All good things must come to an end! For years we’ve been sharing our favorite indie authors with our subscribers, but unfortunately we have just sent out our very last boxes. It’s been an honor to be part of this wonderful community. 🧵1

I might be a dog because I was entirely distracted by a squirrel for a full 45 minutes today.

How did I miss that Duran Duran were still around and putting out the occasional banger?

I mean, fuck AI obviously, but I do find multi-pens really handy for editing writing. Green = Remember this Blue = Change this but dunno how yet Red = Typo! Black = Other shit

More people are reading book 2 than book 1 right now. That's heartening to see. Must have done something right!

⭐2025 READS THREAD⭐ Saw more people doing it, and I think it's a good idea. Anyways, I try to keep my GR updated, and also I will keep the monthly recaps.

Merry Christmas all. Nice to have such a supportive family!

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Proud to help with the cover reveal of When Darkness Blinds, book 2 in Lindy Enns Shadows of the Vale series. Coming Jan 19th '26 As an expert on books with the word "Shadow" in the title, I can heartily recommend the first entry too! Check out her site for more info t.co/K5XocH0lhc

My wife’s favorite book is Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and for her birthday this year I made her a Gideon custom figure and diorama #thelockedtomb

No, actually, kindle. I'm mainly thinking about the next one.

This free promotion has gone really well. Over 1000 books given away and they've hit the top of some of the free categories. Thank you to everyone who has taken part! Also, it will never not be hilarious to me that Amazon's algorithm decides Troupe of Shadows belongs in "sibling fiction." IYKYK.

My fantasy series Strange Frontier is free this weekend to celebrate the release of the second entry. Until midnight monday, grab a copy of either or both and it's yours forever. Book 1: geni.us/TroupeOfShad... Book 2: geni.us/TheaterOfBla... #BookSky #fantasy #free #indie #amwriting

A link to the Scrivener article, since the one going around is a screenshot, doesn't have the actual link, AND no alt-text, making it useless. Please share this. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...

Manuscript is locked in. ARCs have been sent. Locking in the release date of Strange Frontier Book 2: Theater of Blades for November 19th. The weekend after, I'll be doing a free book promo for this and book 1. If you're interested, watch this space! #fantasy #selfpub #booksky

Yeah anyway. Book is done. ARCs are going out. If you'd like a free copy in exchange for an honest review give me a nudge!

WHY DOES IT TAKE FIVE FUCKING SECONDS TO SWAP BETWEEN CHAPTERS IN ATTICUS OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD!

I accidentally rhyme a lot.

It's that time again.

have they read so little & thought with such shallowness that they think the purpose of human life is "be a valuable cog in the productivity machine of your country, purchase an acceptable home, keep it filled with the usual items, consume media but don't get any ideas, raise your replacements"?

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We're doing a fun event in November! This is also my first appearance as part of Read Indie Fantasy crew. I've been helping behind the scenes and will continue to do so. Tru and Nils are still very much at the helm.

Hey, I write dark fantasy/horror/etc. Come check out Cold West. You mostly won't regret it. www.amazon.com/Cold-West-Cl...

🌳Hey hey, cover reveal number 2 #booksky!🌳 Copper Skin, Oaken Lungs by @adamcbassett.com, a post apocalyptic fantasy novella Check it out! willowwraithpress.com/2025/10/01/c...

The Devils is ONE POUND on kindle right now. I'm cutting my own throat over here. www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-bigge...

Beyond The Onion levels of farce lol

A bingo-type readathon for #SpooktasticReads2025? Sign me up! Organised by the lovely ladies of @wyrdandwonder.bsky.social. Today I share my board and the books I've picked, and keep my fingers crossed, LOL. Come and join us! queensbookasylum.com/2025/09/30/s...

I've been a programmer for 12 years. LLMs are crap at everything except writing snippets you could just copy from some website. Highly debatable whether they're quicker or better. Very occasionally some niche problem occurs that they can solve, but it's more "oh neat," than "omg revolutionary."

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 tonight and it fucking wrecked me.

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

This event was how I and a lot of other self publishers got started. It's such a fun and helpful piece of the writing community. Go check out some of the books!

A huge thank you to everyone that helped with my cover reveal yesterday. Your support really means a lot! I have also have a longer post thingy on my website that goes into more detail about the book and the cover: jzabrinsky.co.uk/2025/09/19/r...

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I hope you are not sick of #CoverReveals yet, because we have another one for you! This time, for @jzabrinsky.bsky.social's upcoming new fantasy novel, THEATER OF BLADES, the second book in the Strange Frontier series! The expected publication is November 2025. queensbookasylum.com/2025/09/19/c...

It's my pleasure to help reveal the cover of Theater of Shadows, second book in the Strange Frontier series, written by @jzabrinsky.bsky.social. Release date: November 2025 Cover by John Love. Full info + ARC: jamreads.com/reveals/cove... 💙📚

I'm back with more cover reveals! Check out Theater of Dreams, the sequel in the Strange Frontiers series by @jzabrinsky.bsky.social ! www.narratess.com/books/cover-... 💙📚

⚔️ COVER REVEAL! ⚔️ On behalf of the SFFInsiders, super excited to present the poppin' cover for THEATRE OF BLADES (Strange Frontier Book 2) by @jzabrinsky.bsky.social! Not only does the cover SLAP, but the blurb sounds SOOO GOOD! 👀🔥 Releasing: - NOV '25 All info on the SFFI blog 🔗 👇

I need to sneak this into my parent's country music playlist.

One last blast for a book that is nearly not a new release - that's alliterative #SciFi, folks! It's SAS Rogue Heroes x Band of Brothers, in space! #books #space #BookSky #military #action

I forgot to update my prices on Amazon since the last sale so if you're quick you can still get these for 99 cents. Tales of Lunis Aquaria: books2read.com/talesoflunisaquaria Undine's Blessing: books2read.com/undinesblessing

Possibly the most boring post on bluesky, but I learned something new today—I've been using em dashes wrong my entire life and no on has pointed it out. I thought when you used them like a colon, you were supposed to do it like this— with a space on one side. But apparently it's this—with no space.

If you want to protect vulnerable young people then banning AI chatbots and making sure they have access to mental health services is much more important than invasive age verification barriers (which teens can easily bypass anyway)

I can't recommend this video enough. Spoilers: It's about the genocide in Gaza. But it's also about the wider context, about how the western world is corrupting itself into something very twisted and dark and the powerful want to destroy our basic humanity to remold us into heartless drones.

$483k!! Can we get to half a million for PCRF?

Today is the last day of the Narratess Indie Sale! Grab one of the 300+ amazing books before the price goes back to normal! indiebook.sale 💙📚⚔️📚🩸📚🌈📚

The Narratess Indie Sale is live! Grab 320+ fantasy, science-fiction, and horror books for less than $2! indiebook.sale

The Narratess Indie Book Sale is almost upon us! If I pick up enough 99 cent ebooks, it'll fix me, right? Right..? ANYWAY head over to indiebook.sale August 23-25 to snag books for $1.99 or less. It's the perfect time to grab Coal Gets In Your Veins before the sequel comes out 👀

The Narratess Indie Sale is almost here again! For one weekend, you can get a whole heap of cool indie books at large discounts or even for free. Check it out at indiebook.sale starting this Saturday! #horrorlit #scifi #fantasy 🌈📚💙

Three types of #fantasy reader react to: "The barkeep was eating an orange." A) This is a mistake because the climate of winterland does not support oranges. B) This is subtle ambient world building to establish winterland trades with citrustown. This will be important. C) I want an orange.