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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 29/09/2026

Scifi folks - check this out: Best of Brian W. Aldis Humble Bundle www.humblebundle.com/books/best-b... #Scifi #HumbleBundle

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 29/09/2026

Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins is currently only $1.99. It's mind-blowingly weird and original contemporary fantasy about a group of adoptive siblings trying to figure out what happened to their father who has gone missing. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #booksale #fantasy #booksky

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The Library at Mount Char ebook by Scott Hawkins - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Library at Mount Char A Novel" by Scott Hawkins available from Rakuten Kobo. “Wholly original . . . the work of the newest major talent in fantasy.”—The Wall Street Journal “Freakishly compe...

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 28/09/2026

Are you an indie SFFH author with a new book release or launching a crowdfund in October? Let us know and we'll include it in our monthly new release roundup! www.readindiefantasy.com/new-releases/

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New Releases – Read Indie Fantasy

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 27/09/2026

New book review: Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater #1) by Christopher Ruocchio An ambitious space opera with sprawling world-building and a deep focus on grief, suffering, zealotry, human cruelty, moral dilemmas, art, and linguistics. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews... #BookSky #SciFi

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 23/09/2026

Happy release day! Loved this duology. #BookSky

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 22/09/2026

Nothing to see here. Just a cat eating raspberries...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 22/09/2026

Check out Shadow Box Archives if you haven't already. Great collection of short stories. shadowboxarchives.com #BookSky #Horror

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Shadow Box Archives

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 21/09/2026

SFINCS4 is currently accepting applications for self-published novellas across all genres of speculative fiction docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #BookSky

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 18/09/2026

New ARC Review: The Unraveling by @beronikakeres.bsky.social A gothic tragedy with a deep focus on love and grief. If the gorgeous cover doesn't convince you to read this book, I truly hope that my review will. This book absolutely needs to have a place on your shelf. #BookSky 🔗🧵⬇

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 16/09/2026

New ARC Review: Dweller in Darkness by @samflynnwrites.bsky.social A doomed quest through haunted subterranean depths where your own companions transform into vicious killers. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews... #BookSky #DarkFantasy #EldritchHorror #BodyHorror

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 14/09/2026

The Unraveling by Beronika Keres. Beautiful depiction of grief and suffering from the perspective of an eroding mind.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 13/09/2026

Setting up a new Androd phone made me realize just how deep the AI psychosis has percolated into the mobile stack. The SMS app needs permissions to analyze messages with AI. You select some text anywhere, first option in the popover before copy/paste etc is to rewrite content with AI...

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Divination Hollow Reviews @divinationhollow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's here! #QueerYoureReader divinationhollow.com/queer-your-e...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 12/09/2026

Queer your eReader! Book blast event organized by Divination Hollow happening now. divinationhollow.com/queer-your-e... #BookSky #BookPromo #FreeBooks #QueerBooks

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Queer Your eReader — Divination Hollow Reviews

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 11/09/2026

Grimdark Fantasy + Galactic Empires + Eldritch Horror mybook.to/rowp-i

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 11/09/2026

Setting up a new phone. I had forgotten how much of junk android vendors ship out of the box.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As we prepare to open the entry form on September 19, 2026, we've established the timeline for judging rounds! We've also outlined when reviews are required and how many. 👀👀 #booksky💙📚👀 www.sfincscompetition.com/competition-...

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Competition Timeline | The Speculative Fiction

Competition timeline details for The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (SFINCS, pronounced “sphinx”)

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Rosé Black (🍁🍂🍠🍎🍏🎃) @roseblack2222.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

#HorrorWriter #Writing Time for a new pinned post, so I can promote The #ShadowBoxArchives website. If you've ever been on a subreddit like r/NoSleep or r/ShortScaryStories, it's pretty much like that except you can post more than written work like #Art. We hope to see you soon shadowboxarchives.com

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 07/09/2026

New book review: The Mystery of the Pale King by @samflynnwrites.bsky.social An atmospheric grimdark fantasy novella that brings together flintlock action, esoteric cults, eldritch deities, and haunting cosmic horror. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 06/09/2026

New Book Review: Mercy's Gate by Nick Snape Fun fast-paced sci-fi action-thriller with a focus on corporate greed, humanity in the aftermath of war, and a vengeful planet from where nobody returns alive paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews... #BookSky #BookReview #Scifi

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 03/09/2026

Eye-opening article on how entrenched fascism has become in Tech/VC scene. DHH was someone I looked up to for years and in many ways, my multi-decade tech career was built upon software developed by him, and others like RMS linked in the post. This is disheartening. brennan.day/normalized-f...

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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026

"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase

CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 01/09/2026

After a few years of hard work, The Chosen One Con is out now on ebook with paperbacks to follow soon! Available on Kindle, Kobo, Itch and more to come. books2read.com/thechosenone... But of course, I couldn't publish this book without help, and I have a lot of people to thank! 👇

A promo image for The Chosen One Con, out now on Kindle, Kobo, and Itch. It shows the book cover to the Chosen One Con (a young white man in a trench coat holding a glowing blue potion bottle as though trying to steal it) and the following text: Magic spoke to me, whispering promises of fortune and fame. It spoke when I switched on the old MV and the screen came alive with the blue glow of magic, the faint spark and pop of aether flowing through the cables.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 01/09/2026

New book review: Heretic by @noahisaacs.bsky.social Intriguing high-fantasy novella that brings together an interesting FMC and expansive world-building in a very short read. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 01/09/2026

This epic sale comes to a close. Many thanks to @narratess.com for organizing this and to everyone who picked up my esoteric slice of dark fiction. Hopefully some of you will actually try it out 😆

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 31/08/2026

New Book Review: The Shapeshifter's Gambit by @gpierceauthor.bsky.social. A dark twisted plot that keeps you on your toes throughout. paulgzareith.ink/book-reviews...

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 31/08/2026

Now that I am done tossing free copies of my book into the abyss, it's time to catch up on some pending reviews...

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Narratess @narratess.com · 31/08/2026

I'm going to share some standout book from the sale, ones I've read, that are on my tbr, or that I discovered now. But the other books are also worth checking out since my taste might not be the same as yours :) Check them all out on indiebook.sale!

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale surrounded by a collage of participating books. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

Text: Indie Book Sale

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Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

29 - 31 August

Banner designed by Arden Powell

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 30/08/2026

The @narratess.com eBook sale is live! There are hundreds of books available for just $2.99 or less—here's a few of the sci-fi books you can find! Visit indiebook.sale to browse the hundreds of other fantasy, sci-fi, and horror books on sale this August 29–31! 💙📚

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Happy birthday to the mother of SF, Mary Shelley

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 31/08/2026

Funny seeing this in the Washington Post, but this is your periodic reminder that you can't trust random influencers online, and you need to proactively keep blocking and disassociating from fascist-regime sympathizers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)

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Joanna Maciejewska @authorjmac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's the weekend you (might) have been waiting for! Naratess Indie Sale is back with over 280 books! Browse them all here: indiebook.sale/ or if you're overwhelmed and like to get books in bulk, check out the bundles listed at the top.

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Nils O @nils.readindiefantasy.com · 29/08/2026

If you like books that have charaters and stuff that happens to them, At the Road's End might be right up your alley. Why not give it a go? It's part of the Narratess Indie Book Sale at indiebook.sale #Narratess (Thanks to @authorjmac.bsky.social for help with the description)

Promo image for At The Road's End. It includes the cover of the book, the Narratess banner, and the tag line: "She's the villain of everyone else's story."

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 30/08/2026

The Narratess Indie Book Sale goes into its second day. Over 280 indie ebooks in the fantasy, sci-fi, and horror genres are on sale or free at indie Book.sale To celebrate, check out these books by members of the Read Indie Fantasy Discord server: www.readindiefantasy.com/the-narrates... #BookSky

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 30/08/2026

I have a low-frequency newsletter. If you want to make sure that you don't miss out on updates about my upcoming books and cool promos, do consider signing up. You also periodically get free short stories hot off the press. No spam ever. thoughts.paulgzareith.ink/subscribe/

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 29/08/2026

The Wraith Returns by @paulgzareith.ink Alien vampires, trapped in a time warp of their own creation, getting hunted by an immortal assassin, also of their own creation. #booksky #NarratessSale2026 #NarratessIndieSale

The book cover to The Warith Returns by Paul G. Zareith. Alien vampires, trapped in a time warp of their own creation, getting hunted by an immortal assassin, also of their own creation. Priced FREE.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 29/08/2026

The Narratess Spec-Fic Indie Book sale is live! Now's your chance to get a TON of indie Scifi, Fantasy, and Horror books for cheap! Both my novels are on sale for $1.99 currently, with Merchants of Knowledge and Magic being the one I selected this time for the Narratess bundles. Check it out!📚

Cover of my book, Merchants of Knowledge and Magic

"My secret would plunge the world into chaos."
"How much is it worth?"
Calinthe is an asexual dragonfly-person who was sent on a mission to find two missing men.

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 29/08/2026

Today is the start of the Narratess Indie Book Sale! This weekend only, over 280 indie ebooks are on sale across a collection of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror genres at 1.99, 2.99, and FREE! indiebook.sale To celebrate, check out books from our Discord server: www.readindiefantasy.com/the-narrates...

A promo image for the Narratess Indie Book sale at indiebook.sale, featuring fantasy, sci-fi and horror this weekend, 29-31 August. The image shows book covers to various indie books as well as an illustrated picture of a dragon reading a book, design by Arden Powell.

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 29/08/2026

May cost you your sanity. And your soul. But otherwise free. This weekend only. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GMCFXTY2 #Grimdark #DarkFantasy #Necromancy #Vampires #Scifi #SpeculativeFiction #IndieBookSale #BookSale #FreeBook

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Paul G. Zareith @paulgzareith.ink · 28/08/2026

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