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Suzan the chalant goth
about 1 month ago
Me. In Absentia TW for death of a parent. This is a story ripped from my experiences.... I'd say enjoy, but it's me so um thanks if you get the chance to read! Also thanks to The Dark Magazine for publishing it. They've been a supporter of my work for years.๐ค
www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-absentia/
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In Absentia - The Dark Magazine
The loserโs dead, the text read. How do you know? Asha sat down in her office chair. Sheโd been about to go across the street to buy her regular chicken wrap for lunch but her growling stomach could w...
https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-absentia/
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Andrew Robertson
about 1 month ago
Thrilled to have made the Preliminary Ballot for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awardsยฎ in the category Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection! If you are an Active or Lifetime Member of the HWA and want to read my debut solo collection for consideration, DM me! ๐ป
#horror
#horrorwriter
#stokers
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Jason Krawczyk
about 1 month ago
Hey hey,
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Pals! We're looking to expand to help provide workshops, book clubs, signings, Q&As, and Vendors to the community! Every little bit helps, and there are some cool rewards!
fnd.us/littleghosts...
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E. L. Chen
3 months ago
One of your New Year's resolutions is to read more books, right? RIGHT?? Why not get an early start by discovering some local horror authors?
@hwaontario.bsky.social
is hosting a New Year's Levee on Jan 6 2026 at the Caledonian, 6:30pm. Put it in your calendar now! ๐๐
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Little Ghosts Books
3 months ago
Weโve teamed up with
@hwaontario.bsky.social
to host a Selling Short Horror Fiction Seminar in the bookshop! Get ready for those big 2026 publication goals with insights from local writers and editors on pitching, query letters, and more. Sign up in advance
www.littleghostsbooks.com/events
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Publication announcement: E L Chen's book with the amazing title of "One of us is Already Dead" will be coming your way in Fall of 2026! Keep an eye out for it! Follow her here:
@elainechen.com
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
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Acquisition Announcement: ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD by E. L. Chen
Run For It and Orbit US are thrilled to announce the acquisition of One of Us Is Already Dead by E. L. Chen, publishing in Fall 2026! Twenty-five years ago, four college kids snuck into an abandoneโฆ
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/acquisition-announcement-one-of-us-is-already-dead-by-e-l-chen/
3 months ago
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Now for something completely different! Lydia Peever presents Pumpkin Carving with Photoshop! All the usual pumpkin carving fun but none of the mess.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ixj...
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Typical Books Happy Halloween - Pumpkin Carving with Photoshop
YouTube video by Lydia's Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ixj89LzO1k
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Read E. L. Chen's story on The Dark Magazine - Mother's Teeth.
www.thedarkmagazine.com/mothers-teeth/
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Shake, Rattle and Rotting Corpses: Horror Trivia hosted by Andrew Awesome with Tarot, Tequila, and Tunes! There will be prizes and surprises. Sweaty Betty's, 13 Ossington Ave, No Cover, 7pm Trivia, 9pm Tunes! Hosted by
@andrewawesome.bsky.social
Tues. Oct 30
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Check out Suzan Palumbo's story "Laughter Among the Trees" - free to read at The Dark Magazine!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/laughter-amo...
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Check out Lydia Peever's story from The Wicked Library as part of their Halloween special:
www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the...
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Eerie Tale: Rumpelstiltskin's Ghost Haunts - Kinetic Text
YouTube video by Lydia's Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkuI2TsWpUA
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Between now and Halloween, we will be spotlighting some cool free-to-read horror fiction by our members! First up: Lockers for Life by David J. Thirteen
www.seizethepress.com/2022/06/14/l...
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"Lockers for Life" by David J. Thirteen - Seize The Press
Night is not the right time to come here. The parking lot never contains more than a spattering of cars to give some hint of the presence of life. But now in this grim time, after most sensible people...
https://www.seizethepress.com/2022/06/14/lockers-for-life-by-david-j-thirteen/
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Andrew F. Sullivan
5 months ago
today. My jacket has a dragon on the back.
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This weekend is the first annual Little Ghosts Fest at Little Ghost Books in Toronto hosted by
@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
. Two of our members will be on a panel on Saturday!
@andrewawesome.bsky.social
and
@sillysyntax.bsky.social
www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...
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https://www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghosts-fest
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Regan McDonell
7 months ago
A real life interaction with one of my fellow
@hwaontario.bsky.social
pals! Excited to dig in to The Knave of Graves!
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This weekend the HWA Ontario Chapter will be at Fan Expo hosting two panels - one on Sinners and Vampires and one dedicated to Queer Fear! As well, Sephera Giron is hosting 3 writing workshops! Come check us out!
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S.J. Shank
8 months ago
My new dark fantasy novel ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ is now available in ebook and paperback. If you're looking to read about graverobbing, night hags and magical palindromes, this book might be for you!
#newrelease
#fantasybooks
#darkfantasy
#theknaveofgraves
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Ai Jiang || ๆฑ่พ|| ๐๐ฌ๏ธ๐ฐA Palace Near the Wind Out Now! ๐ฐ๐ฌ๏ธ๐
8 months ago
Tune in for a panel Iโll be on 8.30pm ET, Saturday 27th September ๐โผ๏ธโจ
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Richard Levangie
9 months ago
Indie bookstores in Canada are so important to the literary community in here in the true north. Help me find more to add to my starter pack!
#Books
#Booksky
#BuyCanadian
#TrueNorth
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Ai Jiang || ๆฑ่พ|| ๐๐ฌ๏ธ๐ฐA Palace Near the Wind Out Now! ๐ฐ๐ฌ๏ธ๐
8 months ago
An interview! ๐๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Monica S. Kuebler
8 months ago
Got to spend the afternoon writing about Elizabeth Engstrom's When Darkness Loves Us. I must never forget how lucky I am that this is my life.
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Suzan the chalant goth
8 months ago
Ah okay the sale just randomly finished so thank you everyone for sharing! But it's back up to close to regular price. I appreciate you all.
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S.J. Shank
8 months ago
Here's a great review of my upcoming novel ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐๐ฌ from Steve Stred. Check out the full review at the link!
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Ai Jiang || ๆฑ่พ|| ๐๐ฌ๏ธ๐ฐA Palace Near the Wind Out Now! ๐ฐ๐ฌ๏ธ๐
8 months ago
Contract signed! After 30 submissions, ya girl is finally going to have a story forthcoming in
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
for the first time!! ๐ญ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ค
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Suzan the chalant goth
8 months ago
Guys my Lesbian doppelganger sex story is in this. I'm screaming because this is probably the horniest thing I've ever written and I was hiding. Thank you for including me Ryka and Charles. ๐ค๐๐ฝ A lot of my fave here as well.
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Andrew F. Sullivan
8 months ago
Every 18 months or so the Other Andrew Sullivan publishes something very stupid. This has happened for most of my life. He will die before me. I am Andrew F. Sullivan. I write horror about reckonings and rot. And I have never known defeat. So buy a book.
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Suzan the chalant goth
9 months ago
OH GET MY BOOK CHEAP ON KOBO! Hi Canadians, Countess is now $3.99 CAD. That is the cheapest price I've seen. Also US friends I'm seeing that it's $3.99 USD in the US store right now too. Nebula, Aurora and Locus nommed!
www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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Ai Jiang || ๆฑ่พ|| ๐๐ฌ๏ธ๐ฐA Palace Near the Wind Out Now! ๐ฐ๐ฌ๏ธ๐
9 months ago
Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 withย
@titanbooks.bsky.social
is now live with
@thefantasyhive.bsky.social
๐โผ๏ธ๐๐ฌ๏ธโ๏ธ Eternally grateful toย Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! ๐ญ๐ซถ๐ผ๐ฅ
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S.J. Shank
9 months ago
My upcoming dark fantasy novel ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ will be released July 24. Today I'm featuring a wonderful blurb I received from the original garden goth, Suzan Palumbo /
@sillysyntax.bsky.social
โฌ, author of Countess. ๐
#darkfantasy
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Ai Jiang || ๆฑ่พ|| ๐๐ฌ๏ธ๐ฐA Palace Near the Wind Out Now! ๐ฐ๐ฌ๏ธ๐
9 months ago
a day trip to Montreal for an event at
@joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social
with
@sofiaajram.bsky.social
๐ฅบโจโผ๏ธ and a writerโs first on the bingo sheet to have so many copies of PALACE placed on a store window display! ๐ญ๐ค๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
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After a too-long hiatus, I am resurrecting the HWA Ontario Bluesky account. Follow along for updates from our members and chapter. I've started a list of HWA Ontario members (and related accounts) (below) - if you know of any I am missing, let me know and I'll add them.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Dianthe West (she/they)
about 2 years ago
Three poems of mine achieved liftoff today! "Unchaste Virgin," in which I think about Vestal Virgins as a metaphor for women in work; "Salt, Caramel, Chocolate," a seasonal sestina about ghosts who haunt a chocolate library; & "Borne Upwards From the Sea," a Sapphic crime/noir recalling lost love.
