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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · Aug 18

✨COVER REVEAL✨

My debut science fantasy, THE DEMON STAR, will be out next July from @dawbooks.bsky.social

artist is Kieran Yanner, who could not have done a better job of capturing the vibe and setting of this book!

Book cover for THE DEMON STAR by Jesse Aragon. It shows a red/orange canyon landscape with alien ruins in the distance, and a ringed gas giant on the horizon. There is an eclipse in the sky, centered above three characters: a woman with light brown skin, dark red hair, and muscled arms, holding a spear; a boy with brown skin and black hair raising one hand toward the eclipse; and a man with pale skin, blond hair, and black robes.

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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

Here's the epic cover for The Demon Star by Jesse Aragon! The otherworldly conflict of Dune, the cosmic strangeness of Gideon the Ninth, and the action of Red Rising converge in this epic science fantasy debut 💥💥

Available July 28, 2026

Artist: Kieran Yanner
Cover Director: Adam Auerbach

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · Aug 18

✨COVER REVEAL✨

My debut science fantasy, THE DEMON STAR, will be out next July from @dawbooks.bsky.social

artist is Kieran Yanner, who could not have done a better job of capturing the vibe and setting of this book!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Aug 13

The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics.

(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.

It’s on us.

A few skeets here with resources: 1/x

On Organizing

time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Aug 1

More attention here please.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 1

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions

One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

nbcnews.to

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · Aug 2

My debut comes out next summer! Epic science fantasy/space opera

PM announcement for THE DEMON STAR by Jesse Aragon from DAW books

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · Jun 27

I am very much here for this!

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · Jun 22

can we fucking not

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 22

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway] @thesuiway.bsky.social · Jun 12

hi friends!

a reminder that the Iron Garden Sutra ARC sign-up form is still open! tell your reviewer friends! tell your influencer friends! tell your friends who like "dark and disturbing" spaceships!

link: forms.gle/PFBzQuL3WShw...

White text against a space nebula background: A monk joins a science team in exploring a long-lost spaceship, uncovering its dark and disturbing history— and encountering something beyond human understanding—in this thought-provoking, metaphysical science fiction novel.

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · Jun 11

DOOMERISM IS CRINGE

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jun 10

If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jun 10

I continue to believe that in times like these, we all share a collective duty NOT to splatter our demotivating feelings of doom and despair all over everybody else in public.

I don’t care if it makes YOU feel better. This isn’t about YOU.

Deal with those feelings outside of public venues.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jun 10

anyway I’m going out to protest this weekend because we haven’t been beaten yet, and I suggest you do the same

it’ll make you feel better than reading an endless stream of posts about how we’re all doomed and we might as well offer ourselves up to be processed into slurry for the MAGA AI mines now

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · Jun 10

"Violence is never the solution"

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Maya Darjani | SFF author @mayadarjani.bsky.social · May 28

Loyalty to the Max is out TODAY. It's currently on KU, and you can get the print online at any major retailer.

Books2read.com/LTTM

One day I'm gonna put makeup on and not look exhausted in a book photo 😭

Exhausted author selfie with the hardcover version of her book

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · May 28

Oh no big deal 😌💕

“Omer’s enthralling debut epic fantasy starts with a bang and never slows… epic battles and juicy political machinations keep the pages turning, and Omer’s Southwest Asian–inflected worldbuilding fascinates. Readers will be eager for more." -Publisher’s Weekly

The gryphon king book cover on publisher’s weekly

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · May 26

There are two kinds of authors:

1) writes idealized self-inserts

2) gives their MC one or two of their worst personality traits, amplifies them x1000, then spends an entire book roasting them for it

also the pipeline from 1 to 2 is real

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · May 25

If you can put in money, put in money.

If you can put in time, put in time.

If you can put in support, put in support.

We can all contribute; it doesn't have to look the same.

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · May 26

one thing that stood out to me reading the book was just how much of a huge judgy bitch Lomelli/Lawrence is. He has an opinion about every single person at the conclave and does not hold back. I love him.

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · May 25

I’m also totally normal about this movie and am living for this thread

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · May 21

okay this made me laugh pretty hard

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · May 20

Oh hey! The first chapter from WEARING THE LION is now free to read on Reactor! Do you need some divine shenanigans in your day?

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · May 20

“'Good news, Heaven,' announces my dipshit husband. 'I’ve made a new king of the mortals.'"

So begins @wiswell.bsky.social's absurd, irreverent take on the story of Hercules. We're charmed to reveal an excerpt from his new novel Wearing the Lion!

reactormag.com/excerpts-wea...

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · May 11

lots of amazing items here!! (also a query critique from yours truly)

Soumi Roy 🇮🇳🇰🇷🏳️‍🌈 @soumiroy1.bsky.social · May 10

The auction is LIVE!
We have incredible items up for grabs—from signed copies of rare and fabulous books to agent critiques and more.
Please check it out, boost, share, and participate if you can. Every bit helps!
www.32auctions.com/HelpSoumiReb...

Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction

Silent auction 'Help Soumi Rebuild Her Life Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · May 8

this book is like "yeah Catholicism has a great aesthetic, but you know what it's missing? arthropods"

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · May 6

I've been very lucky in a lot of ways, to be clear, and I still cannot imagine the lives some of these people are living. The disconnect is vast.

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · May 6

the number of times I've googled a successful author and found out they come from ridiculous wealth is way too high. even anecdotally, I've met so many writers with upper class backgrounds, trust funds, expensive elite degrees, high-earning spouses, no day jobs... it can be enraging.

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Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social · May 6

we DO NOT talk enough about this and we NEED to

Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · May 5

The reason there's no working class representation in publishing is because publishing and writing currently pay so badly only people who are already financially stable can afford to do it.
The problem is always, always money.

Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · May 5

My problem with things like these is that working-class writing ends up being literary stories about how dreary it is being working class. They're not interested in examining the working class through the lens of fantasy, for example.

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