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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We're excited to reveal the cover for The Devil Knows Her Name, a debut horror novel from @cnvair.bsky.social about old bargains and modern conflicts in isolated Appalachia...

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Revealing The Devil Knows Her Name by C. N. Vair - Reactor

A witch sold her soul to save her life — but now she must stop the devil from collecting his due...

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

just, painting my current vibes, like one does 🐍

A medusa in gold jewelry with gold rattlesnakes for hair, clutching the stone head of a king and breaking it to pieces while making intense eye contact with the viewer.

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Shamelessly pitching this to my SFF book club for November.

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Ashley Esqueda @ashleyesqueda.com · 10/02/2025

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This kind of slimy, unprincipled cowardice is beyond pitiful. Don't offend the Nazis! You might lose a few sales!

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 29/01/2025

in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...

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Google Quietly Installed A.I. to My Workspace. Getting Rid of It Was Creepy.

Opting out should not be a premium feature. It’s a basic right.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 25/01/2025

“Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to read and article and there’s a 93 percent chance you’ll tell the author to fuck off..."

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

God, I cannot WAIT for this.

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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Horror books by/incl trans masc authors that came out 2024. Please keep reading and sharing and supporting trans-authored work. I can personally vouch for all of these.

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

my wonderful client @catebaumer.bsky.social has donated two query critiques and three chapter critiques to the #KidLitforCeasefire auction. please consider bidding! 🍉 www.32auctions.com/organization...

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#KidLit4Ceasefire 2025 Auction

Silent auction '#KidLit4Ceasefire 2025 Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Rachael A Edwards 🌙 @rachaelawrites.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I’m donating a query and first chapter critique for #kidlit4ceasefire 2025 Auction, which will run from January 15 to January 31st! Donation link: www.32auctions.com/organization...

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

hello friends! my colleague, the brilliant Lorna Hemingway, is on the hunt for new projects! she represents everything in the children's space from board books to YA and is specifically looking for: - contemporary romance - coming of age (especially BIPOC) - gorgeous, punchy graphic novels #mswl

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 27/12/2024

In November, we (PodCastle) ran a month of Palestinian stories, and honestly I think it is the single best month of stories we've ever run, and you should listen to it on those grounds alone. But I also spent a lot of time on those outros, and meant to write more about them at the time, but: busy.

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Palestinian Voices Month - PodCastle

PodCastle is extremely proud to present Palestinian Voices, our special month of stories by Palestinian authors. We will be publishing one of these fabulous stories every week during November 2024, an...

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#wintersolstice is a time of change... @samkhorton.bsky.social's deliciously dark folkloric tale GORSE was many readers' favourite book of the year. In 1700s Cornwall changeling Nancy Bligh fought to keep the balance, but now her dreams are haunted with strange visions... geni.us/gorse

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"I just want the cookie recipe, I don't want to read about how your grandma made them for your grandpa in the war!" STOP. Just stop. This complaint is five years old. There's a "jump to recipe" button RIGHT THERE. We all know it. You're embarrassing yourself.

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M. J. Gallagher (Final Fantasy mythology) @mjgallagher.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

You might be cool, but you’ll never be Cloud Strife fighting a collapsing building with two swords kinda cool.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Just realized that it's around the anniversary of my holiday horror story "The Sounds of Reindeer," published in @reactorsff.bsky.social. Looking to read a story about toxic family traditions and the sounds we listen for on Christmas Eve? 🦌 reactormag.com/the-sound-of...

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The Sound of Reindeer - Reactor

Ada's holiday trip to meet her girlfriend's family becomes a bit more fraught than usual when she discovers the family’s unusual Christmas Eve tradition...

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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 14/12/2024

What really boils my piss about generative AI is that they are proven to intensify racist and sexist bias with terrible outcomes already being recorded (do your own homework) but white people step over that without comment because it summarises an email and reproduces stolen images for them.

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Just two little guys who have had a hard year but still have each other.

Dog and cat snuggling together on a couch next to a Christmas tree.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

like. this. this is the whole thing right here: "Fewer good stories will be told. It is stolen valor to demand the prestige of creation without the trial of actually doing it."

The demand on artists to produce at the scale of an industrial factory is already reaching a fever pitch. There is more and more pressure (from fans, from the leaders of creative industries) to put out more and more work, to become a machine instead of an artist. This kind of consumption of art, and training of the consumer to always demand more, immediately, hurts everyone. It may make a few people rich very quickly, but the art will suffer. Some people can work at that speed, but not many, which means that fewer books will be made that matter to people. Fewer good stories will be told. It is stolen valor to demand the prestige of creation without the trial of actually doing it. It’s lazy and embarrassing.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"Prompt Engineers" swear they are doing something b/c they had A Thought. But you fools. You bores. You absolute fucking turnips. The Art isn't the Thought, the Idea. The Art is The Work. And this isn't some art hoe bullshit, this is about craft.

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

👁️ I spy the fabulous @bitterkarella.bsky.social's debut horror smash MOONFLOW (@orbitbooks.bsky.social, autumn 2025) on this list ... 🍄🌲🩸🔥

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I tend to do this so the reader doesn't suspect they're my favorite and assume everything will work out for them in the end. I always feel like my affection is obvious.

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Sasha ✨ shop in bio @alexskyline.com · 09/12/2024

A list of reasons to make art: -horny -spite -for the bit -if you don't who will

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My books: Hope you're ready to read about Satan getting his ass eaten. My social media presence: Look at this adorable stop-motion ghost making a gingerbread house!

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Just for kicks, I started a short story in the universe of my shelved superhero novel, and God, I missed these deviants. There's nothing like a murderous, overpowered throuple.

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I used to think making a playlist for my book was a fun, frivolous thing I did to feel like I was working on the book without actually writing, but I've come to realize it's actually the guide I need for when I accidentally start writing the Dumb, Stupid Thing™️ that is not the real book.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We are so excited to reveal the cover of WINGS OF STEEL AND FURY, the epic roman mythology inspired fantasy from @sarahjdaley.bsky.social Publishing in August 2025. The human world is no place for a god, but toiling on Earth may just teach an angel how to fly once again… t.co/G9JWDccdM7

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

There are so many librarians - like @freadomfighters.bsky.social fighting to defend libraries from censorship- they just may not always be able to do it openly or loudly. This is where we come in- parents, students & community members can usually speak publicly without risking our livelihoods. 💙📚

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Last December my SFF book club read Redwall and we all brought baked goods and coffee and it was a truly delightful evening. This year we're doing Tolkien's Father Christmas Letters, so I'm on the hunt for recipes with Hobbiton vibes that aren't, like, a stew.

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Watching NBC's preview of the Thanksgiving parade performers is increasingly becoming a "Curtains for Zoosha?" moment for me.

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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It's finally getting cold, and the birds are becoming r o u n d

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My sweet little shadow boy thinks 35 degrees is sunbathing weather. Who am I to argue?

A black pitbull mix sunbathing against a wooden fence

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm obviously extremely late to this news but GASP????

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Bless. Now I just need to find a block list for people who relentlessly post screenshots from Twitter.

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Add to this a creepy nursery rhyme about the aforementioned tree. This is how you plot a book, right?

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The readers have spoken, @samkhorton.bsky.social’s deliciously-dark Cornish folkloric fantasy GORSE is a 5 star read, and it's out now! ⭐ “Dark and fantastical, brilliantly immersive” ⭐ “A lush, gorgeous debut” ⭐ “This really is what fiction is about.” Buy now geni.us/gorse!

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I JUST realized you could get magazines on Libby and now I have a mountain of them. Libraries are truly amazing.

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm only three episodes into the Penguin and I'm more invested in the relationship between Oz and sweet little angel Vic than anything else in the world.

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C.N. Vair @cnvair.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New project time — I've got an ancient evil tree and a giant lady arborist and not much else, but the vibes are vibing.

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