Published Authors Appreciation Week.' In the top left corner, it says, 'July 21-27, 2025.' In the bottom right corner it says, '#SPAAW'
The Irresponsible Reader On...Self-Published Crime Fiction #SPAAW #selfpublishedauthorsappreciationweek #SuperSelfPublished #SuperSP
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Book cover: A man drawing a sword emerges from a cloud of smoke. Text reads: Nothing Good to Say, A Warrior's Guild story, E.H. Timms
6. Nothing Good to Say
A standalone tale in the Guildverse setting
Cuss is a grumpy, aroace, Guild Warrior. No-one has anything good to say about him, but when raiders are discovered planning to capture the young guild trainees, it's Cuss who fights them off - alone.
#SPAAW 📚💙
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Book cover: horses race through pools of water under a stormy sky. Text reads: Birthday Landscapes, A Warrior's Guild story, E.H. Timms
5. Birthday Landscapes
Set several years after Testing Grounds
Cavallan arrives home on leave in time to celebrate his twin kids' birthday with magical (illusion) landscapes
#SPAAW 📚💙
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Book cover: a figure in full plate armour and a sword slung across their back kneels facing left. Text reads: Testing Grounds, A Warrior's Guild Novella, E.H. Timms
Testing Grounds sees him tested to his limits in a week long exam to determine his ranking within the Guild, alongside many guild trainees
Features
Mild identity porn
Aromantic rep
Disabilty rep
#SPAAW 📚💙
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4. Testing Grounds
The Guildverse books are high fantasy, set in a world where the Guilds of different professions have power alongside kings and knights.
MC Cavallan (aka Dog, aka Val) is a warrior-mage and member of the Warrior's Guild
#SPAAW 📚💙
Book cover: A girl with a green umbrella walks down a leafy lane towards a lit doorway. Text reads: A Love Less Travelled By, A Craftsman's Tale, E.H. Timms
3. A Love Less Travelled By
Another Olson College tale, this time involving 2 of the professors who adopt a pair of star-crossed trans lovers.
Established qpp with flashbacks to how it began
Disabled main character
#SPAAW 📚💙
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Book cover: A man and a woman face off across a lake of mist. Text reads: Create My Own Perfection, A Medusa's Tale, E.H. Timms
Emma Stone is the groundskeeper for the college. When her best friend comes to her with a problem, Emma throws herself into finding a solution
Features:
Monster friendship
Ride or Die friendship
Turning self-centered fools into (temp) statues
#SPAAW 📚💙
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2. Create My Own Perfection
It's not every day you get to put the fear of Medusa into a god
(but that's what the MC manages)
Set at Olson College, a place where the magical and mythical come to learn alongside everyone else, CMOP is an aroace retelling of Medusa
#SPAAW 📚💙
