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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congrats to all the winners and nominees!! And deeply proud of the award team who continues to steward this beautiful recognition; it’s no small feat on top of being working writers themselves! 🖤

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OOOOU have you seen Backrooms too?! We definitely gotta chat. I liked a loooot of things about it, but had some Big Gripes. 😖 I think you’ll like Resident Evil! 😄

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Overall, 4/5 ⭐️s. Excellent spooktober viewing. (And a helluva palate cleanser after finishing Backrooms the other day, which was hella disappointing. 😕)

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also loved the constant shifts between conventional film shots and video-game-esque POV shots. It’s Resident Evil, ffs! It’s perfectly fine to be unserious.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just saw Resident Evil and boy was it fun. I love the many genre constructions of zombie-ism, even the ones that are just “how weird and fucked up can we make our movie cannibals today?”

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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Three years ago (holy shit where does the time go!!) I got to introduce this world and these characters into the SFF ecosystem. I still admire the cover art constantly tbh. Could not be more grateful to @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @completelycathy.bsky.social www.neonhemlock.com/books/a-nece...

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A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert — neon hemlock

This title was published October 3rd, 2023. An 8” x 5” novella. 145 pages. In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos follows two mages, Althus a...

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The collective noun for Trinidadians anywhere even on sff panels is "ah lime." I'm very much looking forward to reading Disco's book which I learned has dialect and includes soucouyant folklore. 👀👀 All the panelists were great. 🖤🖤🖤

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In honor of this, can yall rec your favorite spooky/scary movies? I’m trying to see something. 😈

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time I see him pop up on TV or on socials, I thought "did we all forget he's a terrible person?" But Michael Jackson is still celebrated, so yeah, we do forget.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please, I’m begging yall. READ. THIS. “Yall” especially being black women hungry to see themselves in genre romance. ✨ but also, everyone else too — READ ITTT. Then tell me what you think! ✨

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Black women in urban fantasy romance!! Deeply human characters with emotional wounds!! Resonant found family!! Older black female protagonist who doesn’t want biological children, but is a critical part of her nibling’s life (because raising children takes a VILLAGE).

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In an effort to scream more about the stuff I’m loving lately, YALL SHOULD READ THIS!!! I devoured it in 1.5 days. 😮‍💨

Brown hand holding up a book called DIE FOR ME by Shirlene Obuobi. The cover features a dark skinned black woman with dreads being embraced romantically by a lighter skinned, shaven head man kissing her neck. At the kiss site, glowing red veins spread across her skin.

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am trying to wrap my mind around the fact that, for the most part, the only books-related posts that get real traction on Bluesky involve the shittiest, most rage-inducing garbage and people. This isn't true for film or music. It feels like there's a real void here, and I hate it.

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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i need folks who are passionately against ai writing and art/sharing ai writing and art to ALSO be passionately against ai music. like it's gotta be the same energy, you understand? don't share a post from someone saying they won't use ai art for promo while ai music plays.

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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A.I. destroys fundamental human deep curiosity and takes away the (very good for you) discomfort of failing and problem solving. This is like those trees they tried to grow in a protective bubble--they grew fast at first but the roots were shallow and weak from lack of wind stress so they died.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

other instruction librarians/teaching faculty, how yall holding up? 🙃

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

how's fall semester going, you ask? welp. it's 8pm on a tuesday and i'm going to the corner store for candy & beer. that's dinner tonight. 🥴

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

😮‍💨 bars up and down this thread. Particularly this.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

they want to sit and feel that there's going to be a positive outcome, they want to watch how a marginalized person infiltrates this very sophisticated machine and tears it down from within and then is rewarded with power themeselves. How do you meet the moment when the moment is not marketable?

