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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 2h

This is the perfect start to spooky season! 93 books for $69, there's no better deal out there.

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · 2h

For @drdragases.bsky.social (tidied up from yesterday)

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 3h

People always seem to think that gen AI is worthless for whatever job or subject they're familiar with, but suitable for that thing they don't know anything about. That should be the hint it's not useful for anything.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5h

The 'Did you really not research?' one that still gets me is the *best selling novel* by a very, very popular author, who gets the language of a very real country wrong. More. Than. Once.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 5h

Octobre Le Palais du Louvre, Paris In a field by the Seine, a man sows seed, raked into earth by a stone-weighted harrow behind a horse; magpies & crows ignore scarecrow archer & peck stray seeds. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry 1412-16 Musée Condé Château de Chantilly

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 12h

Last year I entered with Living Sword, which I wrote 13 years ago. This year, I've entered my new novella Unsaved. I want to see if I can go any further, and maybe get past the first round this time. books2read.com/u/4A9nxq

The cover of Unsaved by Pemry Janes.

A weary robot sits on a head while mechanical limbs pile up behind them. Just a scrapheap, or the ghosts of regrets past reaching for the one who couldn't make good on their promises?

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 4h

The Chills, Thrills and Kills October Itchio book sale is live!!! Get this amazing deal of October-themed reads that'll last you until next year! 80+ books for just $69! Less than a dollar a book and all the jokes you can make about the price! itch.io/b/3904/chill...

Graphic 2 for the Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 18h

A brown dog basks in the last rays of the fading summer sun with one thought on his mind.

Novellas.

And as we head into Fall, have you bought your copy of Unsaved yet?

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 18h

The 2027 Apex Magazine Kickstarter kicks off TOMORROW! ⏰⏰⏰ If you want to be notified when our page goes live and snag some early bird swag, sign up to follow the campaign below. Thank you for supporting another year of strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff! 💜👽

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Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2027

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

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Janny Wurts @jannywurts.bsky.social · 17h

Attention: I got an email today offering for sale the CONTACT INFORMATION, PHONE, ADDRESS, BUSINESS INFO - everything for the entire LIST of attendees for the 2026 World Fantasy Convention. Very ugly - did that list get hacked from the convention? I did fwd the email to writerbeware.

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It’s Just Nick @radium26.bsky.social · 19h

Sometimes I think about the vibes I want for my #radiumage stories and I settle on something like this… #author #writer #WritingCommunity #booksky #scifi #pulp #noir #dystopia #originalwork #ao3 archiveofourown.org/works/910006... (original image is from #metropolis)

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 16h

So what does the organization structure look like for 510+ submissions for two parallel open calls when you are reading all stories by yourself and trying to keep things straight? Like this - (l-r) Stories yet to randomize, stories yet to be read, stories read, current finalist folder.

A set of 8 folders in two rows of 4 stuffed full of submissions.

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 12h

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had so much fun in last years' SFINCS that this year, I entered Between the Blood and the Sun! it's a novella about vampires, and terminal illness, and the choices you make at the end of things. books2read.com/BetweentheBl... jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...

The cover for BETWEEN THE BLOOD AND THE SUN: a female figure, face shadowed, the sun rising or setting behind her. She's wearing a smallish cowboy hat (i.e. not ten gallon), and has two guns.

cover by Elyon from thebookcoverdesigner.com

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 16h

There's a sudden uptick in downloads of FF#26. No idea why, but I'm old, I don't have to understand trends anymore. What's most important is that you, too, jump on the bandwagon. www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

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Issue #26

“A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above” by Nkereuwem Albert: the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution”A White Day Comes” by A.D. Sui: solar destruction…

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 15h

TOMORROW is STORY DAY on Patreon!! for the low-low cost of $1, you can read a NEW SHORT STORY and then free author notes www.patreon.com/c/JenniferRD...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16h

Post a vampire! 🧛 🩸🦇 ‘And immediately [Sauron] took the form of a vampire, great as a dark cloud across the moon, and he fled, dripping blood from his throat upon the trees, and came to Taur-nu-Fuin, and dwelt there, filling it with horror.’

