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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Plan a horrorfest using only your first name. Rawhead Rex Alien Nightbreed Deadly Friend Audrey Rose Let's Scare Jessica to Death Lord of Illusions

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's my birthday today: I'm 59. Think it's time to take a break from the news for my sanity. I went for a drive on the weekend to rural Ontario and took pictures of this peaceful little creek along a quiet hiking trail. No Donald Trump, no Doug Ford, nothing to think about.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

At the Toronto Railway Museum (July 1, 2026).

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Fun with photo editing! The sky is never this turquoise in Ontario, at least in my experience.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sometimes when I finish work for the day, be it editing, writing, or engaged in micropress publishing, I settle back with something new or, in this case, something familiar. "The Night Listener," an old fave from Armistead Maupin, one of his two non-"Tales" novels.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My little micropress has its first three chapbooks out. DM if you want these.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The great thing about better-weather days is that I can read on my balcony, which is always full of wonderful herbs and flowers curated by my partner, Damir. Today I sat with my coffee and got into a new manuscript I'm going to start working with in the near future.

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October Park Editions @octoberpark.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I met up with Emily Weedon last night before a friend's book event to deliver her "Total Depravity" author copies. I think she was happy 🙂 I'll meet up with my other author later this week for the "author copies" clinking-coffee-cups celebration.

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October Park Editions @octoberpark.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Colour check on the outer and inner cover spreads on the final October Park chapbook launch title: "Total Depravity," a short story by Emily Weedon. This will go to print by the end of the week so it can be featured at this month's Drunk Fiction.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Pray for me 🤣 Like most people these crazy days, I barely have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out . . . but here I am, starting an indie publishing house at 58 years old!

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October Park Editions @octoberpark.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Final colour check on the outer and inner covers; author has approved these and the page layouts, so it's off to print.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Finished the pages for the second of three October Park launch titles. Inner and outer cover spreads locked, so the author will have one more look, then off this chapbook will go to the printer.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If you see this, post a character from space.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"All authors are using AI now." Not true! A lot of us are using those conversations we overheard with your bestie about "What I got you gotta get and put it in ya."

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My all-time favourite. (With the best seance scene ever put to film.)

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

There's always something interesting to read at the library. When I saw that someone had undertaken a study of the century-old gossip rag, "Broadway Brevities and Society Gossip," published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, well, count my interest immediately piqued. Looking forward to diving in.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Make two backups, especially of any creative work. It's well worth the effort. #justincase

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Wow. Toronto isn't frozen solid for the first time in . . . how many days? 😆😱 (It's February, betch, wait a few hours.)

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The coldest days bring the bluest skies. Have to get up from my desk and go out once in a while.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Just a bit of snow fell in Toronto. 😁

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The beauty of the dining room table is I can spread out whilst writing in longhand.

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Allister Thompson @allistert.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

You want to read a realistic presentation of what happens after the end of the world as it’s currently being drawn up? I wrote a pretty good one. You can get it most places, on e-book too, and Hoopla has it now. store.latitude46publishing.com/products/bir...

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Birch and Jay

Speculative Fiction | Young AdultPublication date: May 24, 2025Trade paperback: 9781988989921epub: 9781988989938 Decades after the world was levelled by the effects of human-made climate change, the s...

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Make a Bond film casual. DR. WELL... PERHAPS... LET'S THINK ABOUT IT

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This little publishing house project of mine is coming along nicely. One title down, two to go to finish the proof-of-concept. I've also read a couple of great stories by writer friends that I may want to add to the upcoming first year of my publishing program.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Whether I'm at home or in a neighbourhood café, there always reading, writing, and editing on the table. @glreview.bsky.social

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Took seven years to place this little bugger. Glad that it finally found a fab home.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Bugs was, literally, my first drag queen. Still the champ!

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It's Krampusnacht, y'all. Remember to be good or Krampus will swat your wicked bottom!

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Now that November's Drunk Fiction event is over, there is still a stack of my debut chapbook available: signed, numbered test print editions which will go out of print when they're gone. DM me if you'd like one. $10 all in, mailed within Canada, $15 outside. (Why more? It's the postage, dear!)

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Introducing October Park Editions. Test print run of the "Tsunami" chapbook for my new micropress came in this week. This project is the culmination of years of learning, observing, experiencing, experimenting, risking, and navigating steep learning curves. Launching three titles in February '26.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Mamdani is going to implement Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Law. It'll last for 100 days and 100 nights.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Drunk Fiction is a delight and I'm pumped for the November 25 event at The Caledonian, where I'll join literary luminaries Russell Smith, Danila Botha, and Andrew Daley for some chilly-eve reads. Kudos to Emily Weedon, Matron of the Macabre, for creating and hosting this fab monthly reading series.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Yesterday was colour check day for a little side project of mine. I'm publishing a chapbook of a sort-of-old short story to use as a test run for a micropublishing project I'm looking at starting up. This will be available when I read at November's Drunk Fiction event in Toronto.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It was a process for me. Started at age 17 in 1985 (came out to my prom date: easy) and ended at age 21 in 1988 (came out to my parents: difficult). I'm now 58.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Post you from a different era. (SGK, your photo reminds me of someone I used to know when I was an undergrad in the 80s.)

Cheeky with suspenders and Walkman in 1989.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Less than a month away, this one. Rosanna will also be at @wordstocksudbury.bsky.social on Saturday, October 25, if you're in Sudbury, Ontario that weekend.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

St. Lawrence Writers' Festival swag. All the participants got a commemorative mug with their name highlighted! Great touch... here's to getting involved for 2026. 📚

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Counting down to the inaugural St. Lawrence Writers' Festival in picturesque Brockville, Ontario. September 5 – 7 . . . just go, eh? It's going to be a blast. Tickets here: visit.brockvilletourism.com/checkout/104...

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Less than two weeks from the literary event of the summer: join Giles Blunt and company on August 6 at Noonan's Pub, 141 Danforth Ave, for the launch of Giles's new novel, Bad Juliet, published by Dundurn Press. @gilesbluntbooks.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I worked on two of these lovely books ("The Upending of Wendall Forbes" and "Product of Italy, Made in Canada") and will definitely grab the Brit Griffin title. If you're looking for great small press books to read this fall, this little stack from @latitude46pub.bsky.social won't steer you wrong.

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I'll be at Jobsite Brewing in Stratford, ON, this coming Saturday with some @latitude46pub.bsky.social books on the table. Come down and mingle; buy a book (or two) (or more). Jobsite Brewing 45 Cambria Street Stratford ON N5A 1G8

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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Apply that construction rate to the Ontario Line and we'd be looking at an opening date of September 1, 2290 (or thereabouts) for that one.

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Stephen Marche @stephenmarche.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I wrote a piece for The Guardian about the spike in political violence. The question: When do we start calling this what it is? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Violence is coming to define American political life | Stephen Marche

Spectacular violence like Trump’s military parade and real violence like Melissa Hortman’s assassination are part of a growing trend

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Read the Excerpt from Birch and Jay by Allister Thompson @latitude46pub.bsky.social quillandquire.com/omni/excerpt...

Cover of Birch and Jay showing two figures with their backs to the viewer in a hazy, firey landscape that shows towers of a city in the far distance.

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