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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Amelia Stonehold & Serena Meleva navigate property acquisition, marriage proposals, & other ancient horrors in Regency England, with the help of elemental magic in this standalone novel (& perfect entry point!) to Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series. astrapublishinghouse.com/product/miss...

MISS AMELIA'S LIST by Mercedes Lackey on a park rail alongside a sprig of pine.

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Erin Macdonald @drerinmac.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Just submitted my guest application for @dragoncon.org 2025! Hope to see you all there again this year. Remember, you too can be a part of the festivities as a panelist! With *professional* credits you can join this cadre of nerds and fans for a delightful weekend! www.dragoncon.org/participate/...

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Joy Salvador y Acosta 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @joysalvador.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Our Anglo-Fil-Am Thanksgiving dinner menu: Rice (of course!) Roasted Herb Butter Turkey Roasted Root Vegetables Sweet Potato Casserole Lumpia Ube Biko On Banana Leaves Tossed Green Salad Wine Sweet Rolls Sage, Sausage, And Green Apple Stuffing Gravy Cranberry Sauce #filipino #english #thanksgiving

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My latest novel, The Seventh Veil of Salome (one of the best books of the year according to NPR) is $6.99 via ebook retailers today (US only). That includes Amazon, B&N, etc. Historical novel that mashes together 1950s Hollywood & Biblical narrative. Link to Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

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The Seventh Veil of Salome: A GMA Book Club Pick ebook by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Seventh Veil of Salome: A GMA Book Club Pick" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia available from Rakuten Kobo. **GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film...

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Brent Scarcliff y Ashburn @mythologist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What's the collective noun for a passel of dachshunds? A snuggle of dachshunds? A daemonium of dachshunds? A cacophony of dachshunds? A party pack of dachshunds? A delirium of dachshunds? A delightfulness of dachshunds? A doggedness of dachshunds? Other ideas? #dachshunds #doxies #dogsofbluesky

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Brent Scarcliff y Ashburn @mythologist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ilocano bislák "sliver, splinter; piece of split bamboo; the name of a river in Bacarra" < perhaps a blend of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biseqak "to split" and Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian *siqelak "split or cleaved" #eotd #etymology #wotd #austronesian

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Brent Scarcliff y Ashburn @mythologist.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#Ilokano lángit "sky, heaven" < #Proto-Austronesian *laŋiC "sky" Cf. #Hawaiian lani "sky, heaven; heavenly, spiritual; very high chief, majesty; royal, exalted, high born, aristocratic" #eotd #etymology #wotd

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hello new followers! I mainly write science fiction. I have twice won the BSFA Award for Best Novel and I've been a finalist for the Locus Award, the British Fantasy Award, and others. I'm also an editor for @starsandsabers.bsky.social and I spend a lot of time online encouraging aspiring authors.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Before I log off for the night, let me tell you that my novel Future's Edge (published by @titanbooks.bsky.social in the US and UK) is now available to pre-order from all good booksellers. I think you'll like it. Links: linktr.ee/garethlpowell

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It is almost time for review ARCs for Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers, our magnificent cross-genre anthology we are publishing in our new imprint, @starsandsabers.bsky.social! Read about the book and see this STELLAR roster of authors: www.starsandsabers.com/of-shadows-s...

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Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers – Stars and Sabers

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Brent Scarcliff y Ashburn @mythologist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

#Tongva ryoo'enax "to cut hair" < Proto-Takic *rió:'-ina "to make bald" < *rió:' "shorn" + ina "causative" Cf. #Kitanemuk rio'in "to cut" and #Luiseño riwí' "to be bald; for bones to show through at cremation" and #Tongva ryoo(')pe' "bald" #etymology #linguistics #Takic #PUA

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Reading 2024 fiction? Try the short story "Woodmask" by Adrian Tchaikovsky! You can read it here! @aptshadow.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/wood...

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 61, “Queen of Seven Kingdoms” by Julie Dillon: a queen sits on her throne in the center facing the reader with a smile, wearing a crown with a golden crescent and a pink-purple dress. She is surrounded and being cuddled by seven men of a wide variety of skin tones and hair color, all shirtless and with toned bodies. They also wear simple coronet bands, and the quote says, "They said the grove was there before the city. Before people. They said, before the first houses that would, eventually, grow into the city of Ilmar, everything at the foot of the mountains had been forest. But, even when it had all been forest, the grove had been there, just trees amongst trees but different, separate."

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hey, welcome to new folks! On my good days, I'm a writer. If you go to nghivo.com/bibliography/ you'll find a bunch of free fiction under short stories, help yourself.

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Bibliography – Nghi Vo

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Hien Nguyen (mostly updates) @authorhien.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I suppose now's the time to post my book announcement here because I've turned in the final version of the manuscript to copy edits 🥂 #authors #books

Bria Ragin at Delacorte Press has acquired, in an exclusive submission, Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen, a YA speculative horror thriller inspired by Vietnamese mythology and pitched as The Haunting of Bly Manor meets The Parent Trap, in which long-lost identical twins Aria and Caliste are beckoned to Les Eaux, Minn., where they unravel the mystery behind their mother's death, discover a ghoul haunting the waters of the small town, and wade through the betrayal that ultimately separated them. Publication is set for fall 2025; Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management sold world English rights.

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.

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Brent Scarcliff @brentscarcliff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Meet the mother of all mythologies. A band of misfits mount a desperate search for the Home of the Gods, pursued from Siberia to Borneo by an evil empire. But this isn’t a fantasy. This is our world. In THE LAST INTERGLACIAL. Tolkien + Attenborough + @nghivo.bsky.social @jannywurts.bsky.social

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Janny Wurts @jannywurts.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Authors, artists, creators: hit me with your news, releases, events - I repost them. Be seen.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

www.fountainbookstore.com/events/43326 Just another reminder - I'd appreciate a shout out and show up for the last event I have for the year at the lovely Fountain Bookstore in Richmond Virginia tomorrow at 6 pm! You can sign up/register for the event at the link!

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The Doors of Midnight with R.R. Virdi

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Brent Scarcliff y Ashburn @mythologist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#Tongva waa'aka' "black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli" < Proto-Takic *wá:hanka' "stretch-necked fishing bird" Cf. #Kitanemuk wahanka'y "gaviota, seagull" #etymology #linguistics #indigenous #California #Takic

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Brent Scarcliff y Ashburn @mythologist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My paper on Toypurina, a leader of the Native Californian resistance to Spanish colonization, showing that her name is a hispanicized version of her Tongva title - Spirit Doctor. The Totoongvetam are the indigenous Uto-Aztecan inhabitants of Greater Los Angeles. www.academia.edu/123327970/Th...

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The Spirit of Resistance - The Meaning of Toypurina

The Tongva medicine woman Toypurina is among the best-known of the many indigenous leaders who resisted the Spanish colonization of California, being spoken of in the same breath as such other symbols...

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Brent Scarcliff @brentscarcliff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Welcome, fellow travellers, to my slice of the sky. I’m the author of The Earthy Language Cycles, a set of interconnected epic fantasy, geopolitical thriller, and science fiction novels set in our past, present, and future, launching in 2025. Follow me to request your ARCs, when the time is right!

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Margaret Atwood is 85 today. A vivid, clear-sighted presence for a very long time. Such a major literary figure in Canada and around the world. Wishing her the happiest of birthdays, and continued writing. My sense is that the latter will help the former.

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