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Sauron Annatar

Alt: Sauron as Annatar

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 15h

I'm getting some very kind messages of support, many surrounding the concept of money, and how law suits are expensive. Please do not worry about me. Instead, I wish to turn your wallets toward a lovely group of people who brough me support, joy, and/or distraction in the past three years. 🧵

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 13h

weirdly, The Drowned Heir hasn't had any sales this month maybe it'll be up your alley? It's about family and responsibility (and a big fucking monster in the ocean)

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 13h

did you know I wrote a romantasy?

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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 13h

I’ll say this as maybe not the biggest toxic epic mecha sci-fi fan on Bluesky: Buy this bundle and read the fuck out of it. I know I will! Everything I’ve read in the G.O. Universe is fantastic.

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 12h

Your perspective determines your reality.

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Antlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

All my books have some form of social justice: payback for racists who harass Cassie for Farming While Black in STRAW MAN. Indigenous legends take on a greedy oil company in WENDIGOGO. Transmasc Scarecrow & lots of queer pride in STRAW SONG and STRAW SOUL. Signed books & ebooks at graythornpub.com!

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Scott F Jarvie @scottfjarvie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The Scientist is a two-part adult sci-fi story. The galaxy's greatest villain is ready to retire as a high school science teacher on Earth, but the powers that be aren't done with him yet. www.kobo.com/series/the-s... More Links books2read.com/u/3LM2A5 books2read.com/u/mgdxqx

A photo of space with a planet's blue atmosphere at the bottom.
The top of the image has a metallic tag with 'The Scientist' written in blue text inside it.
The left half of the image has the text:
THE CREW:
A ‘hero’ that does what he believes is right no matter who pays the cost.
Two sisters who have risen from the darkest corner of the galaxy to fight oppression.
An energetic pilot that ignores commonsense to prove he can do the impossible.
A mathematical genius who’s pattern recognition makes all computers envious.
An odd young woman who seems out of place.
And a quiet man who never fails to deliver.
On the right side of the image, the covers for the books, The Scientist: A Monster's Resentment and The Scientist: Masks & Lies have a ghostly boarder.
A Monster's Resentment is an image of a black hole.
Masks & Lies is an image of an Earth-like planet with the right half of the planet burning.
At the bottom of the image there is a metallic tab with the logos, 'Available at Amazon', 'Barnes and Noble', 'kobo plus', and 'Rakuten kobo' inside it.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 20h

With 15 hours to go on the current OC submission deadline, 506 combined submissions and new cities being pinned. Thank you as always to all who submit. I don't take the reading/review process lightly. Special points to all who are submitting somewhere for the very first time.

Current World and US map of submitting author cities with red and blue pins aplenty across our world.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 19h

I meant to post my newest ARCs yesterday, but I was so tired and busy, I only remembered Insta 😂 Here are my newest indie books! Can’t wait to read them! Also gonna try and get reviews out for the ones I’m currently reading this weekend (exhausted brain permitting). Stay tuned!

The Boreas’ Tribes books and The Black Bear Codex paperback. Atop is a sticker that says ‘Banning books is bananas!’

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 18h

FINAL DAY

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 18h

happy WITCH WEDNESDAY Shakespeare retellings are VERY IN right now, and so luckily Exit Ghost is modern witchy girl Hamlet at the Jersey Shore! books2read.com/ExitGhost jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/exit-ghost

Hardcover copy of Exit Ghost on a driftwood log on sunny Asbury Park Beach.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 30/09/2026

Yes, I let it rest for a week or a month, then come back at it with fresh eyes.

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 29/09/2026

Hey US friends! Want to read a novel that's kinda Nigerian John Wick meets Arrival by way of The Three Body Problem, Or what you'd get if Carl Sagan's Contact and Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai had a very African baby? I've got you. Win a free copy here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026

Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026. We're giving away 10 copies of a unique and philosophical sci-fi t...

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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did you know? In the Victorian era, two sisters who were born enslaved and conjoined went from being bought, sold, and kidnapped as children to becoming internationally famous singers known as the “Two-Headed Nightingale”? Millie and Christine McKoy were born in 1851. #Victorian #history

It shows a photograph of Millie and Christine McKoy.

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Pascal Abel @abel-paleo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Loooong boi. Tanystropheus at Urweltmuseum Oberfranken (Bayreuth). #paleontology #paleobio #fossils #Triassic #Paläontologie

Skeleton cast of the long-necked Triassic reptile Tanystropheus hanging from the ceiling in a black-walled room, surrounded by other museum pieces.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please. If you see evidence of workplace harassment. Badmouthing of own junior staff, unreasonable expectations, removal or omission from authorship, hostile language, evidence of overworking or distress. Don't walk by. Academic safety nets can't rely on whisper networks set by marginalised people.

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 28/09/2026

Last days of Dutch Summer. 📷 by me.

A road less traveled.

A small path between a ditch and a wire fence, rows of trees lining the right while another row of smaller trees heads of to the left.

Dry leaves from the dry summer heat litter the ground, mushrooms emerging here and there from the forest floor.

The sun spills through the trees, illuminating the still green leaves of a young tree which is growing in the shadow of its kin.

Beneath mighty clouds a green carpet of grass, reeds, shrubs, and trees.

The water is devoid of the birds you usually see here, maybe already preparing to head south for the winter?

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 28/09/2026

Unsaved is out now. A science fiction novella at the end of time, where the sun is undead, tech is part of the ecology, and the world is buried by the past. An ancient android goes undercover to steal the last spark of humanity. books2read.com/u/4A9nxq pemry-janes.itch.io/unsaved #booksky 🪐📚

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KeyCheyn | Open for Work @keycheyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[Likes/Shares/Boosts Appreciated] Still need help on completing my thesis documents and production expenses, plus gadgets for future work by next year (52% out of $1000 USD) and basic needs (20% out of $1000 USD) and moving out funds before the end of the year. Thanks! #HelpSky #SkyAid #MutualHelp

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🔥 FANTASY SHORT STORY 🔥 🍃 fairytale 👩‍❤️‍👩 romantic 🔮 magic 🎭 second pov 🔖 story: mybook.to/WDd0F 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/fire-at-her-... 📖 gr link: www.goodreads.com/book/show/75... [ #booksky ]

kindle cover for fire at her fingertips by rebecca crunden; picture is of a hand holding flames

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Shannon Knight @shannonknight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2 days remaining on this punk bundle! 24 books by 24 punks for 24 bucks. itch.io/b/3913/punk-...

Punk Spec Fic Book Bundle Graphic, bordered by 24 covers, with bright blue, purple, pink, orange background.

Text: Punk Spec Fic, 24 books for $24, Sept 20-30.

Books & Authors;
Walking the Knife's Edge (Sythe Series #1), Elise Carlson.

CyberSnow, A.E. Bross.

Memento Moreau. Conrad Altmann.

Sting of the Shore: Stories & Poems. Devan Barlow.

Visual Snow. L. B. Shimaira.

Snowstorm & Overgrowth, Claudie Arseneault.

Run With the Hunted, Jennifer R. Donohue.

The Thirteenth Hour, Trudie Skies.

Erosion, Mcburnell.

Broken Sky, Morgan K. Bell.

Aether Beyond the Binary, Duck Prints Press.

Woodspell, Kapeo Press.

The Daily To-Do List, Rob MacWolf.

The Neon Garden, Alina Lee.

The Red Hourglass - Slaves of the New World #1, Ashley Capes.

A Study on Magic and Crystals, May Barros.

The Diamond Device, Mhthaung.

A Place of Refuge Omnibus, Victoria Janssen.

Grave Cold, Shannon Knight.

Punk Means Cuddle, A. Lee Welles Fiction.

War of the Space Dragons (An Empire of Dragons Collection), L’Poni.

Black Sails to Sunward, Sheila Jenné.

Locker's Rebellion, Jesse Pohlman.

Netwalk, Joyce Reynolds Ward.

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