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Ivana Skye

@ivanaskye.bsky.social
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Indie SFF author, including of the Šehhinah series. Prolific writer of short stories, reader of long books, and listener of metal-adjacent music. Based in Colorado. If you're an author and I follow you, I've read and loved at least one thing you wrote.

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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
it's been a while since i've been here, just not a platform that's very natural to me....
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 27/04/2026
this is perhaps the coolest thing ever!! and if you want to support it but can’t make it to Baltimore, there IS a video on demand reward tier… 😈
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Rose City Comic Con @rosecitycc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
📖 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT 📖 Caitlin Starling, best known for The Starving Saints, The Death of Jane Lawrence, Last to Leave the Room, The Luminous Dead, and more, is coming to #RCCC in September! 🎟️ Buy badges >> rosecitycomiccon.com/badges #RoseCityComicCon
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The French also sensibly imposed a similar requirement
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The Stars that Rise at Dawn #audiobook part 7 (chapters 12 & 13) is here! ch 12 (21 mins): vocaroo.com/1jhhXYa8JVek ch 13: (26 mins): vocaroo.com/1avkmBTX6mRz
sum-e inkbrush painting of two hills, one smooth and one craggy, with a moon, blossoming tree branches, and petals blowing in the wind above them
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I have listened to Diablo Swing Orchestra's album "Swagger and Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole" an absolutely criminal amount of times while working on this book. While outlining, though, the album of choice was Opeth's "Blackwater Park." No idea what this combination means.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 16/10/2025
THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Šehhinah #audiobook part 6 (chapters 9, 10, and 11) 9: vocaroo.com/146MOzCL4a49 10: vocaroo.com/1e6mcNbvzgFs 11: vocaroo.com/1eg9kVLLDJKf
Nighttime scene with stars in a dark blue sky, and two figures on a brick roof below, one leaning on the wall, the other lying on her back on the ground
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Šehhinah #audiobook part 5 (chapters 7 and 8) 7: vocaroo.com/1kQKFygsuT4w 8: vocaroo.com/1mGZe0bbhhLr
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Šehhinah audiobook part 4 (chapters 5 and 6) 5: vocaroo.com/15mvoKOMZrUN 6: vocaroo.com/1b2Nyi7WnSJA
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Šehhinah #audiobook chapters 3 (20 mins) and 4 (7 mins)! remarkable how much variation in not just pagecount but speed different chapters are. vocaroo.com/15A2wMKdxV7L vocaroo.com/1bnF5rf9RiKc
a brown hued watercolor of a young man sitting in a corner of a library with one hand on a book on the bench next to him and one against his lips. To he right a woman in an afro peers at him while wringing her hands.
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Boulder Bookstore @boulderbookstore.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Drawing from years of reporting, "We Survived the Night" paints a portrait of contemporary Indigenous life alongside a reckoning between a father & son. Join us next week when Julian Brave Noisecat will be here to celebrate this new book from @aaknopf.bsky.social! Tix: NoiseCatBBS.eventbrite.com
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I love.... emergent properties.....
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 03/10/2025
excited to be a part of this sturgeon release tomorrow. our water quality team will be represented at Merwin’s Wharf 1-4pm and we’d love to see you there.
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Ned @ned-h.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Definitely gonna give it a listen! Here's a non-Audible link for those of us who've hated Amazon since they first came for our local bookshops. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Spiderlight Audiobook on Libro.fm
“Tchaikovsky nimbly takes the narration from horrific to humorous to epic and back again.”—Library JournalThis program is read by the author.Spiderlight is an exhilarating fantasy quest from Adrian Tc...
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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 04/10/2025
Merriam-Webster just added 5,000 words to their collegiate dictionary, including “petrichor,” “teraflop,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.”
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Šehhinah #audiobook chapters 3 (20 mins) and 4 (7 mins)! remarkable how much variation in not just pagecount but speed different chapters are. vocaroo.com/15A2wMKdxV7L vocaroo.com/1bnF5rf9RiKc
a brown hued watercolor of a young man sitting in a corner of a library with one hand on a book on the bench next to him and one against his lips. To he right a woman in an afro peers at him while wringing her hands.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I like the Terraforming Mars board game but it always seems that I go for a corporation that does X, and then get cards that exclusively cater to every other letter of the alphabet. I'm like "I need solutions to generate power" and my entire science team are "Hey I just invented a tardigrade."
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 21/09/2025
Toni Morrison wrote that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was”. Morrison was talking about writing and the Mississippi, but she could easily have been talking about the creeks that flow through 'Honeyeater'. satpa.pe/Zo0OpGR
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Toni Morrison once observed that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was”. Morrison was talking about writing, but her thinking was steeped in the fluvial, the tendency of rivers to reassert themselves in the face of human interference. As Morrison said, “ ‘floods’ is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering”.
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Adne Sadeh @adnesadeh.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Shanah Tovah and Gut Yontif, everyone! h/t @shvlman.bsky.social for posting the Leviathan Rosh Hashanah postcard.
New Year (Rosh Hashanah) postcard. Leviathan, a giant fish, wrapped around the earth
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Vamp @vampiraptor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Just rewatched The Crow(1994) and wanted to draw Eric with his animal buddies. Very Disney Princess of him.
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☀Hyde Angelus☀ @ RCCC : K26 @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 15/09/2025
Late pledges are open for 3 more days. Help us hit our first Stretch Goal to fund an extra issue of 3LBE in 2026. More stories, more nightmares! kck.st/4mIkEm1
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026
A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 09/09/2025
Get to know the artists rewriting the rules of South Asian Sufi devotional music.
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Mapping NYC’s South Asian Sufi Renaissance
Get to know the artists rewriting the rules of South Asian devotional music.
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Another! I truly don’t know the best way to do these sorts of things on bsky, but here’s chapter 1 vocaroo.com/1dVVGD4oqsxP and chapter 2 vocaroo.com/1bdcIqZhcqwy
a murky indistinct watercolor of a coffeeshop interior, with two people sitting on opposite sides of a table in the midground and a small stream edged with plants in the foreground
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Another! I truly don’t know the best way to do these sorts of things on bsky, but here’s chapter 1 vocaroo.com/1dVVGD4oqsxP and chapter 2 vocaroo.com/1bdcIqZhcqwy
a murky indistinct watercolor of a coffeeshop interior, with two people sitting on opposite sides of a table in the midground and a small stream edged with plants in the foreground
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
What are some trad pub SFF/H books that have been out at least a year that you think didn't get enough attention? Adult or YA. Marginalized authors preferred, and small press titles encouraged. Not looking for big bestsellers or award-sweepers.
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I don’t know if We Lived On The Horizon by erika swyler would be considered not having enough attention or not, but it felt like it didn’t make the waves in the world that it did in my brain.
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I’ve read a few fascinating essays on the topic of non-omnipotence/non-perfection of god in jewish texts, it’s a fascinatingly fertile topic imo. Definitely interested to know if you’d recommend this one when you finish!
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
And here’s my #audiobook version of the prologue of Šehhinah book 1, The Stars That Rise At Dawn! About 12 minutes. i’ll get through the series at an unspecified rate voca.ro/1mODI7pOTJyJ
watercolor aerial view of a reddish desert under a blue sky, city skyscrapers appear on the horizon and on a plateau in the foreground there is a parked motorcycle and two trails of smoke rising from the surface
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 11/09/2025
Breakcore is mutating. Meet the new monsters.
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New Breakcore is (Still) Badass
The internet’s most undefinable genre just got more undefinable.
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 11/09/2025
We’ve reached our goal! A colossal thanks to everyone who’s backed us and shared. Your support makes this all possible. Thank you! Late pledges are up for one week with new rewards, and we hope to hit stretch goals so we can add even more issues and stories next year.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We have a cover for next year's Children of Strife!
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
little watercolor done by my girlfriend! like i am not a pro narrator, she is not a professional artist, but well i like her stuff.
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
one of my best #flashfiction i've done this month! www.deviantart.com/atheshya/art... "stepping now among hollow echoes, a structure she could hear her way through if she clicked her tongue just right, somewhere in here would be the thing, the radiating thing that would take out anyone with eyes,"
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to guard against somethingness by Atheshya on DeviantArt
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 09/09/2025
We just met our funding goal! Thank you times infinity to the backers of the last 30 minutes, and everyone in the last 28 days. There will be 3LBE 2026! 🖤🐙 📖 There’s still time for stretch goals, which will add more issues and more stories.
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
And here’s my #audiobook version of the prologue of Šehhinah book 1, The Stars That Rise At Dawn! About 12 minutes. i’ll get through the series at an unspecified rate voca.ro/1mODI7pOTJyJ
watercolor aerial view of a reddish desert under a blue sky, city skyscrapers appear on the horizon and on a plateau in the foreground there is a parked motorcycle and two trails of smoke rising from the surface
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Hey, who turned out the lights?? 🕯️🕯️🕯️ The theme for September's flash fiction contest is CANDLELIGHT! You have until the end of this month to submit. Full submission details linked below ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/septem...
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a bunch of lit candles are on a table
Alt: A ton of flickering candles sitting in melted wax on the ground
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 06/09/2025
We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1
The words “54% funded, only 4 days left” against a distressed background, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.
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Reba With @sudama.randomwalks.com · 03/12/2024
become unsummarizable
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Ivana Skye @ivanaskye.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
honestly while i didn’t set out to do so, basically all my writing projects wound up focusing on the existential horror of being made into the moby-dick in this scenario.
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Benjamin Rosenbaum @benjaminrosenbaum.com · 05/09/2025
We need a word for fiction which is dystopian, but not MORE dystopian than the historical moment it's being written in. Like, I wanna warn critiquers that the story is dystopian SF, but the dystopian parts aren't the SF parts, the dystopian parts are already here. idiodystopian? mimetic dystopia?
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
As with comedy, harvesting milkweed seed is all about timing! 🦋🌸🦋 In this blog, we’ll explore some methods of harvesting milkweed seed, separating the truth from the fluff.
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How to Collect Seeds From Milkweed: A Pod and a Plan
Harvesting local milkweed seed for later planting is a great way to increase monarch breeding habitat. We'll teach you how to harvest and separate the fluff from the good stuff.
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Gary @flyfishingfrankers.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
#nowspinning God Is An Astronaut; Ghost Tapes #10 #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity #33rom #GIAA @giaaband.bsky.social
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Today is one of my favorite days in North Amherst, when someone has to slowly walk around my friends’ yard, carefully collecting all the baby snapping turtles so the crows don’t eat them.
The bottom of a white bucket with eight teeny tiny snapping turtles in an inch of water. Each would fit in your palm.
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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 05/09/2025
It is still Bandcamp Friday.
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Paul Semel @paulsemel.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
In her suburban Gothic fantasy / dark #fantasy novel "Honeyeater" author Kathleen Jennings is trying to capture the beauty of her native Brisbane. Though as she says in this interview, "If I am fond of something, I like to try making it dreadful in fiction." paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🐦‍⬛🍯
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Exclusive Interview: "Honeyeater" Author Kathleen Jennings ... .
Exclusive Interview: "Honeyeater" Author Kathleen Jennings \ In which she talks about this suburban Gothic fantasy / dark fantasy novel.
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Benjamin Liar @benjaminliar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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