Lyndsie Manusos
@lmanusos.bsky.social
She/Her | Indie Bookseller - Wild Geese Bookshop | Pushcart Nominee | Fiction in Reactor, F&SF, The Deadlands, Lightspeed, etc. | Sr Contributor for Book Riot
Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Literary
Debut novella FROM THESE DARK ABODES available now!
Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Literary
Debut novella FROM THESE DARK ABODES available now!
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Lyndsie Manusos
@lmanusos.bsky.social
· Dec 8
I’m finally doing my 2024 eligibility post! Immensely grateful to the editors, presses, and publications that gave my stories beautiful homes. 2024 was a year of many firsts. Here’s to another year of creativity and inspiration.
Read more about my eligible work on my site: tinyurl.com/2r8pr738
Read more about my eligible work on my site: tinyurl.com/2r8pr738
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Had the lovely opportunity to speak to a couple classes at Franklin College on writing this morning, and all my silly ramblings aside, I think the best thing I said was "Allow yourself to write shitty."
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Had the lovely opportunity to speak to a couple classes at Franklin College on writing this morning, and all my silly ramblings aside, I think the best thing I said was "Allow yourself to write shitty."
Had the lovely opportunity to speak to a couple classes at Franklin College on writing this morning, and all my silly ramblings aside, I think the best thing I said was "Allow yourself to write shitty."
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Had the lovely opportunity to speak to a couple classes at Franklin College on writing this morning, and all my silly ramblings aside, I think the best thing I said was "Allow yourself to write shitty."
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Had a great time chatting books I'm reading, favorite horror that isn't marketed as horror, and surefire ways to give a feng shui expert a heart attack for The Racket's newsletter. DM for the interview if you don't subscribe already, but really you should get on over to: theracketsf.com/newsletter.
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Had a great time chatting books I'm reading, favorite horror that isn't marketed as horror, and surefire ways to give a feng shui expert a heart attack for The Racket's newsletter. DM for the interview if you don't subscribe already, but really you should get on over to: theracketsf.com/newsletter.
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It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤
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Tall Is Her Body by Robert de la Chevotière was a gorgeous story of generational trauma, navigating colonization, and identity.
reactormag.com/book-review-...
reactormag.com/book-review-...
History and Hauntings: Tall Is Her Body by Robert de la Chevotière - Reactor
Alex Brown reviews Robert de la Chevotière’s gorgeous magical realism story.
reactormag.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Tall Is Her Body by Robert de la Chevotière was a gorgeous story of generational trauma, navigating colonization, and identity.
reactormag.com/book-review-...
reactormag.com/book-review-...
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Happy to see “Swallow Test” on here, alongside other weird and wonderful stories. @kcmeadbrewer.com recs are always excellent 🪲
fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, @lmanusos.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, & @angelaliu.bsky.social ⚡🦇
don't want to subscribe to my free tiny letter? weird choice! but you should still read these stories, so here's the link:
don't want to subscribe to my free tiny letter? weird choice! but you should still read these stories, so here's the link:
a bullet, a lantern, an eyeball, a knife
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Happy to see “Swallow Test” on here, alongside other weird and wonderful stories. @kcmeadbrewer.com recs are always excellent 🪲
IMMENSELY grateful that the incomparable @kcmeadbrewer.com included my @hexliterary.bsky.social flash story "Proscenium" in her newsletter, which is one of my favorite newsletters! You should absolutely subscribe!!
And you can read my weird flash here:
hexliterary.com?p=2668
And you can read my weird flash here:
hexliterary.com?p=2668
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
IMMENSELY grateful that the incomparable @kcmeadbrewer.com included my @hexliterary.bsky.social flash story "Proscenium" in her newsletter, which is one of my favorite newsletters! You should absolutely subscribe!!
And you can read my weird flash here:
hexliterary.com?p=2668
And you can read my weird flash here:
hexliterary.com?p=2668
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here's the first few lines of my novel, THE LAST LOCK-IN, which is just sitting on my hard drive, because I don't have the energy to send it out anymore
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
here's the first few lines of my novel, THE LAST LOCK-IN, which is just sitting on my hard drive, because I don't have the energy to send it out anymore
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The first sentence-ish of my interactive dark fairytale SPARROW & WOLF, also in agonizing on sub limbo
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The first sentence-ish of my interactive dark fairytale SPARROW & WOLF, also in agonizing on sub limbo
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Convincing you to read the Titan and Serpent story cycle via the first lines of "And at its Heart, Such Depths".
Share yours!
(Collection comes out Fall 2026, and you can read the first couple stories from it free - links in next post.)
Share yours!
(Collection comes out Fall 2026, and you can read the first couple stories from it free - links in next post.)
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Convincing you to read the Titan and Serpent story cycle via the first lines of "And at its Heart, Such Depths".
Share yours!
(Collection comes out Fall 2026, and you can read the first couple stories from it free - links in next post.)
Share yours!
(Collection comes out Fall 2026, and you can read the first couple stories from it free - links in next post.)
