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Sue Archer 🍁

@suearcher.bsky.social

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Canadian fantasy writer, sometime editor, and #StetWalk enthusiast. Trying to read all the things before my TBR topples. She/her. Books2read.com/FortunesShadow #AmReading The Drowned Man's Daughter by @cjlavigne.com

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 7d

Notes from #CanCon2025

1. Your name deserves stickers. Everything is better with stickers.

See also: buttons.

A CanCon name badge featuring a castle with a heart, a cheerful pink and purple butterfly, and a button that says "Proud TBR Pile Owner" which is totally me. A ribbon underneath tells everyone I'm a first time attendee. Many people who saw that started friendly conversations to welcome me, which was awesome.

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 2h

She is standing
in the maelstrom
screaming
fists balled at her side
toes curled
into the creeping thyme
beneath her

She is always here
even when
she's somewhere else

There is comfort
in the driving rain
and in the way
the wind
carries her scream
into the heart
of the universe

#vss365 #creep

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 1h

Pumpkin web or ghost...so hard to decide!

Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 1h

Wow. Hats off to you for the persistence, which shouldn't have been needed!

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 1h

I need
I need to
I need to press the key

The one you cannot read
The one you will not see
The one you disbelieve
defines you

DO NOT TOUCH

your eyes plead

But the need
creeps up my fingers

Straining my restraint

Your hands seize
with hope

#vss365 #creep

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Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social · 4h

Recent leaves 🍁

Looking up at branches with lots of red maple leaves. Grey-blue sky.

Looking up at maple tree with lots of yellow leaves on its branches.

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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 9h

I can't get enough of this season 😍

Trees surrounding a pond on a bright autumn day. The sky is an intense blue with a perfect smattering of clouds. The tree leaves are shades of orange, yellow, and green. And the pond is reflecting it all.

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 23h

Today's song. Loving Sarah's new album.

"So take your dirty hands off of my wheel" 👏 m.youtube.com/watch?v=8d_M...

Sarah McLachlan - One In a Long Line (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by The Official Sarah McLachlan

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 1d

Your quarterly reminder that bullying the government works and we need to do more of it

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

Ford government walks back on plan to consider changes to renters’ right to ‘security of tenure’

The Ford government says it won’t be moving forward with consultations to modify the law that protects tenants’ right to remain in their unit.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 1d

Among the add-ons are signed copies of Plague Birds and We Who Hunt Alexanders. So hurry over and support a great magazine!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

There's just 4 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we're SO CLOSE to hitting our 20k goal!

Our full catalogue of critiques, ebooks, merch and more will all be gone on Halloween. Don't miss out on these limited edition items and donate TODAY! 💜👽🎃

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Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!"

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Slush Reader Critique

Cool Offerings

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Stickers and hoodie now available worldwide!

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1d

On a mission to get subscribers to my free newsletter up to an arbitrary number. If you're interested in the workings of a historical fantasy novelist's career, you can read the archives here. Stuff like what my editing process looks like, what I'm reading, craft/career things I'm working through.

Kate Heartfield's Newsletter

I'm Kate Heartfield, a writer of historical fantasy novels and other things. My newsletter is a way to let you know what I'm up to, and to talk about books and ideas. It comes out every second Friday.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

I have a brand new spooky novelette out at @reactorsff.bsky.social! It's a take on phantoms I've wanted to write for decades.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 5d

New story day!

"Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.

Phantom View - Reactor

A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father try to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.

reactormag.com

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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 1d

Can*Con is done, but another event looms! In Toronto!

Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 17d

hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Jaime Sperling @diedofennui.bsky.social · 1d

Hi again, Canada! I'm in Toronto, who wants to meet up? (I have very little meeting-up time.)

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1d

Drafting with my bud @kevinhearne.bsky.social in our fave coffee shop and we have an Audrey

The bar of a coffee shop, decorated in bright colours, with an open mouth carnivorous plant on a barstool.

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, they are everywhere

In a theatre costumes and props warehouse sits Audrey Two from Little Shop of Horrors. (In Stratford, Ontario.) It is adult person-sized so that the operator can move from within. Not something you want to run into in a dark alley after a total eclipse of the sun!

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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 2d

When I found myself
on a precipice
of someone else’s making
(your making)
the terror was nearly suffocating

Choosing between
bad and worse
(the only choices you left me)
I closed my eyes
and jumped

#vss365 #terror #poetry

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 2d

Also clearly a good-luck charm 😀

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Sheila Burpee Duncan @sheilabduncan.bsky.social · 2d

#vss365

condemned haunted house
slated for demolition
that’s a terror down

#terror

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 2d

🫂

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · Jul 28

One like, one MM book written by a man.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 3d

When you buy Countess or Skin Thief, please know you are supporting queer goth mimes. Thank you and Happy Scorpio Season. My month has arrived.

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 3d

two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton

Alt: Two male sportscasters are sitting at a table in front of a crowd, and one of them is saying "that's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for him"

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 3d

As always, Clare is spot on!

Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 3d

The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78K...

The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters

YouTube video by Clare Blackwood

www.youtube.com

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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 3d

First, you must turn three times counter-clockwise

In a garden

At precisely 9:16 p.m.

On a Tuesday

During a leap year

In a place where the Canada geese roam freely

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As you can see, it is not for the faint of heart to gain this power

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