iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 6h

Agents, editors, please, I’m begging 😭 I need this

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 7h

I got to read this one already and it’s SO good!!!

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Mona Tewari @monatewari.com · 29/09/2026

Readers: Please don't be embarrassed to reach out to an author if you like their work (and review it too!) These types of things may seem small but they can make an ENORMOUS difference, especially if the author isn't a major bestseller/breakout

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Robin Cassandra 🌈✒️ (#DVpit pinned) @robincassandra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My WIP: To find untraceable assassins, all you need is a dogsitter. HAWKEYE x THE HUNGER GAMES x WANDERSTOP 🌈Building a QPR (aroace + biromantic ace) 🌳a solarpunk lifestyle 🏛️Panem x 1984 government 🐶a cute Icelandic sheepdog 😤"I'm not helping you. Here's the answer, but I'm *not* helping you."

A moodboard of my WIP. In the middle is an image of Kate Bishop and Yelena Belova within the famous elevator scene. Kate has biromantic and asexual flower by her, and Yelena has an aroace feather by her. On the left going down is: Katniss Everdeen bowing, a screenshot of Wanderstop that says "Fought like my life depended on it. I did the time," and a picture that says "Big Brother is watching you," but it's crossed out to say "Nemesi is watching you." On the right going down is a solarpunk sketch of what a shopping strip would look like, a black-and-white photo from Wanderstop where Alta has wide eyes, and her picture is cracked like glass, and Kate Bishop and Clint Barton slouching on a subway.

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Robin LeeAnn 🐉🖊️📚 SFF Editor @dragonediting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

📣Calling All Trans Books!📣 I have one more FLL book scheduled for this year—ace + disability rep!—but for the rest of the year (and into the next one), in honor (/sarcasm) of a certain remake coming out this December, the rest of the books will be trans rep (especially by trans writers). 🌈📚 /🧵

Against a starry sky, it says "Let me know your favorite trans books! (Bonus points if it's an indie book.)" The words "trans books" are in the trans colors, and all the other words are in white. Three dragons (one in each trans color (though the white one looks more gray because it could not get lighter than that)) are also flying around.

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today is National Pancake Day AND!!!!! A full moon!! everyone make sure to leave out pancakes tonight for you favorite werewolf!

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"After the disastrous premiere of his First Symphony in 1897, Sergei Rachmaninoff stopped composing." See part three of my interview on The Mess That Made Them at ROROTOKO today.

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Robin LeeAnn 🐉🖊️📚 SFF Editor @dragonediting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

👀Still putting queer/disabled books in free little libraries. 🧠♿️📚 This time, I did A Little Less Invisible by Maisie M. Meyers! I kept seeing this book mentioned on my timeline over and over and over, so I knew I had to pick it up. I've heard so many great things about the disability rep!

A white-purple-blue book (called A Little Less Invisible by Maisie M. Meyers) is held in front of a very pink Little Free Library.

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Revisited this the last couple days because I had a few ideas and learned a few new things! Still not satisfied with Sophie, but I think I need to accept humans are still just a little outside my skill level 😂 but really happy with this new update!

A werewolf sits under a full moon in the grass with her best friend leaning against her, reading a book. the art's a little clunky, but we're figuring it out!

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Robin LeeAnn 🐉🖊️📚 SFF Editor @dragonediting.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Bi Visibility Day to all the bisexuals out there! What are your favorite books with bi rep? 🌈📚 Or who is your favorite bisexual character(s)? Let's celebrate them! #bivisibilityday

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Carly Hayward @fromcarly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This YA fantasy is such a great representation of chronic illness. Maisie put so much of her heart into this book and it really shows. I love the humor and magic that we see all wrapped up in an accurate portrayal of having to deal with ableism. #AuthorAppreciation #IndieAuthor #BookRec

Woman holding up a book called A Little Less Invisible

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 21/09/2026

Hi registered #agents and #editors! Just a reminder that since we had some technical difficulties last week we've extended the #PitchDis request period until today at 8pm EDT. Get those last-minute requests in 😊

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Really struggled with Krita today, and I wanted everything to just work like paint or graphite, but I did learn how to do grouping and alpha layers to make it easier to draw Wolf!Lizzie without having to erase off Sophie and the other way around! But some Sophie’s Guide to werewolves and pancakes

A clunky digital drawing of a girl in a blue striped shirt reading a pink book and holding a pen while she leans against a giant wolf in a purple room

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Jessica Horton @jessicahorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know life is busy, but if you're curious about why I've gotten involved in library activism, please join us for this film. I promise you'll come away with a better understanding about why it's so important that we all stand up for librarians and the freedom to read.

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Jessica Horton @jessicahorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The most heartbreaking part to me is how book banners treat librarians—calling them names, trying (and sometimes succeeding) in getting them fired, and undermining the important work they do to help our kids learn to love reading.

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Jessica Horton @jessicahorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm thrilled to be able to bring this film to Davis County. Even though the film focuses on book bans in Texas, the exact same story is playing out here in Utah: a small handful of people are trying to control what we all read.

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Jessica Horton @jessicahorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Following the film, we'll have a Q&A panel (moderated by yours truly) featuring local authors @jessdaygeorge.bsky.social, Darlene McDonald, and @ashintheashes.bsky.social, and librarian Daniel Neville-Rehbehn.

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Jessica Horton @jessicahorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Utah friends! Let Davis Read, along with @letutahread.bsky.social, the Davis County Library, Davis Indivisible, and @utahlibraries.bsky.social, are hosting a screening of the The Librarians at the Clearfield Library on Tuesday, October 6 at 6:00 p.m. The event is free, but registration is required.

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The Librarians Film Screening - Celebrating Intellectual Freedom and the Right to Read | Davis County Library

Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities.

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Dorian Maffei @dorianmaffei.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some more exciting news today! Everyone check out the cover reveal for Dami Salako's THE SUN HAS A SHADOW! 👀 www.instagram.com/p/DdRusS8DDJ... us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover for THE SUN HAS A SHADOW by Dami Salako, coming May 18, 2027. The cover has a black dragon gripping and hanging off of the sun, screeching at an orange phoenix below it.

The cover copy for THE SUN HAS A SHADOW:

"Children of Blood and Bone meets The Scorpion and the Night Blossom in a high-stakes, YA afro-fantasy where two teens race across the desert to save a kingdom trapped in eternal darkness ... if the soldiers, dragons, and debt collectors don't catch up to them first.

In a world devoid of a sun, the night sky means death and we are living in its shadow.

After seven years of darkness Baba Alade is exhausted- being a courier shouldn't be that hard but when you have a bad leg, no dragon, and no sun, you can never rest. And on top of that he owes a dangerous dragon-summoner more money than he could ever hope to earn.

Out of options, he agrees to take Layo Sowande, to the Obsidian Mountains to get the payout he needs to start over. Unfortunately for him, Layo is full of secrets. But even worse-she's curious about his own.
As they race across the desert with half the kingdom chasing them down, Baba realizes this job might be more than he bargained for. Especially since the queen who plunged their world into darkness when she killed all the phoenix-summoners is hunting down a mysterious package... that Layo is carrying.

As tensions rise and secrets are revealed, Baba and Layo grow closer-but their enemies are getting closer too and if they want to see the sun rise again, they'll have to survive the night."

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am nothing if not hopelessly committed to the bit

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Marley Rose-Teter @marleyroseteter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've been on this road a long time...

Stationery paper and star stickers over a green background. Text: "My whole life, there've only ever been two things I've wanted to be..."

1. a faery

Scrapbook style page includes a photo of a messy-haired girl in a pink faery costume, holding a watering can ("garden faery, age 5"), a young woman in a white dress and faery wings ("age 19"), and a doodle ("drawn by a friend, age 15") that includes "Marley is a fairy! or a ghost"

2. a writer

Scrapbook style page includes a photo of a little girl sitting at a desk and holding up a writing utensil ("age 5"), cramped little kid writing ("diary entry, age 7, declaring plans to publish a book"), and a cut out from a black and white senior magazine ("voted 'most likely to be the next great author' in high school")

"Guess I'll settle for being a writer of faery books" (smiley face)

Shows cover of THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter, and a photo of the author holding three ARCs, labeled "a debut novelist!"

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hello it is me again. Having done battle with Krita in the name of beating AI and have a new atrocity for everyone to look at! why I started with TWO PEOPLE AND SIDE PROFILES when I KNOW I CAN'T DO PEOPLE AND ESPECIALLY NOT SIDE PROFILES is a mystery to me.

A scene from Child of the Dragon of Kat and Aaron at Homecoming. The art is very beginner, but it's still kinda sweet. This one is the same as the one above, but the purple lighting crosses over the couple

A scene from Child of the Dragon of Kat and Aaron at Homecoming. The art is very beginner, but it's still kinda sweet

the same art, but the characters are in front of text from the book instead of the simple homecoming dance background. The text is difficult to read because of the characters in front of it, but you can make out that they're being very shy and cute and flirty and between their faces, you can just read "I wanted to kiss him"

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Phenomena Press @phenomenapress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

'Phantasms & Phenomena: An Aspec Paranormal Anthology' COVER REVEAL! Releasing October 27th 👻 #queersky #aspec #booksky

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ah!! I decided to try to figure out digital art and it’s been GOING POORLY (why did I decide to pick up an entirely new medium with a high learning curve after years of not really drawing at all??) but I MADE SOMETHING!!

A very beginner digital painting of a dragon on a rocky cliff thingy in a mountain valley.

Text beneath it reads "I leaned over the cliff wall, eyeing the drop below. I didn't even bother to think about whether I could fly. I knew I would. I launched myself off the edge. -Child of the Dragon"'

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's been so long since I've talked about Sophie's Guide that now that I'm supposed to again, it's like "it's about a girl...who likes werewolves?? and...uh her friend. who's secretly a werewolf. and chronically ill. There are pancakes. Wait, come back—where are you going?! THERE ARE PANCAKES!"

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Robin LeeAnn 🐉🖊️📚 SFF Editor @dragonediting.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

😅I can't believe it's been ten years since I started my first editing internship. Stories have always been a passion of mine, and it's been so fun to help transform so many over the years. 💜

A starry background with some gray mountains in the corners. In the center, it reads "Ten years. 15,000,000+ words edited. 55,500+ pages edited. 235 books edits." There are three tiny gray dragons and six colorful fireworks along the sides.

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Marley Rose-Teter @marleyroseteter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

IT IS OFFICIALLY BONE BRIDES MONTH, Y’ALL, and there are only 28 more sleeps before my book-baby is out in the world! Who wants to play bingo with me? ^.^

THE BONE BRIDES Bingo:

Eat a fig
kiss a girl
get lost in the woods
eye a horse suspiciously

go swimming
mourn a loved one
decorate for Halloween
befriend a rabbit

cuddle w/someone for warmth
dance to music only you hear
get creative with honey
read a fairytale

jump on a trampoline
appreciate your teeth
plant something unusual
pre-order THE BONE BRIDES!

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thank you for coming to my monotone powerpoint presentation about child of the dragon 😐 (<-monotone face)

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disjointed lemon @disjointed-lemon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

fanart for "The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains" by @reenamccarty.bsky.social, loved rendering Sloan's metallic skin coming back to posting weekly, can't wait to have time for more art like this one :P

a fairy named Sloan with light metallic skin and golden hair reaches out to brush her extra jointed fingers against the cheek of a human woman named Poppy with light brown hair and tan skin. Poppy is wearing a simple green smock, while Sloan is wearing a set of armor embellished with horseshoe crab imagery and deep teals.

tags: #fanart #fairy #fairybargains #monsterart #horseshoecrab

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you're looking for more queer and disability rep, Child of the Dragon both! It's about a ragtag team of shapeshifting dragons in high school taking fate into their own hands to break a curse, kill a king, and still pass calculus! We just announced book 2 and 0.5, and I can't WAIT!

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Got the sequel and prequel for Child of the Dragon AND Sophie's Guide to Werewolves and Pancakes up on goodreads for all your TBR-adding needs! www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

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Marley Rose-Teter @marleyroseteter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

THE BONE BRIDES comes out September 29th! Hayao Miyazaki meets Guillermo del Toro in this Sapphic YA portal fantasy in which a girl must save her changeling girlfriend from a terrifying faery realm. Pre-order links here: linktr.ee/marleyroseteter

"The last time Lumi's mother tried to kill her, Lumi was seventeen years old and in love with a girl she'd met nine months earlier on a trampoline in the woods." --THE BONE BRIDES

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Robin LeeAnn 🐉🖊️📚 SFF Editor @dragonediting.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

👀Continuing the trend of putting queer/disabled books in free little libraries. 🌈📚 This time, I did Fourth World by @lyssachiavari.bsky.social because asexuals/demisexuals on Mars, time travel, and complex space worldbuilding sounds *amazing.* I had to grab a copy for myself too. Had to. 🌈📚♠️

Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari is shown before a free little library—a painted white wooden box with a brown roof.

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Surprise!!! I get to write about werewolves now too!!! I so firmly believe in this book, and I'm SO thrilled to have found a home with Orange Blossom! I hope you're all ready to fall in love with a chronically ill werewolf, her nerdy best friend, and the shenanigans they get up to along the way!

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

i have vague publishing news I can share next week and I am SO excited!!!!!

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Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 26/07/2026

#2026debuts authors: Women & Weapons edition! 5 debut adult fantasy novels featuring women entering their vengeance era from @jlombardi.bsky.social, @smhallow.bsky.social, @florencechien.com, @monatewari.com, and yours truly. Swipe through to see our many faces of vengeance ⚔️

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Kara (Questpit pinned) 🗡️ @karasiert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST X CASTLE AND THE CLOISTER //Find the truth, even it if kills you.// 💀 Seven deadly sins x monsters 🗡️ Platonic best friends 🩸Chronic illness rep 🥀 Corruption vs. truth 🖤 Complicated families #Questpit #w #ya #f

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Got my final copy of Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?! I hope the surreal joy of putting a book with my words on the shelf never gets old!

