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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 18h

Five days left on the Lightspeed & Nightmare kickstarter, and they still need $10k to meet their funding goal! Love short fiction? Go pick up a subscription and help spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror

We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 16h

This story hits on at least 3 of my ongoing 287(g) threads: 1️⃣ small town police chief in VA signs an agreement in May, w/o town council authorization. 2️⃣ taps into the Task Force 287(g) cash cow, earning the agency over $100K from ICE. 3️⃣ town council sides w/ PD against vocal community push back.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 9h

the way that cordelia specifically haunts Brothers in Arms....as a testament to the soft political power of parenting...."miles, where is your [spoiler]?"

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 9h

a civil campaign: what if a traditional historical romance was also responsible for tying up like six different character arcs from a military sf series and decided to do it all in the funniest way possible (it's perfect) (memory is my favorite)

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 9h

perched like a gargoyle waiting for the brothers in arms/memory arc to hit

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 9h

8yo went pretty hard for an acrostic poem that spells "soccer"

soccer

Soon its night
On a very sunny day
Crikets sing all throgh the night
Changed as we are, it is time
ever changed, bed had come
right here for me

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 17h

listen every one of these is a banger

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i sure don't look around and think "yeah, people should become less literate & engaged" 💀

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

look what came in the mail!! heading to my local bookstore to sign pre-orders in the next couple days, so if you want yours signed....they ship anywhere in the US! ndbookshop.com/pre-order-si...

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4

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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

thank you so much for reviewing!!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

listen--the way romance novels about very young people necessarily conflate coming-of-age with falling-in-love--the way these two people have already become themselves, a couple of times--

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

elise was the very first editor to pluck me (and so many other writers!) out of the slush pile. give & share if you can 💙

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i adore a civil campaign. i think Memory might be my favorite? and chalion and paladin of souls!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

omg i am so pleased to know this. i have read them.....so many times. i think i found them when i was 13 or 14? beyond formative really

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

if i haven't talked to you about the vorkosigan saga yet please know I'm only biding my time.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i think it's even the same guy, right? doesn't Cordelia bluff her way onto *mayhew's* ship? a man beset by this family's hyjinks 😂

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

thank you! it only took us [redacted] hours to pick it out 😂

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it IS possible for a woman to be a wife guy about her husband if her husband is cool enough btw

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

my husband has been remodeling our bathroom (down to the joists! including tiling and wiring! in between coaching two soccer teams and doing most of the cooking & cleaning!) and it's looking so good u guys

guy in a hoodie standing wearily in the ugliest bathroom you've ever seen. beige linoleum. pink and black tile. the guy is hot btw

a gutted room, studs visible. that subfloor was so nasty we tore the whole thing out.

a nearly-finished bathroom! new sink, cute tile floor with a star pattern, new tub. the shower walls have board up but no tile

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(jokes on him, Six Bridges Book Festival was cool as hell)

ayana gray, looking like a celebrity; me, looking like a fan who crashed her event; danielle afsordeh, looking like a historian who just moderated a fantasy panel and did an amazing job

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

WOW that makes me so disproportionately angry lol. like half of what you're doing as a coach is teaching kids how to learn a new skill, and you yourself are not bothering to learn those very skills??

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

when i ask him what he wants to be when he grows up he says "a regular guy" 💀

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

10yo asked what i did at the festival and i said oh it's a book festival, so i just talked about my books, and he said "yikes" under his breath

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

if you preorder The Everlasting in spanish (Eterna), it comes with a perpetual calendar 🙏😂

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

anyway this is the second time in a week i've heard someone say they chatgpt their coaching for youth sports, and both people should be genuinely embarrassed. if you're asking kids to do what you tell them, i guess i think you should bother to know what you're talking about!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

not coincidental that the highly-skilled labor is often exactly the kind of labor that's already systemically undervalued. domestic work (meal planning, emotional labor), admin work (note-taking, delegating, scheduling), some of the trades (home renovation, carpentry, etc)

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check"

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NATURALLY he has a tame wolf, yes

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(laura kinsale's The Prince of Midnight)

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyway if romance novels are so formulaic how come i just read one where a woman enlists a famous highwayman to get revenge on the puritanical cult that killed her family but the highwayman (who btw can talk to animals) can't play the hero anymore bc he suffers from disabling vertigo

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

every JCO take is the kind of thing your meanest, least-sober great aunt might announce at thanksgiving dinner. sometimes you're like yeah, let em have it!! and then very shortly you're like uh oh aunt joyce time for bed

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

having just finished a meredith duran binge, i'm thinking of re-reading August Lane. gotta keep that good angst flowing

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

for cool art + folkloric transformation stuff-- my kids love/d Wolfwalkers!

poster for Wolfwalkers, two white girls riding a wolf in a celtic art style

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i realize it's pretty high on the angst scale, which is what i love about it, but is perhaps not everybody's comfort food 😂

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 10 copies of The Ten Thousand Doors of January by @alixeharrow.bsky.social, which I *have* but *have not yet read* (sheesh!), but have only heard really good things about. I'm assuming The 20,000 Doors of February is coming soon.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i remember! ALA maybe? i remember a big convention floor and a cool skirt, lol. but also, my own agent once hugged my publicist instead of me bc she didn't totally remember what i looked like 🤷‍♀️😂 we're all doing our best out here!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hi!!! living in these weird digital fishbowls definitely manufactures a certain one-way intimacy--but so does reading a book, i sometimes think! you get to see SO much of the author's brain 😅

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i actually also....get a tattoo per book 😅 but they're less matchy and more thematic!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's just a short story collection!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i just had such a fun time digging up old pictures 😂 posted in the thread!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

you guys are being so nice 😭 here are some of the others, as requested!

a black blazer i embroidered with some of the flowers from The Everlasting. 10/10 for effort, 7/10 for recognizability

black floral dress for Ten Thousand Doors. one thing about me is my books have flowers on them. 8/10

a white floral dress for Once and Future Witches. idk maybe 7/10? basic but effective

a white shirt with bluish starlings all over it, for Starling House. extremely literal, not a great color match, 6/10

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