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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 18h

On my blog, I've got a new post up about all my books that reference Southern Appalachia, where I grew up. The influence of that most special place on my work is powerful and lifelong. Read the post, "My Southern Appalachian Stories" #books #appalachia #horror #fantasy #scifi #thrillers

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My Southern Appalachian Stories - Jendia Gammon

Author and artist Jendia Gammon discusses some of her Southern Appalachian stories, in both long and short form fiction, honoring her birth region.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 12h

My crushing sense of impending doom came from watching the news

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 118: Most of your writing happens away from your desk, when you’re driving, walking, going about your daily business. To activate that mode, add ONE sentence to your WIP as you get up every morning, and keep the mental plates spinning for the rest of the day..

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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 19h

It's almost Halloween. Get ready for tricks AND treats with OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM, our mondo, excellent horror anthology! Featuring dozens of authors from around the world. Order your copy: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-dre... #horrorbooks #books #spookyseason #horror

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Of Dread, Decay, and Doom – Stars and Sabers

Of Dread, Decay, and Doom: a horror-themed anthology edited by Jendia Gammon, Gareth L. Powell, and Scarlett R. Algee, featuring masters of horror fiction.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If it does turn out to be viable, it’s gonna have to take its place in the queue behind all the other books I’ve got lined up

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I said I might return to the universe of my novels STARS AND BONES and DESCENDANT MACHINE if I ever thought of a suitable idea for a story. And now, I just *might* have thought of one…

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

IMAGINE A FRIEND is out now. THE HYENA is out soon. Both available from www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-hy...

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Two weeks to the final Amethyst Lantern novel, THE DAWN OF DUSK AND TWILIGHT, adult prequel to the YA series! The fate of the future rests with a found family at the end of everything! Cover by @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social. Publishing Oct. 20 via @press-android.bsky.social. #fantasy #scifi #SFF #books

TWO WEEKS TO RELEASE!
Out Oct. 20
The Dawn of Dusk and Twilight,
Prequel to the Amethyst Lantern Series by Nebula & BSFA Award Finalist
J. DIANNE DOTSON
The Finale of
The Amethyst Lantern Series
by Jendia Gammon writing as J. Dianne Dotson

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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ONE WEEK until GUTTERSPACE arrives! Preorder your copy of @justinenortonkertson.com's #horror novella, "deeply weird in all the right ways" according to @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social! www.starsandsabers.com/books/gutter... Cover by @scribeofhades.bsky.social. #books #horrorbooks

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Choose Your Own Adventure is making waves in all sorts of ways! A reminder that I have a brand new book in the series, DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL, a zany adventure involving an abandoned 80s mall, a warlock, all kinds of supernatural entities, and some really gross endings! Do you dare?

Cover ALT: Choose Your Own Adventure: DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL by Jendia Gammon Book cover depicts and abandoned mall covered in caution tape, and three pre-teens in front of it, one with brown hair, one with blond hair, one with blue hair; above them, purple lightning bolts erupt from the staff of a demonic-looking warlock. The title font is very 1980s inspired.
Art of cover and interior by Elena Dall’Aglio.

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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There’s nobody quite like Deborah Parkinson, the greatest artist you’ve never heard of! @quantick.bsky.social has created a main character “full of mordant whimsy and burning wit”. Thank you to @worrad.bsky.social for the quote. Preorder THE HYENA, out Nov. 10. #books #literature #surrealism

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

His reaction when he realised what he'd said was simultaneously hilarious and cringe inducing

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Translated: "I am willing to let people die to increase my share value."

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s a LOT going on behind the scenes right now. I have three books scheduled for publication (two of which are written); another (written) one out on sub, with notes for a potential sequel; two more (unwritten) pitches at acquisitions with a publisher; and reissues of my first five novels.

a laptop on a table with a sunny window in the background

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey, I just posted about this album last night. Good to know someone else appreciates it too!

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks to the wonderful @jendiagammon.bsky.social for this picture of my novel Jitterbug on the shelves at Barnes and Noble Huntington Beach today, taken during the signing event for her novels Godfestation and Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall.

The cover of JITTERBUG by Gareth L Powell features a stylised rocket silhouette at the centre of an orrery, with a space suited figure dangling in its wake

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Having a quiet Sunday night with a couple of classic albums. #sundayvibes

Legrand Jazz by Michel Legrand and Ascender pour 'echaufaud by Miles Davis

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alas, I can't make it to FantasyCon in Glasgow next weekend, but having previously been to both an Eastercon and a Worldcon in the city, I know you're going to have a cracking time. Nobody parties like Scottish fandom!

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good morning to everyone except the neighbour using very loud power tools at 10.00 am on a Sunday morning.

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here are 5 facts about my new book, THE DAWN OF DUSK AND TWILIGHT. Writing as J. Dianne Dotson, this is the prequel to my multi award-nominated Amethyst Lantern series published by @press-android.bsky.social. Out October 20. Preorder now! Better yet, get the whole trilogy! #books #fantasy #scifi

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting ready to go open up the bookshop for the day, but finding it more difficult to feel energised on these darker mornings. My internal clock seems convinced that if the sun isn't up yet, neither should I be.

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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Meet team Murderbot! @marthawells.com is our compass, a perfect storm of an SFF writer, an anthropologist, formed by fandom, winning awards from way early and always campaigned for those left behind. Or mistakes are our own, but we’re making this for her. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!

The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you want to find the stories behind the writing of each of my books, get access to a large trove of writing advice, and get regular updates, articles and other posts, you can subscribe to either the free or paid tiers of my Patreon, which functions as my blog.

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Gareth L. Powell — writing novels and encouraging aspiring authors

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How does it feel to have people copy your intellectual property without permission?

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think it’s about time we had Richard E Grant as the Doctor (yes, I know about Comic Relief and the Shalka). He could then do a ‘Two Doctors’ story with Paul McGann where they go on holiday by mistake.

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Withnail and friend having lunch

ALT: Withnail and friend having lunch

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can't believe it's only a week until Fantasycon. If you're voting for the British Fantasy Awards, my career-spanning collection WHO WILL YOU SAVE? is a finalist in the Best Collection category. It's very dear to my heart, so any help you can give it is appreciated.

The cover of WHO WILL YOU SAVE? by Gareth L Powell. It shows a figure on an alien landscape reaching up to a figure standing on an upside down reflection of the landscape above.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's always great when a reviewer totally gets what you were doing with a story. This is quoted from a fantastic review by Andrew Gillman on his blog sparklyprettybriiiight.com

“It’s hard to be surprised in our everything-on-the-table preview-manic digital culture but Gareth L. Powell absolutely and completely pulls it off with Jitterbug, a novel which sports a playful-sounding title which is subverted in the best ways possible at every turn by a narrative which very much adheres to the idea that you play big or you go home.
Spoiler alert: Powell most definitely does not go home … you are left on the edge of your seat, jaw on the floor at how outrageously audacious he is.”

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jitterbug is a 2026 science fiction novel by Gareth L Powell, published by @titanbooks.bsky.social

A quotation from Jitterbug by Gareth L Powell that says: "The one hard truth I’d learned about the past was that it couldn’t be changed. It couldn’t be edited or rewritten, only lived with. No matter how hard you wanted to, you couldn’t fix days that were dead and gone. All you could do was try to make sure the days to come were better."

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Awards season is upon us, so if you’re voting or nominating in any of the genre awards this year, please consider JITTERBUG by Gareth L. Powell for the Best Novel category. Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The omnibus of my award-winning Ack-Ack Macaque trilogy AND my first novel, Silversands, are available in brand new e-book editions from Open Road Media. Paperback copies will follow in January. You can buy and read the ebooks now at: openroadmedia.com/contributor/...

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

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