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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You promised and here it is and looking fabulous 😭

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

After the joyful return of [friendshape!!! 🥹] and a glorious transformation, it's fun to be back in Bochir! Continuing to enjoy the payoffs, reappearances, and reprises, and one of my favorite characters appears this week, smoothly sapphic in a crisis~ also poor Zak is such a trouble magnet 😭

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Congrats to @theeldervampire.bsky.social on the release of The Witch of Eden Hollow! 🌼🐰🍃 It's an amazing read and perfect for October! Read it today! gt-anthony.itch.io/witch-x-hunter

The cover of The Witch of Eden Hollow on a light green background with daises. It says Out Today! and there are five stars beneath it

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Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you have been following my #Wrencer snips over the years, I have some exciting news! Book 1 in the series, Thief of Death, will be releasing later this month. 📚 Please enjoy my cover reveal! #Writesky #WritingCommunity #Books #Booksky

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OH YEAH I did a newsletter this weekend 😅 Some Act 4 updates (we're still feeling good about November!) and a teaser, and another photo of the beautiful cat who occupies many of our non-writing thoughts 🥰 www.coricatchthorne.com/admissions-i... #EuropaUni #EuropaUniAdmissions

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Admissions Intermission(s) '26: Update #4

Hello all, and thanks as always for your presence and your patience! A relatively brief missive today, but wanted to say hi and share a few updates on Act 4 and what you can expect (plus a bonus recom...

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Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My voice embraces pretty much everything they tell you not to do 🤣 I picked my example para from 1661. Tell don't show, fourth wall break, sardonic swerve where true/false is flipped by the end of the long-ass sentence. In 1660 I avoided 2nd person but here I just went for it. #LitHodgepodge

You see, Young Mr. Aldridge, who had been educated in Amsterdam by the sort of philosopher who wrote in private of gelijkheid, who imagined himself devoted to the New Science, who longed someday to be recorded as the prophet of a better age to come, nevertheless had more than something of the seigneur in him, that took it as an insult that any knave should starve in his demesne. The expedition had been a failure: he was more restless now than when he’d begun.

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Admissions Intermission(s) '26: Update #4

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some folks I got to work with also worked on AMANDA! And this prompted me to rediscover that she got to become part of IceCube! Good for her 🥹 Amusingly, tho I had some kink adventures concurrent with my neutrino science, the crowds were very separate and I didn't encounter any AMANDA hole jokes 😅

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I honestly WAS a little surprised when we got all the way through the book with no direct heart eating! (at least that I recall 😅)

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AHHHH this is awesome! Many years back I got to contribute a teeny tiny bit to analysis of data from RICE, the predecessor to IceCube; seeking, in fact, ultrahigh energy neutrinos! (And in that case not finding any 😅) It's SO cool to see how far things have come since then 😍

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Nina Fairweather @ninafairweather.com · 06/10/2026

No shade on theoretical physicists, I swear, but I love seeing the award go to an experimental physicist. It's still about particle physics, but this detector is so cool. 🧊

nature.com

Nobel physics prize awarded for detection of cosmic neutrinos

Francis Halzen wins the 2026 award for his work on a neutrino observatory at the South Pole that has helped to unlock mysteries of the Universe.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think a lot of people would want to read an existential gothic novella abt a late 30s lesbian vampire in a love triangle with two other lesbians that was written for fans of Carmilla and the Lady of the House of Love by a chalant goth. I have no doubt in my mind at all.

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Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I managed to find rice in my Demon in a Bottle wip, about a demon trapper in a world where human industry runs on the power of bottled demons. Millie is planning her last foray into the hills before the stormy season hits. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #DemonInABottle

Pavilion traffic ebbed and flowed with the tides of the day, but Millie paid it no mind. Shadows grew, stretching like grasping fingers across the ground as she split her attention between bites of flakey crust stuffed with spiced meat and columns of numbers scratched down in her battered notepad. She didn’t like the way things were stacking up. No matter how she shoved the digits around, Millie was staring at two weeks worth of rice and beans for every meal. It was that or dip into her meager Stormtide savings. As things currently stood, all she could afford was a bunk in a stormhouse. Sharing a tiny room with a handful of strangers for a ten week stretch was a special kind of torture.

Beans it is.

“Can I get your basket, Florita?”

“Hmm?” The tacaňo vendor’s dazzling smile pulled Millie out of her dark spiral, back into a world of light and color. He motioned to the empty wicker basket at her elbow. “Go ahead. You can take the tonic bottle, too.”

Still smiling, the young man bobbed his head and gathered Millie’s empties onto a tray with other castoffs. He’d clean everything and reuse it in a spirit of waste-not, want-not that Millie understood all too well.

“Better hustle if you’re wanting to gear up, Florita.” The vendor jerked his chin toward a shop window filled with empty bottles. Colored glass caught the slanting afternoon light and threw it back across the dusty boardwalk in a shimmering curtain of rainbows. “The bottle shop closes early on Tender-Day.”

“I can’t afford glass like that.” Millie’s words came out rough, edged with a decade of bitterness, but not even her sour attitude could dampen the young man’s spirits.

“Maybe someday, Florita.” He grinned and moved on to the next table.

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Love a bit of prosaic worldbuilding, this covers a lot of ground in a really engaging way! Good luck Millie!

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

😳look that sounds very Her and I admit to being both nervous and intrigued

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

if you have ever peered with curiosity at my work then for BANNED BOOK WEEK it is the perfect time to try some tingleverse horror or erotica. i am in strange position where my books have not been banned, but the texas library association banned me AS A PERSON so i guess the catalog is fair game

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#SundaySnips - Eerie Here's an eerie moment from The Bird and the Blade!

Then, in a moment that caused chills to spread across Callum’s entire body in a violent wave, everything went wrong. The birdsong died. The hair on the back of Callum’s neck and his arms lifted. Silently, he nocked an arrow and whistled, low and steady.
Judyth turned around, eyes wide. She motioned Wilder to keep talking. Wilder stumbled on a word as she drew two daggers and nodded to Callum. Wilder’s hands lifted to rest on the pommels of his short swords.
Judyth mouthed, What’s wrong?
Callum looked up, then back to her. He gestured to his ear. Where are the birds? he mouthed back.

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Look having the resources to procure and enjoy nice things helps one develop such taste, we should all be grateful to our local mob liaison!

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So far this month, I've sold the equivalent of a book a day (woo!), so thinking that if I sell 31 books in October, I'll write a short story set in the world of TETK! I've seen a few friends doing this and it's a cool idea that also may help get me writing. D :

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Nina Fairweather @ninafairweather.com · 04/10/2026

And now Dr. Ladybird as well, both by @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social who is just the best to work with. I'm so happy with both of these.

An excellent digital art piece of a woman in a lab coat

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Does your perfect Halloween involve murderous lesbians falling in love in a mythic world where endemic immortality means everything is turned up to eleven—including both fights and feelings? then have I got a rec for YOU

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm a fan of the Argentum crew, and if you like messy proto heist-crew dynamics, queer pining, and characters who Overthink, you might too! Feat. a poster-assassin for trans wrongs, a lesbian werewolf trying to protect her chosen sister, a delightfully neurodivergent nonbinary priest, and more!

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hello!! agender here, and I write grotesque fantasy and horror my latest is an F/F/F Polish folk horror retelling of Carmilla about a lady of the house, the maid trying to rob her, and the vampire in the basement 📚 books2read.com/ourcrimsoncage ✒️ ladz-merch.square.site/product/-fir...

A ghostly foggy home

6 logos sit in the upper corner, top row being Amazon, Apple Books, Itch, and the bottom row being Kobo, Smashwords, and payhip

OUT NOW in ebook & paperback

a series of torn papers with the following text on each one:

gothic folk horror
HEA (horribly ever after)
1850s Poland
fuck/marry/kill
menstruation
toxic lesbian vampires

The cover of OUR CRIMSON CAGE by Ladz. It features a witchy woman hovering her hands over a flaming skull

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What are ARC readers saying about The Witch of the Wood? Take a look! It's short, but intense! A cozy horror fantasy with a MM romance! 🖤 Uni: books2read.com/u/bw6gwP Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/the-witch-of...

Over the background of a dark forest, the cover of The Witch of the Wood by Alex Larkspur with the blurb of the book next to it.

What ARC Readers are saying about
The Witch of the Wood

“A journey into forgiveness and accountability while also an exploration of the strength of love and understanding between people and the world around them.”

“This little story packs such a punch! My personal opinion, it's a great example of a dark fantasy.”

“Expect visceral descriptions, flowing imagery, and a beautifully crafted world that drips with stunning if a little bit terrifying scenes of the woods in disrepair.”

“ A short and bittersweet delight of a novella.”

“A wonderful tale about hidden strengths and forgiveness.”

Releasing October 6th

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love Angela Carter. The Lady of the House of Love haunts me everyday and I wrote a vampire novella partly inspired by it to try and expiate my obsession.

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Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇 Eden Hollow OUT NOW!! @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meet Elias and Inquisitor T. Sterling, the main (T4T 🏳️‍⚧️) couple in my upcoming novel, The Witch of Eden Hollow. Elias is a witch. Sterling is a witch hunter. What could go wrong?? You can read all about them Next Friday!! 🌈📚️ Uni Link: books2read.com/u/mZR9kD Itch: gt-anthony.itch.io/witch-x-hunter

Background Image: A patch of daisies in the middle of a dense forest.

Top Caption: Meet Elias and Inquisitor T. Sterling

Left Hand Image:
Commission of an llustration by Roan aka @faindriart.bsky.social (credit also at the bottom of the image)
Pictured are two trans men staring each other down. They look like they either want to kill each other or kiss each other.
The taller on the left (Elias) is a thin, pale man with pointed ears. He has long black hair with silver streaks and a green gradient on his forehead and cheeks.
The man on the right (Sterling) is a heavyset white man with dark, receding hair and sparse stubble.
Elias has a hand on Sterling's chest and is serving a glare that can kill. Sterling meanwhile is gripping Elias' other arm and glaring at him. His expression is a mix of disgusted and offended.

