2nd giveaway of the day, curtesy of @grimdark.magazine, is a hardback copy of @essahansen.bsky.social's Casthen Gain! 🌍️ Open Internationally - Enter at the link below & make sure you're following us and GdM! app.randompicker.com/Project/Publ...
Essa Hansen
@essahansen.bsky.social
Sci-fi & Fantasy author. The Graven trilogy (Orbit Books). Short fic (F&SF, GdM). Pre-order my novella CASTHEN GAIN! ✨ Film Sound Designer (as Nia Hansen) at Skywalker Sound. ✨ Rep by Hannah Bowman. Neurospicy. she/her ✨ https://linktr.ee/EssaHansen
Finished reading (novella) Casthen Gain by @essahansen.bsky.social and it was a excellent - with her usual blend of action, unique world building, and interesting characters! (A chef who uses changes to physics to cook? In a deadly scavenger hunt? Not your usual hero.) Loved it! #bookSky #reading
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...
Flattered to see Someone You Can Build A Nest In was selected for Bookshop's Pride Months Picks! If you need the story of a monster *accidentally* falling for the lady who's hunting her? You can get an extra 15% off using the code PRIDE26. bookshop.org/p/books/some...
Someone You Can Build A Nest In
Check out Someone You Can Build A Nest In - <b>**Nebula Award Nominee**<br>**Hugo Award Nominee**<br> <br>*Featuring all-new exclusive material for the trade paperback: an author's note, reading group...
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Bird Alliance of Oregon@birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere are no words to describe the joy this brings. A Condor back in Oregon skies. Just a lot of gratitude for all the work from the Yurok Tribe, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's on the Northern California Condor Restoration Program. www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
An excellent novella!
Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 2mo agoDead Weight is out TODAY! 🎉🥳 It's translated by the very talented @maryrobinettekowal.com, it got a starred review from Publisher's Weekly and a bunch of very nice blurbs from people I admire a LOT. It's available wherever books are sold*! (*In the US, UK rights are still up for grabs!)
BEING ARO IS OUT NOW! 💚 So excited to share this collection with the world! 13 authors writing about the aromantic experience across genres, all celebrating what it means to be aromantic! This was such a labor of love, and we hope you love it too! Get a copy: rosieethor.com/being-aro
One of the most terrifying images in history: Gaza transformed from life into death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026 💔
Thrilled to find my worldbuilding referenced at length in this fascinating deep dive into polymers! Polymers as Mutable Reality Interfaces ~ "Here, polymers are not subsystems. They are the ship’s interface with reality itself."
Grimdark Magazine@grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 3mo agoPolymers rarely receive the reverence granted to steel, stone, or exotic alloys in science fiction, yet they are the materials most willing to endure what space demands.
Happy release day to The Punisher: One Last Kill ! 💀 I had a blast working on the sound design/effects for this. Intense combat and surreality are my wheelhouse, and the short length of these Marvel Special Presentations (it's my third!) are lots of fun #ThePunisher #Marvel #DisneyPlus #MCU
The Girl With A Thousand Faces, by @sunyidean.com (@torbooks.bsky.social) is a novel I had high hopes for; and it exceeded them. An astounding genre blending novel that fully shows Dean's writing skills, delivering a memorable story of grief and trauma. Full review: jamreads.com/reviews/the-... 💙📚
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Any time you use AI you are telling people three things: 1) you don't respect creatives or their work 2) you're okay with theft 3) you can't think for yourself
I'm doing an AMA on Reddit r/fantasy today if you want to Ask Me Anything www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
From the Fantasy community on Reddit: AMA: I'm Cameron Johnston, author of FIRST MAGE ON THE MOON, and THE LAST SHIELD
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THE PHOTONIC EFFECT releases tomorrow! To tempt you into preordering, let's deep dive into the initial pitch of "Voyager x DS9 x Mass Effect" and how its influences all shake out on the characters and world. THREAD (And the all-important preorder links!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ph...
The Photonic Effect
“What space opera is meant to be. A brilliantly complex novel about love, loss, and war.” —K.B. Wagers A starship captain and her crew face conspi...
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Hey, the audiobook of my Nebula-winning novel Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just SEVEN BUCKS! The deals lasts a while longer. A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, a...
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Happy Launch Day to me! First Mage On The Moon is out today.
Artwork I painted for the novel "Sister of the Lake" by Olga Ptitseva + sketches
ONLY 6 DAYS LEFT!! Help out a pillar of the sci-fi/fantasy community and I'll name a character after you (or a friend) in my next publication! And there's currently a discount so I'll do it for half off :)
Kemi Ashing-Giwa@kashinggiwa.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe 2026 @locusmag.bsky.social fundraiser is now live! There’s a ton of cool stuff on offer: signed books, author chats, art... along with cut scenes from my novella This World Is Not Yours and getting a character named after you in my next publication! 💫 www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
It’s my book birthday! 🎉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES, Book 2 of The Invoker Trilogy, is out in the UK today! Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this journey! Get ready for battles, ancestor magic, and big revelations! See below for links to the Goldsboro and Illumicrate exclusion editions!
Heyo! The @locusmag.bsky.social fundraiser has 15 days left, and you can now get a character named after you or a friend for 50% off!
Kemi Ashing-Giwa@kashinggiwa.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe 2026 @locusmag.bsky.social fundraiser is now live! There’s a ton of cool stuff on offer: signed books, author chats, art... along with cut scenes from my novella This World Is Not Yours and getting a character named after you in my next publication! 💫 www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
okay so. coming soon 👀 (no, idk *exactly* when but like... all the stories are written! and I have one cover!) #WhyMonsterGirlsDontCry 📚🏳️⚧️ it's got trans & nonbinary characters! it's super queer! 🌈📚🪐 💜🖤💚 also very aspec! there will be 3 new stories! 🐺🎥🧸 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
Coming soon: Why Monster Girls Don't Cry
A collection of dark speculative fiction about monsters and people considered monstrous. Includes three never-before-published stories!
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Surprise! Cover reveal for my "haunted house but really immigrant generational trauma and gentrification erases cultural memory" book! Coming out next February, assuming I can get through this revision.
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are thrilled to reveal the cover for @mikechenwriter.bsky.social's The Haunting of Santo Domingo Street, a gentrification horror in the heart of Silicon Valley available February 2, 2027 from Podium Publishing!
It's eligibility season for lists and awards, so here's my lil plug that Casthen Gain (2025) is eligible in novella categories! As science fantasy, it would be appropriate in either genre. 🫧🍲💜
Essa Hansen@essahansen.bsky.social · last yr.CASTHEN GAIN A prequel standalone novella from @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social A wayward culinarian finds himself dropped into a battle royale across the strangest and most dangerous planet in the multiverse, forced to hunt for an eons-buried mystery or die trying. books2read.com/casthengain
DEAD WEIGHT by @hildur.bsky.social—wonderfully unsettling horror 🐈 THE TOWER OF THE TYRANT by @jeremyteg.bsky.social—philosophical epic fantasy! THE SCOUR by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social—crime procedurals x The Witcher! PROJECT HANUMAN by @stewarthotston.com—ideas on a scale only sci-fi can do!
Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · 5mo agoSo I feel (both as a reader & author) like discoverability of new books is down lately, especially for the midlist. Please tell me some recently published (past year-ish) SFF books you loved that are midlist/overlooked/deserve more hype! (And please share your recs/this list!) My recs in reply!