C.H. Pearce
@chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
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It’s nearing the end of the year somehow, time for my annual blog post (this is why I can’t have a newsletter) + small awards eligibility post! Drop me a line and I’ll happily send you an e-copy! ❤️ Might have 1 more story out by the end of the year…
www.chpearce.net/post/awards-...
www.chpearce.net/post/awards-...
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Just a few days left to get your 2025 Aurealis Awards entries in!
The Aurealis Awards close to 2025 entries this Sunday, November 30. Check out the updated entries list and make sure you get all your eligible work entered before the deadline!
The Aurealis Awards close to 2025 entries this Sunday, November 30. Check out the updated entries list and make sure you get all your eligible work entered before the deadline!
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November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Just a few days left to get your 2025 Aurealis Awards entries in!
The Aurealis Awards close to 2025 entries this Sunday, November 30. Check out the updated entries list and make sure you get all your eligible work entered before the deadline!
The Aurealis Awards close to 2025 entries this Sunday, November 30. Check out the updated entries list and make sure you get all your eligible work entered before the deadline!
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I've made another round of updates and additions to the eligibility and recommendations link post. Please do keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I've made another round of updates and additions to the eligibility and recommendations link post. Please do keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
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Stuck in place you don’t want to be this Thanksgiving? I got you! Like every year, I can be your boss, angry/needy boyfriend, friend in trouble, the mob, or whatever you need on the phone. Also happy to yell at your racist uncle. Price? Purchase a copy of this beauty! Rescue and a book, baby.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Stuck in place you don’t want to be this Thanksgiving? I got you! Like every year, I can be your boss, angry/needy boyfriend, friend in trouble, the mob, or whatever you need on the phone. Also happy to yell at your racist uncle. Price? Purchase a copy of this beauty! Rescue and a book, baby.
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Check out the Dark Matter Black Friday sale (11/26-11/30) & support a great indie press! Lots of my favorite authors are on sale, plus signed copies of my books are $9.99 (incl FROST BITE), and you can preorder COLD SNAP at a discount!
Treat yourself and shop indie, babes🖤
darkmattermagazine.shop
Treat yourself and shop indie, babes🖤
darkmattermagazine.shop
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Check out the Dark Matter Black Friday sale (11/26-11/30) & support a great indie press! Lots of my favorite authors are on sale, plus signed copies of my books are $9.99 (incl FROST BITE), and you can preorder COLD SNAP at a discount!
Treat yourself and shop indie, babes🖤
darkmattermagazine.shop
Treat yourself and shop indie, babes🖤
darkmattermagazine.shop
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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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My debut novel I’M THE UNDERTOW is now up on Netgalley!
It’s a story about guilt, grief and the unexpected places we go to find redemption.
Request away! 🙋🏽♀️🙋🏻♂️
#netgalley #fiction #debut @netgalley.bsky.social
It’s a story about guilt, grief and the unexpected places we go to find redemption.
Request away! 🙋🏽♀️🙋🏻♂️
#netgalley #fiction #debut @netgalley.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My debut novel I’M THE UNDERTOW is now up on Netgalley!
It’s a story about guilt, grief and the unexpected places we go to find redemption.
Request away! 🙋🏽♀️🙋🏻♂️
#netgalley #fiction #debut @netgalley.bsky.social
It’s a story about guilt, grief and the unexpected places we go to find redemption.
Request away! 🙋🏽♀️🙋🏻♂️
#netgalley #fiction #debut @netgalley.bsky.social
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The Night Ship is fishing up some happy netgalley reviews. Someone called it fun, and Publisher's Weekly called it an "unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller", and that is everything I wanted.
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
The Night Ship
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 comm...
www.netgalley.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Night Ship is fishing up some happy netgalley reviews. Someone called it fun, and Publisher's Weekly called it an "unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller", and that is everything I wanted.
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
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Our editor Jolie Toomajan went on The Night Librarian to talk about pulp, editing, and what makes a successful story from the slush pile! Listen here: https://bit.ly/4oYof0T
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our editor Jolie Toomajan went on The Night Librarian to talk about pulp, editing, and what makes a successful story from the slush pile! Listen here: https://bit.ly/4oYof0T
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i always follow up with, “this is what public libraries are for, ppl. and libraries pay authors."
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
i always follow up with, “this is what public libraries are for, ppl. and libraries pay authors."
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Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills
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Join us DECEMBER 5, 2025 at 7 PM for Goodbye World Ball, a live-streamed, interactive release party for Kathe Koja's DARK MATTER, book 3 in the Dark Factory series. With Kathe Koja & special guests and giveaways!!
https://smpl.is/aefsk
@Kathe Koja
https://smpl.is/aefsk
@Kathe Koja
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Join us DECEMBER 5, 2025 at 7 PM for Goodbye World Ball, a live-streamed, interactive release party for Kathe Koja's DARK MATTER, book 3 in the Dark Factory series. With Kathe Koja & special guests and giveaways!!
https://smpl.is/aefsk
@Kathe Koja
https://smpl.is/aefsk
@Kathe Koja
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"Who Moved My Cheese" is a book about people who tell their saddest stories to a wheel of cheddar, to find out who can provoke the most overwhelming emotional reaction
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Who Moved My Cheese" is a book about people who tell their saddest stories to a wheel of cheddar, to find out who can provoke the most overwhelming emotional reaction
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Graphic design skills I do not possess, as evidenced by this free template I selected because the other free templates kept crashing...
Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨
Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Graphic design skills I do not possess, as evidenced by this free template I selected because the other free templates kept crashing...
Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨
Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨
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In a time of slop, AI or not, it’s time to lean into niche communities and odd work by passionate weirdos with well-honed clarity of intention and craft
This is so relevant to my day-to-day thinking at @hubcitypress.bsky.social. instead of being demoralized and saying, let AI do all the publishing work and pump out more slop to boost sales, our new focus is carefully curated + clearly human created. Hence the focus on short stories, novellas, etc.
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In a time of slop, AI or not, it’s time to lean into niche communities and odd work by passionate weirdos with well-honed clarity of intention and craft
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graphic design is my passion, and also I’ve got three eligible works this awards cycle. Two novels, one novella, pick your poison.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
graphic design is my passion, and also I’ve got three eligible works this awards cycle. Two novels, one novella, pick your poison.
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All great stories share one special ingredient. Epic Fantasy? Steamy Romance? Hard SciFi? Look carefully and you'll find it: someone getting hit with a briefcase full of bees.
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
All great stories share one special ingredient. Epic Fantasy? Steamy Romance? Hard SciFi? Look carefully and you'll find it: someone getting hit with a briefcase full of bees.
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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
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I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
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Also, if you happen to use Notepad and don't want AI enabled in it (WTF?), go to Settings -> scroll to the bottom -> turn off the AI option.
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Also, if you happen to use Notepad and don't want AI enabled in it (WTF?), go to Settings -> scroll to the bottom -> turn off the AI option.
Rat update! Difficult to get a non-blurry photo of all 3 as they are v busy! We’ve had them for a month now and they have grown a lot 🐀 🐀 🐀
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Rat update! Difficult to get a non-blurry photo of all 3 as they are v busy! We’ve had them for a month now and they have grown a lot 🐀 🐀 🐀
Catching up on one of my fav writing podcasts Going Prose and I’m in this season talking about cons along with amazing writers & fans @aciddropwriting.bsky.social @cztacks.bsky.social Lee Cope, Narelle M. Harris, Stephanie Wood Franklin, Alex Delamer, and Heather Anne Palmer!
cztacks.com/podcast
cztacks.com/podcast
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Catching up on one of my fav writing podcasts Going Prose and I’m in this season talking about cons along with amazing writers & fans @aciddropwriting.bsky.social @cztacks.bsky.social Lee Cope, Narelle M. Harris, Stephanie Wood Franklin, Alex Delamer, and Heather Anne Palmer!
cztacks.com/podcast
cztacks.com/podcast
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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As it is November, I have made the annual Awards Eligibility Post, in case you want to like, nominate me for things.
www.marievibbert.com/award-eligib...
www.marievibbert.com/award-eligib...
Award Eligibility Post for 2025 – Marie Vibbert, author
www.marievibbert.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
As it is November, I have made the annual Awards Eligibility Post, in case you want to like, nominate me for things.
www.marievibbert.com/award-eligib...
www.marievibbert.com/award-eligib...
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Nonfiction and reprint submissions open in ONE WEEK! MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 @ 12:01am ET! No need to rush to the front of the line: we're currently planning to stay open to reprints/nonfiction year-round. Spread the word! We can't wait to read your work!
📝Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
othersidespec.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nonfiction and reprint submissions open in ONE WEEK! MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 @ 12:01am ET! No need to rush to the front of the line: we're currently planning to stay open to reprints/nonfiction year-round. Spread the word! We can't wait to read your work!
📝Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/