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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Fiction Podcast recognizes excellence in audio performance and production for speculative fiction. Congratulations again, @khoreo.bsky.social

2026 Ignyte Awards winner for Outstanding Fiction Podcast: khōréō

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah, I have no idea at this point, but wouldn’t surprise me! And thank you 💜

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Anyway, in case you missed it or my rant wasn’t clear enough, Vile Lady Villains is a novel. It’s sapphic, and about Klytemnestra meeting Lady Macbeth in limbo, and I hope you’ll give it a chance. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/danai...

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Vile Lady Villains

A queer, gothic horrormantasy that's perfect for readers of S. T. Gibson and Kiersten White. With the consequences of her murderous actions closing in, Lady ...

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a short story collection and complaining that “some short stories are better than others, making the collection uneven.” Which would be totally valid criticism!!! If VLV was a short story collection!!! But it’s not!!!

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t know what AI summary is responsible for this, but I’ve gotten several AI scam marketing emails lately calling it a short story collection, and I’ve been shown several (AI written? No clue) reviews on places like Goodreads and Storygraph calling it

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Vile Lady Villains is a novel. Not a short story collection. Please, I beg. You can argue about whether it’s a good, or not so good, or effective, or ineffective at what it tries to do, and it’s all totally valid, but a novel is a novel is a novel.

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So obviously reviews are for readers, and you can have any feelings (or no feelings at all!) for Vile Lady Villains and there’s no wrong way to express them BUT

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Barnes and Noble includes SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME: TALES OF LATINÉ HORROR in its Best Horror of 2026! Thank you Barnes and Noble SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME is available now from Primero Sueño / Atria

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This year's greatest horror novels include groundbreaking genre bending, bloody rampages and quiet depictions of dread. Whatever your personal flavor of fear may be, these are the bone-chilling best of the best.

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a surreal feeling, so glad it's out in the world!

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One must imagine Sisyphus reach inbox zero at some point

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No matter how sick you are, nothing gets you out of bed faster than the sound of a cat vomiting.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It was lovely getting interviewed by The Nerd Daily for my new book THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, talking about inspiration, writing advice, and more! My cursed film novel is available now from Titan Books 📽️ let's all go to the movies and never come back thenerddaily.com/hailey-piper...

screenshot from The Nerd Daily, Q&A with Hailey Piper, author of This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want, interviewed by Elise Dumpleton. Beneath that header is a photo of Hailey and and the cover of her book, art by Julia Lloyd

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Only I could have written this book,” said Mother, while reading the book I wrote. The ultimate compliment or the ultimate insult, depending on how you look at it 💀

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Translunar Travelers Lounge is open for general submissions. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under. We ask that you read the submissions page carefully before sending us anything. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Since my book was published in Greek I now have the distinct joy of getting AI spam “marketing” emails in two different languages.

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you currently have to exist in an environment that is tough, triggering and abusive, I want you to be so super kind to yourself. Aspirations can wait. Lofty goals can be achieved later. Please just focus on getting through the day, the hour, the minute. You got this. We got this.

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Eldritch Girl Podcast @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you want it without ads, and all future eps in advance, plus free audiobooks in my shop to download, you can become a Ko-Fi member for £1.50 per month bsky.app/profile/eldr...

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🧑🏻‍🦽‍➡️🦄 Eva Roslin (they/them) ⚨ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am SO EXCITED that the Greek translation of @danaiwrites.bsky.social's Sapphic fantasy novel "Vile Lady Villains" is now out, in Greek! 🇬🇷 Ελλάς, Ελλάς, Ελλάς!!!

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you’re not careful, one day you might end up achieving your wildest childhood dreams, and be so exhausted by everything life has thrown at you on your way there, that all you can do is stare at the wall, speechless, unable to process. Still fucking worth it, though.

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This week has aged me approximately 10 years but I just realized that the Greek edition of Vile Lady Villains is officially out. For my Greek-speaking mutuals, if you wanted a horromantasy about Klytemnestra meeting Lady Macbeth and about rebelling against your given narrative, by a Greek author:

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's now 6 months since NO GODS FOR DROWNING new edition released, and I just wanted to say I appreciate everyone giving this a chance in its new life, and @badhandbooks.bsky.social for bringing it back Wanting to tell this story was what made me want to be a writer decades ago, so it means a lot 🖤

cover art for No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper, art by Anna Chiara Staji, showing a woman posturing before a blue nine-pointed star

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

P.S. This is my first pitching event as an agent, so if you’re feeling nervous, don’t, I’ll be nervous-er! philadelphiastories.org/september-20...

