Have you read? Instructions for Building Your Replacement You™ by Eric Fomley at Crepuscular Magazine Oof, this one hits hard. (Free to read.) www.patreon.com/CrepuscularM...

April 29th: Eric Fomley | Crepuscular Magazine

Instructions for Building Your Replacement You™  1. Setup Build your Replacement You™ in a solitary place, away from anyone who shouldn’t k

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Have you read? The Sharp Cry of the Winterlarks by Arden Baker at Diabolical Plots I had some time to catch up on my reading yesterday and DP never disappoints! This ethereal flash, so poetic, is simply beautiful. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

DP FICTION #136A: “The Sharp Cry of the Winterlarks” by Arden Baker – Diabolical Plots

Diabolical Plots

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No cheating, post your lock screen! Mine actually chooses photos from my library. This is the current one.

Cass Morris@cassmorriswrites.com · 2d ago

No cheating, post your lock screen! Mine is *usually* something related to whatever my next travel is going to be — the carrots I continually dangle in front of myself.

Only a few days left to vote for the #HugoAwards! I'd love it if you'd read my nominated short story, "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything". Read it at Diabolical Plots (www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...) or listen to it at Cast of Wonders.

Cast of Wonders@castofwonders.org · 5d ago

Cast of Wonders 692: Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by @effies.bsky.social narrated by Jairus Durnett produced by Andrew Jack CW: ableism www.castofwonders.org/2026/07/cast...

Today I am clearing out email inboxes. My author business and SFWA inboxes were already at 0. Day job inbox has its own management system. But, personal inbox went from ~250 to single digits! Onto author gmail which has over 850 🫥 I will document my journey here.

If you want all the info on when my short stories drop and sneak-peeks on my upcoming novella THEY ARE ALL HER CHILDREN out with @apexmag.bsky.social next May, don't forget to check out my newsletter (the Sally one, not the Sarah one, why do I make everything so hard?) mailchi.mp/952c1de85d0f...

No short story or poetry recs will go up this week. I only suggested six (6) poems and short stories in July. Have a read: adriabailton.com/short-story-...

Hey, so, it’s August. Did you know my collection’s a @reactorsff.bsky.social ”Can’t Miss” for this month? If you’ve been missing it and would like to remedy that, my book’s linked in the article. 🙂 reactormag.com/cant-miss-in... @starsandsabers.bsky.social

Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2026 - Reactor

Here’s to good reading and a pleasant season.

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New week, new author thread! This week I'm reviewing Amanda Helms @amandaghelms.bsky.social 1. The Worth of Ashes | WYSR Review @podcastle.org Aselya struggles to feed her children and ends up selling her sister's ashes. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

Still not really writing, but I have started submitting my other YA sci-fi to small presses, which was on my goals list this year. The idea was that I would start after Worlds Divide was published, but let's see what happens.

I read 6 books in July! Wow! That is way more than I thought I read, especially since I took 2 full weeks off to listen to a new album and didn't read at all. 4

Have you read? The Worth of Ashes by Amanda Helms at PodCastle A story that grew from 750 words to 4400 about a woman who has to choose whether to keep part of her family or let them go for the survival of her children. podcastle.org/2026/04/14/p...

PodCastle 939: The Worth of Ashes - PodCastle

THE WORTH OF ASHES by Amanda Helms     Aselya retained enough of her sister’s ashes to hear them sing. She trudged through the marketplace, the ashes secured in a pouch hanging from her hip, while…

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new pinned post 🧵 hellooooooo I'm E (they/she) the #author of THE LORD OF THE WOOD (2026) and THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (2025), as well as various short stories more links are threaded, but here's a link to more info about about my two current novels: www.harpercollins.com/blogs/author...

You know what would be a small but meaningful act of kindness you could do today? Leave a review for a book you recently read. Extra meaningful if you loved it, if it's an indie/self-pubbed author, there's only a few reviews in the review space of your choosing. It really does make a difference.

I am overjoyed that the Poetry Hugo Award has once again PASSED. It will need to be re-ratified in 2029 to be officially officially permanent. Complicated rules aside, thank you to everyone who voted or supported this goal. Us poets truly love y'all! To read more about this see poetryhugo.com

Speculative Poetry Initiative

What Works Are Available for Nomination in the 2026 Awards?

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I laughed so hard I cried when I saw this elsewhere. Worth a watch. And please find a home for as many small press books as you can.

Mia V. Moss@magicrobotcarnival.com · 2w ago

They're cold, alone, and terrified. This year, won't you give a small press debut a warm space on your shelf? Or if you can, adopt 2 or more, as small press debut books are social creatures and do better in a multi-book home. #booksky 📚💙 #indiebooks

fine FINE I have a queer cozy fantasy about an old man cursed with immortality called THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS and it's really super good, especially in audio libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E.M. Anderson Narrated by David Sweeney-Bear Audiobook on Libro.fm

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY LIBRARY JOURNAL AND REACTOR

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist.

My books: Genitalia/FuckThePatriarchy bookshop.org/p/books/phal... College bio bookshop.org/p/books/the-... What truly works for a better-feeling brain + Musk-fisk bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Autistic adolescent bookshop.org/p/books/if-y... Parenting (co-auth) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis

A wry look at what the astonishing world of animal penises can tell us about how we use our own.The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power. But this wry and penetrat...

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist.

About a month ago, my partner & I went to the drive-in (I didn't know these still existed and it's a favorite part of living on this coast now) We were planning on seeing a double feature: Disclosure Day and Backrooms.

If YOU would like to get into reading more speculative poetry, please check out my list of speculative poets and markets that publish speculative poetry! bsky.app/profile/did:...

For the weekend crowd.

P.A. Cornell (She/Her)@cornellwriter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Are you within reach of Toronto? Do you like free food and SWAG? Do you want to hang out with me while I read a bit from my book and maybe tell you some cool things about it? Are you a nice person who would feel terrible if I wound up sitting alone in a bookstore? Then this is the event for you! 🙂

But also, we have a new animal companion, a frog or toad (I think it's a toad but I'm in a whole new area of the county so who knows what they look like here!) They come out at night to eat bugs. We're very protective of our new frog/toad friend. My partner has put out a little hut for it.

I should be reading the ARCs I have for books that released 2 days ago and the one for next week. I read Codex because I'm still catching up after closing a tab in February (only 10 days behind now!)

Have you read? Ascension by P.L. McMillan at Apex A story of sacrificing everything to reach a goal that will make it all worthwhile. www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

Ascension

3,843 Meters Ascended My auto-piton growled as it twisted itself into the stark, shiny black stone of the Tower. The sound was swallowed, as all sounds were in the Tower. Haunting, hollow. I secured…

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Have you read? As seen through the hole of the hag stone: by Sienna Tristen at Otherside A poem of 4 places and genre. othersidespec.com/pieces/as-se...

As seen through the hole of the hag stone: - OTHERSIDE

Brighton Pier, burnt down and always burning down. Salt channel, red dress  made for more clement weather, fire farflung from the wreckage caught  round my waist. Pale sunlight, chalk sisters…

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here's where you can find me next week celebrating the release of THE LORD OF THE WOOD! while most events are in-person, @wordsiren.bsky.social and I have a virtual event next Friday, which you can register for here: www.eventbrite.com/e/em-anderso... #author

ICYMI I have a queer cozy horror releasing in 9 days in which a 43yo autistic guy has a gay/lowkey monsterfucker awakening after getting lost in an enchanted forest & his sister goes into the wood after him with the most annoying woman she's ever met bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I watched Jurassic Park several times over the past few years, partially because the novel I wrote in 2024 is about the aftermath billionaires creating dinosaurs again, but I'm putting it on tonight again.

Alan Grant Jurassic Park

Alt: Alan Grant Jurassic Park screaming as he fakes being electrocuted.

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Hello new friends from the @writehive.bsky.social conference this weekend! (And old friends.) I am currently barely doing any social media except for being random at this point.

My debut novel was my 9th written novel. That's how long it took me to get good enough to get published. 2 out of the previous 8 novels were revised (heavily, HEAVILY revised) into publication, but *only* two. 7 will never see the light of day. EVER!!!

Madelyn Knecht ✨🌈@madelynknecht.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dear authors, Your debut novel is not the first novel you write or query, but the first novel you publish. Sincerely, me #writersky #writingcommunity