The Orange Peel Game. "Caroline shouldn't have heard what was on that call."
Caroline can taste the world🍊
7½ DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE
WESTING GAME
INHERITANCE GAMES
A strange scavenger hunt in 1949 caused a murder, and a woman who tastes names must solve its puzzles to catch the killer
7 players
1 murderer
1 mastermind
A little locked box
#WSPit #Q #M #NA #In #CS #WF
Trump Crash Out Bingo. Let's play. "Watch me as I crash out like no one's ever crashed out before. I might shit my pants on live TV...you never know. Watch and see. Great prizes to the winner. The best prizes."
Moonium, my new sci-fi novel, is now available on Amazon and BN.com. Paperback and eBook on Kindle. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GF1KJJRV
Ministry of Time x Life on Mars
An intelligence agent from 2023 and a Russian spy from 1997 travel to 1972, to steal Britain’s time travel secrets. Their subsequent collision with a very pissed-off MI5 officer sparks a temporal explosion of epic Cold War proportions.
#BluePit #Q #A #T #SP #HS 📖 🦋
THE LAST ORDER
1847: A hunger was buried.
2025: A world-class kitchen was built on it.
Detective Alistair realizes the restaurant isn't just serving food—it's a feeding tube for an ancient god that hasn't eaten in two centuries.
24k Horror Novella.
#BluePit #H #CosmicHorror #BodyHorror #Q
Cover: Anthropomorphic by Charlie Delta
Gold on black, a symbol of a sword transposed over an eye.
Rayna Clay hunts monsters. But it has never really been that simple, has it?
#Anthropomorphic has:
💥Subterfuge!
💥Ace people who investigate secret incubi/succubi crimes!
💥Serial killers (who may not be human)!
💥Political intrigue!
💥A vast criminal conspiracy!
#BluePit 📖 #LGBT #F #C
A moodboard in black and white existing of 12 squares: 4 rows of 3 columns Row 1 (top): A candelbra; a steampunk city; a woman's bare neck Row 2: Frankenstein's bringing his monster to life; a skull; surgical instruments Row 3: a woman's bare feet in grass; two people about to kiss; a hand on a mirror Row 4: a dead body, hand extended toward viewer; a woman's corset being unlaced; a man, face hidden, leaning toward the viewer
MASTER OF DJINN X THE LAST BINDING
Tal is a liar: a necromancer in hiding and a woman in disguise. Discovered by a mage, she's offered a deal: help stop a murderer of mages & he'll keep her secret.
Can she trust the mage, & magic, before the murderer finds & exposes her?
#Bluepit 📖 #F #R #Q #ND
Moonium, my new sci-fi novel, arrives on Amazon tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 13th. Ebook is now available.
#BookThreads
My new sci-fi thriller, Noonium, arrives on Amazon, next Tuesday, January 13th. EBook now available.
Haha...thanks so much, Nora!!
@noramcmanus.bsky.social
Happy New Years!!!
Thanks. I really enjoyed writing Moonium. Great storyline. Great characters.
Official cover photo for Moonium.
Coming out in January 2026.
#IndieBooks #Scifi #ScifiBooks
#NewBooks2026
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I finally finished the 4th draft of Moonium late last night. All that's left is a few formatting issues and it's ready to go to The Amazon. #Moonium #NewRelease2026
Keep going. Stay the course.
At least he got Christine....
The first horror novel I wrote entirely from a man's POV was DEEP DOWN, a creature feature about a man and his dog entering a cave during the end of the world.
#HorrorWritersChat
My latest humor piece, “So When Does Christmas Begin?” Please leave likes and comments via Substack link. Thanks in advance!
Unfuckingbelievable. They bent over and kissed Trumps ass. Dems won't get shit in return. Especially not their bullshit promise.
Demo do this every fuckng time. A fucking promise...a promise don't mean SHIT in politics.
Several likes and great comments of support from fellow authors.
Moonium: Red Reckoning is next in this series.
One final read through starting tomorrow and focusing on dialogue and cleaning that up. I’m shooting for a January 2026 release. I think I’ve got a good interest from fellow authors, through all the Pitch events I’ve done on Twitter and BlueSky this year—somewhere between 10-15 or so.
