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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

From a completely fictional work in progress: “I want to see their severed heads on spikes, displayed outside the seat of power, as a warning to future wannabe tyrants.”

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The state of affairs in this country is making it challenging to continue to be sober. I mean, I will anyway, but…

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Stepping over the threshold of a new year with something resembling cautious optimism for my own trajectory, and a bleak sort of pessimism for the rest of the world.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Book mail! The Ramsey Campbell story originally appeared in NOVUS MONSTRUM, co-edited by @douglasgwilym.bsky.social and myself.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Seven Novus Monstrum stories made Ellen Datlow’s list of recommendations! ellendatlow.com/category/new... Could not be more proud of this anthology co-edited with @douglasgwilym.bsky.social

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Today is a good day to buy books.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I’m brining a chicken because fuck the state.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This year, maybe shop local or buy books as gifts. If you live in my neighborhood, you could do both! I’ll be (conveniently) at a table this weekend at the Ypsilanti Freight House with my stock.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/11/2024

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My coeditor has compiled this convenient list of Novus Monstrum talent here on this, the Sky of Blue.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A quick reminder that Small Business Saturday is coming. We need to support small businesses now more than ever. Shop local like your community’s existence depends on it—because it does.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Everyone in the US: Nobody… nobody trusts anybody now, and we’re all very tired. (Hat tip: John Carpenter)

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Trying to create in the face of existential despair is tough, but it’s also probably the exact best time to do it. I’m giving it my best shot.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Soon you’ll be able to check out five of my titles from the Ann Arbor District Library. (They declined to consider the really smutty ones.)

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Book festival yesterday. Sold nothing, but a bookstore representative asked for copies of my novel and the host library is considering carrying five of my books. Calling that a win.

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Douglas Gwilym (author, editor) @douglasgwilym.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

The Midnight Zone is proud to announce a Valentine's Day surprise: SILVER DAGGER BOOKTOURS will be featuring NOVUS MONSTRUM from Feb 14 to Mar 14. Bloggers, social-media kaiju, & sly mad Bookstagrammers, JOIN OUR VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: www.silverdaggertours.com/tour-sign-up... @dragonsroost.bsky.social

Silver Dagger's banner for NOVUS MONSTRUM tour

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

I’d sub to that. Would read it too.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

I quite like this book. Met Ryan at Ghoulish last year and picked it up.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Go ahead and judge this book by its cover.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

@scalzi.com Look what I found at work (at the Ypsi library)!

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

(Inspired by a skeet by @jeremyjenkins.jdjenkins.co.uk) I once addressed an audience with, “I’m kinda nervous, so I’d like you all to picture me naked.”

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

It’s my favorite fictional badass’s birthday! I wouldn’t ask how old he is—guy’s sensitive about that. www.lycanvalley.com/2023/11/happ...

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Would 100% accept blurbs from either Godzilla or Mothra.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

A review is like a love letter to a book. And the author becomes a proud parent, vicariously experiencing the happy glow of their bookbaby all grown up and being adored.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Got books in six local stores now. Barnes & Noble, I’m coming for you next.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Don’t lie to kids. Don’t condescend either. Treat small humans with respect. They deserve it.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

No worries. I didn’t even notice!

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Emily @emilymarie82.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Novus Monstrum is quite excellent! Thank you for putting this collection together @douglasgwilym.bsky.social and @kenmacgregor.bsky.social

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Thanks so much! What a lovely picture too!

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Hanging out with psychics last weekend, and will be with witches on Saturday. Selling books in person is rarely boring.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Sounds like a cheer: “Horror, horror, that’s the key! Eviscerate our enemy!”

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

My cat, Rorschach, used to show me he loved me by stepping on my foot. He died a little while ago and today I got this so I never forget. RIP, you little rascal. Love you.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

The anthology, Novus Monstrum, is in the final stages of readiness. Looks like October 1 for release. Cannot wait for you to read these spectacular stories!

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Every time parents of young children mention a “baby gate”, I assume it’s some kind of toddler scandal.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

companies programmed us to refer to art, music, video, and writing as "content" to make it seem like it comes from the website and not from a person who had to think of it and make it

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Think they landed on “skeet” because they considered “bleet” and it sounded sheepish?

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Apex is an incredible Speculative Fiction (and nonfiction) magazine. Please consider subscribing so we can keep reading it.

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Ken MacGregor @kenmacgregor.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Me: Goes for literal decades without thinking of the Partridge Family. My brain: 🎶Come on, get happy!🎶

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