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Dutch writer | #SFF #amwriting #fantasy #fairytales
✍️WIP with The Novelry: a dark fairytale retelling of The Little Humpbacked Horse
- Loved this story!
- My story The Ghost Merchant is out this week in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social If you want a dark fantasy story about a shop that sells ghosts to haunt mansions, and an apprentices first day as he realises what that entails, then this is the story for you!
- Off to Futurescapes Firenze, looking forward to a great workshop with a bunch of lovely people!
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- The Colored Lens Winter 2025 issue is available RIGHT NOW! Do you have your copy yet? Pick it up in paperback OR Kindle electronic version right here on Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS8VCW35 #booksky #books #kindleUnlimited #scifi #SFF #fantasy #WritingCommunity
- Beyond excited for the first TCL of 2025 and also the first issue I got to vote on all the stories :) #booksky #writingcommunity #bookrecs #sff #scifi #fantasy
- The Colored Lens Winter 2025 issue is available RIGHT NOW! Do you have your copy yet? Pick it up in paperback OR Kindle electronic version right here on Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS8VCW35 #booksky #books #kindleUnlimited #scifi #SFF #fantasy #WritingCommunity
- My personal favorites: -“World Hunger” by Mark Manifesto —> for some Sleeping Giants meets Ender’s Game epic sci-fi -“Dawn Patrol” by Calvin Sharpe —> for some hopepunk surfer vibes -“The Buried House” by Annie @stellarine.bsky.social —> for some exquisite prose and a heartbreaking metaphor
- Wonderful article! I usually have so many thoughts about writing complex protagonists (motivation vs agency etc.) but as I slide into second draft and editing mode with my trademark passive FMC, I really needed to read someone else’s informed opinion on this topic! #amwriting #fantasy #romance
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- The days are getting shorter, the evenings darker, so we’d love to share this wonderful cozy fantasy “Fiona and the Fairy Queen” by A.P. Golub to brighten up your day! thecoloredlens.com?p=140248 #SFF #storyrecs #fantasy #cozy #writingcommunity
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- I’ve been trying to evade the shadow daddy trope for a year now. It’s really harder than it looks, people! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #romantasy #fantasy
- I’m all for the “sure, why not” approach as well!
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- Such a great idea!
- 🍃🍂🍁 If you like your cozy fantasy with a twist of anarchy, check out my TCL Autumn issue personal favorite “The Meaning of Baskets” by Katie Gray #kindleUnlimited #SFF #bookrecs #fantasy #BookLovers
- So excited for this issue of The Colored Lens, the first one I helped out on, highly recommend! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJC2G5SW/ #sff #readerscommunity #writerscommunity #bookrecs
- Lovely fairy lights in the forest 🍄🍄🟫
- I’ve often missed out on the fun con and intensive workshop stuff due to traveling requirements and CET time difference. So I’m beyond excited that the Futurescapes Summer Intensive Workshop is in Florence the coming year. Hope to see some of you there! #sff #fantasy #amwriting #WritingCommunity
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- A song you like with a number in its title: Disco 2000 is iconic! youtu.be/qJS3xnD7Mus?...
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- As a fantasy romance writer, I find this very funny Description of a Guy in a Fantasy Romance Novel www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts... #writingcommunity #fantasy #romance #booksy
- For a small fee, I will attend your enemy’s writing group and suggest that they need to change their story’s POV
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- The Colored Lens is now on Bluesky 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 @thecoloredllens.bsky.social

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- Can’t join myself due to the CET time difference but hope someone who can will see this and join in my stead 😃 Can’t wait to read and review The Factory!
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- Reposted by Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
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- I had a blast at the Futurescapes Fall Workshop! Four days of workshopping your query package with some very talented writers and amazing faculty: what’s not to like? But the first time an industry professional refers to your writing as “absolutely spectacular”: a girl will never forget that!
- Loved it! Looking forward to the Winter issue!
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- Hi to all the new folks! I read a lot, review stuff for BSFA Review and share work I admire here on Bluesky. I also want to start sharing more about my own writing journey, writing courses, intensive workshops, writing coaches, manuscript revisions, looking for an agent that sort of thing.
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- So excited for this issue of The Colored Lens, the first one I helped out on, highly recommend! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJC2G5SW/ #sff #readerscommunity #writerscommunity #bookrecs
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- My cat LeeLoo is still the best bookish gadget! #catinabox
- Loved the circularity of the last line!
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- Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid.

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- Love it!
- Cool story!