I spot a familiar name on the cover 👀👀👀👀

CLINGING TO THE STONES explores: 💫Humans vs. Structures. 💫The weight of history & legacy. 💫Can we reshape our dying world without compromising our morality? 💫When faith is a weapon, who is truly saved? #QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentsguide #SFF #amquerying #booktwt

Meet the characters of CLINGING TO THE STONES: 🎭3 primary POVs. 🧐3 more lurking behind. 🧵A tapestry where every thread matters. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentsguide #SFF #amquerying #booktwt

HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH Journals of a Familiar Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape. #questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT

A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME Will the weight of an underwater kingdom come crashing down on Mona Al'Maii? 🦅 Forced Proximity ✨ Middle-Eastern folklore & unique magic system ⚔️ Quest ♥️ Yearning & spice ⚖️ Magical politics/Corruption & Greed 🪞 Exploration of ‘otherness’ 💫 23 fulls #Questpit #Q #RF

A cunning prankster plots against her lord husband and ends up saving the empire in a fantasy romcom version of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS 😈 unlikeable heroine ⚔️ enemies-to-power couple 💑 marriage of convenience 🔥 slow-burn & low spice #questpit #Q #A #RF #agentsguide

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!) Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe? #QuestPit #YA #MY #R #AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

Hi #Questpit! Nearly done w/ SmoochPit revisions, here's GUMIHO, my Korean folklore-inspired adult fantasy blended w/ horror & romance! ✨️ Selected for the 2025 Smoochpit Mentorship Program ✨️ Big 5 Editor Interest ✨️ Won 3rd in the horror category of the 2025 PNWA Writing Contest #A #F #H #R

WORKHORSE x THE RACHEL INCIDENT SURFACE TENSION: She came for a degree, not an affair. But as Jenny researches literary heroines who trade freedom for security, she starts living her thesis, all beneath the eye of a professor who prefers the only revisions to her story be his. #U #W #A #questpit

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

Here's CLINGING TO THE STONES, inspired by Syrian history & mythology: 🌟A broken philosopher-warrior seeking a legendary spear. 🌟An imperial mother must extract her son from an impregnable fortress. 🌟Their paths are about to collide. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #agentsguide

DIVINE RIVALS/STRANGER THINGS When plants take over the world & an eminent botanist ends up dead, a reporter persuades a rival plant hunter to seek the truth. But as they become entangled, & the victims pile up, they’ll need sharp secateurs to avoid being next. #QuestPit #W #YA #NA #SFF

In times of darkness, what do we do? We write. #WritingCommunity melaniereynard.substack.com/p/finding-th...

That's right, REPUBLIC OF MEMORY is also a secret hardboiled detective novel (thanks to the ahem joys of multi-pov). Now ain't that a kick in the head? crimereads.com/10-speculati...

Well earned @madeehahwrites.bsky.social!

In a short time, this will be a long time ago.

Another difficult day. Writing-wise: managed 37 words. Better than nothing. Pushing on.

“Shades of grief Dance on coastal flesh Contoured eclipse A colour we call morning.” #poem from CLINGING TO THE STONES.

Sad news. Inner Worlds has been one the first place I'd go to when I'm looking for brilliant stories. Solidarity with Sarah. Thank you for making me a part of this amazing journey.

There are too many stories to tell. Too little time.

2025 Awards Eligibility! I published just one story this year, The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social but it's a very good story IMO Dark fantasy+ Slavic folklore www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

📚 [EVENT RECAP] Highlights from last week’s event in Montpellier: Sholeh Wolpé reading from “The Invisible Sun” and Jordan Elgrably presenting “The Best of The Markaz Review: 2020–2025.” ✨ Digital edition of “The Best of The Markaz Review” : https://bit.ly/the-best-of-the-markaz-review-2020-2025

Book 2 is under way. Writing slow but sure. #booktwt #WritingCommunity #amquerying

