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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉

@scumbelievable.bsky.social
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Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness. Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027 Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1h
God I'm so tired of seeing rapists everywhere. I hate these fucking braindead pigs, I hate watching them gorge on power and money for no reason except that they want it, I hate knowing they're torturing women with impunity, I hate seeing their smug stupid fucking faces on the news.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4h
Full wipe of Cornell admin.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 5h
Such a generous and enthusiastic review of BLACK FLAME. The reviewer's reference to The Rocky Horror Picture Show reminded me that I actually named Ellen's parents Brad and Janet. pekoeblaze.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/r...
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Review: “Black Flame” by Gretchen Felker-Martin (Novel)
Wow! Just… WOW! 10/10! A masterpiece! Ok… I suppose I should go through the formality of actually writing a proper review of Gretchen Fe…
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Luke Baker @spacemacchiato.bsky.social · 5h
Mysterious monoliths make for poor carving material
A large glossy rectangular monolith with an unfinished face carved into it. The monolith is split in half and a mass of pink alien tendrils spill out from within it
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h
my one-year-old nephew climbed into my lap earlier, laid his head gently against my chest, and then hooked his fat little fingers into my nostrils and yanked as hard as he could
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h
Hunger stalks my friend Sama'a and her family through the ruins of Gaza, where they rely on our help to survive. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h
At long last, we will be allowed to fuck the penguins
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 13h
I think wanting precise outcomes and strict representation from a book is part of the literacy crisis. People are looking at representation and not the thesis of the book and how characters work within it.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14h
He has the silhouette of Immortan Joe
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14h
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h
Hunger stalks my friend Sama'a and her family through the ruins of Gaza, where they rely on our help to survive. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
chuffed.org
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Discourse about use of the word "vizier", no thank you, I'm all good. I don't need to know about that.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Devils Under the Skin The Wicker Man Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Naked
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mike Leigh at NYFF tonight: ‘I’ve said it before, and I don’t mind saying it again: film directors who make long speeches about their film before a screening should be taken round the back & shot in the head.’
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the wizard of loneliness @chairness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Slowly coming back to life after summer/layoff depression
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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is a book that’s intelligent and literate about animals/shapeshifters as metaphor, and intelligent about/loving towards animals as actual animals
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
in the words of my friend Grace, arguing about who does and doesn't get to use the word "lesbian" is for people who aren't having lesbian sex
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
boy she laid him out with this one
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My friend Sama'a and her family rely on our aid to access food, medicine, and shelter. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
chuffed.org
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shapeshifters! Cannibalism! Incest! Small-town crime! (ringing dinner bell) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Chimera
A powerful family’s terrible secrets threaten to consume them in Chimera, a visceral body horror novel from Gretchen Felker-Martin, the author of Manhunt a...
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sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CHIMERA! SO smart, SO propulsive, so genuinely nasty, so painterly in its craft, so PERFECTLY premised (animorphs + organized crime families in crisis) so utterly in the pocket re: what's disgusting about the family, & it contains the funniest single line i've read this year bsky.app/profile/scum...
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this was a lot of fun
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shapeshifters! Cannibalism! Incest! Small-town crime! (ringing dinner bell) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com
Chimera
A powerful family’s terrible secrets threaten to consume them in Chimera, a visceral body horror novel from Gretchen Felker-Martin, the author of Manhunt a...
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My friend Sama'a and her family rely on our aid to access food, medicine, and shelter. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
chuffed.org
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Even a small donation helps my friend Sama'a feed and shelter her children. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
chuffed.org
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Paraphrasing the great Roxy Demento from Twitter here but: what do you mean you don't like fat girls it's like...here's a girl and there's more of her.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
reading this article is like watching footage of someone pounding nails into their own skull.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These kids have real balls. I hope they gut Cornell.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who the fuck watches the news or listens to the radio?
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Even a small donation helps my friend Sama'a feed and shelter her children. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
chuffed.org
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
extremely not a fandom person (it’s just not how i engage with things) but a) just sort of observing them anthropologically the idea that they were not always some level of toxic is untethered from reality. also it contradicts human behavior
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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Psychologists explain how to work through the bigotry that made you claim never to have heard "Choosin' Texas" and could be undermining your career Not knowing Ella Langley's record-setting debut song is "worse than bringing 10 iced coffees stacked in a pyramid to the interview" say some recruiters
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
once again thinking about this incredible fucking movie, which is about two vampires sucking on each other
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the "abandoned parents" movement is one of the most loathsome groups of people imaginable, freaks intent on tormenting and controlling their adult children and losing their minds at the slightest pushback.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A fun new frontier: AI scam emails for authors who aren't even me!
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I understand why a city needs a high-pitched alarm broadcast system for weather events, but that does not make me hate its inventors or users less.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My friend Sama'a has two young girls to care for in the shadow of Israel's genocide, and food and medicine are expensive. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
chuffed.org
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Working on the new book.
The bath house from CARNIVAL OF SOULSPiper and Yasmin from INDUSTRYWayne Barlowe painting of a procession past a palace in Hellstill from How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sy Ableman???
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Working on the new book.
The bath house from CARNIVAL OF SOULSPiper and Yasmin from INDUSTRYWayne Barlowe painting of a procession past a palace in Hellstill from How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
mostly that we don't know how to make blockbusters anymore
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Acid rules. Ten bucks to ride the spiral to the heart of all creation and look out across an infinite field of potential universes? The people's drug.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My friend Sama'a has two young girls to care for in the shadow of Israel's genocide, and food and medicine are expensive. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
chuffed.org
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI detection software, made out of genAI by the same dipshits making genAI, is being targeted at Black writers so that an Arday can happen but with no human able to be held accountable.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Detection software is a con. Those who believe it works are getting suckered while thinking they're righteously punishing someone who deserves it. The damn stuff says Emily Dickinson, famously deceased long before modern computing, used this generative junk. It cannot be relied on to tell on itself
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My finished sleeve by the unbeatable @zasshu.bsky.social. bearded vultures feeding on the bones of a dead fallow deer.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"your books oversexualize the LGBTQ+ community!" wrong I am a gay slut and I hang out with gay sluts, you just can't hang
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THE WRONG GIRLS is a scream, classic stoner movie, but you have to know going in that they don't kiss or fuck each other.
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