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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 2d
This Sunday, 12/14, we'll be at the Durham Geek & Grub Market (Holiday Nightmare Edition) from 12PM to 5PM at the Durham Armory. Books make excellent presents, and they're also very helpful when you can't stand another minute of the holidays...
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Durham Geek and Grub Market (Holiday Nightmare Edition) | Geek & Grub Market
Join Krampus at this fun holiday event where Halloween Meets Christmas!
www.geekandgrubmarket.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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mickpuck.bsky.social
It's a great book - recommended!
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social
This Sunday, 12/14, we'll be at the Durham Geek & Grub Market (Holiday Nightmare Edition) from 12PM to 5PM at the Durham Armory. Books make excellent presents, and they're also very helpful when you can't stand another minute of the holidays...
www.geekandgrubmarket.com/event-detail...
Durham Geek and Grub Market (Holiday Nightmare Edition) | Geek & Grub Market
Join Krampus at this fun holiday event where Halloween Meets Christmas!
www.geekandgrubmarket.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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jaekoyanagi.com
One of my favorite reads of 2025.
amtuomala.bsky.social A.M. Tuomala @amtuomala.bsky.social · 3d
If you are unfamiliar with The Map and the Territory, it's my post-apocalyptic picaresque novel about a cartographer and a wizard trying to get home in a shattered world haunted by gods and opportunists.

Amazon: www.amazon.com/Map-Territor...

Other Purchase links: bsky.app/profile/amtu...
The cover of the book The Map and the Territory, which depicts two people standing back to back. One of them is a tall Black man in elaborate wizardly robes, and the other is a short woman with brown skin who wears practical clothes for adventuring.
December 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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tfg.bsky.social
this is one of my favourite sff novels of recent years: deeply imagined and subtly crafted
amtuomala.bsky.social A.M. Tuomala @amtuomala.bsky.social · 3d
If you are unfamiliar with The Map and the Territory, it's my post-apocalyptic picaresque novel about a cartographer and a wizard trying to get home in a shattered world haunted by gods and opportunists.

Amazon: www.amazon.com/Map-Territor...

Other Purchase links: bsky.app/profile/amtu...
The cover of the book The Map and the Territory, which depicts two people standing back to back. One of them is a tall Black man in elaborate wizardly robes, and the other is a short woman with brown skin who wears practical clothes for adventuring.
December 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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amtuomala.bsky.social
If you've enjoyed The Map and the Territory, it would mean a lot to me if you were to review it! This book only has 27 ratings on Storygraph and 50 on Goodreads; I'd love to see it reach a wider audience.
thoughtsstained.bsky.social Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 4d
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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simonguy.bsky.social
Any conversation about genre in the 21st century (especially, but in no way limited to, folk-horror, horror and contemporary fantasy) that doesn't include the quiet, yet vivid underpinning of Hookland, is missing something vital.
hookland.bsky.social hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 3d
The witch works with cold realities. She walks the mud, she walks the mist. Puddles on the threshold of ice become her scrying pools. Trees become a black scratching against sky gift her a new secret language. No season is hollow of magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
December 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social
An excellent thread, and an even better book.
kvjohansen.bsky.social K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 4d
I hope you're liking this Solstice Advent calendar thread of quotes! The Wolf and the Wild King reaches its climax on the winter solstice, a night of storm and treachery.
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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bogiperson.bsky.social
wow?????!!!???? I did NOT expect this
slgable.bsky.social Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 8d
Am delighted that Song of Spores by @bogiperson.bsky.social is one of Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025!

Full list here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
TRANSCRIPT: Song of Spores by Bogi Takács Broken Eye Books (Tags: Science Fiction, Fungal Fiction) I love fungal horror and will give any sentient spaceship a shot, so when I read the description of this book, I was hooked right away. I loved the cranky insectoid grandma and the shy, shape-shifting trans character, but the fact that the antagonist is a clump of sentient fungal spores really set this apart for me. This is a book familiar with tropes and readers’ expectations but chooses to purposefully flip them around and see what’s underneath. Examining what, or who, counts as alive and why we need to classify everything this way is exactly the sort of mind-expanding question I want science fiction to ask. —Brianne Kane, Associate Editor/Books & Rights Manager
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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jayaprakash777.bsky.social
It's Bandcamp Friday! My band Djinn And Miskatonic has music you can buy.
Our most recent EP, Paleo:

djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep
Paleo EP, by Djinn and Miskatonic
3 track album
djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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scalzi.com
If you're an artist/crafter/musician/other creator with things that would make great gifts this holiday season, today's the Whatever gift guide day for you to share your work with thousands! Follow the link to tell people how to get what you've got!

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/03/t...
The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
The Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025 continues, and today we move away from books and focus on other gifts and crafts — which you can take to mean just about any other sort of thing a creative pers…
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December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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qospress.bsky.social
#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
What has the Roman military ever done for Britain and for cats? 🐱 Well, a lot, it seems. Romans roads are excellent routes for carrying soldiers, disease, ideas, and felines.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Roman military helped bring cats to Europe
Military roads helped the felines domesticate about 2,000 years ago.
www.popsci.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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scalzi.com
Indie and non-traditional authors! Today is the day to tell thousands of readers looking for holiday gifts about your books! Follow the link for all the details and leave a post (there, not here)!

Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow!

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/02/t...
The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Two: Non-Traditional Books
Today is Day Two of the Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025, and today the focus is on Non-Traditionally Published Books: Self-published works, electronically-exclusive books, books from micro presses…
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December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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kvjohansen.bsky.social
Everyone's promoting Christmas books. The Wolf and the Wild King is a winter solstice book. Night, darkness, fire, sacrifice ... www.kvj.ca/wolf.html How about a one very small quote a day advent calendar to get to the solstice? Shall I try that?
K.V. Johansen | The Wolf and the Wild King
About The Wolf and the Wild King, book one of The Forest high fantasy duology, by K.V. Johansen
www.kvj.ca
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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garrettc.social
If you like cute cats with stupidly brilliant names, photographed amongst very pretty Oxford architecture, this article from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is for you: oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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qospress.bsky.social
#Booksky We’ll be at #FablesandFlames Romantasy Gala this weekend and debuting our new badge ribbons and some cool extras! Signed books make great gifts and Catherine Lundoff and Michael Merriam will be there to help! Come say hi! fablesandflames.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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pematson.bsky.social
I love this series! I wrote about it for @skiffyandfanty.com earlier this year.
skiffyandfanty.com/blog/book-re...
And as @princejvstin.com pointed out, the 2025 novel means the Astreiant series, which started in 1995, will be eligible for a Best Series nomination for the Hugo Awards this year!
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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qospress.bsky.social
My wife of 29 years, bookbinder and book artist Jana Pullman, passed away in February after a long illness. She’s gotten some great memorials, including a posthumous award and a binding in a new exhibit at MN History Center. Here’s her take on that work: aboutthebinding.blogspot.com/2012/08/open...
Open Horizons
This binding was done  on the book Open Horizons by Sigurd F. Olson. It is about his love affair with the wilderness in Wisconsin. It i...
aboutthebinding.blogspot.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social
By law, 8 insect parts are allowed in every Reese's Peanut Butter cup.

It's his job to put them there.

#booksky #newrelease
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social
For all of #booksky looking for that funny cathartic read about this mess we've gotten ourselves into, look no further
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social
Just released!
A bright red book cover showing a pentagon surrounded by question marks, with a trench-coated silhouette in the center: BlankAnon, by Justin Robinson. It was a simple job: invent a conspiracy. I made up QAnon and broke the world. Nobody from my old life is still speaking to me except for the ones who have nothing left to lose. I've got an alcoholic professional killer in recovery, a witch who wants me dead, and a doomsday cultist I can't trust. We have to execute a heist that just might save the world or at least settle my conscience. And that's if my own spirit guide doesn't eat my first. It's not just another day at the office. It's the last one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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kvjohansen.bsky.social
Passing thought brought on by sales figures & a book that had a dearth of official publicity: do you guys even know that Gods of the Caravan Road is a five-novel series, not four? Were you left hanging after Gods of Nabban? Moth's story continues! The Last Road. Grim. Dark. www.kvj.ca/last-road.html
K.V. Johansen | The Last Road
About The Last Road by K.V. Johansen
www.kvj.ca
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social
Not to post spoilers or anything but someone knowing the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia is a) a plot point in BlankAnon and b) a sign that the character is evil
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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scottedelman.bsky.social
Oh, I agree! I was privileged to publish Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s "Time-Slit Through a Rice Paper Window" in the Summer 1984 issue of Last Wave, and the final paragraph, which is not just about that story but all stories, gives me goosebumps still. A brilliant writer.
A few days later (we are time traveling again) Kohachi is home with his mother. There is much ado about the marriage preparations and the invitations which must be sent out. A servant is replacing the torn windows in the rice paper screens and doors, so everything will be spiffy for the celebration. We won’t be able to see through the time-slit much longer. What will happen to Kohachi after we are gone? Perhaps he has a good life with his bride, winning a few more duels in his life. Perhaps there is a war and he goes off to that and dies, or else is a success and becomes a wealthy warlord. Possibly the son of someone he killed comes and duels with him and wins. It is difficult to know what occurs in the life of the people in a story after the story ends. If we have any hearts at all, we must suffer thinking about it. That’s why stories sometimes say “happily ever after” or else kill all the characters off, so that we won’t have to worry about it. As for Kohachi, we have no idea what happens to him after this. We can always hope for the best.
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM