Eliane Boey 🎲🚀CLUB CONTANGO out now
@elianeboey.bsky.social
She/her | SFF, mystery writer | 📚OTHER MINDS '23, CLUB CONTANGO '24 | Stories in Clarkesworld, Solarpunk, Galaxy, et al | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/elianeboey | Rep: Paul Lucas
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New pinned. Family photo of CLUB CONTANGO (mystery novel, single mum "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with gangs, clubs, and gloves off) and OTHER MINDS (technoir novellas: one for the TRON, "Infernal Affairs" and Sphere fans), pubbed by Dark Matter INK 🛒 bookshop.org, blackwells.co.uk, kinokuniya.com.sg
Each day, I add fresh, new skins to the outer layer of the Peony of Tangerine Peels, until the inner peel erupts in fungus, and we begin again.
November 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Each day, I add fresh, new skins to the outer layer of the Peony of Tangerine Peels, until the inner peel erupts in fungus, and we begin again.
Just got @sharangbiswas.bsky.social's THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS, which I've been meaning to get to.
📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
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or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
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use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Just got @sharangbiswas.bsky.social's THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS, which I've been meaning to get to.
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If you would like a Southeast Asian take of the Battletech-verse.
blackwolfsings.itch.io/archipelago-...
blackwolfsings.itch.io/archipelago-...
Archipelago of the Stars by blackwolfsings
A Southeast Asian-inspired Battletech supplement
blackwolfsings.itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
If you would like a Southeast Asian take of the Battletech-verse.
blackwolfsings.itch.io/archipelago-...
blackwolfsings.itch.io/archipelago-...
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Delighted to see Kap's Needle featured in this list of novellas Darusha enjoyed this year! 🚀
Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle by Renan Bernardo.
A generation ship’s mission has failed and now there’s not enough infrastructure to support the crew. Heavy and intense.
A generation ship’s mission has failed and now there’s not enough infrastructure to support the crew. Heavy and intense.
Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle by Renan Bernardo
In 2144 AD, the generation ship Kap’s Needle left Earth to settle a new world. It all went wrong...
app.thestorygraph.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Delighted to see Kap's Needle featured in this list of novellas Darusha enjoyed this year! 🚀
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Space Cowboy Books is in the dealer's room at @loscon.bsky.social
Come by and say hi
Come by and say hi
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Space Cowboy Books is in the dealer's room at @loscon.bsky.social
Come by and say hi
Come by and say hi
Five days and a lot of wood glue later. (Yes, we fixed that "zinc" roof) Half-way mark. Or 37.4pct. Who knows?
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Five days and a lot of wood glue later. (Yes, we fixed that "zinc" roof) Half-way mark. Or 37.4pct. Who knows?
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Imagine valuing art so much that you think it should be free but not caring if the artists starve.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Imagine valuing art so much that you think it should be free but not caring if the artists starve.
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This essay resonated with me and I knew I just had to acquire it. How many of us struggle with the whole "you need to grow" schtick and how the whole YA thing has MCs ageing rapidly.
By @ph-low.com
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
By @ph-low.com
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Old Enough to Become the Villain: Contemporary Narratives Around Growing Up
The first time I watch Everything Everywhere All At Once in theaters, I am struck by the way Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh are presented—not as the generic smooth-faced Hollywood types but decidedl…
strangehorizons.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This essay resonated with me and I knew I just had to acquire it. How many of us struggle with the whole "you need to grow" schtick and how the whole YA thing has MCs ageing rapidly.
By @ph-low.com
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
By @ph-low.com
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Does anyone use paid, upgraded Proton Mail, and was it worth it? (I use the free basic version for non-writing personal stuff)
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Does anyone use paid, upgraded Proton Mail, and was it worth it? (I use the free basic version for non-writing personal stuff)
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Had a blast talking about the collection and a number of other writing topics. Most detailed questions I think I've gotten on a pod to date. Thanks for having me on!
We've got a new Horror in the Margins podcast drop for you! In this episode, we talk to Nebula, Ignyte, Hugo, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated writer of speculative short fiction @thomasha.bsky.social about his debut short story collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories. We discuss...
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Had a blast talking about the collection and a number of other writing topics. Most detailed questions I think I've gotten on a pod to date. Thanks for having me on!
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i have a book about the Death of Mountains visiting a middling hill in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's a short little book, and on sale from my publisher (@lethepress.bsky.social)!
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
i have a book about the Death of Mountains visiting a middling hill in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's a short little book, and on sale from my publisher (@lethepress.bsky.social)!
Dark Matter INK Black Friday sale📉📚🔥 Up to 45pct off paperbacks by @renanbernardo.com, @aijiang.bsky.social, @angelasylvaine.bsky.social, @jelenawrites.bsky.social, @mariadongwrites.bsky.social @mariecroke.bsky.social and more. (Images by Dark Matter INK)
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Dark Matter INK Black Friday sale📉📚🔥 Up to 45pct off paperbacks by @renanbernardo.com, @aijiang.bsky.social, @angelasylvaine.bsky.social, @jelenawrites.bsky.social, @mariadongwrites.bsky.social @mariecroke.bsky.social and more. (Images by Dark Matter INK)
Editing 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️ "Food and drink hawkers from the alleys of Freeport were..." FOOD? <delete> "The best hawkers from the alleys showed up today. Smoky satay dripping with fat, braised noodle slick with black sauce, and the lightest, crispest prata."
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Editing 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️ "Food and drink hawkers from the alleys of Freeport were..." FOOD? <delete> "The best hawkers from the alleys showed up today. Smoky satay dripping with fat, braised noodle slick with black sauce, and the lightest, crispest prata."
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Yesterday I posted about my favorite novellas of the year, and today I'm posting about my favorite short fiction collections of 2025.
acwise.net/favorite-col...
acwise.net/favorite-col...
Favorite Collections of 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Yesterday I posted about my favorite novellas of the year, and today I'm posting about my favorite short fiction collections of 2025.
acwise.net/favorite-col...
acwise.net/favorite-col...
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The old year is dying and the new year struggles to add to your TBR 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️is cosy delicious organising against rapacious space landlords @starsandsabers.bsky.social (Until then get CLUB CONTANGO for the hols!)
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The old year is dying and the new year struggles to add to your TBR 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️is cosy delicious organising against rapacious space landlords @starsandsabers.bsky.social (Until then get CLUB CONTANGO for the hols!)
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
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And yes, I know the novella market has changed and awards focus is on novellas that appear as standalone books from medium to large publishers but I (obviously) still love publishing and reading novellas as meaty offerings in magazines and anthologies and I hope enough people still do too.
As the end of the year approaches here's my 2025 eligibility post for my novella "Descent" in
@clarkesworldmagazine.com:
a science-fantasy story about an expedition on a planet of sonic storms. Adventure, parental expectations and the limits of knowledge
wtalabi.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/2...
@clarkesworldmagazine.com:
a science-fantasy story about an expedition on a planet of sonic storms. Adventure, parental expectations and the limits of knowledge
wtalabi.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/2...
2025 Awards Eligibility (Visibility) Post
Well! Here we are once again, approaching the end of another year. Where does all the time go? Sometimes I wish I could pull a Megalopolis and “stop time” (IYKYK). But yes, as the inexo…
wtalabi.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
And yes, I know the novella market has changed and awards focus is on novellas that appear as standalone books from medium to large publishers but I (obviously) still love publishing and reading novellas as meaty offerings in magazines and anthologies and I hope enough people still do too.
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ICYMI!
Yes, I have a YA fantasy out!
www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-he...
www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...
#YAfantasy #sapphic #swords
www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-he...
www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...
#YAfantasy #sapphic #swords
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
ICYMI!
Just preordered @lavanya.bsky.social's INTERGALACTIC FEAST and I cannot wait to jump back into Sara's mad delicious (and culturally astute) flavour obsession.
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Just preordered @lavanya.bsky.social's INTERGALACTIC FEAST and I cannot wait to jump back into Sara's mad delicious (and culturally astute) flavour obsession.
💛💛🍜!!
👾 The fabulous @elianeboey.bsky.social and @meganflchee.bsky.social are somehow even more fabulous in person. Wandering through Chinatown talking books, history and culture over dinner and desserts was 💯
👾 Sing Lit Station with its amazing bookish cocktails and great conversations!
👾 Sing Lit Station with its amazing bookish cocktails and great conversations!
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
💛💛🍜!!
The old year is dying and the new year struggles to add to your TBR 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️is cosy delicious organising against rapacious space landlords @starsandsabers.bsky.social (Until then get CLUB CONTANGO for the hols!)
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The old year is dying and the new year struggles to add to your TBR 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️is cosy delicious organising against rapacious space landlords @starsandsabers.bsky.social (Until then get CLUB CONTANGO for the hols!)
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
Too early in the day for someone to email me back a message I drafted specifically for punchy brevity with, "I ran this through DeepSeek to expand on your points". The fuck would DeepSeek know the words between the lines in my head?
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Too early in the day for someone to email me back a message I drafted specifically for punchy brevity with, "I ran this through DeepSeek to expand on your points". The fuck would DeepSeek know the words between the lines in my head?
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Thank you for your generosity and shares! Now to 52% - it *all* helps.
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this 8 months for a Black woman owned small press, and there are many reasons it would really help to rally and close this up.
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this 8 months for a Black woman owned small press, and there are many reasons it would really help to rally and close this up.
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2400, 52% / Amount above completes funding for translation of Zvinobvinza / isiZulu translation ...
ko-fi.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Thank you for your generosity and shares! Now to 52% - it *all* helps.
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this 8 months for a Black woman owned small press, and there are many reasons it would really help to rally and close this up.
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this 8 months for a Black woman owned small press, and there are many reasons it would really help to rally and close this up.
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
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I think at the end of the day, people forget that the sff scene is propelled by mostly unpaid labour.
And presses and editors still need to eat. You know, thrive.
But people always forget that.
And presses and editors still need to eat. You know, thrive.
But people always forget that.
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I think at the end of the day, people forget that the sff scene is propelled by mostly unpaid labour.
And presses and editors still need to eat. You know, thrive.
But people always forget that.
And presses and editors still need to eat. You know, thrive.
But people always forget that.
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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly: