L. D. Colter - Author
@ldcolter.com
Writer of weird things. Award-winning author of The Perilous Gods set of myth-based dark fantasy from Profile Books/Solaris.
Have you read? We Envy the Mayflies by Emmie Christie at The Razor "Yet still, we do not envy the stardust, or the pine tree, or the clam. We envy the mayflies" -- you have to read the story to find out why. therazormag.com/articles/we-...
We Envy the Mayflies - The Razor — Literary Magazine — Gotham Writers Workshop
The mayfly does not envy us our time, though it lives just for a day. Its minutes are weeks, and its hours are months, its moon waxing and waning in the space of one of our breaths. Over the course…
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My text adventure style prose piece with an unrealiable parser and liminal hell setting has been published at Videodame! "A Little Less Text Adventure, A Little More Existential Crisis" is here! Please reskeet. I'd like the maximum number of readers possible.
A Little Less Text Adventure, A Little More Existential Crisis
By Steve Horton
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Welcome to Issue 9, fall of 2026! We've got a fantastic slate of authors and poets for you this time around, so as the days get shorter and cooler, you should relax, get cozy, and enjoy some delightful short fiction. Subscriptions are only $5 per issue, or $20 per year. magazine.trollbreath.com
Issue 9, Fall 2026 - Trollbreath Magazine
Issue 9, Fall 2026 Fiction Every Anxious Person Dreams of Teeth by EC Hallewell Gael’s Severed Eye by Z.D. Dochterman The Bell Jar Frequency by Gretchen Tessmer Shades of Bruises and Blood by Katherine Quevedo Rat Song by DC Corvino Measure for Measure by Kris Jarden My Holiday from the…
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My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...
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I suspect that "novella in verse" might mean different things to different people. So what even is this? Well, it's poetry, but I submitted it as a collection, not as a single long poem. It's 65 poems, in fact, from a page to a couple pages long each. Primarily written in free verse.
Daniel Ausema@danielausema.bsky.social · last mo.I've been quiet about this one until I had some definite news, but this book is available now!! It's a book that's both taken a long time to come to fruition and a whirlwind of a rush at the same time. Published by Island of Wak-Wak, the same as my poetry chapbook from two years ago.
[ᵛᶦᵈᵉᵒ ᵍᵃᵐᵉ ʷᵃˡᵏᵗʰʳᵒᵘᵍʰ ʷᶦᵏᶦ ʰᵒʳʳᵒʳ] Press X to enter the Unmarked Castle Press [ʳᵉᵈᵃᶜᵗᵉᵈ, ⁿᵒᵗ ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ] to make it out alive
If There's Anyone Left @iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social · last mo.BEHOLD! Dive into the world of Unhidden: Infinite by @elismontgomery.bsky.social www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/unhiddeninfi...
The Flights of Foundry virtual conference for speculative creatives is happening this weekend! Register here: www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of... #amwriting #SFF
Brains are weird. I've sat on an idea for a new novel for 2 years ... a beginning and an ending ... nothing else. Everytime, I gotta trust the process and start writing. Boom. It goes from wasteland of ideas to 3D Technicolor and starts filling in. Anyone else? Just me?
Yesterday was #NationalReadABookDay in the UK, but we'd never get through our TBR mountain like that! To help you read every day of the year, here's a selection of Solaris SFFH Series starters ft: standalones in the same universe, continuing series, & thematically linked. Which would you pick up?
What are you currently reading? Me, I'm reading Moonglow by Kristen Callihan on my little eink x4 reader: www.goodreads.com/book/show/13... And my current audiobook is the dramatized adaptation of Fool Moon by Jim Butcher: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Jon Adcock@jonadcock.bsky.social · 3mo ago
The announcement is live! I'm writing a graphic novel about SPACE with the incredible spaced-out artist @christopherjonesart.com! It's called THE COMIC BOOK HISTORY OF SPACE EXPLORATION and it's going to blow your rocketship socks clean off!
Tomorrow! 8 min readings. Book giveaways! Find a new favorite SFF author at the FREE Zoom event. Register in advance at www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid... #SWSWQR #sff #fantasy @emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social @nillunasser.bsky.social @karenlucia.bsky.social Alex Grehy
@abigailkemske.bsky.social is on fire this year with a story at yet another great market! Check it out...
🍬 Abigail Kemske 🍬@abigailkemske.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy latest #fantasy flash “Venom is Poison is Strength is Venom” is now free to read at Flame Tree! 🐍 I’m very proud of this story. Head on over to their newsletter archive to check it out: www.flametreepress.com/newsletters/...
Re: Dolly and now Tim Curry May we all have the fortune to live to see 80, beloved by all.
Join us & we'll tell you stories! Proper good ones! 4 Sept, 5pm GMT @ldcolter.com @emmiechristie33.bsky.social @karenlucia.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social worlds.bsky.social @nillunasser.bsky.social @authorterribruce.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social #SWSWQR www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...
First Friday - Third Thursday QuickRead
6 authors * 8 minutes each - come find your next favorite read with us!
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Adulthood is basically saying: “I should probably go to bed.” …and then doing 47 completely unnecessary things instead.
In the August Speculations newsletter I catch up on 'what I did this summer' (spoiler, evacuated from the #1 priority wildfire in the nation) and get ready for some events this fall. Also book and TV recommendations plus Bumpy, the orphan hippo. l-d-colter-speculations.kit.com/posts/august...
August Speculations -- that's August, not august, but still...
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I have doth made un starter park with thyne fauvourite Adventitious writers, and I dost though not understand olde tyme Englishe. Please follow them anyway (yes, thou). go.bsky.app/P6ETCHR
PSA turns out the fastest way to write a short story is by using it to procrastinate on writing a novel
Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/over-...
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Cassandra Khaw’s 2026 Find Me Where It Ends is an upcoming fantasy novella of existential despair. Antigone’s family has a rare gift. Or perhaps it is a curse. Impending death appears to them as a dog...
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