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Adria Bailton
@adriabailton.com
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Author of SFF/H, published most recently at Pulp Lit Mag, Worlds of Possibility, The Colored Lens,
queer, ND, she/they
Member of SFWA, Codex
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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 10d
WORLDS DIVIDE is currently "read now" on NetGalley! That means if you have a NetGalley account, you can download it now! (You know how to find it!)

Traveling to parallel worlds is a drag. Except when you meet a hottie.
An ereader with WORLDS DIVIDE Adria Bailton and a galley cover with NetGalley scrawled in a column in green ink on a piece of paper.
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In June, The Colored Lens published my story "Spoons" online! You can read it free now!

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Spoons – The Colored Lens
I stared at the tiny, shiny, silver spoon in the well-wrapped solstice box wishing we’d just gone to the semi-annual Solstice Ball at Castle Ever After instead of exchanging gifts first.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Apologies to the other #MelsNoWriMo s. Am somewhat sick and desire only sleep. Will muscle through the last days. Promise.
Maybe with a few fresh tunes from your playlist?
(fair warning: this grama doesn't have spotify😅)
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: Is there a playlist for the story? Wanna share? 👂
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I have much to be thankful this year. I'd be even more thankful for folks to read my YA sci-fi issues book debut, Worlds Divide. It's on NetGalley as 'read now' for a few more days and by request for December.

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Worlds Divide
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley…
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November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Day 27 #MelsNoWriMo Is there a playlist for the story?

You betcha! Two links, depending on the listener's prefered app:

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Have you read?

Hamaka, Leave Me Alone by Testimony Odey at The Deadlands

A poem of a choice between life and death.

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Hamaka, Leave Me Alone - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Like a fugitive thing transmorphing, you are alive with a sea of names. Bianonyerem. Stay with me. An impossible plea. Chimamanda. My chi will never fail me. It did.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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While waiting for Stranger Things season 5 to drop, started a rewatch of season 1.

Now finishing the season, possibly doing a full rewatch because I have forgotten a lot.
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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How do you name your characters? Throwing darts? Research? Vibes? 👀

#MelsNoWriMo
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: How do you name your characters? 👀
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Day 26 #MelsNoWriMo How do you name your characters?

Nina's name came from an anagram generator because her original name got used in a very famous book published 15 years or more after I thought of it, and I didn't want to look like I was copying.
A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Have you read?

The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn by Louise Hughes at kaleidotrope

Facing fears.

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“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
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November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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If your story was a meal, how'd that look? One course? Many? Fancy? With friends?

#MelsNoWriMo
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 🤤
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I am back for #MelsNoWriMo and see you had fun without me. Yay. That's the plan.
So for today, was there something in your story that caught you by surprise? A plot twist, character trait, the Spanish Inquisition?
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: Twist/something in your story you didn't see coming? 😵
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Another week of #MelsNoWriMo ends.
Wanna share a snippet? 👀
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: Snippet time! 🥳
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The 2026Debuts has a Goodreads list! As debut books show up on Goodreads, conscientious debut writers add each other to the list. When I took these screenshots, Worlds Divide was the most recent add, but I know there will be more!

Punch that "Want to Read" button on all of these.

Part 1.
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I think this one should be up for awards, so if you haven't read it and read for Hugo, Locus, and Nebulas, give this one a go!
elizmanderson.com E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · 2d
it's awards season, and my queer cozy fantasy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS is eligible for a Hugo, a Locus, and a Nebula!

there's a brief book description in the post, or you can click this link: www.elizmanderson.com/keeper-of-lo...

#author
The Keeper of Lonely Spirits: awards eligibility. Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and Nebula Award for Best Novel. Text is in a translucent text box against a background of yellow flowers in the sunset, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits to the right. The cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome..." An old man cursed with immortality hunts ghosts rather than making mortal friends who will die one day. When residents of an Ohio town beset by a vengeful spirit adopt him as their own, he must decide: leave to protect his heart, or stay to save their lives? Text is in a translucent text box against a background of yellow flowers in the sunset, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits to the right. The cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome..."
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Day 25 #MelsNoWriMo If your story was a food/meal, what would it be?

Food plays an important role in Worlds Divide. I think the food it would be is deeply personal to the reader. It would be something home cooked reminding you of someone beloved who you lost long ago.
A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Have you read?

Sleeping Defiant by Emmie Christie at Disabled Tales

A poem about a bear. But only about a bear?

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Sleeping Defiant by Emmie Christie
Inside the dead of winter Curls a fiery soul A little bear that sleeps defiant Waiting out the cold.   She does not let it press her Or file down her teeth, The wind of sorrow whipping ‘round Is...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Day 24 #MelsNoWriMo Twist! Something in the story you didn't see coming.

I thought I knew this story so well since it's been with me for so long. This story wasn't meant to have a character in it, but he always bursts in like BigBirdKickingDownDoor.gif
A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I have a couple of days off of day job later this week. I'll probably get my newsletter out then. Subscribe now to get all the latest info on my debut, fellow debuts, short story recs, and a cute puppy photo!

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November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Have you read?

With Nothing Left by Emma Burnett at Small Wonders

A story of caring beyond ...

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With Nothing Left - Small Wonders
I buy us some printed burgers. One for you, two for me, because you like me soft, for comfort, and this body needs to eat to keep the padding fed, all wrapped around and through the metal subframe.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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‪Looking for a weekend read? The Far Time Incident, the first book in my time travel series, is a BookBub Featured Deal today – grab it for just $0.99 on Kindle!
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#timetravel #sff #sciencefiction #scifi #Pompeii #history #mystery #Books #fiction #Booksky #BookBub
Promo graphic for The Far Time Incident by Neve Maslakovic. The book cover shows three silhouettes falling into the gray smoke of an erupting volcano. “The door to my office flew open with a bang. Julia—the professor—he’s been scattered across time!” Book 1 of a completed three-book series. Time travel, history, and mystery. A red badge in the lower corner says $0.99 on Kindle. The background is vintage, weathered paper with clock imagery.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Day 23 #MelsNoWriMo Snippet time!

Today's snippet is from somewhere in the middle of my story. It references a book I was reading during one of my rewrites and edits. Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire) is one of my favorite authors. I like paying her homage by referencing one of her books, however oblique
The cover for Into the Drowning Deep with the line "Between lines about people-eating Sirens, I slipped." A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Today's throwback story rec is Seen Small Through Glass by Premee Mohammed at Fireside Fiction (2022) firesidefiction.com/seen-small-t...
Seen Small Through Glass
My upper lip was oozing sweat like syrup and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Thinking that months from now, someone would interview me in jail and I’d say...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I know I just posted last night, but I'm deep in book promotion and all the promotions. Feeling a big like Magenta "I'm lucky, you're lucky, we're all lucky!"

Anyway, come be lucky on my Discord server!

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Join the Stories Across Worlds Discord Server!
Check out the Stories Across Worlds community on Discord - hang out with 35 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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I cannot do a third movie tonight, so I'm going to miss out. But starting next weekend, I'm going to try to make this again. Life has settled for a bit at least.

My partner looked Pandorum up. Apparently Pandorum bankrupted the company that made it.

#horrorwatch
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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ALL RIGHT! ARE YOU READY, #HorrorWatch?
It's time! Time to press

PLAYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Pandorum (2009)
Two astronauts awaken from hypersleep on a derelict ship with no memory—only the sense they’re not alone, as the vessel’s secrets turn deadly.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM