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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Off to Futurescapes Firenze, looking forward to a great workshop with a bunch of lovely people!

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Now, like any time, is a good time to mention that if you want to read about Ukrainian literature in English, @chytomo.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!!

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Very honored for my story "The Buried House" to be in this issue with a group of great writers!

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Beyond excited for the first TCL of 2025 and also the first issue I got to vote on all the stories :) #booksky #writingcommunity #bookrecs #sff #scifi #fantasy

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Wonderful article! I usually have so many thoughts about writing complex protagonists (motivation vs agency etc.) but as I slide into second draft and editing mode with my trademark passive FMC, I really needed to read someone else’s informed opinion on this topic! #amwriting #fantasy #romance

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

We’re in the final stages of reading for the Spring 2025 issue. If you’ve been sitting on an epic space opera story, now is the time to submit! thecoloredlens.com?page_id=137752 #sff #writingcommunity #scifi #spaceopera #sffwriters

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Submission Guidelines – The Colored Lens

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The days are getting shorter, the evenings darker, so we’d love to share this wonderful cozy fantasy “Fiona and the Fairy Queen” by A.P. Golub to brighten up your day! thecoloredlens.com?p=140248 #SFF #storyrecs #fantasy #cozy #writingcommunity

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Fiona and the Fairy Queen – The Colored Lens

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A.P. Golub / Andrea Tatjana @andtatcat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The fluffiest (in multiple ways!) story I have ever written 👇👇👇

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In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m creating a 2025 debut authors starter pack, let me know who I should be adding! Shares appreciated 💙📚 go.bsky.app/RYHeizd

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This is a really good thread on why these types of accounts exist and what the goal is! Manipulating the temperature of the conversation and setting people on edge serves a *lot* of purposes. #BadActorBingo

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/12/2024

Folks, I'm really proud that when chuds show up in my comments to take a crap on my timeline, by and large your response is... nothing. You are truly living the magic of "don't engage the assholes" and I love that for all of us. And then I block em and they're gone forever. You're great! Thank you.

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So that’s the Fantasy Author Starter Pack Part 3 complete at 150 accounts. go.bsky.app/TqJh8aA 1/4

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Happy book re-release day, Fire Heart! 🔥💖🗡️ www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-he... (buy links!) Ahhhhhh!!! #NovRelease #YAlit #kidlit #sapphic Cover design and art by @yasuartstudio.bsky.social.

The cover of Fire Heart with Wehia holding her sword in a guard pose..

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I’ve been trying to evade the shadow daddy trope for a year now. It’s really harder than it looks, people! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #romantasy #fantasy

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I’m all for the “sure, why not” approach as well!

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gwendolyn hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

IT’S OUT!!!!!! i wrote “Change Your Mind” to process my feelings around a friend break-up and also kind of sort of my ride on the SSRI carousel 💊 this one is near & dear to me. The last pill might unmake me. I don’t care. You already took care of that. smallwondersmag.com/piece/change...

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Change Your Mind - Small Wonders

They slip the stent into my vein, to help flush out the longing. / No wider than a thread, they say, so that the body can’t detect it.

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🍃🍂🍁 If you like your cozy fantasy with a twist of anarchy, check out my TCL Autumn issue personal favorite “The Meaning of Baskets” by Katie Gray #kindleUnlimited #SFF #bookrecs #fantasy #BookLovers

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Lovely fairy lights in the forest 🍄🍄‍🟫

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’ve often missed out on the fun con and intensive workshop stuff due to traveling requirements and CET time difference. So I’m beyond excited that the Futurescapes Summer Intensive Workshop is in Florence the coming year. Hope to see some of you there! #sff #fantasy #amwriting #WritingCommunity

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Pinned resources post! 📌 📝 20 successful queries. 📚 6 nonfiction proposals. 🦸🏽‍♀️ A guide to writing IP! 🔎 A guide to finding agents. All free. Though coffee is welcome! www.ericsmithrocks.com/perfect-pitch And a starter pack for finding literary agents who are here on BlueSky. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

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Perfect Pitch — ERIC SMITH

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A song you like with a number in its title: Disco 2000 is iconic! youtu.be/qJS3xnD7Mus?...

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Pulp - Disco 2000

YouTube video by PulpVEVO

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Spencer Orey @spencerorey.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

My gig-worker firefighter story is out and ready to scare you about our near future! Yay! And there are so many other good stories here too

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

For a small fee, I will attend your enemy’s writing group and suggest that they need to change their story’s POV

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Alex Shvartsman @alexshvartsman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today is my birthday but also my book's birthday! Dreidel of Dread is unleashed upon the world. Get a copy or, if you want to congratulate me without spending money, please leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads for any of my books you've read! alexshvartsman.com/2024/11/19/d...

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Dreidel of Dread Unleashed

Today is the official release date for the Dreidel of Dread board book! It makes a perfect holiday gift for nerds of all ages! Please grab your copy from any of the links below.[Direct from UFO Pub…

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 11/11/2024

If you're looking for speculative fiction publications (podcasts, zines, publishers) here on Bluesky, I have two starter packs and I keep adding to these, so you might want to check in occasionally for updated lists! bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/11/2024

"Don't Engage, Just Block" absolutely IS the Bluesky motto. The notion of a "Bluesky Elder" is vaguely ridiculous but the ONE THING that we oldheads are good for is telling the new folks that blocking without engagement is praxis, and encouraging them to do it early and often.

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Can’t join myself due to the CET time difference but hope someone who can will see this and join in my stead 😃 Can’t wait to read and review The Factory!

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Thread. Rah has been doing trust and safety since the dawn of social media, before it was called trust and safety. Frankly it's silly bsky didn't throw money at her until she agreed to work there.

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within." Words of wisdom from Ursula K. Le Guin 🖤

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

Cover from The Economist from two years ago "Say goodbye to 1.5°C; why climate policy is off target". It has a graphic of the Earth with an apple on its head, and a arrow shot through the Earth.

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Have y’all had a chance to check out our rural fantasy story of the week? It’s a flip on the classic “Chosen One” story. Head over to FFO to read “Hazards of Being Related to the Chosen One” by Emmie Christie for free READ HERE: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/haza... #fantasy #flashfiction

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Hazards of Being Related to The Chosen One

You would think it’s hard when the villain’s henchmen strafe our house with photon lasers. Every Tuesday they saunter up next to our chicken coop, mustaches twitching in unison, and blast the house…

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

If you're part of the writing community, could you please holla and RT so we can find each other? I want to build up what we once had on Twitter (but better) #writers #writing

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I had a blast at the Futurescapes Fall Workshop! Four days of workshopping your query package with some very talented writers and amazing faculty: what’s not to like? But the first time an industry professional refers to your writing as “absolutely spectacular”: a girl will never forget that!

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Loved it! Looking forward to the Winter issue!

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 22/10/2024

2) Please help me be seen as an editor and genre voice. I have terrible anxiety and ptsd and have been burned so many times with rejection that it's becoming harder for me to try and network, including applications everywhere. I'd love to be invited to podcasts, shows, cons, interviews!

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Hi to all the new folks! I read a lot, review stuff for BSFA Review and share work I admire here on Bluesky. I also want to start sharing more about my own writing journey, writing courses, intensive workshops, writing coaches, manuscript revisions, looking for an agent that sort of thing.

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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Stepping into November with Jessica Bromley Bartram’s nonchalant beast! smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2024/10...

Jessica Bromley Bartram’s nonchalant brown hairy monster — with plants growing off their back, curly feet (or shoes?) and green eyes with a slit pupil — takes a step forward on the cover of LCRW 49.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 17/10/2024

Guys, you know Bluesky doesn't suppress links in skeets, right? We all know that? You don't have to split up the skeet and the link and in fact if you are posting about your crowdfunding, you gotta stop it. Put the link to the site in EVERY SKEET.

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WisCon on Bluesky @wiscon.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

🎉WisCon will be having an online convention in 2025!!🎉 WisCONline 2025 will take place Memorial Day weekend as always (May 23-26, 2025.) There are still important volunteer roles to fill! Details here: wiscon.net/2024/10/11/a...

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Announcing WisCONline 2025 - WisCon

The WisCon Convention Committee is pleased to announce that we will be having an online convention in 2025! What will WisCONline 2025 look like? In addition to being fully online with no in person pre...

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

as the sun sets on this tiny remote italian mountain village where i have travelled with a group of historians of witchcraft and the inquisition, i realize with shock that it has not occurred to me that im literally in the opening scenes of a horror movie

View from the village of triora over the mist shrouded valley below and houses

Picture of a door with illustrations showing occult symbols, an owl, a path through dark woods etc

More local art in Triora: a door with a picture of witches dancing round a fire and the text Siamo le nipoti di quelle streghe che non siete riusciti a bruciare! (Were the grandchildren of the witches they couldn’t burn)

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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 03/10/2024

Last week to pre-order two wonderful and important books. More here, in the words of these communities themselves, about why seeing and sharing these books is so important. mailchi.mp/8ab95ecd0adf...

Text over stone wall painted in two contrasting colors, dark, and light says: We Are Our Stories

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