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Karen Lord
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Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
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We are making progress toward our goal! Every gift is doubled and helps us meet our needs. Thank you to the 50 supporters who have already contributed!!

Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December! The link is in our bio.
December 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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and it's FANTASY FRIDAY! ✨💖

and we've got another double offering for you!

first up: Collective Action: A Conversation with @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social by @arleysorg.bsky.social

on We Will Rise Again

read in full here:

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Collective Action: A Conversation with Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Arley Sorg interviews Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older
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December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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a Fantasy Friday sneak peak 👀

Collective Action: A Conversation with @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social, by @arleysorg.bsky.social

The Matriarchs, by Malena Salazar Maciá (flash!)

COMING FRIDAY but for $5 read all of 99 now! 💖

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Fantasy Magazine - Issue 99 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Welcome to Issue #99. This issue includes poetry, and short and flash fiction by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Looking for your next read? Check out our curated SFF reviews, author interviews, and upcoming releases in Locus Magazine. Start your literary adventure today! www.locusmag.com
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December 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Issue 99!

Poetry by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan & Alex Jennings

Flash by Malena Salazar Maciá & Corey Farrenkopf

Short fic by Eleanor Glewwe & M.L. Krishnan

PLUS interviews with:

Kemi Ashing-Giwa; Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older; Moniquill Blackgoose

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 99 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 features work by: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan
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December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Deeply pleased in an incredibly reserved Danish-American way that THE WITCH ROADS is named as one of the Best Books of 2025 by Library Journal:

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Editors’ Picks of the Year | Best Books 2025
The LJ Book Review editors’ list of 100 Picks of the Year highlights titles we never tired of reading, rereading, talking about, or mulling over.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Let's focus on supporting each other this year. Indie authors, publishers, magazines & editors need to stay connected! Keep yourself integrated into the SFFH world by reading Locus! Support our nonprofit and help us create the network we all deserve... https://locusmag.com/
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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I discovered this book via @annaleen, but it went to my mom’s house who started reading the essays, found it “pretty deep” and “after reading a few…felt overwhelmingly emotional”, crying, missing her husband, and sent me a message saying “what a book, written […]

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SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE RISE AGAIN EDITED BY KAREN LORD, ANNALEE NEWITZ, AND MALKA OLDER
December 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Ahhhh! Automatic Noodle is one of Kobo's best science fiction books of the year!! I'm so proud of these humble, noodle-making robots. www.kobo.com/us/en/p/best...
Best Science Fiction Books in eBooks of 2025 | Rakuten Kobo United States
Journey into the future and beyond with the best science fiction books of 2025. Check out eBooks of the best books of the year with Rakuten Kobo today.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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If you write fantasy, sf, or horror, you might could be interested in this...
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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By the way, if you enjoyed reading WE WILL RISE AGAIN, help us raise its visibility and give it a rating or a review.
older.bsky.social Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 9d
love to see this review for WE WILL RISE AGAIN on amzn. so happy the book is working for people 💜💚🧡 @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social
Top reviews from the United States Penelope O Olson 5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, fascinating, thought provoking and inspiring Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2025 Format: Paperback We Will Rise Again is a fascinating mix of speculative short stories, essays and interviews with authors and activists. Not a single one of these creations was weak and all were thought provoking, interesting and inspiring. My heart and brain grew three sizes listening to all these brilliant voices and taking in such a variety of perspectives. This hopeful and intelligent collection is what we all need right now. Read We Will Rise Again!
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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love to see this review for WE WILL RISE AGAIN on amzn. so happy the book is working for people 💜💚🧡 @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social
Top reviews from the United States Penelope O Olson 5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, fascinating, thought provoking and inspiring Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2025 Format: Paperback We Will Rise Again is a fascinating mix of speculative short stories, essays and interviews with authors and activists. Not a single one of these creations was weak and all were thought provoking, interesting and inspiring. My heart and brain grew three sizes listening to all these brilliant voices and taking in such a variety of perspectives. This hopeful and intelligent collection is what we all need right now. Read We Will Rise Again!
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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@older.bsky.social just a note to say THANK YOU for posting the last-minute link, which allowed me to spontaneously avoid obligations and fangirl out at you, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @drkarenlord.bsky.social. Wonderful stuff.
Part of a notebook with handwriting at the top: “IMAGINE WILDLY” —Malka Older, 12/4/25
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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some updates to the @globalvoices.org English site: now when you scroll down just a bit, you'll get to see the most recent @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social translations:
Global Voices Lingua Our community translates Global Voices stories into dozens of languages. Learn more about Lingua » Português Quando sonhos se deparam com golpes de recrutamento digital: trabalhadores de Bangladesh em crise Written (English) by Zulker Naeen, Rezwan Translated (Português) by Juliana Stroebel Nederlands Watervervuiling in DRC toegeschreven aan Chinees mijnbouwbedrijf Written (Français) by Simplice Bambe, Jean Sovon Translated (English) by Laura Translated (Nederlands) by Jan Thomassetti Italiano Il 90% della popolazione del Kenya è omofoba? Written (English) by Linda Ngari Translated (Español) by Karen Lopez Translated (Italiano) by Barbara Foggiato
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social
Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net
Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms
March 10th, 2026!

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Cover of the House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard: a banyan tree with grey heraldry showing Notre Dame bisected by a sword The text above reads "Enter a Ruined Paris", and below "March 10, 2026" Cover of The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard: a dragon wrapped around grey heraldry showing a crowned hawthorn tree. The background is blue with spatters of grungy black The text reads "Ruled by Fallen Angels..." and "March 10, 2026" Cover of The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard: a tiger in flames wrapped around grey heraldry showing a hawk above a tower The background is blue with spatters of grungy black The text reads "And Dragons of the depths", "March 10, 2026" Covers of all three books, The House of Shattered Wings (banyan tree and Notre Dame), The House of Binding Thorns (eastern dragon and crowned hawthorn tree), The House of Sundering Flames (tiger in flames and hawk over tower) The text reads "Read the Complete Trilogy", "Available in Ebook and Trade Paperback March 10, 2026"
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Last Minute Opening in Wayward Wormhole Barbados
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December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I'm mostly a journalist but my not-so-secret dream is to be a real fiction writer. So when @annaleen.bsky.social asked me to write something for a collection full of some of my all time heroes I was shocked and so, SO honored. You can now get that book (ideally from your local indie bookstore)!!!
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
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December 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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So this anthology is out in the world now and I have a short story in it — "Perséfoni in the City." Put this on your holiday shopping list because many of these stories and essays are truly amazing. (I'm currently obsessed with Laia Asieo Odo's devastatingly moving "Where Memory Meets the Sea.")
older.bsky.social Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 13d
WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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'..a window into that transformative Peepal Tree treatment.' 🧡

Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian

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Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
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December 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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San Francisco, this is tonight!
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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This is a really important anthology, and also includes a story by @kellyrobson.com about abolition (and burlesque) which I consulted on!
annaleen.bsky.social Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 12d
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
This is a picture of the book cover, which is an abstract looking planet in orange, green, and purple. "We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays On Protest, Resistance, and Hope. Edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older." Below that, it reads: Available Now from Saga Press
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Honored to have a wee part in this big, wonderful anthology -- out today from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social
annaleen.bsky.social Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 12d
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
This is a picture of the book cover, which is an abstract looking planet in orange, green, and purple. "We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays On Protest, Resistance, and Hope. Edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older." Below that, it reads: Available Now from Saga Press
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM