“The Monkey King in Orbit” by @shiwritesprose.bsky.social features an orbital station where the most privileged live in immortal hedonism, and the Monkey King makes a move that shakes society to its foundations: she's opening a restaurant.
Julia Vee
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I write stuff with monsters and dumplings. ('23 Ebony Gate, TOR) ('24 Blood Jade, TOR) 🩷Pearl City July 15, 2025🩷 Viable Paradise 21.
Heyo! I’m doing a giveaway for both BEING ARO and my sci-fi horror novella! I’ll send my full zine collection to 3 people and a signed hardcover copy of BEING ARO to 1. To enter: ✨ add both THIS WORLD IS NOT YOURS and BEING ARO to GR/Storygraph ✨ repost this Winners will be chosen on 8/28!
Thrilled my story about the world’s most successful pirate Zheng Yi Sao was a Scribe Award finalist 🥳
Reclusion@reclusionofficial.bsky.social · 3mo agoCongratulations to @juliavee.bsky.social on her Best Short Story nomination at the 2026 IAMTW Scribe Awards for "Three Times Lucky", from Reclusion: The Anthology! 🎉 We're incredibly proud to see the Reclusion universe recognized. Wishing Julia and all of this year's nominees the very best of luck!
Look, a real book club! I love this 💕
Mostly Urban Fantasy Book Club@mostlyurbanfantasy.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur book discussion for Stakes and Bones will be this Sat at 10a PT, & will include a special appearance by @juliavee.bsky.social You can find out more about this month's book, what we're reading next, & how to join us at www.mostlyurbanfantasy.com #urbanfantasy #booksky #juliavee #bookclub #read
Heyo! The Literary Auction for Change is open, with agent critiques, signed copies, book swag, and more up for grabs. And all funds help support diversity in the publishing industry! I'm offering a 30-min AMA, which can also double as a short story critique: www.32auctions.com/organization...
Hello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚
Tales & Feathers: A Pro Slice of Life Fantasy Mag | Year 5+
Fund the next two years of our pro-rate slice of life fantasy magazine—and help us create our inaugural print edition.
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AUGURIANS !! Kickstarter support MAKES or BREAKS a pro mag ✨💪 Our cozy fantasy sibling has 3 GOALS—& only your backs, shares, and IMMACULATE vibes can get us there. 🔥🐉☕️ We need: $6.5k CA / $4.8k US for YEAR 5! $13k CA / $9.6k US for YEAR 6! $15.5k CA / $11.4k for PRINT! Share, share, share !!
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Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoHello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚
We wrote a story about a Valkyrie with PTSD and a bureaucratic shinigami with ennui playing games like Go and chess back in Jan 2025. Very excited it will be out Jan 2037 😅
Henry Herz@henryherz.bsky.social · 6mo agoCover reveal #UrbanFantasy #anthology DEATH MAIDENS! #Valkyries. @stephengrahamjones.com @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social @davidmack.pro @seananmcguire.bsky.social @authoroux.bsky.social @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social @juliavee.bsky.social @kenbebelle.bsky.social. Pre-order at tinyurl.com/DMTOV
You can follow all the finalists (or at least all the ones who have Bsky accounts) for the 2026 Hugo Awards right here with this starter pack. go.bsky.app/mR4XaC
Eek! Huge thanks to @reactorsff.bsky.social revealing the new cover today! Can’t wait for you all to see what terrible things I have in store for you in October! 💜💜💜💜💜
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe are THRILLED to reveal the cover for THE one and only @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social!!! A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death...step inside October 13, 2026 with @putnambooks.bsky.social / @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 🦋
✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨ if anyone needs a copy of the short fiction for awards consideration, let me know!
Just to be clear (because I've had questions): *** We are currently open to submissions. ***
Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 8mo agoToday is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.
Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.
Anytime I see numbers showing that Asian people are less underwater than others, I wish we were actually fucking teaching the history of Asian people in this country. Instead, maybe people are told that Chinese laborers built the railroads in the mid-1800s and then... like, nothing at all.
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...
Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee detained at Los Angeles International Airport
San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport, his agent Scott Boras told the Chronicle.
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I can't remember any kind of statement like this ever coming out of the Fed. I am over half a century old. Impeach the president immediately.
Federal Reserve@federalreserve.gov · 9mo agoVideo message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest
If I for some reason ever pass And they try to make my wife a roommate Or a shadow in my life Let it be known she was my heart. She was my everything. Not a shadow But the whole sun.
Here’s the FBC list of 2026 most anticipated SFF titles via Lukasz, @realmsofmymind.bsky.social, @readeratwork.bsky.social, Adam W. & Mihir fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2026/01/fant...
Fantasy Book Critic's Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2026
Speculative fiction book reviews.
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Happy New Year's Eve, y'all!! This just in: THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY is 1.99 on Bookshop and Rakuten Kobo too! ✨ Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ✨ Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
The Chain Story Project has just released a brand new story: Bryan Young's Ice Hawk's Aerie. This is the first of many stories about Pip Strongpaw, the last of the Great Catriders. www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
Free Fiction, Round Eleven — The Chain Story
This week the Chain Story Project is happy to introduce Pip Strongpaw, hero, wanderer and mouse. Please enjoy his debut tale from the pen of Bryan Young, Ice Hawk’s Aerie .
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You know you are middle-aged when your Black Friday shopping for yourself consists of cookware and kbeauty anti-aging products.