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Kurt Phillips
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horror writer, musician, educator

The Hand of the Archer a.co/d/1FN2itN
Noise Ordinance a.co/d/hutoMgi

https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-hand-of-the-archer/
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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 28d
“This book is so good… I’m sitting on my porch reading it again. I’m dying laughing. I’m surprised you can’t hear me laughing from here.”

Kind words from a new reader!
That’s literally what I’m here for.

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An octopus on a black background. The front and back cover of Kurt Phillips’ novella, Noise Ordinance.
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Thanks, Gabino!
Enter a world where ghosts walk in meatspace, portals exist, and interdimensional shenanigans abound!

Books 1 & 2 of the Tuner Trilogy
#TUNERVILLE
#CONFLUENCE

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A large blue portal, its edges crackling with white energy, opens in a field of stars. The books Tunerville and Confluence are being sucked into it. Tunerville screams, "Help!!" Confluence says, "Whee!" Both books are by A. Elizabeth West.
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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It's itchio's creator day where they don't take their usual cuts, so it's a great time to pick up one of my queer, fucky short stories over there! bsky.app/profile/tdcl...
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Wowzers, what a great time to pick up my itchio exclusive titles! These tend towards the dark and fucky, so if that's your cup of post-thanksgiving tea, go, go, go!

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November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Just a few more weeks until the release of my second book, Unfold. 2/3 workplace drama, ends on a third of creature feature mayhem a.co/d/ahstt2Z
Unfold
Amazon.com: Unfold eBook : Zelden, Tristan: Books
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November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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tigerpride.bsky.social
Thanks, Gabino! Here is a book that blends creative nonfiction about my Mom’s life and my grief at her death with an examination of the comic books of 1976. It’s experimental in form, asking the reader to make connections in the way one puts fragments together when reading comics.
#FridayReads
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Thanks Gabino! My debut novel is now available for preorder 🪓

After an incident at work, Tamsin escapes to the Scottish countryside to start over. But her new home comes with an odd neighbour, strange folktales, and disturbances at night 👀

Preorder: geni.us/homesick
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3mdv69dp
A graphic showing the book cover for HOME SICK. Two creepy sheep heads stare out, one with dead shark eyes. All against a sickly pink gradient. The book sits on a backdrop of mist-wreathed trees. Text around the book reads: This house isn't haunted. She is. A brand new psychological horror from award-winning author Rhiannon Grist.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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oddityprodigy.bsky.social
Thanks so much Gabino!

Our latest anthology WHERE LEGENDS WALK was just released last week! We're very proud of this collection of over 30 superhero short stories, and it's available on all major online book retailers as well as our own shop:

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The cover for the superhero anthology WHERE LEGENDS WALK (depicting five superheroes of varying designs standing before a cityscape) is laid over a blue radial background with halftones. Text reads as follows: "On Sale Now! WHERE LEGENDS WALK A Superhero Anthology Edited by Jacob Jones-Goldstein and Nicholas Leamy | Foreword by J. M. DeMatteis Featuring over thirty prose tales of superheroes, with a foreword by legendary comic author J. M. DeMatteis! wherelegendswalk.com" The cover for the superhero anthology WHERE LEGENDS WALK (depicting five superheroes of varying designs standing before a cityscape) is laid over a blue radial background with halftones. Text reads as follows: "On Sale Now! WHERE LEGENDS WALK A Superhero Anthology Edited by Jacob Jones-Goldstein and Nicholas Leamy | Foreword by J. M. DeMatteis Featuring over thirty prose tales of superheroes, with a foreword by legendary comic author J. M. DeMatteis! wherelegendswalk.com"
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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THE MONSTERS AMONG US is a viscerally cinematic and immersive dark fantasy/horror novel.

Winner of the Firebird Book Award, and Shirley Jackson Award nominee…and also 20% for Black Friday when bought directly from me:

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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The basic premise of the setting of my novel series is it's always Black Friday. Even before I knew it was narrated by a coffee machine robot, I knew it took place in a mall that spanned the continent, where people lived and never left.

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screenshot of starred review of The Great American Deception in Publishers Weekly, full text at https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-946501-21-9 The Great American Deception Scott Stein. Tiny Fox, $14.27 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-946501-21-9 Stein (Mean Martin Manning) delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity. Arjay, a sentient, top-of-the-line coffee machine with an excess of pep, tags along on the cases of old-school PI Frank Harken within the luxurious but dystopian confines of the Great American—a giant, autonomous, U.S.-coast-spanning shopping mall. Though the grumpy gumshoe is not always thrilled by Arjay’s presence, he can’t deny that the bot makes a “damn fine” cup of coffee. When one of the Great American’s inhabitants, Pretty Lovely, hires Harken to find her sister, kidnapped heiress Winsome Smiles, Harken and Arjay are plunged into Great American’s underbelly, where they encounter genre staples including mobsters and incompetent cops. Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming, juxtaposing the gritty mystery and dystopian setting with Arjay’s perky narration to excellent effect. Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight. (May) review in Kirkus reviews of The Great American Deception. full text at: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/scott-stein/the-great-american-deception/ In a giant, futuristic mall, a coffee machine with artificial intelligence excitedly narrates the exploits of its new owner, a retro-style, hard-boiled gumshoe. Stein’s (Lost, 2019) satirical SF detective yarn at least initially owes much to Douglas Adams before the material finds its own humorous tone. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans may recall Adams’ ancillary detail of robotic home appliances with “Real People Personalities,” often annoying, single-minded entities. And coffee machines were among those conveniences so accessorized. Arjay, the first-person (or first-gadget?) narrator here, is such a device, an ever upbeat, persistent, and talkative “top of the line” coffee maker. Arjay gets delivered to Frank Harken, a private eye of the old school, whose beat is the Great American, a fortresslike, coast-to-coast shopping/dining/entertainment/residential mall (shades of Somtow Sucharitkul’s Mallworld). The mall is a consumer paradise and haven for the elite in an otherwise ill-described (but doubtlessly unpleasant) future United States. Because of a prime directive to serve coffee in any circumstance, Arjay is mobile, resourceful, multilimbed, and filled with extra goodies such as laser cutters. The AI becomes sidekick to bemused tough-guy Harken. The chipper appliance recounts their initial case together, a missing custom-dentistry heiress named Winsome Smiles, connected to shady characters and now apparently kidnapped. Arjay’s enthusiastic narration takes readers through not only the standard private investigator clichés (mobsters, clueless authorities, duplicitous dames), but also bizarre boutiques and services (“legstentions”), literary references encompassing The Princess Bride and Edgar Allan Poe, and—in a very Hitchhiker touch—reams of persnickety Arjay non sequitur footnotes. (Sample: “Assas… screenshot of review of The Great American Betrayal on Vulture, naming it one of the best comedy books of 2022 full text at the full list at https://www.vulture.com/article/best-comedy-books-2022.html
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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mcburnellauthor.bsky.social
Thanks so much for this Gabino!

The Tipping World is now COMPLETE! It has
magic
intrigue
swordfights
gay stuff
reality breaking
In a complete 9 book series!

Start the legend: books2read.com/PathofEndles...
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9) Cover of a book called Symbols’ End by MC Burnell depicting a slender young woman seated on a bench in a fine gown in the rain; the walls of the garden are close and too tall. Text reads: THE GRAND FINALE. Symbols’ End, Vol. 9 of The Tipping World.
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I got a Black Friday deal!

Black Friday book sale! My horror-comedies Apartment 239 and the sequel, High Strangeness, are both just 99 cents!

Apt. 239
amzn.to/3TizhOT

High Strangeness
shorturl.at/fCEZ9
Apartment 239
Amazon.com: Apartment 239 eBook : Alley, Elford : Books
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November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I chipped a molar on my morning granola, so I have to go to the dentist. 🦷⛏️

It would make me feel better if you checked out my books. They're perfect for this stressful time of year because they're short and exciting and have families bickering maybe even harder than yours.
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The poster's two novellas, available for purchase/library borrowing. THE GLASS GARDEN has a kaleidoscopic cover, THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH: A VAMPIRE OPERA IN VERSE has batwings and a book against a starry sky. They books are resting on a lawn strewn with autumn leaves.
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Thanks Gabino!

Loads of my books are on sale/heavily discounted this week at the Nefarious Bat online store - along with titles from @anna-orridge.bsky.social and @shaunamceleney.bsky.social :)

There's a whole 🧵 of them here - and we'd be hugely grateful if people would consider buying direct! ⬇️
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We can help! 📚💙

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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Go buy this book at @bookpeople.com today in Austin!
Support indie bookstores!
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It’s #FridayReads time! Books are great gifts. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a happy tale full of old gods, magic, grief, violence, ghosts, a hurricane, friendship, and things from beyond the reef...

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November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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a bowl of kitteh
An orange kitten curled up in a bed
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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This is David Byrne and his band last night in one of the best shows I’ve seen in a long while.
David Byrne’s band dances on a stage in Austin Texas.
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I’m at Texas Barber Service in Austin, Texas
Jason‘s puttin the bar in barbershop for Thanksgiving
I’ll post an after photo
A table laid out at my barbershop, full bar with bourbon, tequila, wine, and coffee.
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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"If it looks like we’ve blacked out in the middle of a conversation, that’s because we have. This is normal and healthy."
Please Accommodate Our Jolly Rancher Diet This Thanksgiving
RE: Thanksgiving Dinner Hi Johnson Clan, We can’t wait to see you all at Cathy’s for Thanksgiving! This is just a reminder that June and I have cho...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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brilliant
mccanner.bsky.social erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 7d
Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds

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November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Both of these are bangers.
Check them out!
joshrountree.bsky.social Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 7d
Need more monsters in your life? How about “Creature From the Black Lagoon set during the great Galveston hurricane of 1900” or “Frankenstein but it’s a western?”

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November 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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douche brick
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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My forthcoming speculative short story collection is up for pre-order. There's monsters, outer space, pie, and more!
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Every Galaxy a Circle
Check out Every Galaxy a Circle - <p>An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human Experience</p><p></p><p>In <em>Every Galaxy a Circle</em>, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghost...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM