My book contains Australian levels of swearing. I considered toning it down for international audiences, but decided against it. 1) My characters and their voices are based on real people. This is a real culture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Z3...

The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

I just found out my eBook was purchased by Auckland Libraries! How cool is that!? share.libbyapp.com/title/124197...

It’s indie time! October Indie Releases 2025 youtu.be/vt9eGap8py0

In case you missed it, I had a pair of big announcements today:

Self-Published Science Fiction Contest #5 is open for entries, and I'm volunteering as a judge again. Unlike many such contests, this one is free to enter and 100% volunteer-run. Link in the comments. Apply, please! I wanna read some fun and wild stuff. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

The Outsiders of Orkland is now available worldwide! Also, I just received a bulk shipment of paperbacks, so let me know if you're in NZ and you're after a signed copy🤘

The "BUY MY BOOKS SO I CAN AFFORD TO DO STUPID STUFF" sale continues! The first two novels (ebook only) of these completed trilogies are on sale for HALF PRICE!

BOOK (of the hardcover variety)

Do you feel like a hero when you get your horrible & amazing little humans through another day? You are. So is Meghan. She struggles with monsters, aliens, and supernatural abilities, but also sibling arguments, kid logic, and the same parenting drama we all face every day. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Physical copies have started popping up. You can preorder Bounty Inc. from Barnes & Noble or Bookshop now! Should be showing up elsewhere soon. Grab yours now! books2read.com/BountyInc

Congrats on this awesome cover! Pre-order here: www.sffinsiders.com/blog/cover-r... #bookrecs #ilovebooks #bookstagram #heavymetalorcs #specficnz #coverreveal

P H Y S I C A L

Calling All New Zealand Speculative Authors! Have you published a speculative work in 2025? Then this is your time to shine! tepaetawhitiawards.nz/calling-all-... 🐉🚀🧌

I've read the ARC. It's awesome. Legends and Lattes x Guardians of the Galaxy 🚀🔫

Any other takers? The cover is real cool!

Just received my first author-targeting email scam. Should I treat this as a milestone or something? Mmm... Nope. I wanna get my first review that smashes me right in the feels. ARC signup: forms.office.com/r/6Wz6hzWPh7

Free books! To help promote my book launch, I need early reviews. So, for a limited time, I'm offering The Outsiders of Orkland for free through the promo linked below. If you'd rather buy my book, there's nothing stopping you from doing both😉 books.bookfunnel.com/septemberfan...

Free books! To help promote my book launch, I need early reviews. So, for a limited time, I'm offering The Outsiders of Orkland for free through the promo linked below. If you'd rather buy my book, there's nothing stopping you from doing both😉 books.bookfunnel.com/septemberfan...

Got a chance to read a bit of this, and it starts out fantastic. Looking forward to diving into it more!

Check out this incredible cover for an incredible book! @authorkfeller.bsky.social has created something unique, quirky and wonderful with The Outsiders of Orkland and @claymorecovers.bsky.social’s captures the vibes perfectly! Releasing October 13th!

The second story is like if Murderbot was on a space station filled with other SecUnits who were pretending to be human and it was trying to understand WTF they were up to.

Interested in a sci-fi survival story with elements of Animorphs, Orphan Black and the Hunger Games?!? Now available to add to your Goodreads shelves! Releasing November 20th 🐺

Want a bunch of LitRPG books for free or 99 cents? www.jjthornbooks.com/massive-litr... Huge props to @jjthornbooks.bsky.social, author of Apocalypse Assassin, for putting this together! Love this graphic he made of some of the female led titles. I've read and enjoyed a lot of them already!

Thing happening in just over a week!

Author brethren and sestren, who here has fantasy titles in wide distribution as opposed to Zon exclusive?

#IndieAuthorSummer day 47: Ready to discover a new author? Check out @adamholcombe.bountyink.com, author of A Necromancer Called Gam Gam at bountyink.com. Already read the author's work and loved it? Consider sharing this post to help boost their books. #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity #IndieBooks

Audible is currently changing the way their royalty model works, and it's looking like BAD news for authors. Please consider checking out the petition to stop them screwing us all over. chng.it/2c2kQzD4Bm

The series I drop everything for and start reading.

