I don’t exactly know why, but this little book, despite no award wins, movie deals, or much publicity, has quietly become the third best-selling thing I’ve *ever* written, right behind Fairyland and Space Opera. Thank you to everyone who’s been devouring it for five years now! #comfortmewithapples

Catherynne M. Valente@catvalente.bsky.social · last wk.

You have till the end of the month (7/31) to grab my Stepford-Wives-Meets-Bluebeard fantasy-thriller with a Big Twist Ending, Comfort Me With Apples, for $2.99 everywhere ebooks can get boughten! Quite literally less than a can of soup these days… amzn.to/4fq6QvP

Not me picking up his latest like, ahhh let me settle into something that won’t inspire new writing ideas. Only to come across this top review and realise that ship has probably sailed:

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈@faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ahh it’s always exciting when @johannestevans.co.uk finishes something new! 🙏

I fall under Supernatural Horror with my story “From the Ice and the Darkness.” And that’s just one of a bunch of great stories by some of the best horror writers working today.

Stars and Sabers@starsandsabers.bsky.social · 6d ago

It may be hot outside, but in these pages, you’ll be chilled to the bone! OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM features dozens of stories with: 🪾FOLK HORROR 🗡️SLASHER HORROR 👻SUPERNATURAL HORROR 🤡COMEDY HORROR ☣️ECO HORROR 🚪LIMINAL HORROR ...and more! #horror #books #horrorlover #spooky #horrorbooks

Happy #WorldEmbroideryDay

jess banks@profbanks.bsky.social · 6d ago

I didn’t know it’s #WorldEmbroideryDay! Here are a few of my projects.

Absolutely delighted to have been given the opportunity to blurb such a wonderful book! 🥰🚀

Alexis Ames@alexisames.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm delighted to be able to share another blurb for THE LAST INFINITY, this time from author and editor @faerywhimsy.bsky.social ! You can pre-order my book about time traveling disaster gays here: books2read.com/u/bwMZ99.

Great to see Omniboz out in the world, especially with these wonderful original Oz books! Thank you so much!

Abraham Schroeder 🎩🦇@thegentlemanbat.bsky.social · 2w ago

What I’m reading: Omniboz - Tales from the land of Oz - edited by @jendiagammon.bsky.social & @erniechiara.com I read the first 16 Oz books with the kids in the last year, Looking forward to checking out these new takes, that I hear are not for kids. #books #notkidlit #wizardofoz

Totally self serving promotional post🎉🎉🎉🎉 Please buy my books so I can afford to buy one (1) small treat for myself. It will probably be a pizza 😀

Mixeduppainter@mixeduppainter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello friends of bluesky and welcome to: My Books! First up we have An Offering of Plums - it's short - it's got a hot agender demon - and flirting by way of fruit! So if that sounds like something you might dig, please come right this way: books2read.com/u/4jwkvj

“Queer/trans disabled people need poems as surely as we need warm oatmeal in the morning — common and essential. We who don’t (can’t) leave our houses or beds. We deemed disposable. We desexualized, degendered, dehumanized. We need poems to help us find each other when we’re drowning.”

Interstellar Flight Press@interstellarflight.bsky.social · 2w ago

Eli Clare's love letter to survival is next up in our poetry series INFINITE BRANCHES featuring work about queerness, disability, and the speculative: magazine.interstella...

Ahh it’s always exciting when @johannestevans.co.uk finishes something new! 🙏

Johannes T. Evans@johannestevans.co.uk · 2w ago

RESCUE DOGS: Final chapter is out now! johannestevans.co.uk/2026/07/23/r... eBook release will be in a few weeks to a month, after the re-edit!

My new book is out next Tuesday, Aus/NZ pals! It's my attempt to write a romance novel about embarrassment: how do you learn to trust someone again after your last partner profoundly humiliated you? (It's also about wine.) Preorders are *immensely* helpful to authors, so if you're keen...

Jodi McAlister@jodimca.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Cover reveal! A Study in Sparkling is coming out on 28 July in Australia/NZ and 15 September in the US. Aus/NZ preorder: www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/A-Stud... US preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Stud...

Absolutely delighted to have been given the opportunity to blurb such a wonderful book! 🥰🚀

Alexis Ames@alexisames.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm delighted to be able to share another blurb for THE LAST INFINITY, this time from author and editor @faerywhimsy.bsky.social ! You can pre-order my book about time traveling disaster gays here: books2read.com/u/bwMZ99.

THE FOX AND THE DEVIL X HELL'S HEART In a vampire normative future, government control and restriction of gender affirming medicines start Delaney on their quest to becoming one of the changeless undead. It seems the better option. #Questpit #LGBT #SFF #A

Hey look! Its me! Folks this is the big one, there's time travel and shit gets weird #TPDox #TimeTravelAuthors #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters #booksky 📚💙🪐🌈

The Book Bazaar: Coming October 29th, 2026@the-book-bazaar.com · 2w ago

@jebdarsh.bsky.social's Time Paradox: Exposition. Book 4 of the Time Paradox series. It's six months since the events of the Preludes. Dean finds himself stranded 130 years away in a very broken future. #Scifi #LGBTQIA #IndieAuthor

Generous offer here from lovely human.

Dean Leetal@deanleetal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today's a traumaversary and I'd love distractions. Here to beta short stories, abstracts, whatever I have time for. First come first served. You would be doing me a favor. Feel free to DM (but not to be creepy in my DMs, OK?). Even if we're strangers. Feel free to share with strangers.

As I work towards finding #TroyandSparta an agent who loves it as much as I do, I want to share a second long form project I’ve been working on. It’s currently in its third draft and is sparking a whole lot of joy.

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈@faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I won't make this too long winded but suffice to say I'm excited! I now have a trilogy, the first part newly completed. It starts from the wall of Troy being built and ends with Paris' arrival in Sparta. This is no longer #Helen but #TroyandSparta And I think that deserves its own moodboard.

T-minus 9 days until we are open for general submissions. August 1st! Mark it! pseudopod.org/submissions/

Submissions | PseudoPod

PseudoPod wants to find quality fiction to feed our listeners. If you’re a writer with a short horror story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our talented performers, we’d like to see it.

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Hi everyone! Exciting news!!! 😊 My wonderful agent @thaisafonso.bsky.social has sold my Adult Horror debut THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE GIRLS to Abby Knudsen at @GalleryBooks, Simon and Schuster. A million thanks to Thais, Rachel Neely, and @LauraGalanWells, my brilliant mentor at RTM.

🚨2 announcements today!🚨 1. Why Aren't You Dead Yet?, an anthology of disability in dystopia stories, is out today, and I have a story in it! 2. The Last Infinity is now available for pre-order at all digital retailers, not just Amazon. Links here: alexisamesbooks.com/2026/07/20/a....

Anthology release & pre-orders open!

I have a couple of announcements today! Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?, an anthology of disability in dystopia stories, is out today! My story, “Opportunity Cost”, involves a found fami…

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amazing 🧵 but wanna add that this is why a lot of disabled ppl i know are more likely to be kinky, or at least openly so (and for the masochists among us, I’ll just say a) nerves get mixed up when youre in chronic pain and b) pain you choose can be a very liberatory experience)

Johannes T. Evans@johannestevans.co.uk · 3w ago

1. Bodily Autonomy When you have a chronic illness or a disability that limits your control of or connection with your body, it can feel like you're alienated from or disassociated from the very flesh you live in. Making changes can make you feel more in control than you otherwise would.

My next blurb for THE LAST INFINITY is here! @bethanymangle.bsky.social was kind enough to read and offer me this wonderful blurb. Be sure to check out her books! THE LAST INFINITY is on Goodreads and available for pre-order on Amazon. You can find those links here: linktr.ee/alexis.ames.

[whispers] If you're in Australia or New Zealand and are looking for a nice cosy read to curl up with, Heart of the Covenant is ON SALE right now! Perfect for when you want space station shenanigans and hijinks! AU: www.kobo.com/au/en/e... NZ: www.kobo.com/nz/en/e...

All due respect, but the article released by @bonabooks.bsky.social, by their own admission, signifies a first draft. As we writers know, a first draft’s job is only to exist. The job isn’t done here, guys. That takes a village. Next is the hard work of draft two.

John Joseph Adams@johnjosephadams.com · 3w ago

All due respect to Bona Books (who recently accidentally bought an AI-written story): We cannot allow the procedures and methodology they outlined in their article to become the standard practice. www.bona-books.com/news/we-boug...

So many people have been asking me lately for the link to @starsandsabers.bsky.social's Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz, which makes me think it might be time for another post with the buy link!

Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz – Stars and Sabers

Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz - An anthology of short stories inspired by L. Frank Baum's original Oz books, edited by Jendia Gammon and Ernie Chiara.

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@faerywhimsy.bsky.social requested ☑️modern-day, ☑️sapphic, ☑️polyamorous ☑️djinn hijinks. I say, challenge accepted, queen!

Scylla Publishing@scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our editor @faerywhimsy.bsky.social has written her Month Two subs roundup for The Monstrous & The Divine! Come and have a look at what we have, and what we're still looking for. Subs must close July 31, 2026! #queerwriting #smallpress www.scyllapublishing.com/adivineblog/...

“I have long held the position that every woman should face the patriarchal world with a gun in her hand. This anthology proves me right. A tremendous addition to the Western genre.” —C.S. Humble, author of the Amid the Vastness of All Else Saga

If you’ve been holding out for an audio version of “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, GREAT NEWS! Thanks to @jennahanchey.bsky.social and @mickallister.bsky.social and @darthj.uno your wait is over 😊

Podcast: Because I Held His Name Like a Key

In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Aimee Ogden's 'Because I Held His Name Like a Key' read by Jenna Hanchey. Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast…

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We could really use a few more patrons to help us keep promoting our books. Even a $1 helps! www.patreon.com/interstellarflightpress

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Celebrate disability pride month with some good old fashioned disabled rage and preorder Why Aren't You Dead Yet? A disability in dystopia anthology releasing July 20th #DisabilityPride #DisabilityRage #Dystopia #anthology #books @ellatholmes.bsky.social

Can promise this book is amazing so far!!

Alexis Ames@alexisames.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pre-orders are live for THE LAST INFINITY! Pick up your copy of time traveling disaster gays today! Launch date: 8/18. #WritingCommunity www.amazon.com/Last-Infinit...

Oh damn, @kcgrifant.bsky.social really showing the power of letting the imagination fill in the horrific details here in "Worship" 👀 Can't figure out whether I liked the inhuman descriptions of the story's goddess, or its ending, more!

Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈@faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The launch party for @starsandsabers.bsky.social's OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM was today and I am delighted to share a bit of the excitement over here! I very much hope that people enjoy my gothic fusion of Dracula and The Raven, and also can't wait to read everyone else's stories when it gets here!