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Nebula and Ignyte Finalist • Reactor, Clarkesworld, Apex • DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE - NOW OUT! • DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE also OUT! • Codex • He/him • Brazilian author More: https://linktr.ee/renanbernardo1

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · Apr 29

🌌🚀 BOOK BIRTHDAY!

Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is finally out by Dark Matter Ink! It's available at the publishers website, Bookshop, Amazon, B&N, and more.

It's a short novella set in a doomed spaceship returning to Earth. For fans of dark SF and fast-paced thrillers in space.

A cover with a skull in an astronaut spacesuit with the tags dark space opera, sci-fi thriller, powerful narcotic, hostile planet, noir vibes, degenarete crew, doomed spaceship, and coup in a generational spaceship.

Front cover and back cover with synopsis and author bio, plus images for the main online Bookstores where the book is sold.

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 7h

Simultaneous Times Episode 92 is live! Featuring stories by @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social @fjbergmann.bsky.social and @eladhaber.bsky.social with music by TSG, Oneirothopter, & Phog Masheeen

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 5h

I didn't know there was a market for sh*tty translations and publishers interested in losing their money in the long run 🤯

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 5h

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

ebx.sh

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

I don't share AI slop on principle and because it's fascism's favorite aesthetic.

It's a plagiarism machine made of crimes.

Just don't.

(Also: it immediately degrades the quality of whatever you're saying in the minds of those who recognize it as slop. Which most people do.)

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 11h

Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle would smell of things rotten and no one would want to buy the book 🫤

(Blame that reckless crew)

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 20h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 11h

Congratulations!

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

Interstellar Megachef by @lavanya.bsky.social! 😁

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

I'm not sure. I think it might not have an specific date to end.

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

Hi Sev! Thank you!!! Unfortunately the publisher only made the digital version available at Amazon for now 😔 The physical copy is the only one that can be bought in other places.

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

Thanks, Phillip!!!

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 1d

A few days ago I received my first royalties payment for Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! 🖤 It's a great feeling. A few years ago I thought something like this (publishing a novella then getting paid for it) was impossible for me.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

Rare Earth always sounded to me less like chemical elements and more like how aliens refer to our beautiful, coveted planet

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

Same here! Still remember my home phone number from the 90s

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

I want to remind everyone that bell hooks is an author but hell books is probably a horror imprint

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

Congrats, Suyi!!!!

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 2d

You're gonna LOVE this darling sci-fi romance, out next Valentine's Day! Just wait until you see the cover...
@cornellwriter.bsky.social is awesome.

Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 2d

Be our Valentine! Not long until the cover reveal for Nebula finalist @cornellwriter.bsky.social’s SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL, out just in time for Valentine’s Day 2026! This retrofuturistic, sci-fi romance novelette will charm you to the moon and back.
#scifi #books #scifiromance #2026books

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

It is so beautiful, indeed! Olly Jeavons is a great artist! Thank you so much, Christian!!! Hope you enjoy it!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

Congrats, Gautam!!!! 🎉

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

Congratulations, Caroline!!!!

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 2d

Congrats to the Ignyte winners!!!!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3d

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/

2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...

ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 3d

Apex was one of the first pro markets I published in 2021, so it's deeply important to me as an author. But even far before that, Apex was already one of my top places for reading SFF.

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 14d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

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

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 3d

😍

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 3d

Isn't it? Feels so good!

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 3d

The book cover art is by Olly Jeavons and the beautiful audio version is narrated by Jessica Gurd. You can get your copy wherever books are sold online!

Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 3d

I want to take this moment to thank again everyone who has read it, rated or reviewed it! All the blurbers too, the Dark Matter team, and every support I had for this to happen, even in front of a number of hardships! So, thank you! This book is for you all 🖤

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