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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026

In no reasonable world is this necessary and yet here we are. Even if you're not currently pregnant or planning to be, please share this widely among your people. You never know how far something like this might be shared. And it will probably save a life.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

to the cis people who are like “trans people were never erased from history, that’s a lie!” i want you to pay attention to it happening right in front of your eyes all of this to strip records from a whopping ELEVEN people in fifteen years erasing our accomplishments is part of it

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TRANS HISTORY 1 (how and why we name trans people in history) - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

I’m not a historian. I’m not an expert in trans history, though I find it fascinating. I myself have a lot to learn on the topic, but one thing I DO know is that there have always been trans people. T...

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Official announcement for ENEMIES TO WORSE, coming to you as a villaintine February 9th 2027, a novella in audiobook and ebook, set in the LONG LIVE EVIL world but also stands alone for those who might enjoy ‘Romeo and Juliet if Romeo fell for Tybalt’ fantasy ice raiders. #booksky

Announcement of novella sale ‘enemies to worse’ by Sarah Rees Brennan

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The news as announced by @bookbrunch.bsky.social - a novella in the Time of Iron universe is coming your way in early spring. Doomed love, fan favourites, stands alone or works as another portal into the epic portal fantasy… please await ENEMIES TO WORSE… l1nq.com/cjjuku1 #booksky

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

between #TedLasso #OctoberDaye I'm loving the fiction in my life this week!!! Oh and a beta assured my witch book made sense outside my head, at least to them, so yay!!! #BookSky #TVSky

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 24/09/2026

This just in: His name shall be Menander, and you can call him And or Andy for short. (He joined Sophocles "Sophie" and Aeschylus "Esk" on our staff a week ago Sunday and is still mostly hiding under the couch, but he gets more comfortable in his new home every day.)

A very pale orange cat with tabby stripes around his very leonine eyes. He is unselfconsciously smooshing his forehead against a human's hand. His fur looks, and in fact is, softer than a rabbit's. What's not quite clear in this picture is that he also has huge feet. Huge. Also very leonine. And did I mention that he's gorgeous?

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's been 18 hours and I'm still boggling over that twist in #AllHailChaos %sarahbrennanskysocial has been stunning me since her Demon's books, so all is right w/ the world.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 19/09/2026

Good advice.

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 17/09/2026

NEW ARRIVALS with New Cat! We have not yet settled on a new professional name for New Cat, so your suggestions are welcome! Place your order via 319-337-2996 or infodesk@thehauntedbookshop.com - We ship! Or stop by 219 N Gilbert Street, Iowa City, 11-6 Central Mon-Sat.

A golden tabby cat with very leonine features and a big, fluffy tail looks up from a food dish in a room with a squishy couch and a lot of mystery novels

A roll of discount stickers and three piles of Babysitter's Club paperbacks from the 1980s, except with an adorable golden tabby cat flopped over in the middle of everything, allowing store employee Felix to rub his forehead

Golden tabby cat looks off-camera like a movie starlet while accidentally wearing a discount price sticker on his chest. Let me stress, urgently, that the cat is not for sale. We love him.

Oh right, books. Here are some nonfiction titles, including a couple versions of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Analects of Confucius, C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed, books about Montaigne and Emerson and the Inklings, a little criticism, some war history of both recent and long distant varieties, some classical history, and a bit of Western philosophy

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Kelley Armstrong @kelleyarmstrong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Haunting of Paynes Hollow is on sale today only! $2.99 for the ebook Sept 13. My next standalone horror, Dive Bar at the End of the Road, comes out Oct 6.

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

it's been a week of blind awareness, a community theater production of Come From Away I'm in provided audio description to blind patrons for the 1st time in the theaqfor's 51 seasons & I was on a panel about inclusivity at a theatre educuation conference today. Tomorrow I rest.

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 10/09/2026

Sep 9 2026 Dear journal: Went to Kitty Corner Social Club after work tonight. Love it. Very chill, homelike but unique, full of good company of both human and kitty persuasions. Might need to become a regular.

A beautiful, leonine orange cat washes his massive paws behind a cute little chair. Evening sun comes through the windows and falls on a plaid blanket and various love-and-cats themed wall hangings.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Save 25% on B&N preorders 9/9 - 9/11 with PREORDER25. Perhaps a fantasy novel about a clever scribe who infiltrates the palace consort quarters to search for a missing noblewoman but is forced to work with the Dowager's loveliest & most condescending servant www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-flower...

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The Flower Court

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author, Stage Combat Guy @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Reversion clause" is a phrase a lot of new writers submitting to small presses don't know, and if that's you, rectify that ASAP and make sure you always have one in your contracts. And yes, you should ALWAYS have a contract.

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

if you need audio description to watch media and were hoping the #Hadestown proshot would have this accessibility service so something that's meant to be more widely available could be enjoyed by all, sorry. Ironic since hope in the face of being deprived is a theme of the show

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.

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https://ilona-andrews.com @ilonaandrews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How much research goes into one fantasy breakfast? 15 minutes of medieval manuscripts, rastons, sambocades, and enriched double-baked crumbs. Read all about it in a tiny glimpse behind the scenes of writing Maggie ilona-andrews.com/blog/medieva...

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Medieval Breads and Time Sink - ILONA ANDREWS

This post includes recipe videos, so if you are reading through email, it might help to read online instead. People often ask about research: how does it happen, what does it look like, and so on. Aut...

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 13/08/2026

Editor Mary Kole on how editing is changing in the age of AI. The article includes concrete steps editors can consider taking re: contracts and client disclosure janefriedman.com/after-editin...

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After Editing Two AI-Assisted Manuscripts, I Rewrote My Client Agreement | Jane Friedman

Inexperienced authors may believe generative AI use improves their manuscript, but there’s a cost—extra fees charged by freelance editors.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 12/08/2026

Literary agent Carly Watters suggests some steps to take in case you ever have to prove you wrote your own book. (You can read most of the post without having to do that super-annoying Substack thing that forces you to download the app.) theweekendrant.substack.com/p/ready-to-p...

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Ready To Prove You Wrote Your Book? Workflow Tips For Writers In The Age Of AI

what I'll be talking to writers about in the coming weeks, months (and years?!)

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

someone in play rehearsals read my 1st book & wants the abandoned-but-not-forgotten sequel. What they want to see are things I outlined before needing a change after 3 yrs of work & lack of interest. Having a fan lives up to the hype #AuthorSky #BookSky

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

such a fun, unexpected addition to my reading this year. Looking forward to book 2

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

season 3 #TheArtfulDodger is a go!!! It's the final season but I'm just happy someone heard my plea

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

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A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

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Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ebook sale, a mere $2.99 (a steal!) for my grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt. www.amazon.com/Witch-Roads-...

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Amazon.com: The Witch Roads eBook : Elliott, Kate: Kindle Store

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

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Free short science fiction, published weekly · Science Fiction Weekly

Science Fiction Weekly publishes a free short story every weekday and a curated digest every Sunday. Subscribe by email.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

BOOK BAN BILL THREAD FOR JULY 27. The House is not currently in session. Representatives are spending the next month working in their own home districts. What does this mean? We won't see action on three of the federal-level book ban bills. That also means go see these people IRL if you can.

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hadestown proshot has been extended in many places because it's the second highest grossing filmed musical since Hamilton. Go see it and extend it more. I may be going again

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Back in the before times, I interviewed the wonderful @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social for @reactorsff.bsky.social at @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social … and somewhere on the long road between then and now, I forgot I’d done that. Many thanks to the folks at Reactor for having a better memory than me!

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/07/2026

You'll not convince me this isn't the historically accurate Odysseus.

Wishbone as Odysseus in the "Homer, Sweet Homer" episode.

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

update on the not-a-blog b/c writing books & being in community musicals means it's not updated enough for the name, on how deception in romance can be done well. blognikiwhite.blogspot_comstbb>ffst0ggsten-ways-deception-wont-ruin-your-romance.html

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 20/07/2026

There I was, minding my own music station, when this violin tune started, and I thought, this is really fine. Like longing, but with a hoarse edge of desire. Then I went to copy the link for posting. I SWEAR I don't just post things with "Ghost" in the title. music.youtube.com/watch?v=OajA...

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Lover's Ghost / Maud Miller

YouTube video by Oisín McAuley - Topic

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

At 1pm PDT, join Emerging Tech for the first in a series of public panels clearing the air and dispelling hype around AI. Thank you for your survey responses! Many writers are afraid to ask questions directly, but need more info to make pro-human choices. See you soon! sfwa.org/sfwa-events-...

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Metamorphosis Literary Agency @metamorphlitag.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Meet Emilyn Padilla, a Filipina-American teen photographer fighting for her future. A summer competition, a scholarship, & a choice that could change everything. Smile for the Camera is coming & the cover is stunning. @trishuponastar.bsky.social @evernightteen.bsky.social @tantoraudio.bsky.social

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have discovered recently that a bunch of people don't know that there's a third Echo Archives book, let alone that it's publishing in November! So YES!!! It exists, it's coming out this year, it's purple! It's THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID!!!

