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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

I’ve entered some kind of major writing dormancy period 🥲 But this weekend we went foraging & found 7lbs+ (!) of chanterelles and shrimp and lobster mushrooms. Auspicious 🍁

A Shiba Inu sitting beside a large mesh bag filled with freshly picked white chanterelles.

A Shiba Inu sitting beside a baking tray loaded with yellow chanterelles, lobster mushrooms, and a few shrimp mushrooms.

A handsome yellow collie-mix dog sitting beside a baking tray loaded with mushrooms. This photo made us laugh because he looks regal but I think he’s actually just tired.

A Shiba Inu face flanked by large, very gnarly lobster mushrooms. We took these home but when cleaning them I found something wiggling in one so uh. I think I’m just gonna throw them away.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Really happy to have my first reprint sale with Fusion Fragment!! It also feels appropriate that it’s the first story I ever sold, I’m glad it’s gonna have another home in the world ♪( ´////｀

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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

Meg was one of the first to read this story, so it's only appropriate that she share this news

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

Been waiting for this book from @anandalima.bsky.social since Stokercon!! 💗🔥🥃

A Shiba Inu wearing red flame-shaped glasses, sitting beside a copy of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima.

A Shiba Inu wearing red flame-shaped glasses on top of her head. She is sitting beside a copy of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

My most recent ice cream, made out of a lightly cocoa-y tea I’m obsessed with rn (tongmu jin jun mei). It was good but it was my first black tea aisu & I don’t think I got the milk hot enough to properly steep it this time 💧

Pale brown ice cream in a glass bowl, decorated by a scone and two pocky sticks.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Needed this story this morning which made me think more abt how in a world corrupted down to the guts by greed, it’s community that’s the safety net 😭✨

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

Today is truly special: it's the release of Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories! I've worked with Cynthia ever since Antifa Splatterpunk (the very first Cursed Morsels release), so today feels like a full circle moment. Grab a copy and celebrate with us!

The Nightmare Box is open...do you dare peek inside?

Graphic depicts the cover of The Nightmare Box and Other Stories with two disembodied hands opening a bank box with eyes looking out from within.

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

My queer YA folk horror novel is coming out in November! It’s got witches, cryptids, creepy woods, and several pissed off dead girls us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Dead Girls Don't Dream

There are rules for Voynich Woods: Always carry a whistle. Never go alone. Always come home before dark. And if anyone calls your name, don't answer. Because...

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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

also check out "Obsolesce" by @suchnadine.bsky.social because it is really, really good. it's been over a year since I read it whereabouts and I still think about it from time to time: strangehorizons.com/fiction/obso...

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Obsolesce

The city was so large now there was no longer night and day, only glowing blue hours as endless as the low hum emanating from the chalky skyline. It beamed cyan light through her darkest curtains, …

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

I think part of our work as horror writers in 2024 is to help people unlock the parts of themselves that can face terror and adversity without losing their humanity & goodness. We are entering an era of fear and horror like our species has never faced. We need heart.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

It was a bit back now but check out my very first reading, which I enjoyed a lot! (& spot my early Stokercon copy of The Nightmare Box 🧃💛) Ty @storyhour.bsky.social 💓💓

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Health Update: the heart tests showed I have an issue. To nail down the diagnosis I have to do several blood tests & a sleep study. If I can get $4000 by the end of the month to go to $45,000 total, that covers these tests. I hate to keep asking, but please donate & boost if you can. Every $1 helps.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

If you want to understand why this is a very, very bad sign. Read this piece from just 2 years ago about all the work Lisa Lucas and other black women in publishing have done to eke out a space for writers of color. Gift link

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Inside the Push to Diversify the Book Business (Published 2022)

For generations, America’s major publishers focused almost entirely on white readers. Now a new cadre of executives like Lisa Lucas is trying to open up the industry.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Newest experiment: vanilla wasabi ice cream 🌱 Confession: I kept tasting & immediately adding more & more wasabi powder, distraught there was no wasabi taste AT ALL 😭 I used up almost my whole 40g bag so I went to order more and there. On the product page. “Mix powder with water—and wait 10 minutes”

A parfait glass of wasabi ice cream, which is pale green. There’s a philodendron in the background. In the ice cream is a green pandan shortbread cookie with a floral pattern, and a few pale yellow caramel pudding Japanese KitKats.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Writing this week: I’m ~10 days out from a deadline for revising space haranista story, which I’ve been working on for almost two years but which is so old & tightly Tightly knotted I feel afraid to unravel it even to try & straighten it out @__@ wml 😭💪🍀

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Doggy gouaches: Buchi the minipoo, Haku the puppy silken windhound, Winnie the retriever 🌸 I love doing whiskers in silver so they’re not too apparent but still shine out ✨

A gouache painting of a brown miniature poodle with a blue scarf.

A gouache painting of a brown golden retriever, covered in pink petals.

A gouache painting of a black-and-white silken windhound with an orange and yellow background.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

My partner’s been into katsudon recently ♪( ´////｀ツイてるねー

A bowl of katsudon in a kitchen. In the background is a Sapporo beer in a glass.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

I read The World Ended There by Alberto Chimal (transl. by Julia Rios) from Why Didn’t You Just Leave, heartbreaking & haunting 😭 “The truth is that no, you can’t keep living like this, but you can’t do anything else either. The anguish of not knowing cannot be endured and cannot be left behind.”

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

A late #MeowMay fluffball for Day 1: Ultramarine 🫧🫧 prompts via @charlenedraws.bsky.social !

A painting made from watercolor and gouache. A blue cat with a green fish tail smiles. The tail has gold accents and there are a few bubbles.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

A long-lost treasure for my friend 🍂

A gouache painting of a chocolate-covered ice cream bar stylized like a menu item at Costco. The label: “Beloved hand dipped ice cream bar with roasted almonds: $1.50.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledges the "extraordinary real-time reporting" of student journalists covering campus protests. www.pulitzer.org/news/stateme...

As we gather to consider the nation’s finest and most courageous journalism, the Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk. We would also like to acknowledge the extraordinary real-time reporting of student journalists at Columbia University, where the Pulitzer Prizes are housed, as the New York Police Department was called onto campus on Tuesday night. In the spirit of press freedom, these students worked to document a major national news event under difficult and dangerous circumstances and at risk of arrest.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Broke into Why Didn’t You Just Leave this morning with No Joy Exists Anywhere Beyond Your Front Door by Corey Farrenkopf—and REALLY loved it, such great eerie imagery, & choose-your-own-adventure is The format for this theme 😩👌 #TeamSkinHouse @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social

UI for an ereader. The underlined text “Stay here” displays.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

An Inherited Taste, my story about women eating sorrows, will be @talestoterrify.bsky.social this Friday! It first appeared in No Trouble At All from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social & is a Stoker finalist this year. This is the first time a story of mine will be in podcast forme & I’m v excited :’>

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

📣 💐📚Happy book day to me! DISABILITY INTIMACY has been a labor of love that I worked on for the last 2 years. I hope you enjoy it. bookshop.org/p/books/disa...

Asian American woman in a wheelchair with a tracheotomy at her neck connected to a ventilator. She is wearing a plaid shirt with pastel colors and a magenta lip color (Chanel Milky Blueberry). Behind her are a bunch of plants and a bottom half of a poster of a frog.

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

I can't believe the Crips for eSims for Gaza project, which started the end of last December, raised over 500k CAD! This week an IDF airstrike killed 2 children & several others in a refugee camp in Rafah. Don't look away or forget Donate chuffed.org/project/crip...

Graphic with a pale pink background with a slice of watermelon on top. Text reads “Crips for eSims for Gaza Update 5/1/24, 517k CAD raised ($377k US) 6420 eSims purchased and sent, 2050 eSims activated” On the lower left corner, “Thank you! Jane, Leah, and Alice.” On the lower right corner is a QR code

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KS Walker @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

I did an interview!

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Also been getting into gouache recently 🎨

A gouache painting of a Shiba Inu lying down.

A gouache painting thumbnail of the much-missed hand-dipped chocolate ice cream bar from Costco RIP 🥲

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

My recent totally silly & random comfort read about a guy who gets transmigrated into the body of a fish, becomes the pet of a mute prince, & needs to stop said prince from becoming a tyrant. (Picked up bc it’s also…somehow…a romance) So cute….so cute o)-(

A red shiba sleeps against a back background. Her tail is curled around a Kindle showing the cover of a book: The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish Volume 1, by Xie Shan Fei Hu

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Julia Rios @omgjulia.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Really displaying my Gemini energy here with both Why Didn’t You Just Leave (horrifying) and Worlds of Possibility (uplifting) releasing today. 😅 Be horrified here: mybook.to/WDYJLebook Be uplifted here: www.juliarios.com/introducing-...

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

I have a cyberpunk flash in this issue, about a family and its inheritance of body parts, including an eye that can (?) see ghosts 👁️ Really happy that it appears alongside the work of so many other amazing writers 💖

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

gathered 4 girl generations of doggy the other day 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️ and found out that 2 hours is about ichi’s limit for photo shoots, but she can be encouraged to go up to 6 before she starts getting furious enough that she snarls when other dogs Uhh, eat tissue

Four Shibas stand in a row. From right to left: Ichi (wearing a rainbow ball collar and harness), Ichi’s mother Trillium (gazing off screen imperiously); Trillium’s mother Zuki (looking down); and Emiko, Ichi’s niece. Only Ichi and Emiko are “smiling.”

A red shiba looks forward, face seeming very serious and done. She’s wearing a rainbow ball collar. Behind her are white flowers.

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Right now al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza strip, is being attacked by IDF causing patients and displaced people to flee. Don't look away. You can help by donating money to buy eSims. Donate: chuffed.org/project/crip... For more: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/c...

Graphic with a light yellow background with a slice of watermelon on top. Text reads “Crips for eSims for Gaza Update 3/17/24, 398k CAD raised ($294k US) 4026 eSims purchased and sent, 1151 eSims activated” On the lower left corner, “Thank you! Jane, Leah, and Alice.” On the lower right corner is a QR code

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

when ur reading a craft book & it suddenly reaches out & smacks you 💀

An excerpt from an ebook that reads: I’ve also used the lovely San Fernando Valley, which at one time was the ideal suburb for all of America. Mostly Caucasian in population. Now there are at least one hundred different languages spoken in parts of the Valley. And almost as many gangs to go with them.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

“one thing the forest remembers is european colonialism” ‼️

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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

UM, YOU ARE ALL AWESOME! WE'RE ALMOST THERE AT $1000 BUCKS AWAY FROM OUR GOAL, LET'S GOOOOO www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

I’m so thrilled and honored to find SLEEP ALONE is an official 2023 Bram Stoker Award finalist for superior achievement in long fiction! My unending gratitude to everyone who shaped, encouraged and supported this story 🖤 Huge congrats to all the nominees! Y’all are incredible! 🤩

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Apparition Literary Magazine @apparitionlit.com · 20/02/2024

Apparition Lit is open to short story and poetry submissions for our Mercurial issue! And we're over the moon to have Jordan Kurella @kurellian.bsky.social as our guest editor. More info at apparitionlit.com/submissions

We are open to submissions! General submissions deadline February 29. BIPOC-only submissions deadline March 7. Details at ApparitionLit.com

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Delighted to see @breathinghead.bsky.social 's No Trouble at All story on the shortlist! Pumped to read all these other new weird tales, too.

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 16/02/2024

If you: 1) Are mad about Hugos 2) Have five dollars you could spare - seriously, five (many don't, but if you do) 3) Please put it here ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com

support, The Ignyte Awards

The Ignyte Awards usually cost about $3000 a year to operate.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

This award-nominated short film is based on a short story by Anwar Hamed. It's a Palestinian spec thriller that inverts the home invasion trope, and highlights the right of return for Palestinian refugees. You can read the story, The Key, in Palestine +100, a collection of spec fic by Comma Press.

The poster for The Key a film by Rakan Mayasi.

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

My flash "DIY 5-Step Homemade Polycephalic Hound Chow—EASY!" is out in 99 Fleeting Fantasies w/lots of other great lil magic tales. Here's a sketch I did of my story's featured creature; get this book & see my rec for what to do with all those mouths to feed 🐕🐕🐕 books2read.com/99FleetingFa...

Drawing of a three-headed shiba inu laying in a fuzzy green bed. Two heads are red, and one head (on the right) is cream. The left head looks annoyed; the center head looks alert; the right head looks bored/tired. Text across the top reads: "Ready to eat?"

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Solarpunk Magazine @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Our micro fiction submission window is now open through midnight at the end of February 21. Send us your super short (250 words or less) solarpunk stories! solarpunkmagazine.com/micro-fiction/

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 15/02/2024

All I gotta say is the perennial reminder that the West doesn't have "free speech" either. Nobody does. The difference is in what speech is excluded, and (in a much more successfully propagandized environment like the US) what is even legible *as* censorship to the censors.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Announcing THE SKULL & LAUREL, a Quarterly New Weird Fiction Magazine! 💀100% open subs; no invites 💀100% paid 💀Horror/Fantasy/SF/Speculative...just make it Weird. Editor: @chpenforhire.bsky.social EIC: @alexwoodroe.bsky.social Crowdfunding begins March 12th All the info here: tinyurl.com/3cyzwyhk

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nadine @suchnadine.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

i love when an animal is resting and you can just tell they are absolutely committed to doing that and nothing else (despite the fact that 9.5 of the past 10 hours have also been spent “at rest”)

A red Shiba Inu laying on a sheepskin blanket in front of a lit fireplace, looking utterly satisfied with the world and all existence, though I am sure she would not turn down a jerky.

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