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Jen Donohue
@authorizedmusings.bsky.social
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Doberman owner, SFFH writer, 💀, SFWA member, library clerk. Exit Ghost https://books2read.com/ExitGhost Werewolf trilogy: https://authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/learn-to-howl-trilogy.html Burn Up In Victory: https://books2read.com/burnupinvictory/
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · Jul 15
🔥⚔️🔥TODAY IS THE DAY TO BURN UP IN VICTORY 🔥⚔️🔥

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the first hardcover in the world of Burn Up in Victory. It's sitting on the flat-ish part of a dark gray stone, in front of a bunch of greenery that's in soft focus behind (it's a smoke bush, but it isn't "smoking" yet) Book cover for Burn Up in Victory: a woman with loose red hair, waring a blousy white shirt and black gloves, holding a fencing sword vertically in front of her, her head bowed. The background is dark, but embers surround her. (I bought this image from a photoset on Shutterstock and added the words to it in Canva. To my knowledge and the best of my ability, no AI is involved)
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 14h
these are also all available on itch! (and the first three Run With the Hunted are pay-what-you-want)

jenniferrdonohue.itch.io

also-also available on HOOPLA, if you've got access to that through your library
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 14h
If you wondered, THESE are my novellas!

Run With the Hunted is a series

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The Drowned Heir and Between the Blood and the Sun each stand alone

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Novellas (with pictures of book covers): The Drowned Heir, Between the Blood and the Sun, all 8 Run With the Hunted covers together in a grid.
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 6h
Names are hard!!
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 6h
Some of it is SO GOOD and some of it is 😬
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 1d
"Vanessa Fogg is one such bard, using her words to illuminate the emotions, the ambitions, the hopes and desires, and sometimes fears, of humanity."

A lovely review for my upcoming book, The House of Illusionists! @interstellarflight.bsky.social

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Templeton Gate 3.0 - Literature - The House of Illusionists, and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg
Reviews of science fiction, fantasy and horror books, films, comics and television shows
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7h
Ooh maybe mine will have them!

I was just looking in Walgreens yesterday for anything new/different/interesting
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7h
Oooh I haven't seen those anywhere 👀
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7h
Those ducks had it coming
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7h
Oooh even better
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7h
Haha that makes sense though?!

Because it's like "duck ..TOLLING? like ringing a bell??"
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7h
Want to read a short story I wrote that is partially inspired by protest, partially inspired by Frankenstein?

"A Country of Eternal Light" appeared in Apex in 2022

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A Country of Eternal Light
The sweater we buried you in is hanging in my closet. I don’t mean it to sound as though I dug you up for the sake of the sweater...
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 8h
I got excited when I saw advertisement for it and was like "did they make a movie starring a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever??" and my husband told me to stop making up dog breeds 😆
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 8h
IT'S THE ONLY THING LEFT
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 8h
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Should Momofuku Own the Term ‘Chili Crunch’? [Updated]
How the company acquired the “chile crunch” trademark to begin with — and why it’s sending cease-and-desist letters to small businesses using both spellings of the phrase
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 8h
JUST PLAIN GONNA WORK
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 8h
Remember when Momofuku was trying to trademark "chili crunch"
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 8h
Thank you!

just making my way down the list! but, disappointing
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 8h
make your weekend special!
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 20d
2024 was my year of the werewolf, and the LEARN TO HOWL trilogy is COMPLETE!

Now you can get Learn to Howl, Baying the Moon, and The Company of Wolves!

paperback and ebook, including HOOPLA

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The cover for Learn to Howl: a black wolf with blue eyes in profile on a red background, her ear pinned back and her teeth and tongue visible. Painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art cover copy: When a football player follows her home from an illicit party, preacher's daughter Allie unmasks a secret her mama has been trying to pray away for almost seventeen years. The women in their family are werewolves. All except for Allie's mama. To protect her normal life, Allie's mama dumps her off in the wilderness with three aunts she's never heard of, let alone met. But Allie hardly has a chance to find her bearings among these strangers who are family before somebody kidnaps them and burns down their ancestral home. Allie has one high-speed road trip with her wolfier-than-thou cousin, Morgan, to learn how to make her way in a world she never knew existed the cover for Baying the Moon: a open-mouthed wolf facing you so that you're staring down its labyrinthine throat) an at all those teeth, on a red background painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art cover blurb: Six months ago, Allie believed she was a normal human girl from a normal human family. Then one terrible night lead to a breathless road trip to rescue her real family. Her werewolf family. After a begrudging information exchange with the Ward family, Allie's Aunt Rachel has decided it's safest to wait and see what the secret medical organization Allie rescued her from does next. But Allie and her cousin Morgan aren't risking any more of their family. Along with some other young werewolves, they hit the road again to delve into Silvernail's goals and how they found the wolves in the first place. The Company of Wolves cover: a black wolf, head turned to the left and mouth open as though its crying out, and part of it is shattering apart like broken glass or a mirror, with a bullet hole in it, revealing a haggard-looking human face beneath, just a blue eye and some black hair painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art cover blurb: Allie can’t believe that Rachel means it. They have to be able to go home after everything, right? That isn’t something Morgan is willing to discuss; she’s out for blood, and the Wards are going to help her get it. They’re ‘running ops,’ as the Wards apparently call it, hitting Silvernail locations both for information and destruction. But isn’t enough for Morgan, and she gets an even better idea about how they’re going to get to Silvernail himself and end this once and for all.
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 8h
R from Escape Pod
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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 9h
Log Lady [calmly stroking log]: One day the sadness will end.

Log Lady [spinning donuts on your lawn in a Camaro]: But not today bitch
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 10h
On Spec to Close
On Spec to Close
Canadian SF magazine On Spec is closing after 35 years. December’s issue #134 will be the last. Managing editor Diane Walton explained in an editorial to issue #133: Earlier this year, I anno…
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 21h
Bluesky has happily leveraged these cultural points to their advantage too when trying to distinguish themselves from the other twitters.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22h
Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 10h
yall my dad wrote this!! a middle grade book about human evolution ⚡️⚡️⚡️ pre-order a copy for your kiddos!

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Reading the Bones by Marc Aronson | Book Moon Books
High-stakes adventure meets cutting-edge anthropology in this true account of the groundbreaking discovery of Homo naledi, which shocked the world of evolutionary science and redefined what it means t...
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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 19h
"The bog speaks to me in burps.

I stand on its edge and hold out my palm.

A plum—blood red and dewy—falls into my hand from the sky."

it's Fantasy Friday!!

read on:

The Dragon and the Bog by @translunarytree.bsky.social

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A plum—blood red and dewy—falls into my hand from the sky.
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Andrew Weldon @andrew-weldon.design · 13h
BUY YOUR FERRYMAN’S COIN EARLY AND OFTEN
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 19h
I don’t care if Monday’s dead
Tuesday’s dead and Wednesday’s dead
Thursday, I don’t care it’s dead
it’s Friday, BUY A COIN

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1 41 Write your reply ‪The Deadlands‬ ‪@thedeadlands.com‬ · 1d that is all BREAKING NEWS announced for the 1st time. doing cool shit isn't cheap! GOOD ARTISTS NEEDTA GET PAID can you dig it? (6ft down if you know what we mean) help us pay good artists that wanna get paid to do cool shit: in return for your support you get A COIN FOR THE FERRYMAN 👇 link Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground psychopomp.com 7 The Deadlands ‪@thedeadlands.com‬ Home Explore Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Saved Profile Settings New Post Search Following Discover Popular With Friends More feeds Trending Cam Skattebo Gaza Ceasefire Letitia James NYCC 2023 Feedback • Privacy • Terms • Help Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.” Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”
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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 14h
We will be adding goodies from @katelechler.bsky.social and @premeemohamed.com NEXT WEEK, doo doo doo. R U EXCITE? More bad lyrics coming too! Promise! Get your coin for Charon, be prepared for The End!
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 19h
I don’t care if Monday’s dead
Tuesday’s dead and Wednesday’s dead
Thursday, I don’t care it’s dead
it’s Friday, BUY A COIN

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1 41 Write your reply ‪The Deadlands‬ ‪@thedeadlands.com‬ · 1d that is all BREAKING NEWS announced for the 1st time. doing cool shit isn't cheap! GOOD ARTISTS NEEDTA GET PAID can you dig it? (6ft down if you know what we mean) help us pay good artists that wanna get paid to do cool shit: in return for your support you get A COIN FOR THE FERRYMAN 👇 link Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground psychopomp.com 7 The Deadlands ‪@thedeadlands.com‬ Home Explore Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Saved Profile Settings New Post Search Following Discover Popular With Friends More feeds Trending Cam Skattebo Gaza Ceasefire Letitia James NYCC 2023 Feedback • Privacy • Terms • Help Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.” Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”
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