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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

On May 30, I'll be on the panel, "How the West Got Weird" at the PGH Book Fest. My portion will be on the campus of University of Pittsburgh though this is a Carnegie Library event. events.humanitix.com/host/pbf

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

TEN SLEEP was longlisted for a Latinx literary prize. The REFORMA National Book Award. A nice validation that to be dual ethnic is to be something special even if you're not fully one ethnicity . . . Didn't win, but that's okay!

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Seems fitting that the landlords destroyed my lil bird habitat on Earth Day. Sigh.

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Some multi-posts from Jay Bushman on Twitter's early days when some of us used micro-blogging as a publishing platform for literature. Not sure what that all did for my career besides getting me mentioned in news articles and what not, but the experiment was still worth it thanks to folks like Jay.

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Wittle juncos imitating parent behaviors? 🥹🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This Northern Pygmy-Owl I found today needs all the love. Don’t you wanna hug that floofy tum? Gah! 🥹😭 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I didn’t disturb this barn owl but a raccoon did. Mama then looked at me as if I might be tasty. I’m not, I said. 🪶

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Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

From the wonderous fantasy to mind-expanding sci-fi, from the depths of horror to the magical realms of the speculative, we're proud to have an expansive list of SFF fiction eligible this year for awards consideration! @dianapho.bsky.social @viengsamai.bsky.social

Titles
Motheater by Linda H. Codega
The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai
The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee
Tall Is Her Body by Robert de la Chevotiere
The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty

Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames
When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
rekt by Alex Gonzalez
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo

Titles
Ten Sleep by Nicolas Belardes
A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde
The Changeling Queen by Kimberly Bea
The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Boat ride time. One gray whale pod, a common short-beaked dolphin, mola mola, harbor porpoise, rhino auklets, murres, some shearwaters.

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Re-found a King Eider today in Morro Bay, CA. 🥰✌🏽🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Fun goose flock analysis. Test in the morning. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This will be a fun event on Feb. 7 in Atascadero, CA. We'll be giving away thirteen books, and have a bookseller. I'll be in conversation with NYT best-selling author Kalyn Josephson about all things eco-creepy.

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Always good to start the new year with a sale! Through Jan. 31. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ten-sleep-... @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Random explorations for seabirds. Montaña de Oro, CA.

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Finally went to go see this local celeb—Lewis’s Woodpecker. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Unless this is some mega-rare Yellow-rumped Warbler from Mexico or Guatemala, just gonna assume a hybrid Audubon’s x Myrtle with that throat pattern and bizarre chip call. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Saw a Tundra Swan today—I wasn’t the finder. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Doesn’t get any weirder than finding a Yellow-breasted Chat in someone’s back patio condo tree. It then flew down into another tiny condo back patio. Wild place for one of these skulky birds. First Meadow Park record here in SLO County. 🥹🪶🐥

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Ever want a size/color comprison between a Lucy’s Warbler and a Bushtit? Here you go. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Blackburning Warbler—first record for Meadow Park, SLO County, CA. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Franky Whitefeathers at his Meadow Park hangout. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Ooooo! Got my first Brown Thrasher in California at Big Morongo! 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I have a super fun two-day event at La Quinta Public Library coming up. Add a writing workshop on how to create a monster to this fun time! Woooo! #horror #books #library #latinowriter #chicanolit

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Yes, I did find a rare Philly Vireo in SLO County, CA. Only the second I’ve seen! 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

First time finding a rare Prairie Warbler here in San Luis Obispo! Look at that cute tum tum! 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

How about some Risso’s for a timeline cleanser?

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Once again, I don't believe anything out of the mouths of high-ranking U.S. government officials.

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Shrike 🐦‍⬛ @shrikebait.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

TEN SLEEP by @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social TEN SLEEP is slow-going horror: less preoccupied with shocking and more intent on drawing you into Greta's mind. Like The Deading, this book clearly sprouted from the author's naturalist roots. #bookreview

Paperback ARC of TEN SLEEP by Nicholas Belardes surrounded by bones and a little felt pocket mouse

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Bird photo. Okay . . . Sunset photo that just happened to have a lil birb blur . . .

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Virg without his tail is still a hero among warblers. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Virg, the tailless Virginia's Warbler takes a bath and gives a tink call before getting in a tussle with a Black Phoebe. I really thought Virg was a goner, but he gave the phoebe the slip and hid in a bush. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Your daily reminder not to normalize white supremacy.

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Virginia’s Warbler, missing its tail, still happily taking a bath. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Go figure. I was thinking foreign agent. Maybe Russian or Israeli. Maybe Maga killed their own. Nope, wife walked past yesterday with her coffee, said, "Mormon Luigi" and walked away. She knew.

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Silly Hutton’s Vireo timeline cleanser. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Leucistic crow wing for the day’s strange omen. 🪶

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Weird how talking heads all assume this was a US citizen doing the attacking.

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