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Nothing here about the second class categorisations of the colonised, overt racism, of how the colon themselves, indeed the metropole, is fundamentally structured to create extraction from the outside to the inside. No." I have a sci fi novella for you. It's exactly this. What this is asking for

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

tell Christina about your book or else

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So far, I cannot recommend this lifestyle choice. The spiders aren’t sympathetic to ME. 🥲

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Which then led to me dreaming of being hunted devoured by local wildlife. 🤣

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I regret to inform everyone that my partner has turned me into a spider sympathizer—but there have been Unexpected Consequences. Namely: trying, and failing, to relocate the Biggest Spider I’ve Ever Seen last night. It flattened itself into a crevice between my cabinets and I lost it forever. 🥲

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

BUT the consolation prize? the polished, on-the-page version that future me finishes up is *always* more interesting, challenging, and enjoyable than the in-my-head visuals ever were.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the dilemma of beginning a new novel *knowing* that the immaculate vibey version in your mind won't ever fully align with what gets onto the page. (especially in that first draft.) it's such a trip.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oooooh. It's about time we got a documentary on "zombie"'s true etymology! 🔥 Here's to hoping it gets a wide theatrical showcase at some point.

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The notion of zombies trace back to when African slaves were brutally disciplined and worked to death. It was rumored that some got rendered “soul lost,” so they would toil without rest or protest. Thus within Haitian culture, zombies were victims, robbed of independent will by cruel masters.

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‘Black Zombie’ Review: An Engaging Doc on How the Flesh-Eating Hordes of Screen Fame Obscured Painful Real-Life History

Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary 'Black Zombie' looks at nearly a century of zombie cinema through the lens of cultural appropriation.

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

!!! Sheila I didn’t realize you were in this year’s cohort!! Congrats! 😍🔥

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Macy 🌼✨ @macydaisy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Happy steam summer sale, y’all.

An image from Pokémon of a squirtle running towards a group of squirtles in black robes. The squirtles in black robes have the caption “unfinished game 1,2,3, and 4” while the squirtle running towards them says “newly bought game”.

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/ Happy Juneteenth! How a Texas emancipation commemoration spread across the US is an amazing story. But Juneteenth wasn’t the first Black Freedom Day in America—or the only one of its day. So, let’s talk about em’. Pictured: Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie V Yates, Houston Juneteenth, 1908 | HPL

Two black women sit in horse drawn buggy covered in flowers.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.

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Cecily W. @skeskali.ca · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month!

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

For Pride, you can preorder my & @cypayseur.bsky.social's favorite queer speculative stories of 2025! There have been many discussions lately about how queer publishing in the US is being squeezed from all directions. Pls support this ONGOING series & make sure it *remains* ongoing 💕 It matters!

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We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 edited by Bogi Takács & Charles Payseur (Pre-Order) — neon hemlock

We’re Here 2025 is edited by Bogi Takács & series editor Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews . An 8” x 5” book. ~275 pages. To be published Fall 2026. We’re Here 2025 includes the f...

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A sapphic romance with a fat person??? SIGN ME UP

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Many thanks to the friends & writing fam who held me down throughout the querying process! Image Credits: 📸 bookshelf background photo by Katherine Kromberg for Unsplash 📸 skulls background photo by Gleb Lucky for Unsplash

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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

HI. HELLO. I HAVE NEWS. 👀 Thrilled to share that I'm now represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social at @kiagency.bsky.social! My adult fantasy novel, "A Vengeance, Most Tender," feat Black sapphic necromancers, is in wonderful hands. 🙌🏾

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close ups of skulls, stacked on top of each other. superimposed text reads: signed novel, A Vengeance, Most Tender.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We are delighted to welcome the Bid to Bring Worldcon to Edmonton in 2030 as a sponsor of the 2026 Ignyte Awards! @edmontonin2030.bsky.social

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan. A queer time travel adventure of sapphic longing, Chinese immortals, and Artist4Magician Old Man Yaoi, this novella utterly charms. Our drink is a mocktail: The Dragon's Daughter.

[Image desc: THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan alongside a pale yellow amber drink in a cut crystal glass on a garden table flanked by yellow coreopsis flowers.]

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