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Dianthe West (she/they)
over 2 years ago
TAKESHI'S CAT is live today over at Third Estate Art! "... a hilarious fable about the hoops we go through for
#affordablehousing
. And let's be real โ who among us hasn't had their life changed by a giant white cat?"
www.thirdestateart.org/decap-volume...
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Takeshiโs Cat by Dianthe West โ THIRD ESTATE ART
https://www.thirdestateart.org/decap-volume-one/takeshis-cat-by-dianthe-west
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Andrew F. Sullivan
about 2 years ago
freshly signed batch of THE MARIGOLD at the Spacing store downtown.
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Undertow Publications ๐จ๐ฆ
about 2 years ago
Re-upping in case you're looking for 2 great short story collections.
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Stelliform Press
about 2 years ago
Green Fuse Burning made the
Tor.com
Reviewers' Choice Best Books of 2023 list! So exciting! Thank you Alex Brown for being a champion for this "transformative Indigenous eco-horror novella"!
www.tor.com/2023/12/13/t...
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Tor.com Reviewersโ Choice: The Best Books of 2023
Itโs been a very good year for reading. The book releases in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, young adult, and beyond took us to faraway kingdoms, beyond the stars, into haunted housesโฆ
https://www.tor.com/2023/12/13/tor-com-reviewers-choice-the-best-books-of-2023/
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David J. Thirteen ๐จ๐ฆ
about 2 years ago
Ontario horror represented! Congratulations
@timmcgregor.bsky.social
and
@afsulli.bsky.social
๐๐๐
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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The Best Horror Books of 2023 Will Scare You Sh*tless
Our favorite hell-raising reads of the year are pushing the genre in outrageous new directions.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g43689321/best-horror-books-2023/
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David Demchuk ๐ป (he/him) ๐
about 2 years ago
Itโs a lovely evening to gather your children around the fire (or in the fire if itโs been that kind of week) and read my traditional* Ukrainian story, Anoushka the Christmas Spider:
www.unfortunatelylitmag.com/2021/12/16/a...
(*with a few tiny adjustments)
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Anoushka the Christmas Spider - Unfortunately,
By David Demchuk CW: spiders, mild body horror Our village is prosperous now, but it was not always so. When I was a child, we had as our mayor a kindly old man named Mr. Lubomyr. Every day ...
https://www.unfortunatelylitmag.com/2021/12/16/anoushka-the-christmas-spider/
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Undertow Publications ๐จ๐ฆ
about 2 years ago
It's here! And it's quite a beauty.
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carlydraws
about 2 years ago
An audiobook of Premee's excellent novella is on the way! (and it's got my art on it :-D)
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Undertow Publications ๐จ๐ฆ
over 2 years ago
Our friends
@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
are open for novella submissions. Check out the guidelines and good luck!
www.littleghostsbooks.com/submission-c...
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Suzan the chalant goth
over 2 years ago
There's a review of Skin Thief: Stories in Lightspeed magazine that will be free to read on Dec. 14 in which
@arleysorg.bsky.social
says among other things I'm going to let myself accept: "...if we want to use the word "genuis" properly then let's apply it to Palumbo's story telling -
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Suzan the chalant goth
over 2 years ago
Oh hello! Release day for Best Canadian F and SF! Lots of great work here. ๐ค
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Ai Jiang || ๆฑ่พ|| ๐๐ฌ๏ธ๐ฐA Palace Near the Wind Out Now! ๐ฐ๐ฌ๏ธ๐
over 2 years ago
How wild to see LINGHUN on CBC Booksโ Best Canadian Books of 2023: Fiction list among so many amazing books! ๐ญ๐๐ผ๐ค
www.cbc.ca/books/the-be...
๐ธ: CBCโs ig
@darkmattermedia.bsky.social
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Ariel Marken Jack
over 2 years ago
Thank you for doing this again! I publish under the same name as my handle here (Ariel Marken Jack). I'm mostly eligible in short fiction categories, and my eligibility post is here:
arielmarkenjack.com/2023/11/19/2...
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Premee Mohamed
over 2 years ago
TIS REAL A REAL BOOK Although not in my house (my editor took this photo and it is in fact his book, HI DAVID
@dtmooreeditor.bsky.social
) But it DOES EXIST! BEHOLD!!
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Undertow Publications ๐จ๐ฆ
over 2 years ago
Out today. I have a wee tale in there.
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