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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 6h

#Booksky Spooktacular Day 3: For anyone who believes horror movies, even compromised ones, have staying power, Taking Shape by Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins is the book for you. Tracking every Halloween film (through 2018) from the idea stage to completion, chronicling warfare between… 1/2

Cover of Taking Shape, depicting a Jack-o-lantern and a kitchen knife against the silhouetted starry background of a quiet neighborhood.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular Day 2: Imagine the anxiety of going to a friend’s wedding where your ex will be a guest (along with his new partner). Now imagine you’re stuck in a loop, repeating that day. Oh, and each time, you and everyone else dies in increasingly bizarre ways… 1/2

Cover for Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison, depicting a knife stabbing into a wedding cake, which drips blood. There are weird “echo images” of this radiating off to one side.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s time for the #Booksky 2026 Spooktacular! Day 1 belongs to @craigdilouie.bsky.social’s The Summer Fun Massacre, where a detective story meets a slasher for a killer thriller that still has space for explorations of grief, trauma, and old loves. (Plus it’s getting a sequel soon!)

Cover of The Summet Fun Massacre by Craig DiLouie, designed to look like an old VHS cover bearing the image of a cabin in the woods and a bloodstained wooden sign bearing the novel’s title.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's search results reflect who paid the biggest bribe, not who has the best product. To pay for those bribes, platform sellers have to raise prices. 23/

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We need to start writing near-future science fiction that refers back to a period in the past known only as 'The Last Days of the Billionaires'. There'd be no obligation to explain what happened to them, just that it was historically inevitable. Let us create the expectation of world without them.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Honestly heartbroken and shocked -- I'm sorry if you're hearing it from me the Parton family just announced Dolly Parton's passing. No I'm not making this up, but I am an extremely hot mess. www.instagram.com/reels/DceNXg...

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Dolly Parton on Instagram: "A message from the family of Dolly Parton."

38K likes, 3,435 comments - dollyparton on August 25, 2026: "A message from the family of Dolly Parton.".

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hey Colorado Springs #Booksky peeps: the Basecamp Book Bash is ON! I’ll be saying hi and signing books until 6 or when I run out. Basecamp Books and Adventure— see you there!

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Preaching to the Choir, the new @aptshadow.bsky.social novella, is for anyone who’s seen that the richest people are Not Like Us. It’s got the creeping dread of a great horror movie, one Tchaikovsky’s Big Ideas at its center, and is paced beautifully. I read it in two greedy sittings. #Booksky

Cover for Preaching to the Choir by Adrian Tchaikovsky, depicting a white silhouette of a woman against a blue-tinted backdrop of an old mansion, a skull superimposed on the woman’s silhouette.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Victoria Goddard’s The Hands of the Emperor Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree K. Arsenault Rivera’s The Tiger’s Daughter Robin Hobb’s Ship of Magic Becky Chambers’s The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As always, @doctorow.pluralistic.net meets the moment with a scathing takedown of Zuckerberg in the midst of what feels like Facebook’s prolonged death spiral.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hey #Booksky, Vow of Ashes just might be @ddalglish.com’s best work yet, an emotionally raw and deeply moving story about dignity in death and the nature of commitment. It’s remarkable how much of a punch it packs into so small a page count. Read it, and have some tissues handy. 100% recommended!

Cover of Vow of Ashes by David Dalglish, with the title in a handwritten, glowing style against a black backdrop with embers and white feathers drifting around the border

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

POV: You’re an #author at a signing (It’s me. It’s my signing. Swing by the Barnes & Noble First and Main in Colorado Springs!) #Booksky

Picture from behind a signing table at a bookstore

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Spoken like someone who has such sights to show you

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Stoppe callinge them Data Centers and starte callinge them slop hellmouths

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Signing starts at 2! Barnes & Noble Citadel Colorado Springs, CO #author #indie #signing #Booksky

Picture of me (Trey Weller) peeking over a copy of Knight of the Chalice. I’m wearing a hat.

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Dr. Bones @directorbones.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The last 50 years of deregulation have been a long line of people getting mad the bungee cord pulls them back right before their sick swan dive gets to the good part

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Psst… there’s still some signed copies of Rapscallion and Knight of the Chalice left at Barnes & Noble 1st and Main in Colorado Springs. Get them while they last! #Booksky #author #indie #signed

Copies of Knight of the Chalice and Rapscallion (my books) on a shelf in a bookstore with “Signed Edition” stickers on them

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Richard Newby @richardlnewby.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This has always been the case. “Go Woke, Get Broke” has always been clownish untruth. No movie has ever failed because of Black folks, POC, LQBTQ+, or women. There are a myriad of other reasons why some movies fail to connect. But bigoted chuds don’t have that kind of power.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Signing has BEGUN! See you all here at Barnes & Noble 1st and Main in Colorado Springs! #Booksky #author

Picture of me (now) sitting at a table with my books on it

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 15/07/2026

HELLO AUTHORS. The Deadlands will open to short story submissions (up to 5,000 words) for the entire month of October. but wait there's MORE For the first time everrr we are opening to NOVELETTE SUBMISSIONS (1/3)

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

And if you can’t wait until tomorrow, the first signed copies of Knight of the Chalice in the wild are at Basecamp Books and Adventure in Colorado Springs! (Also, yeah, I made sure all my other books are signed as well.) #Booksky

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hey Colorado Springs #Booksky peeps! Want a signed copy of Rapscallion or Knight of the Chalice? Maybe you want to call me rude names! Either way, I’ll be signing books starting at 10 tomorrow at the Barnes & Noble 1st & Main. Hope to see you there! #author

Me (Trey Weller) sitting at a table in a bookstore behind several large stacks of books

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 17/07/2026

It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly!

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

He could’ve just opened a museum in his retirement and enjoyed the “the newest Star Wars is always the worst Star Wars” nostalgia boost to the Prequels. But George, if you aren’t making art anymore, don’t spend your twilight years making life harder for those who are.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Writing books is hard. Writing my most recent book was HARD hard. For more on my process, the way the story grew and changed, and the lessons I had to ignore, here's a (fairly) brief write-up. (Also Knight of the Chalice is out, and you should totally get a copy, guys!) #Booksky #author

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Writing KNIGHT OF THE CHALICE

It’s a cliché to say writing a novel is a labor of love, but it’s true. Both parts. I would only write 100,000+ words of a story if I were truly invested in it, but it’s still ver…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/07/2026

There's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of centrists who bemoan "political polarization" and call for a politics that abandons the "tribalism of left and right." 1/

The icy chamber at the center of Dante's hell, dominated by Satan, massive and peering around with his chin propped on his elbows, which rest of the ice-sheet. From the ceiling of the chamber dangles a massive, decapitated head, suspended by the hair. Beneath it is a pile of corpses in middle ages armor. On the opposite side of the chamber stands a suburban housing plot; another group of (living) soldiers in armour aim a giant catapult at it.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And Iconoclast is now $0.99. That means you can get all three books released (so far) in the Rapscallion series for under $1! #Booksky #author

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Guess what, #Booksky? To celebrate the impending release of Knight of the Chalice, the ebook for Rapscallion is FREE for the next few days! Even more, the paperback is discounted as well! Get your fill of thieves, con artists, and swashbuckling fun for a steal. But that's not all... 1/2

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Amazon.com: Rapscallion eBook : Weller, Trey: Kindle Store

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Knight of the Chalice SIGNINGS info! Really trying to get the word out about these and my newest book. Hope to say hi to some of you there (and also, you know, sign your books)! And keep an eye out in the days to come, because I’ve got a few other surprises in store… #Booksky #author #signing

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Knight of the Chalice Signings!

So my newest novel, Knight of the Chalice, officially releases July 7th (that’s in 5 days!), and I’m trying to really get the word out. It’s my first novel since Rapscallion that …

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@chucktingle.bsky.social’s newest book, Fabulous Bodies, hits stores next week, but I got my hands on it early, and I can tell you it’s another home run. Take Collateral, replace Tom Cruise with a zombie Elton John-alike, and you’ve scratched the surface of this novel’s delights. Pick it up #Booksky

Cover of Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle, depicting a pair of pink heart-rimmed glasses with a reflection of water inside.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Had to dig up a hard copy for this one.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I was kinda bowled over by @lexcroucher.bsky.social’s The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones, a queer slice of dark academia that avoids reiterating other magic school stories with its exploration of class, consent, and trauma. It’s a heady brew, and damn near impossible to put down. Recommended #Booksky

U.S. cover of The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones by Lex Croucher, depicting a school crest with a skull, a stork gripping a scroll, a four-pointed star with an eye in the middle, and the Latin phrase, “nunquam deficere,” set against the stone wall of what looks like a sewer, greenish water at the base

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Whole lotta “free market guys” trying to carve out exceptions for themselves when no one wants to use the Plagiarism Machine to drown the Internet in slop.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

First draft, no. I just trust that smarter people than me will read that draft and tell me what I need to fix. By the third draft or so, however, I start getting a decent sense of “hey, this is beginning to feel like it won’t totally embarrass me if strangers read it!”

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hey #Booksky, here's a quick preview of Knight of the Chalice a story of knights, delusion, monsters, and second chances, out 7/7: "All my life, I believed in heroes. "Men whose nobility wasn’t given by birth, who stood up to injustice, protected the innocent, and accomplished great deeds. 1/3

Cover of Knight of the Chalice by Trey Weller (me), depicting a round green shield with a depiction of a chalice painted on it, blood spattered around the shield's rim where it lays on a background of dark rock.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just TWO WEEKS before Knight of the Chalice is released! I’m itching to share it with you all.

Cover of Knight of the Chalice by Trey Weller (me!), depicting a round green shield with a chalice illustrated on it, lying on a dark stony background. The shield is flecked with blood.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Preorders for the ebook of Knight of the Chalice are now LIVE! If you’re as forgetful as me, you too can click a button and it’ll just magically *appear* in a month. I’m really proud of this one. #Author #Booksky #NewBook

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I’m not here because I *want* to get into an argument, though! This is a personalized social media feed, not the theater of debate. I’m here mainly to follow authors I like, so I’ll know when they have a new book out. Life is tense enough in the States without cultivating an extra space like that!

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I finally jumped on board the Thousand Li bandwagon, and what a ride @taowong.bsky.social takes us on with The First Step! Addictively readable, killer action, and a protagonist who understands the value of Putting The Work In. Looking forward to the rest of the series! #Booksky

Cover of The First Step by Tao Wing, depicting a stylized robed figure wielding a sword against a green backdrop.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hey #Booksky, @nataliezed.bsky.social is back with Villain, the sequel to Hench, and it’s bigger, darker, and more emotionally raw than I could have expected. Swings for the fences with questions about boundaries and power dynamics and agency and connects. Good to the last ice-cold drop. Read it!

Cover of Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots, depicting a woman with a cane against a pink background, casting a shadow with a cape fighting off other superheroic shadows.

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