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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not gonna lie, I am a bit jelly if someone decides to do an OUR CRIMSON CAGE and LIAR LIAR CROCO SPIDER by @monterothorne.com double feature back to back reading

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Hel ✨ || Untwined is out now!! 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This kinda slipped by me buuut: I'm doing #SFINCS #SFINCS4 again this year as a judge in this awesome team!! ✌️✌️💙📚

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, this slipped past me. Here be I, competed. Looks like some stiff competition in this gang. #amreading #SFINCS4 #booksky #books #GLHF

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yay! The River Devours the Moon is in round one among a very competitive batch of books. Fantastic to see work from Cecilia Tan and Ladz in here, alongside... Wait. How many books make it out of round one again? O_o (Going to enjoy this. But fuck it'll be a bloodbath no matter how it breaks.)

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Emma L. Adams @emmaladams12.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looking forward to seeing how my pair of fictional miscreants fare in this! 😁

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Author of the Last Goblin Queen series 🔥⚔️💎🪨💧 @lastgoblinqueen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Kingdoms Gada and Eleanor novella, "The Last Goblin Queen: Harmony and Resonance", is in SFINCS4! #BookSky #RomanticFantasyFiction #TheLastGoblinQueen

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am in here 👀

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today is our last team announcement! Meet the team KRACKenS and the books they will be judging for round one of SFINCS4! #booksky #authors #writing #SFINCS www.sfincscompetition.com/post/sfincs4...

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SFINCS4 Meet the Team: KRACKenS

Meet the SFINCS 4 KRACKenS and what they will be reading in round 1!

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today you all have a chance to meet the team Bookish Dimensions and the books they will be judging for round one of SFINCS4! #booksky #authors #writing #SFINCS www.sfincscompetition.com/post/sfincs4...

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SFINCS4 Meet the Team: Bookish Dimensions

Meet the SFINCS 4 Bookish Dimensions and what they will be reading in round 1!

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 03/10/2026

My team! Happy to be a judge again this year 😊

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 03/10/2026

Holy meat grinder of a group that I ended up in O_o

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh my gosh. So curious how this will go down... :O

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Sad Monster @dyre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ooh, terribly exciting, I hope they enjoy my obsessively possessive monsters. <3

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This year we will be introducing the teams and what they will be reading in our blog! Once all the posts have been released we will update our round one page! #booksky #authors #writing #SFINCS www.sfincscompetition.com/post/sfincs4...

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SFINCS4 Meet the Team: TBR Strikes Back

Meet the SFINCS 4 Team TBR Strikes Back and what they will be reading in round 1!

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 30/09/2026

Last year I entered with Living Sword, which I wrote 13 years ago. This year, I've entered my new novella Unsaved. I want to see if I can go any further, and maybe get past the first round this time. books2read.com/u/4A9nxq

The cover of Unsaved by Pemry Janes.

A weary robot sits on a head while mechanical limbs pile up behind them. Just a scrapheap, or the ghosts of regrets past reaching for the one who couldn't make good on their promises?

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E. H. Lupton @pretensesoup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I dropped The Alignments into this contest!

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again, thank you!! If anyone's curious, you can go ahead and read "The Protector's memory of them under the sunlight." for free here on Itch dot Io: flowerymoon.itch.io/the-protecto...

The Protector's memory of them under the sunlight cover. Part of Blue Horizon series.

Characters upon picnic blanket. Antonio Chandrani-Rivera is thrown onto his old friend and flame Alejandro Altaha with immense blushes and shock between them, and it is due to Raj Rivera, Antonio's fraternal twin, accidentally falling on his butt against said brother and tile-slamming him.

Antonio description: Brown skin, red eyes, blue hair like waves, shocked and blushing expression, blue hair like waves, blue panjabi.
Alejandro: Orange-pink tunic, eyes pattern along shirt collar, immensely shocked, vulnerable expression, red eyes, light bronze skin.
Raj: Dark brown skin, shocked wide silver eyes, anime silver hair that has a flipped undercut, lilac sherwani.

Layla Chandrani and Alia Akinyemi are essentially looking at each other flirting-like.

Alia: A soft smile, pushing her blue curls away, dark blue captain-like garbs, dark blue curls.
Layla: A knowing smile, red eye, black eyepatch with silver esoteric moon-and-stars threading, wavy anime silver hair, brown skin, white European-style suit, green shirt, red tie.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had so much fun in last years' SFINCS that this year, I entered Between the Blood and the Sun! it's a novella about vampires, and terminal illness, and the choices you make at the end of things. books2read.com/BetweentheBl... jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...

