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Casey Banks

@caseybanks.bsky.social
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Hello! I love reading & writing about supernatural horror, science fiction, and fantasy. My favorite stories are about normal people in wild situations, wild people in normal situations, or just all-around madness.

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only thing I can think of is either she is a very entitled person who think she deserves an easy path the publishing, or she thinks you really do have specialized secret knowledge that you’re refusing to share. I have no clue about the comment about your mom. That you look like your dad??
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Cody Vrosh @codyvrosh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hello my friends! I'll be at Crocker Con tomorrow hosted at the Crocker Art Museum. This is a fantastic show filled with local artists and creators at a lovely museum, and it's free to attend. Come out and say hi! www.crockerart.org/crockercon
Crocker Con. Crocker Art Museum. 9/20 10am - 4pm.
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Mark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @ajmacadam.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of the newest season of "In the Dark." Plus @alexanderchee.bsky.social on Annie Dillard, and @mdbell79.bsky.social on sequences in storytelling. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/09/18/h...
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How a magazine story becomes a podcast - Nieman Storyboard
Plus: Remembering Annie Dillard, and the National Book Awards announces its longlist for nonfiction
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you genuinely believe that libraries negatively impact book sales, I don't even know what to say to you.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I do the exact same thing. I’m buy my friends’ books and preorders because they’re my friends. Any other book I vet it through the library first, fall in love with the story and author, and then buy.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s hard to take an all caps paragraph seriously. It makes the writer feel like a madman ranting at the sun.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Huh.. weird but I don’t hate it. Bring it on 🙌🏾
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Make it make sense!
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The mind readers know if you have a crush on someone or can tell that you slept with your coworker.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The mind control people can walk you off a cliff or into traffic. Or make you tell the truth or go to sleep in the middle of a battle (which happens in the book).
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The mind readers are ostracized and vilified, when the people who can literally puppet you around are treated like that’s not a big deal. It makes no sense.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In a world where there are 2 types of magic people, people who mind read and people who can control your body, who is scary? It should be the ppl who control your body right? Well, wrong according to this book!
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I finished reading the best book that I’ve read in a long time. Great writing, great characters, and plot but the more i think about the premise the more frustrated I’m getting.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good grief. I think 404media just put out an article about AI bots harassing journalists.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Way to go!! 🙌🏾
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“My husband sighs a deep, heavy Negro spiritual sigh” 😂🤣
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One of the most irritating things about the AI boosters doing commencement speeches was how all of them were telling the college grads it was up to them to come up with AI uses, while also telling them it can do anything and everything imaginable
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Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Please share if you know someone who might be interested! New class this September on using theme in your descriptions. www.patreon.com/catrambo/pos...
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Upcoming Class: Establishing, Underscoring, and Utilizing Theme in Descriptions | Cat Rambo
When: September 27, 1-3 PM Eastern time. What: One of the marks a writer must shoot for is description that works with a story’s theme, est
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On my list!
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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Saturday at The Sycamore!
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My 8th grade teacher used reverse psychology on me and I defiantly read Gone with the Wind at 12yrs old to prove that I could. I was so proud of myself, and it gave me the confidence to read more challenging books
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Shapeless Ink (but spooky) @shapelessink.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Finally got to touching up probably the most popular doodle I've ever done, lmao. Wonder if this would work as a bookmark?
Cartoon image of an anthropomorphic sheep holding a gun, pointing it at the viewer. She says "Get writing, bitch. Infinite worlds cry out to be born and you are to be a God."
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The predator taking off his armor and tossing a mud covered Dutch around felt way more homoerotic in my opinion.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Also I got to see the Predator handshake in its original form. That was exciting. I didn’t know they were arm wrestling. I think the only reason it get labeled as homoerotic is the smiling and prolonged eye contact.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I watched Predator (1987) for the first time (I’m thinking about using it as a comp to pitch a short scifi I’m writing - Predator x high school prom), and it holds up really well. There’s also a lot more explosions than I anticipated. Like the budget was 80% explosions.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Guilty as charged. I listened to Bad Blood on audiobook and it was fantastic. Interviews with Holmes explaining how the medical tester worked (which they didn’t) are still on YouTube. I want to see this documentary.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If I’m following you, it’s because I like your writing, I like your art, I like your humor, or all of the above. I’m not a social media person so I’m not online much, but I’ll do my best to occasionally post about interesting things!
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Some of the sentences are a bit of a struggle and take a second or third reading but I’m enjoying the challenge
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I like how much dialogue is in the book. I was braced to wade through pages of descriptions of the pastoral setting, my brain stops processing if there’s too much description, but the story unfolds so well and the descriptions not overly done.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I prefer Pride & Prejudice, but I wrote a short about two sisters battling supernatural horrors that’s been rejected twice by publishers and one of the problems is the characters are under developed. So I’m reading S&S bc my sisters have a similar dynamic.
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I’m reading Sense and Sensibility and I forgot how engaging Jane Austin’s prose are!
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
"Apex Magazine Submissions OPEN!

We are Seeking:
short sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fiction
short genre-related nonfiction
Up to 9k words

Submissions Close August 1st
https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/"
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There are many ways to improve your life: - read books - be kind - read more books - rest - read so many books that an ancient power of undying fire ignites deep in your eyes - hydrate - read more books
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
After checking out the same two KJ and Cat books a half dozen times I realized they were my comfort stories and just bought them 😆
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Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Imagine Song. “I is for Imagine, M is for Me, A is for the letter A, G is for G, I is for Imagine, N is for Nice, E is for Egad; I said imagine twice.”
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/06/2026
I was interviewed about Sanctuary Moon and other fake TV shows on TubeTalk: www.tubetalk.media/p/murderbot-...
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The Show Within the Show
Murderbot's Sanctuary Moon is one of the best shows-in-a-show out there. I talked with Martha Wells about her creation.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Write something that sets you free.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
good practical reflection for artists who feel like whatever theyre making just isnt working is the sit down and VERY HONESTLY ask yourself: what is the gift here? it can be a lot of things. what am i giving to myself? to the world? what feeling? what expression? art that resonates is art that GIVES
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last. www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je... bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
Here's the cover of Bedfellow by yours truly. The cover is black with a black and white illustration of a bald creature with his face in shadow and tiny white eyes. He's playing with little figures beside a two story doll house.
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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Updated. Pros and cons to making this by hand on the back of a recycled Stir flyer, but I’m nothing if not committed to making things stupidly difficult for myself for the sake of largely meaningless ideals
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Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
THE WISDOM OF EMPERORS kickstarter passed $70,000 yesterday, so as per the "Please Don't Do This To Me" stretch goal, I have filmed a Melodramatic Video Bemoaning My Fate. Why do good things happen to people who are just okay? 🥺 www.instagram.com/reel/DYP4E54... #queersff #queeradultSFF 🩵📚🪐
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Alexandra Rowland ✨ Bookstagram on Instagram: "If you are mystified by this: the Kickstarter for my fantasy book, THE WISDOM OF EMPERORS, had a stretch goal called "Please Don't Do This" and the promi...
97 likes, 17 comments - _alexrowland on May 12, 2026: "If you are mystified by this: the Kickstarter for my fantasy book, THE WISDOM OF EMPERORS, had a stretch goal called "Please Don't Do This" and t...
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup
A hand holding four shrunken styrofoam cups the size of shot glasses. Two with jellyfish colored on them and two with black and white lines
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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
So excited to share this story from my collection with you! This was published with permission from @stelliform.press as a promotion for my debut solarpunk collection, The Wildcraft Drones, which probably wouldn’t exist without @torystephens.bsky.social & @grist.org 💚 The book comes out May 21!
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Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We are open to submissions! Seeking short stories 1,000-3,000 words. We pay $25 per story. Full details at www.brownhoundpress.com/submit.
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SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com · 23/04/2026
Did you know - your library hold can easily nudge a library to order more books! At my local library, THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS had 1 e-copy the morning of release day. 40 people in line. By end of day they'd ordered 5 more copies & the audiobook Libraries rule & your holds legit increase our sales 🥰
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Vanessa Armstrong @vanessa-armstrong.com · 20/04/2026
Woohoo! Someone just became a Tube Talker! Want weird history, offbeat TV, and/or other fun stuff delivered weekly to your inbox? Join us! www.tubetalk.media/subscribe
Tube Talk! Learn something weird weekly! Surprising histories; offbeat entertainment; brain-twisting books
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