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In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 6h

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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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 16h

Today, a long drive, the Three Sisters, and glow worm caves (which were sooooo cool) No pictures permitted inside the glow worm caves, but can I interest you in another eel?

The Three Sisters (though one has had a Time of it) with glorious waves and clouds all around it.

The end of a boat at the mouth of a cave.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you!! I could probably offer some tips for getting eel-bitten xD But no, definitely a wonderful experience so far. Helps to have family here, I think, but we're really seeing a lot!

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*flops onto guest mattress and instantly recreates The Princess and the Pea, but it's my knee driving into a small, plastic pressure gauge that made its way between the blankets*

A small plastic pressure gauge from some kind of play kit. The sticker says the pressure is in the green, but the pain is in the red.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sis: Did you wanna try my mince pie? Me: I got a mince pie! Sis: I thought Dad sneered that you probably wouldn't like it, so you got something else. Me: No, he sneered I wouldn't like it, and I ordered it anyway. And it's great. Me and Sis: 😎

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Three playgrounds, my first mince pie, and a great view of Whanganui. My poor knees are Strugglin' after all the time with the kids, but I'll pull through.

A melting moment that I had osmosed some knowledge of from pop culture but didnt fully know what they were when I ordered it: short pastry and jam in the middle, covered in chocolate. Delish!

Another landscape of Whanganui, ocean in the distance, river just ahead.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yesterday we went to Wellington, and saw the zoo, the museum, and the cable car!

The cable car over a landscape of Wellington, looking out over the city and the water.

A sunbear standing underneath a sign with a sunbear head.

Moa skeletons and projected shadows that are actually animated.

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Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hello friens. Have you considered… supporting Apex…

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh, thanks so much! Partly it's to keep track of things myself, as we've been too busy to write much down otherwise. But truly, everything has been wonderful. It's a BEAUTIFUL place. Eel bite and all xD

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oof! Definitely had a few moments imagining encountering them more In the Wild, so--do not envy you there. Glad they healed up fine. My little nibble seems on the mend, too. :)

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today was a nice chill do-nothing day, which meant: - wandering Whanganui shops (and spotting a top-hatted man who is apparently a local fixture) - painting rocks to add to the rock snake around the lake - feeding SO SO many ducks, black swans, pukekos, and more

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's three types of people in this world, kid--

Carefully labeled toy drawers immediately in front of my guest bed. The drawers are labeled: Silks, Ooshies, Little People.

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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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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026

this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dang it typo. I plead vacation brain. How am I expected to maintain proper grammar while traipsing about New Zealand?

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The eggshell is small, and delicate, and I'm glad I didn't plunge the knife any deeper. I carefully peel the fruit away from the egg, flecks of shell coming away with the fruit flesh as the chick within peeps softly. When I'm done, it pecks at the fruit that sheltered it, taking it's first meal.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mostly I regret that I have seen just enough survival media to be half-remembering factoids like "do these eels have the kind of bite that floods their prey with bacteria or" They also apparently take down pigeons.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I KEEP FORGETTING TO GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK on account of being on three toddlers' sleep schedules. Sis says the moon is upside down! The MOON!

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me, to 5 Year-Old Nephew: I'm fine, buddy! The eel didn't mean to hurt me. We just scared each other. All good! Me, turning to my older sister and parents when Nephew is not present: Am I gonna die. Does this look infected to you. We can ask for disinfectant at the museum, right? Good. :S

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today was also Day 2 after the eel bite. Seems to be fine. I do Not Recommend it. And you may be wondering--"Allison, how could you simply not see an additional eel in proximity to your digits?" Well, I think the eel in the lower right corner of this clip can demonstrate.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Climbed Taranaki today... Or at least as much as you can climb with a stroller and three kids under five in the party. I can only say how gorgeous everything is so many times, but--GORGEOUS.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also got to see more Beach, a great museum, and New Zealand frybread courtesy of Sis's coworker. SO good.

Golden brown frybread, fluffy in the middle. Perfect.

Sugarloaf island in the distance, blue blue water, rocky beach. All of it gorgeous.

More gorgeous blue water framed by tree branches and park walkway railings. Whitecaps roll picturesquely in the distance, and stiller water nestles among stones in the foreground.

A moa skeleton towers, facing away from the camera.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sis's Friend: Yeah, and New Plymouth has these eels so used to being fed that you can touch 'em. A friend did get nipped, but it's cool. Me, later: *petting one with index finger, forgetting to tuck my thumb in* Wow, so slimy. The Eel Behind the Eel I Was Petting: Wow, what a lovely bit of sausage

A whole mess of eels gathered together in the shade of a little river in the middle of the city. Some of them are very large. All of them are a little toothy. Brown and eel-y.

A band-aid wrapped around my thumb, the thumbnail scratched up from eel-teeth.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Incessant knocking upon my chamber* door. T'is the raven**--"Nevermore." *bathroom **toddler niece, silently

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This may be my favorite picture I have Ever taken.

The same stairstep mountains as the last picture in previous post, but at a different angle. Less green on the mountains visible, but the afternoon sun shines heart-breakingly beautiful on the water across the sand. One of my nephews in a hoodie runs in silhouette, no visible features, right at the edge of the water. A trail of footprints rounds black rocks in the foreground.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Loooooved the beach, where the magnetic black sand sparkles in ways pictures can't capture, and the water was cold but Gorgeous. One of my favorite beaches I've ever been on. "And this is just ONE beach," the residents kept pointing out.

Gorgeous little beach with a kind of river(?) passing through the foreground. Mountain cliffs frame the beach. The sky is so so blue and the clouds are perfect and it's all Beautiful.

BEACH. waves. Foam. Whitecap after whitecap rolling in, sneaking up on your ankles.

Mountains like stairsteps down to the water, a mist in the air. Could be B-roll in Jurassic Park. Love it so much.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New Zealand continues to be Gorgeous. Brekkie and a walk with sister and some of her local friends. Lots of time with the kids, living the auntie life I have so Missed. Went to the beach to walk about and driving back, passed through botanical gardens and stopped to see the mountains.

Ruapehu, a white mountain, visible on the horizon, past green green fields and forests.

Iight shining through the trees, a fabulous bush I don't know the name of has fronds spreading out like sea urchin spines.

Green Teletubby-like hills amazingly picturesque even captured through a car window.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most of yesterday was staring out a car window, but we were driving along right as all the cows headed home, in big long lines across the hills, and occasional tunnels beneath the road. We passed one field where some kiwi farmer had his daughter in his lap as he drove the tractor.

New Zealand landscape, green hills with a tiny fence in the corner of the foreground, few cows sitting the area, And bigger hills and mountains(?) on the horizon. Anything is a mountain when you come from places as flat as I do.

Picture through a car window capturing a hill covered in Jurassic Park-ish fronds I wish I knew the proper name of. Trees grow at the top of the hill, seemingly on a diagonal, as the sun shines between their slender trunks.

A bigger proper mountain nearly disappears at the top in rain clouds and mist. A long, loose line of cows cross the horizon on the other side of a flat, green field.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, and also I have no sense of what time it is at any given point. XD Could not tell you how much exact sleep I got on the plane. I am in the FUTURE now. I skipped over Fullmetal Alchemist Day completely. I think? Or did we skip the 2nd. What is time. All is Sheep now.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Traveling with parents and fam always adds a x6 difficulty multiplier to everything, and after about 20 hrs total with someone constantly pressed against my side, Sensory Bads were def Happening. But that's just some of my Usual travel stressors. Now that we're through the Getting There part-- 👀

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New Zealand impressions so far: - driving through farm land more familiar than expected, apart from Jurassic Park plants and Elevation and the grass literally being greener and more gorgeous and hilly than anything back in the Midwest - S H E E P - Nephews and Niece still the cutest in the world

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hello and happy Fullmetal Alchemist Day! We're about ready to get started with this year's winner announcement A very special thanks to our first-ever sponsors: @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, @laworldcon.bsky.social , and @revmindi.bsky.social ! #2026IgnyteAwards

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Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Buying copies of Radon through Foofaraw supports us just as much, if not more, than doing so directly. Plus you can browse closely-related other magazines and bundle them together

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For this I will need to do some deft and subtle manipulation to persuade parents to go ANYWHERE but McDonald's for eating any sort of thing at all. Since I'm writing this on maccas wifi. It's Not Looking Good Currently. 😭

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am in New Zealand! Different trees! Different birds!

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope sprints eternal for the next flight. And hope springs eternal-er for the thirteen-hour one cappin' things off later.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've got three flights today. The first, a healthy selection of movies and TV I wanted to see! I could have watched Widow's Bay! I could have watched so many things! Which is why it's unfortunate the turbulence was so bad they never came around with headphones or little Biscoff cookies.

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been published multiple times by Apex, so of course I'm eager to see them continue, but, honestly? I WANT TO SEE THE STRETCH GOALS HERE, particularly the STRANGE OCEANS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF DARK SEAFARING. So, fund away! (Apex is also offering a pretty cool T-shirt as one of the backer rewards.)

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I never know when to start posting fancy eligibility graphics, but since I've seen folks posting some (and I'm about to be afk for two weeks) Reminder that my 2026 short story releases are all threaded from this pinned post, or findable on the Fiction page of my website, Allisonmulder.com!

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Allison Mulder is the author of over two dozen speculative fiction publications. Learn more about her and her work here.

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have done all the preparation and cleaned a bunch of things so I will come home to a CLEAN house. Is anything Packed, like, in my suitcase? Ehhhhh.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's very fun, and I will long for it while I am traveling xD

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some folks have been making A L O T. 👁️👄👁️

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This game that's been All Over lately, with very Accurate sewing mechanics (or so I hear,, I am Very a novice) where you can make dresses everything from measuring the customer, picking fabric, cutting the pieces, "sewing" them--Very fun!

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Dressmaker on Steam

Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.

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