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#WritingCommunity reposts book publication news, great reviews, literary nominations & awards, and new work in journals, magazines & anthologies. Founded & curated by Rod Mannix. Also see: @rodmannix.bsky.social https://literaryretweet.com
Delighted to see that my @ckcufm.bsky.social interview with @joycuriosity.bsky.social is now up! This was a lot of fun. Susan is a charming and enthusiastic interviewer. cod.ckcufm.com/programs/666...
K. R. Wilson, Stan On Guard - A Two-Part Invention (Guernica, 2026) - The Lit Room - 2026-08-05
Join Susan for a conversation with author K. R. Wilson about his book Stan On Guard - A Two-Part Invention Description: Ishtanu (call him Stan) is a Hittite immortal keeping his head down in Toronto ...
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You're invited to this special edition of Writers Talk hosted by @bcwriters.bsky.social. To register, go to: www.bcwriters.ca/event-6770702 And join the party on Instagram on August 25 as I launch #TheAtlasKeeper #canlit #IReadCanadian #Writersky #writingcommunity #canadianauthors
Join us tomorrow to enjoy the words of Karen Downs-Barton, plus open mic. This is a free-to-attend event. www.ticketsource.com/gloucestersh... #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
Dreaded Tales: A Short Horror Story Collection latest review on Amazon. www.amazon.com/Dreaded-Tale...
Summer #Giveaway #Sale starts 8/5 #Download an Amazon #bestseller 4 FREE thru 8/9 #LimitedTimeOffer Don't miss out A collection of #shortstories 4 children aged 6 to 12 #Fantasy #magic #childrensbooks #bedtimereading #chapterbook A young girl on a quest amazon.com/dp/B08D6XH945
Dark fiction exploring the human condition. THE HANGING GIRL: family, domestic, psychological RED AGENDA: vampires, ticking clock, unlearning Amazon: shorturl.at/oGqBl Bookshop: bookshop.org/beta-search?... #HangingGirl #RedAgenda #horror #HorrorCommunity #Readers #BookSpotlight #BookCommunity
The Secret Diary of Eleanor Cobham: A young duchess is found guilty of sorcery and witchcraft. Centuries later her secret diary is discovered hidden under floorboards in Beaumaris Castle and her true story can be told. mybook.to/SecretDiary #HistoricalFiction #audiobooks
The bad guys are bad, but some of them are a little bit interesting. (some of them are also just clownish goons bc it turns out a lot of villains really are 2-dimensional buffoons. who knew?) books2read.com/book-Erosion mcburnell.itch.io/erosion
Especially cool to see Year's Best Canadian F&SF, Vol. 3 as a finalist for the World Fantasy Award (in addition to the Aurora Award). This book includes my story "Bright Horizons" which you can also find in my forthcoming collection. Huge congrats to @ourmankoto.bsky.social and all my TOC-mates.
P.A. Cornell (She/Her)@cornellwriter.bsky.social · yesterdayCongrats to all the World Fantasy finalists! 🎉
Reminder that the Toronto launch for THE ASTRONAUT AMONG THE FLOWERS is coming up soon. If you’re close enough to make it, I’d love to meet you in meatspace. Let’s do this! Rsvp below.
P.A. Cornell (She/Her)@cornellwriter.bsky.social · 3w agoAre you in or near Toronto? Join me at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on Aug 22 at 2pm for the launch of my collection (Book info threaded). There’ll be snacks and SWAG for all who attend. RSVP and reserve your book using the link. @starsandsabers.bsky.social www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/events/58652...
LIFE, DEATH, AND TRANSMUTATION is a charity fiction/poetry antho benefiting the Defenders of Wildlife, collecting work that explores the complex facets/forces of Nature. You'll find everything from the macabre to the mystical. Check out my story, "Air Strike in No Man's Land" books2read.com/u/mVGZqA
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Life, Death, and Transmutation: A Charity Anthology of Dark Poetry and Fiction by Alison Armstrong, Pixie Bruner, J. Rocky Colavito, Mawr Gorshin, Candice Louisa Daquin, Christina Guldi, Elad Haber,…
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amazon.com/dp/B0H75XNXVF New In 1969, Luke Miller is fourteen and lives with his mother at an old marina on the coast of South Carolina. Captain Miller died in Vietnam, nearly two years ago, but Luke still insists his father will come home when the war is over. When Connie ...
It’s here and it’s bl—dy gorgeous. Matte all the way for this stunning #scifibook cover! The paperback releases the same day as the ebook, with hardback to follow (matte??). Want to check out the preorder? Just 0.99 for the ebook until release. books2read.com/mercysgate #sciencefiction
I'll defer this week’s to the August 17 edition. Meanwhile, here’s where I'll be between now/then: ⭐ Fri Aug 7—West Sound Film Fest/remerton Zine Fest ⭐ Sat Aug 8—HWA table at the Stanwood Book Fest ⭐ Sun Aug 9—Puget Sound Book Fest ⭐ Fri Aug 14—The F Word limited series podcast debuts! [2/2]
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Companion media for the upcoming novel, TRUST FALL (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, September 2026)
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Today was an intense intersection of competing, time-sensitive interests linked to my upcoming book, podcast, garden, and health. Alas, I'll skip today's First Monday Substack; we may have 🤖 in '26, but we still don't have personal clones like Michael Keaton's in Multiplicity buff.ly/D3K8HaX [1/2]
I am happy to have 2 poems Fractals of Clarity and Our Talk in Alien Buddha Zine 90, the September edition. Congratulations to all contributors and brilliant editor Red. Alien Buddha Press (open for submissions) 🍉 ( @thealienbuddha ) / X
Newsflash! Not Quite Lost 60% off! Throughout August, the ebook of Not Quite Lost: Travels Without A Sense of Direction is available on Kobo at 60% off (at least!) in Canada, the US and the UK. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...? #sale #BookBoost
THE HIGH ISLAND - 'The sense of place is strong and the plot is as intriguing as ever – in The High Island Lin Anderson has worked her particular magic once more' — Alexander McCall Smith https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson #Orkney
📚✨Betrayal. Espionage. Secrets worth killing for. The Shadow Code — a WWII thriller featuring Lilian Wyles, Britain’s first woman chief inspector. Inspired by a true story. mybook.to/TheShadowCode #histfic #KU #Booktok #womensfiction #mystery #thriller
New Release. DRAGONS IN THEIR HEADS is an unusual contemporary thriller set in the Scottish Highlands - with dragons. More magical realism and mayhem from yours truly. The Kindle is 99p/c for a limited time. My 25 Kindles (free with KU), paperbacks, and audiobooks are on Amazon. bit.ly/4vmQloP
Whichever way you view it, I've published eight books 📚 a 4-series of memoirs, a survival story, a 2-series dark comedy thriller and tongue in cheek crime romp www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...
Interested in the complex relationship between Morocco, Spain and Algeria? Why not read This is not a Pipe? "The way in which David Jarvis writes is engaging and intelligent, with a dry humour to it ..." @hobeckbooks.bsky.social Amazon t.co/R31f6m7rhD
Sapphic Book Sale! $0.99 "See you a monster, Crawling from the sea? Hear only sorrow, For all that cannot be? Or see you such beauty Of an outstretched hand? And endless sweet tomorrows Dancing on the sand?" www.amazon.com/I-Volcano-Eu... #Sapphic #BookSale #MermaidLore
Waiting for Margarette To Return by Jim Harrington jpharrington.blogspot.com #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writing #writerslift #microfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/wait...
Waiting for Margarette To Return - Free Flash Fiction
Chester occupied the lone chair in Margarette’s room in the long term care facility. His wife of fifty-two years lay on the bed next to him, slowly melting away. The doctor told Chester his bride of f...
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