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T. Frohock (she/her)
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CI-borg and Wellman award finalist--author of the Los Nefilim series from Harper Voyager US. I've long been accused of telling stories, which is a southern colloquialism for lying.

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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · Jan 29
Everything has a price, and those who deal with the devil pay dearly in this enthralling dark fantasy about redemption, sacrifice, and a Hell-bound battle between good and evil ...

Read it now: Miserere: An Autumn Tale, Fully Revised is only $5.99 awfulagent.com/ebooks/miser...
Art by Michael C Hayes of three warriors, two women flanking a kneeling man in a gothic setting.
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julietemckenna.bsky.social
Book Quote Wedneday's word is 'world' #BookQW
Being able to see those who live in the supernatural realm is all very well, but there's a lot which Dan Mackmain and his girlfriend Fin don't know, and that can land them in a world of hurt. Modern fantasy rooted in British myths and folklore #Booksky
Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those. Book extract reads: ‘But the Hunter…’ Fin shook her head, uncertain. ‘I mean, I know he’s turned up when we’ve been sorting out trouble for the Green Man, but he’s had his own reasons for getting involved. Ask him directly for help and you’ll owe him a favour. A big one. What do you think he’ll want in return?’ ‘I have no idea.’ I understood Fin’s hesitation. The Green Man and Wade are aeons-old, mysterious powers whose realms are the ancient greenwood and long-lost wetlands. No one knows much about them, even those of us who’ve seen them in person. Most people believe they’re guardians of the natural world. As long as you don’t piss them off, they seem to be benign. The Hunter, though, he’s different, whether you call him Herne or Cernunnos or the Horned One. Those names are tied to tales of bloody violence. Those aren’t only stories. I’d seen one person who’d got on the Hunter’s shit list die an agonising death.
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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veronicaghenry.bsky.social
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW for The People’s Library!!!! 😭

If you love sci-fi about libraries, rebellion, and the fight against AI, pre-order now.
www.publishersweekly.com/9781662520297 #booksky #blackbooksky
The People’s Library by Veronica G Henry
Henry (the Scorched Earth series) shows off her impressive gift for worldbuilding in this striking dystopian novel set in the ne...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Blog post and newsletter are now live! Miserere has been picked for Kobo's Best of the Year BOGO sale and the details are here: www.tfrohock.com/blog/2025/11...
Miserere picked for Kobo's Best of the Year BOGO Sale — T. Frohock
I know it’s been quiet here lately, but my offline life has been exceptionally full. I’ve got a lot of mundane life events happening in the background that requires my full attention, but I’ll soon be...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Blog post and newsletter are now live! Miserere has been picked for Kobo's Best of the Year BOGO sale and the details are here: www.tfrohock.com/blog/2025/11...
Miserere picked for Kobo's Best of the Year BOGO Sale — T. Frohock
I know it’s been quiet here lately, but my offline life has been exceptionally full. I’ve got a lot of mundane life events happening in the background that requires my full attention, but I’ll soon be...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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kateelliottsff.bsky.social
Reminder: My short fiction up (free) at @reactorsff.bsky.social follows an older medic with scant resources who fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.

Near future, solidarity, old MC, family, hanging on to hope #booksky #sff

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Barnacle - Reactor
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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WHY IS MY DOG BARKING THERE IS NO ONE THERE? AND OTHER MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE is the new title of my memoirs.
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
A while ago, I made a tiny little video about vampires and Lord Byron using the archives at Newstead Abbey.

A 2 minute nibble, right here!

🧛

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Vampires at Newstead!
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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tadethompson.bsky.social
So, Jesus said there will always be poor people (Matthew 26:11).
He also said (everywhere!) look after the poor.

The fact that there will always be poor people means Christians will always have an obligation to look after them.

Any other view is a form of Christianity that doesn't follow Christ.
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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julietemckenna.bsky.social
Excellent, honest thread on the reality of being a writer today.
thomasdlee.bsky.social Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 6d
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
tfrohock.com
The greatest Thanksgiving recording ever:
alana-m-vincent.net V is for תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ @alana-m-vincent.net · 6d
Since my mother is awake and texting me questions about stand mixers, I gather it is time for this:

