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Samantha (Sam) Mills
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Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon winner | Codexian | Archivist | Repped by Lisa Rodgers | THE WINGS UPON HER BACK, Compton Crook winner and World Fantasy finalist, out now! (she/her) www.samtasticbooks.com

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Everyone post your hometown slop!

When you're up late drinking with friends... nothing hits like a mountain of loaded carne asada fries 🤤
A paper-lined styrofoam container of loaded carne asada fries -- it's when you take a crapton of french fries, and cover them in carne asada, cheese, guacamole, and sour cream. PRIMO SLOP
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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"Ooh look at that!!"
a room splattered all over in blood (it looks like old videogame graphics??) with the words "caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent"
October 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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ARCs! They exist! I'm in love with the layout, and there is a beautiful introduction by Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social that made me very emotional! 🥹
The cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills (featuring a big bold font with sillhouettes of a rabbit and a pregnancy test in the words) against a hot pink backdrop and the announcement "now on netgalley and edelweiss"
October 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Preorder links!!
B&N - www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rabbit-tes...
Amazon - www.amazon.com/Rabbit-Other...
My local shop, Mysterious Galaxy - www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781616...
Cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills, featuring the title in a big, bold font in white and red on black background, with outlines of a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line going through the text
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!
Sam grinning and holding up a huge board version of the Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text
October 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Tomorrow!!
Graphic for invitation: You're invited to Tachyon's 30th anniversary party! Sunday October 5th, 12 pm - 5pm. San Francisco Public Library. 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco CA. Open to the public. There will be raffles! Book giveaways! Plus award-winning authors and special guests Joe R. Lansdale & Samantha Mills.
October 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Heyoooo! This evening, 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern, we're doing a really fun batch of mini readings and a Q&A for Tachyon's 30th anniversary, live on C.S.E. Cooney's Twitch stream: twitch.tv/csecooney
Promo graphic for Tachyon 30th Anniversary Virtual Reading and Q&A, with pics of the authors: Samantha Mills, Mary G. Thompson, Naseem Jamnia, Auston Habershaw, Josh Rountree, Kimberly Unger, Mia Tsai, Pat Murphy, and Sam J. Miller, plus editor Jaymee Goh. Thursday October 2, 8pm Eastern, live on twitch.tv/csecooney
October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Look what I snagged early from a Tachyon sales table at ArmadilloCon ;D ;D SNEAK PEEK
Sam's hand holding up the book Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill. The cover features a VERY jaunty fox.
September 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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All this signature talk reminds me of a short-lived comic strip I made for my literary theory professor in college, called Derrida Goes to Denny's, in which Jacques Derrida keeps trying to get out of paying his bill using literary theory. (Debbie the waitress is real tired of his shit)
A four panel comic barely better than stick figures. In the first three panels, Jacques Derrida says, "By definition, a written signature implies the actual or empirical nonpresence of the signer. In order to function, that is, in order to be legible, a signature must have a repeatable, iterable, imitable form. It must be able to detach itself from the present and singular intention of its production!" And in the fourth panel, a visibly irritated waitress named Debbie yells, "Sorry, Derrida, but you still have to sign your check!"
September 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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I'm Guest of Honoring at ArmadilloCon this weekend. O: Come chat about memory, resistance (spoiler: writing is important but it also has to be more than writing), and female raaaaage
More deets at armadillocon.org
Friday September 12 Panel: Writing as Resistance, Ballroom E, 4pm-4:55pm ArmadilloCon Opening Ceremony, Ballroom D, 7pm-7:30pm Panel: Storycraft 101: Basic Storycrafting, Southpark A, 8pm-8:55pm Saturday September 13 Panel: Burn It All Down: Female Rage in SFF, Ballroom E, 1pm-1:55pm Autographing: Mills, Tsai, Williams, Dealers Room, 2:30pm Interview with Guest of Honor Samantha Mills, Ballroom D, 4pm-4:55pm Panel: Tachyon Publications 30th Anniversary, Ballroom D, 7pm-7:55pm Sunday September 14 Panel: Memory, Identity and Trauma in SFF, Ballroom F, 10am-10:55am Reading by Guest of Honor Samantha Mills, Sweetwaters, 11am-11:30am
September 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Retreating to my corner whenever litfic/genre discourse gets rolling again
The infamous taxidermy fox photo -- a very janky and pained looking fox with a thousand-year stare, posed inexplicably like a person sitting on a metal chair
September 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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is it happening
The DVD cover for the movie "Dave" starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. In which the president has a stroke, and a lookalike is recruited to take his place.
August 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Fuzzy VHS looking capture of the colorful title screen for THE DRAW SQUAD Screengrab from The Draw Squad showing Mark's hand sketching some 3D shape
July 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I log back in for one evening...
Screencap of bluesky's "trending" sidebar. What's trending? Why, it's MechaHitler, Supreme Court, IRS, and Big Brother 27
July 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Omg I'm wigging ouuuuutttt, The Wings Upon Her Back is a World Fantasy finalist!! 😭

locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...
Screencap of text: The World Fantasy Awards finalists are: Best Novel The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo (Holt; Quercus UK) The Bog Wife, Kay Chronister (Counterpoint; Titan UK) The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking; Del Rey UK) The Wings Upon Her Back, Samantha Mills (Tachyon)
July 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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what's a book—or series of books—that you loved as a kid that almost nobody seems to read or even remember nowadays?

(I cried every time)
David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd. The cover is a colorful illustration of a boy looking up at an enormous, stern-faced bird with one foot resting on an open book
June 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Excuse me
Text: An unnamed HHS official told Fox News the incident stemmed from a “lover’s spat” between researchers at the facility, which allegedly resulted in one of the people poking holes in the other’s personal protective equipment.
June 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I had a runner up. Maybe I'll have time for a costume change
Jane Seymour with fabulously tall curly black hair and a luscious red gown with glittery details and jewelry, from Sam's favorite Scarlet Pimpernel -- the 1982 television movie!!
May 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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What are you wearing to bsky prom?
Madonna during her iconic Vogue performance at the 1990 MTV video music awards. She's striking a pose in an elaborate 19th c. French court gown
May 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Oh that's fine! And here's you, in case you don't get enough pics of yourself
May 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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It was great! That pic doesn't show the double decker nature of our order
Top down photo of a two story platter of crab, shrimp, oysters, and clams
May 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Books, books, get yer books!!
Memorial Day Weekend Sale! Books by Mia Tsai, Pat Murphy, Nalo Hopkinson, Samantha Mills, Brandon Sanderson, Naseem Jamnia, RB Lemberg, Sam J. Miller and more. 20% off site wide with coupon code TACH20 at www.tachyonpublications.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I've been off writing the new book (!!) but am poking my head in to say: Balticon friends, I have my schedule! Come hang out with meee and we'll talk about SFF moms, short fic, and more! :O

@balticon.bsky.social #Balticon
Simple text on a colorful gradient: Sam's Balticon Schedule! Sat 10:00 AM - Gibson - Mommy Issues Sat 4:00 PM - Club Lounge - Kaffeeklatsch with Samantha Mills Sun 10:00 AM - Mount Washington - In Defense of Short Fiction Sun 11:30 AM - James - Lightbulb Moments: How Authors Develop Ideas Mon 10:00 AM - Gibson - Basic Novel Writing Organization
May 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I was gone for a few days and giant-kitty-who-doesn't-like-laps has briefly become a lap cat 🥹 I missed you too, baby
Top down photo of Sam's plaid-clad lap containing the sprawled form of a very clingy black cat
April 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Guess what shipped a little earlyyyy gaze upon my bounty!!
A copy of The Death of Mountains by Jordan Kurella, featuring a very grim reaper looking craggy mountain on the cover
March 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM