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@janarichards.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 2:02 PM

#BookQW “You’re in for a treat,” Finn said with a smile. “Beth and Jenna and I have created a new dish, just for you. Tofu and vegetable stir-fry surprise.” THE GIRL MOST LIKELY https://books2read.com/The-Girl-Most-Likely #agedifferenceromance #contemporaryromance #booksky #romancelandia

@thomaswrightson.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:59 PM

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'treat' #BookQW
Sedna is disturbed from her rest by an unwanted challenge to duel in otherwise idyllic surroundings.
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Official Hyatta’s lips drew back from his teeth, his breath hissing. “So be it. Then, Qutro, I demand of you a duel.”
In front of everyone present, Hyatta drew one of the small feather pins from the gossamer scarf around his head and threw it at Sedna’s feet. She picked it up, looking at the exotic feature as Hyatta awaited her reply.
“You are sure you want this?”
“Yes.”
“And how would you have it?”
“To the death. No other will satisfy me.”
“As you wish.”
There was a momentary silence, then the gentle hum of talk as the newcomer barged out to prepare for the duel. Sedna looked at the item thrown at her. Could’ve used something better. The feather had been dyed, and it was so sad and droopy from the heat and a lack of care. Oh, well. A challenge was a challenge.
One of the oldest servants was speaking within earshot to another guest. “Last time there was a challenge here was when a Human guest insulted the planet’s last Feles ambassador, and they ended up in a fistfight.”
“What happened?”
“The Human was taken away with severe lacerations, the ambassador was treated for internal injuries, and the two have been political allies ever since.”
Sedna laughed at this overheard trifle. “Hmm. Seems the old adage about getting friends and allies holds true.”
“What adage?” asked Dudruk.
“First step, engage in mortal combat.”
“That’s not an adage.”
“Well, then it’s a trope. Personally, if I ever engaged an employer in mortal combat, I’d have no employers.”
The joke fell somewhat flat given the circumstances. Indeed, from what her ears caught as she passed back inside, news of the duel subdued even the most ardent and flippant conversationalists.

@stephanieburgis.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:01 PM

It's Book Quote Wednesday! This week's word is "treat," so here's a snippet from A Waltz of Sinister Import - coming to my Patreon in 2 days (!) & everywhere else in 2 weeks. 💕

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The cover of A Waltz of Sinister Import, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a pair of late nineteenth-century dancing slippers hanging over the title and a bat with outstretched wings underneath the author's name. Framing the cover's text are branches with golden leaves. Above, beside, and below that cover image is this snippet of text: For the sake of her husband’s nerves, she had requested a maid to accompany her for the first part of this journey. For the sake of her own guilt, though, as the girl followed her obediently through the narrow streets, Margaret promised herself to make a stop later at one of the frilly-curtained konditoreis whose café windows—full of luscious-looking cakes on tempting display—the maid’s wistful gaze landed upon again and again. The poor child really would certainly deserve a treat for her patience.
Baffling though it was, Margaret had come to understand that a disheartening percentage of people in the world did not share her love for spending hours in a stationery shop packed with treasures.

@vjknipe.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 10:24 AM

Today is book quote wednesday #bookqw and today's word is 'treat'.
As we just over a week away from publication, here's a hint as to why the book is called Her Borrowed Grave.
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@julietemckenna.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 9:05 AM

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'treat' #BookQW #BookSky
They say, if you want to really know someone, watch how they behave towards people who they think don't matter.
The Riven Kingdom will be published on 27th October 2026.
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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...

Book extract reads: The woman brandished a letter in the light of the oil lamp hanging over the door. ‘The boy wasn’t injured. The lightning strike didn’t touch him. Now the shock has faded, he may recall further details of that day. I insist on asking him myself.’
‘You may consult his account of that day held by the high shrine’s infirmarians. They wrote down the recollections of everyone they treated who witnessed the tragedy.’ Brother Haber tucked his hands inside the sleeves of his thick black robe. ‘I can vouch for the boy’s honesty.’
No one could argue with that. The Moon God granted his priests the power to hear falsehoods. Everyone saw such magic at work when the nobility held assizes to punish criminals within their fiefdoms, where the justiciars delivered their verdicts in the crown’s name. A priest was always on hand to unmask anyone telling lies. Just as a pale-robed priestess used the power the Goddess granted her to endorse truth.
‘Your obstruction is unacceptable.’ The woman took a half-step sideways.
Startled, Reske thought she was going to force her way past the priest.

@julietemckenna.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 8:50 AM

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'treat' #BookQW #BookSky
If you've been thinking about getting yourself a little morale boost with this ebook bargain, today's the last day to do it. Price-matched on other platforms as well as here on UK Kindle.
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Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those.

Book extract reads: I put down the tin and put the kettle on to boil. Then I washed my hands. The formula tin emphasised the importance of keeping things clean. Taking the bottle out of the packaging, I fitted it together. The packaging said I should sterilise it before using it for the first time, but I didn’t have time if I was going to shut the screaming changeling up with a feed.
I didn’t only want some silence. I knew the changeling wasn’t a real baby, but on the way here, I had decided I’d better treat it like one. When whoever was behind this wanted their creature back, I needed it to be healthy. Especially if I had to trade the thing for Fin, or for whatever I needed to know to get her back from wherever she was stuck. That was my priority now Alice was safe with her parents. I’d just have to hope this little monster was as resistant to germs as I am, generally speaking.

@benjeapes.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 8:29 AM

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is TREAT. Quin is making friends and enemies in equal measure, hatching chickens that one day will come home to roost in a big way. #bookqw #spaceopera #morality www.benjeapes.com/index.php/ph...

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

@rflong.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 8:26 AM

#Bookqw word is Treat and at The Teacup Dragon Sanctuary on Starling Island, Portia, Jade and Noah are starting to settle in.

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Bookqw from The Teacup Dragon Sanctuary, out now, in which Noah offers the dragons dates as a treat and Portia is suddenly distracted by thoughts of a different kind of date with Noah.

@kitwhitfield.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 8:02 AM

#booksky #bookqw word: TREAT

Janet, the fairy-smith's wife, is trying to talk her friend Franklin into forbidding his daughter's relationship with an unsuitable boy. She probably shouldn't be doing it in a fey-haunted forest.

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Tellher how Ephraim Brady treats his wife, and tell her Anthony
will never stand up to him. Tell her she can get a better lover,
Mister Franklin. Take my advice.’
The wind sighed in the leaves overhead, and the forest rocked.
It was a gentle motion, not swaying the world, and the birds
cooed and chirruped to each other above them. Franklin still
hadn’t found an answer when they heard the sound of hooves.

@shannaswendson.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 7:30 PM

It's #BookQW and this week we "know" (or "knew) a lot. Sometimes, knowing something isn't comforting, as in this teaser tidbit from book 5 in my Tales of Rydding Village cozy fantasy series, Pottery & Peril, which launches tomorrow. shannaswendson.com/writing/pott...

Pottery & Peril book cover
Quote: She’d made it to the square, with the inn not far away, when her lantern went out. She knew what that meant, and she tensed in dread.

@veronicascott.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 5:36 PM

#Bookqw 'know' from my new release DERIUS (Intergalactic Dating Agency), a second chance scifi romance. #booksky www.amazon.com/Derius-Soldi...

@willcampowell.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 5:24 PM

It's Book Quote Wednesday and today's word is #know
Jake has a reputation for tech-naïveté, so how's he going to find a fresh gig for the band? - but Kai just didn't know the right question to ask…
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My preconceptions shattered. Little fragments of assumptions rolled around the floor and disappeared under the kitchen cupboards.
I began a sentence, hoping the ending would come to me. “Yes, but what if you, you know…”
“Get hooked again? I don’t think so. I’m not a child anymore. That kid is gone, and the urge to surf is gone with him. But I remember everything he used to do.”

@lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 5:04 PM

Historically sound and warmly told, Cherry Creek is a gently romantic story about what it means to be truly free." ~ Indies Today
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#BookQW #HistoricalRomance #GoldRush

Young couple about to kiss. "He was only Andrew MacLeith, whom I had #known and teased all my life. But something both poignant and sweet in his approach to our first kiss made me realize he could be more to me than ever before."

@kitwhitfield.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 4:26 PM

#booksky #bookqw word: KNEW.

Bear with me, trying a new format! (Grappling with Insta.)

Caroline has been arrested for witchcraft and held prisoner. She's close to confessing - but she's always had an affinity for fossils, and someone has just slipped one into her hand.

Text against a seashore background: "Caroline was too mad with thirst to think of it very much for the moment, but she knew without looking, just by the feel of it, what it was. A circle twining in on itself. A stone shaping perfect mystery.

You whirl inward, Henry had said. She whirls outward.

A snakestone."

@alicesabo.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 4:24 PM

My first book quote Wednesday. This comes from the first chapter of the first book in the series.
#BookQW
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A promotional post with the book cover of Arcane Detective and text from the first chapter: After the mispronounced, half-hearted chant, they would burn some unknown herbs they bought online and kill a chicken to raise a demon that would grant all their wishes. Miller knew that stopping this kind of ignorance was part of his job, too. He needed to halt the spread of Darkness regardless of the size. A drip here, a spill there, all spread out and linked until it birthed a predator or murderer and that scattered more fear and pain and Darkness. It was an unending but necessary battle, like mopping the floor of a public restroom.

@mcburnellauthor.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:53 PM

It's Book Quote Wednesday, is it? I didn't know this was a thing but want to share as well! This week, 'knew.'

#BookQW
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@cmdebell.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:20 PM

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is KNEW/KNOW

Here's an excerpt from The Siege of Druine, which fills in some important backstory about the characters in The Many Shades of Midnight - it's also free to download on my newsletter.

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Front cover and excerpt from The Siege of Druine for Book Quote Wednesday prompt KNEW/KNOW

“I knew your father. Did you know that?”
There was a knife in those words. Storn saw it in the way Alyas froze, colour leaving his face.
Haki tilted his head, taking in the reaction the other man was too tired to hide, and he thrust that knife deeper. “I was there when he won from the emperor the right to claim any reward he could name. He named the Ado blades.”
It was only because Storn was watching so closely that he caught the tiny twitch at those words. Haki was watching just as intently. He laughed. “Oh yes, your father asked for them. He never told you that, did he? We all expected the emperor to strike him down for his presumption. Those blades were the greatest prize in all of Qido. But do you know what he did? He begged your father to choose something else, anything else. He shamed us all that day, begging a foreigner, and he did it not to preserve a national heirloom, but because he said the blades were cursed.”

@willablair.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:15 PM

Today's #BookQW word: KNOW

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