Voted for @innerworlds.bsky.social for @chillsubs.bsky.social best lit mags of 2025 awards ♥️ Sarah runs an impressive operation and alone! (from what I can tell) Vote here: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Wrapping up my year-end recap: Best fantasy novel: The Wingspan of Treason by @inknest.bsky.social Best short story: Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City by @madeehahwrites.bsky.social Best dark fantasy: The Way of Unity by @skbalstrup.bsky.social

Ranking the best of Star Wars: 1.) Andor 2.) Any SW movie when you’re 8 years old 3.) Knights of the Old Republic 4.) Knights of the Old Republic II 5.) Tattered Star Wars expanded universe paperback you found for $1 6.) Empire Strikes Back 7.) A New Hope 8.) Christmas in the Stars holiday album

Inner Worlds issue 9 will be out at the end of November, featuring this stunning cover artwork by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social ✨️🌿💜

Ignoring the warning signs only lets the disease spread. Syria’s crisis is urgent. Recognizing this truth is the essential first step toward healing.

Comma Press (@commapress.bsky.social) +100 series has some great stuff in translation. EGYPT+100 edited by Ahmed Naji. IRAQ+100 edited by Hassan Blasim. PALESTINE+100 edited by Basma Ghalayini. (to name just a few from them) (2/4)

Very proud that THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY was picked as one of the SFF books to look out for in 2026 by The Bookseller (alongside some other bangers!). While you wait, there are already a few Arabfuturist books available in English that you should check out (1/4)

This is another great tale by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social. And @longlukearnold.bsky.social narration is superb! Can't wait to get my hands on the Scour!

ARC sign-ups for Love Lethal, Death Divine are still open. If you want a dark fantasy love story, star-crossed lovers, Slavic gods and an unbearable amount of yearning, check it out forms.gle/PQcNtU243DaV...

Get a glimpse of what’s coming next! Read "War and War", my Azhar Prize-winning short story & part of the prequel to my #wip CLINGING TO THE STONES. #ShortStory #Fantasy #amqyerying #ClingingToTheStones bit.ly/war-and-war

An Agent’s Guide to CLINGING TO THE STONES! #agentguide #agentsguide #F #amquerying #Heist #WritingCommunity #amwriting

Enter Arabfuturism! THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY sits at the top of my most anticipated books for next year. I mean, look at these amazing covers!

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Almosting my heist fantasy: Andor meets the Age of Madness, set in a world inspired by Syrian history and mythology. So close! #WIP #WritingCommunity #EpicFantasy #Heist

Add my book on Goodreads. It costs you nothing and it makes me happy. Win-win. www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

"The fairest survivor from the slaughter Now worships a dagger, And the men are about to sell something dear—beware! All that sweats beneath the wing shall pass away, And the barking that led you to the spring Had led the guards..." Atif Khairy

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Halfway through rewrites. Way past my self-imposed deadline. Grinding hard, pushing toward the end. #WritingCommunity #writing #fantasy

"Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us." - Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

📰 [TMR WEEKLY] Today: two new short stories — Hussain A. Ayoub's war-torn dispatch and Sara Masry’s journey through memory — and Souseh’s advice column on love and survival in a time of genocide. 🔗 https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles #TMRweekly #LatesArticles

Today's art: the short story 'War & War', by Hussain A. Ayoub. Powerful and devastating.

Delighted to share that my short story “War & War”, first place in the Azhar Writing Prize, is now published in @markaz-review.bsky.social. 📖 Read it here: themarkaz.org/war-and-war #AzharWritingPrize #MarkazReview #literaryaward #ArabWriters #creativewriting #WritingCommunity

I squealed when I saw this and had to take a seat on the stairs to read it. My novella has a review in Strange Horizons!!

kindness is the priceless act that costs nothing. Be kind.

"Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs, and, given our history, we have an awful lot of songs." Frank Harte

Buy my booooook it has strange planets and female protagonists and emotions (And no romance) And if you've already read it remember to leave a review 😇

Have you reviewed us, or any of the stories we have published? If so, please send me a link! I've made a new page on our website where I'm keeping track of recommendations, awards, and other nice things inner-worlds.ghost.io/recognition/