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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 10h

#Booksky TODAY’S the day! Come see us and a bunch of other fun vendors at the Haunts & Horrors Book Fair at Bad Weather Brewing @badweatherbrew.bsky.social in St. Paul 1-5PM!

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 03/10/2026

Yay!! Thanks to everyone who voted, and thanks to everyone who works to make the Ember Awards happen every year! And congrats to all the winners and nominees!

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Bad Weather Brewing Company @badweatherbrew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sunday is our Haunts & Horrors Book Fair! 3 bookstores, an independent publisher, 3 local indie authors + candles, art & bookish items, sweet treats, & tarot readings. Over 20 vendors in total!! It's happening in our event room, garage space + mobile book stores outside. Plus a spooky flight.

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Margaret A-Spelle 🎃 @margaretadelle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Day Seven "The Language of Roses," by Heather Rose Jones @qospress.bsky.social @heatherrosejones.bsky.social #booksky #pridemonth

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you for the reskeets, lovely people! 💖

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Booksky Amazon is keeping the lion’s share of the cover price for THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT, which means our amazing authors get paid less and we get paid less (and have to wait 2 months for it), which is why we’re asking folks to buy direct! queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you're at CapClave this weekend, look for us and @sarahavery.bsky.social and Sarah's book! And if you're not there, you can find Tales From Rugosa Coven at all the usual sites. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/tales-f...

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Tales From Rugosa Coven

Candlemark & Gleam is delighted to bring Sarah Avery’s 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner back into print in a new and revised edition! These three linked novellas detailing the lives of a coven of ...

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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's Friday, and I'm back on my bullshit for #FridayReads... self-consciously gesturing people towards THE TOMMY. It's a liminal horror, 1408ish novelette set in a very weird hospital... and I think it might be one of the eeriest things I've written (It freaked ME out, anyway) payhip.com/b/Sk5l0

Cover of THE TOMMY against a yellow Backrooms background showing deserted yellow corridors

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want a quick horror read with backrooms vibes?
try this

99p/99c ALL OCTOBER

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Booksky #Fridayreads reminder that you can find our books on Kobo and KoboPlus as well as Tolino and other book platforms outside the U.S.!

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 02/10/2026

My short fiction review in the October issue of Locus Magazine includes fiction from Fiyah, Small Wonders, Flash Fiction Online, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Kaleidotrope, GigaNotoSaurus & Strange Horizons. subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. The October 2026 Locus magazine, Issue #789, has interviews with Stephen King, Tananarive Due, and Paul Tremblay. The issue includes a feature on horror with spotlights by K. Ancrum, K-Ming Chang, Ellen Datlow, Christopher Golden, Micaiah Johnson, Keith Rosson, and Lisa Wood; commentary by Maurice Broaddus & Dr. Chesya Burke, Cassandra Khaw, and Lisa Wood; and a review by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro. LAcon V, Worldcon 2026 is covered with an extensive report and photos, the Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report.

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Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey. Do you like science fiction? My collection of short stories APARTMENT WARS AND OTHER STORIES is out on Amazon (including KU). Ten stories, from gritty cyberpunk dystopia to upbeat solarpunk adventure. 🚀👷🏻‍♀️🌱👵🏼🧬👩🏽‍🚀🧪 Give it a try. You may like it.

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October issues of The Dark, @nightmare-magazine.com, Dirty Magick, @locusmag.bsky.social, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @adventitiouswords.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and Sally Port are here and en route to subscribers: weightlessbooks.com/2026/10/

Cover art for The Dark issue 137, featuring an undead person with long black hair hanging from the ceiling in a doorway open on a checkered corridor

Flash Fiction Online October 2026 issue cover, featuring abstract white-on-black lines and textures

Cover art for Adventitious Issue Five, featuring a Black person wearing a great great horned owl head as a hat up to their shoulders in waves with a huge moon and another owl behind them

Cover for Locus Magazine #789, featuring a row of white doors in a blank white hallway, one of them open on a glowing red room

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Booksky Big shoutout to Kate Larking for all her hard work on this!

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 15/09/2026

The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#Booksky Author Joyce Chng @jolantru.bsky.social has read at the Singapore Bookbar and done panels and readings at LA Worldcon, VICFA and soon at Fantasycon, where they are a @bsfa.bsky.social finalist - have you read their queer pirate stories yet? queenofswordspress.com/product/sail...

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Booksky Upcoming events! Look for us at Haunts & Horrors at @badweatherbrew.bsky.social in St. Paul this Sunday 10/4 1-5PM and at @creamandamber.bsky.social‘s Fall Mini Market on 10/10 10-2PM in Hopkins MN (Michael Merriam will be there with his books and ours)!

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SageNatural @sagenatural.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Another month begins, and per the advice of a respected friend, I’m sharing the thread of ways in which you can support the work that I do – in and out of the shop. You can listen to the thread here: wp.me/a404LV-2Nv No links. But a Real Voice. (1/?)

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Monthly Thread 2026 09

“Monthly Thread 2026 09” from Information and Updates by Desert Sage Natural. Released: 2026. Track 6. Genre: Spoken Word.

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Kelrond, Best Purveyor of Gay Books Ever @panediting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Couple things! The James Patterson holiday bookseller bonus is here! form.jotform.com/262385106292... Nominate your favorite bookseller! And if you can help, I need $300 by Oct 7. I'm looking for stuff to sell at home but I'm also sick. paypal.me/panediting

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James Patterson Bookseller Bonus (Fall 2026)

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Booksky Wrapping up #SapphicSeptember with some great reads? Let us help! We have books by Catherine Lundoff, Heather Rose Jones, Dee Holloway, Emily L. Byrne and more! queenofswordspress.com

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Booksky Today is a great day to buy werewolf books! Catherine Lundoff’s Wolves of Wolf’s Point books are available in print, ebook and audiobook everywhere and SILVER MOON is out in German translation from @ylva-publishing.bsky.social! queenofswordspress.com/product-cate...

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Werewolves

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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

via @maxnesterak.bsky.social: GOP attorney general candidate Ron Schutz owns more than $10,000 of stock in 174 companies, including Amazon, Uber, Exxon Mobil, Apple, Alphabet and Pfizer — all of which are defendants in ongoing lawsuits brought by incumbent AG Keith Ellison.

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Minnesota AG candidate’s stock portfolio presents 174 potential conflicts of interest • Minnesota Reformer

If Republican Ron Schutz wins the attorney general’s race in November, he will be responsible for enforcing Minnesota’s laws against the country’s biggest and most powerful corporations. His own perso...

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Booksky Queer Weird West with sapphic characters, to be precise! Rollicking adventures, monsters, tea parties, zombies and more 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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Bill Bodden (he/him) @b1llz1lla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Going live soon - Kickstarter for the latest in the Everyone's Gone to the Movies series, Cinematic Obsessions: Reflections on Cult Films that Broke the Rules. My essay covers the 2006 film Thank You For Smoking. Sign up to get notified when the campaign is live. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

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Coming soon: Cinematic Obsessions

Reflections on Cult Films that Broke the Rules

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rider's Revenge by Alessandra Clarke is part of a one-day deal on Nook today. So if you're in the U.S. you can get it for 99 cents instead of $5.99 in ebook. Sorry for the late notice! #booksky #sale www.barnesandnoble.com/w/riders-rev...

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Rider's Revenge

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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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

3. The Cornell Daily Sun! Need I say more? These fierce, courageous journalists -and Jane Doe herself- are heroes. www.cornellsun.com/page/donate May the students who graduate this year not find themselves 35 years later, as I do, feeling that nothing has changed. /end

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Support the Sun! - The Cornell Daily Sun

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 29/09/2026

up for something familiar but new? searing but gentle? funny but also sincere? weird but drawing from the absurd rather than horror?

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/09/2026

Seward Cafe is the oldest cooperatively run restaurant in the United States, and they’re still about 12k short of the funds they need to stay open. It’s such a special place, and that’s honestly not that high a number! Let’s all pitch in to save the community center!

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Buy Seward Cafe a Coffee

Become a supporter of Seward Cafe today!

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're officially in the countdown to Fantasycon 2026: just 10 days until we meet in Glasgow! Tickets are still available for both individual days & the whole weekend. Full programme (including the British Fantasy Awards!) & ticket details are on our website: britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan...

A graphic advertises 10 days until Fantasycon 2026, to be held from 9-11 October in Glasgow. It's illustrated with tentacles and parchment paper

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PSA - when people are speaking publicly about their personal experience w/ trauma, try not making it all about you. You’re pretty sure you’re not a rapist? Huzzah. Bare minimum for human decency. Give yourself a cookie. But don’t do it at someone else's expense by demanding their validation.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Booksky Wrapping up #SapphicSeptember with some great reads? Let us help! We have books by Catherine Lundoff, Heather Rose Jones, Dee Holloway, Emily L. Byrne and more! queenofswordspress.com

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Booksky In case your Monday could use some great reads!

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#Booksky #12 In the mood for some suspenseful #queerhorror and gay vampires? RUNNING DRY by M.Christian is a terrific, gripping tale! If the author’s name sounds familiar, it’s because their work has spanned so many genres and this novel is a great intro! queenofswordspress.com/product/runn...

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Booksky Haunts & Horrors is coming up next! Find us at @badweatherbrew.bsky.social in #StPaulMN next Sunday 10/4 1-5PM for Haunts & Horrors Book Fair! #bookfair #spookybooks

Flyer for the Haunts & Horrors Book Fair.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We made it easy to join the fight for libraries at action.everylibrary.org #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarylove #author #publiclibrary #literature #lit

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SUNDAY SELF PROMOTION preorder Run With the Hunted 9: Extraction Point! coming October 31, 2026!

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Personal Me: under no circumstances do this. Absolutely nothing good, useful or even fun will result.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Occasional reminder that vendors do not subsist on complements alone. Probably should have just called in sick on this one. Sigh.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Booksky One of the cool things Sofawolf is up to? They’ll have copies of A.J. Fitzwater’s THE VOYAGES OF CINRAK THE DAPPER and Catherine Lundoff’s Wolves of Wolf’s Point books at upcoming tables! Sign up for their newsletter so you don’t miss the cool stuff! 💖

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Booksky #Minneapolis Look for us at @dancingbearchoco.bsky.social at 44th and Thomas this Sunday 9/27 for the Sunday Market 9-2! We’ll have handmade boxes by Jana Pullman, our books and there’ll be tasty treats and more!

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you for the reskeets, lovely people! 💖

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Booksky Find our books at great indies like DreamHaven Books, Magers & Quinn, Wolfe Tomes and more at Bookshop!

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of several gems from the Forged in FIYAH anthology that we'll share over this weekend! @tonyarmoore.com's vivid worldbuilding is in full effect in her story 🔥

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University of Illinois News Bureau @news.illinois.edu · 22/09/2026

A new exhibit at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library explores the life and career of author Mary Shelley and the context for her novel “Frankenstein.” Read more here: news.illinois.edu/rare-book-an...

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🤣 Minneapolis folks, you will also enjoy this, I suspect.

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