#author is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 791 people shared 3,652 posts with it — around 122 a day. Activity is down 13% versus the previous week, peaking on Oct 22 with 172 posts.

Posts with #author

The Blogging Goth

@theblogginggoth.bsky.social

about 19 hours ago

"There are mysteries men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part" #BramStoker, #author of the legendary #vampire novel #Dracula, born on this day in 1847.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ - my trans books are so gay

@emoria.bsky.social

2 days ago

You broke into my house and all you got was this wonderful review dump?? I feel like I should start using the last two sentences to advertise In general. #author #Igbt #trans #booksky #writesky

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Writing & Editing

@wrtrstat.bsky.social

1 day ago

Note to self: Remember no draft has to be perfect except the final one. But it needs to get done, so you can review the story and have the other drafts after it. Finish your first draft and make a book possible. - Wrtr #AmWriting Keep Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

The function of the first draft is to help you figure out your story. The function of every draft after that is to figure out the most dramatic way to tell the story. - Darcy Pattison Writing. ~ Background photo shows a closeup of 5 yellow #2 pencils.

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Brian S. Converse

@briansconverse.bsky.social

1 day ago

Found my collection of short horror and dark sci-fi short stories at Barnes and Noble in Colorado Springs. ##writingcommunity #writerslife #Colorado #Author

Shattered Jewels: Tales of Wonder and Terror

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Brandon Nadeau

@bnadeauwriter.bsky.social

2 days ago

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” -William H. Gass #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting #Author #Quote

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Writing & Editing

@wrtrstat.bsky.social

1 day ago

Writing: You have to see each book you write as a stepping stone in your writing, as a step towards your next book. And the response after publishing as sort of an after effect as you move to the next story. - Wrtr #AmWriting #AmEditing - Keep Writing. #Writer #Author #Writing #BookSky #AuthorSky

Background photo shows a closeup of a person's hands together holding a large mug of coffee.

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Amber 🦖

@kohakudragon.bsky.social

2 days ago

I joined a writing challenge on Unvale called Novella November. It's like Nanowrimo where you give yourself a daily word count goal & hopefully have a short story done by the end of the month. Here's an excerpt from my story! #writer #writing #author #ocs #kohakudragonocs #ocsky #spacepirates

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Ultán of Ulcer

@mulvennyprospectus.bsky.social

about 16 hours ago

@daveashleypoet.bsky.social #writingcommunity #author #writing #writer #booksky #horror #horrorsky #poem #poetry #NovemberNightmares This is the sort of thing that happens when you read too much weird fiction. Nice to see you up and about Dave.

He had been she until the men with swords insisted otherwise,
and grasped within a distant empire's bloody gauntlet,
the priests, weeping, set to defacing statues,
hammering once abundant chests to a reduced flatness
and coercing monstrous appendages between
child bearing legs, leaving them to strain forth,
rooted in proud priapic haught.

And as the final chisel struck
the god, in that place between worlds,
roared and turned her, now his, gaze upon
that desmene which had shattered her,
and fell upon it in a fury, burning and destroying
all beneath him in rage, razing until the black earth choked.

In time nomads came and found the scorched valley,
where once stood marbled estates,
and columned halls, graced with exalted busts,
of emperors plinthed in regal pomp,
and digging beneath they found the sundered flesh,
first gargantuan tongue, pulsing and calling,
then eyes that even blinded silently bade
them build a cage about which she could be made anew.
And hearing only a father's call,
in ecstacy they fell about worshipping him,
and built a man once more.

Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

#NovemberNightmares the time is ripe for Evil!!!!! Your prompt by Otto Rapp

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Jendia Gammon

@jendiagammon.bsky.social

about 23 hours ago

Thoughts on tonight’s book signing for two of my books, Godfestation and Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall. Do visit Outpost Books in South Pasadena if you are in the LA area! #books #horror #fantasy #author

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Ultán of Ulcer

@mulvennyprospectus.bsky.social

1 day ago

@jenthorne.bsky.social #writingcommunity #author #writing #writer #booksky #horror #horrorsky #poem #poetry #NovemberNightmares It occured to me that I ought to write something horrifying for your last day hosting. I'm tired today, so this was probably a bit more jolly than I intended.😉

The visitors left the cottage at dusk,
and walked through the village pastures,
gawping at the surly brawn
of men and women still labouring in fields
"digging, digging, forever digging"
they remarked and stopped to watch
in foreign curiosity
to see a curled black figure unearthed,
wrapped around a standing drum of skin and bone,
with uncovered unease loftily buried beneath urbane smiles,
they did not think to run
until the corpse stood,
the leather of its dried skin creaking and splitting,
its chest spit asunder, dripping white worms as it jerked,
and they found themselves encircled,
held still by mute denizens,
as the revenant lifted withered sticks and roughly speared its eyes,
before a rhythm it began to beat,
a terrible pulsing, pounding throb,
rupturing veins, bursting eardrums, cracking bones inside melted skin,
the silent villagers screaming with them
until they fell crawling through the weeping muck
towards the towering drummer,
who helf aloft his glaring bludgeons
before crashing them upon delicate skulls,
until but one remained, splattered and whimpering.
It lifted him in tender caress and lay down on the soil,
keening a spiteful dirge of mourning,
as the good folk began to cover them with soil,
and he saw with his lidless bloodied eye,
the twitching nails of hands from within,
reaching out and tearing,
in vain attempt at escape.

Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social

Its my last day hosting #NovemberNightmares so I am going to use it to shamelessly plug the #ISmellToast anthology! Today's scary sketch is an illustration from it for Dave's poem. Thank you to everyone for your poems. They have been wonderful and so have you 🙏 ❤️💜💙

Nightmare - a charcoal drawing of a nightmare figure banging a large drum. No face required for entry.

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Ultán of Ulcer

@mulvennyprospectus.bsky.social

3 days ago

@jenthorne.bsky.social #writingcommunity #author #writing #writer #booksky #horror #horrorsky #poem #poetry #NovemberNightmares I appear to be getting unrepentantly worse.

Dangling carcasses twisted behind
as he sat toothless, pale and waiting,
eyes long collapsed into treacle black trails
that crusted on rotting sallow cheeks.

Red robed priests brought the child,
who held before him a stone plate,
upon which sat a freshly cut tongue,
glistening and flapping in approach.

The boy knelt in mute supplication,
lifting the plate to the eyeless prelate,
who, fumbling, groping and grabbing,
gobbled the tongue in slurping mess.

His dessicated hand he then opened,
revealing stained brown teeth,
that the clerics took and squeezed into the
still bloody mouth of the convulsing boy.

They left then, the red vicars,
returning after a moon had passed,
to find only seated bones,
and a boy licking cracked lips,
with new grown tongue.

Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social

I think Dave knew what he was doing handing over the reins of #NovemberNightmares for a bit. I haven't slept properly all week! Your poems have been brilliant though, so keep 'em coming. Your disturbing picture prompt today is: