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As promised, the cover reveal for my ridiculous vampire novel, FANGS NOT INCLUDED, coming 25 May 2027!!! 🧛🏾‍♀️🧛🏾‍♀️🧛🏾‍♀️ (Illustration by Kushiaania; cover design by Julia Tyler and Alison Klapthor.) www.harpercollins.com/products/fan...

A blue background with the text "Fangs Out 05/25/2027" and a cover with four vampiric girls on it. The main one, a rakshasi, is holding a camera and filming. The title says, "Fangs Not Included."

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tell me five classes you took in college: *Science Fiction by Women *Science and Pseudoscience: An Investigative Approach *Japanese Performing Arts *Movement for Singers *Medieval Myth & Modern Narrative

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Contract signed, so super thrilled to be able to say my story “What the Hag May Take” is forthcoming in a future issue of @nightmare-magazine.com!

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The NoSleep Podcast @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's Episode 05 of Season 25. The frequency of fear brings you tales about surviving after loss. Tune in and brace yourselves for the NoSleep Podcast. Where fear never sleeps...

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My story "Reasons This Is Not a Horror Story" is included in the latest episode of The NoSleep Podcast, and I'm super thrilled with the production! Hearing my story requires a subscription to the premium content, but worth the cost if you like your short horror stories in audio format.

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NoSleep Podcast S25E05 - The NoSleep Podcast

It's Episode 05 of Season 25. The frequency of fear brings you tales about surviving after loss. "Clown Heads" by Em Starr (Story starts around 00:04:20) Produced by Claudius Moore Cast: Joey - Atticu...

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Day 1 of writing retreat in the Poconos! Settled into my little nook for novel revisions.

A desk in a loft with an open laptop, coffee mug, and lamp

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: interview with graduate & author Shay Kauwe, who talks about her Your Personal Odyssey experience and her debut novel, The Killing Spell www.odysseyworkshop.org/interview-gr...

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Interview: Graduate Shay Kauwe | Odyssey Writing Workshops

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Old carpeting has been replaced with vinyl, so now my office gets a dorky new rug addition

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cue difficulty switching from Vacation Brain to Normal Day Brain. As if Normal Day Brain wasn't uncooperative enough already.

The moon and clouds over the ocean, close to sunset, with dunes in the foreground

Moon over the ocean at night, with deck railing and some beachfront homes in the foreground

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 18/08/2026

My most recent essay, "Tempered and Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction," disappeared without much of a ripple when it came out, but I'm really proud of it, so I'll share it again now. If you read it, I hope you like it. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Tempered And Spiced: A Recipe for Mythic Fiction

I have been told over and over that no one would be interested in what I have to say, that I am the “wrong kind” of minority to count. That my ancestors’ tales of enchantment and wonder—and so, min…

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: excerpts from a Q&A with Odyssey Director Jeanne Cavelos, who talks about whether short fiction credits can help your novel career and the value of attending conventions www.odysseyworkshop.org/qa-excerpt-j...

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Q&A Excerpt: Jeanne Cavelos | Odyssey Writing Workshops

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 17/07/2026

Apropos of too many things lately, here's a spite poem I wrote a few weeks ago **makes unflinching eye contact while jamming more em dashes in** full disrespect to anyone writing with AI and also to the idea that we should change our voices and styles because the plagiarism machine is copying us

I will not cede my em dashes
I gathered them over countless afternoons in the languorous haze of foxing pages––breathing in the must of bygone times.

I unearthed them in a hundred many-branching conversations––no eye contact, just enthusiasm and did you know that rabbit trailing bliss.

I knelt at Emily Dickinson’s feet, and Emily Brontë’s, felt the press of punctuation against each shoulder––a knighting. A charge.

I will not cede them. I am oath-bound, sworn in fealty to complexity, to the broken, never-ending word. I must wield––.

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Mark Peters @markpeters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“Why are you wasting time when there’s such an increasing lack of it ahead?” Great new story from @babarnett.bsky.social ! A fun, quick read, but delivered with a sort of quiet restraint that makes the strangeness feel completely believable.

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So thrilled to have this story published!

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: excerpts from a Q&A with graduate, author & guest lecturer Barbara Ashford, who talks about how acting and improvisation has informed her writing www.odysseyworkshop.org/qa-excerpt-b...

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Q&A Excerpt: Barbara Ashford | Odyssey Writing Workshops

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

On a 400-word humorous flash piece about a zombie bunny rabbit: "the premise is implausible and poorly researched." I remain at a total loss as to what I was supposed to have researched. Is there an actual procedure I don't know about for raising bunnies from the dead?

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Present Me: (happily types away, sure Past Me had thoroughly mapped out this novel revision) My only note on the chapter I just reached: "Ugh I don’t know what the f!@# to do with this scene now." Present Me should perhaps have less faith in Past Me.

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Seems like a good day to do some work from the outdoor office

A laptop on a patio table with trees in the background

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: excerpts from a Q&A with author & guest lecturer @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social, who talks about voice in middle grade vs young adult fiction and how to deal with parental figures in middle grade novels

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Q&A Excerpt: Greg van Eekhout | Odyssey Writing Workshops

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I did not spend the afternoon on novel revisions as planned, but I wrote a new flash story instead so I guess yay productive revision procrastination? And with that out of my system, NOW back to the novel.

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Today’s surprise: opening a sunroom window to find this little dude staring at me from on top of a bush

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Mushrooms lending a bit of fairy garden chic next to the back patio

Mushrooms growing in a patch of mulch next to a metal flower and two metal dancer decorations

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

When you’ve unintentionally chosen the perfect bookmark for a story in the anthology you’re reading.

A gold chicken bookmark next to a book page with the story “Count Poniatowski and the Beautiful Chicken” by Elizabeth Ziemska

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Yay exciting space stuff! A welcome distraction from (gestures at everything down here). Also: space stuff!

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NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

YouTube video by NASA

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I have yet to see 1) a consistent definition of cozy horror or 2) examples that aren’t actually just straight-up horror of some flavor. Having a sense of humor doesn’t make the horror “cozy” IMO.

Man with a coffee mug sitting at a table with a sign that reads “Cozy horror is not a thing: change my mind.”

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Haven’t done much other than pimp Odyssey blog posts on here lately. To sum up: Weird-ass short story written. New novel draft in progress. Rehearsals. Concerts. Tech-related headaches. Teaching prep. Too much snow. Too little reading for fun. Swearing incoherently at the news. Internal screaming.

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a man with long hair and a mustache says no there is too much .

Alt: A man with long hair and a mustache (Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride) says, "Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up."

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Seeing people complain about 15 minutes of music in another language and I’m like (laughs in opera)

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I'm a writer. I should be able to articulate things clearly. But right now my thoughts on current events are mostly an incoherent string of cussing.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I'm teaching an Odyssey Online class, and there are 10 days left to apply! No actual acting in front of anyone involved, just writing.

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I’ve been interviewed about my upcoming Odyssey Online class, All the World’s a Page, over at WOW! Women on Writing! A short read if you’d like to learn more about the class or want to procrastinate on holiday-related drudgery.

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Interview With Odyssey Writing Workshops Graduate & Instructor: Barbara A. Barnett

If you're looking to invest in yourself in the new year, you may consider signing up for a course with Odyssey Writing Workshops . Their cou...

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

(finally looks up to see what’s happening in the world after recovering from Christmas concert hell week) 👀 (immediately looks down and thinks that horrible Christmas on Broadway medley wasn’t so bad in comparison)

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: Excerpts from a Q&A with award-winning author, Odyssey grad & YPO guest lecturer @cornellwriter.bsky.social, who talks about her revision process and getting a character's voice across through body language odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/q...

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Q&A Excerpt: P. A. Cornell

P. A. Cornell was a 2025 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. She is an award-winning, Chilean-Canadian speculative fiction writer. A graduate of the Odyssey workshop, her sto…

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The project board has gotten a seasonal upgrade for the new month

A dry erase board with December written above a drawing of snowflakes and The Scream with a Santa hat

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Odyssey's 2026 online classes have been announced & I'm excited to be teaching one of them: All the World’s a Page: Adapting Acting Techniques to Strengthen Your Fiction. Because I am a theater geek & will gladly talk your ear off about how useful acting techniques can be when applied to writing.

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Rebecca Roland @rebeccarolandpdx.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

It’s publication day! I would appreciate it if you would have a read.

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