*bangs drum* Buy more copies of Asunder! You can do it! Maybe you need a second copy? *I* have two copies, don’t fall behind me in the Asunder-owning sweepstakes!
Kerstin Hall@kerstinhall.bsky.social · 2d agoThird (small!) print run of Asunder.
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Nebula and Locus Award nominated author of Asunder. Lead writer of Dressmaker. Repped by Jennifer Jackson at DMLA. Working on something weird and sequel-shaped. kerstinhall.com
Kerstin Hall@kerstinhall.bsky.social · 2d ago
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friend shape, known pretentious yapper@friend-shape.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis is my poorly-drawn meme pitch for you all to read Asunder by @kerstinhall.bsky.social aka My Favorite Book I Read This Year And It's Not Even Close. I actually NEED more people to read this book so we can yap about it together!!!!!!
After having it on my mind constantly for almost a year, today I finished my first re-read of @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's Asunder, and I'm thrilled to let you all know that it's just as good the second time 😎 it's VERY satisfying to notice all the foreshadowing after you know what happens 👀
Some positive publishing news to counter some of the doomerism: total book sales, and adult fiction specifically, increased in 2025. Print was 73% of market and digital audio/ebook 22%. (I guess the remaining is physical audio?) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Publishing Sales Hit $32.5 Billion in 2025
Total estimated industry sales rose 2.5% over 2024, according to the year-end report from the AAP, and the number of books sold inched up 0.4%, to 3.15 billion units.
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Get your hands on this book while you can. It’s one of my top books so far this year and I’m begging for a sequel. 💙📚
Kerstin Hall@kerstinhall.bsky.social · 2d agoThird (small!) print run of Asunder.
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
I‘ll be on a Dressmaker livestream later today to talk about ✨writing 35K words of pseudo-historical dress commissions.✨ 12pm EDT!
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THIS is why I've been busting my hump to reach 219 followers! Finally, the big payout.
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · last wk.Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
15) recommend and review a book. A book I would REALLY like a sequel for is @kerstinhall.bsky.social ‘s Asunder. Absolutely stunning original world building and characters that really grab you from the very start. If you like fantasy or just “want a good story”, I couldn’t recommend it more.
AHAHAHAHAHA who has ever met an author who would SHUT UP about writing That said I am guessing the complainers are not seeking "How do I write" -- of which there are REAMS of advice -- but "How do I get published" And are not satisfied with the answers received
Antony Johnston@antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 2w agoSeeing complaints online that authors 'gatekeep' information…! Absolute nonsense. There is no industry or craft in the world which is so comprehensively written about, studied, and discussed as fiction writing, and every author I know welcomes new writers who are serious about giving it a go.
Worth posting in context as it is bang on topic.
probably a good sign that my auto complete suggests "sorry for the delay on my end" after i type the word "so"
(Duermevela has posted it on their social media, so I assume it’s fine for me to do the same.) Cover art for the Spanish translation of Asunder!
(Duermevela has posted it on their social media, so I assume it’s fine for me to do the same.) Cover art for the Spanish translation of Asunder!
So...the book was worth $2.5million...but the bidders hadn't actually read the manuscript?? the agents hadn't read it? How tf do you get to a 14-way auction for millions and *then* turn round to say "terrible prose, reads like slop"?
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2w ago👀 Fascinated by the "withdrawn by its agents" detail. So the AI use was so blatant that the agents due a huge payday preemptively withdrew the contract?
I love the taste of consequences in the morning.
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
theres this one tumblr post ive seen talking about that phenomenon but w fiction writing that I think about often
unhinging my jaw so i can swallow @kerstinhall.bsky.social’s ASUNDER whole like a snake. goddamn!!!!!!!!!
"Read this book. Let its deliciously dark world envelop you." @veronicarothbooks.com 🏆 A Finalist for the Nebula and Locus Awards 🖤 A @reactorsff.bsky.social Reviewer's Choice of 2024 SABRIEL meets WITCH KING in @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's deliciously dark fantasy ASUNDER! Buy: geni.us/asunder
I have a new story out on Reactor today, my first since my collection came out in 2021. It's about a teenage poet, friend breakups, and wrestling with inherited faith. There are spaceships that are massive libraries. It would make me very happy if you read and shared it! 😊
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 3w agoA young translator is forced to confront whether or not she has become an unwitting collaborator with the people who have invaded her home when she translates important religious texts...perhaps too well. "Into Your Sun-Blessed Life" by @visyap.bsky.social is out now!
I used to run a writing society. MZB came up in passing, and I said “well, she wasn’t GREAT,” and a confused girl was like “what do you mean? my mom named me after Morgaine from Mists of Avalon” — and I felt, in that instant, like my own spontaneous combustion would come as a great blessing.
Paz Pardo@pazsays.bsky.social · 3w agodo I tell them about Marion Zimmer Bradley or leave them in blessed ignorance
The publishing industry has reported the lowest uptake of AI usage at only 6%, reflecting ongoing concerns around copyright and authorship, the Creative Access 2026 Thrive report has revealed. 👇
Publishing has 'lowest uptake of AI across creative industries', according to new report
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