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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that is such a good idea! My own agenda books are so plain. Maybe I will try making fun jackets for them.

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 1d

This delights me. I wish you such a wonderful 2026 of gay crimes in pretty covers ✨

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 2d

Just got an email telling me it's the last day for 'prime deals.' Fug that crap. Want a real deal? Check out our selection of $2 eBooks for October. Any sale helps keep our indie spirit going. Thank you!

undertowpublications.com/ebooks

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Peter BOO! Counter @peterbcounter.com · 2d

HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE is two years old. My monster mash of memoir and criticism exploring the experience of PTSD is my less popular book, but I love it and I'm proud of it. Thank you to everyone who has supported this one with your blurbs, reviews, and recommendations—you're all diamonds.

The book HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE: ON VIOLENCE AND MEMORY laying on white painted wooden slats, next to three spent bullet casings.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 3d

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 3d

Self pub folks: have any of you heard of or used Blurb for printing? I'd not heard of it before and am looking to hear about anyone's experience with it :)

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 4d

I see it's on Kobo Plus, at least in Canada! I've already added it to my library so I'll see it and remember to read it after I finish my current book 🖤

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Oh wow this looks like my jam. Will definitely read very soon. Congratulations on your book birthday!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Rex! 🖤

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Exciting!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Also, I was trying to think of what I might be in the mood to read tonight and seeing your name reminded me that TRVE CVLT is still sitting on my 10p shelf, waiting for its moment. Am I about to give myself nightmares?

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Gamut reprinted it last year (though I still usually try to send people to Cursed Morsels for it when I can)! And I'm trying to find a publisher for a collection that it's in!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

You're so nice! Perhaps this one will be of special interest to you as it's a sort of a sequel to the one you published in No Trouble At All...

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!!!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Awww Tiffany 🖤

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

I just got my first acceptance note for an original short story since February of 2024 and I am screaming inside my heart

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

I wouldn't be who I am if I hadn't been raised by these books. Intrigued but skeptical about the concept of an American film.

Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 5d

the moomins are great because its like “here is your whimsical children’s adventures, I made it full of melancholic explorations of community and longing, subversive anarchist leanings, and bisexual yearning just like you asked” and some of us DID ask so thank you

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 8d

25% THERE!! 🍾🎉 That means we're only 5% away from opening to NONFICTION SUBMISSIONS for the first time EVER! Thank you all so much for your support 💜👽

🌙🐄 Come fly to the moon with us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

A cow is lifted into space by a UFO tractor beam. Two little ghost friends are following. The cow's thought bubble reads, "$5,140!"

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 6d

YOU ALL DID IT! WE HIT OUR REPRINT STRETCH GOAL! Our next stretch goal is MORE ART!! This is so much more than we dared hope possible so thank you 💜

Beyond more art we also have nonfiction followed by an additional reprint per issue!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." Five goals, of $6900, $8300, $9700, $11000, $12000 are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $13000 (More Art!) and $14000 (Nonfiction) and $15000 (+1 Reprints!) show a closed lock next to them.

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 7d

There are some real bangers on this list of stories! Delighted to find my own "Cire Perdue" (reprinted by @houseofgamut.bsky.social after its initial appearance in a @cursedmorsels.bsky.social anthology) included and described as "capital-W Weird" (such a lovely compliment!).