M V Melcer
@mvmelcer.com
pronounced *meltzer*
SFF writer and perpetual student. Author of REFRACTIONS and INVERSIONS. Repped by Lisa Rodgers at JABberwocky. SFWA, BSFA, Codex.
Polish-born/UK-based
she/her
https://mvmelcer.com/
https://linktr.ee/mvmelcer
SFF writer and perpetual student. Author of REFRACTIONS and INVERSIONS. Repped by Lisa Rodgers at JABberwocky. SFWA, BSFA, Codex.
Polish-born/UK-based
she/her
https://mvmelcer.com/
https://linktr.ee/mvmelcer
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M V Melcer
@mvmelcer.com
· Nov 15
Hello new followers! I'm a sci-fi writer of two connected but independent novels REFRACTIONS & INVERSIONS, both about the consequences of the rich screwing everyone over. geni.us/281-ap-web-ch
(Ironically, they are distributed through Amazon. I have opinions but not enough energy to voice them.)
(Ironically, they are distributed through Amazon. I have opinions but not enough energy to voice them.)
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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January 23, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Hark, UK readers! Any NEW purchase of a UK edition will also get you the bonus ebook. 😍
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No alt text, but fuck me, what a clear-eyed assessment of reality.
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
January 20, 2026 at 6:28 PM
No alt text, but fuck me, what a clear-eyed assessment of reality.
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But hey if you want to check out my “””interview”””* on Escape Pod, the first two of three parts are out, with wonderful narration from Isaac Harwood and the always lovely Tina Connelly on hosting duty!
*Nehula Award Finalist novelette
*Nehula Award Finalist novelette
January 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
But hey if you want to check out my “””interview”””* on Escape Pod, the first two of three parts are out, with wonderful narration from Isaac Harwood and the always lovely Tina Connelly on hosting duty!
*Nehula Award Finalist novelette
*Nehula Award Finalist novelette
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This is a great conversation amongst a team living in Minneapolis right now. It feels frank in ways I've been missing hearing.
Thank you for making Minnesota not feel alone right now.
Since MinnMax is a Minneapolis-based outlet, we unpack how the city is feeling in this public episode of Bonus Pod. youtu.be/OY6ZPb2NHO8
ICE out of Minneapolis.
Since MinnMax is a Minneapolis-based outlet, we unpack how the city is feeling in this public episode of Bonus Pod. youtu.be/OY6ZPb2NHO8
ICE out of Minneapolis.
January 13, 2026 at 6:28 AM
This is a great conversation amongst a team living in Minneapolis right now. It feels frank in ways I've been missing hearing.
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
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Unsolicited advice for anyone on Bluesky who wants to fight fascism in 2026 - don't stress about following big national accounts.
Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪
Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪
January 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Unsolicited advice for anyone on Bluesky who wants to fight fascism in 2026 - don't stress about following big national accounts.
Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪
Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪
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Reminder: ICE has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world.
It has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office.
Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.
It has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office.
Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.
January 7, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Reminder: ICE has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world.
It has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office.
Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.
It has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office.
Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.
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Happy Birthday to 2025 GoH @kateheartfield.com! Kate is a wonderful member of our community and we hope she has a splendid day!
If you'd like to get her a gift consider pre-ordering her upcoming novel 'Mercutio', currently available as a Most Anticipated Book from Indigo!
If you'd like to get her a gift consider pre-ordering her upcoming novel 'Mercutio', currently available as a Most Anticipated Book from Indigo!
January 6, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Happy Birthday to 2025 GoH @kateheartfield.com! Kate is a wonderful member of our community and we hope she has a splendid day!
If you'd like to get her a gift consider pre-ordering her upcoming novel 'Mercutio', currently available as a Most Anticipated Book from Indigo!
If you'd like to get her a gift consider pre-ordering her upcoming novel 'Mercutio', currently available as a Most Anticipated Book from Indigo!
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This!👇
January 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM
This!👇
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I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
If there is one resolution I want for journalists this year: it is to get off S*bstack and use Ghost or any other indy publishing platform that does not fund literal nazis instead.
January 5, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue.
And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.
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After the New START treaty expires in February, there will be no cap on the number of US and Russian nuclear weapons - but some are sceptical about whether the deal actually made the world safer
Russia-US nuclear pact set to end in 2026 and we won't see another
After the New START treaty expires in February, there will be no cap on the number of US and Russian nuclear weapons - but some are sceptical about whether the deal actually made the world safer
www.newscientist.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:46 PM
After the New START treaty expires in February, there will be no cap on the number of US and Russian nuclear weapons - but some are sceptical about whether the deal actually made the world safer
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Start the New Year with a New Fantasy Series! And here's a Solaris selection to get you going...
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January 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Start the New Year with a New Fantasy Series! And here's a Solaris selection to get you going...
@natania.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @mattfnwallace.bsky.social @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @ldcolter.com and more!
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Perfectly normal beginning to every great Dartmoor love story, in my experience.
January 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Perfectly normal beginning to every great Dartmoor love story, in my experience.
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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Someone said it before me, but I've repeated it a few times:
Everything went wrong when someone decided music should be free.
EVERYTHING.
Everything went wrong when someone decided music should be free.
EVERYTHING.
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
December 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Someone said it before me, but I've repeated it a few times:
Everything went wrong when someone decided music should be free.
EVERYTHING.
Everything went wrong when someone decided music should be free.
EVERYTHING.
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✨ From today until 1st January!
THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by @felipeazucares.bsky.social is available to preorder from Barnes & Noble with 25% off! Just use the code PREORDER25 at checkout!
#BNPreorder https://bit.ly/4pPs0WQ
THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by @felipeazucares.bsky.social is available to preorder from Barnes & Noble with 25% off! Just use the code PREORDER25 at checkout!
#BNPreorder https://bit.ly/4pPs0WQ
December 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
✨ From today until 1st January!
THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by @felipeazucares.bsky.social is available to preorder from Barnes & Noble with 25% off! Just use the code PREORDER25 at checkout!
#BNPreorder https://bit.ly/4pPs0WQ
THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by @felipeazucares.bsky.social is available to preorder from Barnes & Noble with 25% off! Just use the code PREORDER25 at checkout!
#BNPreorder https://bit.ly/4pPs0WQ
My thoughts exactly.
Either my citizenship is the same as yours, or what's the fucking point
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My thoughts exactly.
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Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
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If you live in Bristol, love horror and want to support local businesses, please consider doing some of your Christmas shopping at The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Crofts.
You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.
You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.
Bookshop owner unsure how much longer business can stay open
"I’m even looking for a second job in the evenings just so I can pay my own rent. Running a bookshop isn’t quite as glamorous as it may seem"
www.bristolpost.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
If you live in Bristol, love horror and want to support local businesses, please consider doing some of your Christmas shopping at The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Crofts.
You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.
You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
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Hi folks, I've updated FFO's Submittable page with details about our call for resistance-themed reprints, which is opening on Jan 1st. The editor for this anthology is Jeanna Cammarano ( @wordrat.bsky.social)
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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December 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hi folks, I've updated FFO's Submittable page with details about our call for resistance-themed reprints, which is opening on Jan 1st. The editor for this anthology is Jeanna Cammarano ( @wordrat.bsky.social)
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.
It’s a sci-fi Friday release! We have a brand new story from Matt Dovey, titled “Reflexive Benevolence Imperative,” in which a fish-ship and its human pilot contemplate the emotional toll of being first responders.
#flashfiction #scifi
@mattdovey.com
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Reflexive Benevolence Imperative
If Mx Milia N weren’t so intimate with their fishship, they wouldn’t have noticed anything amiss until they were in a rush to depart. The immense ichthycraft streamed through the upper-…
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December 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.
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Four staff!!!
“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
December 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Four staff!!!
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December 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Cheap SF! "Too Like the Lightning": Here's the ebookdaily version of the $2.99 sale on the ebook:
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