Anyone who treats any career path as easy is just plain uninformed. Building an audience in the self-pub arena is freaking HARD.
13.03.2025 15:01 โ ๐ 88 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2@bdbooker.bsky.social
Thanks for the glance! Best of luck authors and happy hunting readers. My current book: https://www.amazon.com/Vinci-Lam-B-D-Booker-ebook/dp/B0B3LMLQB4
Anyone who treats any career path as easy is just plain uninformed. Building an audience in the self-pub arena is freaking HARD.
13.03.2025 15:01 โ ๐ 88 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2There's a bit of a noir tinge to this as well, which I like in this setting even if I'm not a fan of traditional noir. This is like Slab City Blues meets Mad Max 1&2 if I had to give a comp.
Link to buy: a.co/d/0nFNYQx
Author: @bdbooker.bsky.social
Cover artist: www.artstation.com/rashedjrs
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13.03.2025 08:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Screenshot of my profile showing 19.8k followers
I keep seeing people on Twitter slam Bsky and how thereโs no one here and Iโve got to say, that hasnโt been my experience at all. Like I actually get traction on book posts here and so itโs lovely to see โจ almost 20K โจ fans of indie books here! Look at our little community finding each other ๐ฅบ๐ค๐ช
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I want to support our Canadian & Mexican authors on here! Drop your books below! And when I have some spare funds (hopefully soon), I'll circle back and grab a few - and I'll repost them in the meantime! Sending lots of love to you all!
And if anyone fancies, please join in to support our homies!
The list of the Nebula Award Finalists for Short Story: -Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole -Five Views of the Planet Tartarus -We Will Teach You How to Read / We Will Teach You How to Read -The V*mpire -The Witch Trap -Evan: A Remainder
The first time in five years I haven't been a finalist for the Nebula for Best Short Story. I couldn't be happier. Every story here rocks.
Congratulations to @isabel.kim, @rachaelkjones.bsky.social, @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social, P.H. Lee, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, and @kurellian.bsky.social!
congrats!
07.03.2025 16:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Honored to have made a shortlist! Lots of good books in the competition.
07.03.2025 12:12 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Growing up, I could see Canada from my bedroom window. So, so sad to be in a senseless conflict with our northern neighbors and long-time allies and friends. ๐๐ฅ๐ญ
06.03.2025 12:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.โ
โ James Baldwin
Final editing is 99% done, just putting things together mostly. It's been a slog for a few months. Best of luck wrapping yours up!
05.03.2025 21:29 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Great cover, the wolf anchors this really well.
05.03.2025 18:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0collage of a year of kdp stat bars showing no break in sales since 7 march 2024. text says 'just one week to a year of book sales!' and there's an arrow showing where the streak began on the 7th of march 2024.
I self-published my first book in February 2017. This streak, my first, took me eight years to achieve. ๐ฅบ๐
If you want to help me get to the full year (which will be Friday!), now is the perfect week to buy one of my books or short stories! โจ
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meme of two people carrying a third one lying on a gurney, the dialogue is one asking "what happened to them?" and the other responds "their WIP performed better than the finished art"
the pain
05.03.2025 04:28 โ ๐ 5974 ๐ 1023 ๐ฌ 47 ๐ 51Still, a successful WIP is a step forward even if it's not the big leap you wanted.
05.03.2025 18:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0That is the perfect way to think of it. FF VI is a fantastic game.
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The Freak by Matt Lesniewski, a short graphic novel published by OniPress. Review by Ronit J for SFF Insiders.
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Absurdly evocative and gut-wrenchingly visceral, The Freak by Matt Lesniewski says a whole lot about discrimination and hate with brevity and stunning artwork.
Full review on @sffinsiders.com , link in comments! ๐
Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. text is gold and greyish-white.
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๐ฅบ close brothers x2
๐ก๏ธ an mc who is 100% done
๐บ a love interest ready to grovel
๐ซ a haunted, gothic school
๐ buried secrets
โ๏ธ snowy setting
๐ book link: mybook.to/aBMB
๐ goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
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I'm finally wrapping up a novel I've been working on for two and a half years. I always feel a bit, not sure how to put this, but, out of sorts when the end arrives.
How about you? What does your headspace look like at the finish line?
I really love the cover art on this one.
02.03.2025 10:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I want your MOST UNDERRATED and UNKNOWN fantasy and sci-fi show/miniseries recs ๐
02.03.2025 04:18 โ ๐ 71 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 75 ๐ 6Thank you for your public service! These are the types of efforts that could genuinely improve government efficiency.
02.03.2025 08:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Silver lining:
Europe became a Union yesterday.
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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
Itโs just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
Iโm happy to invest and/or help
Lovely style!
28.02.2025 09:29 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0these violent nights by rebecca crunden paperback cover; image shows a dark city scape, the font of the title is encircled by a glowing outline of the moon
๐พ futuristic world
โฃ๏ธ dystopia! โจwith magicโจ
๐ 600+ pages
๐ฅ grumpy x sunshine (m/f and m/m)
โ๏ธ revenge
๐ lots of plants
๐ก๏ธ an mc who loves daggers
๐ช close friendships
๐ book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
๐ goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
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I had no clue anyone thought like that lol. That's crazy. I've been in situations with bad turbulence when seat belts kept everyone strapped in and from smacking their heads hard on the bins above. I don't even want to imagine how many people would have died in this incident.
20.02.2025 15:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This needs to happen.
12.02.2025 07:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency