#FirstLineFriday
Can love and a promise defeat death?
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#mmromance #fantasyromance
Cover for Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. A robot sitting on a bowl of brightly coloured noodles.
"Staybehind's body was moving before he woke up, driven by fear and algorithms." —AUTOMATIC NOODLE by Annalee Newitz
#FirstLineFriday #TBR #ScienceFiction
First ever First Line Friday!
Starting with Aestus, Chapter 1
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#FirstLineFriday
When a broken promise puts a whole city in danger.
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#fantasy #mmromance #mmromantasy #jackiekkeswick
Cover for Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. Silhouette of a black woman against a blue and red background.
"What's the story you want?" —DEATH OF THE AUTHOR by Nnedi Okorafor
#FirstLineFriday #TBR #ScienceFiction
First Line Friday 📖🖊
In 48 days we publish our very first title @smwwriting.bsky.social's incredible #Debut, MALC'S BOY, and we can't wait for you to read it!
Available to pre-order: www.conduitbooks.co.uk/books/p/malc...
Here's a sneak peek 📖
#FirstLineFriday #LiteraryFiction #Cumbria #Malcsboy
STARTING NEXT FRIDAY
Every Friday, you'll get to read the first line of a chapter in Aestus OR The Bane Of Amstairis trilogy. More lines will be added as my books get published.
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#FirstLineFriday
A phone ringing in the middle of the night was rarely good news. Jack’s phone singing out Ghost Town into the darkness meant trouble. Only one other ring tone woke him faster.
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#mmromance #powerofzero #jackiekeswick
Cover for You Weren't Mean to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White. Black background with white and red text, worms crawling through the title text.
"Crane doesn't know this yet, but he's been pregnant for almost three months already." —YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White
#FirstLineFriday #TBR #Horror
#FirstLineFriday #comingsoon
A Power of Zero world novel with cameos from Jack Horwood and Skylar Payne.
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#mmromanceseries #jackiekeswick
Cover for Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
"The world roared." —SHROUD by Adrian Tchaikovsky
#FirstLineFriday #TBR #ScienceFiction
“Ma had said she would give the cordwainer man a baby—the thing he could not get from his dull-as-ditchwater wife—and we would get a roof in return.”
~Rosanna Pike, A Little Trickerie
#FirstLineFriday
#LiteraryFiction
#Booksky
#FirstLineFriday
“Not another babysitting job!”
“Stop whining. You suggested we offer bodyguard services, remember?”
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#mmbodyguardromance #mmromance #privatesecurity
Cover for Exiles by Mason Coile. Silhouette of an astronaut against a foggy orange background.
"The beeping won't stop." —EXILES by Mason Coile
#FirstLineFriday #TBR #ScienceFiction #Horror
Cover for King Sorrow by Joe Hill. A glowing red dragon's head against a blue background.
"On the first weekend in September, Arthur Oakes drove west to see his mother in the House of Correction." —KING SORROW by Joe Hill
#FirstLineFriday #TBR #Fantasy #Horror #Dragons
#bookhooks
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#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
The Space Trilogy #scfi by #CSLewis
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“I think it is possible to track the onset of middle age exactly.”
~Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
A timely novel and commentary on history, politics, and current state of the world - Kunzru’s voice pertinent and refreshing.
#FirstLineFriday
#LitFiction
#Booksky
"I once told you, Jeffers, about the time I met the devil on a train leaving Paris, & about how after that meeting the evil that usually lies undisturbed beneath the surface of things rose up & disgorged itself over every part of life."
-- Rachel Cusk, _Second Place_
#FridayReads #FirstLineFriday
Cover for Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz.
"Until very recently (eight minutes ago, in fact), the blood spattering the outside of Karina's brand-new tunic had pulsed inside the heart of the dark sorcerer known as Shadowfade." —VIOLET THISTLEWAITE IS NOT A VILLAIN ANYMORE by Emily Krempholtz
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Friday #bookhooks
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#Friday56
This Perfect Day, by #IraLevin #VintageScifiMonth #sciencefiction #scifi
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Cover for The Poet Empress by Shen Tao.
"My sister Larkspur was the fifth child we buried." —THE POET EMPRESS by Shen Tao
#FirstLineFriday #TBR #Fantasy
Cover for Dawn of the Firebird by Sarah Mughlal Rana. A golden bird in front of a dark blue sky.
"I would inherit the power of the Heavens, Uma had said so." —DAWN OF THE FIREBIRD by Sarah Mughal Rana
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#bookhooks
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#vintagescifimonth
Alpha Centauri or Die, #scifi by #Leighbrackett
VERDICT:
What we mean by intelligence and should be ready to confront if we price freedom. The freedom to be humans and not parts of a machine.
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First Line Friday 9th January 2026: Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2026/01/09/f...
First Line Friday 9th January 2026: Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2026/01/09/f...
From @portybelle.bsky.social
Cover for Slow Gods by Claire North. Planets against a red background, a space ship rising at the center.
"My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself." —SLOW GODS by Claire North
#FirstLineFriday #TBR #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera
#FirstLineFriday
“When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of the three Tides."
~Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
#CurrentlyReading
#CurrentlyListening
#Booksky 📚💙
First Line Friday 9th January 2026: Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚 via @portybelle.bsky.social
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First Line Friday 9th January 2026: Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2026/01/09/f...
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First Line Friday 9th January 2026: Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2026/01/09/f...