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Sadie Leewood

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Fantasy, Horror, & Science Fiction Writer

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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 24/09/2026
In happier news: today, I finished version 5(?) of my novel, which means I get to put it away for a month to marinate. I fixed issues beta readers found, introduced fun new stuff, and added 13,000 words to what was a too-short manuscript. #novelwriting #writersofbluesky
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 24/09/2026
Last year, I had 7 acceptances. This year, I've had 4. I've submitted so much more this year, and so it can feel defeating. 191 Submissions in 2026. 119 rejections and counting. But I'm aiming higher. This year all the submissions are to paying magazines. It's all progress. But it still sucks.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 30/08/2026
Had a blast at GalaxyCon San Jose yesterday while escorting the hubs around in his Jim Henson cosplay. Steve Whitmire said the Kermit I built was "pretty good" ::squee:: #GalaxyConSanJose #JimHenson #Kermit
A man dressed as Jim Henson with a headband and microphone, with a Kermit Muppet on his right arm, smiling.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 26/08/2026
Not Tim Curry too!
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Michael Scott's Frustrated No God Please No
Alt: Michael Scott's Frustrated No God Please No
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 26/08/2026
Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints. It takes and it takes and it takes but it should seriously consider a suggestion box because it took the wrong 80-year-old today. #RestInLoveDolly #WorstTimeline
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 23/07/2026
AI takes the creative works of artists and then redistributes them so they can be used by those too lazy to be bothered to make their own art. Isn't that Communism? #fuckai #poisonthewell #stopskynet
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 15/07/2026
@analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social I think your submissions portal needs some attention?
Red Alert Website banner that reads "Hosting plan for this site has expired. Renew now to avoid service disruption."
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 02/07/2026
This book. This book I knew at a glance from some moment in my childhood, when every library book with a rocket ship sticker was worth taking home. This was my first taste of John Varley's work. This guided me on my path. I can't wait to read it all again. #booksthatbuiltus #johnvarley #scifi
A book titled "The World Treasury of Science Fiction" Edited by David G. Hartwell, which shows a view of an Earth-like planet from a moon-like orbiting body with a galaxy behind them bathed in pink galactic clouds.A close-up of a section of the table of contents of the book "A World Treasury of Science Fiction" featuring John Varley and his short story titled "The Phantom of Kansas".
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 15/06/2026
Did you know that a D20 + bath salts + time = R'lyehian D20? #DND
A Dungeons and Dragons character sheet first page on a table with a lego minifig depicting a grave domain cleric who enjoys coffee (she'd been obsessed ever since visiting Hupperdook), and a D20 with indecipherable numbers due to the effects of salt on the ink in the engraved humbers.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 26/05/2026
We're unnerved by creatures that look almost human. We call it the Uncanny Valley. We are wired to fear and reject that which approaches humanity artificially. Did this fear evolve in us? That means this has happened before. We won then. Let's win now. #rejectAI #fuckAI #noAI
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 22/05/2026
I submitted to a new market yesterday and today received the jump scare of their awful AI-generated "evaluation" of my work. Avoid Soo Generis as a publisher if you prefer human work over slop. AI shouldn't be writing or editing creative works.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 13/05/2026
I submitted a story to Asimov's in January, and today I received the rejection. But it wasn't a form response! "Near miss" is how the editor put it. A NEAR MISS from Asimov's? I feel about as proud and bewildered as these cats when the cup didn't hit the floor. #asimovs #catsofbluesky
A white coffee mug is balanced between a table and the chair pushed in next to it. Two large cats gray and white cats are on the table examining it , concerned and confused.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 09/05/2026
The art and the artist (the record was already scratched up, vinylphiles). #catsky #catsofbluesky #cats #caturday
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 04/05/2026
A friendly reminder: You can still shape your shampooed hair into a shark fin. No one can stop you.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 28/04/2026
Excited to see my FIRST POEM EVER published in Belladonna's Garden Spring 2026 issue: www.belladonnasgardenlit.com @bdglit.bsky.social
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Belladonna's Garden
Issue 3 Spring 2026
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 12/04/2026
My Middle Grade Flash Horror story "In Here" is out today in the latest issue of Haunted Words. Check it out!
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 03/04/2026
I just tried to use the word "standed" in my WIP, and then didn't understand why it was flagged as a misspelling. This week may have eaten my brain.
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Haunted Words Press @hauntedwordspress.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Take a sneak peek at the opening to the brilliant Sadie Leewood's feline middle grade short story In Here! You can read the full piece in all its glory when Issue Thirteen releases on Saturday 11th April 🖤
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 28/03/2026
Let's get out there! #nokings
A table covered by a progress pride flag with three protest signs on top. The first says "No Kings! Go Back to Queens" over an image of a crown with a red X over it. The second says "The price of your love's not a price that we're willing to pay" over an image of Trump dressed like King George from the musical Hamilton. The third sign says "No Kings! Go Fish" and depicts a King of Diamonds playing card with a red X over it.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 25/03/2026
If only we could drop a different creature into the fires of Mount Doom...
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 14/03/2026
Sam Altman wants companies to pay us in ThoughtCoins now? I better brush up on my digital gardening... youtu.be/XQLdhVpLBVE
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Infomercial: For-Profit Online University | Adult Swim
YouTube video by Adult Swim
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 08/03/2026
My fantasy story, "Dance it Trippingly," is available in the latest issue of Luna Station Quarterly (www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/065/). What could possibly go wrong becoming a drug dealer on short notice?
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 27/02/2026
Sick of streaming video BS (& fascism)? Afraid or unwilling to sail the seven seas? Then thrifting is for you!* Get DVDs, CDs, and even DVD players on the cheap. Own what you love, without supporting the regime and corporate greed. *Also works for books!
A cabinet of DVDs
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 26/02/2026
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 21/02/2026
This is Spy Van. He inspired the novel I'm editing. Just seeing him makes me remember Boston and Hallelujah the Hills and trying not to slide down snowy hills on those crappy tires. I still miss him.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 20/02/2026
I love the Muppetize-a-movie trend, but Hot Fuzz is already the perfect name for a Muppet movie.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 18/02/2026
Can you please leave some dystopian ideas for fiction to explore before you cram these nightmares down our gullets? www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted...
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Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die
Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 13/02/2026
What to call the feeling you get when you're on version 8 or 9 of a story and you look back at V1, and realize you like it SO much more than what it's become? I shouldn't be jealous of past me's writing. It's supposed to go the other way! #benjaminbuttoning #timeisanillusion #lunchtimedoublyso
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 05/02/2026
Where are Kang and Kodos when we need them most?
A shot from a Simpsons Halloween episode showing aliens Kang and Kodos on the stairs of a government building flanking Homer Simpson. They are facing a crowd of people, and Homer has just removed the human masks the aliens had been wearing, revealing that they are aliens to the world.
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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 14/01/2026
Found this beauty at a used book store. It smells like the golden age of science fiction short stories. It even has an ad for scientology inside! #classicscifi #usulaleguin #arthercclarke #raybradbury #usedbooks
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 10/01/2026
As Beta Readers start on my manuscript, I find myself dreaming big. If/when my fist book is adapted to film, Hallelujah the Hills' song "Wave Backwards to Massachusetts (Big Digits Remix)" should 100% be the outro song. www.hallelujahthehills.com/music/portra... #hallelujahthehills #hth @ryanhwalsh
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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Trashcan | Hallelujah The Hills
American indie rock band from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 03/01/2026
My first publication of 2026, "Dry Spell" at Flash Phantoms: www.flashphantoms.net/january-flas... #shortstories #horror #flashfiction
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January Flash Fiction Horror | Flash Phantoms
For the month of January 2026, these are the horror stories of up to 1,000 words that entertain us most.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 22/12/2025
An acceptance and a publication all in one day! Check out my latest story, As Seen on Spirit TV, in Corner Bar Magazine: cornerbarmagazine.com/pdfs/corner-... #shortstories #scifi
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 18/12/2025
1% of the population is trans. Even less than that are under 18. They already made healthcare unaffordable for huge swaths of Americans, why not twist the knife a little harder? The suffering is the point. #protecttranskids #dontletbrainwormsrungovernment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 26/11/2025
My cozy horror story "Aunt Terry's Collection" is now available in the 2025 Edition of Midnight Ink by Livina Press. W00t! #cozyhorror #midnightink #livinapress www.amazon.com/dp/B0G43DS1V...
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Midnight Ink: 2025
Midnight Ink: 2025 [Press, Livina, Hector, Laci F.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Midnight Ink: 2025
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 23/11/2025
It's a good day to be a cleric. #blessed #gravedomain #dungeonsanddragons #ravenqueen
A lego minifigure with dark hair and spider-like eyes holding a shield and a coffee mug with an RPG ring that says "Blessed" hanging on it.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 19/11/2025
Indeed, Stargate is coming back, with original creators! Star Trek is cool. Star Wars is kinda meh. But Stargate? Undomesticated equines could not keep me away from that gate. I'm only sad it's on Bezos' Evil Hub of junk. #Stargate youtu.be/OhYOOmkehIo
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Amazon's Stargate Announcement | Coming to Prime Video
YouTube video by GateWorld
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 18/11/2025
Just typed the last words on Novel #2, a contemporary, cozy Romantasy. Only 55K words, but I already know what pieces will be needed on my first edit pass. Current mood:
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 13/11/2025
Why do Gobo and Mokey always look at me like parents disappointed in my life choices? #catsofbluesky #judgementalcats
Two cats intertwined in a cat bed with disappointed looks on their faces.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 27/10/2025
Reading to be a better writer while also avoiding consumption makes for a very eclectic "to read" pile. Also, I had to buy the new Martha Wells book because, well, it exists. #Booktok #queendemon #writingadvice #aniticonsumption #thrifting
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 24/10/2025
DIY Halloween Costume Process: September: Get child's input, purchase fabric and prop materials, draw up designs October 1-28: Do nothing while the pile of materials slowly gains the ability to quicken your heartbeat at its very sight October 29 & 30: Panic crafting Anybody else? #diyhalloween
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 15/10/2025
Check out my review of the short story collection The End of the World as We Know It, edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. @cgolden.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social #books #reading @stephenking.bsky.social #TheStand #booksky #horrorsky specficwriters.com/book-review-...
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Book Review: The End of The World As We Know It
Stories in The End of The World As We Know It use King’s The Stand world as a canvas to paint wholly new tales ranging from straight horror to meta fantasy.
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 01/09/2025
Shout out to the person who dared to imagine that a hook supported by two tiny screws in a piece of tinfoil would be strong enough to hold up a purse in every bathroom stall in the United States. #designfail
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 22/08/2025
This one isn't touched up too much. Do you know what it is? #alienworlds #macrophotography #photoinspiration
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 16/08/2025
What is it? Yes, I messed with the photo a bit. It'd be no fun, otherwise. #alienworlds #macrophotography #photoinspiration
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 07/08/2025
Another mystery image. #alienworlds #macrophotography #photoinspiration
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 05/08/2025
I guarantee you do not know what this is! #alienworlds #macrophotography #photoinspiration
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 04/08/2025
Another one: a study in pink. #alienworlds #macrophotography #photoinspiration
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Sadie Leewood @sadieleewood.com · 30/07/2025
I love isolating the weirdest pieces of photos for inspiration. Can anyone guess what this is? #alienworlds #macrophotography #photoinspiration
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