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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 1d

Two lovely reviews for Storyteller just showed up! I'll be on the Tanith Lee panel at the World Fantasy Convention later this month. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you can find it at all the usual places, including tanithleestoryteller.com

tanithleestoryteller.com
“Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is a lovely tribute, indeed. From the first tale to the last, a deep love and admiration for Lee’s life and work shines through in each authors’ interpretation of her distinctive style and voice. These sixteen stories capture the spirit of Tanith Lee’s fiction with their elaborate world-building, complicated consequences, and wild magic everywhere.

It is a wonder to see how unique and yet how familiar this anthology feels.”--Nerdgoblin.com

“Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is a lovely tribute, indeed. From the first tale to the last, a deep love and admiration for Lee’s life and work shines through in each authors’ interpretation of her distinctive style and voice. These sixteen stories capture the spirit of Tanith Lee’s fiction with their elaborate world-building, complicated consequences, and wild magic everywhere.

It is a wonder to see how unique and yet how familiar this anthology feels.”--Nerdgoblin.com

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 2d

Note: I'm pretty sure I mustn't have stuck the ending. I've only got 12 pages left to redraft. But I'm excited enough by the work that that doesn't feel insurmountable. I didn't stick the ending of The Rampant (I flinched for sure) but what needed fixing became obvious after a chat w/ a beta reader.

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 2d

The Museum of Cultural Masks? Yes, please! "Second Face is the only fully online ethnographic mask museum of worldwide scope."
www.maskmuseum.org/gallery/
#writingrabbithole

paper maché Waggis Carnival Mask ca. 1970s

Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck, I really like this story. I'm 90% done with the Meissen Eyes novella redraft. I have a few notes I've jotted down, but I'm racing toward the end before I deal with them. I hope my beta reader gets the same feelings from reading it as I do.

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 3d

I might have discovered a missing scene. I'm going to continue forward with the redraft and just note it for now.

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Harley Ramsey @harleyramseywriter.bsky.social · 4d

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 4d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 4d

Feeling confident enough to share first lines. Always a unreliable feeling, I know, when actively working on a draft!😂

Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 4d

I'm beginning to wonder if I just got overwhelmed by life (which was tricky the last time I worked on this story) and therefore saw bumps as mountains. (Fingers crossed that's true.)

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 4d

I'm on page 99 of my redraft of my Meissen Eyes novella (79%), and it still feels really strong. All I can think is that I didn't stick the ending or it's missing some key setup I haven't hit yet. Not sure why else I'd think it wasn't close to ready. It's now at 32k.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Jul 25

Consumer-facing "A.i." makes up lies, reproduces the bigotry of its inputs, degrades the cognitive abilities of its users, and can be manipulated by its billionaire owners to reflect their biases. It's also based on theft and destroys the environment. It should have NO role in the classroom.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 6d

Here is a nice mushroom

A tiny brownish mushroom of incredible delicateness grows tall from between hairy moss fronds. Teeny hair covers its stem in fuzz, and dew glistens on its cap. All photos by me

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 6d

Just over 70% through the rewrite of my Meissen Eyes novella! I'm trying not to get all up in my own head. I still haven't hit any insurmountable problems. It's science fiction horror (or something along those lines). Here's The Sleepwalker by Maxmilián Pirner which was the initial inspiration.

A woman in a long white nightgown, standing on a narrow ledge with her eyes closed.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 6d

Hi, everyone! I‘ll be teaching Novel-in-a-Year with @storystudiochicago.bsky.social in 2026. This will be my third iteration of the class, with first drafts as the focus this time around. Registration is now open and will close November 7:

www.storystudiochicago.org/advanced-wri...

Novel in a Year: First Draft with Juan Martinez - StoryStudio Chicago

This is the year to write your novel Novel in a Year: First Draft is a unique opportunity to join a writing cohort, study novel craft, workshop key scenes, measure your progress, meet deadlines, and g...

www.storystudiochicago.org

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 8d

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 8d

I hope ya’ll enjoyed reading it as much as I loved working on it and reading the amazing stories that showed up!

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 8d

Just over 3 months ago Storyteller was published and interest is still going strong.
It’s has been featured on a curated list of indie publishers on Bookshop dot org!
You can check out the list here: bookshop.org/lists/short-...

Short Story Standouts

Check out these gripping, funny, and exciting short story collections & anthologies!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 9d

the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 10d

I'm a little over 60% through this redraft of my Meissen Eyes novella. The edit has slowed down, but the story is still moving forward in a comfortable arc. However, the length may get tricky. I'm close to 31k and I don't know how much more I'll need to add to tighten the story. Not worrying though!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 11d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 11d

Don’t wanna piggyback someone’s perfectly good post with book promo, but lrp:

Might I suggest The Woods All Black, an historical Appalachian gothic set in the late ‘20s that explores gender, sexuality, and trans/queer bodily autonomy? It’s also (1) horny (2) spooky and (3) a bash-back revenge story

A photo of me holding a copy of The Woods All Black, partly obscuring my face, in front of a brick wall and window

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 13d

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 13d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 13d

I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 15d

This. Entirely this.

Thaddeus Howze @ebonstorm.bsky.social · 15d

Why do people think creativity is like turning on a light and BANG, you have something new, interesting and able to be sold? I try to explain this to my beloved wife:

“Every meaningful act of creativity is the sum of thousands of quiet decisions, risks, revisions, and mostly failures.”

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 15d

Re-upping this one more time: this is the audio version of one of my new stories for the year, "Data Ghost" originally published in the Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Storyteller.

Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 16d

Aaaaaaaa!!!! @pseudopod.org has finallydropped the audio version of @marthawells.com's original story "Data Ghost," one of the many amazing original stories you'll find in our recently released Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology!
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...

PseudoPod 995: Data Ghost

When the station stats popped up on the screen, the Interface said, Anomalous. Deni batted at their ear and muttered, “No, no, quit it.” In the second cockpit seat, Winnie threw them a look. “What?”…

pseudopod.org

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 15d

It's also a relief to work with something that already has the worldbuilding sorted. The reason I took a break from the Pied Piper (short novella) was the dread I was beginning to feel at the number of research holes I needed to interrogate!