Mastodawn

👀🎄 If they love a good scare, this is the easiest gift you’ll buy all year.

This anthology brings together 100+ short, atmospheric horrors ideal for those quiet pauses in a full season — small, intense reads that fit the rhythm of real life.

Gift it, keep it, or do both — it’s that tempting.

📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe
📚 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/category/dark-descent-whispers-from-beyond-anthologies

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Eve

22h ago

Heads up, #IndieAuthors . Got something you want to put in front of a big audience? Today's your day. Go post on John Scalzi's 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Two: Non-Traditional Books thread after reading the rules.

The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Two: Non-Traditional Books

Today is Day Two of the Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025, and today the focus is on Non-Traditionally Published Books: Self-published works, electronically-exclusive books, books from micro presses…

Whatever

Dominus Markham 1d ago

https://dominusmarkham.com/why-capable-women-still-apologise-for-everything-and-how-to-stop/

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#writingskills
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Why Capable Women Still Apologise for Everything (And How to Stop) - Dominus Owen Markham

I sent an email last Tuesday that started with "Sorry to bother you, but—" I wasn't sorry. I hadn't bothered anyone. It was a completely reasonable question about a project timeline that was, objectively, overdue. But there I was, reflexively apologising for existing in someone's inbox. I caught it after…

Dominus Owen Markham

Mark Gardner 1d ago

The Beautiful Prison website is only a few days old, and “Between” (published November 17) is one of the stories anchoring its start.

https://thebeautifulprison.com/stories/between/

Abby and Celinda—immortal, haunted, and tender—navigate trust, restraint, and the slow rediscovery of desire.

A #ShortStory of patience, fear, and the dangerous beauty of wanting.

#fiction #vampires #fantasy #SpeculativeFiction #queer #QueerFiction #IndieAuthors

Between

Abby navigates between numbness and feeling, survival and living, with a centuries-old vampire who understands both. Sapphic paranormal romance.

The Beautiful Prison

Write Out Loud Podcast 1d ago

What happens when a seasoned literary agent sits down and gets REAL about the industry?
Magic.
This week, we chat with Lissa Woodson, who shares what authors should know before querying — and what makes her say “yes.”
Tap the link in our bio to listen!
#WritersLife #Bookish #IndieAuthors #Podcasters

Kip Manley 1d ago

The 24th novelette, " – vilissima & infima – ", continues:

https://thecityofroses.com/story/VilissimaEtInfimaActIII

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“ – vilissima et infima – ” (Act III)

a Four-digit code – Time a Do – Hearing, Listening – the Tunnel

City of Roses

David Franks 1d ago

#IndieAuthors My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with plenty of #photos, "Joys of Life" https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/02/walkaboutsverse-229-of-230.html

WALKABOUTSVERSE 229 OF 230

Poem 229 of 230: JOYS OF LIFE Leightons, and other great art; Plumes of fireworks at night; The vivid reds of sunrise - Repea...

Dark Holme Publishing 2d ago

🎄 Not every Christmas story ends with joy.
Submit winter folklore, myths, nonfiction, and dark artwork exploring the season’s colder truths in the ShadowSphere Contributors Group.
Selected pieces appear in the Dark Descent webzine.

🕯 Link in bio.

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo 2d ago

HEADS UP, FANTASY FANS! The End-of-Year Indie Fantasy Mega Bundle is live with 64 amazing books for $45, including my own book, This Is How Immortals Die!! 🤯

(The image says it starts tomorrow, but nope, we're LIVE!)

https://itch.io/b/3409/end-of-year-indie-fantasy-mega-bundle

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