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C. S. E. Cooney
@csecooney.bsky.social
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World Fantasy Award-winning author of SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER & BONE SWANS. Audiobook narrator. Bandcamp: Brimstone Rhine. Repped by RHA Literary. https://linktr.ee/csecooney
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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 8d
Carlos Hernandez and I are running our GM-less collaborative TTRPG NEGOCIOS INFERNALES this weekend at @officialpax.bsky.social—
Friday 10-2, 2-6, and Saturday 10-2, 2-6. Find us at GAMES ON DEMAND! Rooms 106 and 107, off the Arch Street entrance of Philadelphia Convention Center!
Alt text for poster: Poster graphic for NEGOCIOS INFERNALES at PAX UNPLUGGED. Black and White image of a card back: an alien on one side, a queen in renaissance-era garb on the other. The text reads Friday 10-2, 2-6, and Saturday 10-2, 2-6. 2-4 players. 4 hours. Teen +. Run by the designer. “The Spanish Inquisition interrupted by aliens! Players play wizards who think they have sold their to the aliens in exchange for weird powers. They quest on behalf of Reina Resoluta to save Espada—or, depending on the luck of the draw, just to save their own skins. The core of the game is the “Deck of Destiny,” a custom deck of 70 cards that the players interpret to determine success, failures, and your fate. A GM-less, story-forward game that’s great for new role players and old hands alike.”
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csecooney.bsky.social
i think cover illustrator’s names should go ON the covers, with the author’s name. People pick up my book BECAUSE of Kate Forrester. I think this should be standard—in books as in magazines.
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Kate Forrester: @csecooney.bsky.social ‘s SAINT DEATH'S HERALD

Charlotte Strick: @artofelaineho.bsky.social CRY VOIDBRINGER (design adjusted for the UK version by Sam Gretton)

Stephanie Hess: @harleylaroux.bsky.social 's HER SOUL TO TAKE
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November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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csecooney.bsky.social
Oops I fell into this shop again and bought some stuff but not as much as I wanted

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social! MY ONE WEAKNESS!
peculiarityshop.bsky.social The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 12h
Good morning and welcome to a thread of everything that Meg (me) would buy if they (I) had unlimited funds. ✨✨✨

www.peculiarityshop.com
PECULIARITY SHOP
HANDMADE JEWELRY AND GIFTS BY DIVERSE PEOPLE FOR DIVERSE PEOPLE.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
I'm going to a museum today so I, too, will direct you to some things I love before I go.

Shivaniiii. How dare you. $26

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Shiv's Wings of Glory | Peculiarity Shop
Wings to carry you into your dreams Components: Polymer clay, gold plated square hoop studs Lead/Nickel Free
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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ghostlyverse.bsky.social
INTERVIEW: LindaAnn LoSchiavo on Turning Caregiving into Creative Expression in "Cancer Courts My Mother" (Prolific Pulse Press, Nov. 2025).
#FormalVerse
@prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @bookspotlight.bsky.social
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LindaAnn LoSchiavo on Turning Caregiving into Creative Expression
Have you ever wondered whether a childhood annoyance—like clunky greeting-card rhymes—could shape an entire artistic life? This interview reveals how such moments transformed LindaAnn’s creative pa…
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November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
Oops I fell into this shop again and bought some stuff but not as much as I wanted

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social! MY ONE WEAKNESS!
peculiarityshop.bsky.social The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 12h
Good morning and welcome to a thread of everything that Meg (me) would buy if they (I) had unlimited funds. ✨✨✨

www.peculiarityshop.com
PECULIARITY SHOP
HANDMADE JEWELRY AND GIFTS BY DIVERSE PEOPLE FOR DIVERSE PEOPLE.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Good morning and welcome to a thread of everything that Meg (me) would buy if they (I) had unlimited funds. ✨✨✨

www.peculiarityshop.com
PECULIARITY SHOP
HANDMADE JEWELRY AND GIFTS BY DIVERSE PEOPLE FOR DIVERSE PEOPLE.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
Our friends Down Under at New Dawn Publishing have revealed Michaela Alcaino's STUNNING cover for THE HIDDEN WAY, the concluding part of @julietmarillier.bsky.social 's HEARTWOOD duology!

Book 1, THE AMBER OWL, lands in the UK next summer https://geni.us/amberowl

Book 2 will follow in summer 2027!
Against a background of orange petals, the book cover for THE HIDDEN WAY by Juliet Marillier.
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
Our essays for this week are:

Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence 
by Tanvir Ahmed

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NON-FICTION Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence  by Tanvir Ahmed Quote "Faced with scale and silence, we need a cosmography of Anglophone SFF that captures the codes by which orientalism is animated today. That cosmography would be part of the greater archive exploring SFF as colonial fantasy of the twentieth century..." 24 November 2025 Strange Horizons
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
Am reading. Am loving.
You know, I’ve cosplayed book COVERS, but never a CHARACTER. But if I WERE to cosplay a character, it might be @stephanieburgis.bsky.social’s Fae Queen. I’d get to just SMOTHER myself in sparkles and rainbows and glitter. It would be so fabulous.
stephanieburgis.bsky.social Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 12h
If you're impatient to read Book 2 in the Queens of Villainy, Enchanting the Fae Queen, you can bid now to get a signed ARC and raise money for a good cause: app.galabid.com/creatives4sudan/items/038a7bb8-184d-4f5c-8faa-0130e92ab8c6

#creatives4sudan #romancelandia
The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war. Around and beneath the cover image is this text, connected by arrows to different parts of the cover image: She's a scandalous seductress; he's famously moral, virtuous and chaste; “Yes, I may kill him, but I’ll kill anyone else who tries”; Enemies to lovers; preorder now.
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social

