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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 10h

It's been a month since I moved out of London and to a semi rural area I'm still amazed every night when I see the sky. I saw a shooting star yesterday.

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Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 06/10/2026

The Heresy of Thieves is out in the world TODAY! Why not treat yourself to a new fall fantasy featuring: 🌈 LGBTQ+ characters/world ⚔️ Battles, sword fights, skirmishes 🍺 Questionable choices 🫂 Found family 🧚 Mythical creatures 🏰 Political intrigues 🕸️ Giant snuggly spooders books2read.com/u/mVdK7J

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

The Heresy of Thieves by Mia V. Moss

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Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 06/10/2026

If you buy my book from bookshop.org today or tomorrow, you get free shipping AND support a local indie bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Stefanie 🏳️‍⚧️ @foxenlock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're trans and love Signalis, I want to include your experience in my book on transness and cyberpunk. Feel free to DM me or email foxenlock@proton.com

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very much enjoyed the Resident Evil movie. A lot of fun touches that make it feel like the games.

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The first #horror book has entered our LFL! I'll be adding lots more through October! 🎃👻 * Yes, you read the date right. I guess I got a bit ahead of myself there! 😂

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It makes me so mad everytime I see non-deletable ai assistants all over my UI. It needs to die.

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sarah l. hawthorn (A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING '26) @slhawthorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"AI is taking over, it's inevitable-" The only inevitability is the heat death of the universe. Your effort is insignificant, yet you still side with the endless hate machine. "You'll get left behind-" Leave me to the woods, forget my name, and fall into those cold arms alone and unremembered.

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Come visit us at Small Press Fest in surprisingly non-rainy Victoria BC! Nab an early copy of @iangoodale.bsky.social 's brand new novel and all!

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Same!! I have actually just finished a straightforward horror book that has (almost) no complicated weirdness. It was quite a palate cleanser.

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Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 22/09/2026

In just a few hours I'll be reading with some AMAZING authors at Brooklyn Books & Booze! Come on down to Barrow's Intense! 🔥

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you live in Victoria, BC? Come say hi to us l’il ol’ Diachro next weekend (Sep 26) at Small Press Fest, in the Central Branch Courtyard of the Victoria Public Library. We’ll be selling advance copies of Molehills in Heaven (out Oct 13)!!! 🐒 openspace.ca/arts/all-pro...

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Small Press Fest 2026

Open Space is a non-profit artist-run centre situated on lək̓ʷəŋən land, also now know as Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Since its founding in 1972, Open Space continues to present experimental a...

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My first YA horror comes out in 2028. The first Shortwave Teen title out of @shortwavebooks.bsky.social ! So happy to be back!!! First come the dares Then come the scares And a chance to go viral Turns into survival

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Congrats!!! Happy book birthday.

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Ri Stypula @ristypula.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today’s the day! It’s publishing day and SQUELCH! is officially released into the world, and with the long road getting to this point coming to an end I’d like to take a bit to talk about this weird, gross, body horror in detail now that it’s out for all to experience. (Thread below!!!)

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You are obviously not cool enough to be on NetGardey.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tis the UK pub day for 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷👀🥳‼️ * @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

a spread of AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS books with round cookies with the book cover on them in little bags tied with blue ribbons

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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...

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Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres

Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seventeen years with this amazing person!

6 photos of a couple celebrating 17 years together

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Diane Callahan @quotidianwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve never fully understood what it means to “perform” gender because it’s so much more than clothing, than posture, than attitude. Yet gender norms still permeate so much of my daily existence and the way I move about the world—how I write, think, and feel.

Open copy of Fruitslice to Diane’s essay, “Fantasizing About Being a Man Who Loves Women”

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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Anyway, Happy Book Birthday to me 🎉🥳 In a future Britain, archaeologist and TV presenter Eva Sinclair investigates the mysterious fern-like patterns left by drought around the long-dry riverbed of an ancient massacre site. www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Parch Marks
Anna Orridge
Gold SF
The image is of fern markings on parched earth.

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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pleased as punch to be one of the contributors to this series, along with Anne. Parch Marks is set in York, London and the Pennines. It features climate change, the Bronze Age, caves, archaeology, protest and heritage crime. Order link in the post below.

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Lucy James @lucyjames.games · 28/08/2026

ICYMI: I curated some games for the @weirddaysevent.bsky.social! Go check ‘em out (and all the other games in the event, there are loads of truly excellent ones!) store.steampowered.com/curator/4622...

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Weird Days: Job Simulator

Discover a Steam festival about the strangest jobs, featuring free demos, discounts, staff picks and a special Night Shift livestream on Twitch.

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Alexis Ames @alexisames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Posting for the evening crowd: It's the #yearofqueerlit sale today! This is a 1-day sale and THE CHAMOS PROJECT is $1.99 for the rest of the day: yearofqueerlit.com/sci-fi/.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🎉SIGNING ANNOUNCEMENT🖤☠️ We're making the pantheon of British Folk Horror WEIRD again with @stevenpatchett.bsky.social's atmospheric, disturbing FLOCK FOR A DEAD GOD, coming next summer! Fans of THE WICKER MAN, THE WITCH, or Adam Nevill: this curse is for you.

Publisher's Marketplace announcement: Steven Patchett's FLOCK FOR A DEAD GOD, IN WHICH a grieving widower takes up a Pennine sheep farm in the the Northumbrian hills bequeathed him by his uncle, only to discover the inheritance includes a pair of children abandoned on his doorstep, a wrathful local matriarch, long-hidden family secrets, and an all consuming, ancient hunger

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Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 25/08/2026

My first novel comes out in exactly SIX WEEKS from Dark Matter Ink, and right now over on Goodreads you can enter to win a signed hardback copy! 💙📚🌈🪐 #booksky #indieauthors www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ Huh. This feels like something y'all should be preordering, reposting, & generally losing your minds over🖤☠️ YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, companion to our beloved YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY 40~ 🏳️‍⚧️+GNC creators deliver the best Weird Cosmic Horror of the year. Out Oct 6. Get: store.tenebrouspress.com

Publisher holding a test print of YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Me after spending two days moving all of my stuff-

An image of Jeffry Combs from the movie The Frighteners, with the text My body is a road map of pain.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 19/08/2026

TIL this is who apparently runs the Grievance Committee of the HWA. Patrick's still running unopposed. He's posted a weak statement on his substack saying he's grown as a person since creeping on Theo and "let the voters decide." There's no one else to vote for. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_T...

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Brett Talley - Wikipedia

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Can't we all just start a new one and call it the Horror Writers Disassociation or something? Absolute shittery.

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Isaac Thorne, Horror Author @isaacthorne.com · 19/08/2026

This is not easy to say. I rarely quit anything. I've been an HWA member for 7 years. Never before considered not renewing. However, if grievances regarding the forthcoming election are not addressed, I'm out. Too many distressing controversies lately for me to continue in good conscience.

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Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Libraries and indie bookstores--What would the world be without them?? Dont forget buying direct from indie publishers as well 👀

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Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

So sorry you had to deal with that.

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