Valerie Valdes

Bumping this more visibly, as due to rescheduling I have extra spots open right now!

gonna drop this in the @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social discord and see if anyone knows?

Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance.
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!

Before you hit the costume party don't forget to hit SEND! Subs for our next unthemed issue close Friday!

I object to this most strenuously!

Coming back from a long trip, it’s such a relief to be home, sleeping in your own bed… And then the backlog of stuff you need to catch up on wraps around you and turns you into a groaning, shambling task list mummy.

I would be more cool with losing my hands and having wings instead if I could figure out how to fly but turns out that’s harder than you might expect

Rose/House Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire.“I’m a piece of arc...

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do you like ebooks about haunted architecture

did you ever wish THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE was more ... SFnal?

just in time for the height of spooky season, my ROSE/HOUSE is on sale for only $2.99 at all ebook retailers! until November 2nd!

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ONE HOUR REMAINS IN OUR KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN! Last chance to grab a subscription + a short story critique from the brilliant Heather Clitheroe! @lectio.bsky.social is an editor and author of fiction in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fusion Fragment, and elsewhere!

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DEAD HAND RULE is out today! As an implacable enemy skitters nearer across the stars, Tara Abernathy gathers Gods and Deathless Kings alike to join forces. Of course, there's still a little fine print to be sorted out. But surely they'll be able to come together against the darkness. Any minute now.

Q&A: Max Gladstone, Author of 'Dead Hand Rule' | The Nerd Daily We chat with author Max Gladstone about Dead Hand Rule, which is the latest epic installment in the Craft Wars series.

DEAD HAND RULE is out tomorrow! The fine folks at Nerd Daily spoke with me about this penultimate book of the Craft Sequence, and what’s to come. thenerddaily.com/max-gladston...

Modified Bluesky post originally by Psy Costanza @ganondalf.bsky.social. Text: You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh some dipshit said girls don’t like sci-fi? Well they do. No I’m not going to prove it to you. That’s not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!

This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.

In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook

Available wherever books are sold.

#booksky #Blackbooksky

Thank you!! I love being an autora de pewpewpew among so many brilliant stories here 😸🚀

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In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, I wrote a listicle of awesome Latinx Science Fiction to read ASAP! W/ great books by @boriscrito.bsky.social @pazsays.bsky.social @valerievaldes.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social @willalex.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social

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“He stuck his dagger into the headboard, leaned his staff against the bed, took off all his clothes, got under the covers, and settled in to wait for the groom.” We had to stop on this cliffhanger and welp. This won’t end well.

I will never write anything as chaotic as a terrible fake monk tearing the table legs off an altar to Buddha and fighting his way through a mob of level 0 NPCs

And they didn’t just fight, the major threw two pounds of minced pork at the guy and then punched him to death. Truly this is the greatest story ever told.

Listening to the Water Margin podcast and idk why but this exchange made us lose it laughing:
Major: Let me get 13 pounds of lean minced pork.
Butcher: Okay.
M: Now 13 pounds of minced pork fat.
B: …okay?
M: Now 13 pounds of minced cartilage.
B: Are you messing with me?
M: Yeah I am!
*they fight

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Applications are now open for the 2026 Novel Writing Workshop with @drkarenlord.bsky.social!

Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio.

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I’m not exactly inundated in requests but I do hate that this means if a real person contacts me, I’ll assume it’s fake 🫠

Pro tip, book club spammers: if you all send me the same spam on the same day, six in a row, it’s a little more difficult for me to get duped.

WATERSTONES PREORDER CAMPAIGN!

Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡

Join Daggerheart GM Seminar: Creating Adversaries & Environments - Zoom - Daggerheart | StartPlaying Games Mike Underwood, Additional Designer on Daggerheart, shares their approach to the philosophy and practice of GMing the game. Each seminar will have 1-2 core topics, plus topics nominated by attendees ...

There are just four spots left in today's seminar on creating Adversaries and Environments for Daggerheart:

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no muscling in on their territory, I get it

Me: Stop making squirrel memes and brush your hair
Baby: Fine
Me:
Baby:
Me:
Baby: I made a cat meme too

it knows just how you take your coffee because it’s a good listener

of course! what a jerk 😂

ahh! they would, wouldn’t they… was it a minicon or something lol