Memory or romance (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson The flower appeared at the same place on the same day every year. Me and my mates guessed it was a memory… ah… memorial thing, you know, where people leave a flower after someone dies. Made us wonder what happened, you know? Like…

Book spotlights - all non-fiction The Stalagmite Effect by Debbie O'Shea Billion Dollar Blindspot by Hacia Atherton Banishing Back Pain by Valentyna Solowij #booksky #podcasts #bookstoread #ReadMoreAussieBooks #AusWrites #nonfiction

Like to listen to bookish and life inspiration while you work or play? Put on the latest episode of ABL. The Writer's Room has 3 fantastic authors with brilliant messages to share. #booksky #podcasts #bookstoread #ReadMoreAussieBoos #AusWrites #nonfiction www.buzzsprout.com/1718602/episodes/19423049

You can watch the latest ABL Writer's Room podcast episode on YouTube. #booksky #podcasts #bookstoread #ReadMoreAussieBoos #AusWrites youtu.be/UE0X4XctIYg

Ep173 @veronicastrachan.bsky.social & @writerlauriebell.bsky.social dive into non-fiction writing with Debbie O'Shea, Hacia Atherton & Valentyna Solowij, on their writing inspiration, incredible experiences & generously sharing life changing messages through books. #ReadMoreAussieBooks #BookSky

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The Prophet (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields The horizon was lined with mountains. Blue sky, white fluffy clouds. The giant hand that reached above the mountain and came down with a thud sent their car swerving across the highway, the ground trembling, ripping apart,…

An Ordinary Day (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © C. E. Ayr It was an ordinary day. As ordinary days go. Sunshine, a slight breeze, light, laughter, families picnicking, children playing in the local park. Ordinary. Until a darkening cloud appeared. A beam of light shone down, spearing into the…

Review: Forever & Ever by Allanah Hunt About the Book A gritty, fresh Australian story with a Romeo and Juliet themed love story at its centre, from the inaugural Indigenous Writers Mentorship recipient. Talia is sixteen, pregnant and angry. Her family is broken. She's looking after her unwell…

Tonight it will be the next three eps of The legend of Vox Machina season 4... F@!# S#*! Up 🤣

Editing WF2 Getting closer #writersky Read book one before book 2 gets here

Fucking Google just emailed about a new feature that people who publish on Play are automatically opted into. It's called Book Insights. You already know where this shit is going, right? Key point: "The feature uses AI to generate answers about the book." FUCK OFF! You can turn it off... 1/3

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My collection WHO WILL YOU SAVE? is a finalist for the British Fantasy Award, and earlier this year it was also a finalist for the British Science Fiction Association Award. Available from @titanbooks.bsky.social and all good book vendors. Links in bio.

It never really went away, but HIDDEN CITY is back in a new edition and I would love it if you gave it a go or helped me spread the word! You can learn all about it here: alanbaxter.com.au/hidden-city-... Thanks!

Ep172 @veronicastrachan.bsky.social & @writerlauriebell.bsky.social talk books & writing from opposite sides of the country. Plus news, WA writers resources, Public and Educational Lending Rights. Laurie has a wonderful chat with poet @shannonjade.bsky.social #ReadMoreAussisBooks #Booksky #podcasts

Missing (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © James Pyles Stomping along the alley, with hands in pockets, despite it being midday and no one around, she felt eyes on her back, watching her. She didn’t stop. Didn’t look around. She passed graffiti lined brick walls, feeling hemmed in. Just get to…

Review: It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey About the Book: Callum, Melusine and Al play in a band with no name, baffling audiences in terrible pubs across the northeast of England with their 'sound'. Their songs tell the stories of the Solkats: fictional northern gods of small things, of mishap and…

A couple of people aren't doing so well atm. Hopefully they know I'm here for them. ❤️

All three volumes of Tales From The Gulp are available now. Fifteen tales of horror, each a self-contained story, but all fifteen a part of something far bigger. Something cosmic. Isn't it time you visited the strange and creepy Australian harbour town of Gulpepper? #WelcomeToTheGulp

Oooooo White Fire Book 2 getting closer... good feedback so far #booksky #whitefire #sff

Respite (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Lily Sitting side by side. This is the life. I love visiting this planet. No cities. No cars. No ships. No roads. No people. No war. No fighting. No death. Just peace. My mother and I bring out our chairs and just sit. And watch. It’s a world away from…

A new way to travel (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Lori Wilson This new way of traveling was wild. BubbleBalloonTravelTM At first, we laughed… no way would it take off. We underestimated the ease of use. Floating above deadlocked traffic in individual bubbles — no need to share your space…

Games with the kid (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox For crying out loud. The kid got into his alien technology drawer again. This time he’s shrunk the car. He’d had to find the little man before the media caught wind. He shouldn’t even have them here at home. They should be locked in…

The two best things for an author is you telling them that you love their work and you telling others that you love their work. It's something that never gets old and is always a boost, both for the author's mental health and their actual career. So never think they won't want to hear it.

Games with the kid (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox For crying out loud. The kid got into his alien technology drawer again. This time he’s shrunk the car. He’d had to find the little man before the media caught wind. He shouldn’t even have them here at home. They should be locked in…

Review: Red Star Rebels by Amie Kaufman About the Book: Eight hours to stop an explosion ...Eight hours to fall in love. It's 2067, and the Graves family has transformed Mars from a lifeless rock into a chaotic patchwork of settlements. You can buy a one-way ticket to a new life - if you're rich.…

Ep#171 @veronicastrachan.bsky.social & @writerlauriebell.bsky.social with industry news, events, MS assessment pros & cons, SCIFI writing. Fabulous @amiekaufman.bsky.social about Red Star Rebels, her writing day, her dissertation, writing podcasts, thoughts on how we should go to the stars. #booksky

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Vengeance (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Fleur Lind “Are you going to go through?” I spin around and examine the hooded woman behind me. Shadows conceal most of her face but I can see her piercing gaze, wrinkled skin, a bulbous nose and graying scraggly hair. “I’m sorry?” She presses in…

Safe House (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot There is a headlight in the window. I wait, breathless. But no. It passes. I’m covered in a cold sweat but I’m not sick. It’s fear. I know they are coming to save me. I just have to wait here. In this house of other people’s things. The…

Sci fi day! 😉 Princess Leia is a legend Love a good sci fi? Or a half good one? Check out White Fire or Blood Fever by Laurie Bell

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NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Nearly at a point where I am ready to send book two sci fi out to beta readers. If you are interested #auswrites fellow aussie scifi authors flick me a message. Need a couple more 😉

Monstrous (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart The dinner spectacle wouldn’t hide my presence here. Not if he looked over. He didn’t. He was too focused on the woman across from him, the one telling him how wonderful he was. Ugh. What would she do if I stormed over and told her the…

You can watch all the action on Youtube. You'll see fireworks for Laurie, book covers galore and hear lots of writerly chat. Please like and subscribe to the channel to encourage the algorithms to #ReadMoreAussieBooks #Booksky #AusWrites #writingcommunity #crimefiction #Readers youtu.be/La3ay2w6iPc

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Ep170 is @writerlauriebell.bsky.social 2nd podcast hosting birthday! @veronicastrachan.bsky.socialhas a chat with the fabulous crime writing duo of Elise Wackett & Jane Abbott. +industry news, cautions on spammers, literary events & a reading from The Canvas Killings. #ReadMoreAussieBooks #Booksky

Coincidences abound (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Lily The giant’s keys were something of a novelty. No one knew where they had come from, but there they sat pride of place on the planter beside the door. No one asked Jack where they came from. It was something of a sore point for him. If…

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Book spotlights: Making March - Hayley Walsh light-hearted #Aussieficiton The Robot's Heart - Maria P Frino #scifi A Cry For Home - Conchita GarSantiago #historicalfiction Etched In Gold - Uma Srinivasan #historicalfiction #ReadMoreAussieBooks #booksky #AusWrites #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity

Want to hear about Sydney Authors Inked and their writer's journey? Check out the latest ABL podcast episode on all good podcasting platforms. #ReadMoreAussieBooks #booksky #AusWrites #Podcasts #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity www.buzzsprout.com/1718602/episodes/19035507

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Ep#169 @veronicastrachan.bsky.social &@writerlauriebell.bsky.social chat with Maria P Frino, Conchita GarSantiago, Hayley Walsh & Uma Srinivasan from Sydney Authors Inked. How SAI & 'Writers at the Pub' events which are a platform for authors to connect, collaborate & share resources began! #booksky

Need a new Aussie-authored read? Try one of our FANTASTIC FEATURES OF THE WEEK All We Need by Magdalena McGuire - contemporary Songs of Shadow, Words of Woe @mxrxdx.bsky.social -horror Stormy Normy Goes Reining by Leisa Fail - middle grade Lots more of all genres at australianbooklovers.com #booksky

The trap is set (Friday Fictioneers) PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz He examined the image carefully, unable to pinpoint what gave him such an unsettled feeling. The image in the frame and the image on the phone should have been identical. It was the same image but … then he saw it. A mark where a mark…

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