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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

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PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I just logged on to say that Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is probably the best fantasy novel of the last 100 years. There is genius on every page. #books #fantasy

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Yet again, on here because the rest of the social world is imploding. Just finished Mo Hayder's The Birdman, which is an excellent, excellent book.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Photos from the day. Road trip up to Ísafjörður in north-western Iceland.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

To celebrate reaching 1000 friends here on Bluesky I will say something tone deaf and objectionable to get the number back down. Or rec a book, IDK.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Started this last night at stayed up wayyyy past my bedtime. Man, she can write.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

As I am a writer and must peddle my wares lest I die in the abyss, hey! In April 2025, THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS emerges from the fog and the trees and if you wanted to pre-order it from your favorite local bookstore -- or get signed, personalized copies from Doylestown Bookshop -- that'd be nice.

Cover reveal for Chuck Wendig's THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, listed as Coming April 29, 2025. On the cover a spiral staircase rises through eerie mist in a dim forest of crooked trees. A crow sits on the railing of the staircase. DEL REY is the publisher. Cover design by The Boland Design Co.

Text: A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what.

Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere.

One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears.

Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy—and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods. . . .

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

For no reason at all, here is a photo of my dog.

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 18/11/2024

Hey, my horror friends, do any of you know of any magazines or publishers that are open to short story submissions? I have new author looking to submit their first stories. I would love to set them in the right direction.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 18/11/2024

Hey! A lot of my work is free/unpaid. If you like my writing, CRT shots, podcasts, etc., here are some great ways to support my future work: 📨 Subscribe to Astrolabe: astrolabe.aidanmoher.com ☕️ Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/aidanmoher 🥦 Paypal: paypal.me/AidanMoher ⚔️ Patreon: patreon.com/c/adribbleofink

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Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Pretty excited about being nominated for Goodreads' best history/biography of 2024 - see (and vote) here! www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...

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Opening Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite History & Biography of 2024!

Discover the Readers' Favorite History & Biography in the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My Twitter account, which I deactivated over a year ago, is now on X as “Suspended”. Maybe Elon reinstates deactivated accounts but suspends them to show inflated numbers?

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Back in the charts! Now at #30 on “Ghosts” on amazon UK. Yay me!

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Steven Gomzi 📚📚📚 @stevengomzi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Glad to hear Laird Barron is on the mend. Now go give him a follow, and even better yet, go read his novels and collections. Truly, one of the greatest horror writers out there.

Cover art to Not A Speck Of Light by Laird Barron

Cover art to The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron.

Cover art to Black Mountain by Laird Barron.

Cover art to The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Fóa says hello Bluesky people. Please be nice to each other, read books and also give treats.

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 15/11/2024

I always think promo & being proud of oneself is what other people are allowed to do, but not me. So anyway this is my first ever book. Wrote the whole thing, can you imagine? It alternates between being cozy and batshit. There's at least two more on the way. They get a lot weirder!

Whisperwood by Alex woodroe. Book in the middle, cover is a fungus-covered tree. Around it, images of forest, fireside, ale, monsters, villagers.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Lots of new followers. Bluesky makes it hard to see them, so please say "Hi" so I can follow back.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Welcome to Bluesky new people. This seems like a good time to recommend Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This thread has a sampling of the kind of work I do, but if you're interested in learning more, you can head over to preetichhibber.com for a full list of fiction (95% updated lol), as well as podcasts and my pop culture freelance portfolio <3

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Preeti Chhibber

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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Every forced march of civilians is mass murder by proxy. Repeated forced marches after enforcing malnutrition, illness and terror is even more murderous and without doubt a series of war crimes.

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Gaza: HRW accuses Israel of war crime with displacements

The rights group says the forced evacuation of 1.9m people amounts to a crime against humanity.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just got word from the publisher that Whitesands has sold 710 copies. That’s not bad, right?

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello again here? Should I leave Threads for these blue skies?

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Random. I think House of Leaves is one of the greatest works of art of the last 50 years.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 13/10/2023

The Israeli military has dropped more bombs on Gaza this week than the United States military dropped on all of Afghanistan in the years 2014-2016. They have already killed more people in Gaza than the number of Israelis killed in the attacks of October 7. This is a thread; please keep reading.🧵

Israel admitted that it dropped about 6,000 bombs on #Gaza since Saturday. This chart shows the same number of bombs dropped on #Afghanistan by the #US in an entire year, noting that Gaza is only 378 km2, while Afghanistan is 652,864 km2.

An attached chart shows that the US dropped 2365 bombs on Afghanistan in 2014, 947 bombs on Afghanistan in 2015, and 1337 bombs on Afghanistan in 2016.

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Sævar Halldórsson @saevarhalldorsson.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Got my copy of Nordic Visions - The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction from @solarisbooks.bsky.social Now reading “The Dreamgiver” by Jóhann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Hello Bluesky. I just deactivated my Twitter account. There will be posts.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Contributor copy arrived! www.amazon.com/Nordic-Visio...

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

I really should leave the X-place and permanently set up residence here, shouldn’t I?

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

PLEASE RP Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine will be open to short story submissions from October 2 to October 16! WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ YOUR STORIES!!! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

I note that if you join me next week on BOOK TOUR, it is quite likely you will get to sample a lot of WEIRD AND PERHAPS SINISTER HERITAGE APPLES, like the ones described in this post. We're lining up orchards to partner with the bookstores to provide whatever weird apples we can gather from them.

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Wendig’s Heirloom Apple Review, 2021

WE HAVE APPLESIGN THE LIKES OF WHICH EVEN GOD HAS NEVER SEEN. Ahem. Sorry. What I mean is, hey! Guess what? It’s that time of the year again. The time of strange, mysterious apples. The …

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Yo. Barbie is art. A cinematic masterpiece.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Dipping my toes into this to say what’s under the hood.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Ever wanted to be part of the reading team for an SFF mag? I'm in the market for a couple more readers for next month's reading period. You can apply here: fusionfragment.aidaform.com/reader-…

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

I can see the end of the Earth from where I’m standing right now.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

on Aug 8 a very special book comes out called STARGAZING. It's written by the truly wonderful @skrishna.bsky.social & I just think you should preorder it bookshop.org/p/books/pocket-nature-…

the book cover for STAR GAZING: Contemplate the cosmos to find inner peace (Pocket Nature) -- it features a night sky and the outline of a dark forest over a lake

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 27/07/2023

It's reminder time again. We have no idea who our Kindle subscribers are, but there are a lot of them. Losing those subscribers is going to be brutal, so we'll keep bringing this up. We have no choice.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Kat Howard is talent and professionalism. Hire her to edit your work.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Book: Silence of the Lambs Movie: Seven Show: True Detective S1

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

“Wendig's ensemble cast and rich atmosphere of collective decay bring to life a book that makes your skin crawl. Creepy and insidious to the core. Black River Orchard whets your appetite and then turns you inside-out.” — @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth

"Creepy and Insidious to the Core." -- Hailey Piper, Author of Queen of Teeth

(Blurb for BLACK RIVER ORCHARD by Bram Stoker Award Winning Hailey Piper, who totally fucking rules)

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

This November I will be at Iceland Noir, a literary festival in Reykjavík that celebrates all things dark. There is a great line up of guests, that you can check out here: www.icelandnoir.com

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

My most lukewarm horror book take: House of Leaves is fucking fantastic.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

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Johann Thorsson @johannthors.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

I dreamt that I was in a class and was designated a new point of view. It was a card I was given and now had to imagine living by it. The card was “1000 days”. I had to live as if I had in the last 1000 days and was not allowed to take memories or baggage from before. Very liberating.

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