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N. Sowers

@nsowers.bsky.social

Writer, Gremlin, Silly Goose |🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️| "How shall I hold back my soul from touching yours?" https://nsowers.com

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · 4d ago

Look at that! Me and a bunch of other awesome friends did a thing! 👀 #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 4d ago

Unveiling the Dragonthology cover! With flash fiction by: @sagecollins.bsky.social @felixcroc.bsky.social @kcthequeerdo@eurosky.social @clynwrites.bsky.social @itsjxrdn.bsky.social @innsyn-onym.bsky.social @dragonkeeper22.bsky.social @vampireantihero.com @nsowers.bsky.social @catherinewinters.com

A cover with bright words in yellow, red, and white at the top reading: “Dragonthology”, “a dozen flash and micro stories”, “IncSpec 1”

And at the bottom reading “Brought to you by The Inclusive Spec-Fic Writers Collective”

This is cover original cover art of:

A red dragon with a slim body and two legs with a long tail and wings. The dragon curves over the sky with the sunset in the distance. The sun sets over the ocean, reflecting on the water and turning the sky deep orange and red with soft clouds

Felix Croc @felixcroc.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm in an anthology!!!! Please check it out when it comes out!

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 4d ago

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hey, I'm in this one! Bringing my usual wheeling and dealing with creatures if untold power, that the best we can call it is a dragon. Keep your eyes peeled for further announcements about where you can read it coming soon 🐉

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 4d ago

Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Dragonthology will be a charity anthology by members of the IncSpec discord, an inclusive speculative writers server. With creative stories of diverse dragons, from huge to small, cruel to kind. Out soon! The cover features my art and formatting by @innsyn-onym.bsky.social #dragons #fantasy

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 4d ago

When I learned to play mahjong, I heard about playing with a ghost at the table. Loved seeing that in this story!

GigaNotoSaurus Magazine@giganotosaurus.bsky.social · 4d ago

New story up at GNS: It took Corey Liao seven days to wrench herself free from her body. And with the help of three wu, she has seven more to avenge her own murder. Read “Four Sparrows” by Angela Hsieh @hisiheyah.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2026/08/01/four-sparrows

Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Author & Narrator @autumnwolff.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m calling everyone out.

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · last wk.

I feel the forest move around me, beckoning me closer into the fold. We're a part of it now, breathing as one, feeling as one, right down to the foresters leveling us miles away. #horrorwriterschat

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · last wk.

The strange compulsion to reach out and touch one of the plants overtakes you. As your fingers touch the petals, they tingle. You freeze, watching tendrils reach out cautiously from the plant. "The roots dig deeper into my veins, foxgloves sprouting from my skin." Finish it. #HorrorWritersChat

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Question Three

"The roots dig deeper into my veins, foxgloves sprouting from my skin."

Finish it.

Quote post your answer and include the hashtag #HorrorWritersChat

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · last wk.

The closest I've come is my novel that just finished edits, Wish I Might, which features plant fae using a deadly tournament to collect a tithe of souls from the fallen competitors to help keep their ecological utopia alive - it's very background but also creates the premise of the plot

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · last wk.

The garden is bright and vibrant with a wash of flowers. Oleander. Monkshood. Hydrangea and Mountain Laurel bushes. Small placquards stand beside each one. You realize as you read them, they're symptoms. QUESTION 2 - Have you ever written anything centering plants or poisons? #HorrorWritersChat

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · last wk.

Hi all! I'm N, I write queer af horror fantasy about monsters, identity, and transformation ✨️ My favorite eco-horror is a book I beta read years ago that I still think about all the time, it had great worldbuilding, loveabke characters, and an engaging heist plot to save the world 🌎

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · last wk.

Howdy, #HorrorWritersChat ! The leaves whisper secrets at the edge of a forest that melts into a garden. Its quiet murmurs guide you. You take a step. Q1 - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... share your favorite piece of horror media with plants, poisons, forest, or eco-horror.

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Question one

Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share your favorite piece of horror media involving plants, poisons, forest, or eco-horror.

Quote post your answer and include the hashtag HorrorWritersChat

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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel)@tanyagold.bsky.social · 2w ago

Want to work with the Queer Liberation Library? They're looking for a Collections Volunteer! It's remote, 5 hrs/week, and unfortunately unpaid cash-wise (but I bet otherwise very rewarding). Apply by August 2. www.queerliberationlibrary.org/volunteer-op... 🌈📚 #QueerBooks @queerliblib.bsky.social

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 2w ago

CEMETERY BOYS x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH A goth trans sorcerer tries to weasel out of his contract with Hell and accidentally resurrects a corpse, rescues a child, and reconnects with his humanity along the way. #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #H #LGBT

A black background with flames on the bottom. White text reads: YA Horror Fantasy, 85k words. A Not Yet Corpses Agent's Guide

A black background with flames on the bottom. A Tropes/Comps graphic for Not Yet Corpses. Various orange arrows point to the cover in the center, depicting a pale, white-haired teenager wielding a knife and a handful of flame. Tropes: Annoyances to Friends to ???, Devil Deals (with red devil graphic), Stabby Trans MC (with cover of Ander Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth), Goths Gays and Theys, Found Family, Accidental Resurrections (with cover of Aiden Thomas' Cemetery Boys), Combatting Oppression (with cover of H.E. Edgmon's The Witch King)

A black background with flames on the bottom. Excerpt from Not Yet Corpses:
“So what do I call you?” he asks.
“Roy.”
“Just Roy?”
Even under the sepia light of the streetlamps, he radiates life. It’s off-putting. Downright annoying, when I think about it too long.
“Unless you want to call me Riordan Payne.”
He laughs. “Weird—I like it. Monster Hunter, Riordan Payne.”
“Not a monster hunter.”
As much as I want to punch him every time he opens his mouth, I can’t shake the pride settling in my bones, watching him do something as simple as running a hand through his hair. You’d never know he was dead an hour ago. I did that, and I'm not even sure how.
Beneath that pride, a primal fear coils inside me. If my patron ever finds out what I’ve done, there’s no telling what he’ll do to the corpse. But I’ve got a pretty good idea what he might do to me. I have to dump this undead body the first chance I get.

A black background with flames on the bottom.
Pitch: After Riordan Payne accidentally resurrects an amnesiac corpse, he'd do anything to get rid of it. He didn’t think ‘anything’ meant making friends with it, rescuing a kid wizard together, taking a road trip across the desert, or reawakening his humanity.
Graphic Title of Not Yet Corpses in white at the bottom, with skulls for O's

R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Merge x Rules For Ghosting When Melody's sister is abducted from their shared body, she'll do anything to get her back. Including subjecting herself to an uncomfortable road trip with an angel inhabiting a corpse and her sister's very confused girlfriend. [ #QuestPit #Q #A #F #S #LGBT ]

A mood board that is a collection of 12 images: breakfast at a diner, women in the front seat of a car, a gas station at night, a cabin in a snowy forest at night, women holding hands, a road at sunset, an angel statue, a car in the dark with its headlights on, a car mirror with a sunset, a snowy forest at sunset, a paper map, a blonde woman holding a paper map, a purple orb, an eye with a purple iris, hands holding a rainbow flag, and a sheet of music.

B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 3w ago

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, five dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #BluePit #A #H

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

L.K. Chopin @lkchopin.bsky.social · 3w ago

HEARTLESS HUNTER X NEVER EVER AFTER 😴👑YA sleeping beauty reimagining👑😴 After a century-long sleep, Zella sets out to overthrow the queen who cursed her, but her quest is interrupted when she is captured by a deaf soldier who is immune to her entrancing song magic. #bluepit #Q #F #YA #📖 #R

The words "The blood of zellandine, enchanted Forest, grumpy/Sunshine, Force proximity, fairy tale reimagining, deaf/HOH rep, animal companion" Are writing atop a collage of treetops, a spinning wheel, bound hands, a medieval kitchen, a medieval helmet and sword, a rat, a cottage, a dark Castle, a dark crown, old books, and an aerial view of a river.

Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 3w ago

ALIEN x WHAT MOVES THE DEAD An isolated space station. A mysterious scientist. A trio of government inspectors. A “false” distress signal. An omnipresent AI. A zoo of animal test subjects. What could go wrong? No one escapes UNINTENDED DESIGNS in this scifi horror. #BluePit #H #A #Q #SF #LGBT #OV

A background of dramatic blue-purple stars and constellations with a purple caduceus over it and two smaller black upside-down caduceuses to the sides. Over it all are the words:

An Agent’s Guide To
Unintended Designs
A Science Fiction Bio-Horror in Space

Also small text on the bottom reading: Guide made in Canva by Theodore Snapdragon

Another slide with the same dramatic space image on the background. It also features two stylized images of DNA with rats on it. On the slide are the words:

Pitch
Space station inspector Gen Ishii is out of his depth in the isolated research outpost of Dr. Isengrim, an eccentric and charismatic scientist with far too many secrets.

And below, separated by two white snake graphics, are more words:

Described In Five Songs
Protagonist: Tongues (Joywave)
Setting: Disturbia (Rhianna)
Plot: Come A Little Closer (Cage The Elephant)
Climax: Destroya (My Chemical Romance)
Ending: Cosmic Love (Florence and the Machine)

Another slide with the dramatic space image as background, as well as two large white graphics of needles on either side and two graphics of white running mice along the bottom. In the center of the slide are the words “FOR FANS OF” and in the corners of the slides are the words:

Creative queer horror of
INTO THE DROWNING DEEP
by Mira Grant

Suspenseful building horror of
WHAT MOVES THE DEAD
by T Kingfisher

Isolated sci-fi horror of
THE LUMINOUS DEAD
by Caitlyn Starling

Engaging nonhuman characters of
TRANSLATION STATE
by Anne Leckie

With the covers of each of the four mentioned books also featured between the words, with each cover image lined with white so it sticks out

Another slide with the dramatic space image as background, this one with small images of a purple jellyfish and orange squid. It features a detailed art of a white, large, cuttlefish-like creature move through water under lily pads. Next to the art of the aquatic art are the words “original art” over an arrow pointing at that art piece.

The slide also has text reading:

Featuring

- Queernormative setting full of representation
- Moral conflict, ambiguity, snd dilemma
- Tension and eerie, off-details with big payoff

Excerpt

Harken and Tanaka followed as Isengrim gestured them forward, but I lingered a moment. I was reluctant to leave the pleasant warmth and fragrance of this place behind for the paperwork awaiting me. I gave the beautiful hydroponics hub a lingering look, then froze.

I jerked my head to the side, studying the trees as best I could in the gentle lighting. I could have sworn I saw the shadow of someone, someone humanoid, moving through the branches. Something far too large to be a normal animal. When I looked again, though, I saw nothing.

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 3w ago

CEMETERY BOYS x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH If Riordan Payne’s infernal patron finds out that he’s been dabbling in necromancy again, he can kiss his freedom—and his soul—goodbye. So the corpse he just accidentally resurrected has got to go, and fast. #BluePit #📖 #Q #YA #F #H #LGBT

Mock Cover for Not Yet Corpses: The background depicts a white-haired boy standing in front of a Ferris wheel on fire, looking back at the viewer over his shoulder. He holds a knife in one hand and a fireball in the other.
White text reads: Not Yet Corpses, N. Sowers

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 3w ago

NOT YET CORPSES is querying now, featuring: 👿 angry trans sorcerer without a soul 🧟 the hot amnesiac corpse who won’t leave him alone 🐈‍⬛ the nonbinary kid wizard they rescue together 👹 angels and devils and monsters, oh my! 📜 the last chance to save his soul #BluePit #📖 #Q #YA #F #H #LGBT

Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 3w ago

INTO THE DROWNING DEEP X THE LUMINOUS DEAD When a small team is sent to investigate an isolated biomedical space station, UNINTENDED DESIGNS break out. 🏳️‍🌈 Queernormative scifi ☣️ Bodyhorror 🧬 Layered mysteries 🔪 Moral dilemmas 🩻 Psychological horror 🫀 Monster romance #BluePit #A #Q #H #SF #LGBT #OV

Moodboard with photos of scientific vials, holes, an x-ray of a skeleton, a wall with “Everyone Makes Mistakes” on it in capital white letters, plants growing in water, and a space theme. In the center the words “Unintended Designs” are written in rough red script. Moodboard was made in Canva.

