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Premee Mohamed

@premeemohamed.com
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Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! ko-fi.com/premee

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 19m
Also I am forgetting! My friend Dani's middle-grade book THE DOG HEIST came out from @secondstory.bsky.social this month! If you have young readers in your life, maybe they too would like a heist! :D bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Dog Heist
A neglected dog brings two misfits together in this adventure for middle schoolers who love animals and stories where the kids take charge. For Caleb, September is off to a rough start. His parents ha...
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 31m
22 hours remaining! Our first stretch goal adds another issue next year. Let’s read all the stories together! kck.st/4x4r1oz
headshots of Gemma Amor, Gemma Files, A.T. Greenblatt, Shane Hawk, Jordan Kurella, Arkady Martine, Sam J. Miller, Suzan Palumbo, Sarah Read, Eden Royce, A.D. Sui, Michael Wehunt, Kelsea Yu, along with the 3LBE masthead
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1h
OH ALSO I forgot to yell about this: cats and video instead of just voices! On @gryftkin.bsky.social 's YouTube! :D Chatting about WICKHILLS and cities and physics and monsters and spies! youtu.be/I6Rb2oJW-Rw?
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Interview with author Premee Mohamed: Wickhills - this city does not obey the laws of physics
YouTube video by Gryftkin
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1h
Aaaaaa everybody go listen (I am SO happy I got to pick this blog post, this was the one I wanted the MOST and I was on the road and wasn't able to pick mine for several days and it was STILL THERE) I hope the audio is OK, I had FILE SHENANIGANS
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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 1h
If you are not yet listening to the podcast of authors reading Ursula Le Guin's blog entries, start with this week's episode read by @premeemohamed.com - I especially enjoyed it! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Premee Mohamed reads "Petty Expectations"
Podcast Episode · In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin · September 30 · 18m
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1h
Update: I am not smart
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 2h
My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 2h
I am an instructor for the fourth annual 2027 Sandia Starforgers retreat and workshop for speculative fiction writers. The event is 70% sold out, and the application for the scholarship is open. I hope you will apply. www.tickettailor.com/events/sandi...
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Buy Your Ticket – Sandia Starforgers Writers Retreat and Workshop: April-May 2027 – Albuquerque, NM
Sandia Starforgers Writers Retreat and Workshop: April-May 2027 – Albuquerque, NM, Fri Apr 30, 2027 - Mon May 3, 2027 - Sandia Starforgers Writers Retreat and Workshop 2027 Instructional Theme: CHARAC...
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 2h
Perfectly reasonable No notes Hey @gianttourtiere.bsky.social Imma put about fifty of these in the ship arboretum Everyone will love them
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3h
all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 2h
For too long, residential school history wasn't part of the curriculum. Now, as we grapple with the realities, denialists are pushing back, trying to muddy up the truth. Here are tips on how teachers and others can have meaningful talks in the face of denialism podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/h...
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How teachers can respond to residential school denialism in the classroom
Podcast Episode · The Courtney Theriault Show · September 29 · 11m
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18h
you are invited to her gallery opening
A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h
that said, while I think having a large following means you are responsible for where you point the Eye of Sauron, it does not mean that people with a small following should be allowed to say whatever out of pocket shit they want to you and then play "I'm just a little birthday boy" if you respond
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 19h
Yes but --
the cover of fiasco's next novel, 'the hamsome man,' featuring him (the hamsome man) sitting on a faux-wood table in front of some blue and gold curtains
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Hilary 💀 BisenEEKs @hbbisenieks.bsky.social · 19h
hey ya girl's car literally barfed up its serpentine belt this morning. so if you maybe want to help a brick out, go check out my itch? i Just dropped a new zine i've been working on for a hot minute, and you can also pick up a solo ttrpg i wrote hbbisenieks.itch.io/a-tgirls-gui...
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a tgirl's guide to archery by Hilary B. Bisenieks
a (queer) introduction to archery
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 19h
Also wow okay are we POSING, is this your next AUTHOR PHOTO, Mr. FANCY-PANTS (not wearing pants)
a large, fluffy grey tabby with a white bib and white toes, sitting and looking AS SERIOUS AS POSSIBLE on a faux-wood table in front of blue and gold blackout curtains.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/09/2026
ALSO is it that time of year again?? Is the air getting crisp?? Are ghosts beginning to whisper from the dark corner behind the bookshelf?? ("Actually we're roasting" OK I can't help where you live, ignore the above) Time to read THE APPLE-TREE THRONE! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
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The Apple-Tree Throne ebook by Premee Mohamed - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Apple-Tree Throne" by Premee Mohamed available from Rakuten Kobo. It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the st...
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 21h
Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.
A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 21h
Me yesterday: Haha it's so FUNNY that @mkcurry.bsky.social asked if I had a plan to sign all these book stickers Me: You don't need a PLAN Me: Haha Me: Ha Me today: ..... ....... ... ......... Well ONE hand/wrist still kinda works, I mean, what do you really need BOTH for, right
two stacks of bookplates balanced on top of a pile of books. the left pile remains to be signed, the right is done. i still might die before finishing that stack though.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 23h
OK lemme see if this works (quickly recorded on desktop, LOL)
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/09/2026
Ohohoho my contributor copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD arrived! :D Yos yos I love it LOVE that cover (cover art by Galen Dara, AND the wonderful internal black-and-white illos!)
a copy of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD in front of my tea tray (a black tray with a skull on it)the cover of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, edited by jonathan strahan, illustrated by galen dara, showing a skeletal figure with a crown of roses, spectral robes hanging. behind it is a tombstone surmounted with a circled cross.SINKING ALL THE WHILE

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We didn't kill him. He fell sometimes people die of a fall-it's known-we are accustomed to blame but we are not to blame. Perhaps he was dead al-ready. We don't know. It's not our fault. We can't tell.

It is true that we embraced him as he sank, and we pulled on his soft rich clothing, yes, that's true. We pulled him-not down! toward!-in a direction toward the center of things, you know the one. Deep inside. People have this silly idea about directions, the way to cut up the world, north south east west up down. They forget away and toward (the center).

You cannot cut water; we think he still tried. The scabbard on his belt was empty. His hand clutched a knife. He sank slowly toward the center.

How we held him! Like a lover, entered him, tenderly, sweetly, in si-lence, not wishing to be too forward (not a direction). His juices meeting our juices. Blood of the city: rainwater and pisswater and the oozings of trash, of-fal on Butcher Street
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153
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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 29/09/2026
i'm a Serious Artist™️ aplante.com/shop aplante.threadless.com
a blue-grey t-shirt that has a cartoon drawing of a white whale spouting "It's mobin' time!"sticker of moby dick spouting "it's mobin' time!"
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Raymond Currier @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm about 3/4 of the way through Wickhills by @premeemohamed.com and it's a wonderful book, not quite like anything I've ever read. It's a gaslamp fantasy kitchen sink spy thriller. I've had a wild ride and I'm looking forward to finding out how it ends! #septemberworldbuilders
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/09/2026
Help Got one of them there Draculas in the house
a fluffy black cat on a bed, facing the viewer, yawning. there are fangs.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also, I've decided to set the price for Between the Blood and the Sun at a special $2.99 for the first round of #SFINCS4 (so until December 5) if I make it to round 2 again, I'll continue the sale (or make it lower? hmmm?) GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
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smols/rachel @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think more discussions about what should or shouldn't be included in the contents or done in the execution of fiction (& other art) need to realize that human feelings don't always reflect objective reality--or our aspirations for it--but they do need to be expressed in some way!
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you an editor or publisher with an original short fiction project of weird fiction out this year? Anthology? Magazine? Collection? Get it in for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 28/09/2026
I have certainly said "Ha! I cannot be killed by such ORDINARY means!!" several times this week Also variations of "Pah!" as well as "Faugh!" and "Bah!" They all make it more true, FYI Also the repetition Yeah Gotta be
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ooop www.science.org/content/arti...
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Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 28/09/2026
Also it means you can use the word dinkus, which is a v. good word
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 28/09/2026
Stretch goals means more stories and more monsters next year! Let’s lurk and lope and glide and cavort with them all. Back us now for a subscription, signed book, artwork, or handmade rewards. kck.st/4x4r1oz
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027
Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!
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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ONE WEEK UNTIL OWL!
The cover of Children of Owl with the phrase “One Week” on it
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026
Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 28/09/2026
The Divvle was BUSY
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Seven Places in Europe That Legends Say Were Built by Giants, Devils or Dragons
Bridges, mountains, caves and rock formations that seem impossible to explain become magnets for folklore
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 28/09/2026
Okay meeting one of three done for day HIGH FIVE meeting one done I have FOURTEEN MEETINGS THIS WEEK How did this happen (I know how this happened) 😭
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ok, well, Wickhills by @premeemohamed.com is one of the best fantasy novels I've read in quite awhile so I'm going to go with that...probably for whoever is looking for fantasy at the moment.
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of war.Looking after a defecting scientist should have been Vycol Ferec's easiest mission. But now he's on the run from the intelligence agency he works for, dodging a handler who might have gone rogue and relying on a secret patchwork of illicit resources and dodgy contacts. Turns out his defector might be carrying an apocalypse-level magical weapon — and protecting it requires Ferec and his team to go underground, literally. Down here, the rules are very different... and the tense peace between every city in the world will shatter unless Ferec can drag their darkest secrets into the light.
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...
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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award
Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthol...
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wildly reductive description, perhaps, but @premeemohamed.com's Wickhills is a the Circus in Bas-Lag, and absolutely incredible. A really amazing achievement and a stunning novel.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026
Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 28/09/2026
Last reskeet from @annabookwriter.bsky.social -- super useful and I hope people read the whole thing. I also hope I steered (mostly?? I did my best!) clear of those harmful disability tropes and stereotypes in THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS, particularly at the start when Alefret is --
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That said, the fact that there is so much interest makes me feel like I should mention them at least a little. This thread in no way can stand in place of working with a sensitivity consultant with lived experience! Here is a brief, nonexhaustive list of harmful disability tropes in fiction.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/09/2026
As people have correctly pointed out: the thing about a Canada Goose, see, is --
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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
MAKE ART! MAKE BAD ART! BAD ART IS BETTER THAN AI ART! YOUR WORST IS STILL BETTER THAN THE SLOP!
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having sensory issues is fun because sometimes a turtleneck is the perfect companion for a cozy chilly autumn day and other times a murderer is strangling me
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 27/09/2026
I had a good corporate comms gig for a while, and pushed* them last year to have an “ai” policy as in No-tf-not which they did bc they’re a great co. (B Corp, 1% for the Planet) -*I told them I’d quit if they had anything other than zero tolerance- Last month, I found out one of the owners
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/09/2026
Pls send authors nice emails about their work Otherwise it's a wasteland of slopscammers and "Were is the addiobook I want addio" "Wy is ur book not for sale in my nation no one has ever herd of" "I live on Enceladus & I cannot find ur bok"
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