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Joshua Chaplinsky

@jchaplinsky.bsky.social

Thanks!

November 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM

Joshua Chaplinsky

@jchaplinsky.bsky.social

Is that because he’s a freaky sex cannibal?

November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM

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Rhiannon Grist

@rhiannonagrist.bsky.social

Thanks Gabino! My debut novel is now available for preorder 🪓

After an incident at work, Tamsin escapes to the Scottish countryside to start over. But her new home comes with an odd neighbour, strange folktales, and disturbances at night 👀

Preorder: geni.us/homesick
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3mdv69dp

November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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Kent Priore

@kentpriore.bsky.social

THE MONSTERS AMONG US is a viscerally cinematic and immersive dark fantasy/horror novel.

Winner of the Firebird Book Award, and Shirley Jackson Award nominee…and also 20% for Black Friday when bought directly from me:

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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM

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Elford Alley

@elfordalley.bsky.social

I got a Black Friday deal!

Black Friday book sale! My horror-comedies Apartment 239 and the sequel, High Strangeness, are both just 99 cents!

Apt. 239
amzn.to/3TizhOT

High Strangeness
shorturl.at/fCEZ9

Apartment 239

Amazon.com: Apartment 239 eBook : Alley, Elford : Books

amzn.to

November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Kurt Phillips

@kurtphillipstx.bsky.social

Thanks Gabino!
Today y’all should head over to @bookpeople.com and buy lots of books.
Mine, Gabino’s, errbody’s. 🖤

The outside of Book People at 6th & Lamar in Austin, Texas

Author Kurt Phillips hold his books Noise Ordinance & The Hand of the Archer.

The wall of horror. The horror section at Book People .

November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM

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Scott Stein

@sstein.bsky.social

The basic premise of the setting of my novel series is it's always Black Friday. Even before I knew it was narrated by a coffee machine robot, I knew it took place in a mall that spanned the continent, where people lived and never left.

www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319

scottsteinonline.com

screenshot of starred review of The Great American Deception in Publishers Weekly, full text at https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-946501-21-9
The Great American Deception
Scott Stein. Tiny Fox, $14.27 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-946501-21-9
Stein (Mean Martin Manning) delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity. Arjay, a sentient, top-of-the-line coffee machine with an excess of pep, tags along on the cases of old-school PI Frank Harken within the luxurious but dystopian confines of the Great American—a giant, autonomous, U.S.-coast-spanning shopping mall. Though the grumpy gumshoe is not always thrilled by Arjay’s presence, he can’t deny that the bot makes a “damn fine” cup of coffee. When one of the Great American’s inhabitants, Pretty Lovely, hires Harken to find her sister, kidnapped heiress Winsome Smiles, Harken and Arjay are plunged into Great American’s underbelly, where they encounter genre staples including mobsters and incompetent cops. Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming, juxtaposing the gritty mystery and dystopian setting with Arjay’s perky narration to excellent effect. Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight. (May)

review in Kirkus reviews of The Great American Deception. full text at:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/scott-stein/the-great-american-deception/

In a giant, futuristic mall, a coffee machine with artificial intelligence excitedly narrates the exploits of its new owner, a retro-style, hard-boiled gumshoe.

Stein’s (Lost, 2019) satirical SF detective yarn at least initially owes much to Douglas Adams before the material finds its own humorous tone. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans may recall Adams’ ancillary detail of robotic home appliances with “Real People Personalities,” often annoying, single-minded entities. And coffee machines were among those conveniences so accessorized. Arjay, the first-person (or first-gadget?) narrator here, is such a device, an ever upbeat, persistent, and talkative “top of the line” coffee maker. Arjay gets delivered to Frank Harken, a private eye of the old school, whose beat is the Great American, a fortresslike, coast-to-coast shopping/dining/entertainment/residential mall (shades of Somtow Sucharitkul’s Mallworld). The mall is a consumer paradise and haven for the elite in an otherwise ill-described (but doubtlessly unpleasant) future United States. Because of a prime directive to serve coffee in any circumstance, Arjay is mobile, resourceful, multilimbed, and filled with extra goodies such as laser cutters. The AI becomes sidekick to bemused tough-guy Harken. The chipper appliance recounts their initial case together, a missing custom-dentistry heiress named Winsome Smiles, connected to shady characters and now apparently kidnapped. Arjay’s enthusiastic narration takes readers through not only the standard private investigator clichés (mobsters, clueless authorities, duplicitous dames), but also bizarre boutiques and services (“legstentions”), literary references encompassing The Princess Bride and Edgar Allan Poe, and—in a very Hitchhiker touch—reams of persnickety Arjay non sequitur footnotes. (Sample: “Assas…

screenshot of review of The Great American Betrayal on Vulture, naming it one of the best comedy books of 2022

full text at the full list at https://www.vulture.com/article/best-comedy-books-2022.html

November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM

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C. J. Daley (BestGhost Out Now!)

@cjdaleywrites.bsky.social

Thanks Gabino! Tales From Cemetery dropped 10/7. A horror short story collection perfect for getting a little spooky!
books2read.com/u/br8AgE

My debut crime thriller, Welcome to Cemetery, is on KU too! Dropped 3/4

A little dark. A little spooky.
books2read.com/u/b5Kn0l

November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff"

@authorlevai.bsky.social

I chipped a molar on my morning granola, so I have to go to the dentist. 🦷⛏️

It would make me feel better if you checked out my books. They're perfect for this stressful time of year because they're short and exciting and have families bickering maybe even harder than yours.
linktr.ee/authorlevai

The poster's two novellas, available for purchase/library borrowing. THE GLASS GARDEN has a kaleidoscopic cover, THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH: A VAMPIRE OPERA IN VERSE has batwings and a book against a starry sky. They books are resting on a lawn strewn with autumn leaves.

November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM

Joshua Chaplinsky

@jchaplinsky.bsky.social

You can check out the full issue here:
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Whisk(e)y Tit

Issue 12 / November 2025 After editing 11 outstanding issues of the Whiskey Tit Journal Meagan Masterman passed the job to me. I hope to continue her work with the same dedication and sincerity. I …

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November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM

Joshua Chaplinsky

@jchaplinsky.bsky.social

I’ve got a new short story up at Whiskey Tit Journal, first one in a while. Part Looney Tunes, part murder ballad.
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