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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just started reading Nancy Kress's new historical fantasy THE QUEEN'S WITCH and it's pretty great--Anne Boleyn & witches, baby. Already got a PW starred review and now it's an Amazon First Reads pick, so if you're a Prime member the Kindle version's free. Our SFWA grandmaster is still killing it

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The Queen's Witch (The Tudor Witches): Kress, Nancy: 9781662540233: Amazon.com: Books

The Queen's Witch (The Tudor Witches) [Kress, Nancy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Queen's Witch (The Tudor Witches)

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 15/09/2026

We could be working together on universal healthcare and instead our elected reps are spending all their time policing genitalia and renaming large bodies of water. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Can I just bask even if I don't deserve it?

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Book launch! MONSTER, MONARCH, MAIDEN! Come see Rae! And possibly me! Tiffin, Ohio! Saturday, August 22 at 1pm! (or 12:30 if you want to grab a drink with Rae) For more information and to reserve a book, visit: panyanbooks.com/RAECARSON

Poster: Meet Rae Carson, Saturday, August 22nd, 1pm at Pan Yan Bookstore, 144 S. Washington St., Tiffin, Ohio

Book cover: Icy white background with large, ominous wolf eyes. Super-imposed is an image of a brooch pin, with an amulet with a twined goddess and dragon. RAE CARSON, MONSTER MONARCH MAIDEN

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Heck yeah! Congratulations. 💙

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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I think we just passed oops.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

RIP Ted White. Ted was asst editor at F&SF from 1963-68, where he also contributed fiction and book reviews. His editorials in the Feb and Mar '66 issues speak w/ feeling about the frustrations and joys of reading slush, and discovering writers like Larry Niven and Tom Disch. He loved great stories.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I love this so much! ❤️

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Incredible. And incredibly fast. Whoever says the renewables revolution is over is wrong. It's just beginning. Death to fossil fuels! insideclimatenews.org/news/0505202...

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California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon. - Inside Climate News

An expert in the state’s energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 01/05/2026

The 2008 Depression taught me that as soon as people start asking "Are we in a recession?" the answer is that we've actually been in a recession for some time, it's just that no one wants to acknowledge it. The mass layoffs the last 2 years have already resulted in more job losses than 2008.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

‘politeness is not really the problem.’ Yes.

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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is a heartbreaking story of an author with Long Covid being awarded a prize with draconian promo requirements... and not being given any disability accommodations. Shit like this is why I wrote "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything".

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'm very sorry. Sending love and strengh.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I have space available in my editing calendar, and I'd love to fill these spots. I do developmental editing of novels and novellas. More info and contact link here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Ah! Much appreciated, thanks.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

But I would happily accept correction from UK residents who understand the system better than I do.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Afaik, UK students take O-level exams at 16 to identify those who should take A-levels/prepare for training or higher ed. After 16, school is no longer mandatory. In 2025, 12.8% of youth aged 16-24 were not in school and not employed. explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

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Education and training statistics for the UK, Reporting year 2025

Annual data release on schools, pupils, teachers, qualifications gained, education expenditure, further education and higher education in the UK.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I love that song. It's an all-time favorite.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The % of women in new senior leadership appointments in 16 countries peaked in 2022 at 34.8% but has fallen for 3 years to 32.8% in 2025. McKinsey finds companies in the top quartile for gender diversity are up to 25% more likely to outperform financially. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

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Why gender-balanced leadership matters in uncertain times

A growing coalition of leaders is taking decisive action to accelerate gender parity in leadership. Five of them explain why diversity is the first step toward building resilience.

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Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines… blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

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Black Horror | Call for Submissions

We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

2nd picture is the old Kirkbride hospital, on the National Register of Historic Places, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, about 12 miles away. Over 1,500 people lived there at one point, making it 10x bigger than Elizabeth (no slander toward Elizabeth, just pointing it out).

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Maressa Voss @maressakate.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Having benefited greatly from the guidance of @ccfinlay.bsky.social , this is one I’ll be sorry to miss! (Unless I can write a new novel by July…)

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 18/12/2025

Hoping to see more submissions from under-repped groups in my submissions—don't self-reject, it's easier to send me a story about death. We're open until 12/31 (midnight eastern). psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

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The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Oh, hell yeah! Congratulations!

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread? Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 07/11/2025

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I was still in bed when Monday Morning said "Wake up, sleepyhead."

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

His older brothers Doormat Knievel and Wishywashy Knievel hadn't amounted to much, so they had to try something.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Maybe audiences are just risk averse right now, so higher ticket prices (Broadway show, first run movie) discourage casual entertainment because people can just find something new on streaming instead. Want something new? Go dive into K-dramas on Netflix or whatever.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I HAD NO IDEA seriously, this is the first time I ever heard the original version it rocks -- thanks!

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The smaller players are acting with the courage and righteousness that the bigger and more powerful entities all lack. What is the point of money, influence and power if you're not going to use them to do the right thing? Why does wealth reduce men into simpering cowards? Thoughts, Bob Iger?

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Non, non, non! (As the French would say.)

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 18/09/2025

As happens with every. Single. Pilot. Program. That ever looks at anything akin to UBI, it is cheaper to just straight up help people get to a modest financial baseline than to deal with the outcomes of not helping people in poverty. It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In short, I caution against the identification of small businesses as full-blown capitalism rather than looking at most small business owners as fellow members of the class of citizens exploited for the benefit of elite super-capitalists. /fini

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Our unconscious acceptance of and treatment of these social structures as inevitable and the natural order of things instead of looking at it as a set of socially and collectively constructed values only benefits and perpetuates the rule of elites. 6/x

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Many legal and social structures perpetuate this system. Just look at the benefits given to small businesses who own their property (which requires capital) compared to businesses that rent, allowing the rich to get richer. Other laws protect corporate wage theft but prosecute employee theft. 5/x

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Creating confusion between the idea of business-as-vocation, or the expression of a person's labor, and business-as-exploitation, or the structural maintenance of undercompensated labor as a means for perpetuating the generational wealth of elites, also serves the interests of elites. 4/x

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Elites promote the idea that small businesses = capitalism because it causes business owners to align their values and ambitions with the very same people who are often exploiting them. The select few small business owners who become elites are valorized to perpetuate this identification. 3/x

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

4 out of 5 new small businesses fail within the first five years precisely because they lack capital. Small businesses also function as a key way wealth in the US is transferred from lower-middle classes to the elites, through debt interest, franchise fees, reliance on corporate suppliers, etc. 2/x

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I'm not sure we should think of local small businesses as capitalism, although becoming capitalists is the goal of many small business owners. Most small businesses I know are based on debt (borrowed from real capitalists) and paycheck-to-paycheck living, not previously accumulated capital. 1/x

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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I would also recommend "Afiya's Song" by @justinkey.bsky.social. An unflinching examination of the horrors of slavery, incorporating a fantasy element (the eponymous song).

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