Cover for The Last Star in the Void, which has three golden chalices connected by swirly lines on a bacckground of stars, and a figure of a woman with a sword in front of the biggest chalice

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

sorry to vaguesky but I saw someone whose work has meant quite a bit to me personally sharing that their accomplishments affirm, for them, only their own feeling of uselessness. In empirical fact when we feel useless it is an illusory feeling. we have to Internalize and know this.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 15/07/2026

There may be a problem. I think Elsie can vote for the Hugos. It's like this, she's going to be on programing, so I registered her for Worldcon. As an attending child. She's 8. (They didn't require that, fyi.) Then I looked at the WSFS constitution. It doesn't say anything about being human.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 15/07/2026

It does say "person," but arguably Elsie is a person even if she's not human. Site selection says that non-humans can only vote for "no preference" but that's the only place being human is specified. Since it's mentioned there, the fact that it's not elsewhere could imply that she can vote.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 15/07/2026

Weirdly, since I read to Elsie I know that she has preferences about prose. Some books I start, and she immediately leaves every time. And she can express those preferences. I'm not saying that I'm going to have Elsie vote, but...I think she could. Which is a problem.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 15/07/2026

The fact that my cat can arguably vote for the Hugo awards strikes me as a sign that the rules should be updated to specify that only humans can vote. Because it's just a matter of time before someone claims that their AI girlfriend is a person and can vote for the Hugos.

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

3 new scenes to write and I can finally let other people see this book that has tried its best to kill me these last few weeks. It had help from life, and play that made me feel like a bad book mom, but still.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Okay, Bluesky. Please forgive me for continuing to push this. A lot of you are familiar with why I'm doing it, so please know: All shares would be so appreciated. I'm trying to build a bridge after a terrible 16 months, and all shares/support/kind words are appreciated.

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Donate to A Safe Bridge Through a Medical Crisis, organized by C Pewter

Hi everyone — I was encouraged to update this, since I didn't fully explain the scope … C Pewter needs your support for A Safe Bridge Through a Medical Crisis

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Niki White @niki-white.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

swap sci-fi for fantasy and I want someone to say this about the book I'm editing. Someday pretty please.

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Author J. Scott Coatsworth @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

QSFer Melissa Marr has a new FF historical fantasy book out: A Treason of Magic. In a world where magic, desire, and duty collide, it is beauty who is fated to kill the beast in a lush historical fantasy ... www.queerscifi.com/new-release-... fantasy, Historical @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social

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New Release: A Treason of Magic – Melissa Marr

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

i keep trying to find a chill or ironic way to post this and there is simply nothing chill about it!!! ahhhhHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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‘The Everlasting’ Series Adaptation in the Works at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)

A series adaptation of the fantasy novel 'The Everlasting' is in development at Netflix.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

every time a publisher's employees unionize, the future of literature gets a little brighter

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 17/06/2026

NEW ARRIVALS! Esk is napping near the front door and hoping that you enjoy scifi/fantasy/specfic/horror so that you'll come pet him. Email infodesk@thehauntedbookshop.com or call 319-337-2996 to order. We ship! Open for browsing 11-6 Central Mon-Sat.

An orange tabby cat with a white blaze on his nose does a highly passable imitation of a cinnamon roll while sleeping on a small beanbag. His ears are far enough forward that he might be feigning sleep, or possibly just in light sleep mode, which he often does while waiting for patrons to come through the nearby front door.

Stacks and rows of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related matters, including about 40 mass market paperbacks of books by Octavia Butler, Robert Heinlein, Harry Turtledove, Connie Willis, Greg Bear, Elizabeth Moon, and more; a row of trade paperbacks and hard covers includes work by Jeff Vandermeer, Robert Silverberg, Charles Yu, Lidia Yuknavitch, Peter Watts, etcetera.

About forty trade paperback and hardcover speculative fiction and neighboring genre books, including work by Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, China Mieville, P. Djeli Clark, Nicky Drayden, Leigh Bardugo, J. G. Ballard, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Annalee Newitz, and others.

Twentyish s-f-f books by authors like Rebecca Roanhorse, Cherie Priest, N.K. Jemisin, Stephen Graham Jones, Ray Nayler, Ann Leckie, Kim Stanley Robinson, T. Kingfisher, Deepti Kapoor, and more.

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