The cover for BETWEEN THE BLOOD AND THE SUN: a female figure, face shadowed, the sun rising or setting behind her. She's wearing a smallish cowboy hat (i.e. not ten gallon), and has two guns.

cover by Elyon from thebookcoverdesigner.com

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Mason @masonhawthorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The White Ribband is competing! 🥳 My first time entering, I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes 😊

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Emma L. Adams @emmaladams12.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I entered this with The Scribe's Vault, my Forest of Stone prequel! First time I've had something I could enter since 2023. 😁

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Need even more to read? Check out the all the @thesfincs.bsky.social lists, past and present! www.sfincscompetition.com/sfincs-champ...

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Philip Harris @solitarymindset.com · 28/09/2026

I'm happy to say that Serial Killer Z: Infection is part of this year's Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship, alongside a whole host of great authors. Good luck, everyone.

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BE NOT AFRAID is part of this with a bunch of cool novellas! Wish us all luck, and definitely check them all out! There could be a new favorite hiding in that list!

A trope map graphic for Be Not Afraid by S. Jean. In the center is the cover featuring Seth, an angel with translucent red wings, white hair, and bright eyes with his back to the viewer as he holds a bloodied lead pipe over his shoulder. Along the top is a tagline and it reads: "a fast-paced blaze through Hell..." To the sides are the tropes. They are: coy angel wielding a lead pipe, deadbeat guitarist having a bad night, survival horror, gay gory chaos, silent hill x sorry we're closed, rotting seraphs hellbent on your death, finding a reason to live, and a pair of eyes you used to know. Along the bottom proclaims ebooks + paperbacks are out now and gives the url, books.earlronove.com/benotafraid.

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let’s go mechanical lesbians & fuckable planets!!!

TERRA FLUX
a planetary adventure
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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Helping to sort through the #SFINCS entries and wow are there some cool books. o.o

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's happeninnnnnnng!!!

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 28/09/2026

Announcement 1 of several coming soon! So Opus is part of this...and I hope it wins. But also I see a few friends in this that I hope win if I cannot

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It begins. :) The River Devours the Moon made it in, alongside so much cool stuff. Going to be great to watch this progress. :D

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Savage Daughters of the Secret Isle is in SFINCS this year 🥰

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Mitch Miller ☆ 🎃🪦👻 @astramachina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monitored Activity is on here. Holy smokes. But I also see a FANTASTIC selection of titles by friends and colleagues! Honored to be among such excellent company.

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So excited to have Seven Years' Love in SFINCS4!!!

Seven Years Love cover in the center: oil pastel of a ship silhouetted against the sky, riding the waves. A slightly transparent written list overlays the ship and sky, tilted to the right, with only some of the words visible against the blue, including 'Thrice stolen sailor's gem, a mermaid's treasure', 'the scarecly avoided', 'grave', 'dust', 'curse', and 'a whole'. On the waves, below the ship, reads Seven Years' Love, following the shape of the waves and the bottom of the ship and, below that, Ellie Lieberman. The words are in JTC Blackadder font, black with light blue shadow
Red sky sunrise/sunset in the background
Arrows forming a heart pointing to the cover reads
Sapphic
Star-crossed lovers
Long time established relationship
No spice
Arrows with dotted lines reads
Crow familiar
Skeleton phantom crew
Witch
Curses
Small straight arrows pointed up and down at the top and bottom of the cover read
Pirates
Maritime Superstitions

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 28/09/2026

i see @cjlavigne.com !!!!!

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 28/09/2026

I submitted 𝘐𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬? this year 😅🤞

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Is This What You Really Want, Adelaide Black? by RJ Martin

Adelaide Black had never been to space before. Yet here she is, a thousand light-years from home, riding shotgun with an independent space trucker. She didn’t even bring a toothbrush. All to find a…

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 28/09/2026

Some good names on this list!

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So many excellent books and authors on this list!

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 28/09/2026

Stoked that Unsaved made it into this year's SFINCS!

Unsaved cover on a phone, with arrows saying betrayal, a dying earth, novella, tech like magic, ancient android, and out of time around it.

Behind it, a pale sun burns on nothing but a command engraved into the fabric of the Membrance.

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Jake Theriault @jaketheriault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Any readers want to get a head start on The New Patriots, official selection of SFINCS4, can do so here: a.co/d/0ao0q5sJ

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I entered The Dead Man into this. We shall see if anyone likes it!

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congratulations to all of the authors who will be part of SFINCS4!!!! We wish you all the best of luck! Next steps are for us to sort the novellas into teams for judging which we will announce later this week! #booksky #authors #writers #publishers www.sfincscompetition.com/post/accepte...

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Accepted SFINCS4 Submissions!

Here you can find the accepted SFINCS4 author submissions!

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Submissions are being verified for qualification! Stay tuned for the announcement of our SFINCS4 novellas this evening! Those who have submitted will receive an email for qualification/disqualification notification! #booksky #authors #writers #publishers

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last call for novella submissions! We have three spots left! Submissions will be closing tomorrow (September 26th) at 11am EST. #authors #writers #booksky forms.gle/DBM6MPYwQd6e...

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