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Kate Francia
@katefrancia.bsky.social
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Speculative fiction writer; stories in Augur, Best Microfiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. Codexian.
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smallwondersmag.com
The heart knows what the heart wants, and today: it's the alien. You'll fall in love too with "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing In The World" by @elijah.mea.rs:
Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing in the World - Small Wonders
You had no idea if the alien was your kind of guy (or even if it was a guy at all), but sometimes Cupid has a funny way with those arrows.
smallwondersmag.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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ashvalewrites.bsky.social
in this month's (slightly late) newsletter, I talk a lil about pressure around the holidays (esp with kids), social overwhelm, and what I've been up to lately.

I also have story recs from @crystalkoo.bsky.social in @innerworlds.bsky.social 🐆
and @aishatuado.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com ❄️
Ash Vale Updates: November 2025
A day late and maybe a few dollars short
ashvale.beehiiv.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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angelvleal.bsky.social
Inner Worlds is out!! My (t4t love story) of two queers healing from loss with the help of a strange octopus/alien? creature that gives them otherworldly dreams is free to read today :') & so many other creature stories! Would be so thankful if you read some 💜 🐙 inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-to-s...
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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mruthrobinson.bsky.social
New month, new story! I am so excited to have a piece in the latest issue of FFO, one of my very favorite magazines. Do you like queer stories inspired by myth? Petty goddesses? Ovidian transformations? Being sad? Birdwatching? “Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings” was written just for you! 🐦‍⬛
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
So so excited to have a story in this issue of FFO!! I highly recommend checking out the whole issue; I read it last night and all the other stories are amazing!!
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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bcsmagazine.bsky.social
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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innerworlds.bsky.social
👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾

Includes numerous CREATURES.

inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...

#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
Cover featuring a drawing of a person with long brown hair, wearing a yellow baseball cap that reads "ACE" and a purple t-shirt. Glowing cracks cover their forehead and eyes, and plants with small green leaves and purple flower buds are emerging from the cracks.
November 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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jordankurella.com
i have a book about the Death of Mountains visiting a middling hill in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's a short little book, and on sale from my publisher (@lethepress.bsky.social)!
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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sarahgailey.bsky.social
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
More story recommendations! Short stories about monster women hitting all my favorite themes, by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @muteddragon.bsky.social @christinehanolsy.com @catchingwords.bsky.social, plus the novel Greenteeth by @mollyoneillwrites.bsky.social
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Story recs: Monsters, Mothers, Aging, and Queer Joy
I’ve read several stories this year that are doing really interesting things with the folklore of monsters and women, bringing out themes…
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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premeemohamed.com
IT'S LIVE YOU CAN BUY IT :D

THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited

This has been a long time coming!

Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
The Butcher of the Forest Audiobook on Libro.fm
A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed.At the northern edge of a ...
libro.fm
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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michelleknudsen.bsky.social
It's pub day for CURSED PRINCESS CLUB: A MOST UNUSUAL PRINCESS, my early YA novel (ages 12+) adapted from LambCat's webcomic & graphic novel! @slj.com called it "endearing & hilarious!" 💕 Come celebrate tonight at @wordbookstores.bsky.social in Brooklyn! Cupcakes, fun prizes, and signed books!
Cover image of Michelle Knudsen's new YA novel CURSED PRINCESS CLUB: A MOST UNUSUAL PRINCESS, based on the graphic novel by LambCat, on a background of pink and green horizontal stripes. The cover itself shows main character Gwendolyn holding a plate of baked goods (including a Magical Friendship Volcano Surprise waffle) while wearing a green dress with orange bows and accents. She's looking over her shoulder at the reader with a little smile. Pink hearts appear on either side of her. The background is a pink-purple gradient, darker at the top. The title appears at the top in purple letters, with the subtitle in white.
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
I've updated my 2025 awards eligibility post. Also threaded, a little bit about some of my favorite stories I've published this year. One more to come on Dec. 1. As always, you can find links to everything I published this year here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...
P.A. Cornell – 2025 Awards Eligibility… • “Through the Machine” (SF / 5000 w) – Lightspeed • “The Space Between Us” (SF / 1499 w) – Lightspeed (Coming in December) • “What Happened That Night” (H / 1494 w) – Short Édition • “Spells for the Afterlife” (F / 2588 w) – Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite • “Falling Forever” (SF / 893 w) – Factor Four • “And I Will Read to You About Butterflies” (SF / 3647 w) – Heartlines Spec • “The Futility of Warning You” (SF / 750 w) – Factor Four • “Feathers” (F / 760 w) – Worlds of Possibility • “So Many Things to See” (SFF / 2415 w) – Trollbreath • “Fire & Flight” (SFF / 4941 w) – Plott Hound • “After the Rain” (SF ECO / 3706 w) – Escape Pod • “After the Suns Go Down” (SFH / 8675 w) – The Growers • “Twelve Things that Will Occur Immediately Following Your Invention of Teleportation” (SF Humor / 880 w) – Factor Four • “The Underlying Cause of Her Insomnia” (FH / 1000 w) Trembling With Fear • “Hard Times at the Four Pines Motel” (SF / 1000 w) – Short Circuit
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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franwilde.bsky.social
Author me had several works emerge in 2025 for your consideration!

* “Red, Right, Returning” in MiT/Candlewick’s STARSTUFF
* “We Are Here To Discover” in Proxima Kosmos
* A CATALOG OF STORMS : Selected Short Fiction (Fairwood Press)
* A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES (Erewhon)

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4-cover grid for A Philosophy of Thieves, A Catalog of Storms, STARSTUFF, and Proxima Cosmos
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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jordankurella.com
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:

novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social

short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

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the cover of THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS is off to the left of this image. the rest of it is text on a dark blue background. it says: AWARDS ELIGIBILITY The Death of Mountains from Lethe Press ELIGIBLE FOR: the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, and other novella etcetera LISTEN: if you want to think of this book during awards season? great! thank you very much! are there too many things to think about right now? of course there are. way too many things. i am making this graphic while also internally screaming and procrastinating dinner. so. i get it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
Absolutely loved this book! So beautifully weird and good!
whiterabbitbooks.bsky.social White Rabbit Book Cafe @whiterabbitbooks.bsky.social · 10d
Looking for a horror novel and a local author to support? Check out Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling! "Unhinged, cannibalistic and utterly engrossing! 3 POVs of women stuck in Aymar Castle as six months of siege are stretching thin! A must read for folks interested in Medieval Horror!" 🩷 ⚔️ 🐝
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
💀Celebrate the announcement of SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY, the third book in @csecooney.bsky.social 's World Fantasy Award-winning SAINT DEATH series, by grabbing SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER & SAINT DEATH'S HERALD for just 0.99 alongside a wide variety of other Solaris titles! geni.us/Solarissale
Against a background of skulls, white text at the top "Saint Death's Daughter". Below, the book covers for SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER, SAINT DEATH'S HERALD and a mock up for SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY coming Spring 2027. All by C. S. E. Cooney. The white Solaris logo is at the bottom in the middle.
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
This story was stunning, can’t wait to read the whole anthology!
older.bsky.social Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 14d
Full warning: this story made me cry, because of how accurately and beautifully it peels back the layers of oppression, self-censorship, exile, community, rebuilding. A beautiful representative from the forthcoming anthology We Will Rise Again, out on Dec 2!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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nicolaz.bsky.social
OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Ever year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned snakestone cast in silver to wear as a lapel pin, silver jacket pin cast in silver, and her death
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
Celebrating Hild
On this day in 680 CE Hild of Whitby, patron saint of learning and culture (including poetry) died. I mark her feast day because she marked my life, and my writing, indelibly.
nicolagriffith.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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sfwa.org
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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augursociety.bsky.social
Looking for something to curl up with this fall? Check out our newly released Augur Issue 8.2! ✨

Also, you can find 2 FREE samples on our site! 📚💫

🔗 Link in bio!
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Oct 30
Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!

🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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An illustration of a field on a sunny day and here’s a clothing line with yellow and red sheets flowing in the wind, and behind them are two people, one with purple wings touching hands. with a blue overlay. At the top of the image reads: “Read it Now” in a yellow banner and underneath reads: “Augur Issue 8.2.” Bellow is the link to the website: http://www.augursociety.org. In the middle of the image is a book with the cover art of Issue 8.1. There are 6 arrows around the book pointing to blurbs from some of the pieces that read: elemental aftermath of an affair, toxic love festers through shed skin & wet sheets, young love, rusted metal, & shattered sunlight, monstrous hymn of awe & destruction, old age drama between two languages, and devastation dripped in honey and rain .
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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jrdawson.bsky.social
GASP!

The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World ebook is a Kindle Goldbox Deal on November 9th as part of the Top Rated Books Goldbox. This means that the ebook is $2.99 across all retailer sites (not just Amazon) for the day!!!!!!

THREE BUCKS!!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
issue 98 is out in the world and yours to read!

read it here for free!

and hey, if you love what you find, consider subscribing. every sub helps us to keep bringing you the kinds of stories and poems you love 💖

psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni
psychopomp.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
This book was an absolute delight, and also as a bonus, it’s full of delicious descriptions of cheese!
bethcato.bsky.social Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 29d
TODAY ONLY! Cheddar Luck Next Time, my cheesy cozy mystery w/ an autistic lead, is on sale for $.99/£.99!

Please, please spread the word!

US promo link: amzn.to/43ajEjr
Canada: www.amazon.ca/Cheddar-Luck...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Cheddar-Luck...

Also at B&N & Apple!
A mostly green graphic says Amazon Kindle at the top and has imposed the cover of the book on a Kindle screen. Sale price is .99 in US, UK, and Canada at minimum, the deal for one day only, 2nd November 2025.
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
In honor of this spooky rainy Oct. 30, here's a list of my favorite dark fairy tale retellings from 2025! :) Novels by @nassos.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @freyamarske.bsky.social; short stories by @cislyn.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com and @adsui.bsky.social
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October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM