C. S. E. Cooney

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, @binarysystempod.bsky.social & @fandragonadams.bsky.social!!!

Oh ye great horned gods. I’m crying and laughing. What a beautiful and wonderful and just utterly LOVELY review! @fandragonadams.bsky.social!!!! MY HEART IS SO FULL!

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Review: Saint Death’s Herald (Saint Death Series Book 2) | Pixelated Geek ...suddenly, a bright pink mist was drifting all about her, and her god was there, laying the gift of tongues upon her tongue. It tasted like grapefruit. "Tits and pickles," she whispered. Then, remem...

Oh ye great horned gods. I’m crying and laughing. What a beautiful and wonderful and just utterly LOVELY review!

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Must-Have Monday #248 - Every Book a Doorway A whale full of worlds, flying continents, and robots running a noodle shop!

This Must-Have Monday I have THIRTEEN new sff books to ft, incl

🐋🌌a whale full of universes from @tashanmehta.bsky.social!
🤖🍜robots running a noodle shop with @annaleen.bsky.social!
✝️🕯️ex-Catholic in need of an exorcism by @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social!

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Painting of a Black woman head and shoulders looking down, wearing a blue scarf and black jacket, all against an orange background

Truly Grateful, 2011

by Beverly McIver, US artist known for her portraiture #WomensArt

Perhaps the "first true surrealist photographer in the United States." He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana and later moved to New Orleans. Self-educated. Highly imaginative. Inimitable.

Read The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez: Chapters 1 and 2 - Reactor As the healer’s daughter, Malka has seen how the wood’s curse has plagued her village…

We’re thrilled to share an extended preview of The Maiden and Her Monster by @maddiesmartinez.bsky.social, publishing September 9th with ‪Tor Books!

Look for chapters from this gorgeous debut fantasy every Monday thru August 25th, and check out chapters 1 & 2 today: reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

"Sympathetic Biology" by Amy Leblanc - League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Sympathetic Biology" by Amy Leblanc.

This poem is just fantastic! Whoa. Phew.
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World map with US map below it, showing red pins where submitting author cities are located.

A week and a half left on the "Mmeory" open call (info - aanpress.com/submissions....) and we are at 313 submissions and counting. And a word regarding the OC… For those new to the press, please know I am only a one person endeavor.

I got to talk about my mentor Gene Wolfe with the ReReading Wolfe podcast. And Carlos was with me. And so was our NEW PET.

HURRAY INDIE AUTHORS! TAKING OVER THE WORLD ONE ZINE AT A TIME! SO PUNK ROCK! SO PERFECT! <3 <3 <3

"Nocturne II" - Merwin Conservancy August arrives in the dark we are not even asleep and it is herewith a gust of rain rustling before ithow can it be so late all at oncesomewhere the Perseids are fallingtoward us already at a speed th...

The ideal August poem. merwinconservancy.org/poems/noctur...

It is. Absolutely. Gah!

It's that time for an Awards Eligibility Post! I have two poems that should be eligible for awards this year:

Poem Number One:

"The Parts of Me They Trimmed", published in the Summer 2024 issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social. I'm really proud of this one.

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I loved those poetry panels!!!

I also attended a very informative and very fun panel on Afrofuturism and Community Work, moderated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social. And finally, I sat and listened to panelists like @csecooney.bsky.social and @therisingtithes.bsky.social speak on the joys of speculative poetry. Such a great day!

Oh I didn’t know about this! Thanks for posting!

Donate to Help The Elephant Girls 10th Anniversary Remount!, organized by Margo MacDonald When we premiered The Elephant Girls in a little studio theatre at t… Margo MacDonald needs your support for Help The Elephant Girls 10th Anniversary Remount!

This one-woman show about a real-life all-female gang of thieves is absolutely wonderful, queer & dark & extraordinary. I'd love to see Margo reach the funding goal to do a 10th anniversary remount in at least two cities!

When the girl arrives, the house is afflicted by thresholds. At the instant she leaves, it will be infested by secret passageways.

Photo of me holding up a copy of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS to the right while looking down at my shirt and smiling. The shirt reads LITERACY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL in black, block, stencil-style black letters encased in white against the black of the shirt. Beneath that it says “Left Bank Books, St Louis.” It was once a t-shirt but is now a tank. My hair’s in a side braid and I’m wearing an oval moonstone ring and a black leather cuff. On the hand not holding the book.

A second photo of the same ensemble, but smiling directly at camera.

Same outfit as the previous photo but the book has shifted to the left side of the photo as I’ve added an amazing black baseball cap with Left Bank Books’ logo (LBB) in a circle, and have raised my free hand to touch its brim while looking amused and pleased with myself.

Everyone should a) know how strong @leftbankbooks.bsky.social’s swag game is & b) have a friend who’ll expertly cut the arms off your shirts & take one million photos of you holding up your book in front of their extremely charismatic purple wall

I’m so glad we found each other!

Ah balls! Good news: if you order it from @outlandent.bsky.social, you’ll probably get it within a week or so!

@csecooney.bsky.social Good news and bad news. They sold out of all the copies. But that's the good news and the bad news. I was apparently half an hour too late.

#negociosinfernales @csecooney.bsky.social I picked up a game I Kickstarted; it's been on a boat. Happy to meet up with one of the creators, CSE Cooney. Watch my blog for full report!

He doesn’t ever look at his other one, and after that grievous disappointment is loathe to try again here. He is on Discord though! I will let him know!

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*bats space empress eyelashes at thee*

Picture of C. S. E. Cooney, a woman in a fancy silver space empress headdress and silver double lace collar in the renaissance style.

Well, friends… it’s time to run tonight’s game of NEGOCIOS INFERNALES! So I wore my fancy hat. And extra collar. ‘Cause.
Our GM-less, diceless TTRPG NEGOCIOS INFERNALES is available to purchase now for @outlandent.bsky.social!

World map with US map below it, showing red pins where submitting author cities are located.

Week 3 of the "Mmeory" open call (info - aanpress.com/submissions....) and we are at 235 submissions and counting.

Thank you for the mention. For my community, please do check out Susan’s work as well.