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Jen Donohue

@authorizedmusings.bsky.social

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Doberman owner, SFFH writer, 💀, SFWA member, library clerk. Exit Ghost https://books2read.com/ExitGhost Werewolf trilogy: https://authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/learn-to-howl-trilogy.html Burn Up In Victory: https://books2read.com/burnupinvictory/

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · Jul 15

🔥⚔️🔥TODAY IS THE DAY TO BURN UP IN VICTORY 🔥⚔️🔥

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the first hardcover in the world of Burn Up in Victory. It's sitting on the flat-ish part of a dark gray stone, in front of a bunch of greenery that's in soft focus behind (it's a smoke bush, but it isn't "smoking" yet)

Book cover for Burn Up in Victory: a woman with loose red hair, waring a blousy white shirt and black gloves, holding a fencing sword vertically in front of her, her head bowed. The background is dark, but embers surround her.

(I bought this image from a photoset on Shutterstock and added the words to it in Canva. To my knowledge and the best of my ability, no AI is involved)

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 48m

Tis the season, please fund our skeleton crew @thedeadlands.com 🦇💀👻🧛‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧙‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦹‍♀️

Pumpkin pecan bread in the shape of skulls on a cooling rack.

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 34m

#booksky I need your help. Someone a while ago told me about a novel coming out inspired by the heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - the weirdest, honestly funniest, and still unsolved art heist ever. I can't recall the title/author. I NEED this book! Help?

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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 52m

I am so tired of people equating "edge" with "good" writing, and people implying I can't be a serious writer because of the things I love. Bradbury himself inoculated himself early against such foolishness. Love what you love. Write what you love. Tell everyone else to fuck the fuck off.

“Friends made fun. I tore up the Buck Rogers strips. For a month I walked through my fourth-grade classes, stunned and empty. One day I burst into tears, wondering what devastation had happened to me. The answer was: Buck Rogers. He was gone, and life simply wasn’t worth living. The next thought was: Those are not my friends, the ones who got me to tear the strips apart and so tear my own life down the middle; they are my enemies.
I went back to collecting Buck Rogers. My life has been happy ever since. For that was the beginning of my writing science fiction. Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

Ray Bradbury. “Zen in the Art of Writing.”

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

I loved this book so much I gave it a Bugge Awarde last year for favourite nonfiction

(those are awards given out by me, a large bugge)

I wish it was a series with like 50 more books

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 1h

So long as there is an internet and breath in my body, those stories will be there indeed. ❤️

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 6h

For people who love weird short stories—Did you know the incredible Lackington's archive is still online? You should read it now while we still have an internet lackingtons.com

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 54m

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1h

Oh also! (I did not know this was announced, haha.) :D

See you online next year for WisCon!

WisCon on Bluesky @wiscon.bsky.social · 3d

Introducing our next Guest of Honor: Nebula Award Winning Author Premee Mohamed!
#WisCon2026 #Wiscon #premeemohamed #WisCONline2026

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 54m

happy THROWBACK THURSDAY

check out my DEBUT NOVEL, Exit Ghost (2023)

Exit Ghost is modern witchy bisexual disaster girl Hamlet at the Jersey Shore!

books2read.com/ExitGhost

Hardcover copy of Exit Ghost on a driftwood log on sunny Asbury Park Beach

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Canadian Snark Lady and Potato Lover @kristadb1.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, I wrote this.

I keep saying I wrote this and people buy it and then are surprised to learn I wrote this.

I have had people buy this from me, in person, and realize I wrote it after they bought it.

I wrote this and I am very proud of it but honest I did write this 😭 please believe me 😭

Canadian Snark Lady and Potato Lover @kristadb1.bsky.social · Nov 19

Writing as Chris Lewis (Standalone)

Shake your ass and solve some crimes: get ready for a bonkers Private Investigator story, filled with cocktails, chips, and an ex that is nothing but trouble on legs.
I replaced all of the sexism you'd expect of this genre with poutine.

books2read.com/u/brXQ8Y

Cover is pink and blue with a woman dancing on a stage with a pole.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1h

Did you get yours yet?

PDF now. Five bucks, cheap!

Paperback soon.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 15d

YOU MAY NOW FAIL TO DESTROY ME, a rapid response anthology of dangerous political ideas edited by Blake Butler and Ken Baumann, is out now as a PDF and out soon as a paperback. Underground biz, direct sales only. Includes my story of AI and mercy, "Emergency Contact"

failtodestroy.me

YOU MAY NOW FAIL TO DESTROY ME

failtodestroy.me

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Is it Oochie Wally or is it One Mic? @fkasky3.blacksky.app · 1h

Pan’s Labyrinth

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 3h

Name your Fav Non-American Film.

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Fiction Fans Podcast @fictionfanspod.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven’t read this book, go read it. Seriously.

(And then you can listen to us talk about it with Premee, if you want—but go read the book! www.fictionfanspodcast.com/post/author-...)

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 1h

I want to shove some indie fantasy up these redditors’ noses

Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · 6h

People on r/fantasy keep asking “Why is modern fantasy all so UNORIGINAL and BORING,” and I immediately assume they must not be reading, say, N.K. Jemisin or Vajra Chandrasekera or Simon Jimenez or Premee Mohamed or anything published by Neon Hemlock, and frankly that sounds like a them problem.

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 1h

feed me your booooooooooks

Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · Aug 1

I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but...

Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 4h

The most important art advice possible

DannyAraya @dannyaraya.bsky.social · 6h

Creators, be less tasteful and more indulgent.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1h

What the fuck kind of attempt to lead by the hand even is this

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 16h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2h

that SURE IS a pivot!!!

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2h

HE WHAT

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2h

The Aftermath novels are in this, heads up —

jb @fairytaleteacup.bsky.social · 2h

@chuckwendig.bsky.social did you see some of your novels are in this bundle? www.humblebundle.com/books/star-w...

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🎃 Let’s Scare Geoffsica to Death 🎃 @geoffreykeel.bsky.social · 2d

Square dancing is just acoustic DDR

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 3h

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2h

these are STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE and you WANT TO KNOW MORE

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2h

from "Incident on 57th Street":

"Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night, with bruised arms and broken rhythm and a beat up old Buick, but dressed just like dynamite."

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 3h

I actually really more posit that Bruce Springsteen is a short story writer. Like, the opening line of Jungleland? (which is the last song on the album o kay)

"The Rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night. The Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line."

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 3h

my short story, "All This Darkness," takes its title from Springsteen's "Land of Hope and Dreams"

"leave behind your sorrows, let this day be the last
Well, tomorrow there'll be sunshine and all this darkness past"