@flaptraps.bsky.social : @sapphomancer.bsky.social ‘s METAL FROM HEAVEN (UK font treatment by Sam Gretton)

Nat Mackenzie aka Miss Nat Mack: @natania.bsky.social ‘s QUEEN OF MERCY

St Martin’s Press design team: @edashtonwriting.bsky.social ‘s THE FOURTH CONSORT
9/9
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
@rowynnellis.bsky.social : Roanne Lau’s THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY

James Jones: @pennyvixen.bsky.social ‘s THE ORB OF CAIRADO and THE TOMB OF DRAGONS

@katieklim.bsky.social : @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social ’s HOME SICK

Andrew Davis: @vajra.me ‘s RAKESFALL
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November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
Black Sheep Design: @jonmcgoran.bsky.social ‘s THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING

Michaela Alcaino : @julietmarillier.bsky.social ‘s THE AMBER OWL and Ariel Kaplan’s THE KINGDOM OF ALMONDS

Dominic Forbes: @voidcricket.bsky.social ‘s AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD and Aliya Whiteley’s THE MISHEARD WORLD
7/9
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
Cover art by Greg Ruth; Design by Christine Foltzer: @kerstinhall.bsky.social ‘s ASUNDER

Design by Vi-An Nguyen. Original art ‘Princess Tarakanova’ by Konstantin Flavitsky: @isabelcanas.bsky.social 's THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ (UK font treatment by Sam Gretton)
6/9
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
Kate Forrester: @csecooney.bsky.social ‘s SAINT DEATH'S HERALD

Charlotte Strick: @artofelaineho.bsky.social CRY VOIDBRINGER (design adjusted for the UK version by Sam Gretton)

Stephanie Hess: @harleylaroux.bsky.social 's HER SOUL TO TAKE
5/9
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
i think cover illustrator’s names should go ON the covers, with the author’s name. People pick up my book BECAUSE of Kate Forrester. I think this should be standard—in books as in magazines.
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Kate Forrester: @csecooney.bsky.social ‘s SAINT DEATH'S HERALD

Charlotte Strick: @artofelaineho.bsky.social CRY VOIDBRINGER (design adjusted for the UK version by Sam Gretton)

Stephanie Hess: @harleylaroux.bsky.social 's HER SOUL TO TAKE
5/9
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
Amazing15 Design: @taranhunt.bsky.social ‘s THE UNKILLABLE PRICESS, Jade Linwood’s
BEAST, @deuceofgears.bsky.social ‘s STARSTRIKE and @ymresnik.bsky.social ‘s THE ELYSIUM HEIST.

Veronica Park: @samkhorton.bsky.social ‘s RAGWORT

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November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
Long credit thread! Book covers by:

Art by Tim Beeren for @averyamesauthor.bsky.social ‘s THE LONGEST AUTUMN (text and design adjustments by Sam Gretton).

Holly Macdonald: THE NEEDFIRE and @authortrmoore.bsky.social ‘s THE GODS MUST BURN
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November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
As #NationalIllustrationDay draws to a close, time for one last post...

We know they say not to judge by its cover, but we all do.

The art a book is wrapped in is often as important as the words inside to the reader, thank you to all the freelance designers who help shape our books' identity!
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A tiled compilation of Solaris book covers designed by freelancers!
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
😍🥰😍
I love this whole thread, actually.
stevejwright.bsky.social Steve J. Wright @stevejwright.bsky.social · 1d
Languages grow, change, split apart, come together... you can't really be doctrinaire about what will survive and what will vanish. I'm glad when fiction respects this. Case in point: the very distinctive speech patterns of different nationalities in @csecooney.bsky.social 's "Saint Death" books.
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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zzclaybourne.bsky.social
Gift thoughts:
A mystery box of 3 books featuring authors the receiver's never read but hot damn do they need to!

Get the books directly from the author's website (if you want them signed) or an indie bookstore (u can live in Detroit & order from a store in Portland, it's cool).

The thought = love
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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edenroyce.bsky.social
Today Psychopomp & Circumstance hits UK shelves!

A Southern Gothic with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house & a sprinkling of magic. In hardcover, eBook, & audio.

Thank you to the phenomenal @csecooney.bsky.social for these lovely words.

#booksky #Blackbooksky
The cover of Psychopomp & Circumstance on a background that is the blown up image on the cover: A sepia-tone profile of a young Black woman against floral wallpaper, reminiscent of 1850s ambrotype photography. She is wearing a high-necked collar, and her coily hair is upswept to reveal dangling skull earrings. A skeletal hand rests on her shoulder. Text reads: PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE EDEN ROYCE "A deeply loving exploration of grief, loss, and the righting of past wrongs."—Moniquill Blackgoose, author of To Shape a Dragon's Breath
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
I loved this excerpt of Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot.”

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Pale Blue Dot
November 27, 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
@drmaryccrowell.bsky.social‘s song “you Wouldn't Like Me When I’m Hungry” is a perfect song for today!

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You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Hungry FotLR December 14, 2024 | Dr. Mary C. Crowell
Get more from Dr. Mary C. Crowell on Patreon
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November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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ninja-ce.bsky.social
tbonecafeblog.com/2025/11/19/s...

Via @csecooney.bsky.social on FB. Wherein the author posts a blog, which replies to a post by my friend ZigZag. @zzclaybourne.bsky.social

#WhatInspiredYou #writing #authors #literature
Stories as Connection
It’s been a while since I’ve mused on the nature of reading and writing. Honestly, I was just going to journal this on my own and leave it at that. But then I realized I could make it a blog post. …
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November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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alixeharrow.bsky.social
my time-saving holiday shopping tip is to just get everybody books. white elephant? book. child? picture book. stocking? small book. i am a neutral & trustworthy source on this subject
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM