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Great twist on the first contact trope. I like the clash between grandiloquent space invader and weary fast food joint worker.

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The arrival of the Korlqar Empire's armed emissary went utterly unnoticed at McDuncan's, partly because it was three in the morning, partly because the staff were all quite used to weirdos, eccentrics, performance artists, influencers, aspiring comedians, and other dregs of society." Fun reading!

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others have said this, but if you are a real person using AI to draft your messages to me, you not only sound like a scammer, you are someone i do not want to work with, scam or no scam

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Bestselling author J.R. Ward talks about "Crown of War and Shadow" with Club Calvi

This interview reveals how The Crown of War and Shadow started with a vision twenty years ago and #JRWard lives with ghosts in her house! Recently finished the book and it's great. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

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Author J.R. Ward talks about her new book, a romantasy and an instant New York Times bestseller, "Crown of War and Shadow"

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Expanded a winter story that started off as flash. It's been nearly accepted twice. I sent it off again today. Let's hope it will land this time.

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By day, it seems to be an ordinary Little Free Library...but at night its true powers are revealed! I finally finished building our LFL! Yes, it's full of kids' books at present (which was not the original plan! 😂), but I'll be adding signed books and a horror section soon! 👻🖤

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Coming back from the future to say let's make this time loop anthology happen!

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lava flow, like the sun that melts into the horizon in India. The sun turns a more vivid red-orange there.

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Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...

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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

from Grimm's Fairy Tales — Elenore Abbott, 1920

Painting of a woman in green with long red hair dealing beside a very ferocious looking dragon - Chinese influence on that Dragon I think

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Olivia Wylie @otterkit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

HAHA YES! I nailed my deadline! Manuscript for Book 2 COMPLETE! *dances around* *lays the manuscript gently to bed to rest and recover before the rigors of EDITING* The first book in this series comes out this October, and I'm so excited to have the next one ready to go! #solarpunk #amwriting

The cover of an upcoming book.
Title: Sign the Deal
Author: O.E. Tearmann
Image: a southwestern Solarpunk town against a backdrop of Utah mountains. In the foreground, a young woman with ears like a llama and dark skin stands with a seated nonbinary person on a rock formation. Both are dressed for extreme desert conditions. Around them are plants ready to be planted. The color scheme is light and hopeful.

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Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you! I'm happy to have been part of the award celebration. 💜

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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 27/09/2026

Fascinating exploration of modern horror cinema and the personal and societal pressures that feed it Feeding the Monster by Anna Bogutskaya #HorrorSky #BookSky #FilmSky ko-fi.com/post/Feed-th...

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Feeding the Monster

Big Bearded Bookseller published a post on Ko-fi

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Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Acceptance from Flash Phantoms for Halloween themed flash fiction! 🎃🍁 It's an eerie story I look forward to sharing next month when it comes out.

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Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lovely readings at the Leicester Writes Award Ceremony. It was a pleasure to hear the work of Jay McKenzie, Tracy Fahey and Diana Powell, as well as to read my own work. Hosted by @farhanashaikh.bsky.social Can't wait to read the anthology!

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Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We were having a great discussion of writing and AI when a hacker bombed the Zoom meeting! They took over the whiteboard and scribbled profanities. Well done, Farhana for staying strong and tackling the problem. She restarted the meeting and the readings went smoothly. @farhanashaikh.bsky.social

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Like Wil E. Coyote on Roadrunner Short Story September is upon us. Here I talk all things short story, practice, a festival, favourite collections, and the @galleybeggars.bsky.social short story prize drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-short-s...

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On Short Story September

Prizes, prompts, collections and all that.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Having a nice morning of tea and pondering a project. But soon! Soon I shall join the Electric Sheep for a merry conversation. This is a good morning, fellow buddies.

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

feline behavior became a form of prophecy, blending daily life with superstition. 2/2

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In ancient China, cats were not just companions curled by the hearth. They were quiet weather-watchers, their small habits read like signs from the sky. If a cat washed its face, rain might be coming; if it chewed grass, storms were near. For farmers and families, 1/2 #caturday

🎨 Cats Among Bamboo Shen Chenlin, in the Qing dynasty 明婁元禮撰《田家五行》（引自《說郛續》卷三十）：「狗咬青草吃，主晴。……貓兒吃青草，主雨。」孫德祖《寄龕丙誌》卷四雲：越俗患頑僮之好狎畜狗若貍奴而或為所爪嚙也曰：『騎貓狗者，娶婦日必雨。』患其好張蓋而敝之也，曰，非暑若雨及，屋下張蓋者軀體不復長。皆投其所忌，繆為之說以懼之，然尋常鞭撻所不能止者，無勿帖然不敢犯。」

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jessicapixiestudios @jessicapixie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi, I am excited to share my second poetry chapbook of summer poems- Stars on Fire. It is here. A magical set of spells I think. You can grab a copy here🤍 www.jessicapixie.com/product-page...

Sticker that says Tiny Bat Press in the middle of two books- the book on the left is called Stars on Fire and has greens and purples with a fawn, and on the right the book is called The Banquet and Bat Fangs- lots of purples.

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can’t fricking wait for this!! Excited to be a contributor, but especially keen to read all the stories in this issue!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

A major piece of figuring out what the book was, was writing the first draft. I had to write out every single thought I had and then someone had to help me go through it and look for the conceptual patterns and then I had figure out what I **wanted** to say GenAI would have actively obstructed this

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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Join us on 24th September for our autumn and fall-themed #FolkloreThursday! Our hosts will share posts made to the hashtag at the following times BST: 9am-2pm 3.30pm-4.30pm 6pm-7pm 🍂🍎🎃 (🎨John William Godward, Autumn.)

A woman in a flowing red dress with a green sash reaches for grapes hanging from a vine, with a bowl of grapes at her feet. John William Godward, Autumn.

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How about something dark glittering and glowing? This sounds compelling...

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The cost of living is going up, so why is pay for writers is going down?

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Reviewer reviewers, I suppose. Someone should put out a magazine called Reviewer Review and give accolades to the reviewers who give thoughtful, constructive reviews as well as deconstructing the mean ones.

Jay 🏞️🔜 Howloween @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think there's several stories from the latest issue of @weirdlitmag.bsky.social that deserve to be nominated...

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Happy national fox day 🦊 I didn't even know that was a thing until after I finished this design, ahah! #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart #nationalfoxday

A formline design of a red fox. The background is a gradient dark teal, and the fox is a striking rust-orange, with gradienting darker umber on its snout and tail, and pale yellow chest/ear fluff and tail tip. It has it's tail wrapped around it's body, hiding its legs. It's head is angled to the left side.

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you want to be a successful writer, the most important tool in your box is perseverance. Successful writers aren't always the best writers, but they are the ones who turn up day after day, year after year 🖤.

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the final week this will be available on #netgalley. Get it before it’s gone!

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been sharing reader reviews for my other book so it's only right I do it for The Astronaut Among the Flowers. Who better to start than the person who wrote the introduction--the great @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social? Order yours: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-as... @starsandsabers.bsky.social

Graphic shows the cover of P.A. Cornell's SFF collection THE ASTRONAUT AMONG THE FLOWERS AND OTHER STORIES (at left), which shows an astronaut lying in a field of purple flowers under a pink and purple sky. At right white text on a purple background reads: "Cornell doesn't have a conventional approach to either science fiction or fantasy. She seems to circle those worlds but then come at it from unexpected angles, or through unusual points of view. As a result, each tale exists strongly as an island in an endless sea of quality speculative fiction, yet still carries her individual style and voice. - Jonathan Maberry, New York Times Bestselling Author of BEWILDERNESS and GHOSTS OF THE VOID."

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Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great to listen to while driving down Route 1599... You know, the one that leads to a parallel England... 😃

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Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It was magical, thank you! I went for a hike and found a shrine where people left ribbons, feathers, painted stones and small treasures for the fairies, and a box where you could write messages and read the thoughts and wisdom of others who came there before me. 🧚