Moonium is done with the formats, margins and page numbers within the style parts of the book. I’m doing it as one regular book with all the chapters and not dividing it up into parts. If this approach doesn’t work in KDP, I’ll break it into two parts, but I think it should be okay.
Holiday Sale - The Bingo Killer Series is on sale for the holidays.
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Top pics: A WW2 nurse in a grey dress, medical arm band, white apron & headscarf looking away at a building with the title in curly grey font Healing Silver, & a woman & soldier in the middle of war hiding each other with a quote “Behind every strong soldier, there is an even stronger woman who stands behind him, supports him, & loves him with all her heart. Middle pics: A pic of the hospital tent from MASH & a quote: “Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.” H.L. Mencken, & A pic of Nurse Margaret & Radar when he was sick in MASH, & a quote “Love &war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil & good, beauty & ugliness.” Rick Riordan Bottom pics: A pic of Diagon Alley in HP when it was attacked with a quote “His kiss was a poison that my body craved. I was an addict, diving headfirst into the drug I knew would destroy me.” J.M. Leigh, & a pic from a TV show A Discovery of Witches & a quote "all is fair in love & war" Francis Edward Smedley
Top 2 pics: The 2 Kelpie heads at Falkirk & a little girl in a white dress on a dock putting little paper boats in water. The kelpie pic has a quote “When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord, An' float the jinglin' icy boord, Then water-kelpies haunt the foord, By your direction, And 'nighted trav'llers are allur'd To their destruction.” Robert Burns Middle 2 pics: A Fjord with an old castle looking building & a yellow flowering meadow in the Scottish Highlands. The fjord pic has a quote: “In the depths they await to hear the children's whispered calls.” - The Children who Whispered to Water. Bottom Pic: An art pic of a kelpie with glowing white eyes coming out of the water to a shore of a forest. At the bottom of the pic is the title in green in a watery font The Children who Whispered to Water. There is a quote “No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless as feathers falling" The Kelpie's Pearls, Molly Hunter
Top pics: a cabin in snowy mountains & a woman walking in a jungle forest. Over those 2 pics is the title in orange Wilderness Lockup. On the snowy pic is a quote: “the instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derive from it.” - Robert Heinlein 2nd row pics: A blonde girl in an orange coat with a tan backpack in a forest holding a map, & a man in an orange jacket sailing a boat on an ocean. 3rd row pics: a man walking in a sandy desert, & a girl walking in a red rock area. The desert pic has a quote: “Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.” - Carrie Ryan, The Dark & Hollow Places Bottom pics: A man kayaking in a Swamp, a man hiking a Hawaiian trail by the ocean, & a man crying on the sign at the Katahdin trailhead. The Hawaiian picture has a quote "I don't think I outfitted you. I don't think I outfitted you. The only thing I did was outcast you." Bob Crowley, Gabon
Here is my list for #QuestPit
1. Healing Silver #W #A #R
2. The Children who Whispered to Water #W #MG #F
3. Wilderness Lockup #W #A #DR #Dys #T
Feedback/critiques are welcome.
✨ISO readers who like thick, dark-skinned ballerinas and the Viggas, obsessed with them.
Bare Fangs
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#booksky
#blackbooksky
#writingcommunity
#blackwriters
#bvm
#RomanceLandia
Audio Book cover for The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Image shows a grand staircase with four men in shadow behind a girl, all five with question marks over their faces.
Pitch card with a sitting ballerina hunched over her bent legs holding her head. A badge beside her legs reads, "Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist." Words at the top read, "Wake by Jessica DeLand, YA Contemporary Fantasy." Middle reads, "One kidnapped ballerina, Four fantasy fugitives, And her quest to escape. Coming Spring 2027, AAPI/ADHD writer." Words at the bottom read, "Mental health rep, Slow burn, Forced proximity, Found family."
WAKE comps to THE INHERITANCE GAMES, but w/ kidnapping & magic:
~A girl who's forced to live w/ a dysfunctional group
~Unearthing secrets better left buried to regain freedom
~An ultra slow burn romance w/ someone she shouldn't
Coming Spring 2027
#QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R
Before she dies, a former lead psychiatrist at a sanatorium admits to some dark truths about her time there, but not all. A phantom begins haunting her granddaughter, guiding her closer to the truth behind the institution's walls, deep in the Canadian woods.
#QuestPit #Q #PNH #M #R
