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V. S. Holmes is querying
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Dark spec fic, from snarky archaeologists in space to slow-burn gothic fantasy and everything in between | STARS' EDGE: NEL BENTLY BOOKS and BLOOD OF TITANS | Writer for SolForge Fusion

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V. S. Holmes is querying @vsholmes.bsky.social · 13d
Querying: THE PASSING OF EIR LAHREN, folkloric fantasy + gothic romance inspired by death, sex, and Frisian folklore:
vsholmes.com/eirlahren

Snarky sapphic sci-fi archaeologists:
tr.ee/qD1Wuh

Fantasy with bloodthirsty gods + broken heroes: tr.ee/SW75Ap

Free shorts: vsholmes.substack.com
A promo image on a dark space background showing the six books in the Stars' Edge Universe with the tagline: Dr. Nel Bently discovers her pristine archaeological site is the center of an intergalactic feud. Tossed into a world of high tech and higher stakes, she only has her trowel, her attitude, and her badass and alien girlfriend, Lin. A promo image on a dark forest background showing the four books in the Blood of Titans World with the tagline: When Alea's home is destroyed by a mad kin's genocide, she is forced to choose between mortals who play at gods and gods who pray for mortality. With the gods at war with the titanic creatures that created them, the only heroes left are as broken as the world they must reforge.
vsholmes.bsky.social
A #booksky or #writesky long shot but I'm looking for a short I read but cannot for the life of me remember the title or author.

I read it in a single sitting some time before 2021, discovered it on maybe twitter or tumblr and I think it was something like "The Seux of Roses" or something
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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thereddouglas.bsky.social
Last day (and eight hours) on this bundle, which I just purchased.

If you want Yuri with bad vibes, this is the place to go.
benjanun.bsky.social Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 28d
Welcome to Toxic Yuri November! That's not a thing, you say? Well, now it is. Our new bundle is just $15 for TWENTY-FOUR titles, all united by everyone's favorite theme: terrible, no-good, dangerous lesbians.

itch.io/b/3364/poiso...
Toxic yuri november. Danger, obsession, and deadly lesbians. 24 novels/novellas/visual novels.
November 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
vsholmes.bsky.social
This is a great read!
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
vsholmes.bsky.social
Wishing everyone a cozy and safe Feast today if you're celebrating!
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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littlepuss.net
"Trans people are often told that ‘we have always been here’, but it's rare to see that laid out in a way where we feel lifelike. It's one thing to show idealized images of past figures; it's another to make them feel real."

For real @theneedlenews.com (thank you!!)
Review: 'Gendertrash from Hell' Makes Trans History Feel Brand New
Gendertrash from Hell manages to take the words of the past and make them feel as if they were written yesterday.
theneedlenews.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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rainbowcrate.bsky.social
🌈 Do you or someone you know have an Dec queer book release? Indie or Trad books! Add it by Nov 25th! (No AI books or covers)

Include:
-title & author (& series name)
-release date
-Cover image/link
-Cover artist/designer

🏳️‍🌈 We will be adding these to our new release list!
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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tjdallas7.bsky.social
Sapphic Mega eBook Sale Alert! Dive into your favorite genres with more than 500 hundred titles at rock bottom prices!

Go now: iheartsapphfic.com/2025/11/20/2...

#sapphic #lesfic #wlw #lesbian
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
vsholmes.bsky.social
Doing world building research on Funnelbeaker sites and neolithic culture and I just...I love death practices and burials.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
vsholmes.bsky.social
This month's update discusses quiet revolution, cyclical writing, and all the seeds I'm planting.

open.substack.com/pub/vsholmes...
An image of an orange sunrise with naked trees, framed in dark brown. The caption says "Chop wood, carry water," from The Speculative, my author newsletter.
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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itstessinadress.bsky.social
(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
itstessinadress.bsky.social Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 7d
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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thedescenters.bsky.social
Going to post this again (www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRjg...) because I've been through pseudo-revelatory psychosis twice and I need you to know that everything the LLM tells him is exactly what mania will tell you when you're on the upswing of a psychotic episode. He intentionally gave it a very...
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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ewacat.bsky.social
i am losing my mind at gmail so bad i might actually move email addresses
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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amaralynn.bsky.social
A lonely ex-lab subject on the run, a sweet failed mercenary trying to move on, an exploration of each other through space.

