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Jo M Thomas
@journeymouse.bsky.social
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She / her. Into reading, writing, historical fencing. Environmentalist and a Tech Druid. Autistic

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jolantru.bsky.social
I love this story. 💖🔥

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HEART FALLOUT
We deposit the hip shards in the tin can my mother reserves for these incidents. It is a recycled red bean paste can. If you lean in and sniff, you can still smell the red bean paste. There is a la…
strangehorizons.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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jolantru.bsky.social
A new story up on my Kofi:

Plant mecha, love lost and betrayed, solarpunkish.

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Red's Heart
Joyce Chng published a post on Ko-fi
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November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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shonak.bsky.social
It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...
Daughters of Nicnevin
Check out Daughters of Nicnevin - <p>Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers fa...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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jolantru.bsky.social
Grab a cuppa, curl under blankets and read.

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[Story]: For The Care And Love Of A Dragon
Joyce Chng published a post on Ko-fi
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November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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wtpress.bsky.social
Love novellas? How about two in one book? In Wiz Duo 2, Juliet Kemp sends a reluctant knight on a quest, while E M Faulds gives her heroine a superpower that totally sucks.
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Cover of Wiz Duo Book 2. Art by Roz Clarke. The images are of a shield superimposed on a flying dragon, and a girl with a hole through her belly.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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cdelull.bsky.social
thrilled to bits to be doing the Northern Fiction Alliance 2025 Winter Showcase @ the lovely @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social

📌 Dec 4
⏰ 18:30

Tickets below! Come join for mince pies and readings from lovely books including mine from @northodoxpress.bsky.social

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Northern Fiction Alliance 2025 Winter Showcase
Join us for a festive evening of new fiction from northern writers!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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bigbeardybooks.bsky.social
It's Monday again and today I'm reading What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com, the conclusion to the Sworn Soldier trilogy and I've Snake-Eater lined up after that

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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matociquala.bsky.social
An alert reader let me know the whole Lotus Kingdoms series is available for $2.99 each in ebook! Also on Kobo and other platforms!

www.kobo.com/us/en/series...
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Cup of tea, and time to ill. You know what that means, Bluesky: #Storytime.
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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cherylmorgan.bsky.social
Half an hour left: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)
An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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kashinggiwa.bsky.social
On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising...

THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.
Cover for THE KING MUST DIE, illustrated by the amazing Eleonor Piteira.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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carladenyer.bsky.social
Join me in calling on @RachelReevesMP to stop propping up declining oil and gas companies with £2.7 BILLION of tax breaks a year (🤯) and fund a jobs guarantee for workers instead: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
End tax breaks on oil and gas
Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
Special Award – Non-Professional: #WorldFantasyAwards2025
Winner: Steve J Shaw, for Black Shuck Books
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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franonimous.bsky.social
I’m ready to hear what your favourite SFF reads are. Give me suggestions…
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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saranadosfiction.com
Want to support trans authors? Fancy filling your e-reader/computer/phone with stories featuring badass trans folk?

Well, in that case, I have a bundle for you! $35 for 32 books, including Blood on the Snow, the first book of my queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy serial

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
32 book covers, all stories with trans main characters, by trans authors. Centre Text: Trans People Take on the World The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits Argentum in Aqua (Finn McLellan) Blood on the Snow, Silver in the Ashes, Fire in the Sky • Queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy • Werewolves, vampires, magicians, and a whole lot of blood, swearing, and tea • Bisexual vampire gentleman scholar • Disabled transmasc assassin/thief • Lesbian werewolf bodyguard/lady’s maid • Deeply out-of-his-depth anxiety-ridden autistic vampire student (who’s ace, he just doesn’t know it yet) • Culturally (and personally) Significant Knives • Fog-shrouded streets, rooftop chases, fights in alleyways, mysterious boxes… Ongoing web serial: read online at https://saranadosfiction.com/ or in ebook form at https://finn-mclellan.itch.io/
November 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
I'd like to kick off Trans Awareness Month with 32 stories of Trans People Taking On The World, by mainly trans authors

Your heroes may tackle; love, friendship, magic &war, self discovery, trauma & healing, demons (literal or metaphorical 😉) & or the world itself!

🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿ itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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carnyxpress.co.uk
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.

Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
We're now open to publishing enquiries for novellas and short fiction collections, from writers living in the North of England. We're seeking works of strange and literary speculative fiction, of 15,000 to 40,000 words.
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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vallescurarule.bsky.social
"...And on the screen, these words appear:
My name is Clippy, King of Kings;
Would you like some help with your despair?"
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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neilwilliamson.bsky.social
I'm not known for historical fiction but a while back I wrote a story set in Glasgow in 1960, a time when there were a number of infamous murder sprees. It's a story about the human cost of working on those criminal cases involving absolutely inexplicable inhumanity.
A graphic featuring two swans on an icy canal, a book cover for an anthology called Absolute Zero, and the text: "A former Glasgow policeman haunted by an inexplicably brutal murder. A young couple sleepwalking towards disaster. Cold Case"
October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
journeymouse.bsky.social
Short fiction thread:
johannestevans.bsky.social Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 17d
Woman hearing her train is arriving over the intercom and rushing a little faster than she should down the stairs, tripping once she's on the platform, cane goes flying, hitting the floor and hissing in pain as her whole body just smacks against the cement paving

It's quiet, dead as hell.
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
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October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
journeymouse.bsky.social
As predicted, Rosie, who was too excite to eat and too snobbish to drink (much of) the local water while at @bristolcon.bsky.social has spent a ridiculous amount of time with her face in a water bowl since getting back about half three and is now eating like the diet starts tomorrow
October 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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runalongwomble.bsky.social
Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today appropriately for starting a break in reading The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna (and things are not going to plan already!) whether you reading at the moment?
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
journeymouse.bsky.social
Looks like it's a blue skies thinking kind of day here in the vicinity of St Mary Radcliffe on the second day of #BristolCon
Blue skies Iver a church steeple and trees
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
journeymouse.bsky.social
If any BristolConners need me, we're in the corner of that bar. I'm eating salad but Rosie's free to tslk
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM