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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 13h

If you’re wondering where I am it is splayed out between the towers of boxes in this, the week I move If I die here I hope my cat eats me

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m an exclusive submissions atheist 👀👀 I don’t believe in them unless you REALLY want a market or the response time is in weeks. Esp bc, in a decade of simsubs at Augur we’ve only lost one story purchase to a competing market ! When subs take so long and pay is so low, writers should be free 🤷✨

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This kind of thing is why I run a workshop on networking/community involvement that is secretly mostly about how to behave in public 🙃✨

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉 Put on your reading socks and join us for… 💃 catharsis & courage through dance 🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis 💗 love represented in intergenerational stories & so much more! + You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! 🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s 🧵

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m on track to read more than 50 books this year and I’m still so behind on books I want to read 😤

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am not allowed to bring more than 20 TBR books to my new house. I have already culled 30. THIRTY !!!! 🙀 Five more must go. This is the hardest battle I have ever fought.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

Referring to the harm as being caused by LLMs, when it is caused by people, actually serves to exonerate the people as if they did not make explicit decisions.

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter is coming soon! Be sure to hit that 'Notify me on launch' button so you can be one of the first to back another year of Apex! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 14/09/2026

Lovely news: The Butcher’s Daughter has been nominated for Newfoundland’s Killick Capital Fiction Award. Congrats to @corinneleighclark.bsky.social @sohopress.bsky.social and me 🖤

Longlist for Newfoundland’s Killick Capital Fiction Prize - the salt box olive, the beltane massacre, seal of salvage, vigil, and the butcher’s daughter

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am moving for the third time in three and a half years And trust me I will not move again for many many MAAANY years

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am really enjoying all the sardonic bitch lit I’ve been reading lately But I also do wish that people would write bad people without the conclusion being that the MC is mentally ill Being a bad person and having a diagnosis can, in fact, be mutually exclusive And often is ✌️

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Once, when late for work, while stressed about work, I fully face planted on the streetcar Carrying a smoothie AT my stop The smoothie got all over the shoe of a quiet man who’d done no wrong I only had time to stutter numerous apologies before RUNNING out the door I still wonder how he is

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/09/2026

You could go get this if you wanted

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If AI does destroy humanity, how odd it will be that it was trained on stolen books about how we shouldn’t build AI that could destroy humanity

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cannot handle it when the only reason a book exists is because no one can be bothered to talk to one another 😤😤😤

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally biting the bullet and figuring out exactly what my MC’s brother IS doing while he’s missing. How annoying, to be God. (He’s just missing, okay!)

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 07/09/2026

IT CAN'T BE WICKHILLS EVE I HAVEN'T LEFT OUT A LITTLE DISH OF FINGERPRINT POWDER AND FOUNTAIN PEN INK

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Each day I curse the intersection of my Aries Mercury and Cancer Mars

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So The Ultimatum has always given me the ick but the most recent season has made me weep for humanity tbh

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Why do you write? Why do you publish? I’ve been working through my answers to these two questions this summer— & I’m curious to hear others’ ✨

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What I’ve published before: trans self-love fairytale, outgrowing your imaginary friend, getting mentored for singing to trees in a solarpunk metropolis ✨🌳🚪 What I published this month: The God of the Cove wants to eat your cat and make you do stupid rituals 🌊🌧️🙀 Bless the God with a read? 👀

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 02/09/2026

hello. friends an announcement about THE DEADLANDS we are going on a brief hiatus but we'll back. oh yes full details here, please read and share widely, it'd help us out. xo the deadlands psychopomp.com/an-intermiss...

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An Intermission - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Hello friends.

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I keep starting audiobooks but then I listen to them and they end???? Help??

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Apex Magazine is OPEN to short fiction submissions for the month of September! 🎉 Please review our submission guidelines and submit your work by 12 AM CST on October 1. We can't wait to read your strange, shocking, surreal, beautiful speculative fiction! 🖤👽 apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Apex Magazine Submissions OPEN!
We are Seeking:
Strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fiction up to 9k words
Submissions Close October 1st
https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/
www.apexbookcompany.com

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 02/09/2026

Help fund 3LBE magazine for 2027 on Kickstarter and we’ll all get to read new stories by these amazing authors… and more on the way! 🖌 A.T. Greenblatt, Shane Hawk, Jordan Kurella, Arkady Martine, Sam J. Miller, Sarah Read, Eden Royce, A.D. Sui, Michael Wehunt, Kelsea Yu 🖌 kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Late stage capitalism at its most distilled form 🙏😌

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 01/09/2026

A reminder to our American friends that Montreal Worldcon 2027 is a great opportunity to support Canadian SFFH authors, publishers and readers, see a truly beautiful city and learn more about your Northern neighbours, and meet many Canadians (and others) who cannot as easily come to visit you.

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I have acquired my Montreal WorldCon membership ✨😌

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please meet Rufus, Mr. Legs, the girls, and little squishes We were acquainted today 😎

Various coloured sea anemones on a rock wall

Multicolored jellyfish with a dark background

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I am at the point of adulthood where being out past 11PM feels like self-sabotage ✌️ wish me luck tonight

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A young Spanish girl gains a stepfather, reads a book, and wanders her new estate while adults deal with adult things.

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fear for me For the ragweed comes on the wind And I shall not be spared ☠️☠️☠️

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you're at WorldCon, my Table Talk is today at 4:30pm PDT at the Monterey in the Hilton! I'll also have copies of my collections available if you'd like to grab one! ☺️

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am very enjoying my unhinged unreliable narrator era of reading 😌 May bitches be crazy 😌

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 28/08/2026

A wee spooky tale!

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I had a wee spooky tale out this week 👀👀👀 If you like grumpy self-involved inventors getting bullied by a malevolent god on an island just off the coast of Newfoundland post-climate collapse, and they deserve each other, u know

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

✨ Story time! “Recipe for Escaping the God of the Cove” is live with The Ex-Puritan! ✨ 🌊 Horror scifi canlit slipstream 🌊 Marriage falls apart in nature 🌊 Spooky God with jokes 🌊 Unreliable narrator 🌊 The cat lives THANK YOU to @anuja-v.bsky.social for plucking this strange tale from the slush 🖤

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

As someone who thrives on character, environment, and vibes, I have started an emergency practice: A plot notebook. I am not allowed to worldbuild here. Or character outline. Or write pretty passages. This is plot motivation station. ONLY 🙏🙏🙏

A notebook reads: speaker in the woodland quiet plot workbook

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My former “novella” is now nearing 150 pages (at 143!) and I’m near certain this draft will be 450-500 Is this what it means to eat your words? At least it’ll be enough to sustain me

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My former “novella” is now nearing 150 pages (at 143!) and I’m near certain this draft will be 450-500 Is this what it means to eat your words? At least it’ll be enough to sustain me

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Me: u give me thing, i write book gud What do we think? 🥰

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

One grant application down, one residency application to go 😵‍💫

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Realm of the Elderlings, no contest (But with 56 episodes, only the fitz trilogies — 16 episodes each, with specials for Liveship and Rain wild nods)

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