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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hi I'm popping in to mention that I will be at this virtual conference and will be teaching the character arc workshop I did in person as the Brampton writer in residence in the spring. (This account will deactivate shortly cuz I got writing/ community work to do)

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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 03/08/2026

Like my stuff? Want more? Want all my indie eBooks half price? You can gift the ones that aren't for you - all eBooks are DRM free. Download in a format you want & send to your eReader. Full bundle £15.00 -> RRP £34.89. ko-fi.com/s/811fa7d3b0 🌈📚 #BookSky #QueerFantasy #QueerHorror #QueerRomance

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Complete eBook Box Set: Complete Book Bundle RRP £34.89 (epub/pdf files) - CM Rosens's Ko-fi Shop

This is a bundle of my books - minus THE CROWS and THIRTEENTH which are both now being sold by Canelo Books! To buy each eBook individually would se...

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 22/04/2025

📣🚨 PSA 📣🚨 💙📚🩸 Reminder that I curate a "No-AI/LLMs" Indie Horror Publisher Starter Pack & Feed List for indie horror pubs that have strict No-AI policies & promise to never use or accept AI/LLM Writing OR Artwork #booksky Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/UwgWqLc Feed List: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Luna Moth (Actias luna) is fairly common in Nova Scotia, though it is seldom seen by people because of its nocturnal life. While this beautiful insect may look like a butterfly, its feathery antennae are a dead giveaway. It’s definitely a moth – one of the largest in North America.

Luna moth with pale, lime-green wings and delicate swallow tail.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

YOULL NEVER TAKE MY EM DASH

cover of THE SENTIENT LESBIAN EM DASH--MY FAVORITE PUNCTUATION MARK--GETS ME OFF featuring a large blue living em dash on the left and a beautiful ladybuck on the right they are standing in a yard in the evening lookin good

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Marin M. Miller @marinmmiller.com · 29/07/2026

I will never consent to participate in AI performance, and I will never consent to work on a project without union enforced AI protections.

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Aether and Ego by Joanne Merriam, Inanna Publications & The Inflatable Life by Mark Laba, @anvilpress.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

Book covers for 1. Aether and Ego by Joanne Merriam, Inanna Publications: Elizabeth Bennet is a part of the second generation embarking on a centuries-long flight to Alpha Centauri, working in the signal room and studying engineering aboard a massive centrifugal ship. When she is thrown into the orbit of the conventional Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth finds him haughty and intolerable. But then her younger sister elopes. For all of their progress in the new society of the ship, a woman can still be ruined by an imprudent attachment. Can Elizabeth and Darcy save Lydia’s reputation, learn to like each other, and avoid being convicted of murder? Out 15 September – pre-order now: https://inanna.ca/product/aether-and-ego/ or in the US, https://bookshop.org/a/96356/9781834210261 and 2. The Inflatable Life by Mark Laba, Anvil Press: In The Inflatable Life, the reader will find a little singing, a little dancing, a little drama, a little comedy, a little experimentation. Laba draws on everything from gritty pulp fiction to Borscht Belt humour, from dime-store ventriloquism to twelve-cent comic books, hurling his surprising and often shocking vaudeville narratives from the peak of the Jewish Alps. Some may call these surreal poems literary atrocities while others hail them as lyricism for an impossible century. Thing is, if Mark Laba didn’t write these poems, no one else would. https://www.anvilpress.com/books/the-inflatable-life

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The ecofiction season is upon us! 🌸🐛🌟 The next installment in our annual ECO anthology series is available for preorder NOW! Click the link below and grab your copy of ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION today! 🌱📚🌙 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

"A New Generation of Stories
ECO25
The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
PREORDERS NOW OPEN"

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I love how Heracles is repeatedly described as having a paunchy dad bod in @wiswell.bsky.social's retelling of the 12 labours of Heracles. It's even on the cover image. An excellent audiobook. bookshop.org/p/books/wear...

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Wearing the Lion

"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. Wearing the Lion establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantasy landscape." —T. Kingfisher, Hugo Awar...

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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This Volvo is a special edition called “The Canadian” to appeal to its newly adopted market. Built in the Dartmouth plant, it was donated to the Nova Scotia Museum in 1967.

A wide-angle photograph from inside the passenger cabin of a classic black car, believed to be a Volvo Canadian, currently on display within a museum exhibit setting. The interior is characterized by vibrant, eye-catching red upholstery, most notably on the bench-style front seat and the door panels, which contrast sharply with the dark dashboard and floor. The large, black, thin-rimmed steering wheel is visible on the left. Through the open driver's door and windows, other museum exhibits can be seen in the background, including a large blue panel and black and white photographs. A dark-colored seatbelt is pulled across the red seat in the right foreground.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Canadians, there’s a new government survey regarding AI in the arts. Take a moment to fill it out. (And please share) pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

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National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Over on the blog, the latest updates on The Green Man's Debt, The Riven Kingdom, and The Iron Code, as well as some of the dates and places where and when I'll be talking to writers and fans about these books and doubtless a whole lot more besides. www.julietemckenna.com/news-on-the-...

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News on The Green Man’s Debt, The Riven Kingdom and more!

I did say I was busy when I last posted an update … and very productively so. I’m very pleased to report The Green Man’s Debt is now written and edited with the invaluable assista…

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Quin Bunny Notaro 🏳️‍⚧️ | Pumpkin-Spiced Author 🎃👻 @bunnyisawriter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Want to support a #TransAuthor? Looking for #HorrorBooks and #FantasyBooks that are unsettling, personal, and rooted in character? Revival: a.co/d/0aFRn9gt Elsewhere: a.co/d/0e6awtwH The Turning Days: a.co/d/08RUQWLT E-books free with Kindle Unlimited/$2.99 to purchase | Print $14.99

Image featuring the covers of Revival, The Turning Days, and Elsewhere by Bunny Notaro. Top text reads, "Welcome to Willet's Rest. Small town. Big horrors." Middle button text reads, "E-books $2.99 or free on Kindle Unlimited." Bottom text reads, "Discover three doors into Willet's Rest from a trans Southern author: two psychological horror novels, one fantasy adventure, and no safe way through the dark."

Cover of Revival by Bunny Notaro. Top text reads, "Welcome to Willet's Rest. Small town. Big horrors." Bottom text reads, "Psychological horror. Grief and buried secrets. Eyeballs on stalks."

Cover of Elsewhere by Bunny Notaro. Top text reads, "Welcome to Willet's Rest. Small town. Big horrors." Bottom text reads, "Missing children. A portal to another world. A sexy ogre man."

Cover of The Turning Days by Bunny Notaro. Top text reads, "Welcome to Willet's Rest. Small town. Big horrors." Bottom text reads, "Societal collapse. Mind control. Board games."

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"I have made efforts to retain the *cartoony* effect. I did not welcome the trend of the industry to go "arty". -Max Fleischer #BOTD “Invisible Ink” (1921) Koko the Clown vs. Max Fleischer

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

FABULOUS BODIES is an instant @usatoday.com bestseller which means ALL FOUR traditionally published tingleverse horror novels have been release week bestsellers. THATS FOUR FOR FOUR LETS TROT. i have endless gratitude for your support and your love buckaroos. cant want to trot onward together

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

got my film developed, so BEHOLD

A film photograph of a wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man in Hamilton, Ontario, between the sidewalk and a cannabis store on James Street North. The tube man has "MARIJUANA" written on it. It's smiling with wide, bloodshot eyes. Taken on Lucky C200 film.

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daria argento @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

THEY'RE CALLED "NEWTYPES", COOP. THEY'VE LIVED IN SPACE SO LONG THEY DEVELOPED PSYCHIC ABILITIES. AND THEY'RE ALL AUTISTIC TOO

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Submit poetry, flash fiction and nonfiction, short fiction, and literary nonfiction to the Fall 2026 issue at Charlotte Lit! Submissions will close on July 31 or when the magazine receives 300 entries, so don’t delay: www.clmp.org/members/open...

Light blue background with megaphone icon and text reading "Calls for Submissions."

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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 19/07/2026

Writing Queernormative Worlds - Downloadable Workshop Pack for Personal Use. I have made the questions in this post, and the PowerPoint slides, downloadable from my Ko-Fi shop. Free to download but Pay As You Feel if you'd like to leave a tip. 🌈📚 #WritingCommunity ko-fi.com/s/5d24f8b4bc

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Writing a Queernormative World - Workshop Pack - CM Rosens's Ko-fi Shop

This is a free workshop I ran for WriteHive Conference 2026. If you would like to support me, you can pay what you like by means of a tip, but don't f...

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Disenfranchised Writers' Voices Inc. @dwritersvoices.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Looking for your next read? Discover your next favorite book while supporting disabled creators. 33 books for just $20 in the Nothing About Us Without Us bundle. 85% in savings! July 19–August 1 itch.io/b/3783/nothi... #BookSky #DisabilityPride

Promotional graphic for the "Nothing About Us Without Us" itch.io bundle. Bold yellow text on a dark gray background with diagonal disability pride flag stripes reads: "Nothing About Us Without Us." Below, large text announces: "33 books for $20 in an itch.io bundle." Dates: "July 19th thru August 1st." A banner states: "by disabled authors and/or about disabled characters." The bundle URL is displayed: itch.io/b/3783/nothing-about-us-without-us. Along the bottom is a row of colorful disability-themed human figures, including people using mobility aids.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 20/07/2026

Try a gay book, you might like it! * Sapphic spies! * Billionaire (evil included in the definition of the word) * Kingsman but feminist and gay shop.ravenswordpress.com/products/the...

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Charlie Hart is a freshly graduated engineer with a healthy lack of respect for No Entry signs. Her biggest problems in life are workplace misogyny, student debts, and the illegality of her urban expl...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🔥 FANTASY SHORT STORY 🔥 🍃 fairytale 👩‍❤️‍👩 romantic 🔮 magic 🎭 second pov 🔖 story: mybook.to/WDd0F 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/fire-at-her-... 📖 gr link: www.goodreads.com/book/show/75... [ #booksky ]

kindle cover for fire at her fingertips by rebecca crunden; picture is of a hand holding flames

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C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 20/07/2026

Werewolf Films 1980-1989 Continuing my werewolf film series, here's a list of werewolf films from the 1980s! Links to the previous articles (starting with the 1910s) are below.... cmrosens.com/2026/07/20/werewolf-fi… #FilmSky

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Werewolf Films 1980-1989

Continuing my werewolf film series, here's a list of werewolf films from the 1980s! Links to the previous articles (starting with the 1910s) are below.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨ 🐉 a dragon (with a princess) 🗡️ a knight (with a plan) 👑 a palace (with a cruel king) 🏰 second pov 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-knight-s... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... [ #booksky ]

Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges.

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 18/07/2026

Does Inspector Gadget struggle with the loss of his own humanity? Did he trade his flesh for steel simply to be a machine of the state? Does he not yearn for more?

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Violence is never the answer.” People are dying in the streets because of your policies. Our violence is a response to yours.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Divination Hollow Reviews @divinationhollow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Romance is now full for Queer Your eReader, but we have spaces available in all other genres, so if you write Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy or Mystery/Thriller featuring queer characters, come join us for our free book blast and discover more readers for your work!

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Queer Your eReader — Divination Hollow Reviews

Queer Your eReader is a book blast event hosted by Divination Hollow Reviews. Our next event will take place 12th September, 2026, and includes Romance, Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Mystery/Thriller books!

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king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i hate acting like a shill but we're working on getting our website more prominent to steer more sales away from the evils of amazon & indigo google reviews really help so if you've ever shopped with us or like what we're doing & would leave a review it would help this small fry fight the big guys

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QueerPit @queerpit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!!! We send love to all our non-binary writers, agents, editors and publishing professionals today 💛🤍💜🖤

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Epsteinj Nonbinary Pride Flag

ALT: Epsteinj Nonbinary Pride Flag

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Eldritch Girl Podcast @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

New season, new season logo! Coming soon... 30th July 2026! #Podcast #Horror #HorrorMovies #FilmSky 🎥🍿

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I wish a very gender-affirming pierogi on all my trans folks

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Sunil Sarwal @sunilsarwal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Naomi Klein pointed out the reason we’re getting data centres shoved at us is because their enormous energy thirst props up the oil industry. No surprise it’s Alberta that’s going hardest for them.

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is a friendly little reminder that audiobooks are books. Period. Whether you read with your eyes, ears, or a combination of both, stories belong to everyone. We currently have 346 audiobooks always available for checkout!

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If you are here via the trans writers starter pack, you might also like the intersex people and organizations starter pack! go.bsky.app/PNBDETu (It has a bunch of writers on it too, but there weren't enough writers who are out as intersex to do a writers-only starter pack)

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

need you all to see this deeply indescribable cooking video

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gay pirates, dinosaurs and penguins: try book #1 of Joel Cornah's Sword-Breaker trilogy at 25% off in the Smashwords July sale: www.smashwords.com/b...

Cover of The Sea-Stone Sword. Art by Jay Johnstone.

Image is a silhouette of a pirate through which can be seen a sunken pirate galleon.

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What a beautiful idea from @interstellarflight.bsky.social: “'Infinite Branches: Queer Speculative Disability Poetry in Conversation'... Each entry in this series includes a poem and the poet’s response to another poet in the series." magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/our-transluc...

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our translucent bodies

by Devin Miller

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

PSA from your friendly neighborhood bookseller: a lot of bookstores are currently finalizing their big Fall '26 orders, so now would be a great time to preorder any new releases coming out in September - December with them. An example from this past week:

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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Nova Scotia's deep waters are home to fascinating soft corals that help support marine ecosystems. Explore specimens from the Nova Scotia Museum's Zoology Collection and learn why these deep-sea habitats are so important, and increasingly at risk. museum.novascotia.ca/stories/soft...

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Soft Corals of Nova Scotia

By Alex Hancock – NSM Zoology Collections Intern

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What's the one book Variety picked for their Best Horror of July 2026? CARRY ME TO MY GRAVE! Out July 21st, but pre-order yours NOW!

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Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hey! My story, "The Orchard-Bay" is in @inkedingraypress.bsky.social's Stellar Parallax: Human Hope in Grimdark Worlds, coming out September 29th :-) You can pre-order it now. www.wordsmakeart.com/collections/...

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Stellar Parallax: Human Hope in Grimdark Worlds

Check out books, merch and new releases from Inked in Gray!

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Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Rawhead is open to submissions of Poetry, Visual Art, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, and Hybrid pieces for Issues 4 until August 15th. rawhead.submittable.com/submit Featured collage by David Dodd Lee #poetrycommunity #callforsubmissions #litmag #writingcommunity #poetrysubmissions #poets #poems

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Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they) @rchetypes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m thrilled to announce that my second novel, The Ones Who Do Not Wake, will be coming out in 2028 with Archer, Bloomsbury’s new SFF imprint. It is honestly the weirdest and most personal writing I’ve ever done, and I hope you will give it a chance when it’s out 💛

Publishers Marketplace announcement that reads: DEEP AS THE SKY, RED AS THE SEA author Rita Chang-Eppig's THE ONES WHO DO NOT WAKE, about two siblings living across different realities, one in the waking world and one in the dream realm, who must heal the rifts that divide them, to Grace McNamee at Archer, for publication in Winter 2028, by Michelle Brower at Trellis Literary Management (NA).

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The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We are thrilled to announce our Summer 2026 Issue, out 7/15/26!

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