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My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Daniel has eyes on literally every county in every state, so you should trust the curation here and bookmark this:

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 23/09/2026

Urgent! Today is bisexual day of visibility!! Reschedule your heists to TOMORROW!!!

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I wrote, I know this attorney very well, and he is a long standing supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. He has taken many pro bono cases, and at this point he can't take another pro bono case, but he can be retained. Siobhán needs another 3k for this to happen. www.gofundme.com/f/protect-si...

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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein

Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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🐈‍⬛ @karinlow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you think there’s an audience for a queer Romance of Manners a la Jane Austen, set in a secondary world, where the protags (M/M) are over 35 & family’s just as important as the “couple problems”? Oh, and the colonialism inherent in Regency & Victorian romances is actually addressed. LET ME KNOW 😇

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 18/09/2026

We'd like your help with something. The one hundredth anniversary of Ursula's birth will take place in 2029. This may seem a long time away, but we’re already starting to think about how to celebrate Ursula’s life and art. We’d love to add your ideas to the mix—there's a brief survey here:

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Centenary event planning

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026

Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 07/09/2026

Right. I just went back to the Anthropic settlement website and checked the form. It specifies you must be legal, beneficial, or sole owner of the exclusive right to reproduce a copyrighted work, and offers this list of possible claimants. Note the absence of 'literary agent'.

Question 7, 'claimant type' offers options Author, Publisher, Author Loan-Out Company, Literary Trust, Literary Estate, Other (please describe). There is no clickable Agent option.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026

If you are agented by: The Wylie Agency, Malatesta Literary Agency, L. Perkins Agency, Global Lion Intellectual Property (formerly PMA Literary), Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency, Sanford J. Greenburger, Dystel Goderich & Bourret, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency ...read this and consider hard.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026

Oh my god, this is AWFUL

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 02/09/2026

This is not yet Officially Announced (the artist is hard at work on the cover!) but looks like it's already up for ebook/hardcover preorder in the US, so—this is a secret not-announcement that you totally did not hear from me! Out next July, my third novel. I was never here

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it's sapphic september and i am here to tell you that YES, The Memory Hunters is sapphic science fantasy* and you too can be disappointed by *checks* lesbians° * magic mycological anthropology and museum ethics in a post-disaster world ° one is lesbian and the other is bisexual

An Amazon 1-star review with the following text:

Lesbian romance disguised as sci-fi

It's not sci-fo or fantasy - it's a lesbian love story. That's okay if you're a lesbian. But if you're looking for a sci-fi fantasy it's a heck of a disappointment

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 01/09/2026

FYI Outlier players—since they deleted their whole bsky account just now in an attempt to stop people from noticing this

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I spoke about being queer in a religious upbringing to 200 Scottish teens at book event this afternoon. Had seven (yes, seven) queer students and two trans students come out to me quietly in the signing queue afterwards, one of them in tears. I will never forgive those who make their lives so hard.

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ben Johnson winning, and then being stripped of, his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics (I was 5, Canadian, and in a family that liked to watch a lot of Olympics; I imagine I remember this because it would have required some explanation as to why he was no longer the winner)

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hey all, very annoyingly this site (short-stories.co) is posting shorts without permission from authors, have a look and let them know if you have one on there: short-stories.co

short-stories.co

Short Stories - Where good short stories find you

Connecting writers with a new audience, and readers with new short stories.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 24/08/2026

Hopeful update from the Sameer Project: “Our community has already brought us to 18% of our monthly operating expenses covered by recurring donations. That means predictable funding we can count on every month! … At 25%, we can begin gradually reopening programs, even at the bare minimum.”

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“I know this is going to sound extremely radical, or crazy,” she recounted telling the woman, “but ICE is there at the gate, and they're looking for you."

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ICE Is Asking Gate Agents To Help Arrest Passengers. Some Are Pushing Back

An airline manager warned a passenger that ICE agents were waiting at her gate, helping her avoid a possible arrest.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am noticing an uptick in "it's not worth bothering to distinguish between human and llm-generated prose, don't even bother trying just accept it" narratives. to me, this is a clear sign that the llm companies have stopped trying to compete on quality and are now trying to play the refs.

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Charly Salonius-Pasternak @charlyjsp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

An Israeli minister called for the extermination of groups of people because they're not really human, and security forces marked detained people with numbers.... I mean, really, how is this not mind-bending...it's only a few weeks since the 82nd anniversary of the liberation of Majdanek.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 11/08/2026

I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.

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Food & Water x The Sameer Project

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Woot! @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social recommended my novella THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS for the Ignyte Awards! Votes close in a few days and anyone can vote in the final round, so check it out! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/read...

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Nat Is Writing A Screenplay (Or Rather Trying To) 🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ally Pankiw (I Used to Be Funny) revealed in an Instagram post that she passed on directing the HBO Harry Potter series. Kate Herron (Loki) revealed in the comments that she passed on directing episodes TWICE. It really is that fucking easy. It's really just that easy.

Text messages:

"I have an instinct on the answer but I feel compelled to ask."

"Harry Potter? Hard no?"

"Absolutely fucking not!" Lol"

"But thank you got asking."

"Of course :)"

"I assumed as much"

"And agree)

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

*bangs drum* Buy more copies of Asunder! You can do it! Maybe you need a second copy? *I* have two copies, don’t fall behind me in the Asunder-owning sweepstakes!

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 12/08/2026

*extremely confident* I AM DOING THIS ARROW MEME RIGHT I KNOW I AM us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

the arrow meme for WICKHILLS: an ammonite fossil, "trained... rats?", does that street-sweeper have... cilia (yes how's it supposed to sweep otherwise), six months' wages for ONE HAT?!!??, can any of you imitate birdcalls, "the dread portal or whatever they're calling it now" and finally a bonus: i see your surgical assistant is... an octopus? can it maybe not touch me actually

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We do not have to watch the wizard bigot show. We do not have to write about the wizard bigot show. We can simply point out that the people making it chose to endorse bigotry. And not reward it with coverage or eyeballs.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

THRILLED to have won the Aurora Award for Best Related Work for Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3! Such a stacked category this year and a sign of the great SFF work being done by Canadians. Congrats to the other finalists in this and all the other categories #PrixAuroraAwards #AuroraAward #CSFFA

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SF in SF Events @sfinsfevents.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Lost a towering figure in literature today - RIP John Crowley. Little, Big changed my life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cr...

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John Crowley (author) - Wikipedia

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There are ONLY 6 DAYS LEFT of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 Kickstarter and we are 88% funded!! WE CAN DO THIS SPACE UNICORNS!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Photo of a number six cut out of white card and covered in coloured in hand drawn doodles of flowers, leaves and mushrooms. The 6 is against a background of pinky purple card.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thrilled and shocked (throcked? shrilled?) that Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Three is a Best Anthology finalist in this year's World Fantasy Awards! This is the second WFA nom for a book in this series and just as much a surprise this time :) Congrats to all the nominees!

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2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

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Alexa Doodles @alexadoodles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I left a long winded and all over the place voice mail, and I’d encourage anyone else to do the same Encouraging children to use AI for writing and poetry is so out of step with the PBS I know. It’s also a terrible appropriation of RR, which taught kids creative problem solving and teamwork

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I tripped while running and smashed my elbow badly on the sidewalk, was bleeding and shaken - woman came out of a nearby house, brought me inside, cleaned me up and bandaged me - turns out she was a nurse; think of her everytime I see the scar on my elbow

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

we require everyone's gay dollars please process them here (if you have straight dollars we will take them as well but the exchange rate is weird so you should give us twice as many)

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A. P. Howell - Buy my book! @aphowell.com · 30/07/2026

There's a website called Science Fiction Weekly (dot com) that appears to have reprinted a bunch (maybe all?) of Daily Science Fiction's stories. They claim they did so with author permission. They are lying. If you were published in DSF, maybe join a bunch of us in sending takedown notices?

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

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Free short science fiction, published weekly · Science Fiction Weekly

Science Fiction Weekly publishes a free short story every weekday and a curated digest every Sunday. Subscribe by email.

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B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com · 16/02/2026

I used to be in a lovely bubble where I almost never saw links for substacks and foolishly believed that none of yinz were still using them, but lately I’ve been seeing more and more links for substacks on so many interesting topics that I would definitely read and share if they weren’t substacks.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/07/2026

P.S. I would still like for people to read THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST and then look at themselves and be like "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need to be the protagonist of a fairytale horror story in a magical forest" us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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The Butcher of the Forest

"A perfect mix of horror and fantasy."—The New York Times“The Butcher of the Forest” shows exactly why Mohamed is one of fantasy’s rising stars."—T...

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Unique Vintage just decided potential bigot dollars are more important than my human rights welcome to being trans in 2026 please let them know this is unacceptable to you, ESPECIALLY if you’re cis: service@uniquevintage.com

Unique vintage’s new Harry Potter collection

I am so so incredibly disappointed to see this.
Licensed HP merch enriches JK Rowling, who uses her immense wealth to influence politicians to strip trans people of our rights. She is the world's biggest, most hateful transphobe, and is continually campaigning for legislative violence against trans people
She has been cited in court cases in both the US and UK that have further oppressed us for the crime of wanting to live our truth.
You sell pride merch, you claim to support your customer based and say we're all welcome, but when you do this you show trans people are in fact NOT welcome at UV.

You would rather make money and further enrich a hateful bigot than support your trans customers. Frankly, I am crushed. You should know better. You should BE better.
I have been a customer for years and your clothes have brought me so much joy. And you just said you don't care about me as a customer, or as a human being.
You just went from my favorite place to buy clothes to somewhere I will never shop again.
Thanks for breaking my heart.

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