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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 8h

There would even be a little tower for the wizard who cursed me!

G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 8h

I'd buy a plot of land that somehow encompasses a forest, a river, a beach, a quarry, an island, and a desert (??) and establish Pelican Town for real.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 11h

When you turn up at a crowded Italian restaurant on a rainy night and they do their darndest to create a table for you, you know you're in for a treat.

G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 11h

I had a creamy mushroom rigatoni and a giant pistachio cannolo at Da Mario Kensington last year that I still have dreams about.

Storm "Rain of Terror" Blakley, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 23h

What's the beat meal you've ever had, and where?

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 11h

Nahh!

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 11h

Oh no, all that cheese will turn Tots into Toots!

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 13h

did you know that right now, we're only a partial skeleton? we're not fully funded, and so we're missing some critical bones.

this is truth

and sadly not sustainable

help us be a full skeleton?

patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

An old looking skull lays on a cement path covered lightly in brown leaves.

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 1d

I will be sad to miss meeting you!

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Hiron Ennes (Works of Vermin out 10/14/25) @hironennes.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that Tuesday, Oct 14th, I will be at Skylight Books in LA for the release of THE WORKS OF VERMIN!! Bring your friends, bring your lovers, bring your haters, your hangups, your personal baggage, I don't judge

www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...

www.skylightbooks.com

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 3d

When I first listened to the Matilda soundtrack and thought, this is a cool song about school.

Then I realised it's sneakily spelling the alphabet.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 9d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 5d

I believe so!

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 5d

I shall look out for you!

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 5d

A rare evening home alone. It was going to be a writing night, but this week has drained me in various ways, and there's still more to come tomorrow/Saturday. So it's a 'curl up on the sofa with a cat and a book' night instead. 😔

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 6d

I know! Let's grab coffee?

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, I'll be around. 😊

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry your week has gone that way. 🫂

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry, Marina.

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 8d

*scrambles for the pre-order button*

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Lucie McKnight Hardy @lmcknighthardy.bsky.social · 8d

Page proofs are in 👀

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing.

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 8d

What are they, please? Little mozzarella? 😂

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 8d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · 9d

UK readers! Sour Cherry is 99p on Kindle this spooky season 👻🍒
amzn.eu/d/buvcraN

Sour Cherry: A fiercely haunting gothic horror novel examining gender and power, reimagining the fairytale Bluebeard eBook : Theodoridou, Natalia: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

amzn.eu

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sunyi @handle.invalid · 9d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS

A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.

Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.

But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood.

As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 9d

Your lifestyle and commitments get pretty set around now. If you want to *do* things—make art, read more books, take lessons, travel—you need to make space for them and protect that space fiercely, or they just won't happen.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 12d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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