A bookshelf showing the front covers for why aren’t you dead yet, a bedazzled cover of child of the dragon, and Artifice & Access. You can see the spines for more copies of child of the dragon (including the version I printed years ago), and A&A

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Casper Falls (he/fae) @casperfalls.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

WHY AREN’T YOU DEAD YET? A DISABILITY IN DYSTOPIA ANTHOLOGY is out now 🥳 ft. 16 disabled authors & 16+ disabled protagonists in (sometimes literal) shit situations, fighting to survive, thrive, love, and resist. Bookshop & Amazon here: linktr.ee/casperfalls #📚 #Booksky #disabled #queer #books

A book mockup of the anthology Why Aren't You Dead Yet? stands centered against a dark background sprinkled with colorful star confetti.
Across the top, white stylized text reads: "16 stories about disabled..."
Flanking the left side of the book are the words:
... rage
... solidarity
... resistance
... survival
Flanking the right side:
... love
... ingenuity
... stubbornness
... connection
The book cover features a postage stamp frame depicting a glowing green mushroom cloud over a dark street with silhouetted figures, including a person using crutches. Below the main title Why Aren't You Dead Yet?, the cover tagline reads: "No offense, but the end of the world isn't exactly a 'disability-friendly' event 🤨".
Across the bottom, large distressed white font reads "NOW AVAILABLE", followed by script text: "on Bookshop.org, Amazon, and co!"

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Kristen Argyres || MY THORNS FOR YOUR ROSES @kargyres.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You can adopt your copy of MY THORNS FOR YOUR ROSES, my adult #retelling of the Scottish faerie tale “Tam Lin” at books2read.com/MyThornsForYourRoses or by ordering through your favorite local bookstore. As the first in a trilogy, MTFYR can stand alone, but the story will continue next year.

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Find the Best Indie Books at Books2Read.com

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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Congratulations to Fimbulvinter's Fires by @amweald.com You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026 Well done!

A man with axe in each hand in spooky looking woods

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

For less than 1 cup of coffee, you can support a small press debut by getting an ebook 😔

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Happy book birthday to this anthology! @ellatholmes.bsky.social has done it again! Where Artifice & Access was a love letter to disabled people, Why Aren't You Dead Yet? is a hate letter to the systems that want disabled people to disappear.

a blurry green, purple, and white background with pink and gold glitter behind the cover for Why Aren't You Dead Yet? (a primarily green cover with a scalloped stamp-like frame around an image of a green mushroom cloud in a purple neighborhood. two people are moving towards the cloud, one on a bike, one using forearm crutches. Someone sits on the roof on the left side and is throwing out a cloud of glitter. On the right, someone lounges on the roof top, kicking up their prosthetic leg. Across the top reads An Anthology of Disability in Dystopia. The title reads: Why Aren't You Dead Yet? and at the bottom, the tag line says "no offense, but the end of the world isn't exactly a "disability-friendly" event)
Text at the top in a sci-fi glitch font says Out Now!
at the bottom it reads: “What do you get out of this? Some sick pleasure
from destroying government property?”
“Nah, I take a deep, righteous pleasure in annoying you.”

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 19/07/2026

just a reminder I have a whole bunch of events next week to celebrate my book's release on Tuesday [internal screaming], including both in-person and virtual events! please come to one! I would love it if people showed up!

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 19/07/2026

THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in *3-almost-2 days* [internal screaming], it's a Beauty & the Beast-inspired queer cozy horror and I'd love if you'd preorder it, request it at your library, tell your friends, attend a launch event, etc #LateNightWrite www.elizmanderson.com/the-lord-of-...

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the lord of the wood — author e.m. anderson

queer cozy horror coming in july 2026 from hanover square press

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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Though I have not read her book yet, I have to give a shoutout to @ashintheashes.bsky.social, who was one of my co-panelists at the recent 2026 WriteHive Annual Conference. Go check out her book that has dragons, queer rep, and disability rep! #SFFChat

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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Celebrate disability pride month with some good old fashioned disabled rage and preorder Why Aren't You Dead Yet? A disability in dystopia anthology releasing July 20th #DisabilityPride #DisabilityRage #Dystopia #anthology #books @ellatholmes.bsky.social

a red background with a green smoke. The cover for Why Aren't You Dead Yet? has been cut into the shape of a 5 so it says 5 Days Why Aren't You Dead Yet? Releases July 20th
Celebrate Disability Pride Month with some good old fashioned disabled rage

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