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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · 11h

Tomorrow! Don't miss it! 🕯️🧙‍♀️🕸️🎃👻🕯️

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 6h

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW!!!

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 10h

@amalelmohtar.com! Amalface, how beautiful! What an honor! I love this!

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 11h

It was an absolute honor to be among these outstanding nominees, and I’m thrilled for @amalelmohtar.com and her deeply beautiful, moving, and magical THE RIVER HAS ROOTS!! 💜

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S. J. Tucker Music @sjtuckermusic.bsky.social · 11h

Yall @dryadtea.bsky.social & I have been out here believing in each other for like 14 years or something now…come be part of our tea time concert shenanigans in CO on Oct 18 (after u go all out on Oct 17 for No Kings Vote Early) Tickets here: sjtucker.com/event/673993...

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Dryad Tea Presents S. J. Tucker in Concert @ Dryad Tea Headquarters - Oct 18, 2026, 5:00PM

Please join S. J. for a tea time show hosted by Dryad Tea, Sooj's favorite small business in all of the Front Range! Dryad Tea was created January 2012 by Rubiee, a tea aficionado who also loves music...

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Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social · 15h

Tomorrow afternoon! Kick off spooky season with a grab bag of candy, I mean authors. 🍬🍭🍫

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

Got something in two minutes before deadline, which means, you guessed it, IT WAS IN EARLY.

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Just kind of NOT THE TROT" is such good language. Slays me. So great.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you had told sixteen-year-old me that she'd be cheering for a POPE... The man is out here, speaking truths.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Have YOU snagged my witchy, tarot-filled, myth/fairytale-laden poetry collection, Offerings for Ordinary Gods? www.alitrotta.com/recent-works @vmspod.bsky.social podcast: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6... @scalzi.com post: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/21/t... @reactorsff.bsky.social review:

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It’s In the Cards: Ali Trotta’s Offerings for Ordinary Gods - Reactor

Myths, legends, and arcana are the materials with which Trotta reflects our lives, showing readers how close they might be to the stuff of legends.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THE DOOR OF THE SEA and THE EAGLE IN THE MOUNTAIN by Caskey Russell THE AMBER OWL and THE HIDDEN WAY by @julietmarillier.bsky.social ROSE OF JERICHO by @alexgrecian.bsky.social THE WATER OUTLAWS by @slhuang.com

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by @premeemohamed.com THE POMEGRANATE GATE, THE REPUBLIC OF SALT and THE KINGDOM OF ALMONDS by Ariel Kaplan THE MOUNTAIN CROWN, THE DESERT TALON and A COVENANT OF ICE by @karinlow.bsky.social

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Books included are: HOME SICK by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE by @rainewilson.bsky.social GORSE by @samkhorton.bsky.social THE GODS MUST BURN by @authortrmoore.bsky.social

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As it's #WorldAnimalDay on Sunday, time for some #FridayFun with a compilation of covers with animals on! From your local wildlife, to creatures a touch more magical! Inc @premeemohamed.com @alexgrecian.bsky.social @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @karinlow.bsky.social & more!

Solaris Books with Animals on the cover for World Animal Day:
HOME SICK by Rhiannon Grist
WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson
GORSE by Sam K. Horton
THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore
WHAT COMES FROM PICKING FLOWERS by Joan Tierney
SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD by C. S. E. Cooney
NORDIC VISIONS and NORDIC VISIONS edited by Margret Helgadottir
THE KILLING SPELL by Shay Kauwe
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE POMEGRANATE GATE, THE REPUBLIC OF SALT and THE KINGDOM OF ALMONDS by Ariel Kaplan
THE MOUNTAIN CROWN, THE DESERT TALON and A COVENANT OF ICE by Karin Lowachee
THE DOOR OF THE SEA and THE EAGLE IN THE MOUNTAIN by Caskey Russell
THE AMBER OWL and THE HIDDEN WAY by Juliet Marillier
ROSE OF JERICHO by Alex Grecian
THE WATER OUTLAWS by S. L. Huang

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

WHAT COMES FROM PICKING FLOWERS by Joan Tierney SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD by @csecooney.bsky.social NORDIC VISIONS and NORDIC VISIONS edited by Margret Helgadottir THE KILLING SPELL by @shaykauwe.bsky.social

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My buddy Anita Allen--the other half of @mythicdelirium.bsky.social publishing--has her own book of collected paranormal anecdotes gathered from her hometown of Roanoke. Here's a fun piece with her about "Nothing Ever Happens Here" on her local news network! www.wdbj7.com/video/2026/1...

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Woman Writes Book About Roanoke's Paranormal Side

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON! Join 10 authors of reality-redefining Fiction as they converge in a bizarre bazaar for the imagination: Oct 4, 3-4:30 PM Eastern www.twitch.tv/csecooney Read more about the authors and their works here: csecooney.com/2026/09/23/o...

An orange and yellow poster with black lettering depicting ten genre authors.
Top (left to right): Amanda McGee, Steven Gibbon, Emma Gibbon, Francesca Forrest
Middle (left to right): Zig Zag Claybourne, Christa Carmen, Virginia Mohlere, Eden Royce
Bottom (left and right) Nadia Bulkin, A T Sayre
The text reads: 10 Authors of Reality-Redefining Fiction converge in a bizarre bazaar for the imagination
Sunday, Oct 4, 2026 3-4:30 PM Eastern Time
twitch.tv/csecooney

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 02/10/2026

There's a new edition of THE HOBBIT & it's the one illustrated by Tove Jansson which has never been published in English before. (It was pub'd in Sweden where Astrid Lindgren picked her to do the illustrations!) Read more: tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolki... 📖 www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Tove Jansson's cover for THE HOBBIT with a very Jansson-esque Bilbo holding a shield and axe with mountains behind, Smaug flying overhead, and the line of riding dwarves as tiny silhouettes behind.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i, too, am old and larger than average

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hot damn, it’s here! It’s finally come! @zzclaybourne.bsky.social has launched KHUMALO TALES, and we are so lucky our world’s about to get EVER MORE RADIANT WITH WITCHES. I just backed KHUMALO TALES on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/obs...

