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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Omg yes, congrats!! Just re-read this one. 💜💜 It looks so good in its new home!

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very grateful to have my weird flash piece about the stories that make us who we are—literally, figuratively, physiologically—included in this month's issue of Small Wonders! This piece is close to my heart (🫀), and it means so much to me that both SW and @apexmag.bsky.social have given it space.

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You know when poems sometimes give you chills and give vent to feelings you definitely could never have expressed with such skill or grace? YEAH. (Read itttttt)

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An exciting first-time experience: a poem of mine will be published with @zoeticpress.bsky.social's 4LPH4NUM3R1C this October, which means it'll be ✨podcasted✨! I've never had my work podcasted before, so I'm pretty excited.

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All stories end in death, but death isn't always the end of the story. ✨ THE NEWS IS OUT ✨ My third book, THE GOD OF LOST CAUSES, is coming next summer from Harper Collins Canada! Get ready for weirdness and wonder and heartbreak and humor and shenanigans undertaken in a bid to rewrite fate.

Deal announcement for Jules Arbeaux's "God of Lost Causes," which follows a bookish young man who dies deep in cosmic debt and must become the interim god of lost cases to pay it off, but when he finds himself invested in one of his lost causes—a prince doomed to die alongside his entire kingdom—he risks his very soul to rewrite fate. It was sold in a pre-empt to Mikaela Roasa at Harper Collins Canada by Maddy Belton at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency and will publish in Summer 2027.

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The aching beauty of those final lines! Absolutely ✨obsessed with this✨

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Reveals are hard, but so fun! Love this thread.

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The WAYS in which I am obsessed with this story! The final lines give me chills every. single. time 🔥🔥🔥

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

THIS STORY! I have the sneaking suspicion that anyone who reads it will lose their collective shit. That's certainly the effect it had on me!

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My flash story "To the Android I Saw Get Pushed onto the Tracks at the Archives Metro Station" is in this issue! It will be free in October, but you can read it now at bit.ly/orionsbelt-p.... Come experience the story that made my critique partners lose their collective shit!

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And a bonus second poem: The Siren, After a Meal by @julesarbeaux.bsky.social 😀 www.heartlines-spec.com/the-siren-af...

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The Siren, After a Meal

The Siren, After a Meal by Jules Arbeaux

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ahhh thank you, it means so much that you liked this one! 💜

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ohhhh this poem wrecks me every single time I read it!

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I absolutely ADORE all of Tia's brain-bending, beautiful, and achingly human short fiction. I cannot WAIT to see her novels!

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hugest congrats!! Can't wait to have your novels on my shelves 😍

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Lee Dart Verrall (they/them) @ldverrall.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Putting together my query pack this week has been much easier because I've been using this writers' resource page (resourcesforwriters.carrd.co) that the amazing @julesarbeaux.bsky.social has pulled together. For once I've enjoyed writing my synopsis (never been done). Thank you Jules, you're ace!

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Resources for Writers

A compendium of free resources for writers and authors at every stage of the publishing process—drafting and revision, querying, getting agented, going on submission, and before/during/after the book ...

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It's here! My poem about desire and hunger and destroying the thing you want by having it is free to read today on @heartlines-spec.com's website! So excited for this to be my first published poem. 😊💜 www.heartlines-spec.com/the-siren-af...

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The Siren, After a Meal by Jules Arbeaux

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

PSA: Hachette workers are currently leading the largest unionization campaign in publishing history and they're inviting all of us (readers, publishing professionals, anyone with a full name and an email address) to sign in support 💜 hachetteworkers.com/open-letter/

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Open Letter - Hachette Workers Coalition

To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC)...

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It means so much to hear that! And thanks for your patience—I've been bad at being present on social media for a while 😅

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

👀 Yes, and hopefully I'll be able to say more over the summer!

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My weird, achy, sorta-cannibalistic poem "The Siren, After a Meal" is in this issue. I'm a published poet as of today! 💜

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Definitely counts! (and ahh thanks for the mention! 💜)

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

ahhh congrats! (And this sounds amazing! 🔥)

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Great news for UK readers! Waterstones has selected THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS for their 25% off pre-order sale! Just use the code FEB26 at check-out to get the best price of the year on my dragon. All three of Garrodigh's heads can't wait to meet you.

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The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell | Waterstones

Buy The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

My first poetry publication, and at a venue I adore! Keep an eye out in March—I'll for sure be shouting again when this one is published. 💜

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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

As a mom of two amazing kids, I'm totally here for "messy feelings around family," and I liked this story very much.

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Heyyyy I'm raffling off a couple of tiny knitted creatures--hand-knit by yours truly--to raise funds for community aid organizations. That's right: you can own your very own wee knit beastie and help your community at the same time! Deets are in my latest newsletter: buttondown.com/JenniferHuda...

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I want to talk about writing and words. But first things first. As I write this, it’s a frigid morning. Snow is piled in huge drifts outside the window....

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Uncanny Magazine Issue 68 Part 2 features all new fiction from Kylie Lee Baker, A. W. Prihandita, and Jules Arbeaux! buff.ly/zP5ynDy

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 68, "Faery Frights" by Katy Shuttleworth: A figure in ratty brown-gray robes has a mask (or face?) of a stag skull with antlers. The antlers have cloth or velvet in ragged strips. The mask or face eye's glow green and the figure has long white hair. In the figure's left hand is a square-glass lantern and in the right hand a staff ending in an antler. Behind them, gnarled tree branches stretch into a green sky. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "January/February 2026," Issue Sixty-Eight," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Super excited to finally shout about this. My first short fiction publication "Words that Wither, Words that Bloom" is out with @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and available to read on their website! If plant/name magic & messy feelings around family are your vibe, check it out! 🌿✨

Image reads: New story! "Words that Wither, Words that Bloom" out now with Uncanny Magazine. It includes the story's opening sentence, which reads: By the time she was five, Vanis had heard the same joke so many times she was sick of it: Had her mother Terese not been a guest of honor at the event, not even she would have attended Vanis’s birth.

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Essa Hansen @essahansen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

SOON you can feast your ears on the audiobook of my sci-fantasy novella—Casthen Gain—produced by Podium and narrated by Zac Aleman! Pre-orders open now! ~ out Jan 27th 💜 podiumentertainment.com/titles/12883... essahansen.com/books/casthe... (sketch of Sentace is by Mali Benedicto Vasanserekul)

An illustration of a brown-skinned, dark-haired man with tattooed arms, wearing a dark hooded tunic and a bandolier of vials, and cradling a complex chef knife. A text graphic overlays this reading “Casthen Gain, a novella of The Graven” and more text on the purple background reads: Audiobook Jan 27th. Preorder now on Audible.

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Claire Winn ⚜️ SHADECALLER coming 2027! @clairewinn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Happy book bday to another incredible queer book I had the pleasure of blurbing, by @julesarbeaux.bsky.social! 😍🌈 I adored these characters, and this is one of my faves of the year. Pick it up if you're a fan of yearning, hurt/comfort (Sena, my poor soft-boy punching-bag!), and lush prose.

Cage of Starlight by Jules Arbeaux on a shelf with greenery and flowers

"Atmospheric, beautifully written, and achingly romantic, Cage of Starlight ignites bone-deep yearning and searing hope against a bleak dystopian fantasy backdrop. Punctuated with biting wit, and showcasing deep love in all its forms, this is a must for fans of queer love stories." - Claire Winn, on Cage of Starlight

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thanks so much to the Proud Geek bookshop! (Shop at independent bookstores!) ♥️💛💚💙💜

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thank you so much for carrying Cage of Starlight!! 💜

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

So honored to be included on this list! Thank you so much!

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 04/06/2025

Compiled a small list of queer books that you can be reading during this #Pride. Feel free to check: jamreads.com/articles/boo... 💙📚

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Rose Black @wordsofrablack.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Pride Faves! A rainbow stack of some of my favourite books that I own in physical copy. There's fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and Most Ardently, which belongs in a catagory of its own and is one of my favourite books of the year. Which ones have you read? List of authors and titles below:

Stack of rainbow books with cute star at the top and a rainbow with a frog at the bottom. The bckground is rainbow in a pastel style.

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Victoria | How to Survive Debut Author Stress, out free! @shiwritesprose.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

How to Survive Debut Author Stress is live! bit.ly/3Z0wkXO Published writers, including bestsellers, those with hybrid careers, and award winners, offer stories and strategies to debut authors. #writingcommunity #mentalhealth #stress

Poster for 'How to Survive Debut Author Stress,' with white text saying the site is now available. The background is blue with green vector art of various graphics surrounding a stressed out human figure.

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Jules Arbeaux (Updates) @julesarbeaux.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I'm so glad it's useful! Thank you for sharing (and for being among the authors whose articles are linked there)!

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Jessie Sylva @oranjessie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It's here! The gorgeous cover for my debut novel, How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days, publishing January 2026 with @orbitbooks.bsky.social! Thank you so much to my amazing illustrator, Raahat Kaduji, and equally amazing art director, Sophie Ellis, for giving this little book such a magical cover!

A paperback of How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days lays against a pink heart illustrated background. The book's cover is covered in green, heart-shaped leaves, and features a red door prominently in the center. A pumpkin, mushrooms, two pairs of boots, a sword, and an axe are arranged around the door. Several pink flowers are blooming among the leaves.

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