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BCS #445 ebook out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, w stories by thirteen-time BCS author @marissalingen.bsky.social and new one @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

If you subscribe to BCS, you get to read my crow story TODAY!

New @bcsmagazine.bsky.social issue today has stories by @marissalingen.bsky.social and @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social! weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

The November issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/uncanny-maga...

Now available on @weightlessbooks.bsky.social Dirty Magick Issue 15. Stories: G.C. Collins, Rae Patterson, JT Beatty, Keith Roysdon Film Column: Naked Steel: Excalibur Book reviews by Jennifer R. Povey Please subscribe if you can. You can still get extra issues with 6- and 12-month subs.

November issues of @clarkesworldmagazine.com, Forever,and the new-to-us @foofarawpress.bsky.social have arrived and are on their way to subscribers: weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/

@wtpress.bsky.social are still open for submissions for their acclaimed Wiz Duos – 2 novellas different writers one volume. SFF but not horror, 18-380k I understand an upbeat or upbeatish spec novella with a romantic element might find a home... @hierath77.bsky.social #booksky #writing

Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...

November issues of @locusmag.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @lightspeedmagazine.com, The Dark, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and Dirty Magick are here! weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/

Happy Halloween from Stelliform Press! From haunted shores to botanical horror, our books explore the strange beauty in what frightens us. Find The Other Shore and Green Fuse Burning and more at stelliform.press. Pick up a scary good ebook for only $5! 🌺🐸🐅🌊

A new @chazbrenchley.bsky.social novel is out from @wtpress.bsky.social, and we've got it! OF THE EMPEROR'S KINDNESS: weightlessbooks.com/of-the-emper...

Ok actually, because robots.txt is optional and ignorable, here is our current, full AI bot blocking solution using the non-optional .htaccess mod_rewrite (see alt text)

Ghostly BCS for your Halloween week! "Her Black Coal Heart a Diamond in My Hand" @rkduncan.bsky.social BCS #322: "I staged a fight on the ground floor, scattered the broken furniture and pinned scraps of the boy, the middle child, all around." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/her-...

Just adding a bunch of new/renamed AI scraper bots to the ol blocklist robots.txt: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: semantic-visions.com Disallow: /

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter has reached our initial funding goal. I want to thank each and every author, writer, friend, and fan who has supported and shared and helped us reach this goal.

Also from Undertow, we just added @thomasha.bsky.social's collection UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES: weightlessbooks.com/uncertain-so...

Peter Straub is one of the few magicians I have ever met: that rare real thing, a writer who starts a tale in a recognizable place and enables the reader to go somewhere unexpected and unsettling. / from A Conversation larger than the Universe (2018) [am at a point in Wreckage where it happens]

Please support our indie friends @weightlessbooks.bsky.social for all your eBook needs.

So far today Weightless Books has done business exclusively with indie publishers named "Michael". 3 of them so far. But the day is young :P

New from @undertow.bsky.social, THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1, edited by Michael Kelly! weightlessbooks.com/the-best-wei...

All of which is to say, we just crossed the 1000 copies sold mark with Storyteller!!!!! It's available @bookshop.org @weightlessbooks.bsky.social and many other online retailers. Plus directly from Essential Dreams Press at tanithleestoryteller.com.

Good news for @jamescrossley.bsky.social & readers of the leviathanbookstore.com/newsletter-archive: Greer Gilman's agent is going out with a new novel right now. Ok, I weep a bit we're not going to publish it but getting more publishers for her work is fabulous. Who's Greer? Read this:

Virtual worlds, con artists, and, of course, who else but The Hermit Crab God. @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends the short stories you don't want to miss from September! reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

I just read my first issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and my word! Cracking stories. I’m now a subscriber.

The Bodies by D.H. Parish https://foofaraw.press/the-bodies-by-d-h-parish/

Our first novella is officially live! Get it direct from us, @WeightlessBooks (https://wandering.shop/@WeightlessBooks), or wherever books are sold! https://foofaraw.press/the-bodies-by-d-h-parish/

We are also going to be focusing more on pushing out a regular magazine on the first of every month. You can get it by becoming a foofaraw+] member, or subscribe via [@WeightlessBooks (https://wandering.shop/@WeightlessBooks) and get a years worth for only $25 right now! https://weightlessbooks.com/

Hey look! We are on the front page of @WeightlessBooks (https://wandering.shop/@WeightlessBooks)! Even if you don't want to read our stuff, they've got the best collection of DRM-free magazines and books! https://weightlessbooks.com/

BCS #444 ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store & subscribers, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) & @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to @theignyteawards.bsky.social Winner): weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

Very happy to add Foofaraw Zine, "a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations", and @foofarawpress.bsky.social! Special introductory offer: subscribe to Foofaraw now for $10 off the cover price, get a free copy of DH Parish's novella THE BODIES! weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...

Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that. Thank you, Greg, and rest well.

I’ve written a new Azrael the Angel Gunslinger tale! #weirdwest

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social and cover art by Bruce Brenneise: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

::shoves hands in pockets and whistles nonchalantly while strolling past the corporate-nazi-captured PayPal automated audit system::

Find yourself an indie ebookstore supporter who supports your billionaire-free, AI-free indie ebookstore like Nick Mamatas supports Weightless Books

New issue of @thedeadlands.com is here and on its way to subscribers! weightlessbooks.com/the-deadland...

issue 40 (with fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me) HAS ARRIVED you can check it out here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... and please, we need your support, join us on Patreon where the ePub is waiting for you. grab it now! 👇

Indie bookshops care about your community because they are a part of your community. And while there are mega retailers out there trying to convince us that we don’t need these small businesses, they could never do what indies do.

It finally feels like autumn in our neck of the woods, and you know what that means — our Kickstarter exclusive hoodie has arrived! 🧥✨ Bundle up in our 2026 design, featuring an eco-inspired take on our iconic alien head logo 🍄🌿👽 Available only on Kickstarter! ⬇️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

holy crap. apparently ireland passed a living wage for artists. this is something every country should have—particularly in the states.

2 new horror collections out today from @wordhorde.bsky.social: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND: THE HOLLOW EARTH STORY CYCLE by @orringrey.com and LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by @johnlangan.bsky.social weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...

Lovely picture in the Massachusetts Center for the Book celebration email:

This year we should be supporting our fellow artists and writers as much as possible. Help us continue to give independent creativity a space to be celebrated by reading Locus Magazine! linktr.ee/locusmagazine

A brief reminder that until the end of the year, a 12-month subscription to Dirty Magick gets your 15 issues. Please help us grow as about 30 more subscriptions will get us to breaking even. This offer is only from @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

New today from @pmpress.bsky.social, SUBMERGED: ON HEALING FROM ABUSE WHILE NAVIGATING A LIFETIME OF IMPRISONMENT, a memoir by Sheena King: weightlessbooks.com/submerged/

Twelve days later, 7 days past their 5 day deadline, our account has at last and without explanation been reinstated at PayPal! Q3 2025 payments are going out to 51 independent presses even now. Thank you all very much for your patience

It’s publication day! Our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf who Fought Slavery*, co-written with Michelle Markel and illustrated by Sarah Bachman, is out today with @pmpress.bsky.social. Use BEN! at checkout for a 20% discount. Help spread the word! pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

My latest story, "the love song of house and lake" is out now in @onspecmag.bsky.social !! A love letter to Canadian summers, it asks such brave questions as, "what if your lakeside cottage was.... kind of hot, actually?"