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Jedediah Berry

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Strong tea, nice ink, piles of dice. Out now: THE NAMING SONG (Tor) and THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS (Phantom Mill Games). Coming in 2026: KILL ALL WIZARDS (Tordotcom Publishing). https://thirdarchive.net

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 22d

The next two (!) books of the Wildendrem tabletop RPG setting are coming soon to Kickstarter. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...

Coming soon: Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows

Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.

www.kickstarter.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 8h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, I think I read just the first arc or two.

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 23h

It’s been a while but I remember it being fantastic, and often in very surprising ways.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 1d

Live view of us cooking

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 1d

Launching on Tuesday! Excited to share what we've been cooking up here.

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 22d

The next two (!) books of the Wildendrem tabletop RPG setting are coming soon to Kickstarter. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...

Coming soon: Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows

Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, so good!

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 3d

In between rallies and pickets and bargaining, we’ve been trying to highlight live Kickstarter projects our workers love on this page! Without access to our tools, we’re doing this manually but we wanted to highlight folks who support us on their projects! kickstarterunited.org/projects-our...

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 2d

the absolutely terrific @ndbooks.bsky.social is responsible for every happy english speaking nerd (on this continent) right now

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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 2d

I approve this message.

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 3d

y'all, this book is the one if you love magic, revolution, and words—imagine Miyazaki & Russell Hoban & the Bread and Puppet Theater all hanging out together

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 3d

1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent, thanks. For bicycles, see my first novel. For fountain pens, well, that’s just how the work gets done here :)

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 3d

🚂🖤

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 3d

I was so grateful to get to know Howard a little. A marvelous writer. I felt we were just at the beginning of our friendship when we lost him.

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 3d

Hey now that's my kind of party (but I guess you know that)!

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 3d

The Naming Song

Check out The Naming Song - A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro. “The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of langu...

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 3d

TONIGHT! Join us with @leannareneehieber.bsky.social & @shvetathakrar.com, 7pm at the KGB Bar NYC, for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series. Subbing for @datlow.bsky.social will be the Marvelous @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social. Come one, come all!

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 4d

instantly 100x your short story writing prowess by asking yourself these 50 questions every time you write a short story joylandpublishing.com/fiction/50-q...

50 Questions to Ask About Your Story

Does my story have a big enough concept? Does my story have interesting characters? Does my story have interesting set pieces? Does my story have an interesting conflict? Does my story have big eno...

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Daniel Harila @danielharila.bsky.social · 4d

We're live! Pledge early to help us print the best book possible!

Space Penguin Ink @spacepenguinink.bsky.social · 4d

@danielharila.bsky.social 's newest OSE book DUGINTHROAT DIVIDED is now live on Kickstarter! This "dungeon on your doorstep" will take your characters from level 1 to 4 and is a love letter to Weird Fiction, 1980s fantasy, and the classic age of dungeoncrawling.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...

Duginthroat Divided

Weird fiction meets fairytale whimsy in this dungeon on your doorstep! For Old School Essentials and other roleplaying games.

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · Oct 31

one of my favourite edwardian themes is "the man in the moon is a huge sky perv who enjoys watching couples do it"

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 7d

Articulate, informed, and measured in the face of masked, lawless enforcers with guns and teargas. THIS is politics done the right way.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

Anyway watch the whole thing from Broadview. "Proud" isn't even the word, it's nowhere near how I feel about how strong she's been in the last month.

Kat Speaks at Broadview ICE Facility Press Conference | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois

YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 9d

So excited for the new Enriquez! (Also oh, hey, hello!)

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 9d

Handy guidelines for what others can get away with stealing in future.

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 9d

Yep, exactly the same case for me.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 9d

Ijon Tichy may be Stanislaw Lem's greatest creation–a funny, bumbling, imperfect protagonist who refuses to surrender his optimism in the face of absurdity or despair. Here's where to start with his stories...

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Stanislaw Lem's Greatest Character: An Introduction to Ijon Tichy - Reactor

A lovable, honest bumbler, Tichy's not your typical hero...

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 9d

Had to stow the excess whimsy somewhere :)