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I'm always shocked when I finish these. This was actually fun!!

My weird little feminist fable era continues with "Who Doesn't Want a Wife?" In this month's story, a city short on wives but rich in stone decides the most sensible thing to do is start making wives out of bedrock. They encounter some... surprises. www.patreon.com/kameronhurle...

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 1h

Okay, this a longshot, but: Does anyone recall an artist from Dragon Con's Art Exhibition in the Hyatt who had really beautiful embroidered patches? The art was very MTG/goth girl, eerie and beautiful Fantasy-type stuff. Like, a luna moth or a rabbit with a moon would fit in.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 12h

It's new Hurley story day! For a buck you get 120+ pieces of short, weird fiction you can read instead of doom scrolling. Join the 1000+ other folks who think that's a GREAT idea www.patreon.com/kameronhurley

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 2h

Did Night Shade actually copyright your books?? They didn't copyright any of mine

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3h

It's only like $2k for me, so won't make much difference either way

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3h

If they just would have sent the money to the actual authors only who you know HOLD THE ACTUAL COPYRIGHT... But here we are again, getting every crumb further crumbled by massive corporations and bad actors

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3h

It has been an exhausting day at the day job and I have no idea how I'll finish this Patreon story tonight, but bills need to get paid. I'm so tired and yet it's --

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Liz Lemon: Lemon, It's Wednesday

ALT: Liz Lemon: Lemon, It's Wednesday

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 4h

Tried to figure out why I'd been having trouble sleeping again and realized I'd failed to do my 30 minutes on the elliptical the last few days. Did 45 today at lunch, and if that fixes it, I'll be both relieved and annoyed.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 4h

The excitement of a fresh pool

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 4h

The expression should really be "happy as ducks in mud"

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 7h

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 12h

The social and food landscape impacts of these drugs are only going to get wilder. I have so many mixed feelings.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 12h

As Doctorow points out in his book Reverse Centaur, writers and artists were low hanging fruit, just proof of concept. It was always coding and tech jobs they REALLY wanted to eliminate. Those are the people that command the six and even seven figure salaries.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 12h

I feel this chart in my bones, out here in day job corp-landia. If you tried an LLM once in 2022 and laughed it off, I have some bad news. Corporations did not laugh. They fired everyone and went all in.

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 13h

Not wrong

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 22h

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

How is tomorrow Patreon day again already??

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

I can tell you that corporations are going wild for these. It's surreal.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

I always remind myself the very best reward is the moment I actually FINISH the book. After that, everything else isn't up to me 😀

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

Right???? A LIFETIME on the timeline 😆

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

high-concept pitches ("x meets y") usually don't work but this one really, REALLY does. omg

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

It's fucking excruciating. I turned this book in to my publisher in January of 2025 and pub date has already crept out from discussions about late 2026 to January 2027 and then "for sure" March 2027 and now... April 2027. 😅

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

Copyedits FINALLY arrived!! Very excited!! It's gonna HAPPEN. AT SOME POINT

These Savage Stars style sheet
Sources
Merriam-Webster’s 12th Collegiate Dictionary (MW12) & online https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/ or https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed. (CMOS)
Checked against The Stars Are Legion when possible, but many terms are specific to this book.
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Punctuation
• Commas:
Use serial comma.
Comma follows “Now” as interjection; generally no comma after “Now” in temporal use.
No comma with “too” or “either” (except occasionally in mid-sentence or for distinct pause).
No comma between verb and adverb (she said softly, not she said, softly).
Comma usually unnecessary to set off adverb such as then, sometimes, once, yesterday beginning or w/in sentence.
oh interjections: Use comma when followed by a longer phrase or natural pause (“Oh, is that right?” “Oh, right.”) but not in short phrase that functions as a unit (“Oh no!”). (CMOS 6.38)
No commas between noncoordinate adjectives

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

Love it when I forget that I pre-ordered books and they just... Show up. Past me has great taste!

Cover of The Haunting by Micaiach Johnson and Forged in Fiyah anthology

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

Also up there "Why don't you just get a movie deal?" 🤣

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Sandra Tayler @sandratayler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Doing preliminary set up work for this today. Looking forward to it.

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Sandra Tayler @sandratayler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We had a cancellation that has made a ticket available for this event! Be the first to grab it or to sign up for the wait list to be first in line for any future cancellations.

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Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The happiest of book birthdays to Forged in FIYAH, edited by @davaun.bsky.social, a landmark celebration of everything Black speculative fiction has to offer! Available in hardcover and paperback.

A paperback copy and a hardcover copy of Forged in FIYAH edited by DaVaun Sanders resting on a starry background.

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

The mantra, "Do you want to be right, or do you want to get what you want?" has served me extremely well here in my Bog Witch era

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/09/2026

I will respond to that particular communication in the morning, with my Director Voice.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 28/09/2026

I appreciate that they didn't make Neagley's trauma the Super Obvious Lazy One.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 28/09/2026

I had a lot more time for reading books when I eliminated all but one of my social media channels. I challenge a lot of folks to use the Digital Wellbeing app on their phones and track how many hours they're using their phones a day. The answer may shock you.

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