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Robert Nazar Arjoyan

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · Nov 9

Friends!

I'm Naz and I write horror/spec/literary fic often emphasizing diaspora & Armenian characters.

36 stories published with more slated at Deadlands, Pleiades, Crow & Cross Keys, a TBA anthology, & elsewhere.

Working on my debut novel!

Would you please share and help me find the folks?

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 26m

Thank you, John!

Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 43m

I’m riding this wave all weekend, gang.

Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 20h

HOLY MOLY! The New York Public Library has named SILK & SINEW one of the best new horror books for adults. Congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of our contributors. The anthology is available now wherever books are sold.

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/silk-sinew...

The NY Public Library's list of Best New Horror Books for Adults.

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks, Vanessa!

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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 16h

This is so, so well deserved. Congrats to the Silk and Sinew team, to everyone on the list, and also special congrats and shoutout to @thomasha.bsky.social for his recognition on this list, too! Silk and Sinew and Uncertain Sons are two of the best books I read this year.

Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 17h

New York Public Library names SILK & SINEW in Best New #Horror List for 2025!!!

Thank you #NYPL for this incredible honor. It means so much to be recognized by the best people-- #librarians! Contributors, YOUR words have given us the most amazing, fabulously bloody, 3-legged crow wings!!

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 17h

Just revvin up!

Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks, Eva jan! Book’s picking up steam!

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 21h

As Tracy Jordan says: WHAT THE WHAT?!

Elated to announce SILK & SINEW made the New York Public Library's list of Best New Horror for Adults! Being featured among such company is an honor. Thanks to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social for getting us here and @badhandbooks.bsky.social for seeing us through.

New York Public Library list of recommended horror books including SILK & SINEW!

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 1d

A most excellent choice!

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 2d

Ok so I returned to @vromansbookstore.bsky.social to buy my son a book and I ran into @joerlansdale.bsky.social and one thing led to another and he asked me to autograph him a copy of SILK & SINEW from the inimitable @badhandbooks.bsky.social. Thanks, Joe! What an afternoon. Bookstores fuckin rock.

Me signing a copy of SILK & SINEW for Joe Lansdale.

Me and Joe Lansdale, who holds a copy of SILK & SINEW

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, James. He and his daughter Kacey were very sweet and generous with their time!

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 2d

I am too. Totally unexpected and completely fabulous! Such a nice, warm fella.

Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 2d

Dern right!

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 2d

Ah thanks! I hope you enjoy.

Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much, Eva jan!

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 3d

a cartoon dog wearing a hat and a vest

Alt: Goofy smiling all goofy.

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 3d

Isn’t it great? I went on their site for something and it’s the SILK & SINEW page just from history/repeated checks and lo! In stock. So cool.

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 3d

There it is! A little triumph to find something of mine on the shelf at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social! Way to go, @badhandbooks.bsky.social and @garnetonwinter.bsky.social!

Me holding a copy of SILK & SINEW in bookstore aisle

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 3d

I just learned that my FAVORITE BOOKSTORE has a copy of SILK & SINEW on the shelves at THIS VERY MOMENT.

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 3d

SILENT SCREAMS is out! Just in time for Halloween, a short story antho of dreadful, creeping horror. Find my piece “The Candle in the Kitchen” and so much more at mybook.to/SilentScream...

😱

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 5d

Denim jacket and jeans! Like the antagonist of THE STAND. And Vegas is his stronghold.

a man wearing a denim shirt with a yellow button on his chest

Alt: Randall Flagg from The Stand wearing a denim shirt with a yellow button on his chest

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 5d

I’m in Vegas and I only just realized I’m wearing a Canadian tuxedo a la Randall Flagg.

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes the beard grows bad, sometimes good. This time, it's good.

Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 7d

Happy birthday, bud!

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 7d

“Just devastating. This story of a father and son trying to keep going after a tragic loss will bring you to tears. In hard times, it’s the little details that stand out, and Robert Nazar Arjoyan nails them here.”

Thanks so much for the kind notice. @jmwwjournal.bsky.social put this up for BotN! 💪🍔

Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 7d

The shortlist continued. (3/3)
Links to short fiction from:

Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
Daniel Abiva Hunt & Albert Rodriguez in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

All the links and more here:

The Shortlist for October 3, 2025 - Turn & Work

Nonfiction by Katrina Ralbag, and fiction from Kara Crawford, Daniel Abiva Hunt, Amy DeBellis, Brad Barkley, Kelli Short Borges, Trevor J. Houser, Robert Nazar Arjoyan, Wade Harris and Albert Rodrigue...

www.turnandwork.com

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