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Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet)

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Blanco Cuban Writer of SFF. To Root Somewhere Beautiful: An Anthology of Reclamation and The Vanisher on Chain Letter Substack, both are OUT NOW! ¡Palestina Libre! No AI. Unagented. Seeking representation.

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Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 9d

An #agentsguide to THE NECROMANCY OF OZYMANDIAS AND ANNABEL, an Adult Dark Fantasy about a Cuban necromancy student who wants to resurrect his family and the undead woman who searches for her beloved teacher at the scholomance they're both enrolled at.
#amquerying

A graphic with a stack of books in the left corner between a candle and mortar and pestle. On top of the stack is a skull. On the right is a quill above a magic book.

In the center of the graphic it reads: An Agent's Guide to: The Necromancy of Ozymandias and Annabel by Nicholas Perez
A 115,000 word Adult Dark Fantasy

$A graphic with an owl on a branch in front of the moon at the top right. At the bottom there is a table top with (left to right) two extinguished candles, a broken mirror with shards of it on the table, a skull, and two more extinguished candles. In the center it reads: The Pitch Ozy must avoid the murderer in the shadows of the necromantic scholomance to create a soul amethyst to bring back his family, however that murderer just might be the mysterious Annabel, whose fractured memories and hunger for Ozy’s soul make her wonder if she really is the murderer.$ A graphic that at the top says COMPS, short for comparative titles.
From left to right: the book covers to Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers, and the Netflix poster for The Fall of the House of Usher.

A graphic that at the top says COMPS, short for comparative titles.
From left to right: the book covers to Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers, and the Netflix poster for The Fall of the House of Usher.

A graphic that at the top says, What to Expect.

The left side from the top down says:
A bisexual Cuban guy who just wants his family back.

A bisexual woman who hungers for flesh and yearns for the woman who made her into the beast she is.

A school of necromancy for new adult and older adult students in an old Portuguese palace.

The right side from the top down says:
The worst faculty since, well, the movie The Faculty.

Different kinds of necromantic magic and undead creatures.

Are your memories real? Or just lies?

Worm birth.

The past haunts all of us.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 3h

OC-tober prompt #34 is just "suits" so, y'know

Vie in a suit, for your consideration. 🤍🥀

#OC-tober #scribbles

Digital sketch of a feminine character posing in a white suit with a pale pink vest and oxford heels. Their hair is swooped back and they wear a red rose pinned to their lapel.

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Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 3h

Mom, come pick me up, I'm scared.

$A paragraph from The Coven Tendency by Zoe Hana Mikuta "She was afraid to look down at her body. It was still in her, it was in her torso, she knew because her dress was sweat-pasted to her skin and it was moving. The hand had retreated somewhere down inside her and was hiding and so Vanity wanted to leave. She wanted to leave she wanted to leave she wanted to leave. But there was nowhere else to go she was stuck here in her body and that's why she opened her mouth to scream, and when she did she felt the hand come skittering up from the inside of her stomach up her chest up her throat and it was prying open her mouth and when it emerged when it shot against the mirror so hard it fracture it wasn't just a hand it had a wrist and then an arm then--more, she assumed, flipping inside out, more, another girl, another Vanity, an extraction, a cure."$

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Brian K. Henry @briankhenry.bsky.social · Jun 3

It's a strange killing at the Volcano Lounge in my mystery comedy Murder in Murk City: “I don’t care how many suckers you’ve lured into your shady eruption racket, Muggett. Not even the smell of burning magma can cover the stench of this killing.” bit.ly/43FRVGC #kindle #kindleunlimited #booksky

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Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 6h

"We never saw him before! In fact, he isn't even in the story!"

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 19h

Look, I understand that it's a spoof superteam but holy guacamole, I cannot overstate how much I love DUMB BUNNY

"stronger than an ox and almost as smart"

<3 <3 <3

The cover to Showcase #62 (May-June 1966) featuring the parody superteam "The Inferior Five", a colorful gang of misfit superheroes accompanied by humoristic captions for each one.

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Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 12h

I now know what knotting is.
I wish I didn't.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 18h

Today marks 2 years since A LIGHT MOST HATEFUL said "run from that small town, girl, they're going to kill you"

Normally I don't post 2-year marks for my books, but I just found out this one has earned out on its advance! 🎉🎉 so an ENORMOUS THANK YOU to everyone who's chosen to escape Chapel Hill ⚡

2 Years on the Run, above the cover of A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, showing a red cover with lightning striking a dark silhouette. Around it are the following quotes about the book:
Gemma Amor: "will leave you breathless"
Nat Cassidy: "phantasmagoric, unpredictable"
Publishers Weekly in a starred review: "ambitious, genre-shredding"
Rachel Harrison: "a writhing-in-your-seat nightmare"
Clay McLeod Chapman: "awe-inspiring"
Eric LaRocca: "imaginative and chilling"
I Jiang: "mesmerizing"
Library Journal in a starred review: "stunning, terrifying"

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 1d

HOW TF Ryan Murphy get this many spin offs. Omg RICO HIM!!!

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Freyaa🍉❤️‍🔥🇵🇸 @freyaa.bsky.social · 18h

🤯 this looks cool af!!

Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 18h

Today I learned of the genre-defying novel Palenque by Cuban author Maielis González will be published in Spain by Editorial Cuatro lunas on November 6. I desperately want this novel to be translated to English! Here is Maielis' announcement of the book from her Instagram (translation provided)

Screenshot from Maielis González's Instagram isla_viterbo about her upcoming novel Palenque. Translation is from Instagram itself.

"Amix, the long-awaited moment arrives when I can show you the cover of my upcoming novel. Palenque is tricky to tag. If I told you it's a historical novel or a steampunk fantasy work or a Cuban ukrony or a found manuscript or a novel of magical realism or Caribbean afrofuturism or finisecular science fiction... i wouldn't be lying in either case. You will have to read it to come to your own conclusions. And you will be able to do it very soon, because it will be in bookstores on November 6th throughout Spain thanks to the label @cuatrolunaseditorial which trusted it from its very beginning.
Thanks to Sonia Pulido for her beautiful illustration and to the people who read it and contributed invaluablely in her writing.
We'll talk long and long about the topic. In the meantime, may Elegguá open the roads for him to reach his hands."

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, I think some accounts on here are ops meant to sow division by random drive by scoldings.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 20h

I want to share one of my favorite of Lord Dunsany's Jorkens stories. These were the archetypical "club tales" - stories told over a glass of whiskey, which might just be tall tales, but which you wanted to believe.

"Mrs. Jorkens" (1930), first published as "The Mermaid's Husband"

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Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 1d

If I remember correctly, in her previous book, Off With Their Heads, the lesbian MC sat in a bi guy's lap and inspected him to possibly see if she might be interested in guys.
She isn't, but she stuck her hand in his mouth and I still wonder how that was supposed to confirm or deny her interest 😭

Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 1d

A little over halfway through The Coven Tendency by Zoe Hana Mikuta and, welp, the main character just chewed apart the hand of the guy she loves while the girl she loved napped on her shoulder. The guy just offered his other hand when she was done. Neat.

Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw how much I've spent on my credit card so far and EEEEK!!!

Nicholas Perez Is Querying (see pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 1d

Ooo!

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JennyUncensored @jennyuncensored.bsky.social · 1d

Are you spooked? 😏

#inktober #heavy #digitalart #halloween #spooky

An old car driving down a country road at night. Conifer trees overhang the road, telephone poles line one side. In the foggy background a huge jotun is shown stepping over the road.
The jotun has a ridged back and has large hand-like appendages with long, menacing claws extending from them. Their head is of a huge deer skull, with antlers extending, and an eye glowing like a full moon.

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 1d

My hands are shaking a little as I type this but...ITCH! IS OUT TODAY!!

I'm finally a big 5 published author!

Feminist, formication folk horror with creepy crawlies, ancient traditions, unsolved murders, weird processions, masks, an old pub and an excellent dog.

www.hachette.co.uk/titles/gemma...

Gemma Amor dressed in pink holding a copy of ITCH!

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Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverraswriter.bsky.social · 22d

It happened. Bookshop.org has acquired the NEW EDITION of THE HIDDEN FACE. Get the paperback format here:

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 1d

Today's update in the Kickstarter campaign is about Walter Map, a 12th century writer of amusing stories, some of which featured Welsh folklore.
www.kickstarter.com/...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · 1d

synapsid has had an even worse time with housing than i have this year. she's an absolute sweetheart (and sorely missed from the tl). if you have some cash spare then please help get her of the situation she's in 🩷

‎Synapsid (Scary) @synapsid.bsky.social · Aug 14

We need your help again, I really really really hoped our housing problems were finally over and we had a home. The harassment from our new landlord just does not let up whenever either of us set foot in there.
Now completely broke from all this and effectively homeless, again

gofund.me/a94607fc

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for your next read? Check out our curated SFF reviews, author interviews, and upcoming releases in Locus Magazine. Start your literary adventure today! www.locusmag.com/

locus magazine cover - burning fist on black background

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Spooky Scary SkeleFalco @falco.works · 4d

Day 4 -- Acorn

One of the more misleadingly-named seasonal fae found in the Fallows, the prolific thimble-sized "acorn spiders" are actually crustaceans.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 4d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 4d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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