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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Unfortunately small presses close all the time, and their baby bird books need to find a new nest. My fledgling sun-vampire queer cannibal novella, SUNBATHERS, now needs a new home, as does my sapphic pirate novella QUEEN O'NINE TAILS. If you know a toothy little home for either, please hit me up!

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If you don’t follow me on Instagram, you might not have heard about the Psychedelic Writing Retreat. I still haven’t gotten the hang of Bluesky, but here’s an update for everyone here. 🌀 Head to psychedelicwritingretreat.com and @ psychedelicwritingretreat (Instagram) for more info!

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hi, friends! I’m organizing a psychedelic writing retreat this summer — the kind of magical thing that can only happen here in the Netherlands. Dates are now confirmed for July 19-25 and the website will be live soon. For now, the best way to stay posted is Instagram (@psychedelicwritingretreat) 🔆🪶🌌

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I genuinely forgot Bluesky existed for a while. Hello, everyone!

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Hey, do you need a fiction editor? Maybe an affordable and extremely detail-oriented one? I might be able to help. This is pretty spontaneous, but I'm just going to jump in. I recently started an editing business aimed at academics in the social sciences. Academia is my day job, though. (1/6) 🧵

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Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Got some news: my debut crime novel Teeth Kicker is being published by HarperCollins (Australia) 🎉 HarperCollins has described it as edgy and thrilling. Out in Sept 2026!

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Flow State Editing @flowstateediting.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

If you're an autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD academic (like me), you face challenges that others just don't understand. I've been there. Now I want to share what I've learned and create a space where you feel truly supported. Visit flowstateediting.com/workshops/ for more details about this workshop.

Workshop announcement flyer with black text on a purple and blue background. The text reads: ATYPICAL academic writing
crash course. For neurodivergent PhD candidates & early career researchers. Stuck on an article or chapter? Tired of vague feedback or advice that doesn’t work for you? In this 90-minute workshop, you will: Identify what’s really blocking you from finishing the paper
Learn how to embrace your creative process and disregard harmful writing advice
Build a concrete action plan to finish your draft (and prevent burnout)
First workshop October 2025 – details to follow
Cost: €50
SECURE YOUR SPOT EARLY by sending an email to: daniel@flowstateediting.com

or via the contact form at
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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Hi, friends. Some big changes: I quit my tenure-track assistant professor job and I'm jumping fully into editing and writing. I'll be focusing on academic editing, but would love to eventually add fiction and CNF. If you want to see what I've been up to, head over to flowstateediting.com

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Home - Flow State Editing

Support for scholars at every step of the writing process Daniel DeRock, Ph.D. The path to academic publication doesn’t need to be so stressful. Whether you’re staring at a blank page or nearly ready ...

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"Our sister went to help the people who came out of the volcano." Buckle up, folks, because @rpmirabella.bsky.social has an incredibly imagined story for us this week. Wondrous, human, and beautifully written, "Volcano People" ends on a note of perfect melancholy. Absolutely do not miss this one! 🌋

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Volcano People by Richard Mirabella

Our sister went to help the people who came out of the volcano. She told us she was going to leave at the 4th of July picnic, while we sat around eating corn, our hands fatty with butter, silk in our ...

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'm actually working on a short story for the first time in [???].

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

How did I not know about this mag? “Speculative stories about our inner lives” are very much my kind of thing.

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elle nash @saderotica.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

shittttt

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Is that…are we brewing up a new sub call? 👀

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Did you know that my queer, erotic sun-vampire horror novella SUNBATHERS is *free* today?? Did you also know that over 1100 copies have been downloaded JUST TODAY?? (what) Be part of the action (pun intended) and get yours here! www.darkmodesyk.com/winter24/sun...

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Sunbathers | Dark Mode Books

Available 12.27.24 USA/PST

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The past few months I've been out of the literary world loop. I *have* been doing a lot of reading, but not much writing. Anyway, I finally updated my author website and that feels like a step in the right direction: danielderock.com

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About me - Daniel DeRock

Welcome to my no-frills author website! You can find most of my published pieces, along with interviews and podcast episodes, on the “Writing and interviews” page. I primarily write fiction but occasi...

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 19/12/2024

Top 10 books of 2024 Bookthreads 1. Tender Hoof 2. Below the Falls 3. Some Things You Love With Your Insides, Your Guts 4. Julie, or Sylvia 5. Spark Bird 6. Escaping Emily 7. Trailer Park Ocean 8. If I Were God I Would Also Start With Light 9. This is How They Mourn 10. Repeat 1-9

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Find a friend and get weird 🛸💜

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I'm Matthew and I'm an autistic human living in Paris. I build neuro-affirming autistic communities online for autistics all over the world to connect. I help my fellow autistic adults learn about leaning into their strengths while acknowledging their challenges in order to thrive in this world.

