iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

#DVPIT #A #SF #H #LGBT #OWN The Faceless Thing We Adore x A Thousand Natural Shocks TrueTone is more than an image filter. It strips you down and layers on your personal data. One image, and you can know a stranger intimately. Authentically. Some people don't like what they see, though.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 21h

TrueTone will reveal the real you. But if you want to be on the cutting edge, you need to go for the full conversion. Let it strip your skin. Reveal your muscles and blood. Cover you with a tattoo of your innermost desires. Just a usual day in persona management. #DVPIT #A #SF #H #LGBT #OWN

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 22h

TrueTone is: a bi woman struggling through the shame of desire, pain of need, and fear of addiction. a gritty San Francisco taken over by AI companies obsessed with perception management. the slow decay of our world accelerated by an interdimensional force #DVPIT #A #SF #H #LGBT #OWN

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 23h

Christi wants: - her ex-girlfriend back - a promotion that will let her stay in San Francisco - her boss to stop hitting on her Christi gets: - weird meditation tactics that can slow time - a murderous interdimensional being that wants to strip humanity of its skin #DVPIT #A #SF #H #LGBT #OWN

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVPIT #A #SF #H #LGBT #MH #OWN    Christi wants to make the world a better place — so she agrees to host an inter dimensional being that will grant her the power and influence to change the world. Only problem is their definitions of “better” might differ.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The book I’m working on is done… working on the synopsis and query letter. The worst parts. But at least I have its kick-ass playlist to get me through it. open.spotify.com/playlist/68T...

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm so excited that my story, "Five Impossible Things" (originally in Clarkesworld) will be included in Think Weirder Volume 2. I've been in novel land, not working on many shorts lately, and it is weirdly nice to be sitting here, once again wondering who I'll share a TOC with.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy September 15th. Kids are back to school, the weathers cool, and the writing’s good.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We talk about the harm of AI a lot... and I just wanted to point out that even if there's no ethical dilemma, there's still harm. At this point I can't differentiate between any clubs in my time. I used to open Facebook and know exactly who was hosting an event by the flier. Now I have no clue.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Write like a human being" - Kurt Vonnegut, Iowa Writers Workshop, 1966 Seems like we've been struggling with this for awhile, people.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

MAKE TIRED-ASS AI FICTION AGAIN🚫🤖 The only jack-holes claiming AI is "inevitable" are loser tech-bros who've already tied their entire identity to it & hopelessly untalented slop hacks. Surely if they say it often enough it'll come true, right?! Keep the existential AI threats ON THE PAGE⬇️

Tenebrous skull & laurel, red on black
Text: 100% Human Made & Mangled

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lately I've been investigating noir as a genre. In conversation this came up: Noir is to horror as romance is to erotica. True? Not true? Will see. But I like it as a jumping off point.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I just read >dear stupid penpal by rascal hartley this weekend. It was so unexpectedly delightful. Like... existential dread and and an examination of time and life and love, sure, but also... heartwarming squee. Loved it.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

AI sucks. Gdocs used to have a really useful grammar check... it often caught when I used the wrong word or misspelled something. Now, every three sentences it is suggesting I use past tense. I write 90% of my stories in present tense. It is becoming more of a hinderance than a tool.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm a discovery writer. I might have some idea of plot, but my final product will look nothing like that "outline". My joy in writing comes from the discovery -- of the story, yes, but also of myself. I love those moments when I make a connection between two events in my past or two concepts.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Returned from vacation... my sister-in-law had bought the trees I asked for and they were loaded in our car for the trip home... but our luggage wouldn't fit with them... so I got to cuddle a pomegranate yearling for three hours on the ride home. The things authors do for our writing.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Cooling off on an underground riverboat ride

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Reading She Who Remains and this line hits hard as a person and harder as a parent: “Home is where they clip your wings”

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Vacation setback — stolen bag with kiddo’s phone. Can’t afford to replace it until husband gets a new job. I guess these are what memories are made of?

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cicadas in the heat and a healthy mix of adrenaline and dopamine.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipse sunset at a castle in Spain. Can a writer ask for any more inspiration?

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This book is amazing. Go. Read. Read again.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s my birthday… go buy my books :) kojiadae.ink/books/ But no, really, life feels like maybe it’s on the up these days — job, house, family, books… just took me 43 years to get there.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Headed to the eclipse in Spain next week and brought Dear Stupid Penpal as my beach book. Bring on the cosmos!

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Small Spec Book Awards is doing interviews with all of the finalists. Here’s mine for Casual along with Dear Stupid Penpal and Tomorrow Was Beautiful Once. www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2026/08/smal...

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Small Spec Book Awards - 2026 Semi-Finalist Feature #3

First, I featured fantasy authors , then horror authors. For my 3rd SSBA Semi-finalist post, I will be focusing on 3 of the science-fiction ...

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I was midway through writing up my DMCA takedown for thirty-two stories when the Science Fiction Weekly site went down, hopefully permanently because of people who sent in reports earlier.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It feels like everything is opt out these days… opt out of llm training. Opt out of having your works stolen and posted on random sites. Consent used to be a thing…

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Two of mine were there. These people are not “community” focused and have asked no one.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So apparently everything thinks opt out is okay these days. In everything else — it sucks to have your words stolen.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A blast from the past: I wrote this blog about DBS while Casual was yet to find a home. kojiadae.ink/behind-casua... Who would think that 6 years (7!?!) it would be an award nominated book, out in the world, read by hundreds?

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Behind Casual: Deep Brain Stimulation and Depression - Koji A Dae

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yay! It’s out! Go check out Ogerog Annual which includes my story: What Would You Have Room For After The Plague?

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I reread Carrie this past week... and apparently the book was nothing like I remembered. Me at 12 rewrote the religious trauma to be way deeper, Carrie to be less aware and more out of control, and completely blocked out all other POVs in the story. kojiadae.ink/the-shadow-r...

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The Shadow Revisited: A Look Back at Carrie - Koji A Dae

Carrie, Stephen King

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

OMG... it took me a solid five minutes to figure out why people were reading so many non-sci fi books for women in technology month... People... apparently WIT is Women in Translation in this case. Consider me educated.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Today's rabbit hole: the addictiveness of GHB. It is literally two sentences in my book. Two.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’ve been working on my novel and full time job this year so I don’t have a lot out. But I love my story that is in Ogerog Annual: a body horror retelling of the Bulgarian myth of grandmother plague. www.amazon.com/Ogerog-Annua...

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Ogerog Annual

Leave behind everything you think you know about what goes bump in the night. contains stories, essays, and comics from the vanguard of the New Weird, plumbing the depths of literary horror, scal...

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER X STATION 11 Once cast aside, Diane takes control of her life & reunites with her baby, but her breastmilk is now poisonous, she maybe killed her spouses, and she has to dodge fascists and rebels who think she’s key to controlling a virulent plague. #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #D #SF

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Weird Dystopian Gothic Roadtrip
A grapnic showing a road, mountains, rattlesnake, cockroaches, soldiers and a mother with a poison sign in her chest holding a baby.

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Psst...hey! Don't mind the dark alley, don't mind the trench coat - swear I'm dressed. Book peddler and fiction fixer here...Word on the street is you can enter to win a copy of Midwestern Chrome! Clock's tickin', but you've still got plenty of time. Feelin' lucky? www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for Midwestern Chrome by Michael Bettendorf Jul 11-Aug 10, 2026

Enter to win one of 6 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 11-Aug 10, 2026. We’re giving away 6 copies of the cyberpunk sci-fi/crime noir MIDWE...

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I did not know this! Go preorder all your soon-to-be-favorite books

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This thread was my exact experience as a buyer for an indie bookstore as well. One preorder was "huh, interesting." Two preorders meant I was definitely going to order it in for general stock, possibly enough to put on the front table or to have faced out on the shelf.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Fellow authors: Without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? The image on my monitor blurs around the woman’s hips, as if the pixels have difficulty replicating the motion of the curves.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

10p represent! A big ol' round of hails to: @kojiadae.bsky.social @rascalhartley.bsky.social @jacymorris.bsky.social @goresorcerer.bsky.social @hazelzorn.bsky.social For their showings here! Wanna know more about their semifinalist-nominated books? Oh you know we gotchu⬇️

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's interesting to see people who sell hundreds of thousands of books talk about how they feel about a negative review. Mostly, because they get to feel about it in this detached, theoretical way -- in a way that doesn't hold the weight of their next book or the sales of their current book.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It’s an honor to have Casual listed among so many great books.

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I wrote a second blog post about Butter, this one talking about its themes of sexuality and desire, the frustration of female desire and the modern serial killer, and how it compares to Chelsea Summer's A Certain Hunger: kojiadae.ink/concepts-of-...

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Concepts of Sex In Butter - Koji A Dae

Butter by Asako Yuzuki and A Certain Hunger by Chelsea Summers

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I've read a lot of interesting books about both cults and serial killers over the past year. But the most interesting thing I've seen is that it seems we want to forgive and understand the serial killer while having no such feeling towards cult leaders. And I wonder why that is?

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