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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin

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SFF writer, poet & folklorist (rep: Thais Afonso & Jen Azantian) 👾 Director, Erewhon Books 📚 Shin Buddhist & adoptive parent of 3 w/my twin sis 🍵 Guilty of writing in my journals AND my books. 🫣 Clarion West NWW ‘25. linktr.ee/CassaCassaCassa

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 31/08/2026
The only movie I have ever gone to rewatch in the theater multiple times. Extraordinary on every level!
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 31/08/2026
My first thought after I read this book was, “This deserves a Hugo,” and so it does. ⚔️💔 Congratulations, @alixeharrow.bsky.social !
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 31/08/2026
Congratulations, Diana!! 🩵💚❤️💛🚀 You are truly one of the best!
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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A whirlwind final day at @laworldcon.bsky.social! A reading, a signing at the @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social table, co-hosting the @carlbrandon.bsky.social Society Tea, and a 2026 Debut Authors panel. Highlight: my editor @dianapho.bsky.social took home her 3rd Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form!
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Thais Afonso @thaisafonso.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Since it's #MSWL day and I intend to open to queries soon (as soon as I finish considering the submissions still in my inbox!), I updated my #MSWL profile: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/th...
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Thais Afonso – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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auntie lino’s strap @aplethoras.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
you will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that
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Sabina Nordqvist @nordqvistbooks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
So honored to share that It’s All In Your Head got a Kirkus Starred Review!! ⭐️
A blue graphic with a snowboard and the title it’s all in your head by Sabina Nordqvist with the Kirkus star review “: an extremely slow burn that pays off exponentiallyThe same slide with a different quote: the sex is super hot. This one features Skyler from my cover sitting at the bottom with her phone and IIH socks.The same slide with a different quote: a strong debut about characters who meet in the pause between pain and hope. This one has a pill from the cover of my bookThe full excerpt: “[A]n extremely slow burn that pays off exponentially. The sex is super hot. Because Skylar and Pike learn early to communicate about pain and limitations, they’re great communicators by the time they do eventually hook up, which makes for some steamy dirty talk. Together they learn that while chronic illness comes with restrictions, their desire for one another does not. A strong debut about characters who meet
in the pause between pain and hope.”

This one features pike from my cover standing with his cane leaning against the excerpt and a pair of his goggles. At the bottom it says it’s all in your head is out February 10
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 10/01/2026
😆 a key moment in Heated Rivalry fits this trope so yes, yes indeed
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 10/01/2026
and then there’s the variation where you’re standing awkwardly in the doorway until your secret hockey boyfriend says, “come stay in my caaaabin, it’s private, we’ll have a great time” and then the nurse comes in and asks if she should be worried you’re going to smother him with a pillow
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 04/01/2026
rambles 🤝 social media (but also I, too, really ought to occasionally post a thing)
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
We asked @lavanya.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of '26. Read the full article: geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @slhuang.com @robertjbennett.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social & more! geni.us/killingspell
The author and their books:
Lavanya Lakshminarayan, author of THE TEN PERCENT THIEF and the FLAVOR HACKER Duology

The book they'd love for Christmas
Le Carré and Le Guin first editions

Their favourite reads of 2025
THE WATER OUTLAWS
A DROP OF CORRUPTION
TREACLE WALKER

Their anticipated read of 2026
VIGIL
LOVE GALAXY
THE PICTURES OF DARPAN RAY
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 04/01/2026
Adored #SongSungBlue, especially the performance of Kate Hudson! This movie was so, so unbelievably kind in its handling of the real difficulties faced by low-income families, yet it was woven into this incredibly fun, singable, nostalgic story of Neil Diamond fandom, too. Fantastic.
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Merryl Wiener @merrylwiener.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Kate Hudson in her best performance is as Claire in Song Sung Blue. Jackman did a pretty good Neil Diamond but I loved him for the human side of Mike. A great Christmas movie for us.
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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
All my awards-eligible 2025 publications!! It’s been a good publishing year. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social @spotifyforauthors.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com @crepuscularmag.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @khoreo.bsky.social @horrortree.com for sharing my stories & essays with the world! 🖤🖤🖤
Graphic showing Kelsea Yu’s 2025 original publications:
Novella: Demon Song published by Titan and Spotify
Novelette: Ye Xian and the Celestial Feast produced by Spotify
Short Story: “In Our Skin” in Nightmare
“Unspoken” in Crepuscular
“Deliquescence” in The Deadlands
Essay:
“Haunting, Haunted” in khoreo
“Novella: the Perfect Length for Horror” in HorrorTree
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 27/12/2025
Oh, I have a revision of an earlier novel that I’m sort of playing around with for fun while I REST and wait for notes on another project. Doing okay, in other words!!
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 27/12/2025
You are an INCREDIBLE writer!! 🥺 For the record. (But I know how those writing days feel, too)
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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 27/12/2025
If you’re someone who doesn’t emote much, Shane is so relatable. The real thought is always the undercurrent, whereas Ilya says the emotional part out loud. But then Ilya never calls him on it, like, “Hey, you said to be honest with each other.” He KNOWS that this IS Shane being open. #heatedrivalry
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sierra (💔🐝💔) @catwench.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
shane being gobsmacked at ilya calling himself his boyfriend after they professed their love and shane literally mapped out a whole 10 year twelve step plan for them to be together forever like you have to laugh #HeatedRivalry
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Léa Charbonnier @cleadraw.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas 🎄✨ . #heatedrivalry #gamechangers #romancebook #romancelandia
Two menin winter jumpers are embracing eachother.
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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
To add to this - THE MEMORY HUNTERS is not inspired by the Middle Ages. Valerian IV does not wear plate armor. But she does have a sword, is sworn to guard her charge, and went to combat school. And I wrote her specifically to fulfill the princess/knight trope. Sapphically.
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Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
MAD SISTERS OF ESI is eligible for awards this season:
There is a cover of the book MAD SISTERS OF ESI. Below it is the text "Award Eligibility". Above it, it says:

-The Washington Post: Best SFF Books 2025
-Reactor Magazine: Best Books: Reviewers' Choice
- Winner: 2024 Subjective Chaos Kind of Award
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
wow apparently it's """"""""unacceptable"""""""" to say "I'm always a slut for maple bars" in a professional context
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
“Reiner, 78, was an avuncular public figure through it all … a quietly brilliant force in the industry, producing the kind of intelligent, varied #films no one could have expected from a man audiences once knew best as ‘Meathead’.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025... #RIP #RobReiner
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Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling
The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins.
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 16/12/2025
I had a friendship (situationship?) just like this one, and I’ve always been grateful to this movie for capturing how it felt. Loved many of his other shows, as well, but this was my personal favorite. RIP, Rob & Michelle.
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 14/12/2025
“Love the monster breeding inside you and slaughter him with love. Love the shipwreck of your body, your mind’s salted garden…” Exactly what I needed today. 💕 @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/10/j...
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Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair
How do we live whole in a breaking world? It helps to bless what is simply for being. It helps to thank everything for its unbidden everythingness. And still we need help — help holding on to…
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In a new interview with @mcflycahill90.bsky.social, @victormanibo.com discusses Filipino history, "gloomth", and what drew him to gothic horror with his latest novel The Villa, Once Beloved!
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Crafting an Anti-Colonial Gothic: A Conversation With Author Victor Manibo - Reactor
"I couldn’t just swap out the Victorian mansion with a Spanish-era villa without those changes meaning something deeper."
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Happy #caturday from Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose good opinion once lost is lost forever (except if you give him chin scritches)
A white British shorthair cat with a pink nose and blue eyes perches on the top of a bookshelf. Behind him, the wall is a sage green.
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Elliott Blackwell @elliottblackwell.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The Wind in the Willows illustration by Inga Moore
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 30/11/2025
The “you” of this novella was a heartbreaker. 😭 Pitch perfect!!
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Most economists agree that by age 50, you should: - own at least one magic sword - get advice from an enchanted bear skull - be covered by a thin layer of moss & lichen - disappear into a malevolent fog once a month - become a creature of myth & legend in the old forest
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Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS in "a must-read" debut perfect for fans of Tananarive Due and Johnny Compton. Tamika Thompson delivers a gripping domestic horror about motherhood, grief, and the ghosts born of injustice. Learn more about the book here: bit.ly/47EsdEo #EWGC
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 29/11/2025
@anovelescape.bsky.social I truly loved it! 🖤💕💀
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 29/11/2025
I finished reading DEMON SONG by Kelsea Yu, and it was a beautiful take on diaspora experience and Chinese opera and completely delivered on the Phantom of the Opera (but make it sapphic)! Very sensual with some intense body horror moments, done beautifully. www.kelseayu.com/demon-song
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Demon Song — Kelsea Yu
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 26/10/2025
Thank you, friend 🥺
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history. The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular! So were the signs...
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 19/10/2025
I hope you're having an amazing time!!
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 19/10/2025
I finished my novel draft today!!!!!!! This was a project for which I wrote the earliest words several years ago, so it was especially emotional to see it finally reach completion. 💙
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✨🦋𝓢𝓗𝓔𝓘𝓛𝓐 🦋✨ @sheilaharris.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This is Idaho 💙
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Neil Ottenstein @nottenst.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Just finished listening to A Philosophy of Thieves by @franwilde.bsky.social I did not plan on finishing it this quickly, but was swept away. It was loads of fun with loads of fascinating characters. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781353...
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A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde: 9781645661948 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a futuristic fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the...
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 14/10/2025
Beautiful!!
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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 14/10/2025
and here's a static cover reveal post for people who want to skip the book trailer and/or hate videos! cover art by Lucy Rose THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in July 2026, from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social! #author preorder now: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...
the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood, framed in gold with gold flowers against a dark teal background around the edges. The cover is teal with a stag of flowers and foliage growing from a twisted tree with flowers growing around it and black ooze dripping from a branch overhead. the title "The Lord of the Wood" is in large white serif text to the left, with foliage growing through the letters closest to the tree, and the author "E.M. Anderson" is in all-caps yellow text at the bottom. the tagline, in smaller yellow text, reads, "Even a beastly woodland protector needs saving...""When lonely clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton loses his way in an enchanted forest, he meets the hero of his childhood bedtime stories: the Lord of the Wood. But instead of the mythical figure of his dreams, the Lord of the Wood is a grim man turning into a beast and losing power over a dying forest. If they can’t save the forest before he becomes a beast completely, Arthur will lose the man he's falling for—and never see his family again." Text is in a textbox against a murky image of a forest, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood below the text, all against a dark teal background with gold curlicues in the corners.The cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood on a dark teal background with golden leaves overhead, surrounded by yellow text reading: plant magic; sentient forest trying to oops! murder people; intensely homoerotic shaving scene; the one who heard the stories and the one who was in the stories; hopeless romantic who's clueless about his own sexuality; Beauty & the Beast inspired by not a retelling; dual-POV brother/sister; love interest turning slowly into a beast; wound-tending.
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Kathleen Carr Foster @kathleencarrfoster.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I’m so excited to share news of my book deal!. Many thanks to the great @frecklywench.bsky.social at Aevitas Creative!. I’m thrilled to be working with @viengsamai.bsky.social , @mcflycahill90.bsky.social and the rest of the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social !
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 09/10/2025
🔥 Love that! Have you read PROPHET by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché? That was a fun one in this vein, too, although maybe more New Weird / VanderMeer than what you’re doing here?
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 09/10/2025
the tyranny of the “standard plot” 😭
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 09/10/2025
ooohhhh 👀
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 09/10/2025
THEY ARE!! I don’t know what it is about space stations, but they just have so much potential for strangeness. Maybe it’s the sense that they are a crossroads of the universe like a lot of real historical imperial cities so often were, where a lot of different things can come together unexpectedly.
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 09/10/2025
Utterly in love with this pitch!
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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 09/10/2025
aw, always love to hear that! I was thinking of MOTHEATER when I read your pitch!!
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