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Rod Mannix #WritingCommunity

@rodmannix.bsky.social

Writer πŸ“ Gladly reposting publication news for the writing community. Also see: @writingcommunity.bsky.social @literarybulletin.bsky.social @literarycommunity.bsky.social https://LiteraryRetweet.com

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I'll be at Eureka Books for a book signing event during Arts Alive! in Eureka, March 7, 2026
I’ve got a pen filled with ink and free tchotchkes
6 books, no waiting.

06.03.2026 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ThursdayTreats - Chuffed to learn I won 3rd πŸ₯‰ prize for #prose in CEArts The Polk Street Review 2026 The Ties That Bind with my #shortstory THE EDGE πŸ“– Congrats all winners #poetry prose #arts πŸ“š Thanks, Alys, Sarah πŸ’ Print copies : www.amazon.ca/Polk-Street-... πŸ“— #silicasun πŸŒΉπŸ“˜β€οΈ

05.03.2026 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mateo Series
EVEN IN RURAL MONTANA FOLKS HAVE DANGEROUS SECRETS and Sheriff Mateo Grey’s is a doozy.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZF27H61
#KUFree #shapeshifter #ModernWestern #PoliceThriller #E #Paperback #RuggedSheriff #books #romancewithgrit

05.03.2026 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Urban or Epic? Dragons or Magic? Or both?

For a limited time you can snag the first 2 books in BOTH series for ONLY .99 EACH!

Also available on #audible and #kindleunlimited

author.to/CLSchneiderA...

05.03.2026 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ARC SIGN-UPS OPEN!

ARCs go out August 6th, two months before the book releases!

CASTLE OF BROKEN DREAMS

A cinnamon roll hero who will go to the ends of the earth to find her. A gentle, loving princess who longs to be free of her curse. And all of the yearning & tension between them!

06.03.2026 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#WorldBookDay #reading #fiction #Caturday #lolcats

Happy World Book Day!
...and you can still get a free download of my e-book "The Unbearable Likeness of Bean" today from amazon.com/author/diannerthomas

05.03.2026 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Other Lotus Girl - Free Audio Drama A cinematic thriller podcast from Daniel A. Riddle. Listen free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.

I'm Daniel, a British author writing psychological thrillers from Northern England.

My book The Other Lotus Girl is a free full-cast audio drama. A woman escapes traffickers into a stranger's car. Six ordinary people refuse to give up.

🎧 Free on Spotify & Apple Podcasts

05.03.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to share that THE OTHER LOTUS GIRL just received a 5⭐ review from Readers’ Favorite ~ A tense, emotional story about trafficking, family and courage. Huge thanks to everyone checking it out. #TheOtherLotusGirl #ReadersFavorite #amreading #BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #CrimeFiction

29.11.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So excited to have a story in the latest issue of Potomac Review and meet Editor Monica Mische! Great day at AWP conference.

06.03.2026 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My pleasure.

06.03.2026 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rusty Rusty - Kindle edition by Muller, Thomas. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Rusty.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Powerful and disturbing."

As Halloween approaches, little Rusty McCormack yearns for the perfrct costume. When a neighbor gifts him one, his life changes forever.
#horror
#creepy
#Rusty
#novella

www.amazon.com/Rusty-Thomas...

05.03.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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First US review of β€˜The Silent House of Sleep’ out today from @firstcluereviews.bsky.social and it’s their Book of the Week! Publication date: May 5 and available now for preorder. @mysteriousbookshop.com

05.03.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"A Daughter's Place" is a 2025 Foreword INDIES Finalist "A Daughter's Place" is a Foreword INDIES finalist in Historical (Adult Fiction). Madrid, 1599. Following her mother’s sudden death, fifteen-year-old Isabel goes to live in the family home of her fath...

Delighted to share that #ADaughtersPlace is a 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist in the #HistoricalFiction category. Thank you, @houseofanansi.bsky.social, for believing in this project!

www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...

05.03.2026 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good Vibes & Dark History Riptide by Laura TolandRico Press, 2025 Author Laura Toland recently launched her debut novel Riptide, a mystery/crime thriller that at its heart, is about a woman and a town with a questionable pa…

My interview with Laura Toland about her novel Riptide up in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social thank you @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for including this www.whaleroadreview.com/laura-toland/

05.03.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The cover of MOUNTEBANK by Tom Snarsky, out March 31st from Broken Sleep Books.

The cover of MOUNTEBANK by Tom Snarsky, out March 31st from Broken Sleep Books.

hello everyone! today is #smallpoemsunday and it’s also the first day of March, the month at the end of which my new book MOUNTEBANK will be out from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social :)

each day in March I’m planning to share a #soapboxpoem, a small series of poems(/etc.) named for the origin of the…

01.03.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy World Book Day! πŸ“š

I’m proud to have two little pamphlets out in the world and I still have signed author copies available! 🌊 β˜•οΈ

Walrussey is for fans of ecopoetry and Circulaire is for those who love love!

Just drop me a comment, Β£10 via PayPal, and I’ll cover p&p! πŸ’›

05.03.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tomorrow!

05.03.2026 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Experience award-winning story telling by Kirsten Miles!

Experience award-winning story telling by Kirsten Miles!

Check me out at kirstenmilesauthor.com πŸ’• 😍

05.03.2026 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to have a poem in the collage issue of The Engine Idling. Titled "To Hold," it's a golden shovel in my experimental riverbed form

I have a related craft essay forthcoming in print, titled "Meander, Erosion, and Deposition in the Contrapuntal Poem"

www.engineidling.net/current

05.03.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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"Espionage entwined with people and places"β€”that's what I aimed for. Glad it resonated! My time showed me stories are always about the human cost. https://f.mtr.cool/nevvdakslp #LondonBridge #PaulHollis #SpyThriller #ColdWarThriller #EspionageFiction #ThrillerBooks

05.03.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Happy to announce that The Fib has been named a finalist for the 2025 INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Picture Book category! I am so happy that this book has been connecting with children, teachers, parents, and librarians! Much love!
www.forewordreviews.com/.../2025/pic...

05.03.2026 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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So grateful to @StanchionZine for including my poem in Issue 21, β€œThe Music Issue.” This journal is consistently gorgeous, timely, and so well-curated. Being in print never looked so good. πŸ‘ #poem #poetry #poet #writer #writing #nonfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity #Philly

05.03.2026 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You want a title? I’ll GIVE you a title. @stanchion.bsky.social is a publisher who GETS my vision, and they have earned my undying love and support. #poem #poetry #poet #writer #writing #nonfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity #Philly

05.03.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Wrecking Squad-a ragtag found family crew are forced into searching for a long lost ship and its deadly cargo. #scifibooks #sciencefiction books2read.com/wreckingsquad/

05.03.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œExplosive historical fiction!”
β€œ...a cracking tale, beautifully written”

Plunged into blood-soaked chaos in 17th-century Europe's brutal wars, Philip Lord flees a traitor's fate…

Available in Kindle, paperbackβ€”and audio narrated by Andrea Zuvich!

mybook.to/TheFugitivesSword

05.03.2026 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dominican Republic pool day. Hard to write when it’s this pretty.

Audio and paperback thrillers on sale soon! Check the link in bio for the discount codes. Sign up for the newsletter to get new thriller news.

05.03.2026 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The art is by Sheila Squillante (sheilasquillante.com), and it’s perfect. I’m humbled. The only other time a magazine has commissioned original art to accompany my work was for "Rainbow Dogs," the companion to this piece. I’ve been trying to reunite the stories for 18 years. Came close this time.

05.03.2026 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Nine-Finger Revolution: An Alternate History of the Twenty-first Century American Revolution against the British Empire Amazon.com: The Nine-Finger Revolution: An Alternate History of the Twenty-first Century American Revolution against the British Empire eBook : Harvey, Brennan: Books

There’s a symbol spreading across the city.

Spray-painted.
Erased.
Painted again.

Nobody claims it.
Everyone recognizes it.

The Nine-Finger Revolution.
www.amazon.com/dp/B08WZ1G517

#ViralSymbol
#AltTimeline
#DarkFutureFiction

05.03.2026 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

October was a while ago--I should remove the skeleton from the couch & put it in a closet. That reminds me...

My gothic novel _Skeleton from the Closet_ is about a bohemian"black sheep":
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1976...

#skeletons #WritingCommunity #gothicfiction #sociopaths #narcissists #empaths

05.03.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Editor Mansour Noorbakhsh and the folks at Asemana Books have included Larew's poetry in this al-too-timely anthology. Thanks to them.

05.03.2026 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0