Natasha O'Connor - Indie Author she/her

YouTube video by Alan Baxter This Way Lies Madness and Fever Dreams

I made a quick video talking about my stories in This Way Lies Madness and Fever Dreams, both out now from Flame Tree Press.
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My autism and experiences as an autistic person informs my view of the world: nobody gets to decide what another person's identity or experiences are. End of. (Professional qualifications notwithstanding)

In light of that, #loveislove and #transrightsarehumanrights

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

Here you go, #portfolioday I suppose, solomonskalozub.blogspot.com/2025/10/do-y...

The best part of writing second world fantasy: creating brand new creatures 😃 part wolf, part lizard, all menace. 🐺🦎

#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife

there’s magic
in the anatomy
of a sunrise

the way the bones
of the ever-sky
hold the light aloft

each ray a breath
in the weary lungs
of a world revived

#poetry

Grab yourself some horrors, my fiends!

October 17-19, 2025 Brookstreet Hotel, Kanata CAN -CON Vendor Room Featuring the TABLE O' SHENANIGANS! With CAIT GORDON and DIANNA GUNN! Open to the general public! Get books, crafts, and more! Visit can-con.org. to learn more and get your tickets!

THIS WEEKEND I'll be at #CanConSFF sharing a table with the incredible @caitgauthor.bsky.social, and now that I've packed my bag I'm pleased to report that I will be doing LIVE MURDERS!

Tell me how you want to die, send me some $$, and chat with Cait while I write, print, and sign your death scene!

The Chosen One Con is coming soon! From Trudie Skies - The Chosen One Con is coming soon!

If my Backerkit project reaches 100 followers before launch, I'll commission NSFW art.

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I’ll Quit When I’m Dead The Film You Are About to See My Lips Her Voice The Unveiling When We Talk to the Dead The Works of Vermin The Bleeding Woods Our Gifted Hearts The Haunting of Paynes Hollow Notes From the Underground Little Horn The Graceview Patient The Scald Crow Veal The Last Witch Senseless

NEW BOOKS! October 14th, 2025
@haleynewlin.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @caitlinstarling.com @wordhorde.bsky.social

A color illustration of a dragonkin/tiefling woman with deep blue skin, closed eyes, tall curved horns with a glowing crescent moon between them, and long wavy hair going from indigo at the top to pale gold at the ends. She is dressed in an indigo gown with lots of gold trim and accessories and sheer blue accent cloth. She is holding a large golden greatsword with blue roses and purple thorns around the guard. The background is an art nouveau-style circular graphic of gold celestial motifs on a black to maroon gradient.

A color illustration of a dragonkin/tiefling woman with teal skin, darker turquoise hair in a braid, closed eyes, and a long tail. She is dressed in layers of red, gold, green, and turquoise, and she is holding a wooden staff with a golden lantern hanging from the top. The background is an art nouveau-style panel of stylized grass, lotuses, and clouds on a sunset gradient.

A color illustration of a gorgon woman with light and darker green skin/scales, long dark green cobra hair separated by narrow horns, and a long tapered tail. She is dressed in a dark green bustier with gold trim and lots of accessories, and she is holding two crossed swords behind her head. The background is an art nouveau-style panel of thorns and ivy on a black to yellow gradient.

A color illustration of my changing moon Lunar oc, Emerald, from an exalted game. She is a middle-aged woman with fair skin, emerald-green eyes with striking red eyeshadow, and long iridescent black hair partly held up by a golden comb with the rest pulled over one shoulder. She is dressed in an elegant green gown with puffy sleeves and a boob window, lots of gold and green jewelry, and a translucent green and gold floaty scarf thingy. The background is a simple green gradient with a crescent moon behind her head.

HOWDY AND HELLO #PortfolioDay I'm Kate, a freelance character artist who loves drawing fantasy, women, and especially fantasy women!!!!
I'll be open for work at the start of November!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

People who are already popular will get significantly more marketing dollars than someone trying to get noticed.

8) Background is a photo of a snowy trees. Cover of a book called Bells Begin to Ring depicting a man kneeling and hunched forward in a posture conveying pain on a sandy beach at night, by MC Burnell. Text reads: DRUMS IN THE DEEP. Bells Begin to Ring, The Tipping World Vol. 8. All the world’s mages dance on the bitter scapegoat’s strings. A block of text: "She sat in the strange glow of the wish-lights, pondering questions whose answers couldn’t possibly matter while the world burned. What held her here was what held all of them: a conviction that she had uncovered, in this spooky subterranean space, a connection she had been searching for all her life without ever being able to articulate it. Every other people had a legend telling where they came from. Everyone but mages. Here, at last, a link to the past and the people who created them."

⚔️talk to ghosts!
⚔️kill rebels!
⚔️fight assassins wearing other people's faces!
⚔️break free from mind control!
⚔️accidentally create a monster!

#SFF 🪐📚
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It's like the universe saw I was having a bad anxiety day and is now sending me quality meme after quality meme. I've seen so many today.

It's good to laugh.

Fellow indie authors, if you're in France, I'd be interested in setting up (or joining) a group chat or Discord server dedicated to self-publishing in France (specifically France).
If you're interested or know of a group that already exists, please let me know!

#IndieAuthors 🖋️📖💰 #Auteurs

Happy #PortfolioDay! My name is Todd, and I'm a comic/novel writer.

I've self-published over 50 books across numerous genres! You can take a look at some of my works below. I'm always up for new writing opportunities and would love to help make another project come to life.

I'm #reading a book from my #TBR 👀 please clap 😅

#ReaderSky

A graphic with an e-reader mock up of Memories of Enaros, featuring Kaedan bottle feeding Inarora. The background has part of the cover in the background, faded into black at the top and bottom.

Remember, if you got Memories of Enaros and loved it, please leave a review on Amazon and GR, but also on Itch if you got it there. Every bit is helpful 🥰

Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

♿♾️📚 🌃📚 🌈📚 #YA

Cover of verselva blues book 3 of Balfours trilogy by Natalie kelda. Green forest and galaxy. Blue bird flying across the sky.

🌟💚 NEW RELEASE 💚🌟

Happy release day to @nataliekelda.bsky.social and the final book in Balfour’s trilogy!
I’m super excited for my bitter-sweet ending for this little trauma boy ✨

📚💙

I had exactly the same thought.

The market alone cannot sustain good literature, and no literature will survive the collapse of the biosphere, something thinkable within generations. Not many art discussions, awards, takes will help us escape the machine, but more of them should stick in the gears, and fewer should grease them.

Book review graphic- background of grey wispy clouds across pinky orange sky, text of BOOK REVIEW in glowing text at the top, the book cover in a white frame and review text of 'how much did I love this book? Let's just say I didn't want it to end. It was dark and brooding but also sweet and at the same time 10/10 5 ☆s'

I was inspired to do a book #bookreview graphic by another post for the wonderful dark fantasy I just finished.

Born of Scourge by @earlronove.bsky.social go check it out!

Not me enjoying writing about the furies as squabbling siblings 😅

#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife

I can still quote my home phone number from the 80s 😅

<insert "The Final Countdown" by Europe here>

One hour left.

Finished Born of Scourge and don't know what to do with myself 😅 gorgeous book, loved it.

I'd totally read a sequel about Sol and Loren.

#ReaderSky

a man is drinking from a glass in a black and white photo with the words `` ummm ... tastes ... like ... victory '' . ALT: a man is drinking from a glass in a black and white photo with the words `` ummm ... tastes ... like ... victory '' .

Smashed my word count goal tonight and passed 18k words. I call that winning🤘

#writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife

Book Review banner for The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel by Jendia Gammon writing as J. Dianne Dotson with the book cover in the middle on a starry background.

New #BookReview!

Today on the blog I have YA lunarpunk sci-fantasy adventure, The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel by @jendiagammon.bsky.social — a sequel I've very much been looking forward to, and it didn't disappoint.

http://www.alankdell...

💙📚🪐 #SFF 📢📚

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

The absolute audacity to accuse people who don't use AI of being lazy 👀