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As an author and artist, I'm a small business trying to make my way in the crowded marketplace. Once a week I share one of my creations with you. Maybe one of them will ring your chimes. Up this week: Labrys & Horns, the how-to guide for inclusive Minoan spirituality. Meet the deities, set up an altar, invite their energies into your life, do some sacred crafts and other fun stuff. Ariadne, Dionysus, Rhea, the Minotaur, Therasia and so many others await you...

https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/labrys-and-horns

A paperback copy of Labrys and Horns: An Introduction to Modern Minoan Paganism by Laura Perry stands on sparkling golden sand. The book has a light aqua cover with an image of a labrys standing between the points of a pair of sacred horns. The book is surrounded by snippets of text that are connected to the book by arrows. The text reads, "Minoan deities, inclusive spirituality, make an altar, rituals, sacred calendar, devotionals."

https://reviews.pivic.com/cory-doctorow-enshittification

I've reviewed @pluralistic's coming book, 'Enshittification', the book about the term that Doctorow coined.

The book is sprightly written, funny, filled with facts, and it makes me angry with enshittifiers.

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The book cover: black background, white text, the poop emoji in the middle with a black ribbon over its mouth. The ribbon has a few non-alphabetic characters on it, indicating the poop emoji is swearing, likely because of enshittification. I could be the poop emoji about this matter.

That's why I write things are always right if I'm making everything up 😜😂
Also, did you know to create a fictional world from scratch you have to start with creating the ? At least that's what I've been told... 😅

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Why researching before writing is so, so important. Screenshot from book MADERING MILLER: His skin was the color of just-pressed olive. Picture of just pressed olive that is an alien looking lime green.

QSFer Eule Grey has a new MM horror book out: It Begins.

Byron, PhD student and waistcoat admirer, knows about yearning and betrayal. It’s been four years since the love of his life, Ruben, walked off without explanation. Byron dreams of midnight sex he can’t fully remember and a beloved man with dancing eyes. If only Ruben would return… But ...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-giveaway-it-begins-eule-grey/

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Modern Minoan myths for you! These amazing deities are still with us today, weaving themselves through our lives, showing us the mysterious ways of this world and the Underworld. Enjoy full-page color illustrations and delightful myths as you explore the Minoan pantheon.

Independently published, available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook from many places that aren't named after a rainforest river.

Paperback copy of Tales from the Labyrinth: Modern Minoan Myths by Laura Perry in front of a blue background. The book cover includes the Minoan Snake Goddess standing in front of a labyrinth. The book is surrounded by snippets of text that are connected to the book by arrows. The text reads, "Minoan Myths with a Modern Twist, Bull Leaping, The Serpent Mother, Goddesses Thea Therasia Posidaeja, Dionysus and Zagreus, Ariadne and the Labyrinth."

Oggi ĂŠ venuto a mancare uno dei miei autori preferiti Stefano Benni. Io vorrei ricordarlo cosi, con una delle piĂş belle descrizioni di sempre del lecchino

> “Ero pronto a tutto, quando entrammo nel sotterraneo dove era custodito l’Archivio Zero. Ma quello che mi trovai di fronte era la peggior disgrazia che potessi immaginare. Un leccapiedi. https://fundor333.com/micro/2025/09/addio-stefano-benni/

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quoted Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker: Everything We Do Is Music (Hardcover, 2025, Faber & Faber, Limited)

Back on the call to Young, I sense he is getting tired we've been speaking for well over an hour, and I've been informed that he has been working round the clock preparing for his forthcoming performance. I start to wrap up our interview, and as I get ready to say goodbye, he says, very sincerely: 'I really hope I have answered your questions and that my answers have been useful to you,' and thanks me for taking an interest in his work.

I thank him back and, although I've been advised not to ask about his influence on pop and rock musicians - apparently he takes no interest in it-I decide that, since we've stayed on such good terms, I'll venture one last question about his legacy and how it feels to have shaped the careers of so many other artists within and far beyond his own practice.

'Is it true?' he asks, before chuckling to himself for a while. And then finally he replies, 'The thing is, it's not about ego gratification. It's about trying to do the right thing, and if you try to do the right thing with your life and other people agree you're doing the right thing, then that's very satisfying.'

— Everything We Do Is Music by 

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I want to pump these reviews for my book 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' into my veins!!!

'Kristie de Garis’ debut book—it’s memoir but it’s also poetry, and riveting as any thriller—is a tour de force. It’s a story of crisis and betrayal but it’s also like finally having coffee with your former women’s studies professor who just lets loose and tells you what her life is *really* like. Warm, funny, scandalous.'

🙏🏿

A screenshot of an amazon.com review. The text says... 5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2025 Kristie de Garis’ debut book—it’s memoir but it’s also poetry, and riveting as any thriller—is a tour de force. It’s a story of crisis and betrayal but it’s also like finally having coffee with your former women’s studies professor who just lets loose and tells you what her life is *really* like. Warm, funny, scandalous.

I'm currently very interested in SOLARPUNK, an offshoot of HOPEPUNK, that asks the questions, "What if the future was good, actually?" and "How do we heal our relationship with the earth & each other?"

Give me your recommendations, please. I need some hope.

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Some examples of Solarpunk I've read & loved: PLANETFALL by Emma Newman WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME by Marge Piercy A PSALM FOR THE WILD-BUILT by Becky Chambers A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY by Becky Chambers A HALF-BUILT GARDEN by Ruthanne Emrys TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING by Ada Palmer

What do you mean OR? 🤔
I can broil in existential dread and plot a fantasy series at the same time. 😂 Luckily I don't make mistakes, at least not any I'm willing to admit too 😜

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Post by C.G. Drews Apparently some people go to bed and just...sleep??? They don't plot a 7-book epic fantasy series or softly broil in existential dread or replay every mistake they ever made??? And then they wake up [checks notes] REFRESHED? | just. It sounds a bit fake.

Our book promo has only had 3 sales so far, so shares/reposts would be greatly appreciated!

ABOUT US:

We are all indie authors in the very-hard-to-market middle grade genre. We pay our cover artists and editors out of pocket and have to figure out all the marketing and promotional stuff on our own, and these bundles are one of the ways we work together to help boost each other's work and bring attention to the indie book scene.

ABOUT THE BUNDLE:

With this bundle, you get 6 books for less than the price of a single cup of coffee per book! PLUS, this bundle includes:

✨ A book that just won a Nebula Award (the ONLY indie to have ever done so in this category).

✨ A book that won a Wishing Shelf Book Awards Silver Medal, was a Canadian Book Club Awards Finalist, …

Six book covers are featured against a black chalkboard background. Large blue and white text reads: "Middle Grade Back to School Book Bundle!". Smaller text reads: "August 11 - August 17, Only $8 USD for 6 Great Reads!" The featured books are: - Witch Test by Katie L. Carroll - Goblin Girl by K.A. Mielke - The Berge Sisters Tour the Neitherswarth by J.L. Durona - The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode - Bad Grains by Susanne Schmidt - River of Crows by N.P. Thompson

My latest read: "Pact" by Daniel Lorn - See my Goodreads review for details but if you're in search of a quick horror tale to churn your gut and rattle your brain, this one's worth a look!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7829904612

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