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Fantasy / Horror / SciFi / Whatever The Unkillable Frank Lightning The Legend of Charlie Fish Death Aesthetic Stories in The Deadlands, PseudoPod, Bourbon Penn, and other cool places.

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I actually just finished writing a Sword & Sorcery novel in December. ⚔️

06.03.2026 01:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, still feels like a “new one.” I think I like Empire best from this period, but I love this one too.

06.03.2026 01:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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…welcome to the new dark ages…

06.03.2026 00:28 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Thanks!!

04.03.2026 19:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Excited to report that I’m going to be a guest at San Antonio Book Festival in April! Hope to see you there!

04.03.2026 16:00 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Operation Epic Fury sounds like something I would have scribbled on my middle school notebook in 1985, after watching Red Dawn for the hundredth time. This is all a game to these clowns.

28.02.2026 16:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Always excited for a new @jeffreyford8.bsky.social collection! One of my favorite short story writers!! #bookmail

28.02.2026 15:58 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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…You talk about day, I’m talking ‘bout night time…

28.02.2026 00:09 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did I mention I finished a new short story for the first time in quite a while? 😃

27.02.2026 18:39 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I've extended the sale on my sweaty sapphic novella SWEET MOTHER I CANNOT WEAVE through Sunday, so it's a great time to snag it for just $1 bsky.app/profile/tdcl...

27.02.2026 16:17 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Something special today.

I have TWO hand sewn short story collections available.

Please support the art of bookbinding.

These are printed on parchment.

If you’ve never bought one of my hand sewn books please give one a chance! Thank you

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27.02.2026 16:19 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Thanks Gabino! #FridayReads do you need something lengthy to get you through to spring? How do nine novelettes featuring cryptids, giant bats, and even a Jewish exorcism sound?

Amazon: tinyurl.com/5awn78h3
B&N: tinyurl.com/5e9vu3hr
Kobo: tinyurl.com/bdhthesj
Apple Books: tinyurl.com/5ev7cr8k

27.02.2026 16:25 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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#FridayReads what collection has ghosts, budding serial killers, and carnivorous horses, among other things? Why, "Hannah and Other Stories!" And you can grab your copy today!

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B&N: tinyurl.com/4fznerfe
Kobo: tinyurl.com/3u5fpeb6
Apple Books: tinyurl.com/33xhhdnx

27.02.2026 16:26 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Don’t wait to read The Monsters Among Us!

While each book occurs as a consequence of the book before it, each entry in The Abyss Borne Gods series is fully self-contained and unique on its own, providing a brand-new narrative to follow!

Read Book 1:
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27.02.2026 16:08 👍 6 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Marty's book audition for the fox, one copy sits atop a few others in a mosaic like pattern

Marty's book audition for the fox, one copy sits atop a few others in a mosaic like pattern

Thanks, Gabino, cheers!!

Audition For The Fox is my debut novella that just entered a 2nd printing! Time travel and trickster gods abound in a story of a young woman trying to find her place in the world & needs to ensure a rebellion in the past to do so 🦊💜

tachyonpublications.com/product/audi...

27.02.2026 16:12 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0
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Ruins: A gripping, heart-stopping Norfolk Broads Supernatural Mystery (Dark England Book 3) Amazon.com: Ruins: A gripping, heart-stopping Norfolk Broads Supernatural Mystery (Dark England Book 3) eBook : Kruse, Gary: Kindle Store

Thanks Gabino! Boosting my #horror novel, Ruins for #FridayReads.

It’s a tale of vengeful ghosts, stalkers, unsolved mysteries, family drama and a hidden killer set on the Norfolk Broads…

Check it out here: mybook.to/Ruins

#supernatural #thriller #NorfolkBroads #horrorauthor #crimefiction

27.02.2026 15:42 👍 7 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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The Chained Space Series Visit Amazon's The Chained Space Series Page and shop for all The Chained Space Series books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of The Chained Space Series

Thanks Gabino!

The Chained Space Series has everything:

* Super icky slime monsters!

* Redneck lizards!

* Space madness!

* Recreational brain surgery!

* Cat science!

These stand-alone space adventures build up to the big finale still to come!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP9TZ69D

27.02.2026 15:30 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Next Door: Twelve Twisted Tales and One True Story Award winning writer Kimberly Davis Basso turns her attention to twelve tales of dark fiction and one true story in an evocative collection of...

Hello #FridayReads! Next Door is 13 horror tales, one of them true. A haunted city, a child finds a treasure on a beach nest left behind, the hidden lives of your neighbors...

On sale for under $10 at the big guy a.co/d/0b6bhOYT
AND my shop:
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27.02.2026 15:22 👍 12 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
“It was the truth and there was no denying it. Jeremy Keller was being followed. At first he didn’t quite believe it. Who gets followed in real life?”
Welcome to Jeremy’s world: New York City at the end of the 20th century. Yes, Jeremy is being followed, but he doesn’t mind. He is, after all, destined for great things. A little being followed is to be expected. And no, he doesn’t know why he’s being followed. And his job is nothing to brag about either. And a certain police detective has it in for him. And the love of his life doesn’t know he exists. And he thinks he’s responsible for the death of an innocent man. And his rent is late. And he lost the mysterious envelope that just might have the answers he’s looking for. But at least he’s being followed. Not everyone can say that. But then, not everyone is destined for great things.

Paperback $9.99 from Amazon

Kindle $2.99 from Amazon

Paperback from Bookshop

“There are a million laughs in the big city…wonderfully comic…a page-turner…Stein has a keen eye for the details of our cultural landscape. And he sprinkles his scenes with deadpan one-liners and cultural reference points…insightful tweaking of city living and modern times.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer (full review below)

“It was the truth and there was no denying it. Jeremy Keller was being followed. At first he didn’t quite believe it. Who gets followed in real life?” Welcome to Jeremy’s world: New York City at the end of the 20th century. Yes, Jeremy is being followed, but he doesn’t mind. He is, after all, destined for great things. A little being followed is to be expected. And no, he doesn’t know why he’s being followed. And his job is nothing to brag about either. And a certain police detective has it in for him. And the love of his life doesn’t know he exists. And he thinks he’s responsible for the death of an innocent man. And his rent is late. And he lost the mysterious envelope that just might have the answers he’s looking for. But at least he’s being followed. Not everyone can say that. But then, not everyone is destined for great things. Paperback $9.99 from Amazon Kindle $2.99 from Amazon Paperback from Bookshop “There are a million laughs in the big city…wonderfully comic…a page-turner…Stein has a keen eye for the details of our cultural landscape. And he sprinkles his scenes with deadpan one-liners and cultural reference points…insightful tweaking of city living and modern times.” —Philadelphia Inquirer (full review below)

Getting my tax info ready and I see that three people have bought my novel LOST in the last few months. I'm betting we can get that number up to five by spring.

“Wonderfully comic.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer

scottsteinonline.com/books/lost/

www.amazon.com/dp/1670496139/

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27.02.2026 15:15 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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A Shadow of Your Former Self A Shadow of Your Former Self [Grech, Amy, Buddha, Alien] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Shadow of Your Former Self

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27.02.2026 16:01 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Books by Bruins: Love Stories - UCLA Alumni F ebruary is a month for love stories, whether it’s a romance novel, personal tale of love and loss, or a book about self-care. Bruin authors are telling tales of love, and one of the books listed bel...

Happy #FridayReads, hermano! I always feel "seen" when one of my alumni magazines covers my writing life. This month, UCLA Alumni Magazine gave a shout out to my short-story collection, My Chicano Heart (@unvpress.bsky.social), for Valentine's Day.
alumni.ucla.edu/books-by-bru...

27.02.2026 15:19 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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"...kept me gripped the whole way flipping through the pages like a mad man hungry for whatever came next ... Rosch is incredible at creating pulse pounding environments and situations that suck you in." -SpinelessBookReviews.

Thanks @gabino.bsky.social #fridayreads

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27.02.2026 15:28 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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In Search of the Nobility, TX Wildman In Search of the Nobility, TX Wildman - Kindle edition by Alley, Elford. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading In Search of the Nobility, TX Wildman.

$2 for the ebook, $7 for the paperback!

“It's thoughtful, sad, and darkly funny, more a story about doomed obsession…”

A dying cryptozoologist, a disgraced reality tv host, and a legendary monster. In Search of the Nobility, TX Wildman, a dark comedy novella! amzn.to/2DjoUYG

27.02.2026 15:30 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of Kurt Phillips’ novel, the hand of the archer
A black and white elk looks from the darkness.

The cover of Kurt Phillips’ novel, the hand of the archer A black and white elk looks from the darkness.

Thanks, Gabino!
A wildlife biologist battling his own demons faces terrifying flashbacks and a violent entity after a psychedelic therapy session gone wrong, leading him to a life-or-death confrontation in the wilds of Colorado.
PLUS:
New Stories Coming in March!

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27.02.2026 15:26 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 8: CURSED PLACES - Two Novelettes (print + eBook) *p This a preorder. This book is expected to ship on or before April 21st, 2026. “Evocative and evil, a powerful one-two punch of horror” Tamika Thompson, THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS This is not a place ...

Thanks Gabino! SPLIT SCREAM VOL. 8: CURSED PLACES is out 4/21/26 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Chris Panatier calls “Passing Glance,” my tale, “a propulsive, horny, delightfully entertaining and surprising dark story.”

27.02.2026 15:40 👍 19 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
8 copies of THE GLASS GARDEN, arranged so you can see the kaleidoscopic effect of the cover repeat and repeat and repeat…

8 copies of THE GLASS GARDEN, arranged so you can see the kaleidoscopic effect of the cover repeat and repeat and repeat…

Spring is coming. It MUST. Until then…

A crack team of salvors and a homebody archaeologist make a phenomenal discovery on a distant exoplanet.
It could be the ultimate score. The ticket to their dreams.
But only if they can resist its call…
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27.02.2026 15:29 👍 21 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
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The Unkillable Frank Lightning The Unkillable Frank Lightning - Kindle edition by Rountree, Josh. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Unkillable Frank Lightning.

“Frank Lightning takes center stage right now to mash up literature's most famous resurrected corpse with Old West witchery, arcane traveling sideshows, and the classic journey of retribution turned completely on its ear in a totally novel way.”
―David J. Schow

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F84FWVT...

27.02.2026 16:04 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. I’m sharing this because every copy counts and helps me sell the next one! A Caribbean nightmare filled with monsters, friendship, santería, and murder.

(45% off!) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

27.02.2026 15:08 👍 69 🔁 47 💬 29 📌 5

New singles this week from The Menzingers, Social Distortion, and American Sharks!! Let’s keep this energy going.

26.02.2026 20:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This book is RAD! Go check it out.

26.02.2026 03:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0