Help fund the audiobook and get exclusive content!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

#queerscifi #scifi #booksky #books #audiobooks #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #ad
A blue space background with a large planet taking up the right side and a spaceship along the bottom. In the center is the cover of Gems and Star Flowers by Amara Lynn and Primrose Song, which has a space scene with a planet taking up the right half and a space ship along the body. In the center is an illustration of two people. The one on the left has brown hair, white skin with pearls scattered on his arms, and wears goggles, a dark blue shirt, brown pants, and dark brown shoes. The person the the left has purple floral skin, light blue hair with purple streaks, a pink shirt, and purple pants. Text at top of the graphic reads: Back it now. On the bottom is a logo of fanned out book and text the book bazaar.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
SUPPORT THE TRANS COMMUNITY! 🏳️⚧️ Please take a moment out of your day to explore this directory of trans organizations, mutual aid groups, and GoFundMe fundraisers. withthisring.xyz/support-tran...
A pink image with a trans flag heart icon and the words in big white font: SUPPORT TRANS RIGHTS.
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
vsholmes.bsky.social
I'm convinced that most of the people doing those ice baths do not work a blue collar/outdoor job because I'm on day 5 of this and I've had enough, thanks.
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
vsholmes.bsky.social
Apologies to anyone who reads what I've been drafting this week. With no heat or hot water I've added 27k* words of nothing but hot baths to every and any draft.

*Contents may settle in transit
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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clpolk.com
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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jolantru.bsky.social
Hey hey hey, SH has a call for Indigenous submissions.

And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers!

If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit!

Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous:

Taiwanese aborigines.
Ainu.

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Indigenous Author Submissions
On November 3rd, we will be opening for speculative fiction stories written by Indigenous authors. We will be capping submissions at 500.
strangehorizons.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
vsholmes.bsky.social
Just the best feeling when one of your beta readers can't put the book down and actually finds the character likable by the end!

Like, I'm glad I'm not the only one who grew an affection for this wretched rat.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
As promised, here is the cover for Muñeca, out June of 2026!

Described thusly: A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Screenshot of a book cover. A woman, visible only from the neck down, is holding a bouquet of flowers, the petals falling off -- are they rotting? -- and blood dripping down from the book title -- Muñeca -- onto the author's name (Cynthia Gómez.)
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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vsholmes.bsky.social
I try not to do this too much, but our boiler just cracked, so if you've been eyeing any of my books, this would be a great time to grab one!

#scifi #fantasy #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
vsholmes.bsky.social V. S. Holmes is querying @vsholmes.bsky.social · 13d
Querying: THE PASSING OF EIR LAHREN, folkloric fantasy + gothic romance inspired by death, sex, and Frisian folklore:
vsholmes.com/eirlahren

Snarky sapphic sci-fi archaeologists:
tr.ee/qD1Wuh

Fantasy with bloodthirsty gods + broken heroes: tr.ee/SW75Ap

Free shorts: vsholmes.substack.com
A promo image on a dark space background showing the six books in the Stars' Edge Universe with the tagline: Dr. Nel Bently discovers her pristine archaeological site is the center of an intergalactic feud. Tossed into a world of high tech and higher stakes, she only has her trowel, her attitude, and her badass and alien girlfriend, Lin. A promo image on a dark forest background showing the four books in the Blood of Titans World with the tagline: When Alea's home is destroyed by a mad kin's genocide, she is forced to choose between mortals who play at gods and gods who pray for mortality. With the gods at war with the titanic creatures that created them, the only heroes left are as broken as the world they must reforge.
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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ddwardiswriting.bsky.social
Writing wise, construction matters more than style. Plain prose on a solid framework is better than perfect prose on a flawed framework.
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Oh great. That weird girl who can't take marketing seriously wrote another book with robots in it. What else is new?

Two days until my birthday. Preorder my novella please 😄
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTWJ89VC

📚💙💕 #bsnm 🌈🚀💫 #BookSky 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #scifi 🖊️📖💰
A black and white picture of a robot in a dark room staring at its hands. Text on top of the picture in blue and pink reads "New Robot Book", "Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina", and "12.12.2025"
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM