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I write. Supposedly. dear stupid penpal - winter 2025 πͺ Artifice & Access - out now! β¨οΈ A Truth Universally Acknowledged - literally in the mail gimme π¦ unfortunatelyobsessed on AO3, 2019 Hugo award winner (iykyk), bestselling author (apparently?!)
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The front cover of a book entitled The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers. Stylized artwork shows two men in a loose embrace, one shorter, light-skinned, and pale-haired, the taller one dark haired and darker skinned, both in casual modern-esque clothes. The taller one kisses the shorter one on the forehead, his hand clasping the shorter one's cheek. They stand before a blood-red circle with a star on it, and a brilliant blue wave surges behind them. cover illustration by planetsandmagic (tumblr & bsky)
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yes your honour i did curse him with my evil orb, but in my defence, i thought it would be sick as fuck
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Five days left to win 1 of 10 copies of SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP featuring two New Weird Eco-Horror novelettes from @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L. Mahler!
Just add OFF THE MAP to your Goodreads To-Read pile and you're entered! Info here:
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The graphic has Casper making a goofy face and pointing at a book mock-up in the background. He is a white transmasc person with thick rimmed purple glasses that look blue here and dark blue eyes that look black here. Heβs lying on a white pillow case with black flowers on them and is wearing a gray PJ shirt. The photo is taken from above because he is too fucking tired to sit up. The mock-up shows the cover of his debut poetry collection. It looks like this: The cover shows a blurry, light blue hospital background with a leopard plushie in front of it which is wearing a white KN95 mask and blue scrubs. Above it in two different fonts is SURVIVAL & OTHER (then different font) SURPRISES. Below the leopard it says in thing font A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY CASPER E. FALLS. To the left of the cover is black text in front of a pastel blue background. It says βThat awkward moment when you have a poetry collection about chronic illness coming out in a month and chronic illness prevents you from marketing it.β Above the cover it says: THIS COUNTS AS MARKETING. GO PREORDER β€οΈ
Hereβs an exhausted gremlin selfie to tell you that my book about being an exhausted gremlin is coming out in a month! Waaaah!You can preorder it now: books2read.com/u/m00Ja0
If you like accessible but ruthless poetry about disability,heartbreak, & world rage, you might enjoy itπ #disabled #booksky
Me, after a full day of activities: okay now I will lay on the couch and write
The sudden and overwhelming urge to just fall asleep right here instead: π
#booksky ππ
It is officially
#AromanticAwarenessWeek!!! All my short stories are 50% off _everywhere_!
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Little baffling why we just got followed by a swath of Pro-AI βwritersβ.
Boy theyβll be disappointed when they find out thatβs uhβ¦not really our thing.
If youβre one of em & you see this, we invite you to read some real life humansπ
Say it loud & proud:
Fuck AI in the artsπ«π€
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That's so awesome to hear omg π
10.02.2025 22:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I LOVE YOUUUUU TOO
10.02.2025 22:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Me: maybe if I make a moodboard, this plot bunny will be more solid and less just vibes
(Spoiler alert: it's now just even more vibes)
Oh my gosh, that means so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it π
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A picture of the cover of the book Artifice & Access, a teal cover depicting heroes in various positions, including one with a prosthetic leg and one in a wheelchair.
![A picture of the first page of A Witch's Tale by Rascal Hartley. It reads:
There once was a witch who could cure almost anything.
She had a name, as most witches do, and she lived in the woods, as all witches do. She liked sunlight dappling through green leaves overhead, and she liked the thing shaped like a cat that would sit on her windowsill and purr. She liked embroidering her skirts and decorating her cane with crystals and pinecones. But, most of all, she liked the heroes that came through.
They didn't come through often, as heroes are not an everyday sort of thing, but at least twice a decade, some knight or another would invariably knock on her door and ask for shelter. On the few occasions they made it back, she healed their wounds and sent them on their way. She liked being a footnote in their stories, a fond remembrance. And I was healed by Lady Golgora, may peace rest fondly with her.
She healed broken bones and sprained ankles, arrow pokes and upset stomachs. She strained willow bark for headaches and harvested passionflower for ill memories. She knew how to cure the mumps, measles, mouth sores, and mange. There is but one thing that she" [end page]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:omcky5bs2bexzfcu5dhjufpu/bafkreiagdm3is2yruqi2vi5hpgwvrp5m5ptxn7xpjfvg7y5ip3z7zp6tsu@jpeg)
A picture of the first page of A Witch's Tale by Rascal Hartley. It reads: There once was a witch who could cure almost anything. She had a name, as most witches do, and she lived in the woods, as all witches do. She liked sunlight dappling through green leaves overhead, and she liked the thing shaped like a cat that would sit on her windowsill and purr. She liked embroidering her skirts and decorating her cane with crystals and pinecones. But, most of all, she liked the heroes that came through. They didn't come through often, as heroes are not an everyday sort of thing, but at least twice a decade, some knight or another would invariably knock on her door and ask for shelter. On the few occasions they made it back, she healed their wounds and sent them on their way. She liked being a footnote in their stories, a fond remembrance. And I was healed by Lady Golgora, may peace rest fondly with her. She healed broken bones and sprained ankles, arrow pokes and upset stomachs. She strained willow bark for headaches and harvested passionflower for ill memories. She knew how to cure the mumps, measles, mouth sores, and mange. There is but one thing that she" [end page]
GUESS WHAT CAME IN TODAY
24.01.2025 21:15 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1[Gasp] this is so well-done! Aaaa!
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN Weβre seeking fantasy, science-fiction, and horror short stories that embrace punk and queer rage. Thereβs a glass ceiling in SFF representation, and we want you to throw a brick through it. Bring us the coven that burned Salem and your roaring bear-serkers. We want gangs of acid-wash werewolves, furious bipyromancers, flesh-eating femmes, and vengeant celestial boisβa cast of the downtrodden who make ruins of their oppressors. Wrath lies at the heart of queer liberationβit can be a spur to action and the only righteous response to a world that would prefer we didnβt exist. So crash mainframes, collapse empires, and break normativity. Pride month is over. Itβs time forβ WRATH MONTH
Instructions for Subs: Kneel. Good author. Stories can be fantasy, science-fiction or horror Stories must be queer (broadly defined), and fit the theme of punk / queer wrath Length up to 6,000 words Payment is $0.08 per word No multiple submissions, no reprints No AI-assisted writing ever ever ever Subs via our website (see below), no cover letter needed Submissions open until the close of May 31st 2025 Full details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
Ok, Bsky - a MISSION for you.
We want as many subs to Wrath Month as possible, from as diverse an array of voices as possible. POC voices, disabled voices, neurodiverse voices, trans voices, ace and aro voices - everyone.
Scream it from the rooftops, folks!
Fancy banner comes later.
Well for reasons, my debut novel is now on sale for 0.99c til the weekend!
Keep dreaming!
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Rainbow colored fuming minotaur head by Carly A-F adorns the cover to THE SKULL & LAUREL 002 Text: PRINT IS WEIRD. Tenebrous Press welcomes you to a celebration of the short story in its Weirdest form. Zero Guardrails. Zero F&%ks give. Story over star power. Four Issues Per Year. WEIRD+LIT+SCI-FI+HORROR+FANTASY= THE SKULL & LAUREL
Tomorrow, the second issue of THE SKULL & LAUREL is out!
Put your creepy little eyeballs on THE BEST NEW WEIRD FICTION BEING WRITTEN TODAY. Submit to the will of the Skull and the Laurel. Hail the Minotaur:
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Today's goal: hit 63k in this wip
Tomorrow's goal: uh... probably the same thing
βSubs are open! From January 1st-January 15th. Send us your flares! Go to flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com for submission guidelines.β
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!! Send us your flares and see guidelines for how to submit here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com
#chronicillnessawareness #disabilities #mentalhealth #writingcommunity
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a whoooole shelf of 'um on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
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Screenshot of anthology Artifice & Access on Amazon, with the "top new release" badge circled
Screenshot of anthology Artifice & Access on Amazon, with the "#1 new release" badge circled
So, this is like the coolest thing ever
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Spooky flyer in orange, yellow, green and blue. A skull and laurel; a bottle with a glass stopper, no doubt containing something maleficent; a selection of arcane tomes; a pair of bloody severed eyeballs; and a black cat, white eyed and twisting its head like an owl. TENEBROUS PRESS 2025 BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS: CASUAL Koji A. Dae REEF MIND Hazel Zorn PUPPET'S BANQUET Valkyrie Loughcrewe CLAIRVIOLENCE Mo Moshaty DEAR STUPID PENPAL Rascal Hartley WE LIKE IT CHERRY Jacy Morris SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 7 BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 3 Print + eBook or eBook-only packages available at https://store.tenebrouspress.com/
CASUAL by Koji A Dae The cover art features a digital fox against an orange and red background of circuits. Quote from author Ivy Grimes: "Complex, compelling and incredibly imagined. It left me reeling."
The cover art of PUPPET'S BANQUET, featuring a terrifying baby-doll-headed centipede, and archival photos of a cemetery and a looming old institute. A blurb from author Eve Harms reads: "Surreal, horrific, smart. Masterfully plays on the reader's expectations. A sumptuous feast of Raw Weird." Book description: Married couple Celia and Martin are brutally attacked on their drive through the Irish countryside. The attack leaves Celia with a violent schism in her mind, seemingly existing in two places at once: one the βrealβ world, the other a howling maelstrom of abstract monstrosity. Of her husband, there is no traceβ¦until weeks later, when Martin is discovered in a hospital for rare and abnormal diseases, his body spliced together with that of an unknown woman. And they are very pregnant.
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