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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 2d

🎂🎉 Happy UK Book Birthday to @isabelcanas.bsky.social 's THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ! Are you ready to be obsessed?

A young woman in 18th Century Mexico becomes haunted by a sinister presence in this historical horror for fans of THE EXORCIST and MEXICAN GOTHIC!

Buy now: geni.us/palbad

Against a background of red fabric with a black lace fan Isabel Cañas' UK Paperback of THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 14h

Congrats Eugen!!

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Marve with an 'E' @justmarvewrites.bsky.social · 4d

WATERSTONES PREORDER CAMPAIGN!

Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 1d

Hope it's great!

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 2d

Friends in the Northeast! I and a whole bunch of authors are headed your way in the next two weeks for @yumewrites.bsky.social 's Traveling SFF Festival! Instead of having conversation partners, we'll be paneling with one another at each stop. More info at
www.yumekitasei.com/travelingsff...

A blue graphic with text on it with information about the Traveling SFF Festival. The text reads:
8 nights, 8 cities, 8 panel discussions

Elaine Cho, JR Dawson, Emily Jane, Micaiah Johnson, Yume Kitasei, Mia Tsai, Julia Vee, with Amanda Foody, Matthew Kressel, Ray Nayler, Sarah Pinsker, Veronica Roth, Fran Wilde

Week 1
Monday, Oct 13: PT Knitwear, New York, NY
Wednesday, Oct 15: Greedy Reads Remington, Baltimore, MD
Thursday, Oct 16: East City Bookshop, Washington, DC
Friday, Oct 17: Mavey Books, Philadelphi, PA (Ardmore)

Week 2
Tuesday, Oct 21: Possible Futures, New Haven, CT
Wednesday, Oct 22: Smith College, Northampton, MA
Thursday, Oct 23: Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT
Friday, Oct 24: Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats on both!

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Cover image to the book, showing the back of an astronaut in a space suit as he steps off into a psychedelic swirl of cosmic colors and stars. The title circles around the figure.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 3d

Ain’t no mail like contributor book mail! So proud to be in this anthology from @aanpress.bsky.social

Cover of a book titled Mmeory. The cover image is abstract, like a face with eyes.

The book is open to a story titled “He Walks the Same Streets” by Guan Un.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 3d

I had a story come out today!

If you think too much about fairy tale witches and also murder and complicated relationships, this one is for you.

theorangebee.substack.com/p/tasting-no...

Tasting notes

Issue seven: flash fiction by Cislyn Smith

theorangebee.substack.com

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 3d

I’m still chewing over the sentence Guan chose and his excellent analysis of how it breaks “rules” and why it works.

Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 3d

New newsletter! A sentence from Lorrie Moore's Birds of America that spins out of sight—

The ballad of the Lazy Susan

Dear reader, Here’s a sentence: But that tiny spot—like any season, or moon, or theater set; like a cake in a rotary display—invariably spun out of reach and...

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 3d

New newsletter! A sentence from Lorrie Moore's Birds of America that spins out of sight—

The ballad of the Lazy Susan

Dear reader, Here’s a sentence: But that tiny spot—like any season, or moon, or theater set; like a cake in a rotary display—invariably spun out of reach and...

buttondown.com

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RJ Taylor @rjtaylor.bsky.social · 3d

My novelette “The Third Movement of Time,” is now free to read in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social !

"Winter observes her frustration at Gorgós's irrational behavior and, within it, a particle of jealousy..."

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Third Movement of Time by RJ Taylor

Winter heard nothing unusual, but she listens harder and there is indeed a sound different than twittering. It is the song of pipes on the wind. It is no tune she recognizes, but she observes in her c...

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats!!

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P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES) @ph-low.com · 5d

this YA horror antho is out today ~ incl. my literally hostile architecture novellette and 12 other amazing stories featuring disabled protagonists!

(it's also @bookshop.org anti-prime day! free shipping!)

bookshop.org/p/books/thes...

These Bodies Ain’t Broken

Check out These Bodies Ain’t Broken - A monstrous transformation within your own body. A sacrificial imprisonment. A fight to the death against an ancient evil. These stories showca...

bookshop.org

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats!

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 6d

Welp, in a first for me, my story "Painted Surfaces" has been translated into Estonian: algernon.ee/jutt/varvitu...

Big thanks to Kristjan Sander who translated and the Estonian spec fic scene!

Värvitud pinnad | Algernon

algernon.ee

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 7d

Happy birthday Misty!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 11d

The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai is fascinating look at archival work through a speculative lens.
reactormag.com/book-review-...

Records and Romance in The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai - Reactor

Science fiction and fantasy, dystopian and romance, slice-of-life and adventure blend in Mia Tsai's sophomore novel.

reactormag.com

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 9d

Feeling spicy this morning and might actually send a newsletter in uh ... let's not talk about it.

If you'd like it, you can sign up here! guanun.com

Guan

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 9d

good news everybody, there's a new Sarah Pauling story out in the world to read

🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 9d

My story is free to read today!! meet Gracie, a very responsible camper. please help Gracie save a terrible terrible child

Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 10d

Free Fiction Friday with
“Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine”
by Sarah Pauling
magazine.trollbreath.com/gracie-and-l...

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 10d

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

Welcome to the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website
Are you the legal or beneficial copyright owner of a book included in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement?
You could get a payment from the $1.5 billion Settlement.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 11d

Psst @choiceofgames.bsky.social games are in the Steam Autumn Sale! Mine, in which you teach magic in secret at a liberal arts college and certainly don’t summon potentially world-ending entities, is less than $6! That’s $0.000012 a word! store.steampowered.com/app/1766340/...

Save 34% on Professor of Magical Studies on Steam

Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by...

store.steampowered.com

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 11d

Writer PSA: as submitting to best of year awards and anthologies season rolls around, it's a great time to take any stories you've published this year and save a clean document of the published text, without any editorial comment.

I often forget, but it will come in handy more than you think.

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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 12d

Everybody look!
My debut novelette is out, thanks to @psychopomp.com!
🖤💀🌹🧟🌹💀🖤

Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 13d

"This is the story of what would not be left behind."

we are so excited to share our final novelette of 2025!!

Garden of the Bloodpotter by @babblewocky.bsky.social

and hey, if you want a free ebook of the novelette, drop your email after the story 🖤✨

psychopomp.com/garden-of-th...

Garden of the Bloodpotter - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

The latest novelette by Erin Brown: Garden of the Bloodpotter, published by Psychopomp, read it for FREE.

psychopomp.com

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