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Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording
YouTube video by Stiletto
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November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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mikeofthepalace.bsky.social
Sign of the Dragon by @marysoonlee.bsky.social - well that was a masterpiece, and I might even stop crying some day. Epic poetry isn't something I read too much of, so thanks to my fellow r/Fantasy mod u/oboist73 for suggesting this. Full ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review at bit.ly/3MbFyNn
“The Sign of the Dragon” by Mary Soon Lee
I’ve been reading this for the readalong started by my fellow r/Fantasy mod /u/oboist73, so a special thanks to her for making me aware of the existence of this excellent, excellent book. I may even f...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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tanyahuff.bsky.social
Today's word is RUN. Today's #BookQW from Third Time Lucky & Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World. This e-collection contains my first professional sale, initially written on vacation in Cuba circa 1982. The CRS would not allow me to deduct the trip as a business expense...
Digital cover of THIRD TIME LUCKY in the upper left. Lizard from the cover under the text. Magdelene watched a rivulet of sweat run over the corded muscles of his stomach to disappear behind his embroidered, linen loincloth. He looked to be about twenty years older than Joah; tall and sleekly muscular. His skin was a little darker and, just now, glistened in the sunlight. She smiled. Even in the midst of disaster, Magdelene could appreciate the finer things in life. " If you're looking for Joah," she said at last, rolling her eyes as Zayd leapt backward and dropped his spear into a fighting stance, "she isn't here." "Where is the wizard?" Zayd demanded. Magdelene polished off a muffin and bowed.
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Today's #BookQW is "run" and here, Rachael sees Lucian for the first time in years ...
Run: Lucian kept his right leg away from her and leaned heavily on his cane. Blood seeped into his beard from a wound on his cheek. Beneath his tan, his skin was sallow, the circles beneath his eyes black. In his gaze Rachael immediately recognized the agony no drug could heal. She knew that look well. She had broken all her mirrors so she wouldn’t have to see her own distraught stare day after day. Now her pain looked back at her through his dark eyes, and for one blind moment, she wanted to run him through with her sword. Just to make their anguish stop. www.tfrohock.com #BookQW
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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julietemckenna.bsky.social
Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'run' #BookQW
Dan Mackmain and his girlfriend Fin would like to get on with managing their own lives without supernatural interference. They should remember to be careful what they wish for.
A contemporary fantasy series rooted in British myths and folklore.
Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those. Book extract reads: ‘Fin and I had been talking about moving in together for more than a year now. We’d agreed to find somewhere near Blithehurst. Fin can work from anywhere, but my job isn’t one I can do from home. We’d seen nice enough houses which we could afford within reasonable driving distance. They were in towns though, or much bigger villages than this one. Neither of us was keen on that. I’d grown up in a little old house out on its own in the countryside. These days, I lived in a cottage in the Blithehurst woods, well away from the manor. I wasn’t looking forward to having neighbours. Human neighbours, that is. We’d both be happy to put a bit of distance between us and the dryads in Blithehurst’s woods as well. They seemed to think they could run my life, with or without the Green Man’s permission. Frai, the eldest, who’d lived there since the Norman Conquest, said he hadn’t called on me for months, so I might as well make myself useful. I’d been up and down the country telling solitary dryads living in remnants of wild wood about each other. They started giving me oak saplings to take from one wood to another, and younger dryads began appearing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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lavietidhar.bsky.social
I can't repost this so quoting instead:

"I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books."

But it IS basically books: 30% original pub, 30% foreign, 30% tv/film and/or royalties. the other 10% is--
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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alfie.photography
Lots of articles and videos around at the moment, about how a lot of modern cinema is missing something. If you ingest one of these explainers, please let it be this one.

This gentleman truly knows what makes good cinema. And articulates it all perfectly imho.

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Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
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November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated
emilyhughes.bsky.social Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · Oct 21
do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you!

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2025-2026 Horror Master List Book Submissions
Because I'm out of my mind, I maintain a running list of the year's new horror releases. If you're an author/editor/marketer/publicist/agent who'd like one of your books included, please fill out the ...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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marysoonlee.bsky.social
#TSOTD_note. "The Sign of the Dragon" has a Best Sellers Rank of 53,631 on Kindle just now. Best-selling authors would laugh derisively at this number, but it's the highest I remember seeing for my book, so I'm happy!

✏️📖🐉

N.B. Lower numbers are better, so there are over 50,000 books ahead of mine.
Screen shot of Amazon data on "The Sign of the Dragon" on 11/24/2025. Text in the screenshot reads: Best Sellers Rank: #53,631 in Kindle Store #83 in Epic Poetry (Books) #102 in Asian Myth & Legend #580 in Dark Fantasy Horror Customer Reviews: 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (42)
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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kadoore.com
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
kadoore.com K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · May 29
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
tfrohock.com
Migraine Monday here.
a black and white drawing with the words i wanna die or something on it
ALT: a black and white drawing with the words i wanna die or something on it
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November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
tfrohock.com
I know my website is never going to garner hundreds of hits a day, so when it happens, I start looking for the why. So. much. learning. curve. But I think I've finally got the correct rules set to stop a lot of the scraping.
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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kellyjbaker.bsky.social
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Aye
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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jstrider66.bsky.social
I've re-posted my review of All Systems Red, book 1 in @marthawells.com's Murderbot Diaries. The series is excellent, about a half human/half robot security construct who is awkward around its human clients while they do a planetary survey.
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Revisited review: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
A science fiction and fantasy blog featuring book reviews, author interviews, new author spotlights, themed reading lists and more.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
Meme: Straight ahead: Pausing to consider the meaning of Cohen's lyrics Everyone, for some reason, takes the exit towards Singing "Hallelujah" again in religious contexts
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM