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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

great article & I've been meaning to watch two of these; now I'll be paying attention as a group

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 28/09/2026

Promised a friend I'd post about my books more, so here goes! First up, my Nebula Award finalist book about a girl who's half star and half human and gets caught up in the politics of the starry court, STAR DAUGHTER! It's really good, and you should try it. www.harpercollins.com/products/sta...

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Star Daughter

*Chosen as a 2020 Kids’ Indie Next pick * A Locus Reading List recommendation * An Andre Norton Nebula Award Finalist* “Shveta Thakrar's prose is as bea...

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sometimes Book 2 research is 'okay, what WAS Napoleon doing that year?' other times I find myself halfway up the watershed of the River Ouse swearing to myself about historic coalfields and why the HELL the watershed for York is all the way in the DALES. british topography i just want to talk

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are opening submissions for our fourth and final issue of the year in October! SOON! Issue 4 has a theme: EXPLORATION 🪐🗡️ Early opening for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors: October 1-7 General submissions: October 8-21 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🧵: "For many women, Silicon Valley can be like Westworld, where violence can be pay-to-play."

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's bi visibility day! there are 237 days until BLOOD OF QUEENS hits the shelves! is it bi? is it queer? is it both of those and more? look, all I'm gonna say: Dani's no Lady, Matherin sure is a Prince, and Zivriel? well, Zivriel has two hands >:D

A graphic introducing the cover mockup of the book Blood of Queens by Macey Levington (a dark grey fake cover with white title text), surrounded by lighter grey tropes. These include: historical fantasy, disaster OT3, is it murder if they only die a little?, alt hist with a twist, be gay do crime, accidental death god Henry VIIIth, and stealing from necromancers is a deathly affair. There is a friendly waving skeleton. The novel is comped as 'Lies of Locke Lamora meets Gideon the Ninth by way of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.'

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THE UNSPOKEN NAME by AK Larkwood. gorgeously written adventure fantasy of an orc sacrifice turned warrior fighting free of the terrible wizard mentor who saved her, takes Tombs of Atuan & blossoms open at Planeswalker scale. doomed by its Feb '20 release 😭 dead planets! fighter/mage f/f! butch mc!!

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Stopped by the local to pick up my Blacktail preorder the other day and was aghast that the bookseller (who is a specfic person!!) hadn't heard of Mount Char. Ugh!!! If 'Dark Cosmic Academia' was a genre that went 'squelch' and also played 3D chess with the time stream. I should read it again.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mountain's out! ...okay it's out if you're in an airplane 😂

photograph of Mount Rainier from the sky, seen above a blanket of fluffy clouds

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

trying to decide between a somewhat eclectic set of reading/research options to bring on my writing retreat is the hardest part of packing... because these are not all gonna fit in my baggage weight allowance... unless I wear the same clothes all week... 🤔🤔📚🪨😵

A tall pile of far too many books for a one week writing retreat, three of which are large textbooks.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

sometimes emptying the library in preparation for a facelift forces one to confront one's literary foundations. in this case in the format of the Leaning Tower of McCaffrey 🤔

a precarious parapet of paperbacks (and a couple hardcover) by anne (and todd) mccaffrey, perched incongruously on a kitchen table, surrounded by piles of books on the kitchen benches behind. mug for scale.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about BODIES OF MAGIC by Freya Marske. A medical magical mystery that draws you into the travails of young healers on the cusp of their careers. Queer, smart, enthralling fantasy. Our drink is the Lantern Night, frosty and refreshing!

BODIES OF MAGIC by Freya Marske alongside a blue-green-grey cocktail in brilliant late summer light.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

relocating my library temporarily & it is a constant exercise in 'but what if instead of writing Book Two I reread Seeing Like a State?' every time I move an old beloved 🫣 and that's just with the nonfics...

A long pile of large nonfiction books on a kitchen bench seat.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible Fall Out Boyardee

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

here to report CVS has the new Covid and this season's flu shots on same-day appointments, with bonus $5 store voucher (at least in Seattle) given current wastewater levels (www.pmc19.com/interactive....) & trends (check your local info) we're in a bad upswing, so now is definitely the time...

a photo of macey in a black mask and a 'hex all terfs' cap reading the lies of locke lamora with two band-aids on her arm as she waits out the immediate vaccine aftermath in a CVS vaccine waiting area.