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Convincing you to read the first lines of my deep sea novel, also in the on sub waiting agony purgatory...👀🌊✨️
Share yours!
Share yours!
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Convincing you to read the first lines of my deep sea novel, also in the on sub waiting agony purgatory...👀🌊✨️
Share yours!
Share yours!
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Someone needs to pick thos up asap, because from those opening lines alone I very much want to read this book.
Convincing you to read the first lines of my novel WHAT THE WATERS GAVE US, which has been on sub (**waiting agony**), because I'd so love to find an editor for this weird lake eco-fantasy.
Share yours!
Share yours!
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Someone needs to pick thos up asap, because from those opening lines alone I very much want to read this book.
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Convincing you to read the first lines of my novel WHAT THE WATERS GAVE US, which has been on sub (**waiting agony**), because I'd so love to find an editor for this weird lake eco-fantasy.
Share yours!
Share yours!
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Convincing you to read the first lines of my novel WHAT THE WATERS GAVE US, which has been on sub (**waiting agony**), because I'd so love to find an editor for this weird lake eco-fantasy.
Share yours!
Share yours!
Convincing you to read the first lines of my novel WHAT THE WATERS GAVE US, which has been on sub (**waiting agony**), because I'd so love to find an editor for this weird lake eco-fantasy.
Share yours!
Share yours!
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Convincing you to read the first lines of my novel WHAT THE WATERS GAVE US, which has been on sub (**waiting agony**), because I'd so love to find an editor for this weird lake eco-fantasy.
Share yours!
Share yours!
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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
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Look At My Book Everyone :)
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Look At My Book Everyone :)
Cinnamon sugar croissant acquired.
Decided to switch things up and draft a short story longhand and WELP now I have almost 30 pages of a "Lady of the House of Love" but in space story? I feel pretty good about it? I might reward myself with a little treat?
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Cinnamon sugar croissant acquired.
Decided to switch things up and draft a short story longhand and WELP now I have almost 30 pages of a "Lady of the House of Love" but in space story? I feel pretty good about it? I might reward myself with a little treat?
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Decided to switch things up and draft a short story longhand and WELP now I have almost 30 pages of a "Lady of the House of Love" but in space story? I feel pretty good about it? I might reward myself with a little treat?
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i have been DYING to share this cover for SO LONG so everyone please look at it and not my face.
We are delighted to reveal the cover for @isabel.kim's debut novel Sublimation, a story of immigration, identity, and paradox from the author of "Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole"
Revealing Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim - Reactor
A tale of doppelgangers and corporate intrigue, heartbreak and betrayal — arriving June 2026
reactormag.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
i have been DYING to share this cover for SO LONG so everyone please look at it and not my face.
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I'm already seeing people saying that if OpenAI goes down it'll be the fault of authors and publishers, as opposed to actually blaming Sam Altman and OpenAI for BREAKING THE DANG LAW!
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm already seeing people saying that if OpenAI goes down it'll be the fault of authors and publishers, as opposed to actually blaming Sam Altman and OpenAI for BREAKING THE DANG LAW!
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Writing can be a lonely business, but it doesn't have to be! Even the best of us go through fallow periods, self-doubt, multiple abandoned drafts. The trick is not to let any of that derail you entirely, or to believe that other writers are your competition. They're your colleagues & your champions.
What sort of message do you hope people take away from your most recent book/wip? #WritingPrompt
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Writing can be a lonely business, but it doesn't have to be! Even the best of us go through fallow periods, self-doubt, multiple abandoned drafts. The trick is not to let any of that derail you entirely, or to believe that other writers are your competition. They're your colleagues & your champions.
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This newsletter is soul-enriching and inspiring, and you should absolutely subscribe.
at long last! fresh bats flying out from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @nicanstett.bsky.social, @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, & Sanni Omodolapo🦇
don't subscribe to my weirdo letter? to each their own but you should still check out these stories! so here's the link
don't subscribe to my weirdo letter? to each their own but you should still check out these stories! so here's the link
a heart, a tendril, an anchor, a clock
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This newsletter is soul-enriching and inspiring, and you should absolutely subscribe.
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Thank you everyone who came yesterday to the online launch party for The House of Illusionists! Thanks, @interstellarflight.bsky.social for putting it together! I loved meeting you all! (Also, I hate hearing my recorded voice, but for those who don't, here's some clips from last night)
Vanessa Fogg, author of THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS, on writing, daydreams, and reading.
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Thank you everyone who came yesterday to the online launch party for The House of Illusionists! Thanks, @interstellarflight.bsky.social for putting it together! I loved meeting you all! (Also, I hate hearing my recorded voice, but for those who don't, here's some clips from last night)
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I read this glorious collection by @vanessafogg.bsky.social who is one of my favorite short story writers. A collection that thrives in the negative space. In what the characters don’t say. Words missing or left untold. Connections waiting to be made. ✨
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I read this glorious collection by @vanessafogg.bsky.social who is one of my favorite short story writers. A collection that thrives in the negative space. In what the characters don’t say. Words missing or left untold. Connections waiting to be made. ✨