A late-in-the-day #SFINCS review from me today... This time it's A Light for the Dead to Follow by Rebecca Crunden, a grim-cozy story with a sweet romance that pays homage to Tolkien. www.angelaboord.com/post/sfincs3... 💙🪐📚 #BookSky #indiebooks #SFF

It took me 5 minutes to enter Disposable Magic. As a 3-time entrant who hasn't advanced past the first round, I have low expectations, but at worst you'll get a few more eyes on your book. At best, a LOT. Careers have been made. Think of it as a free lottery ticket for book publicity!

I ended up reading four more Round One #SFINCS books from my team's allotment, and here's the first of those reviews! This one's for Dave Lawson's The Pawns of Havoc--an epic fantasy that's likely to be a crowd-pleaser! beforewegoblog.com/sfincs-revie... #SFINCS3 #novella #indiefantasy

Okay, I managed to get a submission in this year Good luck everybody (in getting picked in the Lottery) Good luck everybody (in your reviews, etc. after being picked!)

This Tokyo subway poster warning passengers not to rush onto trains gets updated every year to match the Chinese zodiac. (This year it’s the year of the horse.)

For any self-published #SFF authors, the #SPFBO entry form opened today & can be filled out for 24 hours! 300 entrants will be chosen by lottery to be entered in the contest! Definitely encourage everyone to apply as it gets new eyes on your books! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Entries for SPFBO XI are now open! Are you a self-published fantasy author with a novel? Enter it into this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off! Visit the official website to check eligibility and sign up! Entries only open for today: mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-...

Hong Kong

Thinkin about the coal fantasies

WAKE THE BONES by @eakilcoyne.bsky.social is YA horror at its finest. Set in the hollers of Kentucky, WtB is redolent with herbs, taxidermy, & muddy river water. For those who feel at home & those who hear the call of somewhere new, I recommend our mocktail Better (or Bitter) Back Home. LINK BELOW.

Literally today I welcomed somebody back to the library whose card was blocked because of something in 2011, which was two directors and three policy changes ago

there are so many beautiful friendships waiting to start out there

The wizard sleeps gently. In the distance, a wolf howls.

It is the full moon, and for once I'm remembering to share my short story, "The Glint of Light on Broken Glass," about the moon and a butcher. cw for a scene of domestic violence https://truancymag.com/2020/07/30/the-glint-of-light-on-broken-glass-by-jennifer-r-donohue/

Imagine finding a bear that fuckin Eugene Toomsed his way into your crawlspace. You could never be 100% sure he wasn't sleeping off several human livers

We had 400% more snow this past December than the 30 year average. This will not affect 2030 Worldcon because it usually does not snow in August in Edmonton.

Happy new year! Happy first full moon of the year! Happy Wolf Moon! Learn to Howl! 🐺🎉

Hawoooooooo

Ron Wyden, the single senator who actually understands technology, has repeatedly tried to address this problem (see: www.techdirt.com/2024/01/31/a...) and Congress has ignored it in favor of performative grandstanding bills that do nothing for child safety (or makes it worse!)

These works honor Navaho weavers who built semiconductor circuits. There’s also Makiko Tada, who translated traditional Japanese braiding techniques into resilient, strong-but-light car frames & windmill blades. And so many more fiber artists re-working old, manual techniques for modern tasks.

your local public library is free

I LOVED THIS—even more than I loved The Bear and the Nightingale. It’s a darker story, set mostly on the Western Front during World War I, but there is love in it too.

OTHERSIDE is officially OPEN for fiction and poetry submissions 🪐🗡️ If you’re part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, send us your speculative fiction and poetry: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and everything in between! 📚 Open window: Jan 1-14 📑 See guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Our rent is going to go up ~$50 in the coming months and while our landlord says we can lock that in with a long lease renewal after it's raised, they have to raise it for maintenance cost reasons. Which is fair. But oof. On top of everything else. Oof.

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

i have inventoried a small number of old shirts I am trying to get rid of to clear out my garage. There's not a ton here but I would like this stuff gone roryblank.bigcartel.com

Apparently I sold two hardcovers of Burn Up in Victory to people in Germany last year! That's pretty rad

This is a *fantastic* read. Highly recommended!

eyyy physical copy at the LA Public Library now, downtown

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway, just because: 10 copies of Edges (Inverted Frontier Book 1) by @lindanagata.bsky.social, which I *have* but *haven't read*. I've heard only very good things about it, so it's there on the TBR, but the TBR is over 1600 books now...

BUTCHER! BUTCHER! BUTCHER! BUTCHER!

Also wow I don't think I've ever cracked the Kindle Top 50 in... anything, LOL. (They have some VERY esoteric categories and still no.) UNTIL NOW! THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)

very rarely have an opportunity to use this one but since the homeowner is apparently complaining that the bear is living in his home “rent free”

I love church So Much. It's always like this. Like, yes. We WILL spend £100,000 on candles in 2026. You're correct , finance software. The deficit will be immense. And God will delight in my masterful conflagration.

R from Fusion Fragment

Pluto tv just has an X-Files channel now, apparently pluto.tv/us/live-tv/6...

you've been blessed by the lucky crow eating a plate of baked beans. Seeing this crow is a blessing of luck for the new year.

Last year I managed to sell at least one book every month, so let us try that again! I have three different series, so there should be something for everyone, be they into Spy Action, 90s Cartoons or Sci-Fi Horror. sylverwpoulsen.itch.io Details in the graphic below!

Oops--remember kids, self-promotion is less effective when you forget to add a link to where people can actually read the story: sarossf.com/issue-4/

Story #1 in Saros #4, edited by @hannahgreer.bsky.social : "Little Shade" by @jlgeorge.bsky.social

The cover artwork from the new Winter issue of Kaleidotrope—as well as my new header and avatar—is by the talented Cita A F, whose art has previously appeared in the zine! www.behance.net/citafarani

Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, and Podcastle: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...

Can magnetic fridge poetry show contrition. Do dice feel pain. Is this calculator my friend.

what a story to go out on!! we are so grateful to all of you for reading for sending in your stories and poems and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈

New Year, New Terrors inbound! February brings @kristalstittle.bsky.social's KAYAK, whose DNA can be traced to the classic survival novel HATCHET as well as A QUIET PLACE & THE WALKING DEAD, but spun into a unique, impossibly tense alien invasion sci-horror. Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com

By the way, Kaleidotrope is open again to cover art submissions. As with everything, nothing AI-generated or assisted, but reprints are more than acceptable. You'll find the full guidelines, along with where to email me links to your portfolios or galleries, here:

It's a longshot but I need to ask @chucktingle.bsky.social a silly question.

a hit skeet! buy Premee's book! premeemohamed.com/books/and-wh...

Beautiful packaging But yes most Ranunculus, and in fact the whole Ranunculaceae family, is poisonous, with as always caveats.