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Shannon Knight
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I write books.
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror
Tree watcher. First wave LC. she/her
Abolish ICE.
https://shannonknight.net
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Shannon Knight @shannonknight.bsky.social · Feb 17
I write science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels. You can find out more about my work at www.shannonknight.net.
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror by Shannon Knight. The background fades from orange to pink and is covered with purple clouds. Atop that are four book covers of books by Shannon Knight. Domestication has cover art by Savanna Mayer. A ram is being sheared with a canine skeleton emerging in a comic style art that is very creepy. Wish Givers cover art by Elizabeth Peiró. A realistic illustration depicts a Polynesian woman covered in tattoos smiling up at the viewer. She is surrounded by a ring of fire and an upward spiral of ghosts. The colors are gold and violet and the image fantastical. Insiders cover art by Isabeau Backhaus. A realistic illustration shows a young woman with white hair floating in space. She is wearing a plant suit and surrounded by a ring of plants. Grave Cold cover photo by Kiselev Andrey Valerevich. Close-up photo of a beautiful woman covered in frost wearing dramatic makeup. The colors are violet and pink. Protect the Dead. www.shannonknight.net
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It's almost over, less than 48 hours remaining to get Jaya! The Complete Series on Backerkit.

A wide tier of rewards and an epic retelling of Hindu Mythology from a queer, neurodivergent, POC writer. #ownvoices

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Jaya! The Complete Series
The ominbus edition of all four books of Jaya!, a series of books reimagining the Indian Epic of Mahabharata with a brand new Collectors' Edition Cover. Book One, Pradyutita was an SPFBO semi…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Whenever you make art you should make it the most self indulgent thing that has ever existed. make it so self indulgent ppl are like Hmm is this a fetish, they went so hard with it, wow, I don't even go here but maybe I do now
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Hey, writer buddies! Vellum is having its yearly sale if you were waiting to buy the software. 30% off. Unlike Atticus, it runs on your computer. vellum.pub
Vellum. Create beautiful books.
Vellum software for macOS
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December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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This is all so cute!
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Shop Small on Cyber Monday! 🛍️ I still have a ton of stickers, greeting cards, plushies, pins and more available in my shop! Help support a human artist this holiday season & give the finger to billionaire tech bros! 🖕
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[ #art #shopsmall #supportartists #blueskynightmarket ]
A pile of adorable animal items. There are plushies, stickers, greeting cards, pins, magnets and more strewn about on the floor as if they were just dropped by your feet.
December 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The new POV character in Memento Mori Station has a genetic modification allowing zir to read minds. Imagine what life would be like if you could hear the thoughts of everyone around you--and they all knew it.

Buy yours! books2read.com/mori/
Book cover of Memento Mori Station by Shannon Knight. Protect the dead. Grave Chronicles. Photo of a woman covered in frost cast in a blue light.
December 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Memento Mori Station is in Kobo's BOGO Sale (CA, US, UK, AU, NZ)!

Trio finale set 1,000 years after Grave Cold and Death Rights!

Buy yours!

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Book cover of Memento Mori Station by Shannon Knight. Protect the Dead. Grave Chronicles. Photo of a woman cast in blue light and covered in frost.
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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You know the classic problem: I can't move to go to sleep because the cat is sleeping on me? I've now added the new one: I can't wake up and get up because the cat is sleeping on me.

The only solution is to switch all my hours to cat hours. It's the only way!
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I paid about $4.50 per gallon last time I filled up in Oregon, so it's hard not to side-eye all the gushing articles about low gas prices.
khon2news.bsky.social khon2news.bsky.social @khon2news.bsky.social · 1d
Gas prices drop below $3 per gallon, lowest since 2021.

More here: https://tinyurl.com/5dkdajjs 
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I'm reading this now, and it involves a Winter's Turning festival! Y'all, that makes it totally seasonal! Just add a bone crown and a swooping flock of festive crows to all goths' delight!

You know you want a witch queen and librarian love story!
stephanieburgis.bsky.social Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 2d
This week's Saturday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, which is out now:

stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

And if you're in the US, you can get the paperback from @barnesandnoble.com online for 50% off this weekend! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the...

#romancelandia
An image of the front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. Above and beside it is this snippet from the book: The witch queen of Kitvaria might be capable of many previously-unheard-of things, but she was certainly not interested in flirting with him now. Perhaps she was in a whimsical mood, after whatever great spell she’d been working on the roof; more worryingly, she might be hinting at real anger. Either way, he had to remember that she was infinitely more likely to kill him than to kiss him, no matter what his treacherously reawakening body might wish him to imagine.
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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NOMINATIONS CLOSE TOMORROW for the Indie Ink Awards! Don't miss your chance to nominate a book for awards like "Best morally gray character" and "Best Neurodivergent representation by a neurodivergent author" among others! 🐝

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November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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whatashrinkthinks.com
Why are students having learning challenges?

I can't imagine:
augieray.bsky.social Augie Ray @augieray.bsky.social · Jul 5
I just read my tenth #COVID19 research study in the past month or so that demonstrates COVID infections cause brain changes that may accelerate Alzheimer's disease, are associated with cognitive decline, and cause fatigue, memory impairment, and sleep disorders. (1/?)
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.
Hyperbole Bookstore
A family-owned independent bookstore in College Station, TX
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November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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every single I’ve ever written or tried to write has had this piece of text underneath it. I’ve heard this in the background every time I’ve tried to meaningfully put words together since I was maybe thirteen years old
a section from Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing: Henry: It's to do with knowing and being known. I remember how it stopped seeming odd that in biblical Greek knowing was used for making love. Whosit knew so-and-so. Carnal knowledge. It's what lovers trust each other with. Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face. Every other version of oneself is on offer to the public. We share our vivacity, grief, sulks, anger, joy... we hand it out to anybody who happens to be standing around, to friends and family with a momentary sense of indecency perhaps, to strangers without hesitation. Our lovers share us with the passing trade. But in pairs we insist that we give ourselves to each other: What selves? What's left? What else is there that hasn't been dealt out like a deck of cards? A sort of knowledge. Personal, final, uncompromised. Knowing, being known. I revere that. Having that is being rich, you can be generous abour what's shared - she walks, she talks, she laughs, she lends… the rest of the same speech from Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, plus the excellent deflating punchline after: …a sympathetic ear, she kicks off her shoes and dances on the tables, she's everybody's and it don't mean a thing, let them eat cake; knowledge is something else, the undealt card, and while it's held it makes you free-and-easy and nice to know, and when it's gone everything is pain. Every single thing. Every object that meets the eye, a pencil, a tangerine, a travel poster. As if the physical world has been wired up to pass a current back to the part of your brain where imagination glows like a filament in a lobe no bigger than a torch bulb. Pain. Pause. Debbie: Has Annie got someone else then? Henry: Not as far as I know, thank you for asking. Debbie: Apologies
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I immediately stop reading anything with AI images. The source is no longer trustworthy.

Images in slides are an integral part of the learning experience and should be chosen with the same care as the words.
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 3d
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Next up, here's the video for Diggy Diggy Hole, as performed by Wind Rose: www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZ...

Some of you will recall this is originally from Yogscast, and it's only like, 11 years ago.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Disturb yourself and others with Domestication! #horror #thriller

Find your copy! books2read.com/Domestication
"I have no words. Disturbing but great book. Will not be going to a farm in the middle of nowhere. Read it all in a day. Every chapter was like oh and ooohhh." -Melissa, Goodreads. Photo of my hand holding the paperback of Domestication by Shannon Knight (me) up against a frosty backdrop where the sun is just coming over the next mountain ridge, casting a shadow over the book and sparkling against all the ice-covered plants.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Today only! I know $50 sounds like a lot but in reality it means each of us is getting less than $1.50 for our works. Take advantage! We give you permission. :D :D
aimeecozza.com Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 3d
TOOOOOOT! It's #CreatorDay2025 & 45 indie creators have put together this MASSIVELY DISCOUNTED bundle for you full of stories, games, art, audiobooks, ebooks, & more. For JUST $50 TODAY, you can get 70+ indie-created things. What a way to stuff your TBR/TBP pile Get it here: itch.io/b/3410/creat...
HUGE CREATOR DAY BUNDLE! ebooks, audiobooks, games & more. 70+ items. $293 struck out, only $50. On top of a bunch of covers.
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Today is Creator Day on Itch! Itch is not taking fees--all proceeds go to the creators! My book Grave Cold is in my very first Itch bundle! 45 creators have pooled 74 items for this bundle that would retail at $293.66, but is available today for $50! #BlackFriday

itch.io/b/3410/creat...
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Grave Chronicles is also bundled on Itch for 25% off. This includes Grave Cold, Death Rights, and Memento Mori Station.

Protect the dead in near-future Portland and 1,000 years in the future at a remote space station!
itch.io/s/166889/gra...
Grave Chronicles. Book covers of Grave Cold, Death Rights, and Memento Mori Station by Shannon Knight. Each features a photo of the same model cast in blue or violet light and covered in frost.
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Finally, Wish Givers is 50% off on Itch!

Reva must save her clan and destroy her greatest enemy by granting his every wish!
itch.io/s/168360/bla...
Wish Givers | Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by Shannon Knight
A sale by Shannon Knight, 50% off Wish Givers
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November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Internationally across retailers, Insiders is $3.99 for Black Friday!

Buy yours! books2read.com/Insiders
Black Friday Sale. $3.99. normally $5.99. Found family arrives in many forms, including stuck to your hull. Book cover of Insiders by Shannon Knight. Illustration by Isabeau Backhaus. A young woman is floating in space. She's wearing a plant suit and surrounded by a ring of plants. shannonknight.net
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Komodo dragon
Bobcat
Christmas Island red crab
Black-tailed jackrabbit
Humpback whale
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Pronghorn
Coastal tailed frog
Great Basin spadefoot
Rhiscosomides meineri
Pseudomethoca bequaerti
paularose.bsky.social Paula 🌹 @paularose.bsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Leafy seadragon
Southern right whale
Tasmanian Devil
Wedge tailed eagle
spotted-tail quoll
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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This cover by Jose David Morales is so good! I stopped everything to look at it. It's so weird! Poor kitty!
The Island of Last Things by Emma Sloley. A Novel. Cover art by Jose David Morales. Art is mostly flat with black against yellow. The black is a panther, with its mouth open and a human forearm awkwardly deep across the back of the mouth, so the mouth is open wide with the tongue wrapped up around the arm. The yellow eye of the jaguar is super wide and round like it's shocked, and I would be, too, with that arm crammed back in the mouth.
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I don't know what kind of shenanigans she's gotten into, but Little Bat has a swollen lip. She was bouncing off the walls all night, so it can't be that bad.
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM