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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And don’t forget it

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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Velociraptors were once feared as feathered furies of impending death—geese have not forgotten this

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dude! You always help. Hope yer doing well.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

& .... my copy arrived from Perfect Books, my fave local indie, along with a copy for my 18-year-old, whom I got The Talisman for th'other year. Better suit himup with The Black.House, too, me thinks.... www.perfectbooks.ca/

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oooh. Jerry Wheeler, you remain the bomb, truly. That little workaround does indeed work, like a lucky charm. ;)

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh my freaking gods, can we not simply have a simple laptop/PC keyboard option for the damn em-dash? Enough of this special insert a symbol option—enough!

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Keep feeling the dopamine-reward-fuelled urge to post on IG, but then I see the number of likes on my posts & weigh these (from 10-35 likes) against how much time I sank into each post & see I should be writing my time away instead. 🤯🥸🤓

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JonSam @jonsam1961b.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Trevor Project - Suicide Prevention for LGBTQ+ Young People 📞 1-866-488-7386 📱 Text ‘START’ to 678-678 www.thetrevorproject.org You deserve a welcoming, loving world. Gay folks taking their lives, because they are not accepted is completely gut wrenching. #LGBTQ+ #Suicide

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Aye! Finished it since my last post. There's more of a redemption than I expected. Really a fun gothic pulpy gnarly Irish horror flick with a Yankee in its midst. Terrific stuff! & I learned that if someone repeatedly says to go home, they might just be concealing a nefarious plot.;)

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a writer with Irish ancestry, Irish horror holds a special place on my heart. Absolutely taking in and digging Damian McCarthy's pastoral, ambient Hokum. Fascinating. Adam Scott's writer character in Hokum is an insufferable asshole. Utterly unlikeable, from the go.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Where do sign up? Big proponent of village life.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 15/09/2026

The three genders

Cover of men, women and chainsaws by Carol J. Clover, with a scary backlit silhouette holding a chainsaw and a scary silhouette hand

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aye. If it's a conspiracy, it's ine I aspire to. ;)

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well...read up on it, and a day you learn something is a good day. Conspiracy stylists think it's "a secret plot behind the proposals to place draconian restrictions on the movement of citizens." Read on if you wish.... www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...

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What is the 15-minute cities conspiracy theory?

False conspiracy theories around 15-minute cities see a secret plot behind the proposals to place draconian restrictions on the movement of citizens

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interesting coincidence, that. I have an incomplete but lovingly faithful Kolchak trunk story, about 5,000 wds (?) with Universal monsters, that I meant to send to your fine Kolchak antho the other year, but I missed the submission window.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dug hearing @wordballoon.bsky.social w. @jamesaquilone.bsky.social talking about Kolchak and running Monstrous. Realized, James, that we both majored in journalism, finished in late 1990s to a downsizing industry, & both love Universal monsters. A James thing? ;) www.podbean.com/ea/dir-mx36n...

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James Aquilone Kolchak and running Monstrous Books

James is having a ball at Monstrous Books Bringing bak Kolchak The Night Stalker and Titles like the anthologies Ceepshow and Weird Tales.

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J. D. Harlock @jdharlock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A sci-fi poem of mine was featured in Vol. 2 of "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn", put out by @middlewestpress.bsky.social! A thank you to editors @fobhaiku.bsky.social and @lisasticepoet.bsky.social! Amazon: amzn.to/4xDw1Bv #SciFi #SFF #WritingCommunity #PublishingNews #Poetry #Poems #Kaiju

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, you can't sit in all this broken glass, @octranspo.com.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, you can't rightly in all this broken glass.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, I alwayz thoought of that length as a short story, too.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh, oh! Novelette is different. I go by.... Short Story: fewer than 7,500 words Novelette: at least 7,500 words but fewer than 17,500 words Novella: at least 17,500 words but fewer than 40,000 words Novel: 40,000 words or more nebulas.sfwa.org/about-the-ne...

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Complete Nebula Awards® Rules The following rules for the Nebula Awards® are effective starting with the award year beginning January 1, 2025: The SFWA President shall, in compliance with the Bylaws a...

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Say...writerly folks—know any good novelette markets? Have a novelette problem. I'm in the market to get a few spec-fic novelettes out, horror/dark fantasy themed ones.

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AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 13/09/2026

🎙️ INTERVIEW: @michaelwalsh.bsky.social joins the AIPT Comics Podcast! We dig into DC Next Level Jonah Hex, building supernatural DC lore, and what he and James Tynion IV are cooking up for Exquisite Corpses Season 2 at @readtinyonion.bsky.social. 👀 #comicsky Listen wherever you get your #podcasts!

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well, as one artist to another...kudos. P.S.: Also dug what you said about making outlaw/western characters stand out, what with the standard-issue outfit of a cowboy hat, long cost, etc.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whatever you say...it's still there and it's a hazard.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good gods, as a spec-fic writer myself, I see that @michaelwalsh.bsky.social sounds like he has a black belt, fourth dan, in time management in managing his creative projects.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Digging @aiptcomics.com talking to @michaelwalsh.bsky.social about bringiing horror to Jonah Hex, invoking fiine writer @joerlansdale.bsky.social's JH, & teasing ‘Exquisite Corpses’. Podbean. www.podbean.com/ea/dir-igtwu...

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm feeling the ol' Kirby cosmic crackle....!

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hey @octranspo.com—there'still a bunch of broken glass at the bus shelter at stop 3512 on Walkley.

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ta! Yes, understood the fakeout as exposition. Yahoo article repeats episode's exposition. The male leads theorize her faked death, explain her plan. But re-instating her and the pickup (a new truck?) without her talking about it was jarring. Unless she told John about her ruse?

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Say...anyone else confused with the new Lanterns episode and dead characters and (pick-up trucks) back with no explanation? #Lanterns

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

P.S.: Onthe note of cults, a rec fer @aiptcomics.com & @manruss.bsky.social—Jennifer LoveGrove's Watch How We We Walk, a novel about growing up in a dysfunctional Jehovah's Witness family. Remains one of my all-time fave Canuck books of the past decade. jameskmoran.blogspot.com/2015/07/jenn...

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'Your work has always felt wisdomy," @aiptcomics.com co-host @davidbrooke.bsky.social tells pre-eminent comic writer @manruss.bsky.social, talkin' cults, creativity & Russell's intriguing book, 'The Forgotten Divine’. P.S.: They settle on "truthiness". ;) www.podbean.com/ea/dir-xfa3w...

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Being an Ex-Jehovah's Witness: Jennifer LoveGrove's Novel Watch How We Walk

Jehovah's Witnesses Watchtower Society Jennifer LoveGrove

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JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'Your work has always felt been wisdomy," @aiptcomics.com co-host @davidbrooke.bsky.social tells pre-eminent comic writer @manruss.bsky.social, talkin' cults, creativity & Russell's intriguing book, 'The Forgotten Divine’. P.S.: They settle on "truthiness". ;) www.podbean.com/ea/dir-xfa3w...

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