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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 6h

So. Damn. Good.

Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 1d

Spookymonth continues apace! This week, two favorites return: M.L. Krishnan and Gemma Files. Yes, really. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! @emelkrishnan.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Head-and-shoulders red-tinged color photo of writer M.L Krishnan, a woman with light brown skin and straight, glossy hair pulled back. Her hair may be black or may be purple; the red light makes this a mystery. She wears large plastic-framed glasses, a red silk tank, gold earrings with ornate hearts hanging from sunburst decorated with red hearts, a gold ring in her septum and several gold rings on her fingers, red lipstick, and black cat-eye eyeliner. She rests her chin on one beringed hand, her face in three-quarter view, and regards the camera with a serious expression.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 14h

Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.

We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 14h

The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25

AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 2d

There's just 17 DAYS LEFT to back the 2026 Apex Magazine Kickstarter! We've been supporting outstanding authors writing strange, shocking, beautiful stories for 20 years...help us keep doing it for 20 more! 💜👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

"Only 3% to go until...Lesley and Rebecca host a Watch a Horror Movie with the Editors night!"

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 11h

so glad to be here with you!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 11h

your cover is truly unreal!

Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 12h

Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine sitting with the cool kids (@rachelharrison.bsky.social! @daphnefama.bsky.social! @benaldersonauthor.bsky.social!) at The Twisted Spine in Brooklyn.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 14h

This is the Clarence Mall location, for those wondering!

Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 14h

Fun night with a Buffalo-based horror book club at the Barnes & Noble with the largest, coolest horror section I’ve seen outside of a horror-specific bookstore. And visited this wicked Tell Me Yours end cap!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 15h

Get yours here if you like to get freaked out:

Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1 — Undertow Publications

A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year pays homage to, and builds upon, the critical success of its sibling predecessor,...

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 15h

Contributor copy’s arrived! Delighted to have “Kamchatka” (my story set on that far-off peninsula, where no one can hear you scream over the geysers’ relentless bubbling) in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year from @undertow.bsky.social.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, Rochester and western NY: looking for a bookish thing to do tomorrow (Thursday) evening? This'll be a fun time and you're so invited!

Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 5d

Rochester, NY! Come hang with me and Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine this Thursday, Oct. 16 at The Unreliable Narrator! With all the best parts of slumber parties (sleepover snacks, games, stories to tell in the dark) and none of the boring parts (actual sleeping) 💅🏼🍿🧸

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Setting aside graverobbing woman who died in no small part due to men exploiting her image, copyright violations aren't "growing pains." It's literally the law. They’re breaking the law. Without copyright law, there is no creative industry, and without a creative industry, there is no genAI.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 1d

Absolute dream speaking with @chelsead.bsky.social for @electricliterature.com about the great Dorothy Allison, the agency in body horror, my perpetual motion sickness, where people-pleasing gets dangerous, being your own absent babysitter, and more.

A Provocative Story Collection About Immigrants, Bodies Under Siege, and the Horror of Being Perceived - Electric Literature

Kristina Ten’s “Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine” gets spooky about girlhood

electricliterature.com

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 1d

People of DC, you really know how to take care of a girl! Four days of panels, readings, podcasts, and interviews in my publisher's hometown. Had so much fun chatting with you all and pretending I have what it takes to navigate DC traffic without having a nervous breakdown.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

🖤🖤🖤

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Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 2d

Check out this brilliant article.

And pick up a copy of Kristina’s amazing collection.

Don’t wait for me to finish writing my review go and get a copy now.

Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

Wrote about my biggest childhood fear for @gnofhorror.com! Plus: the all-too-permeable barrier of the human body, the beautiful dawn of air fryers, the rudest thing I’ve done with a shoe, and why I don’t want to get in that hot tub with you.

Kristina Ten: Childhood Fears: Fire Burn And Cauldron Bubble - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Kristina Ten shares how a childhood burn incident fuels her fascination with water and bodily vulnerability. Get her book today!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

madoccassia @madoccassia.bsky.social · 2d

Is there, like, an interregnum during which a book should be gracefully retired, until such time as it becomes "a classic, an artifact of its times"?

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

And if you're into all that, you're probably gonna be into this:

TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE - Buy Books - Stillhouse Press

By: Kristina Ten Categories: Paperback , Fiction Oct. 7, 2025 | ISBN: 978-1-945233-30-2

www.stillhousepress.org

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

If you're as into the dark underbelly of childlore as I am, you're gonna love this episode of @lorepodcast.bsky.social. Featuring the origins of cootie shots, the science behind Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, and other "growing pains"...

Lore 290: Growing Pains — Lore

Folklore can take many forms, but most involve words in a specific language. One exception, though, are the traditions passed down through a very different kind of communication. Narrated and produc...

www.lorepodcast.com

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

Bonus kid pic!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

Wrote about my biggest childhood fear for @gnofhorror.com! Plus: the all-too-permeable barrier of the human body, the beautiful dawn of air fryers, the rudest thing I’ve done with a shoe, and why I don’t want to get in that hot tub with you.

Kristina Ten: Childhood Fears: Fire Burn And Cauldron Bubble - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Kristina Ten shares how a childhood burn incident fuels her fascination with water and bodily vulnerability. Get her book today!

gnofhorror.com

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! And right?? I wish all book promo was just me digging through / getting lost in my listening history. Have yours bookmarked now to accompany this week's work. Blonde Redhead forever!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

☎️👻

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

the aol dial-up tone is my horror movie soundtrack...

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

oh man, thank you!! <3

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