🌀 FRAGMENTED COVER REVEAL 🌀 It's time for the last of Nerezia's Disc One covers. Look at this glorious work from @isthiseva.bsky.social Look at Horace's face, at the incredible colours, at the sheer epic. I'm just SO excited for it (and the novella). Out Oct. 9: buy.bookfunnel.com/1qrmihljix

Our penultimate Saturday panel during The Big Indie Weekend will be Marketing For Introverts, Alex S. Bradshaw will be moderating the chat, so bring your questions for Steven Pannett, LL MacRae, Trudie Skies and GJ Terral! #indiebooks #authorevent #writingcommunity #indieauthorcommunity

The Reagan Administration committed genocide against all the gay men of my generation. Of all the gay men I called friends in the late 70s and early 80s, only two survived to see the 90s. Of the gay men in my high school class only one survived to our 50th reunion.

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 20h ago

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

Lovely news: The Butcher’s Daughter has been nominated for Newfoundland’s Killick Capital Fiction Award. Congrats to @corinneleighclark.bsky.social @sohopress.bsky.social and me 🖤

New review - a revenge heist that morphs into more, a ragtag of misfits, things are not simple.

Jamedi@jamreads.com · 2d ago

A Complement of Scoundrels, by S. V. Lockwood (pub by @binderybooks.bsky.social) is a superb heist fantasy story that morphs into something bigger while still keeping a witty tone that suits it so well. A debut that I strongly recommend. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/a-co... 💙📚

Want to do some judging for SFINCS 4. Sign ups are open. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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#booksky #writingcommunity Judging teams for SFINCS4 are being assembled! Would you like to be part of one? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Darlings and darklings, Nathan just needs 70 to make rent!! BY TOMORROW! Boost if you can't donate! Let's not let our homies struggle! We're all in this nonsense together.

Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter)@nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 2d ago

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Why is this underwater weasel also a hotdog? And other questions that occur when one is playing Pokopia without knowing any pokemon after the first generation

Last chance to apply to judge for the SFINCS indie novella contest!: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Dhiyanah is an amazingly talented artist and their rates are very reasonable! Check them out if you have artwork to commission!

Dhiyanah@bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 4d ago

🌈 Portfolio updated 🌈 Accepting illustration and cover art project proposals for 2027. Early bookings required! I also have art shops and pieces available for licensing via inquiry. All info and contact forms through here: 🌹 bydhiyanah.carrd.co 🌻 hirehumanartists.com/listing/dhiy...

Seure the Tempered is part of this week's Sapphic Book Bingo for autistic characters! Seure is actually AAA: Agender, Autistic, and Ace! Pick up a kinky Arthuriana romance today: jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book... Non-AMZ: riengray.itch.io/seure-the-te... Paperback: riengray.shop/b/O2bRa

I’m a funny guy, but everytime i write a story for BSQ it’s brings out my serious. Especially the norsical ones The Last Stand of Sister Sigyn in the Space Western issue brings all those words with a bang. www.boundaryshockquarterly.com/book/35-spac...

Thank you! Congrats on the film option! My newest novella is a Labyrinth-inspired quest through eternal forest. Not horror if you're a horror reader; maybe a touch scary if you're a cozier. Bugs and man-eating sentient plants and quicksand etc. Creatures! Az or www.jms-books.com/come-away-ag...

Thank you! "Even gods die." ISLAND OF THE BABOON GOD is retro dark fantasy, brutal sword and sorcery goodness in a novella. What horrors wait on the cursed island of Papiodyas? There's only one way to find out... vincentlore.itch.io/freyjrulf-1 www.kobo.com/en/ebook/isl...

Thanks Gabino. Promoting a Parch Marks, which came out last week. #FridayReads bsky.app/profile/anna...

Anna Orridge@anna-orridge.bsky.social · 5d ago

My author copies arrived 🩶💛 Thank you @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social Like archaeology, the city of York, the Bronze Age and speculation about our climate altered future? Order link: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Jen Donohue is a very talented author!

