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The perfect season to go on a jaunt with some lonely monsters tearing up the highlands (and to tear a little into the megalith's profits, too)

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The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away

One evening at summer's end, in a town where nomads and caravans prepare to cross the mountains, the day laborer Sado meets a young woman with a painfully familiar tattoo at the corner of her eye. The...

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 40m

corporate-owned media would never back my toxic snake dyke yuri between a transfemme Basilisk and Medusa with strap, egg RP, and bloody body reclamation, but you can (without giving Amazon money too!) 🐍🐍🐍 riengray.itch.io/the-scales-o... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Scales of Seduction

Seeking to change her body, Petra Kruos, a mercenary and the last living Basilisk, strikes a deal with the goddess Cybele in exchange for recovering Perseus' divine armaments from his grave.The hero's...

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 6h

I am so exhausted I am both really craving a fancy coffee drink and also completely convinced that given a warm drink, I would fall asleep immediately.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 11h

Happy release day to A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL! 🥳 This unique horror follows Thamarai as she learns about the supernatural entities that fill her school 👻 OUT NOW! 🎉

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc.

Are you a trans person of color doing rad art or community organizing work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2026 grant program are open now through October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

We are specifically looking for projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, and/or other marginalized communities, as well as projects that foster exploration and celebration of gender diversity and trans lives.

We accept applications from anywhere in the world. Collectives/groups are welcome to apply.

Grant recipients are chosen by a paid panel of trans judges of color. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2026.

AI-written applications will be deleted.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had a wonderful time at A VERY WITCHY READING, hosted by @csecooney.bsky.social and Carlos Hernandez. There are some pret-ty good stories out there, folks! ICYMI reading is preserved on the linked Twitch stream for a bit, and then there'll be a YouTube video posted. www.twitch.tv/csecooney

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csecooney - Twitch

@csecooney won the World Fantasy Award for Bone Swans in 2016 & Saint Death’s Daughter in 2023. Other work includes Dark Breakers, Desdemona & the Deep, The Twice-Drowned Saint. With husband @writetea...

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you ever have the opportunity to do a reading put together by @csecooney.bsky.social & Carlos Hernandez, avail y'self. But make sure your bank account can accommodate the newness you're guaranteed to add to your TBR pile. 10 writers entered the Readerdome. And I wrote every one of them down.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Everything happening in this stream is excessively cute.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One hour! Spending the next hour eating my autumn snack mix, drinking tea, and reading an ARC for a DIFFERENT book launch I am participating in later this month. 👀

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 04/10/2026

I already read "The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away" which is one of my faves this year. Looking forward to reading "A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School" by Kuzhali Manickavel since @indrapramitdas.bsky.social recommended it!

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The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · 03/10/2026

Published a sapphic book in the last 3 months? Our New Releases helps sapphic books get additional visibility while they're still new. Only $25 per cycle. Give your new release more visibility. thelesbianreview.com/advertise-on-tlr

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A few years ago, a local grocery store sold an "autumn mix" that was just candy pumpkins, candy corn, and Spanish peanuts, but I fell in LOVE with it. The past few falls I haven't been able to find it again, and it took me WAY too long to realize I could just make my own.

A snack mix made of Mellowcreme Autumn Mix (candy pumpkins and candy corn), Spanish peanuts, mini pretzels, and caramel corn with a dark chocolate drizzle)

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.co.uk · 28/10/2025

Trying to put a starter pack together of writers and artists who do trans men and mascs in romance and erotica, especially who do monsterfuckery & fucked-up dynamics! Further recommendations appreciated! go.bsky.app/QCGDtAH

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While ordering directly from the publisher (dancingstarpress.com/product/a-ho...) results in higher royalties for the author, sometimes in ebooks, you can't beat convenience. Check to see if your favorite ebook vendor is listed here!

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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · 03/10/2026

Tomorrow! Don't miss it! 🕯️🧙‍♀️🕸️🎃👻🕯️

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 29/09/2026

Updates + sales goal! I'm broke and I need some sales. I want to keep prices affordable, but it's hard to keep up with demand while avoiding burnout, so *TIPS ARE EXTRA APPRECIATED RIGHT NOW* Goal: $0/$1500 Shop my work → cvkvlv.com Tips → cvkvlv.com/products/tip... MVTO! (THANK YOU!) 🖤

A pair of rainbow beaded drop earrings on a bead mat

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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · 02/10/2026

Celebrate Black Speculative Fiction Month with the book Black Nerd Problems said "Black and brown youth (and the young at heart) need in their life."

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Guess who's got an awesome new writing gig! IndieReader is letting me gush about backlist indie titles for them, and of course my first one had to cover LD Lewis' The Dead Withheld. indiereader.com/marquee-colu...

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Alex Brown on The Dead Withheld by L.D. Lewis | IndieReader

Hugo-nominated, Ignyte Award-winning critic Alex Brown takes on L.D. Lewis' The Dead Withheld, a queer, neo-noir urban fantasy from Neon Hemlock.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This ebook is haunted by strange artifacts of past conversions. Word processing program: "This paragraph is in body text style!" Me: "Except it isn't. It says right there you've substituted some other font for this and seven other paragraphs. Why did you do that?"

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What does it say about the world today that I, who talked myself out of majoring in creative writing because it "wasn't practical," now feel an impulse to talk my child out of majoring in computer programming for the same reason.

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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

⚔️📚 What We Do Now is out this week! “This offers hope,” @publisherswkly. Bold, rigorous essays by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @doctorow.pluralistic.net, @harshawalia.bsky.social, @staceyabrams.com, @kimkelly.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and more. new 🛠️⚔️❤️ bit.ly/what-we-do-now ❤️⚔️🛠️ new

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To celebrate my daughter's first estrogen shot (she's been on the patch until now), I took her to Cinnabon for the first time. She was already describing it as a religious experience, AND THEN there was a mistake with my order so they gave us a free 4-pack! 🥹💜

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank goodness I came downstairs to make tea when I did, because I arrived to the GENTLEST of knocking from the construction crew letting me know that if I didn't move my car NOW I wouldn't be able to leave for up to 4 days.

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PaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

OKAY FOLKS FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKED FOR IT* MY THREAD OF LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE PERFECT BOOK FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTHS *nobody asked but I KNOW WHAT YOU SECRETLY WANT 1/

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And not only do @theemmapress.bsky.social #namethetranslator on the cover, they even name the translator ON THE SPINE! 😍 Definitely worthy of celebration! And Kudos to the whole team at The Emma Press! 🎉 #worldkidlit #worldkidlitmonth #kidlit #internationaltranslationday #itd #booksky #scbwi

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Had a stupid amount of time between appointments today, so rather than driving 20 minutes home and then 30 minutes back in between, I took myself to the woods. Now I am out here saying "Hi, babies!" to mushrooms.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also the perfect hockey player x figure skater romance already exists and it's called The Cutting Edge

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THE CUTTING EDGE (1992) | Official Trailer | MGM

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing about this book is that I wrote it from a deeply personal place-- it takes place where I went to hs, the main girl looks suspiciously like me-- about the rape culture I experienced at the age that was unacceptable. And all I've ever wanted for this book was its cultural irrelevance.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, I am really almost done with my book on Thomas Müntzer, 16th century heretic, which means in a few weeks you will (probably) no longer be subjected to my EXTREMELY TIMELY takes like: I would like to fistfight Martin Luther.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know those brick-like fancy rice krispie treats that have been in all the stores for a few years now? Well, I have wanted them FOREVER but keep talking myself out of them because they are expensive. Today I bought myself one as a treat because I was so productive.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had so much fun in last years' SFINCS that this year, I entered Between the Blood and the Sun! it's a novella about vampires, and terminal illness, and the choices you make at the end of things. books2read.com/BetweentheBl... jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...

The cover for BETWEEN THE BLOOD AND THE SUN: a female figure, face shadowed, the sun rising or setting behind her. She's wearing a smallish cowboy hat (i.e. not ten gallon), and has two guns.

cover by Elyon from thebookcoverdesigner.com

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the wake of the latest in a neverending string of stories about how callous men are with women’s bodies and lives, I propose: Every woman gets a Gundam

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In my opinion, nearly every soup (that I would want to eat), can be improved by adding cheese garlic croutons.

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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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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You may have already grasped this, but the kind of nerd I am DELIGHTS in reading books that only 12 other people on the internet have read. When I go to add a new book to my StoryGraph shelves and it does not exist? That is the good shit right there.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is this the whitest thing I have ever done: deciding to go on a moonlit walk on the river trail when people are currently freaking out over a so-called series of murders on the river trail?

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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's free shipping this weekend on INPRNT, pretty sure you can stack it with the discount code too (see below) 😆 Gift human-made art to yourself and loved ones. Shares, sales, and support greatly appreciated! 🌻 inprnt.com/gallery/bydhiyanah #art #SupportArtists #bsnm #SupportHumanArtists

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Please do not say this to me in the middle of my manic productivity weekend.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nine games that have taken up hundreds and hundreds of hours of my life.

Image generated my my9games

Thumbnail images for the following nine games:
Civilization II
Master of Orion
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Neopets
Kingdom of Loathing
Elvenar
Ingress
Pocket Frogs
Livly Island

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Babes, I learned all my html skills in 1996, so all these ebook guides with div classes and css styles have me rebelling like WHAT IF I JUST BRUTE FORCE IT ALL DIRECTLY IN THE TAG ELEMENTS, HUH?

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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · 25/09/2026

One of my favorite people shouting up another of my favorite people! (alt text for photo in comments)

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi everyone! You fundraised for one of my trans former students leaving Kansas - that helped and they are now safely in Colorado. I'm now asking you to help againnnnn Let's get Siobhán Kirchstein's fundraiser to goal! She is 100% a real person, I know her and just spoke to her today. Threading:

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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein

Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination

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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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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If there is one connecting thread between the six books I have published (am publishing), it is a burning desire for justice.

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Or if you want to read something now-now order up some Minty Fresh Export-Quality Aadi Velli Special Non-Cola Cola! Learn how to instigate violence against Gentoo penguins! Play the Statue Game! www.blaft.com/products/thi...

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 19/09/2026

This year, it's THE NIGHT SWEEPS THE MOUNTAINS AWAY by @tanawir.bsky.social from @dancingstarpress.com . War, sorrow, vampires, and a lyrical beauty and darkness that haunts me. dancingstarpress.com/product/the-...

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The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away | Dancing Star Press

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