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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social

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queer non-binary SFFH writer. ace/aro. ADHD. they/them. author of THE WOLF AMONG THE WILD HUNT | SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROBOT | & more coming https://ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor https://linktr.ee/mercfennwolfmoor

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 16d

SO. Remember back in the mists of time I talked about the haunted dollhouse starring in a horror visual novel (jam)?

BEHOLD! "Don't Go Into the Dollhouse" is done!

(It's alive... alive!!!!)

Written w/ @howsweetthewords.bsky.social & all visuals done by me!

mercsanchan.itch.io/dont-go-into...

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 7h

I’m especially mad that newer or less experienced writers who may not have the knowledge of what’s professional and acceptable will get worse contracts (out of no fault of their own) because MRM wants to grift writers, I mean, look at what pros have to fight though right now with this company…

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Aralyn Darkwhisper @aralyndarkwhisper.bsky.social · 7h

Tried out one of @palaeosinensis.com's mask patterns with some modifying of the ears for my own sona with @sugarmouse.bsky.social today!

Was super fun to make and figure out how everything connected 😂

Highly recommend checking them out!!

www.paleopanthera.com/masks

#art #mask #animal #cat

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 7h

And what if… I put googly eyes on the potatoes… 👀👀

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 7h

I really like wanna set out potatoes as well as candy for Halloween this year 👀🥔

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9h

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

Props to Benjamin for sharing the details of his contract. Unfortunately no props to MRM because there's a lot of extremely outre stuff in here that I'd refuse to sign. Let's run it down. (Context: If you're negotiating a contract with Strange Horizons, I'm the person you're negotiating with.)

Benjamin C. Kinney @benjaminckinney.com · 2d

New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher.

Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.

benjaminckinney.com/analog-negot...

Analog Negotiations & Short Story Sale: Recognition, Memory » Benjamin C. Kinney - still pruning...

Successful negotiations with Must Read Magazines & Analog SF, who will publish my science fiction short story "Recognition, Memory."

benjaminckinney.com

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 8h

Thrilled to reveal the cover to my PS Publishing collection 101 Things to Do Before You’re Downloaded (And Other Advice From the Day After Tomorrow). The art and design are by the always amazing Chris Kalb, who also created Eating the Fantastic's podcast icon. A pre-order link will be coming soon!

A 3-D view of the book, showing both cover and spine, with title as mentioned in the status. It's in pastel pinks, purples, blues, and yellows. The bottom of the cover shows the skyline of a futuristic city from which a rocket zooms and goes into orbit parallel with the subtitle. Vertical along the right side of the cover is a digitized human form rising up from the city and wrapped in an atomic nucleus.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 13h

he has an iron-clad stomach, this child could eat anything and be unaffected 😂

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Congrats!!!

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👀👀👀

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 1d

So I am writing a gnarly cannibal cult on a space station short story set in the MOTHERSHIP game world for @mothership.bsky.social / @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com 's MEGADAMAGE magazine that will be available here

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

I was not expecting him to surprise! Eat my food 😂 usually he only wants chicken or tuna

Guess this recipe is Tots approved

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Tots decided to raid my mac & cheese 😂 (sound up for slurp slurp slurp sounds)

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Oof yeah…

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 1d

This is the wonderful cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social for the October issue of The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com—for which I had the great pleasure of being the fiction guest editor!—with stories by Malena Salazar Maciá, Testimony Odey, Erin Ulm, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, Kat Sedia, and Scott Payne

$The cover of The Deadlands Issue 40, Fall 2025. Subtitled "a journal of ends and beginnings". Author names on the cover are Maciá, Biscotti, Odey, Ross, Ulm, Wollin, Amado, Pearce, Lemberg, Sedia, Romano, and Payne. The cover art shows a fractured red sky, maze-like with golden fissures, surrounds a golden skull at the top of a long, golden path awaiting a lone figure.$

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 1d

In some ways it's easier to have a lot in the pipeline, because then the odds are higher that you have something on hand when a window opens up for thirty-two minutes while a passing seagull is in Sagittarius.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah i legit love writing short fiction!! That’s why I keep doing it lol but MAN it sucks to try and find places to SEND it when there’s more than, like, one story ready to go (and even then) 😭

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Fingers crossed that they give ‘em to you! 😭😭😭😭

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

UGH i am so sorry, friend, I’ve had sinus infection that resulted in teeth pain /headache but no nasal drip and it was THE WORST 😭

Antibiotics solved it for me but idk other solutions

I DO hope you can get it fixed and get some rest soon 🖤

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

*shakes fist at clouds*

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 1d

Cat update: He only ate one of his two usual meals yesterday & ate it very slowly, a few bites at a time. And today he only had three bites of breakfast. So we're taking him in to our usual vet this afternoon for a checkup

Send good vibes and also, if you can, money

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, plus expensive!

It’s wild how fast things pivoted with digital, when you think about it

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 1d

There’s still some sorrow for how things are nonetheless and I think that’s okay.

Everything changes; sometimes the changes aren’t what we hoped for but we keep going and pressing for changes we WANT and changes that make things better.