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Mar Romasco-Moore

@marromasco.bsky.social

Author of DEADSTREAM (2025), I AM THE GHOST IN YOUR HOUSE, KRAZYLAND, GHOSTOGRAPHS, etc. Genderqueer, tired. https://marromascomoore.com/

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chicago! Come to @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social on Thursday, 9/24 at 6:30 for After Hours w/ @rosemetalpress.bsky.social! I'll be there along with @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social & @marromasco.bsky.social & @kelceyervick.bsky.social! www.quimbys.com/blog/news/9-...

9/24 After Hours with Rose Metal Press « Quimblog

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Tuta @tuta.com · last mo.

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

Mar Romasco-Moore @marromasco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My queer internet horror book is on sale AND has free shipping from bookshop June 23-26 bookshop.org/p/books/dead...

Deadstream

Check out Deadstream - Rear Window meets The Ring in this sinister YA thriller, in which a teen girl witnesses the livestreamed murder of a popular online streamer by a paranormal ent...

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey pals! Barnes and Noble are doing their preorder sale, and I’ve two books members can get for 25% off: Every Room a Hunger (Horror, queer & trans, liminal haunted house): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/every-room... The Mighty Nein: Stories Untold www.barnesandnoble.com/w/critical-r...

Every Room a Hunger

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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m @mjjii.com · 3mo ago

from the june 2026 issue of the zine

They Put a Hat on Me, Pardner

Pardner. My dearest pardner. I write to you with a great sadness in my heart.
I was resting my eyes, ever so briefly. Minding my own business. I felt a pressure upon me. A terrible and oppressive pressure.
The pressure was an awful object. The long-limbed creature who lives in my home placed it so close to my precious head.

[drawing of a crying orange cat with a pink cowboy hat on his head]

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy #PrideMonth! 💙📚🌈 June is my birthday month! It is Triscuit and Crouton's gotcha month! And my found media anthology #RECORDED crowdfunding campaign is officially live!!! Come help make this an unforgettable (& super queer) anthology—you know you want it! 🎥👀 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Michael Scott: Oh My God, It's Happening!

Alt: From The Office a clip of Michael Scott saying "Oh My God, it's happening!" as everyone runs around the room

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Mar Romasco-Moore @marromasco.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This cover is SO GOOD

Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 4mo ago

COVER REVEAL TIME! Every Room a Hunger will be out February 16, 2027. illustrated by Michael Rogers, designed by Rich Deas and Beste Dogan. Preorders are open, so please please order through your local indies (library requests are also 💜). Order links and description threaded below 👇👇

The cover of Every Room a Hunger by Nino Cipri. A person with long brown hair and no face stands in front of ugly floral wallpaper, parts of which have been torn away to reveal jagged letters. Wasps crawl across the person and the wall. The tagline reads “Welcome home.”

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Well well well... would you look at that... you can now follow along on BackerKit! 👀 tiny.cc/recordedantho

Get Ready for [RECORDED] — An Anthology of Found Media Fiction!

From Merc Fenn Wolfmoor - Get Ready for [RECORDED] — An Anthology of Found Media Fiction!

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️ mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho

mockup cover of an anthology called [RECORDED], showing an old fashioned film camera with colorful glitch overlays, and a skull vaguely visible in the background; smaller text says "edited by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor"

Mar Romasco-Moore @marromasco.bsky.social · 7mo ago

As a person who loves to read, the nationwide book-ban bill (HR 7661) is extremely upsetting. As a genderqueer author, the bill is honestly kind of terrifying. Let's do everything we can to kill it in the house. Please call your reps. 5calls.org/issue/federa...

Oppose Nationwide Book Ban Bill ⭑ 5 Calls

Rather than prosecuting people involved in child sex trafficking, House Republicans are trying to “Stop the Sexualization of Children” by turning the …

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how. This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.

Votes recorded on hr 7661 in House Committee for Education and Workforce Development’s markup.

Emma Osborne 🍉@redscribe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hell yes, my debut novella GRIEF EATER is now live on Barnes and Noble for pre-orders! I would greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word. Thank you! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grief-eate... @interstellarflight.bsky.social

Grief Eater|eBook

Visceral, gritty, and unforgiving, GRIEF EATER is a zombie story like you've never read before. When Kristina rises from her violent death, she's not the same fragile woman her family once abandoned. ...

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Emma Osborne 🍉@redscribe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Holy hell, my novella GRIEF EATER is on NetGalley!!! Check out that stunning Dante Luiz cover!! @interstellarflight.bsky.social www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Grief Eater

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 9mo ago

ok free idea for anyone unless i write it and then its not: title "would you still love me if i was a worm", short story about a girl turning into a gigantic worm and not doing any of the useful feminine labor things for her boyfriend/fiance/etc anymore. also she gets really into dirt.

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I wrote this in a fugue state immediately after handing in my MFA and somehow it actually got published, so please enjoy this piece of flash fiction entitled: Bev Eats His Entire Wife turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...

Alexandra Stronach 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU

ALEXANDRA STRONACH Bev Eats His Entire Wife The grimoire had to construct the simulacra from meat, bone, gristle, but Bev knew Nora would’ve had no truck with that; she was a committed vegetarian, eve...

