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Publisher of otherworldly, haunting fiction. HWA + SFWA. Find us at moonstruck-books.com🦇

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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
My loins are so girded!
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
It's book launching time! On February 25, join us at Powells Books on Burnside at 7pm to celebrate our first title The Rain Artist with Felicity and C.R. Foster. The event is free! powells.com/events-update
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Author Events and Talks | Powell's Books
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Joey R. Poole @joeyrpoole.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Read # 4 for the year will be Kayli Scholtz’s St. Grit from @ghoulish.bsky.social in eBook form. I was fortunate to read an early draft of this one and I have a story alongside one of Kayli’s in the Nightmare Diaries anthology coming later this year from @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social, so here we go.
Stylized devil performs cunnilngus.
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
😍😍😍
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
If you need inspiration as you toil, this account of mRNA scientist Katalin Karikó is wonderful. #STS www.glamour.com/story/katali...
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The Scientist Who Saved the World
Dr. Katalin Karikó devoted her career to understanding—and evangelizing—the possibilities of mRNA. When the pandemic struck, her unheralded work became the basis for the world’s most effective ...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/11/2023
I don’t think of myself as a “snowbird” just because I leave town in winter - I prefer to think of it as being Snufkin-coded.
snufkin walking at night
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 05/11/2023
If you are a creative writer you likely don't want stock suggestions for your prose / verse coming from a computer's operating system. If you use Scrivener, uncheck this box (as well as others) for a less invasive writing experience. Scrivener 3.3.6 here on MacOS Sonoma 14.1.
Screenshot of Scrivener's Auto-Correction options, highlighting the auto-complete section. Uncheck for a less annoying creative writing experience.
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
What’s in your bedside book-stack?
Stack of books
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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
And if the earth no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I’m flowing. To the flashing water say: I am. XXIX the finale of The Orpheus Sonnets Rilke tr Mitchell
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
😍😍😍
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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Fall in the Pacific Northwest
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
HBD Womble! 🍰
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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
The Sonnets of Orpheus XXVII Rilke tr Mitchell Are we really as fate keeps trying to convince us, weak and brittle in an alien world?
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
What happens after we read your submission? Here are the 5 steps from review to acquisition 🌈📚 www.moonstruck-books.com/blog/5-steps...
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5 steps to collaboration — Moonstruck Books
Publishing horror shouldn’t be hair-raising.
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
In an effort to keep Bluesky more intelligent and humane than certain other platforms, we’ve been donating invite codes to scientists and academics. If you’ve got an extra, consider giving it to someone in the field! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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BlueSky Invites
Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, and members of related communities or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and w...
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 01/11/2023
New today on the site: Celia Mattison’s “Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western”
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Towards the Afropastoral: What Nope Says About the Black Western
Jordan Peele's 'Nope' refashions the Western as a genre that tells a story of American erasure by its survivors.
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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Art for the (printable) November calendar
Pattern of medieval beasts in blue and white on a dark ground
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Bundesservice Telekommunikation @gregorxxxsamsa.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
"The research revealed that sea stars have a headlike territory in the center of each "arm" and a tail-like region along the perimeter. In an unexpected twist, no part of the sea star ectoderm expresses a "trunk" genetic patterning program, suggesting that sea stars are mostly headlike."
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Where is a sea star's head? Maybe just about everywhere
A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the riddle of sea star (commonly called starfish) body plans, and how sea stars start life with bilateral body symmetry -- just l...
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 01/11/2023
it's November and so I feel justified in asking this question: what are some of the best gifts characters in SFF have given to others, or been given themselves?
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Co-sign. This is one of many reasons we made our open call for anthology submissions so long! Quality takes time.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 01/11/2023
"It's as if movies answer an ancient quest for the common unconscious. They fulfill a spiritual need that people have to share a common memory." - Martin Scorsese
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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese — "A Common Memory"
1995 Martin Scorsese
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Hello, November 🍂
A male ginkgo tree with golden leaves
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Platonic soup ideal 🍜
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dappermouth @dappermouth.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
You’ve seen the dog outside of town, lying where the witches were buried.
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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
💥!!!Ebooks!!!💥 available at our website, Smashwords, & Ama$on. Read Tamil, Urdu, and Hausa pulp/ crime/ horror/ romance/ thriller/ scifi stories in English translation, folktales from the state of Mizoram, weird stories about kleptomaniac gentoo penguins, and more www.blaft.com/collections/...
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 3 Front cover featuring a cyborg Tamil lady in village dress holding an aruval with a lightning storm in the backgroundThings We Found During the Autopsy by Kuzhali Manickavel front cover with a bonesaw and some surgical scissors which I think have a special name but I forgotMizo Myths by Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte front cover showing a weretiger and a witch camping near a fire wearing puanThe Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan, translated by Nirmal Rajagopalan, showing a possessed girl and a cop and a journalist
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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Them: “Cute costume! Me, covered in bloody runes and black feathers, hovering four inches off the floor, finally free: “Thanks!”
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
“The sleep of reason produced monsters.” —Elizabeth Mavor, A Green Equinox
An excerpt from the novel A Green Equinox (1973) which includes the quote: “It was perhaps the heart he dreaded more than anything. The sleep of reason produced monsters. He was terrified of the feeling heart.”
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Evergreen advice 🌲
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Today, is a @premeemohamed.com day! As each day should. Here's a great review of NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US. "If you like Lovecraftian elder gods, alternate history, dark science fiction or gothic tales set in elegant, decadent worlds of decay and corruption, check this one out." bit.ly/3SePwP8
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Contract day is the BEST day 😍🥰
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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Biggest honor - guy who works at a meatpacking plant read my slaughterhouse story, "Their Souls Climb the Room," and I got the details down well enough that he asked what plant I worked at. That's some nerd-writer praise right there. inkheist.com/2020/01/08/f...
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Fiction: Keith Rosson “Their Souls Climb the Room”
Today we are excited to welcome Keith Rosson to Ink Heist with his story, "Their Souls Climb the Room". It's a gripping story about a man attempting to put his life back together and as the weight of ...
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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 29/10/2023
Hi! If you want to read @tiffmorris.bsky.social's Indigenous swampcore horror novella before its Halloween release, you can get a copy directly from us. Download links are now active and you will get the book immediately. Our ebooks are always on sale! www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
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Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris ⋆ Stelliform Press
Learn about the debut horror novella GREEN FUSE BURNING by Tiffany Morris. Readers or horror and Indigenous literature won't want to miss this!
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Eric Horwitz @ericsandwich.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
"So holier-than-thou" first of all do not address me in the nominative informal
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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 28/10/2023
Standing up from reading a novel on my phone and looking all over the room for my phone
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Today: responding to submissions. The amount of sheer talent in the queue is awe-inspiring 🤩💫
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
How to tell if your community is healthy (or kind of f*cked up) 🌈📚 www.moonstruck-books.com/blog/communi...
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Community over engagement — Moonstruck Books
How indie publishers can put connections and community over commodification.
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
To respond is human—to block, divine.
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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
The Sonnets to Orpheus XII. Rilke tr Mitchell Isn’t your sound protected from all static
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House of Gamut @houseofgamut.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦—Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Urban Stories Noisy, crowded, ever in motion, the City can be more than a setting—it can be a character, as nuanced and as fickle as a human being... Submission details ➡️ bit.ly/45Z4v3H (1/5)
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Some thoughts on white supremacy in indie publishing (and how to push back) 🌈📚 www.moonstruck-books.com/blog/the-fif...
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The fifth dimension — Moonstruck Books
How slowing down supports better writing and uncouples indie publishing from harmful systems.
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jpea @jpea.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
We love to see an intersectional collab! Especially this gorgeous one!
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
For curious minds who wonder: This book cover was created over 100 hours by a nonbinary graphic designer and a Singaporean woman artist using archival and digital elements as well as design software. It was made by humans who were paid for their labor. ☔️
The cover of the Rain Artist
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
A submission call for TEEN writers of sci-fi poetry, short stories, and STEM-related essays, from @writepittsburgh.bsky.social. Open through 10/31. www.starryfalselily.com/fall2023
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Fall/Winter Issue: Submissions Open | Starry False Lily
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Dark and dystopian—but ultimately hopeful—this trans author’s debut novel is an unforgettable read. Learn more: www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/rain-...
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Another 5-star review for The Rain Artist! If you’re on NetGalley, you can read an advance copy. 🌈📚 #bookreviewers
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Please welcome—The Rain Artist ☔️ www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/rain-...
The cover of The Rain ArtistA description of the cover art and design process
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Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
This is an incredible anthology!
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