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 4d ago

thanks Gabino! It's preorder time (already!) for Run With the Hunted 9: Extraction Point coming October 31! books2read.com/RunWiththeHu...

Love this, thanks! I'm releasing a Gothic horror novella on October 13! Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6PC6JJJ Signed copies available soon: curiousandcrow.etsy.com

The Ghost of Hightower Pond

Cordelia Delacroix has only been in London for a season when plague strikes. Desperate to escape both the plague and her declining financial situation, she accepts a mysterious invitation to join a pa...

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#WIPSnips - "Exhaust" From The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, my queer horror comedy about cryptid-hunting YouTubers. From early in the book, when things were still (relatively?) peaceful. 😅

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 4d ago

The #WIPSnips word for September 11th is "exhaust" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Oh! Thought it was Thursday, so first, thanks a bunch for the reality check! Second, new book on the way: bsky.app/profile/horr...

Joe Koch@horrorsong.blog · 4d ago

Today is the last day to get 25% off of all B&N preorders. While you're picking out new books, please consider adding my forthcoming and perhaps my best, Dead Boys Don't Cry. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-boys-...

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Calliope Street by Josh Hanson — Moonstruck Books

A new psychedelic horror novel by author Josh Hanson

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Thanks Gabino! I've got a new liminal horror novelette out this week - and it's FREE! If it sounds like your cup of tea and you're in the mood for a pre-Halloween read, you can grab THE TOMMY at the Nefarious Bat store this week

The Tommy: A Liminal Horror Novelette

When she opened her mouth to bare her teeth, I saw a polar desert, cold as eternity…It’s a hot summer night in 1998 when Joey gets the call: his brother Shane’s been in an accident, a bad one, and Joe...

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Thanks! Welcome to Cemetery is a police procedural with dark disappearances & murders for a crime thriller/horror feel See what happens when two detectives are faced with a constant stream of emergencies, keeping the investigation from getting off the ground On KU! books2read.com/u/b5Kn0l

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. The novel that started it all for me here and in France, launched barrio noir, and became my first film option is just $2.99 right now! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D8...

This is the only kind of AI I’m interested in seeing in my lesbian fiction danifinn.itch.io/terra-flux

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Shiraki Press@shirakipress.com · 4d ago

Y'all. I just realized that the Barnes & Noble pre-order sale applies to Light & Earth & Marrow by @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social too. 😅 It releases in 12 days! Don't wait! Order it now for $14.25 and get it just in time for the witching season. It's mostly cozy and just a little horror.

Thank you! I got my author copies of Parch Marks and decided to do a marketing today. #SFFChat bsky.app/profile/anna...

Anna Orridge@anna-orridge.bsky.social · 5d ago

My author copies arrived 🩶💛 Thank you @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social Like archaeology, the city of York, the Bronze Age and speculation about our climate altered future? Order link: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

#SFFChat Q4: I think it really depends on the book! My epic fantasy, The Wings of Ashtaroth, is light on humour but does have funny moments. There are some absurd bits tucked in there, along with some funny references (one's to the Nightmare VHS boardgame if anyone else remembers that 🤣). TETK

SFFChat@sffchat.bsky.social · 4d ago

#SFFChat Q4: Share a funny line or snippet from your work OR answer how you approach humour in your own work?

#SFFChat Q2: I forgot to answer this one! Honestly, it depends on the execution more than anything! Tiernan's answer made me realize that I typically need a comedy to have a meaty story alongside the humour. Books that are gag after gag with nothing else going on tend not to work so well for me.

SFFChat@sffchat.bsky.social · 4d ago

#SFFChat Q2: As a reader, do you have any favourite comedic approaches in SFF (e.g. satire, camp, serious books that nonetheless include humour, etc)? What about least favourite? (no specific authors--that's Q3!)

#SFFChat Q3: I have a lot! I really love what I've read from K. J. Parker, and Nicholas Eames and Tim Carter are both great.

SFFChat@sffchat.bsky.social · 4d ago

#SFFChat Q3: FINALLY! Name a favourite comedic SFF author (or a regular SFF author whose humour you enjoy).