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September 2026 Pitch Fest – Philadelphia Stories

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Agenting update: I will be participating in Philadelphia Stories Pitch Fest, on September 20. I just realized today that my sessions have all already sold out (🤯 thank you, I’m honored!) so if you don’t get the chance to pitch me, I’ll also be opening to queries towards the end of the month.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

ICYMI ‼️ I shall have a new book coming 2028 from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social / @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social 👀✨ 🏮👻VESSEL EATER👻🏮 🎐 dark fantasy 🎐 Chinese folklore 🎐Mulan meets THE GHOST BRIDE

Publishers marketplace deal for VESSEL EATER on backdrop of character art

Folklore art pieces of Bai Ze and Zhong Kui + quotes

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thank you so much to the 7,000 of you (🤯) who have added Vile Lady Villains on Goodreads! Here’s why that matters:

A red and pink background featuring the US and UK cover of Vile Lady Villains. Text reads:

Thank you for 7,000 adds on Goodreads! Here’s why that matters…

A red and pink background featuring the US and UK cover of Vile Lady Villains. Text reads:

Sapphic books don't have it easy in this industry. Misogyny (internalized or not). Lesbophobia. Biphobia. Bigory. We need all the help we can get.

Grateful to everyone who has read, reviewed, added Vile Lady Villains on
Goodreads and yelled about it on social media.

Please keep talking about the sapphic books you loved.
Recommend them.
Ask your library to carry them.
Share your favorite quotes from them.

"I would kill a hundred husbands
just to get us to this
moment."
-Vile Lady Villains

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Derek Kunsken @derekkunsken.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There are a ton of amazing writers in this Starter Pack! Clarkesworld is one of the top #scifi and #fantasy magazines in the English language, and it features some of the most cutting edge stories. So check out the magazine and follow those who manage to sell to the magazine! :) go.bsky.app/CAm1qMt

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Me: I just want to write a simple book this time, man. Focus on the relationships, the romance. Also me, three coffees and 25 open window tabs later: BUT HERE’S THE THING ABOUT THE COMPLEXITIES OF EARLY 19th CENTURY SOCIOPOLITICAL TENSIONS IN THE BALKANS

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So happy I can finally talk about this! Huge congratulations to @aijiang.bsky.social and to @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social I can’t wait for this gorgeous, haunting (pun intended) book to be out in the world! This was my first solo agent deal, so it has a special place 💜

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

tis official!! a new book coming to y’all 2028 with @erewhonbooks.bsky.social / @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social 🥺🤍👻 background art: Da Huang Chan 💫

Publishers marketplace deal announcement for Ai Jiang’s VESSEL EATER

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Eldritch Girl Podcast @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interview with Danai Christopoulou @danaiwrites.bsky.social is up 07 Sept 2026 - but all Ko-Fi supporters, one-off & monthly, can get it ad-free in advance here: ko-fi.com/post/BONUS-0... #AuthorSky #BookSky #AuthorInterview

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BONUS 01 - Danai Christopoulou, author of Vile Lady Villains

CM Rosens published a supporter-only post on Ko-fi!

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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com · 21/08/2026

Hey, guess who's got two thumbs and is opening to submissions on Aug 24? It's THIS MAG. Actually, I guess the magazine doesn't have any thumbs, but I—JJA—do, and I'm eager to get them all over dem horror stories after 6 years out of the editorial chair. I guess it will mostly be my other fingers.

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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 23/08/2026

Just had a great chat with @danaiwrites.bsky.social about Greek myths, writing as a Greek author, and VILE LADY VILLAINS, ready for the podcast! This will go out on @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social as a bonus episode for S06 (current season) next month. Follow Eldritch Girl for updates. #AuthorSky

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is why we signal boost each other, review and blurb good books, and try to support each other when life pours it on. Without community, you'd only have the abyss. And the abyss is one of those friends who's only really good in group settings. Never ride home alone with the abyss.

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s not even about this specific book (or author), it happens so often and it breaks my heart when authors can’t think of any other way to describe disgusting/unsavory characters besides making them fat. Being fat is not a character trait. It’s not a moral failure. I’m so tired.

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You know what’s sad? Starting to read a new fantasy novel I was intrigued by and being hit in the head repeatedly with fat phobia. Had to DNF.

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 16/08/2026

Avis would say debunking a so-called haunted inn is a moral imperative. We would say it just sounds FUN. Pre-order THE HAUNTING OF AVIS LOVELOCK and get a chance to do just that!

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Finally back in stock but selling fast again, apparently! If you missed out the first time, grab your discounted copy of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY here (or might I suggest, stocking up as Christmas presents for those near, queer, and dear to you?)

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Happy 1 year of playing A GAME IN YELLOW 💛 Tremendously grateful to everyone who's checked it out and talked it up. Who could've foreseen the sapphic, the erotic, and the cosmic touching so many hearts? Perhaps only the King in Yellow. Thank you for playing 😈 and remember, safety first

Hailey Piper in a yellow dress holding up her novel A Game in Yellow, art by Caroline Johnson

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 12/08/2026

Our Kickstarter launches Sept. 15, and we recruited a killer lineup of authors to write new stories for us. The first to agree was HUGH HOWEY, author of WOOL, SHIFT, & DUST, the basis of the Apple+ series SILO. 🔔 Click to be notified when we launch! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/kickstarter/...

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Coming soon: LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror

We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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