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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Coming up soon! Free workshops in the Poconos!

Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The best one-star review I've ever gotten for The Splendid City: If Ray Bradbury dated a tumblr witch and then went on a 30-day coke binge, I imagine he’d write this

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

How many "new" emails do you have in your inbox? I've had over 300 up until two weeks ago when I started making decisions to answer, move them to folders, or delete. I'm down to 230 and going tougher.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

How many of you think we’re living in a poorly written satire? Why not read a well-written satire instead? For instance—in The Splendid City, Texas has seceded from the U.S. and is ruled by a man who insists on daily parades, cars that roam the streets taking people away

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Years ago I read "The Encounter" by Petru Popescu, about Loren Mcintyre's travels in the Amazon. He ended up staying with an "uncivilized" tribe while on his own. They take his sneakers and his watch while he's sleeping and burn them. In response, See less

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Asimov gave us the Three Laws of Robotics. What should the Three Laws of AI be?

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. --Colette

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

An FB memory: I went to a thing at the Museum of Natural History, on neuroscience. I found out that mouse and rat brains are flat not folded (!). I also played a sort of Jeopardy game -- and I discovered that MY brain has slowed down to a terrible crawl. This has been both interesting and awful.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

There's a wonderful sale over at Arc Manor, offering reduced prices, some free ebooks, special pre-orders, and a glittering list of authors! Do NOT miss out! www.arcmanorbooks.com/spring

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Spring | Arc Manor

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The underground pipes froze, so no water for 12 days. Now that it's back, should I take the dirty dishes out of the snow and bring them inside?

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

IF YOU'RE GOING TO BOSKONE, Stop by and say hello Fri 5:30pm Marina III Myths, Fairy Tales, and Folklore Sat 1:00 PM Harbor II Transitioning from Short Stories to Novels *Sat 3:30 PM Independence *Reading Sat 4:00 PM Marina IV Weaving Magic into the Modern World

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

When I finally settle down to do a task I'd been putting off, I find I become obsessed with another task I had also put off--maybe for longer or for shorter. So I put down the one and take up the other, then find myself despairing of ever finishing anything again.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Betty Tuch's Lit Mag News discusses The Fathoms, a new magazine publishing only AI-generated work. Its editorial staff consists of an AI program evaluating submissions and choosing content. No people involved. Part of me wants to check it out (it's open for subs for its first issue). What think ye?

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I once had an editor try to remove every semicolon in my novel. Obviously she hated my style, but in the years since then I've come across more people who don't approve of semicolons. What do you think? Do you hate them or love them? Why? They are dear to me, so I'll stand up for them forever.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Road block! Thankful they made it past Thanksgiving!

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I have saved this and reposted it over the years because it is both wonderful and thought-provoking www.facebook.com/reel/1015133...

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3.8K views · 20K reactions | simply amazing :) | Tee Crane

simply amazing :)

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Arc Manor has reissued my first collection--reviewed by the NY Times in 1995, when they had a page devoted to University presses: “Haunting and quirky, these modern-day fables are told with such arresting attention to the details of daily life that the line between reason and reverie is dissolved"

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

there's a magic eye looking back at you

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It pleases me (for some reason) to know that Walt Whitman used to ghost-write rave reviews for his "Leaves of Grass"

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A new very short story is now up on SciFi Journal. It's about a short-circuit in the Rapture. If you didn't ascend a few days ago, this may be why. www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20...

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Half-Rapt - Sci Phi Journal

What if the Rapture comes and... doesn't go according to plan? By Karen Heuler.

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

If you missed Story Hour live, you can catch the replay here! @karenheuler.bsky.social's "The Stray Curse" is an incredible dark fairy tale, and I read my corvid story "One for Sorrow" from Blanket Gravity #1. ▶ youtu.be/CutdQgqel20 ◀

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September 3, 2025 Story Hour: Karen Heuler and RJ Aurand

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Episode 262 of Eating the Fantastic is now live! Join award-winning writer @karenheuler.bsky.social for lunch and learn the way in which she considers her short stories to be kittens, the “dud” novels she had to write before she got to the good ones — and more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Karen across the table from me holding up the pav from her cheesy pan bahji.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

One of my favorite covers is this reissue of a story collection with a starred PW review saying, "readers will find these stories remarkably inventive and brimming with ideas not found anywhere else in contemporary fantasy fiction." Reissued by Arc Manor/Phoenix Picks. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGQGL3N4

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

When you get a chance, read my story "Frankenstein's Book Launch" in the Sept/Oct Asimov's before he comes after you!

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

These times require satire! Read The Splendid City, about a witch who changes a bully into a cat and both get sent to Liberty--which used to be Texas before it seceded. There are daily parades, animatronic heads on the streets to hear what people are saying--but wait--a man changed into a cat?

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Of all the stories you've written, who is your favorite character and why?

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

My Readercon Reading: 6:30pm today at Envision/Enliven. "Here and There," one of my favorite stories, about a girl who can imagine and build impossible bridges

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Break that Bad Writing Habit At Readercon tomorrow (Saturday)! Come hear one of my all-time favorite short stories at 6:30pm in “Envision” on Saturday. (How is that breaking a bad writing habit, you may ask. Develop commitment. Community. Sharing.)

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Come to my reading at Boskone! Sunday 11am Independence I'll be reading from a forthcoming re-issue of Glorious Plague, from Arc Manor. That title says it's glorious, folks!

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

My Boskone Schedule Sat 4pm Harbor II Where Does Magical Realism Stop and Fantasy Begin? Sat. 7pm Harbor III Why Are Dystopias So Popular? Sat 10pm Marina IV Late Night Magic and Mischievous Magicians

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"The axolotl has the ability to regenerate its brain: "Axolotls, the aquatic salamanders famous for their ability to regrow limbs, can also regenerate parts of their brains, including the telencephalon — the front portion of the brain."

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

When I was in my late teens, I decided that I had to make my name by the time I was 25 or it was all over. That was it. Nothing after 25 had integrity.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This was reported in October, and I'm still thinking about it: hackers took control of robot vacuums, which then started chasing pets and also spewing racial slurs.

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Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I love how Boo Radley's toy mouse is standing at attention.

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