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Adria Bailton
@adriabailton.com
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Author of SFF/H, published most recently at Pulp Lit Mag, Worlds of Possibility, The Colored Lens,
queer, ND, she/they
Member of SFWA, Codex
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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 8d
WORLDS DIVIDE is currently "read now" on NetGalley! That means if you have a NetGalley account, you can download it now! (You know how to find it!)

Traveling to parallel worlds is a drag. Except when you meet a hottie.
An ereader with WORLDS DIVIDE Adria Bailton and a galley cover with NetGalley scrawled in a column in green ink on a piece of paper.
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The 2026Debuts has a Goodreads list! As debut books show up on Goodreads, conscientious debut writers add each other to the list. When I took these screenshots, Worlds Divide was the most recent add, but I know there will be more!

Punch that "Want to Read" button on all of these.

Part 1.
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I think this one should be up for awards, so if you haven't read it and read for Hugo, Locus, and Nebulas, give this one a go!
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it's awards season, and my queer cozy fantasy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS is eligible for a Hugo, a Locus, and a Nebula!

there's a brief book description in the post, or you can click this link: www.elizmanderson.com/keeper-of-lo...

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The Keeper of Lonely Spirits: awards eligibility. Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and Nebula Award for Best Novel. Text is in a translucent text box against a background of yellow flowers in the sunset, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits to the right. The cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome..." An old man cursed with immortality hunts ghosts rather than making mortal friends who will die one day. When residents of an Ohio town beset by a vengeful spirit adopt him as their own, he must decide: leave to protect his heart, or stay to save their lives? Text is in a translucent text box against a background of yellow flowers in the sunset, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits to the right. The cover features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome..."
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Day 25 #MelsNoWriMo If your story was a food/meal, what would it be?

Food plays an important role in Worlds Divide. I think the food it would be is deeply personal to the reader. It would be something home cooked reminding you of someone beloved who you lost long ago.
A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Sleeping Defiant by Emmie Christie at Disabled Tales

A poem about a bear. But only about a bear?

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Sleeping Defiant by Emmie Christie
Inside the dead of winter Curls a fiery soul A little bear that sleeps defiant Waiting out the cold.   She does not let it press her Or file down her teeth, The wind of sorrow whipping ‘round Is...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Day 24 #MelsNoWriMo Twist! Something in the story you didn't see coming.

I thought I knew this story so well since it's been with me for so long. This story wasn't meant to have a character in it, but he always bursts in like BigBirdKickingDownDoor.gif
A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I have a couple of days off of day job later this week. I'll probably get my newsletter out then. Subscribe now to get all the latest info on my debut, fellow debuts, short story recs, and a cute puppy photo!

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November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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With Nothing Left by Emma Burnett at Small Wonders

A story of caring beyond ...

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With Nothing Left - Small Wonders
I buy us some printed burgers. One for you, two for me, because you like me soft, for comfort, and this body needs to eat to keep the padding fed, all wrapped around and through the metal subframe.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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‪Looking for a weekend read? The Far Time Incident, the first book in my time travel series, is a BookBub Featured Deal today – grab it for just $0.99 on Kindle!
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#timetravel #sff #sciencefiction #scifi #Pompeii #history #mystery #Books #fiction #Booksky #BookBub
Promo graphic for The Far Time Incident by Neve Maslakovic. The book cover shows three silhouettes falling into the gray smoke of an erupting volcano. “The door to my office flew open with a bang. Julia—the professor—he’s been scattered across time!” Book 1 of a completed three-book series. Time travel, history, and mystery. A red badge in the lower corner says $0.99 on Kindle. The background is vintage, weathered paper with clock imagery.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Day 23 #MelsNoWriMo Snippet time!

Today's snippet is from somewhere in the middle of my story. It references a book I was reading during one of my rewrites and edits. Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire) is one of my favorite authors. I like paying her homage by referencing one of her books, however oblique
The cover for Into the Drowning Deep with the line "Between lines about people-eating Sirens, I slipped." A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Today's throwback story rec is Seen Small Through Glass by Premee Mohammed at Fireside Fiction (2022) firesidefiction.com/seen-small-t...
Seen Small Through Glass
My upper lip was oozing sweat like syrup and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Thinking that months from now, someone would interview me in jail and I’d say...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I know I just posted last night, but I'm deep in book promotion and all the promotions. Feeling a big like Magenta "I'm lucky, you're lucky, we're all lucky!"

Anyway, come be lucky on my Discord server!

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November 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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I cannot do a third movie tonight, so I'm going to miss out. But starting next weekend, I'm going to try to make this again. Life has settled for a bit at least.

My partner looked Pandorum up. Apparently Pandorum bankrupted the company that made it.

#horrorwatch
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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ALL RIGHT! ARE YOU READY, #HorrorWatch?
It's time! Time to press

PLAYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Pandorum (2009)
Two astronauts awaken from hypersleep on a derelict ship with no memory—only the sense they’re not alone, as the vessel’s secrets turn deadly.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Tonight! Tonight! Join us my yapping yetis for #HorrorWatch! Where at 9PM EST we shall feast on the visually unsettling delights of Pondorum!

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PANDORUM - HD TRAILER
From the producers of the Resident Evil film franchise comes Pandorum, a terrifying thriller in which two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I want to try getting into some sci-fi reading. Is anyone able to give me any good book recommendations please?
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I need to get back to horrorwatch with the crew.

Tonight, I'm watching Frankenstein (2025) on Netflix.
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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So, waht other kinds of diversity do you like in your novels? What do you put into yours?

#MelsNoWriMo
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: Other diversity in your novel. 👨‍🦯
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Day 22 #MelsNoWriMo Other diversity in your story

Funny that, I just finished a whole Reel and TikTok series discussion this: www.tiktok.com/@adriabailton
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Click on the videos that have me in a black hoodie in my car.
The biggest rep is the disability rep.
A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Today's throwback story rec is Scratchers by Corey Farrenkopf at The Arcanist (2022) nhttps://thearcanist.io/scratchers-f4fcacfaef6e
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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For the crowd in a different time zone than I, or for the really late night/early morning crowd, here is my regular Discord server promotion. Never miss a story rec or cute puppy photo! discord.gg/ZFCyNwv4uJ
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November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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I am curious for obvious reasons.
Gimme queer? 🥺👉👈

#MelsNoWriMo
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: How queer is your novel? 🌈
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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everyone is saying "prescriptive advice" so I'm going to skip that and go with "any advice I've been given specific to what I was writing that failed to account for lived experience the reader didn't have"

#MelsNoWriMo
mslanna.bsky.social Mel Grebing - nd enby on the loose @mslanna.bsky.social · 5d
We've shared the good, now the bad. 👀
I know I struggled so much of the prescriptive writing advice out there sold as The Truth. What's the worst advice you ever got, be it on a specific thing in your writing or writing in general?

#MelsNoWriMo
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: Worst writing advice you ever got? 👎
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Day 21 #MelsNoWriMo How queer is your story? 🌈

As a good writer friend once said about themself and I'm adopting: I'm queer and everything I write is inherently queer. Queer characters and relationships in the book. The primary relationship between Nina and Corey is between a bi girl and a boy...
A calender for November in red and oranges. Each day has a question about the writing project in it. (1. Who Are you 2. What is your project? 3.Sinppet Time! 4. Who is your protagonist? 5. Who is the 2nd most important character in the novel? 6. Who is your antagonist? 7. What genre are you writing and why? 8. Fave piece of world-building so far. 9. Plotter? Pantser? Something in-between? Spill the beans. 10. Snippet Time! 11. Faceclaim time 12. Most important friendship in your story? 13. Romance in your story? (Or free space.) 14. Weirdest thing you researched so far? 15. What inspired your story? 16. Your favourite way to write? 17. Snippet Time! 18. Is your story still the same you started out with? 19. Best writing advice you ever got? 20. Worst writing advice you ever got? 21. How queer is your story? 22. Other diversity in your story? 23. Twist/something you didn't see coming? 24. Snippet Time! 25. If your story was a food/meal, what would it be? 26. How do you name your characters? 27. Is there a playlist to your story? Wanna share? 28. Turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 29. Ideas for your dream cover? 30. You Did It! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet.
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Ready for a completed series? Pick up Favour Fire now! It’s got:
🔥 sword lesbian (bi)
🔥 axe lesbian
🔥 disaster bi
🔥 everything’s on fire
🔥 oh shit!
🔥 shenanigans with a volcano
🔥 intergenerational team-up
🔥 international team-up
🔥 queer firebending dragon riders
🌈📚
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Favour Fire by Vanessa Ricci-Thode
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November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Spirit Summoning, Part I by Sakumi Tayama at Words Without Borders
Translated from the Japanese by Mark Gibeau

A story of when lies become truth and consequences.

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Spirit Summoning, Part I
Words Without Borders Campus connects students and educators to eye-opening contemporary literature from around the globe.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM