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It’s #FridayReads time and Hispanic/Latine Heritage month! Let’s boost all signals. This month is great, but I write with an accent every month. Here’s a (45% off!) novel full of sazón and magic, waves and monsters, storms and revenge, crime and friendship. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

Finished reading Psychopomp by @mariadongwrites.bsky.social. Started reading Ballad & Dagger by @djolder.bsky.social. #AmReading #Fiction #Books

Giveaway now live! FF Patreons can enter win their choice of books by @kurellian.bsky.social @mariadongwrites.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social or magazines from @heartlines-spec.com @undertow.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/march-...

Just got a super cool blurb for Song of Spores (coming in November!) from @mariadongwrites.bsky.social! So excited and grateful! Hoping to be able to share soon (my publisher is still gathering blurbs). Preorders this way (paperback *and* hardcover): www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So...

We are so thrilled to announce that Jess Cho will be joining the OTHERSIDE team as a Poetry Editor! Jess is a Rhysling Award-winning author with work in khōréō, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Fiction, Apparition, Nightmare, and elsewhere. They can't wait to read your work when we open in January!

Looking to join the Augur team? 👀 Now's your chance! We are looking for dedicated, experienced, and compassionate folks to join our all-volunteer Editorial team! 💫🖋️ If you want to help shape the future of Augur magazine--APPLY NOW! DEADLINE to submit your application is Sep 21 🗓️ 🔗in bio!

Briefly breaking my social media hiatus to yell about @yumewrites.bsky.social 's #SALTCROP, which had me literally weeping and gasping for air: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Psychopomp by @mariadongwrites.bsky.social - www.goodreads.com/review/show/... Really liked this one!!

A while ago I got a review copy of PSYCHOPOMP by @mariadongwrites.bsky.social and then I didn't manage to actually review it because I am terrible - but I just want to second everything in @bogiperson.bsky.social 's glowing review here: www.patreon.com/posts/book-r...

I found your chonky book in the freebies area! All of these Tyler books have been nabbed, hope readers enjoy it!

I'm SO excited to share this thoroughly creepy book with you all!!!!

Honored to see Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle as a SciFi Standout in this list, alongside @aijiang.bsky.social, @mariadongwrites.bsky.social, @elianeboey.bsky.social, @nathanielluscombe.bsky.social, and a bunch of great writers! ❤️ bookshop.org/lists/sci-fi...

*whistles*

Dark Matter INK bookmail!! Proud to have blurbed these two heart-stopping reads. @renanbernardo.com @mariadongwrites.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥🌠

Did you all see this amazing blurb for GIRL IN THE CREEK from the brilliant @mariadongwrites.bsky.social ???

I meant what I said there are ten days left and the Kickstarter goal is almost met!!!???? So pumped for this

So…uhm… I TURNED IN MY NEXT NOVEL TODAY!!!! (Bear Creek Lodge is slated for 2026 from Saga.)

newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one

I've seen two roundups of queer books on the Locus finalists list so far, and my book was absent from both, so just a reminder that it is in fact a queer & trans & intersex (!) book and it is a Locus finalist title. www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p113/P...

Vim is the original escape room

We're officially at 67%; now taking prompts for a song about the devil!

Oh my God this is literally by the writer producer of Starship Iris which is not only one of the best audiodramas of all time, it's dare I say one of the best pieces of WRITING of all time I backed this so fast I gave myself whiplash

The kindle edition of The Devil is still only $2.99! Get it if you like: - Horror, crime, and magical realism - Books that make racists angry - Chaos, grief, violence, mayhem, ghosts, magic, and a bit of religious mutilation - Movies! [REDACTED] and every copy helps! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N...

Wait I am a Locus finalist?!?!? For Power to Yield and Other Stories - locusmag.com/2025/05/2025...

Is she going to get a single penny from it? Because unless her bank account won’t be “infused” with HBO’s money, I don’t want to hear a goddamn thing about it.

Holy smokes, I'm a finalist for the Locus Award for Best Editor! Thanks so much to everyone who voted, and congratulations to all the amazing nominees. locusmag.com/2025/05/2025...

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

They're using ChatGPT, so privacy is a fucking joke. I want to see the privacy terms from their contract (if there even was one). I want guarantees that my data was private. I want to know exactly what happened to my data once this process was completed. bsky.app/profile/fire...

"We used the unreliable plagiarism machine trained on books stolen from a bunch of you by tech dweebs who think a computer can do your job and is also destroying the planet to help decide whether to invite you" is really fucking insulting and embarrassing

“We used the earth destroying plagiarism machine that stole your work to see if you’re cool enough to work for us for free” is not the flex they think it is.

So like, what's our next move, peeps? We boycotting or what

Most if not all of the writers on these panels are involved in (or entitled to be involved in) class action suits against the people who created these plagiarism machines and are actively stealing from us for industrial use. It BOGGLES MY MIND that you thought this was appropriate.

...And Out Come the Toys is out today!!!! A blend of Willy Wonka, Saw, Five Nights at Freddy's, five punks explore an abandoned toy factory to discover the toys still want to play! Order from here: linktr.ee/brandenburgdm #booksky #horror #punk

Out today!! 🪀 This book is super fun and creepy, I had a blast reading 🩸

🌌🚀 BOOK BIRTHDAY! Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is finally out by Dark Matter Ink! It's available at the publishers website, Bookshop, Amazon, B&N, and more. It's a short novella set in a doomed spaceship returning to Earth. For fans of dark SF and fast-paced thrillers in space.

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! I am unbelievably grateful to be a bookseller at my local indie, Wild Geese Bookshop, in central Indiana. A place of peace and inspiration for my soul. Support your local indies today, lovelies.

Also worth noting, on Indie Bookstore Day, that Libro.fm is having an incredible sale which will directly support the local bookshop of your choice. libro.fm/sale/all

1000+ attorneys trained and ready to go. workerslegaldefense.org

My goodness Short Fiction Book Club read some bangers this year. Check out our awards post to see our absolute favorites from the disproportionately excellent list of 51 stories we read this season

Featuring fabulous short stories by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social, @hhpak.bsky.social, @mygeekblasphemy.bsky.social, @mariadongwrites.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @nadiaradovich.bsky.social, Eleanor Arnason, @isabel.kim, and @thomasha.bsky.social - thank you for your incredible work!

The Short Fiction Book Club Season 3 awards are up! We've read some remarkable stories this year, and it's time to honor our very favorites. Thank you to the SFF short fiction community for having an amazing year. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Did I need a little happy cry today? Maaaaaaaaybe

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

Hi everyone, my short story collection Power to Yield and Other Stories is on the recommended list and you can vote for it! Today is the last day and I would appreciate your votes :)

3 years ago I wrote about @csecooney.bsky.social's Saint Death's Daughter, "Very few authors get my money for books sight unseen. C.S.E. Cooney is one. If you read to be surprised, delighted, and taken on epic journeys, each ride with Cooney is guaranteed." Evergreen. The sequel arrives April 24.

"Even worse, when you Google one of these slop-squatted package names, you’ll often get an AI-generated summary from Google itself confidently praising the package, saying it’s useful, stable, well-maintained. But it’s just parroting the package’s own README, no skepticism, no context." Omfg

Had a great night at the Casual Poet Library yesterday. And dropped off extra copies of CLUB CONTANGO for the mini book fair next week! Come by if you're in Singapore 🌠

we are living in fascism right now