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Icebreakers fam starter pack & still adding 🗣️ go.bsky.app/AFdqqxE

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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

So my new eco-horror collection, Haunted Ecologies, out February 2025, got a wonderful review from @raforall.bsky.social in this months BookList in which she compared it to the works of Jeff VanderMeer, T Kingfisher, and Cassandra Khaw…reader, I died :) raforall.blogspot.com/2024/11/what...

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What I'm Reading: Strange Stones and Haunted Ecologies

The current issue of Booklist has 2 reviews by me. Details below, including my three words and bonus appeal information to help you book tal...

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

The first tiny haunting has materialized!

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I would love to get a few more adds on Goodreads for THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET so I'm asking the community for help: if you're into historical romance, queer Austen-esque works, or you just love love (or know someone else who does) please add the book to your lists and tell you friends!

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The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet

"After procuring several fervent assurances that his wi…

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

The puppy has learned how to walk up the stairs, but not down. Very interesting situation.

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

👻SURPRISE! HAUNTED POP-UP SUB CALL👻 *details in thread* Our 2nd annual Halloween sub call has begun! First, we need writers to create settings (ARCHITECTS). Next, we need another round of writers to haunt these settings (HAUNTERS). (1/3) [we don't know how to make a thread, so continued in replies.]

Text on a Halloween-themed background, with a haunted house, bats, a skull, a black cat with a witch hat, and a grave. The text reads: Icebreakers Lit presents Tiny Hauntings. Two writers, one haunted poem or story. First round submissions close October 5th. Final submissions close October 15th. Details and submissions at: icebreakerslit.submittable.com/submit

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Hi, friends! We haven’t been on Bluesky for a while, but dropping in to say hi. Hold tight for some exciting updates (potentially Halloween-related 👻).

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Is anyone here? Twitter is really getting too weird now.

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

“I hope my email finds you in a well.”

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 16/02/2024

This summer. The Ternion will be published. 3 novels, 3 authors each. Titles coming soon. It's how we do #antiwrimo

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

I’m probably not describing this the right way, but can anyone think of examples of collaborative memoir/CNF? Like memoirs or personal essays that braid/juxtapose multiple lives, written collectively by two or more authors?

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

1. Open poetry craft book 2. Craft book advises starting a journal 3. Spend an hour online shopping for new notebook until head hurts 4. I am a writer!

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Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

send us your micros! we’re ready to read!

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

stealing writing time before the work day steals me

A book called Ordinary Genius: a guide for the poet within, by Kim Addonizio. The book is on a white desk next to a wooden coyote sculpture and a laptop.

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

My new goal is to write thinly veiled Zelda fan fiction and get it accepted by an elite literary journal.

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

A novel is a(n) _____________.

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

This year will be: Finishing novel edits and querying Getting back to short stories (I miss them) More essays More poems Equally likely: new novel idea comes along and tornadoes these plans

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Me: This is the FINAL edit of the novel. Just tiny tweaks. It's all about voice. Me: Creates two new characters.

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Does anyone want to be mutual lit agents? We can make a publishers marketplace announcement every time we get a story or poem acceptance. Like, “Writer [your name]’s [STORY NAME], a flash fiction piece about dogs, to [EIC at lit mag], in an unremunerative deal, by their friend Danny”

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

So, @terrilinndavis.bsky.social and I collaborated on a flash fiction piece and we were *this close* to getting into a Really Big Deal journal, judging by the personal rejection. Just a matter of time now…

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Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE!! ISSUE 3.5 IS ALIVE!!! What do you get when you ask writers to become the architects of spine-chilling settings, & then let another group haunt those spaces? You get issue 3.5: Tiny Hauntings. ENTER . . . if you dare!

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Tiny Hauntings — Icebreakers

Welcome to Icebreaker Lit’s Issue 3.5

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Oh no, I think I’ve started writing a memoir 😨

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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

We wrote a list! It's our top fave short stories for October! It features this bunch of awesome writers! You should go read it! @cherylpappas.bsky.social @dannyderock.bsky.social @itssonoemi.bsky.social @katebbeall.bsky.social @rachelhandley.bsky.social writershq.co.uk/7-pumpkin-sp...

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Danny DeRock @dannyderock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

I just got the kind of rejection (for a chapbook manuscript) that’s so encouraging it feels like an acceptance. Onward!

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