a screenshot of the interactive covid wastewater map of the USA (https://www.pmc19.com/interactive.php) showing 'very high' levels across all of california, texas, alaska, hawai'i and florida, as well as much of washington and montana and patches of the appalachias

screenshot of the Seattle-specific wastewater chart showing an alarming spike in the 7-day average for Covid in wastewater as of 8/25/26, higher than any other point since October 2025

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

anyway I'm reading a mafia au arranged marriage longfic (look I just handed in line edits, I'm on break) & c1 treated c2's through&through gsw by... giving c2 scotch & sewing it closed 😱💀🙄 boy you are dying of sepsis you did not even irrigate that thing ...man being a writer teaches you stuff huh

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

okay music-loving bsky - what's your peak, most overwrought, most dramatic 'loyal knight laying down their life for their liege' Kingly song? The one that feels practically Arthurian? Divine Right of Kings, Shakespeare would weep levels of nonsense? yes I'm building book playlists what of it >.>

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

y'know, I don't know which was more hypnotizing: the eclipse, or to stand by the side of a little city park at 9pm saying 'have you looked at the moon?' to passers-by and see them stop, with looks of wonder, and join me. five minutes, ten, longer. no one brushed it off. there's magic in strangers.

A night vision photograph of the moon in nearly full eclipse.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I lost my place at Cambridge because I simply did not do my independent-study History A-level project, and dropped from an A to a C. Had to take my backup school. Everyone 'knew' something was wrong. But no one thought to tell me that. Anyway hi. I'm 36. I got my formal DX three weeks ago.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

IT IS ANNOUNCED 💃🏻🥳⛸️

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Tough luck, girl," is the entire story of Moyna's life, lbr 😅 💀🤷‍♀️ (GO READ THIS i cannot emphasize enough how good this book is,,,, you thought you knew Freya was 🔥 already from The Last Binding but this one is even better & I don't need to say 'trust me' b'cause you can go read and find out!!)

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Eljay/knitmeapony @knitmeapony.com · 17/08/2026

Via tumblr: The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund, which pays immigrant bond fees to get people out of ICE Custody, has run so low on funds they've had to put a hold on their work. They have a donor matching funds through $50,000 or until August 21st, so please consider donating. www.mibfc.org/donate

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Donate — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What have I been up to lately? Oh, not much, just a little thing called...gender-bent Richard III generation novella! Okay actually we call it THAT FATAL DISCONTENT and it's coming to you NEXT SUMMER FROM UNION SQUARE!

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

the answer, btw, is 'notch binding' (or possibly 'burst binding'). did we know about this? I did not know about this & it is super cool!!! perfect-bound books are glued loose pages but burst or notched retain signatures, thus the arches 😱 (Diagrams found in rhollick.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/b...)

A diagram of three styles of glued spines for bookbinding.
1: "Perfect binding: spine roughened and glued" - in diagram pages are cut
2: "Notch binding: spine notched and glued" - in diagram pages are in signatures and wide holes notched
3: "Burst binding: spine perforated and glued" - in diagram pages are in signatures and small holes are pierced and glued

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am occasionally reminded that less-Silicon-valley folks may not be aware of the Effective Altruist nonsense underlying - or informing and twisting psyches of the powerbrokers behind - much of the current AI surreality. www.todayintabs.com/p/over-lever... and its outgoing links may be of interest.

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Over Leveraged

The inside story of Peter Thiel's MKUltra by someone who thinks it was kind of good, actually.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

another newsletter going out? another newsletter going out indeed!!

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

look at all these lovely books hanging out on the new fiction hardcover display together 😍 🍜🦄🐉 @johnchu.bsky.social @wiswell.bsky.social

A photograph of a bookshop's new hardcover fiction display, focused on three: John Chu's the subtle art of folding space, Katherine Arden's the unicorn hunters, and John Wiswell's the dragon has some complaints

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

YES! It is my author copies of A DUBIOUS CLAMOR! Dreadfully hot humid day but WHO CARES I HAVE MY BOOK

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

edits are more fun than drafting. there I said it. I have to speak my truth!!! edits are puzzle-boxes, they are logic problems made of art, they are graspable! drafting is the cosmic horror of gazing unto the infinite and pinky-promising you'll take notes if it consents to wink back in morse code 😭

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

sunday book (& fabric) haul! w/ thanks to @erikgrove.com for recs 😁 now, where to start?

A photograph of a pile of books and fabric on a cutting mat. The books include between two fires by Christopher Buehlman, the spare cuts through Water by Simon Jimenez, the Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, and 9th house by Leigh bardugo.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

oh boy, someone dropped an absolute motherlode of beads at the ReCreative in Greenwood... makes me wish I had the slightest ability to work with these but seriously @hernibsen.bsky.social @peripateticmeg.bsky.social look at all the pretties 😍

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

okay book industry friends, do I know anyone who knows anyone on the PHYSICAL book construction side of the industry On Here? because I just keep having questions. so many questions. for example: what on earth is going on with this perfect binding. who are NYRB using and what are they DOING.

A close-up photograph of the spine of a paperback perfect bound book, that nonetheless looks as if it might be sewn. There are visible center partings and curved folios.

A close up of the same books spine from the other side. This time, it appears far more as if the pages have been cut. They are arranged in pyramids and seem to be pointed. There is no evidence of curved folios or center parts.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

there is one correct answer and that answer is Attenborough 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

conceptually, or the way a bog is faithful? in patience, knowing all things die? soft timbers, after all, make the best sort of morticultures- hollow mycelial caverns, homes to mysteries: owl eggs and three-headed skeletons, insects with too many joints. would her laughter chitter in the dark?

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

well okay but #2 is fascinating, though you want 'bound in human skin' - printing on leather is a horrible idea, stick to stretching it over board for embossment purposes (also consider reading us.macmillan.com/books/978125... to learn more, the Victorians have a lot to answer for as ever)

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Dark Archives

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those b...

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

As we come ever closer to the end of the Hugo Awards voting period, a reminder: no matter which work you believe deserves to win the Best Poem category, just casting your vote sends a strong message for the value of the category.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

what are folks' standout standalones you've read in the last year? older works that grabbed you fangs-first like The Library at Mount Char or The City & The City, or recent bangers like Leech or The Starving Saints? ...clearly I'm on a darkfic kick, but I'll read most vibe-heavy speculative gems!

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I made a thing! it is very smol! it has peacocks on the inside!! more importantly however, @marissalingen.bsky.social made a thing, ie, the actual words wot went inside. they are delightful & important & full of bashing fascism in the wotsits with swordfuls of skepticism. also there's a musical!

A photograph of the very small book being propped open on a piano by a small golden peacock. Inside the book, one can see an intricate set of end papers with very colorful flowers and peacocks.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

chased the sunset all the way home from #readercon - or at least halfway across the continent. surreally beautiful timing of a flight! safe on the ground in Seattle after an invigorating & thought-provoking first experience of the con. I may well return...

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

landed! the mountain was being very photogenic on the way out of Seattle, too 😂🗻💙

A photograph of Mount Rainier seen from a plane, framed by foothills and the blue summer sky.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have packed Several home made tiny books >:D we will have ample things to entertain y'all with, above and beyond the sestorial double-act :D

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

about to take my third (& then fourth) transit train because SEA-TAC is playing gate tag with me, but, #readercon I am on my way!!

an airport selfie of the Macey on an escalation in a green dress and grey mask

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

dilemma: which Delightful Light Nonfiction paperback will make my rowmates on the flight to Boston respect and fear me enough to let me read in peace, but NOT weird out the cabin crew so much that they might confiscate my snacks 🤔

A photograph of a stack of nonfiction books. From the top down, these include: black tudors by Miranda Kaufmann, against the grain by James c Scott, Orwell's roses by Rebecca solnit, dark archives by Megan Rosenbloom, cannibalism by Bill Shutt, and salt by Mark kurlansky.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

anyway so does it count as murder if the person you kill gets gruesomely resurrected again w/in minutes? ...if they consent 🗡️🩸🤔? book two is going great why are you looking at me like that here have a placeholder cover for book one. could a procrastinating author do THAT. i think not. czech mate!

A mock-up cover of the novel 'Blood of Queens' by Macey Levington, forthcoming in Summer 2027 from Saga Press. The cover features dramatic white text on a dark grey background. There are red blood droplets falling from the capital letters. A small banner on the bottom right reads 'cover to be revealed.'

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

hanging out, sewing chapbooks, getting hype for #readercon next weekend :D who am I gonna see there? any fun panels to hit up?

A photograph of a workbench covered in supplies for pamphlet making. Two different pamphlets are in the process of being made in multiple copies. One is a yellow pamphlet titled cityscapes, and the other is a blue pamphlet titled ocean-hearted. There are multiple copies of each, and tools such as an all, a pair of scissors, and several balls of string all spread out over a blue cutting mat.

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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

hanging out, sewing chapbooks, getting hype for #readercon next weekend :D who am I gonna see there? any fun panels to hit up?

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