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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Nebula rooting tonight for one of our “most like to work with authors” @mariecroke.bsky.social who is up for the Novelette Nebula. Wishing Marie the best #nebula #sfwa

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Maria Dong @mariadongwrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"Just as I start to relax, I hear it again. Three knocks, then two.. and then a low pause. The silence impales me like a butterfly on a wire." First you find your sister's body... Then you take her life.

The book Aviary, by Maria dong, against a pink and yellow background.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Tiny Fork Lift & the Crew are back at it “Tall Tales of the Holy Terror Tomboy" now available in our catalog - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm.... Cover art by @carolinejamhour.bsky.social . Stories by @bextraterrestrial.bsky.social , @mariecroke.bsky.social , @mldcurelas.bsky.social & Kara Race-Moore.

A Matchbox car forklift and HO scale warehouse figures unpack a box of books wildly out of scale for their small size.

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José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I just read this Nebula finalist and it was absolutely amazing! Give it a read!

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Huge congratulations to Odyssey graduates @rfkuang.bsky.social, @mariecroke.bsky.social, and @cornellwriter.bsky.social on their Nebula Award nominations!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Another of our favorite authors to work with - @mariecroke.bsky.social just received a Nebula nomination. So proud to have collaborated with you.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Congratulations @mariecroke.bsky.social, whose novelette "Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" from BCS #423 has been voted a finalist for the Nebula Awards! It's a great story of family, memorial, loss, and compassion. You can read it here: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/our-...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh by Marie Croke

Outside the preburial cottage, the pier creaked. I saw no shadow under the doorway, yet I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. I imagined, yet again, an anger filtering over his calm countenance. Wonde...

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"Tall Tales of the Holy Terror Tomboy" is almost ready to go to the printer. The pre-order link is now available in our catalog - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... (expected ship date 4/10/26). Cover art by @carolinejamhour.bsky.social

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

“Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh” by @mariecroke.bsky.social is an emotionally and morally complicated tale of struggles within a community and within a family to a (magical) burial ground beset by lethal new denizens www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/our-...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh by Marie Croke

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My 2025 Recommended Reading List is finally ready! Honestly, just writing these descriptions made me excited about this year's sci-fi/fantasy all over again. www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/18/t...

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Tar Vol's 2025 Recommended Reading List (Holiday Edition)

Tar Vol's 2025 Recommended Reading List collects the best sci-fi and fantasy fiction to be published in 2025, from novels all the way to short stories.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

BCS stories of 2025! "Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" @mariecroke.bsky.social BCS #423: "I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. Wondered whether my admission of taking Danai into the Whispermarsh had been a final wedge between us." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/our-... #BCSof2025

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh by Marie Croke

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼 ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤 Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

"ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. OUT NOW. www.apexbookcompany.com"

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

short fic folks should read this post -

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Apex Magazine 2026

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

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Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A fantastic read of the Twelve Dancing Princesses by @mariecroke.bsky.social in The Orange & Bee. I just love how this story comes together from 12 different views. It's one for the #fairytale lovers! theorangebee.substack.com/p/but-do-you... #fantasy #princesses #shortstory #happilyeverafter

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But do you know our names?

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I dont care what anyone says, i LOVE that movie :)

Red Riding Hood movie poster. Woman in red looking up at camera on a snow-laden ground in the forest

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Sam Asher @samasherwriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year. Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it. gofund.me/ca0c2b7d

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Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher

For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I subscribe to the bathtub model of skill aggregation, only my bathtub is filled with a strange concoction of lattes, rum, and pomegranate smoothies since i want my writing to be spicy, sweet, and maybe a little fucked up

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Deva Fagan @devafagan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Today is THE DAY. You can now actually order for-real copies of my adult fantasy debut HOUSE OF DUSK in hardback, ebook and audio format pretty much anywhere books are sold! Lots of links and blurbs here: devafagan.com/house-of-dusk/

Photo of Deva, a white woman with straight brown hair and large black cat-eye glasses, holding a finished copy of House of Dusk and smiling.

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Just a reminder that i have a story in this upcoming Best Of Anthology! "A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Got some crit/beta feedback today that is going to elevate this book 💀🌱

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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 21/08/2025

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

My writing process is some hunger games shit where i add words to a dozen different novels while eagerly anticipating finding out which ones will survive to the end

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Cons are amazing! You get to hang out with old writer friends and meet other like-minded ppl (and give hugs!!) But cons aren't necessary for your career, just your finished words are. So if you can't go for whatever reasons, no worries, for you always have your next story!

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Inside every irritated cat there is a fluffball who demands more hugs #caturday

Tuxedo kitty over the shoulder of a girl with long brown hair and a pink and white shirt

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I'm super excited and grateful to get to be a part of this anthology coming next year! With a lot of badass feminist energy, these stories are going to be 🔥

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Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Out today 🤗

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

One of the best ways to break yourself out of a reading slump is to read a subgenre you don't normally read

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 14/08/2025

A fabulous opportunity for young authors. I love Cast of Wonders and if you're under 20 and have story, check out these guidelines and submit!

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I know so many more words when I'm not actively writing

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Story publication 🙂 "But Do You Know Our Names?" by yours truly has come out in The Orange and Bee! Features a retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses that centers all 12 sisters rather than just one. Dear to me as i have 6 sisters myself! theorangebee.substack.com/p/but-do-you...

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

ECO24 preorders are open! And you can get your hands/paws/beak on a copy for 30% off 🌿🦎🍄🌸🪸🦑🌿 This is one to read in the garden, or with your favorite creature curled up nearby.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

okay um let's see 1) Sapphic & autistic readers love the sapphic & autistic rep 2) A famous editor once told me I was "so good at characters" 3) um um 😓 um... I can turn revisions in pretty quick???

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V. Astor Solomon @howsweetthewords.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

1) I have ideas that people enjoy. 2) My narrative style often leans somewhat poetic and I think that's kinda neat. 3) I've made people who don't often like second person POV enjoy it, and I'm proud of that.

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Say three positive things about your writing! I'll go first: 1) My characters have a lot of depth 2) I can wring emotion from my readers 3) and my narrative voices are versatile Now you!

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Matt Tighe @mktighewrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I have a new story out in @castofwonders.org with wonderful narration by @danooli.com and hosting by @scribblejotter.bsky.social. This one is about how we deal (or not) with emotions in a family. And how we pass that damn behaviour on.

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Nap buddy, always making sure she's near her hairball cleaner

Tuxedo kitty lying on a white and gray blanket

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Thrilling Landscapes! 🏕️ Breathtaking Vistas! 🌎 WILD CREATURES LURKING IN EVERY SHADOW! 🐅 Preorders for ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, edited by @marissavu.bsky.social, ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN!! 🎉🎉🎉 Visit www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco... and PREORDER TODAY for 30% OFF! 💸

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Visit www.apexbookcompany.com and preorder now for 30% off!"

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

All of my heart and all of my Greek rage went on this one. Forever grateful to @khoreo.bsky.social for letting me talk about this issue.

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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

hi yes look at our shiny website! isn't is epic??? @ashvalewrites.bsky.social seriouslyyyy kicked ass with it! IT'S SO PRETTYYYYY ✨ I'm so so happy with OTHERSIDE and what it's shaping up to be. we're so excited to publish amazing queer work in 2026 aaaaa 😭

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The shortest I've ever written a novel was in 6 weeks The longest was in 3 years Every book takes exactly as long as it needs

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