@joanmarieverba.bsky.social
She/her. Autistic author of science fiction and fantasy novels. Web developer. Website: http://joanmarieverba.com
Thanks, John!
02.12.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bowl cozy made with flowers and teddy bear fabric
On Small Business Saturday, a reminder that I sew and sell bowl cozies:
joanmareiverba.com/bowlcozy
Candle and ribbon. Words: Remember for the holidays, it's not what's in your stomach that counts, it's what's in your heart.
My annual reminder.
27.11.2025 14:02 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ice Hawk's Aerie by Bryan Young. A mouse with a runesword and red cape side by side with his cat wearing a saddle stare at an icy landscape and a hawk with glowing blue eyes.
Who wants to read about a warrior mouse who rides a bad ass cat and fights hawks to save his forest?
Ice Hawk's Aerie is Part 1 of the Adventures of Pip Strongpaw and is available FREE as part of @michaelastackpole.bsky.social's Chain Story project! www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
Covers for the novels Secrets of the Sorcerers, Clash of the Sorcerers, and Shadows of the Sorcerers
My Library of Sorcery trilogy has been out for a year now. Information at: libraryofsorcery.com
13.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The latest in the Chain Story Project is a free short story by @michaelastackpole.bsky.social For information, go to: www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
(A reminder: I also have a free short story accessible through the Chain Story Project.)
Bring your intelligent, curious mind - grab your tickets at www.events.sfwa.org and join us! I'm moderating a panel of authors, game developers, film directors and more at the Quasar event!
@jessicamaison.bsky.social
@joanmarieverba.bsky.social
@karriebear.bsky.social
@rrookstudio.bsky.social
The covers of the books: Twelve, Defying the Ghosts, Boldly Writing, Secrets of the Sorcerers, Wondry Dragon Finds a Home, Voyager, Summoned by Dragons, Clash of the Sorcerers, How to Say NO Coloring Book
For National Authors' Day, the covers of some of my books. You can view them all at:
joanmarieverba.com/books.html
Happy Halloween!
31.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Covers for Boldly Writing paperback and hardcover editions
I wrote Boldly Writing: A Trek Fan and Fanfiction History, 1967-1987, and I can assure any doubters that women were active not only in Star Trek fandom at that time, they were also active in efforts for Star Trek revival. I was there.
25.10.2025 23:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Chain Story Project has just released its latest offering: Two Stories this week, by gryphonrose.bsky.social and bobgreenberger.bsky.social
Please enjoy, like and repost. It really helps. Thank you.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-nine
Including my short story, "Fragment of a Sorcerous Crown" (this and all the others are free to read!).
15.10.2025 01:13 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Electronic sign on highway above traffic. The sign reads, "Not all heroes wear capes. They wear seat belts.”
Protect yourself and everyone on the road—seat belts save lives.
13.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Image of teen facing a haunted house. Text: Desperate and alone, she will dare to claim this haunted house when all others have failed.
For the month of October, a reminder of my young adult novel, Defying the Ghosts: a Haunted House Story.
defyingtheghosts.com
Latest free short story in the Chain Story Project:
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
Cover for Voyager: Exploring the Outer Planets. Images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
On Astronomy Day, a reminder that my nonfiction book, Voyager: Exploring the Outer Planets, is available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook forms.
joanmarieverba.com/voyager/
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. STAR TREK
2. Self-Publishing/Independent Publishing
3. Food Allergies
The Chain Story Project has just released a new story #freefiction. Get it now and join the fun!
If you Like, Repost and Repeat, you'll be helping the project a ton. Thank you so very much and Please enjoy!
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-introducing-dancillius-hrekt-monster-fighter
I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol.
Not because of vaccines.
Not because of some headline.
I’m autistic because that’s how
my brain works. Stop treating us
like a problem. Start listening to us.
Cover for Book 2 of the Post Host series shows the two main characters of the book offering pastries to a minotaur dressed in farm overalls.
Book 2 of the Post Host Cozy Fantasy series is now available on Amazon. You can find it at: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRN8TZDX
21.09.2025 23:46 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The Chain Story Project is back with its sixth round of free fiction, this week's story being The Village of Morvoss by Thomas Grayfson.
Please download, enjoy, like and share (especially share, that helps so much).
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
👀 Looking for some bookish deals?📚 Our Fantasy & Sci-fi book fair has over 100 free & discounted books, plus KU finds! There's also a HUGE giveaway at the bottom!
🚀 View the fair here: clcannon.net/bookfair ⚔️
Win a Kindle Fire, one Owlcrate box, & a $10 Starbucks gift card! 📚
#booksky #readers
Apparently, this is a surprise for fans for Star Trek day. (I watched the first episode and found it engaging.)
trekmovie.com/2025/09/08/s...
The Chain Story Project has just released its fifth round of free fiction.
Please download, enjoy, like and especially share. (Sharing means the world to the Chain Story Project. Thank you.)
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-five
Cover of the Fragment of a Sorcerous Crown short story, showing a library of sorcery
My short story in the Chain Story Project was released today. I joined several authors in offering short stories for free (for at least a three-month period). To find my short story as well as the short stories of the other authors, to to:
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
Scene is two people and four horsemen of the apocalypse in coloured robes instead of the dark ones. Instead of the normal "death, famine, pestilence" etc, they have banners saying "Hope", "Justice", "Empathy" and "Just basically not being a dick" Horseman 1 is saying to the two people "THe whole apocalypse thing got too depressing so we've reinvented ourselves as the Four Horsemen of Working Together to Get Us All Out of the Mess We're in"
ICYMI- Horses Changing Courses- yesterday's cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
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The Chain Story Project has just announced a new story! This one is by S. E. Lindberg and it is a mind-bender.
Please like and share and enjoy. (Sharing is caring! Thank you.)
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-four
Please do reread all the Thunderbirds books!
09.08.2025 22:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Today is National Book Lovers Day.
09.08.2025 19:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Chain Story Project has just posted the third of its free fiction offerings: Shard of Song by Rigel Ailur.
(Please visit, like, and share. Sharing helps so very much. Thank you.) #freefiction #chainstoryproject
www.chainstorycore.com
