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@cmdebell.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:17 PM

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is PUSH

In The Many Shades of Midnight, Isyr is a rare, priceless metal that also has some other undesirable qualities, as these characters are beginning to realise.

#bookqw #writingcommunity #indiefantasy 💙🪐📚

Front cover and excerpt from The Many Shades of Midnight for Book Quote Wednesday prompt PUSH Gaemo’s gaze flicked from the Isyr weapons to Alyas’s face. He said, “There are rumours, about Isyr.” “Are there? How interesting. What’s your news?” Gaemo ignored the question. “My king’s father ordered all Isyr in his household to be locked away twenty years ago, and there are whispers that it was not because he feared the attention of thieves.” Alyas’s eyes narrowed. “Do you have a point?” The ambassador gave him a searching look. “I think you just made it for me. But in answer to your other question, yes, I have news. It’s not good. Are you capable of acting on it?” “Stop it, Melar,” Esar growled. He had learned, since Cadria, that pushing only made things worse. If Gaemo had bad news, they didn’t need to complicate things by getting tangled up in an unwinnable argument about Isyr.
@julieczerneda.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:44 PM

Allow me to #push a little more #esen at you, this fine #bookqw...

::giggles::

cover of Spectrum by Julie Czerneda with quote from part where Esen experiences zero g but Paul won't let her fool around.
@joanneguidoccio.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:40 PM

It's Book Quote Wednesday! Today's word: PUSH. #Excerpt is from HIPPIE MERMAID, a coming-of-age #fantasy. #bookqw #mermaidtransformation

@vjknipe.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:11 PM

It's Book Quote Wednesday. #BookQW Today's word is Push.

Caroline witnesses a hit and run and stops to help the downed motorcyclist. He acts like he knows her, but she has never met him.
Tomorrow
📚🌃
UK www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Borrowed...
US www.amazon.com/Her-Borrowed...

A flyer for Her Borrowed Grave it shows an ebook and a paperback with the same cover. A silhouetted figure walks rain-washed, cobble streets. Behind them is a winged serpent on an intaglio such as you might find on a signet ring. Text reads: “Finally. Brown eyes, so beautiful. But here? How?” His voice became querulous. He reached for her face. Caroline caught his arm with her free hand, pushing it down. “No. Please, Donald. You must stay still, moving might hurt your back.”
@triempery.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 11:40 AM

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is PUSH

One of my favorite characters--simply loved writing him--is Cullen. In this snip from THE KHELD KING, Cullen and Stefan are resolving a thorny issue: whether Stefan should make Cullen, a Kheld, a lord.
#WritingCommunity #bookqw

Left side of image is the book cover of THE KHELD KING, second book of the Triempery Revelations series by L.L. Stephens. Cover is blue and gray and shows a lonely figure looking up at a clifftop city crowned by magic. Right side of image is a text excerpt from THE KHELD KING: Cullen’s measuring gaze was followed by a frown. “If I say I’ll be your minister, you’re going to push that lordship on me, aren’t you?” Before he was crowned, they’d talked about Stefan doing that sort of thing. Staubauns might fight him every step of the way, but Khelds craved a greater role in Stefan’s government. There was no better way to make a statement. “It will be to your advantage. Usually the king’s ministers are aristocrats, or the sons of aristocrats, or high-ranking people from the Seven Houses or guilds. I have to make you an Enlad at least.” Cullen sighed, but nodded, his eyes again sweeping toward the river. “Then I guess I’m in. If we’re making changes, might as well go full gallop.”
@scriblit.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:51 AM

Book Quote Wednesday's word is PUSH, which gives me the excuse to post Lazare JUST HAPPENING to see Fang washing his chest, pushing his hair back to do so #BookSky #BookQW from Cursed Under London. Buying links: farragobooks.com/book-series/...

Quote from Cursed Under London. Quote reads: Cock-a-doodle-doo, he was attractive. Lazare had guessed from the way Fang had fought that he’d have to have considerable lean strength, but it was quite a different matter being faced with those forearms, those shoulders, that chest and that midriff, still half wet. The man’s skin was far from the sort of perfect porcelain purity that would be romanticised in sonnets. Black hair grew thin as lichen on his chest and thickened as it disappeared in a merrily widening path down the front his breeches. The body hair had bald, discoloured lines of scar tissue cut into it in one, two, three, four… five places on his torso, and several on his arms. Fang had pushed his long hair back to wash his face, and bonjour neck, chin and cheekbones. The bonnest of jours to all of that.
@julietemckenna.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:34 AM