R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Merge x Alice Isn't Dead My Sister's Stolen Soul features: 💚 An aro/ace MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend 🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer 🪽 A guardian angel willing to commit crimes 👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more 🚗 An epic road trip [ #BluePit #📖 #F #PN #SP #Q #OV #LGBT ]

An Agent's Guide for My Sister's Stolen Soul Adult Contemporary Fantasy * 78k words aro/ace flag, pansexual flag, disability flag, Sapphic flag, agender flag

For fans of The River has Roots (sisterly love transcending death) When the Angels left the Old Country (it/its angel goes on an adventure) Rules for Ghosting (mortician who sees ghosts) Here We Go Again (drama filled road trip) What's Left of Me (sharing a body with a sister)

Playlist Unity - Alan Walker Take My Soul - ZHU Girlfriend - Icona Pop Anything for You - Ludo Memento Mori - Will Wood Even In Death - Evanescence Lonely Day - System of a Down Back From The Dead - Halestorm You’re Somebody Else - Flora Cash I Don’t Wanna Die - Hollywood Undead Let Me Be Your Armor - Assemblage 23 Anthem of the Angels - Breaking Benjamin

Excerpt “Who are you?” she asks. “My name is Melody, I’m Lyra’s younger sister,” I say. “You two are identical.” I wish I could ask Lyra if she’s okay with Annie knowing everything. Better yet, I wish I could make her explain it. Her girlfriend, her problem. But I’m here alone, Annie is the one who saw Lyra last, and I want any information she can give me. It’s not like I could pretend I’m Lyra and ask why she ran out last night. I kind of need to tell her. I’ve never had to explain us. I don’t know where to start. It’ll be easier since she can already sense Lyra and I are different people. Somehow. But it’s still going to sound insane to a normal person. “I’m six years younger than Lyra. She died when we were kids, and I… I don’t know what I did but I saved her soul. I kept it.” I press my hand against my chest, careful to avoid the burn. “We’ve shared this body—my body—for over twenty years.”

Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 3w ago

When she picks the wrong pocket, Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from magehunters, mathematicians, and the governor herself. #BluePit #YA #F #LGBT #W #BluePit📖

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing:
1. Always have an escape plan.
2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud.
3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark.
4. Never get involved with golems.

The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right:
A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs.
B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow.
C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards.
D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn.
E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment.
F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game.
G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks.
H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · 3w ago

#BluePit📖 #Q #YA #SF #SP #TR #OV #LGBT #ND #bluepit When a trans faith healer flees his mother's cult, he joins forces with a paranormal forum moderator who caught a meteorite as they head to a UFO festival...until the cult closes in to capture their Chosen One. #amquerying

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 3w ago

N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · last mo.

Well, one of these times I'll be actually Actually on time instead of only a little late, but this was fun! You can check me out at nsowers.com, and read more about my in-progress series, some articles about writing and editing, and check out my first update post in quite a while

N. Sowers

Writer, Editor, and Beta Reader

nsowers.com

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerWritersChat Question Five: now to share about the contents! Self promo/outros! Interact, boost others, and feel free to answer the questions late! DO NOT promo until after you participated in the chat! Amara will be hosting next week! @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · last mo.

Lately it has been setting aside a certain amount of time to work on something, so I don't get stuck doing that all day. Especially when it comes to managing multiple writing projects, splitting my time between projects is easier when I set specific amounts of time.

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerWritersChat Question Four: What’re your favorite time management tips? Last question at :45! @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #timemanagement #timemanagementtips

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · last mo.

Probably the villain from Book 1, the Devil Gusion. He's immortal, for one, and since he got back in the contract game he's always working up some new scheme. He's definitely had eras of his life where he didn't do much, so he's making up for some lost time.

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerWritersChat Question Three: Which of you characters are the best at time management? Next question at :35! @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #timemanagement

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · last mo.

By having my current project constantly open, so most of my free time I'm working on something or other.

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · last mo.

#QueerWritersChat Question Two: How do you manage consistent writing time? Next question at :25! @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #timemanagement #writingtime

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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm on time this time! I'm N, working on edits for book two of a dark fantasy trilogy, where a himbo aspiring hero foolishly entering a death tournament to try to save his crush. I'm just about to start the third act

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · last mo.

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat! Let’s start by settling in! Introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on! No links, please! We’re saving those for the end. Next question at :15! @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · last mo.