iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

holy shit, I just learned that not only is my colleague @dianapho.bsky.social up for Best Editor for the Locus Awards, as are a strong handful of our wonderful titles and authors, but also @erewhonbooks.bsky.social itself is up for Best Publisher??? Y'ALL. I'm gonna cry, holy moley

A list of Locus Magazine Top Ten for the Locus Awards listing Erewhon among them

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

All of this on a weekday we’re in complete awe of you. You always rise to every call to action. You’re amazing, and words can’t express how much we love and appreciate you all.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/04/2025

Happy voting day, Canada. Please remain the sensible one in this North American duplex we share.

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Anyone who says that authors & artists are in it for the money has clearly never had to do writer taxes 🙃

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/04/2025

The most frustrating thing about this whole manufacturing bullshit tariff debacle is that there ARE good jobs that we need to be funding here have here that can’t be outsourced. It’s called the Green New Deal.

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Tzeyi Koay || Fantasy Author @tzeyikoay.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A CURSE CARVED IN INK by Tzeyi Koay, coming 2027 with @simonschusteruk and @atriabooksaus @simonschusterau ✨️

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lemapo.bsky.social @lemapo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I think about this when things happen like getting the ‘5 Bullet Points’ email from the sketchy hr12@opm.gov address that somehow goes to elno who bought his seat at the govt. Stunts like that push boundaries so they can see how much we’ll give up.

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lemapo.bsky.social @lemapo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Pretty wild to go from, ‘maybe I’ll buy a house this year,’ to, ‘I hope I still have this job in April so I can go to my dentist appointment.’ And it’s only been 7 weeks! abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

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NOAA braces for mass layoffs, fueling concerns about lifesaving weather services

NOAA is preparing to lay off more than 1,000 workers as part of the Trump administration's mandate for agencies to prepare "reductions in force," according to sources.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The U.S. government spent $710 billion in Trump’s first month, an increase from the same period a year prior. Cost-cutting efforts are ineffective, and job losses are occurring without clear justification.

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Been so busy lately getting to work on pages of new things that I love but wanted to be sure to say that publishing is rarely overnight success and a lot of working your ass off. Be proud of yourself no matter where you’re at. You’re doing the thing, boo, and are amazing 💛

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

ok who can rec me a book with this vibe

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⭐️eunnie⭐️ @eunnieboo.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

another life (2021)

two girls stand before a large painting in an art gallery. the painting has an ornate golden frame and depicts a princess and her knight. the princess sits on a low stone wall, wearing a gold circlet and necklace that matches the gold accents on her purple dress. her sleeves are long, almost obscuring her hands, and her black locs are tied into a half ponytail. she offers her hand to the knight with a gentle expression. the knight's short brown hair is tucked into a small bun, and she wears a long red cape over silver armor. she sits on one knee amongst a bed of lavender, folding up the princess's sleeve to kiss the back of her hand with a fond smile. the girls standing before the artwork bear a striking resemblance to the girls in the painting - clearly reincarnations of the princess and her knight. the modern day knight quietly observes the painting, while her princess looks over, as if noticing her for the first time.

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Tbh it's wild to see Death Of The Author go from "is it wrong to interpret books/art in a way the writer didnt intend" to "this author has done objectively awful things but pretty please can I still consume their work"

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If you ever feel behind just remember that Joe Biden didn't get his agent until he was 82, ur doing just fine 💕⭐️💕

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

✨PLEASE SHARE✨ It is live!!! There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸 Link: bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...

A graphic that says 260+ items #KidLit4Ceasefire 2025 Auction (January 15-31st) Visit Auction: https://bit.ly/kidlit4ceasefire2025auction

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Retweet if you're richer than Elon Musk because you have a spouse who loves you

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

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Bex is Trying So Hard @rebexquest.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

tis the season for yearning and longing and reposting all old art here 🥀 #art #medievalillumination

Text reads “can’t talk, I’m Yearning”. The word yearning is written in a gothic font and embellished with medieval flourishes and flowers.

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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

TikTok is back but like, in the way your long lost son appears on your doorstep after a mysterious disappearance & he looks & sounds the same but he’s harboring a dark secret and ok lemme turn off Lifetime

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Roxi Wheels @roxiwheels.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today and in the coming days, remember

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Jennifer Iacopelli @jennifercarolyn.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm gonna need everyone to understand that, "I worked hard and I deserve this" and "This was mostly down to luck" are not mutually exclusive emotions when it comes to publishing success. Both can be true. Both are true.

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

There's something so emotionally devastating about all the character actor tiktokers coming on screen as themselves for the first time ever to give all these heartfelt goodbyes 😭😭 like bro

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Katie Wu @katiewuwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🎨THE NIGHT CIRCUS but magic painting academia🖤 Homesick immigrant girl teams up w/ hot posh boy rival to win magic painting contest when her scholarship is cancelled…while they anonymously collab on a new magic canvas that could change the world …and try not to kiss 📖 #BluePit #A #Q #F

3x3 collage of a painting of a girl, two hands touching, a close up for a veiny hand, a painting of someone holding a book, painting of two people holding each other, paint brushes, a motif of a stained glass window, a gloomy tree, a boy silhouetted

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Hear me out: a highschool YA Beauty and the Beast retelling except instead of getting transformed into a literal beast he gets trapped in the high school mascot costume

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

If you need me I'll be sitting in my car and screaming the bridge to Alley Rose by Conan Gray for the foreseeable future

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Syd Mills @vetyyr.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Impermanence is not insignificance

Digital painting. Looking up at person with pale skin and glowing white hair. They are holding a thin wooden rod (an arrow, maybe) that seems to have pierced through their chest. They have a few gold rings, and a simple gold bracelet that hangs from their wrist. The sclera of their eyes is red, and their irises are gold. The background of the piece is a soft, cloudy turquoise.

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

seconding The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi & adding: -The Honeys by @ryanlasala.bsky.social (Listened on a road trip without stopping & finished the drive in silence to cope) -Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White (it's so good, listened on speaker & accidentally horrified my partner, A+)

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 21/11/2024

I feel no need to protect any Democratic sexual predators. This seems like a good deal

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Sabina Nordqvist @nordqvistbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Oh my gosh there’s a 2026 debut list 👀😍

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I cannot believe I finally get to announce this. An unhinged dream, so many years and monologues in the making. I'm elate to announce my debut novel VILE LADY VILLAINS, a horromantasy about Klytemnestra and Lady Macbeth, will be published with Penguin Michael Joseph in 2026.

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 17/11/2024

Two SFF publications packs from Maria Haskins: go.bsky.app/4FbEmZU go.bsky.app/4FbEmZU

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Sisyphus rolling his boulder up the hill every day for eternity except it's just me opening the manuscript that I CHOSE to write fully knowing that writing novels takes me approx. 500 years

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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I need publishing to get the message: no amount line toeing will appease this guy. Don't abandon your marginalized authors to make nice with him. Stand behind us and FIGHT his bullshit with all you've got. Please, don't be a coward about this--a lot of us writing the books don't have that luxury.

screenshot from publishers weekly saying: "President-elect Donald J. Trump appears ready to once again paint a target on book publishers and media outlets publishing work critical of him, with Penguin Random House and the New York Times each receiving a letter threatening a $10 billion lawsuit in the weeks leading up to the 2024 presidential election."

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kris/KM Fajardo | Preorder LOCAL HEAVENS 💎 @kmfajardo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

hi #writingcommunity friends!! reintroducing myself! im kris, 🇵🇭🇨🇦 sff writer based in toronto—my debut novel is a queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining out fall 2025, on tech class & how it shapes our humanity. would love to connect (or reconnect) with more peeps, esp SEA & queer writers!!

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

✨Donation Link Live (and fixed!)✨ You can now donate items to the #KidLit4Ceasefire 2025 Auction to run from January 15-31st. Families are in dire need of aid now more than ever as we head into next year, and I am hoping we can raise $60,000 to help Gaza 💛✨ airtable.com/appgMC1CTRup...

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hali hyland 💋 @haliwriteswords.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

almost forgot to introduce myself but hi im hali, an adult romance author from texas repped by sam fabien at root literary! i’m also studying for my master’s in library science (graduating next semester 🎉)! i’m currently working on LOVE YOU TO DEATH, a sapphic exes to lovers romance/mystery 🥀🖤

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ahhhh its me!!!! How exciting, how terrifying! Boosting this announcement in the hopes that I can connect with other writers & fellow Gardner heist enthusiasts on here :)

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

From Jenny and the Cat Club, written and illustrated by Esther Averill. 1958.

Sweet and simple illustration of a shorthaired black cat wearing a bright red scarf, standing in an open window as if about to jump outside. The window has white curtains with red polka dots and it is surrounded by an ivy vine. The only colors are black and red on a white background.

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

We’re going to keep fighting for greater diversity in books.

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

The Books for Palestine auction is live! Lots of cool stuff here. www.32auctions.com/BFP2023?r=1&...

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Books for Palestine

Silent auction 'Books for Palestine' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Claribel A. Ortega @claribelortega.com · 07/11/2023

Friends I’ve donated to the Books for Palestine auction and you can bid to have a character in the Witchlings series named after you 💕 all details here www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Character Named For You in Claribel A Ortega Novel

Auction item 'Character Named For You in Claribel A Ortega Novel' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/11/2023

The November 2023 issue of Clarkesworld is now available at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_206 and features original stories by Bo Balder, Hannah Yang, James Van Pelt, Louise Hughes, Thomas Ha, Thoraiya Dyer, Kemi Ashing-Giwa, and Tia Tashiro. Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Cover art features a robot sitting on a beach with a missile launcher. Blue skies. Art by Dofresh

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

I have something SO exciting in my inbox!!!! 🤩🤩🤩 (Its my local library letting my know that my hold is ready for pickup)

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Just trying to follow my dreams* *convince all the writers i admire that I'm cool actually

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Kate | KS Shay @ksshaywrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

my favorite part of bluesky is typing in the website wrong and getting redirected to that journal shop how long before i just get pavlov'd into buying a planner?

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