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Inquisitor T. Sterling, the most prolific witch hunter in the world, vows to destroy all magic to prevent what happened to him from happening to anyone else:
A loss so horrific that led to him hiding his transness and assimilating to a hostile religion as means of preservation.

Elias' life is tied to an ancient, dying forest, with his fate being resigned to join it unless he can trust the witch hunter hired to kill him to help him save it.
Though trust does not come easy once a heart has been shattered and left to rot once before.

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CONGRATULATIONS may you be free of awful coworkers and in a better situation in all regards!

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

High fives from the "I'm here for all the characters/relationships, word count be damned" club 😅🥰

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Aud Connelly 😎 @audconnelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Dogwood1 #Wipwnips because the book is up for preorders 🥰

Owen set Frankenstein aside and tried to rub some feeling back into his ankle. His foot tingled unpleasantly in his shoe. Though he never heard Wesley turn, he could feel those keen eyes on him, could remember the impatience shadowed by something almost like desire. What is the nature of your injury? Freak.
“It’s old,” Owen said now, on that narrow strip of grass between the student center and the cornfield. “It happened a long time ago.”
“You were a child,” Wesley said, having evidently run the math of an old wound on a young man. “And the wolf who stole you…”
“She didn’t steal me. She saved me.” Nervous hands wrapped a bootlace around his ankle and pulled it tight.
“Saved you for what?”
Owen started. “What do you mean?”
“For what purpose is your guardian saving you?”

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just nine months ago we weren't sure if I'd make it. In that sickness, I feared I'd completely lost the writing spark. Well, I lived. And this new thing I'm working on is over 70,000 words. I love these characters and I can't wait for their next mistakes.

The stats for a Scrivener document, including that the document is currently 71,265 words long.

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After reading a few of your stellar short stories years ago, I just read "The Dragon Has Some Complaints" and am now (FINALLY) reading "Someone You Can Build A Nest In". I'm so glad you're doing better AND have your spark burning. You give such wonderful voice to the strange, damaged, and heartfelt.

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Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Enjoy spooky season, folks! Dropping in before all the fun new October games begin tomorrow to give you advance notice that #Novmemeber will be back again this year. There'll be a mix of returning prompts (with new memes!) and some fun new stuff. I'll ping y'all again at the end of the month! xo👻

The prompt list for #Novmemeber 2026, but the prompts have been obscured by a spooky fog until the event gets closer. For now, a skeleton is sitting on a bench and "PATIENTLY WAITING."

#Novmemeber
Hosted by @sagetgreene.bsky.social

The corners of the graphic have colorful fall leaves (red, orange, yellow) and a silly face emoji with tongue sticking out.

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

YOU!!!! TETK still haunts my brain over a year later! It's really good!!!

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yay! Aud's ability to make things that should not be funny actually read as very funny regularly blows my mind 😅

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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aud is an excellent writer and I've been excitedly looking forward to her Dogwood Chronicles for some time now!

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Roan | busy w/ new job! @faindriart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OOO YOU WANNA READ THE FUCKED UP POLYAMORY SO BAD OOOOO

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Jae Koyanagi @jaekoyanagi.com · 29/09/2026

I've been keeping up with Aud's posting about this series and am ridiculously excited. She does some fantastic things with character and relationship in her work. Check it out!!

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Y'all this book is absolutely packed with: eerie, otherworldly beauty; deeply traumatized characters behaving badly (GET UR IMPERFECT VICTIMS HERE); bleak and brilliant humor; and intimacy gone wrong, right, and to other locations that defy easy description. Buckle in and SMASH THE LINK

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's the second-best time of year to read this gorgeous funny devastating queer horror and if you haven't YOU SHOULD

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is part of what I'm referring to with many people demanding stories that reassure them they're a good person. They want the moral instruction because otherwise, rather than processing the reading experience, there's a thrum of "am I bad? am I bad? what if someone finds out I'm bad?"

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stories about abuse are allowed to exist without reducing themselves to moral instruction. i think sometimes when people complain about the “romanticization” of abuse, what they're actually objecting to isn't necessarily the way abuse is being represented, but the fact that the representation doesn't provide them with constant moral reassurance. like, there is a difference between “this story frames abuse as desirable or inherently romantic” and “this story depicts abuse in an erotic/ambiguous/complicated way and doesn't repeatedly tell me that abuse is bad, therefore the depiction itself is irresponsible.”

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the kind of review I’ve always dreamed of getting. I’m over the moon. Thank you so much! 📚💙

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Cori Catchthorne @coricatchthorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I did 😭 also really liked the Zak healing sequence, the very structural elements of consent in the magic are really good.

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