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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

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oscar | Angel Diaclasis out now! @pepperbloom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

trans people will exist longer than the usa

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

A photo of Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.

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Tamara Kawar - تمارا @tetrameter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Literary Agents of Change Auction is on now! Bid for very cool items from authors, illustrators, and agents for a good cause. www.32auctions.com/LAOC

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Silent auction 'Literary Auction for Change' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A charming little octopus from a #Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD 🐙❤️ Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against an off-white background. The front-facing octopus appears almost cartoon-like, with a large red and white head and body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot which stare out at the viewer. Below the head and body are eight writhing arms.

This octopus and other fragmentary animal mosaics were discovered in the 19th century at the Hermitage of Santa Colomba, Villaquejida, León, which had been built on the site of a Roman villa.

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Tamara Kawar - تمارا @tetrameter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🌈 I'm participating in Lit for Queer Liberation auction! Come AMA about publishing or if you're querying, get notes on your query letter! All proceeds fund the Queer Liberation Network. Links to bid: www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Silent auction 'Lit for Queer Liberation 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

A large Regency house. Two sisters named Emilia and Charlotte talk on an upper floor.
"Mister Blackwell has come to call again." says Emilia as she looks out of the window "Oh, how I despise his uncouth manners and electric bicycle!"

Charlotte says "Sister, you will end up a spinster if you insist on a historically accurate suitor."
and continues "The romance novel has changed, Emilia, and so must we."

Emilia replies "Easy for you to say. You are engaged to the richest werewolf in the county!"

They are walking through the house.

Charlotte says "Look at Cousin Lucy: She is quite plain, yet made a most advantageous match with the dragon queen of nalthrax."

"True." says Emilia opening the door.

The tall, solid figure of Miuster Blackwell stands at the door wearing a top hat and tailcoat:
"Ladies, I triumphed In my ice hockey match and won ten thousand a year in sponsorship! Miss Emilia, will you be my bride?" he is holding a hockey stick.

Emilia swoons into Charlotte's arms.

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Everina Maxwell @everinamaxwell.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Cover for Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell: Two women fighting on a dramatic background of mountains and clouds

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Since everyone has Frankenstein on the brain: more people should read Ahmed Sadaawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad.

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Tamara Kawar - تمارا @tetrameter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

If I don't like your pitch, but you think your work could be right for me, please also feel free to query at the same link! #DVpit

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Tamara Kawar - تمارا @tetrameter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hi #DVpit, I'm so glad we're back! If I like your pitch please send in your query + first 20 pages or GN pitch or art portfolio at the following link: querytracker.net/query/tkawar...

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Query Tamara Kawar at DeFiore & Company

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Prince @ NYCC c38 @crownprinxe.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

My sapphic figure skating graphic novel, Just Between Us, is debuting next year 🩷🩷🩷

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Now complete! THE CROWNS OF ISHIA, @karinlow.bsky.social 's novella trilogy of indigenous dragonriders seeking to live in balance with the land, resist those that oppress them and find love and family on the frontier concludes in A COVENANT OF ICE. Buy geni.us/ishia

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🐈‍⬛ @karinlow.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A Covenant of Ice is out today in North Am! It wasn’t written by AI in any way. The cover art is human made. My publisher & editor are cool beans. @solarisbooks.bsky.social If you want to support art being made by humans, for humans, give my anti-colonial, queer+ dragon book a go geni.us/ishia

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Read now:

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Emmett Nahil @emnays.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

What Was Built to Be a Ship of Dreams?: The Titanic is a graphic novel for middle grade readers coming from the Who HQ series on July 15th! Proud to have created this small graphic novel alongside @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social! You can preorder it now for the young reader in your life.

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What Was Built to Be a Ship of Dreams?: The Titanic by Emmett Nahil, Who HQ: 9780593661109 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Discover the story of the Titanic’s ill-fated voyage through three diverse perspectives of survivors in this affecting graphic novel by Let Me Out author Emmett Nahil and award-winning illustrator...

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The #IgnyteAwards finalists for the Outstanding Novella category is for speculative works ranging from 17,500-39,999 words. Congratulations to the following titles and their authors.

Finalists in Outstanding Novella

FRACTAL KARMA – Arula Ratnakar (Clarkesworld)

LOST ARK DREAMING – Suyi Okungbowa Davies (Tordotcom)

THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST – Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)

THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT – A. D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)

THE PRACTICE, THE HORIZON, AND THE CHAIN – Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)

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Tamara Kawar - تمارا @tetrameter.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

LOST ARK DREAMING is a finalist for best novella! Congrats to @suyidavies.com!!

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🐈‍⬛ @karinlow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

For Pride Month 🌈, calling all queer book reviewers that would be interested in reading my novella trilogy and giving an honest write up (the central relationship in this world where queerness is not othered is amongst 3 men). DM your email & I’ll send you eARCs. Signal boosting appreciated 🙏🏼

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside.

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Fantasy Cafe, aka Fantasy Book Cafe @fantasycafe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"I knew it would be a challenge to depict a point-of-view character like Méka who isn’t constantly threatening her world with violence or revolution as The Answer to aggression." @karinlow.bsky.social on The Crowns of Ishia: www.fantasybookcafe.com/2025/04/wome... #Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy 📚🪐

Cover of THE MOUNTAIN CROWN, The Crowns of Ishia Book One by Karin Lowachee. It is yellow with a detailed orange-red image of a winged dragon atop a mountain.

Cover of THE DESERT TALON, The Crowns of Ishia Book Two, by Karin Lowachee. A large yellow and orange dragon is in the air with its wings spread wide with two smaller dragons flying in the background. Below them are orange-red sands.

Cover of A COVENANT OF ICE, The Crowns of Ishia Book Three, by Karin Lowachee. It shows a detailed image of a winged blue dragon in the air with a mountain and people below it. Other than the black title, the cover is in pale-to-medium shades of icy blues.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 14/02/2025

At 3pm on 9 February 2025, booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna were accosted by undercover Israeli police. They were arrested at the Educational Bookshop, handcuffed and taken to prison. Over 250 books were confiscated.

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Donate to Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop Emergency Appeal, organised by Saqi Books

Bookselling is not a crime: fundraiser to support the Educational Booksh… Saqi Books needs your support for Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop Emergency Appeal

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🎉 🎂 Happy US Book Birthday to @karinlow.bsky.social's THE DESERT TALON! The adventures of the gunslinging dragon-riders of Ishia continue in the second novella of THE CROWNS OF ISHIA series. Featuring new characters, a new setting, and some familiar faces... geni.us/desertt

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Chelsea Hensley @chelseabigbang.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

There's a lot of great #kidlit stuff in the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social auction that still has very few bids, so it's still really possible to get in on it! I'm going to call out a few but you can view the entire auction here. givebutter.com/c/MsVK8X/auc...

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2024 Literary Auction for Change

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

In high towers in the sea in a flooded West Africa, the wealthy live on top; workers below—while the drowned seek vengeance on those who offered them up to the waves. Read an excerpt from Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, out now from Tordotcom Publishing. reactormag.com/excerpts-suy...

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Read an Excerpt From Suyi Davies Okungbowa's Lost Ark Dreaming - Reactor

A high-octane post-climate disaster novella.

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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 25/03/2024

Karin Lowachee is one of my favorite authors, so I’m always excited to hear about a new book from her. Her next is The Mountain Crown, and it’s about dragons. Here’s my interview with her about it: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/the-mountain...

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Revealing Karin Lowachee's The Mountain Crown

A Q&A with one of my favorite writers

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Emmett Nahil @emnays.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Interview up! In which I chat a bit about influence, representation, and the origins of LET ME OUT. horrortree.com/emmett-nahil...

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Emmett Nahil on Let Me Out - The Horror Tree

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