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@samflynnwrites.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 9:17 PM

Our final excerpt takes us through Cassius' climactic decision, first revealed in the opening lines, and sets the stage for the book's epic finale.

#booksky 💙📚 #writingcommunity #speclit #fantasylit #horrorlit #writersky

I thought I knew how to be a hero. I thought I knew. I thought. Never once did I feel, not aloud. The feelings were buried like the roots of a tree, unacknowledged and all the more powerful for it. Power, like roots, thrives in the dark, its survival dependent on its disguise. The truth of who I’ve always been lived beneath the earth, just like the Mothertree. And at the source, beyond the assumptions, the lies, the suffering, the utter core, was a choice. Who are you? I am Gaius Cassius Marius and I will be the last of the Lightbringers.
@ammcdow.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:21 PM

I've got two novels out in a YA epic fantasy trilogy and a collection of short works, and I've contributed poetry and/or fiction to horror and fantasy anthologies. #booksky #fantasybooksky #spookyrecs #fantasyrecs #speclit #specfic
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@ammcdow.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:20 PM

If you like #fantasybooks, the first novel in my YA epic fantasy series has magic, adventure, good vs. evil, forests, gryphons, dragons, unicorns, and more. #speclit #specfic #booksky #fantasybooksky
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@ammcdow.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:16 PM

Hi, Elli. If you like #fantasybooks, the first book in my YA epic fantasy series has magic, adventure, good vs. evil, forests, gryphons, dragons, unicorns, and more. #booksky #fantasybooksky #speclit #specfic
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@hss.springernature.comSep 21, 2026, 2:00 PM

Hans Haider stellt am 22.9.2026 um 19 Uhr seine gerade erschienene Biografie "Friederike Mayröcker 1924–2021" über die Jahrhundertdichterin in der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Literatur vor. Die Veranstaltung wird live gestreamt: bit.ly/3V2Q51W

Hier mehr dazu: bit.ly/46ES0wb
💙📚 #speclit

Friederike Mayröcker 1924–2021 Biographie
@rammwriter.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 9:50 AM

#wipsnips #amquerying #sffwriters #writingcommunity #writersky #timetravelauthors #speclit #amwriting #authors #thrillerwriters #writers

@samflynnwrites.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 2:07 AM

For our second-to-last excerpt, Cassius discovers for the first time in his life a place where authority is not blindly obeyed, where "just following orders" is abhorred and revealed for the clown show it is.

#booksky 💙📚 #writingcommunity #speclit #fantasylit #horrorlit #writersky

On the other side of the marketplace was our destination: a clown performing for children. Caked in white powder, red-lipped, and topped by a crude wooden crown upon his wispy haired scalp, the old man scampered around on all fours in a circle to the delighted laughter of the enraptured youth. He shouted orders at them, demanded they do as he told them, offered them coin, and threatened them with violence. The children laughed harder. Faron chuckled beside me. The purpose eluded me. “You took me to a clown?” “I took you to the wisest man I know. Our oldest Imantaji. He’s been waiting for you.”
@atsayre.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:00 PM

Here's an excerpt from the great review of my upcoming book in @ala-booklist.bsky.social

It's weird, but strangers saying nice things about my work almost feels like it means more sometimes.

'The Asterist' out October 13th. Preorder yours today at Amazon: buff.ly/OvREuiA

#speclit #booksky

@ammcdow.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 3:18 PM

Hi, Jared. If you like fantasy, the first book in my YA epic fantasy series has magic, adventure, good vs. evil, forests, sorcerers, gryphons, dragons, unicorns, and more. #booksky #fantasybooksky #fantasybooks #speclit #specfic #indieauthor #indiebook
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@ammcdow.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 3:16 PM

Hi, Astrid. The first book in my YA epic fantasy series has magic, adventure, good vs. evil, forests, sorcerers, gryphons, dragons, unicorns, and more. #booksky #fantasybooksky #fantasybooks #speclit #specfic #indieauthor #indiebook #shamelessselfpromosunday
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@rammwriter.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 12:26 PM

#wipsnips #amquerying #sffwriters #writingcommunity #writersky #timetravelauthors #speclit #amwriting #authors #thrillerwriters #writers

@samflynnwrites.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 2:23 AM

Our fifth excerpt is extra-special, as it contains one of my favorite passages in my novella: Cassius reads the final journal entry of the previous Lightbringer.

#booksky 💙📚 #writingcommunity #speclit #fantasylit #horrorlit #writersky

@brightflame.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 8:47 PM

Late Sept already. Who's going to @capclave.bsky.social Oct 2nd? Me!
In addition to a Fri eve panel on magic, I'll be reading from The Working Saturday 12:30...including throwing #Tarot as part of it! A reading at a reading! (relevant to the book)

#WritingCommunity #SpecLit #BookSky #SFF #author

@hanmarin.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 6:51 PM

I love curating vibes—this song came on while I was revising my short story and it perfectly matches the weird intersection of antiquity and straight-up weird that "The Feast of Saint Lucius" is shaping up to be.

#amwriting #specfic #speclit #SFFH

@atsayre.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 6:45 PM

Here's a review and interview I did recently with @thereadingcafe.bsky.social for my upcoming book, 'The Asterist, ' out October 13th.
I think I'm only mildly pretentious in it.
buff.ly/0H74kBY
#booksky #speclit

@ammcdow.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 10:29 AM

If you like fantasy, the first book in my YA epic fantasy series has magic, adventure, good vs. evil, forests, sorcerers, gryphons, dragons, unicorns, and more. #booksky #fantasybooksky #fantasybooks #speclit #specfic #indieauthor #indiebook #shamelessselfpromosaturday
books2read.com/mysticalgree...

@rammwriter.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 8:46 AM

#wipsnips #amquerying #sffwriters #writingcommunity #writersky #timetravelauthors #speclit #amwriting #authors #thrillerwriters #writers

@samflynnwrites.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 12:33 AM

Our next excerpt at last takes our main character Cassius and his crop (a very specific choice of words) of Lightbringers underground on their mission to kill the Dweller in Darkness.

#booksky 💙📚 #writingcommunity #speclit #fantasylit #horrorlit #writersky

I expected our environs to be tight and cramped, and perhaps they will be, but the cavern beneath our entrance was almost as large as the Chapel vault where we had our Choosing feast. The rock has an oily sheen to it that reflected iridescent in light. Broken tendrils of black stone extended out the walls like a thousand gnarled fingers, the rest cleared by Shooting Stars when they uprooted the Zarak and their demon-tree. On the ground are the scattered remnants, some pieces carrying strange symbols. I once read the Zarak etched the names of their ancestors onto the petrified roots. I held one in my hand close to the flame to examine its runes. The piece I held bore someone’s name, someone who had lived and died long before me, and a sudden invisible weight made me drop the stone like it had scalded me.
@ammcdow.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 4:32 PM

Hi, Alex. If you like fantasy, the first book in my YA epic fantasy series has magic, adventure, good vs. evil, forests, sorcerers, gryphons, dragons, unicorns, and more. #booksky #fantasybooksky #fantasybooks #speclit #specfic #indieauthor
books2read.com/mysticalgree...

@ammcdow.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 4:21 PM

Hi. If you like fantasy, the first book in my YA epic fantasy series has magic, adventure, good vs. evil, forests, sorcerers, gryphons, dragons, unicorns, and more. #booksky #fantasybooksky #fantasybooks #speclit #specfic #indieauthor
books2read.com/mysticalgree...