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'push' #BookQW #BookSky
In the realm of Arafaze, a small number of priests and priestesses keep magic's secrets closely guarded. Their duty is watching for malevolent incursions from the unseen world and forcing the apparitions back.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GK5RVZWT/

The Riven Kingdom cover art by Alice Claire Coleman is in the style of a stained glass window. Blue-green leaves and vines dotted with golden flowers coil around silver swords in panels on either side. These are topped with a golden sun on the left and a yellow crescent moon on the right. In the centre, rival hands stretch upwards trying to get hold of a crown that's just out of reach... ‘What do we do?’ Alory’s shiver had nothing to do with the cold. Jadewin pushed back her hood. The waxing Snow Moon shone above them in a cloudless sky. Its light burnished threads of silver in her dark, coiled braids. ‘We take note, first of all. A phantasm’s form tells us about those whose fears and spite have spawned it. Where the thing goes and where it lingers will tell us more. We have to find this apparition’s source if we’re to extinguish it for good. I don’t propose to banish it tonight to see it return tomorrow.’ Alory watched the phantasm walk back and forth across the square, like a dog casting for a scent. When she had first seen the apparition, Jadewin could see the buildings behind it, as though she were looking through smoke. As it drew closer, the phantasm become more solid, more horribly real. The semblance of an age-withered woman approached; a short, hunched figure with toothless gums drawing its nose into a hook above a pointed jaw.
@julietemckenna.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:18 AM

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'push' #BookQW #BookSky
We can't always find the nominated word, so when push comes to shove, we can go with a synonym. This unexpected encounter leaves Dan Mackmain badly off balance.
For UK and international purchase options - wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

Cover art by Ben Baldwin for The Green Man's Debt by Juliet E McKenna. A grey wolf with pale eyes stands in the shadows of a derelict building with a black and white tiled floor. The wolf is looking straight at you. Its snarl reveals blood on its teeth and jaw. Book extract reads: The shadows vanished and daylight filtered through the firs. I could hear cheerfully singing birds, and the murmur of a breeze in the needle-fringed branches above me. The hawthorn’s guardian gripped my bruised wrist as I knelt at her feet. I couldn’t fight my way free even if I wanted to. My arm was as limp as old rope. She released my wrist, sending a painful jolt through my shoulder and into my rib cage. Her blazing gaze skewered me, furious, as she stooped to seize hold of my jaw, forcing me to look into her eyes, still on my knees. ‘You swore you would not trespass. Do not ever do that again.’ ‘I—’ I have no idea what I was going to say. ‘Tell no one of your idiocy.’ She released me with a shove that rocked me back on my heels, jarring my spine from the back of my neck to my tail-bone. Before I could even gasp at the pain, she vanished.
@benjeapes.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:40 AM

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is PUSH. Just two teen boys chatting like teen boys do, neither knowing it's the last time things will ever be normal again. #bookqw #yafantasy #salisbury www.benjeapes.com/index.php/th...

Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.

@tanyahuff.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 9:12 PM

Today's word is TREAT. Today's #BookQW is from Direct Descendant (DAW Books 2025) a contemporary fantasy taking place just west of Timmins, ON, where small town values are subject to variable definitions but all the dogs are still good dogs.

Available in pb, audio, & digital. Shop indie if you can.

Lower left the cover of Direct Descendant, yellow and green and black with a bakery, a woman eating a cup cake, framing silver birch, and tentacles. Because it's always better with tentacles. They tolerated the bloodlines and Daffodil had a somewhat- threatening version of begging for treats. Dexter had come embarrassingly close to eating a train engineer who'd strayed a little too far from the station. Oh, and they were terrified of Alyx's corgis, and it was hysterically funny watching the corgis lording it over a pair of hellhounds. Well, it was funny as long as Uncle Stu didn't catch you calling them hellhounds. Having hand-raised them, he was a bit over-protective.
@bandersonmysteries.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:25 PM

Today is Book Quote Wednesday, and today’s word is “treat.” For more information or to order, visit www.brianandersonmysteries.com www.amazon.com/stores/autho... mybook.to/e2jmq #BookQW #mystery #mysterybookseries #BookSky

@willcampowell.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:54 PM

#BookQW
It's Book Quote Wednesday and today's word is #treat
Kai's band has arrived in Munich - but where are Jake and Lotte?
The show must go on, and hope for the best.
Last day for ebook deal @ $0.99
teardownbook.co.uk/#where

But tonight, Neale was in his element. Yeah, this was the guy who helped teach Jake to play guitar. This was blistering, paint-stripping power in slow blues. Dom picked up the vocal and prowled the stage. She drove down to the bottom of her vocal range, then flew high in a Daltrey-esque scream, into which Neale’s guitar blended. Her voice dropped away, and Neale’s solo teetered around the madness and the anguish of woman-treated-you-so-bad. Serves you right to suffer, yeah.
@shannaswendson.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:22 PM

It's #BookQW and the word this week is "treat." I'm using it in the medical sense, in this bit from my latest cozy fantasy release, Pottery & Peril, where the Cat Distribution System has done its thing. shannaswendson.com/writing/pott...