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KHUMALO TALES

Book 3 of the Khumalo Trilogy

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dear Backers: To The Person Who Is 1st, the 10th, the 69th, the 100th, the 222nd, the 666th… www.kickstarter.com/projects/obs... #ProjectWeLove #fantasy #Kickstarter #BlackJoy #TheKhumaloTrilogy

Captain Benjamin Lafayette First of His Name Sisko raises that tall glass of hell yeah to you.

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know and admire the daylights out of a number of these writers, and others are ones I've been intending to read for years! (must get on that...), and still others sound super cool. ...plus, I am participating! Join us if you're free :-)

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Khumalo Tales Kickstarter, day 2. Stretch at $5K. I might be an unknown quantity to you. Let's get some voices on that with blurbs. #booksky #blacksky #fantasy www.kickstarter.com/projects/obs...

Blurb for the crowdfunding fantasy thriller KHUMALO TALES saying "One of the tests and pleasures I have is to open books randomly and light on a paragraph. With some writers, that is always intensely rewarding. Zig Zag Claybourne comes first to mind of contemporaries." The quote is from Anna Tambour, author of *How much is that mermaid?*

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/10/2026

Pre-sign ups for the kickstarter for the Murderbot graphic novel!

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OH YES... AND!!! ZIG ZAG CLAYBOURNE WILL BE DOING HIS COVER REVEAL FOR KHUMALO TALES AT THIS READING, EVERYONE!!! YAY!!!

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Sunday! A VERY witchy reading! With also some aliens and weird tree people and goat men? Possibly a few gods? So much. All that and more. This Sunday. 3-4:30 PM Eastern. twitch.tv/csecooney. Here's the link for more info! csecooney.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

ICYMI, October is Black Speculative Fiction Month. Pick up a pen, family. You're the one we're waiting for. #Blacksky

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We Boldly Go — ZZ Claybourne

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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October 4th: A Very Witchy Reading

I’m so lucky, because I was like… let’s have a spooky reading in October! So… which of my awesome writer friends have novellas or novels out recently, or coming out soon, that could be consid…

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What day is it? Why, it's the start of Black Speculative Fiction Month!

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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KHUMALO TALES

Book 3 of the Khumalo Trilogy

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 29/09/2026

hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020

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Story Hour

Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 29/09/2026

Any cognition you perceive in "AI" is your own. That's it. You built your concept of its intelligence, the same way you understand fictional characters as people. The same way you can see an octopus in a towel hook. They are using your mind to sell their product. The human is you.

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looking forward to participating in this! Choosing a passage to read—either w/intimidating police captain or parental ghost 🤔—from forthcoming novel A FLASH OF SCARLET, coming out thru @wanderingsci.bsky.social’s Annorlunda Books. This reading’s brimming w/wonderful folks—join us!

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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · 28/09/2026

🎃👻💀🕸️🧙‍♀️🕯️ A very witchy reading THIS SUNDAY! Featuring @virginiam.bsky.social, author of A House of Perfect Safety, along with a host of other amazing authors! Check out this stellar lineup below! ⤵️

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A.T. Sayre @atsayre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On Sunday, Oct. 4th, I'll be participating in a Twitch streaming event with a bunch of other writers, hosted by the lovely @csecooney.bsky.social Come hear me read from my own book, hopefully with minimal stuttering. Details here: buff.ly/06IOGWn... #speclit #booksky

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

4 Days to Khumalo Tales launch. (pinned p for link) "Who is ZZC??? OF COURSE YOU ALREADY KNOW! But if you don’t, I’ll tell you again, with GREAT GLEE AND WHIMSY AND HUMOR AND WISDOM AND AWE. Oh, wait. I’m just describing Zig Zag’s writing now!!!" - @csecooney.bsky.social Come, and know me better

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Next Fiction: Impossible, starring ZIG ZAG CLAYBOURNE!

Author of the Khumalo Series! Who is ZIG ZAG CLAYBOURNE??? OF COURSE YOU ALREADY KNOW! But if you don’t, I’ll tell you again, with GREAT GLEE AND WHIMSY AND HUMOR AND WISDOM AND AWE. Oh, wait. I’m …

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tina connolly @tinaconnolly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eeee so excited to have this story go live!!!

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"They all vote At no fee Be they elderly, Gen X, Gen Z They all vote They feel seen All they have to do is turn 18..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWi...

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2026: Time for the Midterms

YouTube video by Hamilton

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a most EXCELLENT AUTUMNAL GHOSTLY STORY! I love me a @tanaudel.bsky.social yarns SOMETHING FIERCE! ginanstories.substack.com/p/the-stone-...

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The Stone Walk by Kathleen Jennings

What is the cost of prosperity in an unforgiving land?

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

I have decided that if I will be hated, it will be for a GOOD reason, dammit! *clears throat* I don’t care that Pluto isn’t a planet. It was always Charon erasure anyway.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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