Author brethren, BEWARE! The latest round of scammers are using AI to skim details from books to make it sound like they've read them & claiming to have dedicated book groups. Beware of anything like this. I know of a few others getting these emails, too, already.

#SFF fans rejoice, for tomorrow the Epic Sale of Beloved SFF begins! From 7th to 11th August there'll be over 100 amazing books discounted to 0.99 or free—each with a recommendation from someone who loved it. Bookmark the sale page: talesfromthecircle.c...#SFF #BelovedSFFBooks | 💙📚🪐 | 🤏📚

Te Pae Tawhiti Distant Horizon Awards—Aotearoa New Zealand's first juried speculative fiction awards—are currently open to entries! We’re very excited to see this award make its way into the world and are encouraging New Zealand and Pasifika authors to submit in the following categories: 1/3

For the month of August, you can now get every book I have out (all whopping two of them) for $0.99 or equivalent! That's right, it's a month long Gam Gam sale! bountyink.com/chronicles-o...

#IndieAuthorSummer day 27: Ready to discover a new author? Check out @cw-snyder.com, author of Cold West at cw-snyder.com. Already read the author's work and loved it? Consider sharing this post to help boost their books. #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity #IndieBooks

I need the 1.3 million people who signed the Stop Killing Games petition to also sign this. This will kill games too. Doesn't matter if the games get made but there's not platform able to sell it.

If you see this, quote this post with a game with a 10/10 soundtrack 🎶 Brütal Legend. The soundtrack is metal AF. My second choice would be Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2.

I just added a Residuum to my Shop! If you're in the UK and don't want Lord Bezoz to get his hands on your cash (or you want a signed book!), click this link ko-fi.com/s/508c2e55bc

So I'm researching for my next book which involves some dragon slaying, and this pops up in my feed. youtu.be/7Pf6E8yjMAI?...

Website is live, eBook preorders ready, and you can read an 11 chapter sample for free with no sign-up required 🤘 The Outsiders of Orkland: a dark fantasy novel releases 13 Oct 2025

Still glowing after receiving feedback from my editors @bardandbutterco.bsky.social 💜 Next steps: * Book formatting * Launch website * Cover reveal Aug 2025 * Book release Oct 2025

A film that takes place where you're from.

I know Goodreads is kinda meh and Amazon is the evil overlord, but please post your ratings and reviews there, even if you also post to StoryGraph, Fable, blogs, YouTube, etc. They’re not the best, but they’re still the places with the most visibility for indie authors.

I know there’s an Amazon boycott going on. So do my sales. Significantly noticing an impact. So, if you want to support me (and other indies but avoid Amazon) visit our websites I have plenty of books in stock, I wrap them prettier than Amazon, and they are signed too! linktr.ee/jehannaford

Who are the five writers that made you? J.R.R. Tolkien Nicholas Eames Nat's What I Reckon Joe Abercrombie Michael R. Fletcher

⛔Scam Alert⛔ This account is NOT @bookspotlight.bsky.social!!! Don't give them money for promotion you'll never get. Author Beware ( @victoriastrauss.bsky.social ) just did a post on the site's owner Alwin Gnanaraj. Do NOT give them your money. If you want to support Rebecca, buy her books.

To clarify: @bookspotlight.bsky.social is the real Rebecca. She does promo for free. She's not affiliated with the scam site indiebookspotlight.com. She's never charged for any promo she does for other books. The one you want to block is the account in the screenshot, which uses the .com domain.

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.

I'm Kenneth from the South Island of NZ. I'm asexual, a metalhead, and I'm so underground, I'm roommates with the Balrog. #NZWrites

Writing update: My manuscript is out with beta readers right now and I've booked an editor for mid-March. If all goes well my book should be published in... July?

So, I'm new here. Any fellow indie writers lurking about? A bit about me: 👨‍🏫 I teach professional writing at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada. 📖 I have one published fantasy novel, The Fall of Selvandrea. 🐉 I enjoy sarcasm, dragons, and book selfies*! * Usually with other people's books 😅