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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 13h

I have so many things muted but the problem is none of you can spell.

The past two months were my worst sales months in literal years...except the print copies sold at two conventions, one last month and one this month. So the morale of the story is, keep your income channels diverse and pray your friends offer to sell your books if you can't do cons yourself. 🙃

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 4h

It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 17h

I don’t suppose the killer hippos live at the end of Hungry? 😬 I want to watch people eaten by animals in over the top ways but I don’t want CGI hippos to die. (Please do not interrogate my logic, this is just the way I am)

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Jane Glatt @janeglatt.bsky.social · 21h

Very, very large one with a law degree and some kind of history

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 26/09/2026

Days left for the Livi Talbot anniversary sale, including the temporary discount on the new hardcover. All books on sale direct--including the audiobook bundle--here: payhip.com/skyladawncam...

Promo for the anniversary sale. Background image is of a woman rock climbing in silhouette against an orange sky. Text says "Happy Ten-Year Anniversary Livi Talbot" with confetti. The first three book covers in the series--each with a silhouetted woman in different backdrops--are in the corner with the lowered prices, and then there's a larger book cover for the deluxe hardback, this one looking like a pulpy vintage book with a woman fighting a dragon. "Deluxe special edition hardcover now available, $49.95 for a limited time"

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Dina James @dinajames.com · 29/09/2026

Is this about that time you moderated a dude for saying the N-word TWICE on a listserv? I’ve been wondering.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 29/09/2026

Sorry for all the old RTs, it's just been a very long three years of subtweeting.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 25/07/2024

I could speculate about whether it's a lack of desire to rock the boat or an unwillingness to accept the power--and responsibility--they have to remove bad actors who are predatory and retaliatory. But regardless of the reason, it comes down to cowardice.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 25/07/2024

Stories with bigger names might get the most traction, but it goes much deeper than that in publishing spaces. A virtual nobody who is a problem can remain a danger to everyone when those in charge of organizations refuse take steps to remove them and protect the membership, guests, etc.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You can get sued in Ontario Small Claims Court for disagreeing with a man over this. FYI. In case you were wondering. Nothing to do with me, of course.

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April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza) Sips Tea in Parks and Rec

ALT: April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza) Sips Tea in Parks and Rec

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 29/09/2026

This is an excellent thread about how Emily Bell operates and attempts to draw people in. Even if you have no interactions with her, it's really worth identifying these red flags in others.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like Jason, I can push back and i absolutely am and will. My DMs are full of support from people too afraid of becoming one of Emily's targets to so much as *like* a post. This is the culture of fear that surrounds her and it has to stop.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She's literally posting "Courtney Milan, professional bully" in this "private" (anyone can join, and in fact trying to drum up new subscriptions) discord, along with lies about SFF authors, and lists of "abusers" (who are all authors), and saying anonymous Black women support her doing this. 🤷

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N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you have any questions about which books/series of Skyla's you may enjoy, ask me. My mission in life is to help her sell enough books to cover the costs of her expensive cats.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Also this is the thread about the woman who told me about murdering her ex when I was pregnant with kid #1. Again, the women are unlikely to move the way you expect if the danger continues to grow.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I'll resurrect that link, but I want to talk about my aunt Penny real quick. Because shorter and incredibly instructive. Penny was married to a man named Ray. He was a terrible person tbh and was nearly 15 years older than her when they met. My granddaddy wanted to kill him when he found out.

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legal cat 🐾 @legalcat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

re the cornell 7

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Under the advice of legal counsel, I am not supposed to reply to these types of comments.

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Nicholas Cage's Fabulous Smile

ALT: Nicholas Cage's Fabulous Smile

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 28/09/2026

Anyway another $400 at the vet for Temperance and I'll find out if she can handle dental work at her age or not when the bloodwork is back, and Shawn still has to go for his bloodwork he wouldn't cooperate for, so I dunno I guess buy my books to rebuilt my vet fund for Shawn's next crisis.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 10/09/2026

Small town horror can be found with Dweller: www.kobo.com/us/en/audiob... and Watcher: www.kobo.com/us/en/audiob... Or go on an adventure with the first two Livi Talbot novels Solomon's Seal (1): www.kobo.com/us/en/audiob... and Odin's Spear (2): www.kobo.com/us/en/audiob...

Now Available for Purchase. Haunted houses and spooky forests--welcome to Hope Falls. Two audiobook covers, both horror novels--Dweller has a spooky stark staircase in a house while Watcher has a cabin in the woods at night. Yes, they're scary, but nothing bad happens to the pets.

Now available for purchase. Ex-debutante. Single mother. Treasure hunter.

Then there are two audiobook covers for adventure books, Solomon's Seal and Odin's Spear--the first has the silhouette of a woman standing in the mouth of a cave with the glow of sunlight behind her and the other has the silhouette of a woman scuba diving.

Get started with the Livi Talbot series by buying the first two in audio.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 10/09/2026

Kobo also has a BOGO audiobook sale this month in several regions: AU www.kobo.com/p/audiobook-... CA www.kobo.com/p/audiobook-... UK www.kobo.com/p/audiobook-... NZ www.kobo.com/p/audiobook-... ZA www.kobo.com/p/audiobook-... US www.kobo.com/p/audiobook-... All four of mine are included (🧵)

Audiobook promo with a woman wearing headphones leaning back with her eyes closed. The text says "Enjoy 2 audiobooks for the price of 1" Double the listening fun with buy one get one free. Offer ends September 30.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 28/09/2026

Sale ends in two days! If you see books you enjoy in it, please leave a comment with a link so people can build their last-minute bundle.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 28/09/2026

Preparing the signed bookplates for the anniversary hardcover orders and have already put the address label upside down three times on envelopes as well as repeatedly forgotten how to sign my name, so going great here.

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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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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is part of what I'm referring to with many people demanding stories that reassure them they're a good person. They want the moral instruction because otherwise, rather than processing the reading experience, there's a thrum of "am I bad? am I bad? what if someone finds out I'm bad?"

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stories about abuse are allowed to exist without reducing themselves to moral instruction. i think sometimes when people complain about the “romanticization” of abuse, what they're actually objecting to isn't necessarily the way abuse is being represented, but the fact that the representation doesn't provide them with constant moral reassurance. like, there is a difference between “this story frames abuse as desirable or inherently romantic” and “this story depicts abuse in an erotic/ambiguous/complicated way and doesn't repeatedly tell me that abuse is bad, therefore the depiction itself is irresponsible.”

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ALL men benefit from male violence, because it allows you to think you’re a good person because you haven’t assaulted a woman. That does not make you a good person, but you have collectively put that bar in hell.

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Jordan L. Hawk @jordanlhawk.com · 28/09/2026

OUT NOW! The Devouring time is available in ebook and paperback! Bookseller Sterling Caine and investigator Adrian Evans must find out what happened during Sterling’s forgotten year, or all of humanity will pay the price. CLICK HERE: buy.bookfunnel.com/2n2porj6w5

An ebook and paperback stand against an orange gradient. The covers are the same, and feature a cracked clock face against a blue background. Two illustrated death's head hawkmoths flutter around it. To one side, there is a "bug" featuring a light blue vortex surrounded by the words Widdershins Universe. Text reads: Bestselling author of Whyborne & Griffin, Jordan L. Hawk, The Devouring Time, a Widdershins Universe Novel. Beside the books is text reading: Sterling can't remember the last year. Adrian suspects Sterling of theft and murder. Now they must work together to uncover the truth, before it's too late to escape the fate that awaits them in The Devouring Time.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 28/09/2026

Excellent thread updating on how someone's life was impacted by donations.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 27/09/2026

Okay I'm at a later part of Townfall with a different POV character, there are almost no hiding spots and no equivalent to the CRTV so you don't know where the monsters are. What you do have: two guns and ammo. A lot of ammo. So I take it I'm supposed to do murder here. I am doing so much murder.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As ever, I wish to remind people that the mental health of Emily Bell's victims should be centered at all times, even in the face of EB's cycles of self-harm threats.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have verification (not from Ness) of Emily's "version" of this interaction. Note that about a week ago, Ness posted Jason Sanford's "Emily Bell has been harassing me for over a year now" in reply to Emily openly inviting people into her "private" discord, promoting it as an "anti-racism" space.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 27/09/2026

Made it through Townhall's hospital section and yes it was stressful but not as bad as some people said (however we won't talk about how long I spent hiding). Back in Fog Town. I genuinely don't understand the complaints that Simon isn't reacting enough, he's in line with the other SH protagonists.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kari is a fantastic person who contributes a lot to bluesky common sense discourse.

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Whistling Wombat Games @whistlingwombat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We also have pyrokinetic tortoises unaware of their power and dogs that see the unseeable. Started as a d6 table, might just make it 12. Pets rule. Check out the campaign today and help @kristadb1.bsky.social ‘s telekinetic rat come to town!

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 26/09/2026

I've hit the part of Townfall that will soon have an unkillable stalker enemy, apparently, so I might get frustrated enough that I willingly go back to the WIP in time for the write-in with patrons. (The WIP is not going great, I do not know how to write books anymore I guess.)

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 26/09/2026

Days left for the Livi Talbot anniversary sale, including the temporary discount on the new hardcover. All books on sale direct--including the audiobook bundle--here: payhip.com/skyladawncam...

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But before I go: so much is due right now. Quarterly and yearly bills included. If you can boost or help if able, thank you. If not, I have a new Blind Yelling blog post if you are interested in blindness in media. ko-fi.com/karidru

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Michael W|Warren Lucas @mwl.io · 26/09/2026

"I’m not going to gun down Santa Claus in front of God and all these kids. Just in front of God." My collection of Christmas stories is now on Kickstarter at mwl.io/ks ! There's a sample at mwl.io/archives/24991 #twistedPresents I'd appreciate your support.

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Twisted Presents

Some folks love Christmas. These tales are for the rest of us. Ghosts and guns! Santa's coal mine! Final exams! Shopping! Plus an orc!

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can verify everything in Jason's below posts. The ongoing harassment of Jason, Erik, etc etc is *years* long now. I will point out that amongst Emily's "abusers" is one of her own damn authors, who was only recently released from contract after speaking up in support of Emily's victims.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 26/09/2026

Look, I'm the first to tell writers to have small group chats where they can vent and be bitchy. It can save you from posting through it publicly when you just want to be petty and catty. You can't work in this industry without collecting a list of people you dislike for petty reasons.* BUT...

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Michelle Manus @michellemanus.com · 26/09/2026

In a mood, so new short just dropped. "But you were born a pill too bitter to swallow, with spite on your tongue and rage in your heart. You are made of sharp edges and jagged teeth, with a mind that thinks its fill and lungs that are a bellows for your words." michellemanus.com/it-is-not-yo...

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It Is Not You Who Should Be Afraid - Michelle Manus

You were told from birth to fear harm, because your body has a uterus, and men will want to use the way to it. You were told not to walk so far down the street, where your brothers were never told not...

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