One month left!! Submissions Open: Slapshots in Space & Magical Marathons! Sports-themed speculative fiction, submissions open now through Aug 31 Edited by: @lisatimpf.bsky.social , paulajohanson.bsky.social & Colleen Anderson. Submit on Duosoma: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Kobo's Travel the World promo is live! CA/US/UK/AU/NZ If you're in one of those regions, go to one of these links: www.kobo.com/p/travel-the... www.kobo.com/p/travel-the... Visit the Yukon in Canada with The Silent Places by me! Is your book in the sale? See one you recommend? Reply! No AI.

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Read "The Silent Places" by Skyla Dawn Cameron available from Rakuten Kobo. “Tightly paced, laser-focused, and scorchingly honest--I want to give this book to every woman I know.” - Lilith Saintcr...

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Visit exotic Edmonton with Marie Jenner! In this fast-paced paranormal mystery, amateur sleuth Marie Jenner tries--one more time with feeling--to pull her life together. The only problem? There's never a ghost around when you want one. www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

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Now, being me, I'm a little annoyed about something--I'd hoped to submit Livi Talbot because she literally TRAVELS THE WORLD...but the promo instructions said US/CA/UK/AU/NZ locations only. Disappointed, I only submitted TSP. Then the promo went live and look at that--actual WORLD locations!

So I knocked a buck off the boxsets if buying direct. Should you like to visit a cave in Ethiopia, the Mediterranean Sea, Australia, a mythical island of immortals in the Bohai Sea, the Himalayas, a jungle in Peru, or Hades itself...there you go! Or stay in Canada with The Silent Places & Waverly.

Skyla Dawn Cameron - On Sale

Writer of horror, thrillers, mysteries, and urban fantasy. Fifth-generation crazy cat lady. Lover of coarse language. Proud supporter of Unlikable Female Characters™. My characters kill people so I do...

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Regarding the Horror Writers Association (HWA) newsletter promoting AI usage, why why why do people keep using the term "gatekeepers" to describe those opposed to the use of LLMs in writing and art? The true gatekeepers are the billionaire tech bros whose companies push to normalize AI usage. 1/

Rick Moranis: Are You The Gatekeeper?

Alt: Rick Moranis: Are You The Gatekeeper?

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#joepyeweed #eutrochiummaculatum #pink #flowers #wildflowers #naturalbeauty #albertaplants #wildaboutflowers

#talljacobsladder #jacobsladder #polemonium #flowers #wildflowers #nativeplants #plantnursery

*adds to list "Waverly writes food reviews" next to @kristadb1.bsky.social's "Waverly reads reddit comments" story*

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks.bsky.social · 4h ago

--because I love those characters & want to spend time with them, even though I know whodunnit! (and this is why I so love Waverly Jones. She's a character I love & would read about her grocery trips--look, I've been trying to convince Skyla to write Waverly food reviews, lol)

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Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks.bsky.social · 4h ago

15. Recommend and review a book. Let me spread the good word about Waverly Jones, Private Investigator. She hates everyone. She is smart & competent. She thinks all the snarky things you wished you could say. Over arching series mystery is the serial killer who murdered her sister, but +

The only songs that don't need Bari Sax are songs that already have Bari Sax in them.

Warhammer Dan@jacketdan.bsky.social · 7h ago

Have a blessed day folks

I plan to back this (before I do, I need to pull out my list to ensure I have all the backlist I need/want) and I'm super excited. I love how the covers compliment each other, too, design-wise.

Air and Nothingness Press@aanpress.bsky.social · yesterday

The current AaN KS anthology just hit the 50% base goal mark within 4 hours. Amazed and gratified by the support. Campaign info here - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... (And this Friday, I'll reveal the TOC lineup for "A Second Cup") #kickstarter #booksky #KS #fsf #sff

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

me: i'm so exhausted. i can't believe it's only Tuesday. i looked at a computer 12 hours straight today and now i am going to sleep like the dead... my cat: HEY I FOUND MY TOY WITH THE JINGLE BELL IN IT AND AM SUDDENLY INTERESTED IN IT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS

"We searched the entyre internet!" What archivists heare: "We searched the entyre small airport bookeshoppe!"

Textes from Sisyphus: UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE 🪨

please i love rant--er, talking about books

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

Family of Alberta teen still seeking answers 50 years after her death If you had family who knew her, ask the questions again. It's amazing the things people remember or don't think are important. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Family of Alberta teen still seeking answers 50 years after her death

On the 50th anniversary of the death of an Alberta teen, RCMP are putting out a call for information about her killer.

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Michelle Manus@michellemanus.com · 4d ago

Been sitting on this until my physical copy arrived, but Fellow Humans, MY HUSBAND COMMISSIONED ME AN EXCLUSIVE WAVERLY STORY FROM @skyladawn.ca FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY. I have never received a better gift. I love it so much. And my husband. He is great also. No one has ever commissioned me art before.

Been sitting on this until my physical copy arrived, but Fellow Humans, MY HUSBAND COMMISSIONED ME AN EXCLUSIVE WAVERLY STORY FROM @skyladawn.ca FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY. I have never received a better gift. I love it so much. And my husband. He is great also. No one has ever commissioned me art before.

Please give Krista money, dark or otherwise, to write various IPs, she's promised to pay me to write two Waverly Jones books a year if she gets rich.

Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · 3d ago

Despite the accusations (by the Bells), I do not belong to the Dark Money IP Racist Cabal (tm pending). I just refuse to tolerate harassment, abuse, and the weaponization of identity to find new targets. (DMs are open for anyone wishing to hire me to write in certain IPs. I can provide a list) 1/2

Look, I don't want wealth to hoard it, I want wealth to be a Patron of the Arts.

Skyla Dawn Cameron@skyladawn.ca · 3d ago

...and b) I can write this character anywhere doing anything. You want Waverly Jones #23: The Butcher Takes Manhattan? How about Waverly Jones #39: Waverly Solves Crime in Space? I CAN DO THIS ALL DAY WITH FUNDING.

Since the song doesn't actually say anything specific about California girls, isn't it possible that what they're actually saying is "Since we live in California, we wish all these other kinds of girls also lived in California" implying that girls from California were actually not of interest?

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3d ago

has it really already been 40 years since I didn't see this in the theatre

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social · 2y ago

On August 1, 1986, Howard The Duck premiered in theaters. NEVER FORGET.

let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d ago

and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!

one of my favorite things in the world is when someone hates a generally mundane thing with the sort of white-hot wrath you normally reserve for someone who has murdered your whole family

Andy McKay@korimakoecology.bsky.social · 6d ago

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

Disastrous situation in Spokane, Wash. where a wildfire is burning through the northwest side of the city amid extreme dry winds. Gridlock traffic as emergency management rapidly expands evacuation zones eastward. Follow on @watchduty.org: share.watchduty.org/i/112554?ts=...

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