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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈

@mcmanlypants.bsky.social

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I write queer horror & sci fi. Gay, Appalachian native, infosec professional, 2020 Manly Wade Wellman winner, co-host of Arcane Carolinas. He/him. michaelgwilliamsbooks.com #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #SFWA #HWA #LGBTQ

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · Apr 29

Do you love signed paperback first editions of weird, queer horror? Well, you're in luck! Mine is available right now:

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Children of Solitude – Paperback

Reginald Voth's mother is (finally) dead. When he returns to the ancestral Appalachian homestead where she raised him, he finds it haunted (or worse) and hi

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 21h

#Booksky Big congratulatory 👍🏻 to author Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social! He is a finalist for the Starpath Creatives contest, a semi-finalist for the Small Spec Book Awards and he’ll be selling books at @creamandamber.bsky.social’s Fall Mini Market 10/11! queenofswordspress.com/authors/mich...

Semi-finalist graphic for TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE by Michael Merriam.

White man with beard and graying hair holding his book and a mug with his book cover on it.

Cover for LAST CAR AT ANNWN STATION by Michael Merriam.

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 23h

I basically have a book out every other year. Sometimes I’ll also manage a short story.

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 23h

Still thinking of you, Matt! So sorry you are having to deal with this, but so glad you’re in good hands.

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 1d

"The consumers won't care if it's AI."

Ah yes, horror fans -- y'know, the people who famously ask "Are the FX Practical?!" about literally every movie -- definitely won't care that you're feeding them prompt-generated slop. Good call there.

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Diversity in Horror (they/them) @diversityhorror.bsky.social · 1d

Tech bros are trying to convince us that the AI they’re building will one day become Data from Star Trek. But right now we’re headed for AM from “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.”

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William C. Tracy @wctracy.bsky.social · 1d

Our next campaign is about series! Here's the first 4 new books from Space Wizard:
DEC 2025: The Dragonscale Comb by J.S. Fields
JAN 2026: Corruption by Alexander Verbeek-van den Toren
FEB 2026: Tea Tale by Kristina W. Kelly
MAR 2026: The Healer's Magic by C.J. Hosack

#lgbtqfantasy #sapphic #gay

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 2d

THE COME BACK KIDS is cosmic horror with tinges of sci fi, my take on "creepy kids" stories.

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AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 3d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:

What genre is your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 8: Genres.
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 2d

Hi #LGBTQWriteAThon! My WIP is a mix of kids-on-bikes and dystopian adult sci-fi.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 3d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:

What genre is your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 3d

My current #WIP is set in Hazel Branch, NC, USA, a small town in the high mountains of Appalachia. It's a modern-day queer cosmic horror novel called THE COME BACK KIDS.

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AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 4d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 7:

What is the setting and/or time period of your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 3d

Hi #LGBTQWriteAThon!

My WIP is set in and around Colorado Springs, across three time periods: an apocalyptic 1993, a dystopian present, and the Late Cretaceous (75 million years ago). 🦖

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 4d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 7:

What is the setting and/or time period of your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 3d

Unseasonably hot amble on the Appalachian Trail today.
1. Big oak tree.
2. Ghost pipe gone to seed.
3. Fields.
4. Autumn color.

Photograph looking up the trunk of a massive oak tree toward a colorful autumn canopy. Partway up the trunk, a white trail marker blaze has been painted on the bark.

Up-close photograph of ghost pipe, a parasitic, non-photosynthesizing plant growing low to the forest floor. The pale pink stalks terminate in pink knobs, where the summertime flowers have closed.

Photograph looking across a mown grass field toward a line of trees, with rolling hills beyond under blue sky.

Photograph looking up at a colorful forest canopy, popping with yellow and red autumn leaves.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 3d

Do this! Bookshop.org is good stuff.

Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 3d

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 3d

Sending you good thoughts and hoping you recover quickly and soon!

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 4d

I feel a ton of despair at the moment so this is a long-distance supportive fist bump/friendly nod/etc to say yes, you are not alone in that.

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Olivia Wylie @otterkit.bsky.social · 4d

Ray Bradbury really understood October
#booksky

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 4d

My poem “Shapeshifters Local” has been published in the Autumn 2025 issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, alongside what looks to be an amazing TOC. Read my poem here: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 6d

In the woods today with @craftyrowan.bsky.social.
1. Pond.
2. Wetland.
3. Maple.
4. Hemlocks.

Landscape photograph of a pond catching autumn sunlight. The foreground is a shadowy wooded shoreline. The far shore is forested, with pops of fall color under blue sky.

Photograph of a sunny wetland area. Water and grassy open space fill the foreground. Autumnal trees form the middle ground under blue sky.

Photograph looking up the bole of a large, scraggly old maple tree touched with autumn orange.

Photograph of a hemlock forest catching sunlight in its branches. Bars of shadow stripe the forest floor.

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 6d

Not me, talking up @natania.bsky.social's NETHERFORD HALL as a perfect queer-normative world on a panel at @spacemagiccon.bsky.social!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 6d

Hey baby am I a restaurant? Because you give me a lot of reservations.

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 6d

"Burger" Becky Heineman designed Bard's Tale III and was the lead programmer on Wasteland. A legend.

Javmaster @javmaster.bsky.social · 7d

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Gaming Legend Rebecca Heineman Could Really Do With Your Positive Vibes Right Now

Heineman's career in games stretches back over 40 years

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Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 6d

And we've started! Check us out!
www.rainbowspacemagi...

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Dansky Macabre @rdansky.bsky.social · 8d

Just finished a reading with Jon Carroll Thomas at Moon Dog Meadery in Durham, where we were the opening act for death metal band Cosmic Reaper. Rock on, horror peeps….

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Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · 8d

BookSky Feeds! 🔁 for visibility

booksky.club/main 📚💙
booksky.club/romance 📚🌶️
booksky.club/SFF 📚🪐
booksky.club/horror 📚🩸
booksky.club/nonfiction 📚💡
booksky.club/litfic 📚🖋️
booksky.club/histfic 📚⏳
booksky.club/mystery 📚⚡️
booksky.club/booktok 📚⏰
booksky.club/audio 📚🎧

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 8d

There's also 🌈🚀💫 (Queer SFF Feed)!

Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 8d

It's terrifying and infuriating.