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Elle Zi Dong @ellezidong.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

My horror short story, featured in Reactor Mag, is eligible for awards this season! Read it for free via The Dark Magazine's website

2025 Award Eligibility. Elle Zi Dong. "They Must Be Angels" (The Dark). Featured in Reactor Mag: "Must Read Speculative Short Fiction, August 2025." Categories: Horror, Short Fiction; Speculative, Short Fiction

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solar @solarhoang.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

As we are coming closer to the end of @awwlitmag.bsky.social ’s kickstarter campaign, I’m excited to share a snippet in my short story INTO THE SHADOW. If you're still looking for something to read this spooky season, we will lead you Into The Dark 🌑 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

LETTERS FROM THE LAST APOTHECARY is coming Summer 2026! 💌 Eternally grateful to be debuting with the lovely people at Hay House. Somehow, I now get to share my gaslamp fantasy with a side of romance with the world. Thank you 💖

publisher’s marketplace screenshot with character art. LETTERS FROM THE LAST APOTHECARY. Imprint: Hay House. Bita Behzadi's LETTERS FROM THE LAST APOTHECARY, a romantic light fantasy that follows a willful, aspiring mage as she works with the local, uptight apothecarist to save his shop amid a wave of growing anti-magic sentiment, unaware they have already fallen in love exchanging anonymous letters, pitched as for fans of DIVINE RIVALS and EMILY WILDE, to Allison Janice at Hay House, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026 and 2027, by Allegra Martschenko at BookEnds (world).

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

i unfortunately give off trembling chihuahua energy in all professional contexts it's really something

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

finding out that everyone in the writing gc has rp'd

three spider-men pointing at each other meme

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

coworker asked chatgpt to shorten a paragraph for her to meet a word count and it completely failed and messed up the entire paragraph so then she asked me and i got it done in under 60 seconds

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

i tried using chatgpt to brainstorm once and my computer EXPLODED… it just couldn’t handle the SHEER INTELLECTUAL MAGNITUDE of my MASSIVE STORYTELLING CAPABILITIES

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

hey guys what’s goin on over here

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

every year i read more in January than I do in June-August combineddddd 😭😭😭😭

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Rachel Kitch @rachelkitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

inspired by the thai ghost story of the krasue, LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER is a horror short story about a family desperate for what they’ve lost, and the price they’ll have to pay to get it. #ShortPit #H #F #SUB

LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER
HORROR SHORT STORY 5K WORDS

A GRANDMOTHER, MISSING HER SON
A MOTHER, KEEPING THEM TOGETHER
AND A DAUGHTER, PAYING THEIR PRICE

INSPIRED BY THE THAI GHOST STORY OF THE KRASUE

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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 30/11/2024

If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

started tawny man. fitz has returned to me. many of you should be scared.

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

this insane ass book’s special edition shrink wrapped like it’s explicit manga 😭😭😭 very pretty though

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

i managed to spoil myself for liveship traders, forget the spoiler, and then re-spoil myself again. how can i subconsciously know a spoiler and still miss all the foreshadowing.

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

im a musical theater fan and disney adult and never got into wicked which tbh should be classified as an extreme sport

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

challengers trailer with s&m was kind of an all time high

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

art creds to @/nikespera.png on insta

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

EMILY WILDE x DIVINE RIVALS In a magical Chicago, the doors of the last apothecary threaten to shutter. To save the shop, a grumpy apothecarist & his whirlwind new coworker must learn to cooperate, unaware of the many letters already connecting them. #agented

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

movie so bad you’re posting on bluesky

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

she was literally textbook groomed and he’s unwilling to frame it that way out because of her wishes but like. dude. if you can’t cover this responsibly just stfu 😭😭😭 it’s so dangerous to act like this wasn’t grooming. HES WRITING A BOOK ABOUT THIS TOO

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

that cormac mccarthy article going around twitter is one of the most irresponsibly and terribly written articles i’ve ever read in my entire life oh lord

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

i’ve been thinking about apoth’s place in publishing a lot lately and there’s so much i want to talk about but im not sure if i have the space to lol

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

you know what I’m gonna say about this 😔

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

aufidius reid first male victim of misogyny, bita behzadi first female victim of misandry. believe it.

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

the mmc of apoth is a little divisive as a love interest which is a shame because i gave him my two worst qualities (cumbersome name and acts like his suffering is unique and singular) so when you hate on him it’s kind of like misogyny to me personally

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m so proud of you Halle ❤️

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

if you kill me now you can have it early. tempting, no?

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I am 86k words into a book that’s absolutely agonizing to write but also if I don’t write I start going psychologically insane. When I die I’m donating my brain to science.

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

this is a cyclical occurrence im afraid

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

i miss being on my private twitter to issue nonsensical updates. anyways im taking my daily nap now.

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

OH MOON SHINE BRIGHT AND MAKE THIS ENDLESS DAY ENDLESS NIGHTTTTT TONIGHTTT

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

did you know that stephen sondheim was only 27 when he wrote the lyrics of west side story. anyways. just finished my annual listen through to one of the best musicals of all time.

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Chelsea Abdullah @chelsabdullah.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What’s in a sequel? ✨ I have yet to share this ridiculous teaser graphic here but with THE ASHFIRE KING out in less than 5 months (!!), I thought this would be the perfect time! THE ASHFIRE KING is out April 15 from Orbit and is available for preorder now!: shorturl.at/N7NO1

The graphic features a 3D cover of THE ASHFIRE KING with things from the book featured around it:

- Arab-inspired Fantasy sequel
- Ancient cities with lived-in ruins
- A vanishing island
- Magic fire
- Bonding over grief
- Ragtag team x 2
- Birds? Spies? Bird Spies.
- Sailing on sinking sand
- Oops, everyone is scheming
- A dare involving a magic carpet

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Rachel Kitch @rachelkitch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

i love writing i love writing i love writing i love writing

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

CRAWLING IN MY SKIN THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEAL

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bita | بیتا @bitabehz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

oh I would be so flattered if I were him

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