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕@booksofm.com · 10mo ago

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I’ve got about 45 minutes before work so let’s do a game — give me a number between 1 and 293, and I’ll give you a quote from that page

Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Happy paperback day to Dead Girls Don’t Dream! Now with a bonus playlist in the back, which are all songs I both listened to incessantly while writing this, and songs that are thematically or vibe-ally resonant. Available wherever books are sold, and signed copies thru @astoriabookshop.bsky.social

Nino holds a copy of their YA Horror book “Dead Girls Don’t Dream” up in a patio

Mar Romasco-Moore @marromasco.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Super worth the read!

Sam J Miller@sentencebender.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This freshly-hatched horror story has possibly my favorite title of any story I've ever written. I give you.... "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead" Free to read, at @nightmare-magazine.com !! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/cour...

Mar Romasco-Moore @marromasco.bsky.social · last yr.

Fascinating read

Jason Sanford@jasonsanford.bsky.social · last yr.

My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet. www.patreon.com/posts/139940...

Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · last yr.

Just in time to get into the Halloween spirit, I’m teaching a horror writing class with Queens Collaboratory. If you’re in NYC and want to dip your toes into writing horror, this the place to do it. Tickets are $20-$25, and spots are pretty limited. luma.com/9pzyg2tm

Red hands with sharp black nails reach across a dark, smoky background. Text: Horror writing for beginners. October 19, 2-4. LED by Astoria-based author Nino Cipri.

Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · last yr.

☠️ 85 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Young Adult Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit ☠️ popgoesthereader.com/85-scary-and... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit

A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers organized by colour, beginning with blue, transitioning into red and pink, and finally ending with green. Books featured include Moonsick, Out of Air, Keep Your Friends Close, Deadstream, And The River Drags Her Down, Bad Creek, Hollow, These Bodies Ain't Broken, We Won't All Survive, Let's Split Up, Showstopper, The Devil's In The Dancers, Final Cut, The Protégée, Honeysuckle and Bone, The Devouring Light, Predatory Natures, They Bloom At Night, The Dead of Summer and You've Awoken Her.

Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · last yr.

the jellyfish is back with important news: the tpb of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM is coming out in november, and b&n is having their preorder sale for members!

a pink and purple jellyfish with narrow eyes on a bright green background. Text says: the disinterested jellyfish is back to tell you to preorder the tpb of Dead Girls Don't Dream. Barnes and Noble is running its preorder sale. Members get 25% off 9/3 to 9/5. Graphic design is not my passion.

Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · last yr.

"Every Ghost Story" is out in @reactorsff.bsky.social today! Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social, with art by @babswebbart.bsky.social. Incredibly excited to share this one (what do you mean I may be slightly obsessed with ghosts?) reactormag.com/every-ghost-...

Every Ghost Story - Reactor

Following a mysterious world-wide event that makes ghosts visible, a young woman is invited to attend Ghost Camp.

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Jaxton Kimble @jkasonetc.bsky.social · last yr.

Survival hustle pt 2: husband (not on Bluesky) started paper/stamp/ink/embossing card crafting a bit ago, and we decided to try an Etsy shop. Each is individually crafted, which means he can also take requests! Hallmark doesn’t need your money. www.etsy.com/shop/TheCraf...

Paper and ink handmade card of two bears kissing, colored with the queer bear flag colors, and the phrase “does a bear kiss’n the woods?”

Left: cut paper and ink collage art of a bird sitting in the center of a wreath on an background embossed with wood grain

Right: cut paper and ink art card of evergreen trees on die cut white with green plaid border. Whole card is embossed with abstract layout numbers

Cut paper and stamp-ink art blue polka dot card. At the center is a wild eye, square toothed, squat bear. The words “the secret ingredient” also frame the figure.

Cut paper and ink art cards which involve hand-weaving strips to create patterns. The left card has a rainbow theme and the words “you are amazing.” The right card has red, green, and brown paper as well as white paper with green and red polka dots.

Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · last yr.

Announcing new deals for @marromasco.bsky.social @emilyocharlotte.bsky.social @erinbwrites.bsky.social @kulwickiwrites.bsky.social + more buff.ly/0J7Alid

Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · last yr.

If you find yourself discussing the freedom to read, you may need to debunk some common myths. The @freedomreadproject.bsky.social has put together this resource for you

Debunking the Myths: Responding to the Most Common Arguments for Book Censorship

Book censorship arguments often disguise efforts to erase diverse voices. Responding with facts, empathy, and First Amendment values helps protect everyone’s right to read.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · last yr.

My novella We Who Hunt Alexanders is now out in the world. To all the people named Alex and Alexander who expressed concerns on if the monsters in my book would be hunting them down, I want to officially state there's no reason to worry. 1/ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/we-...

We Who Hunt Alexanders - Apex Book Company

WE WHO HUNT ALEXANDERS by Jason Sanford is a dark, cosmic novella following a neurodivergent main character in a gothic, dangerous world.

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸@ladzwriting.bsky.social · last yr.

my FUCKING GOD I was going to take my time with this roll-out, however, a bitch needs to go to urgent care !! in place of itch, we have two new store fronts to support me directly: digital works: payhip.com/ladz signed copies (US only for now): ladz-merch.square.site/shop/books/I...