Pottery & Peril book cover is set against a background of a black cat. Quote: My apprentice found her and brought her to me to treat an injury, but we never found any other kittens or a mother, so I’m not sure where she came from.
@tfrohock.comSep 30, 2026, 4:00 PM

The Book Quote word this week is 'treat' #BookQW #BookSky and in a gothic mansion in the Black Forest, Diago is entertained by the Grier brothers over a poisoned meal:

A cream background with dark red Art Deco designs in the four corners and a screen shot of the cover of Where Oblivion Lives a dark red color with a yellow abstract angel on the cover. The text of the excerpt reads: Karl leaned forward. “You must understand that my pursuit of archaeological details about the house has led me to other ancient texts. For example, those symbols”—he pointed to the band of Diago’s ring—“are used by nefilim to work their spells of intent.” “Spells?” Diago choked on the word. He couldn’t be seen taking this kind of talk seriously. And I have to do it without insulting him. He treated the mortal to an incredulous smile and raised his eyebrows. “By nefilim? I thought they were biblical giants, not witches.” “That is what they have led the mortals to believe. You see, the nefilim controlled the narrative by writing mortal histories. They inserted falsehoods into the myths of ancient beings to disguise their presence among the mortals. Nefilim are actually hybrids, who are the children of angels and mortals.” Karl was dangerously close to the truth. ON SALE FOR $4.99 OCTOBER 1-31 DURING KOBO’s SPOOKY SEASON SALE WE’RE PRICE-MATCHING ACROSS PLATFORMS
@lindagriffinauthor.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 3:51 PM

Gentle, wholesome romance of independence and enduring love." ~ BookLife Reviews
www.lindagriffinauthor.com/cherry_creek...
#BookQW #HistoricalRomance

Black and white photo of young woman in old-fashioned dress. "The independence I visualized in marriage was in fact a different kind of dependence and, of that at least, Eileen was free. She had no home of her own and boarded with the parents of her pupils, but she was a skilled and popular teacher and well #treated by everyone."
@hywela-lyn.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 3:05 PM

#BOOKQW
Today's word is #TREAT and the snippet is again from The Matchmaker's Mare as, in the present time, Megan is enjoying her new job in Wales.
Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Matchmakers-...
Amazon US: www.amazon.com/Matchmakers....

@willablair.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 3:03 PM

Today's #BookQW word: TREAT

HIGHLAND ECHO
bit.ly/3SgbmQr

"Having read the first four books in the Highland Talents Heritage series, I was ready for a good story.
It was a great story."

#MustreadMedievalScottishHistorical #SwoonworthyRomance #ParanormalFamily #ForbiddenRomance #BlueSky

@julieczerneda.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 2:46 PM

A #treat for #bookqw!
(I do consider #esen to be a bit like chocolate. Tasty and ever-so-addictive.)
@dawbooks.bsky.social

@scriblit.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 2:36 PM

Book Quote Wednesday & the word is TREAT. In Cursed Under London, Lazare knows only too well that he is the biggest treat of all. He just needs Fang to understand that and stop MOPING, who mopes about KISSING?? #BookSky #BookQW Buying links: farragobooks.com/book-series/...

Quote from Cursed Under London. Quote reads: ‘Just take what you came here for,’ he whispered, and leaned his mouth into Lazare’s just that whisper he needed for their lips to touch, ‘you only really want one thing. Stop trying to fool yourself that this is anything but – you’re not fooling me.’ Lazare pulled away, angrily. Fang’s eyes still danced with desperation, pain and now humiliation and rage. ‘Again?’ He seethed. ‘I could ask the same of you,’ whispered Lazare. ‘Didn’t you say less than ten minutes ago you weren’t going to try it on again?’ Fang rolled onto his back, angrily. ‘What was wrong with it this time? I’m sober! You can’t tell yourself you’re just being gentlemanly around a drunk.’ ‘I keep saying, I won’t sleep with you if you’re sad about it. Sleeping with me is a treat, and you should be duly delighted. You deserve a treat, Fang of Cathay.’