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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin
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SFF writer, poet & folklorist (rep: Thais Afonso & Jen Azantian) 👾 Director, Erewhon Books 📚 Shin Buddhist & adoptive parent of 3 w/my twin sis 🍵 Guilty of writing in my journals AND my books. 🫣 Clarion West NWW ‘25.

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Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!

So were the signs...
October 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I finished my novel draft today!!!!!!! This was a project for which I wrote the earliest words several years ago, so it was especially emotional to see it finally reach completion. 💙
October 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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This is Idaho 💙
October 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Just finished listening to A Philosophy of Thieves by @franwilde.bsky.social I did not plan on finishing it this quickly, but was swept away. It was loads of fun with loads of fascinating characters. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781353...
A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde: 9781645661948 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a futuristic fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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and here's a static cover reveal post for people who want to skip the book trailer and/or hate videos! cover art by Lucy Rose

THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in July 2026, from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social! #author

preorder now: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...
the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood, framed in gold with gold flowers against a dark teal background around the edges. The cover is teal with a stag of flowers and foliage growing from a twisted tree with flowers growing around it and black ooze dripping from a branch overhead. the title "The Lord of the Wood" is in large white serif text to the left, with foliage growing through the letters closest to the tree, and the author "E.M. Anderson" is in all-caps yellow text at the bottom. the tagline, in smaller yellow text, reads, "Even a beastly woodland protector needs saving..." "When lonely clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton loses his way in an enchanted forest, he meets the hero of his childhood bedtime stories: the Lord of the Wood. But instead of the mythical figure of his dreams, the Lord of the Wood is a grim man turning into a beast and losing power over a dying forest. If they can’t save the forest before he becomes a beast completely, Arthur will lose the man he's falling for—and never see his family again." Text is in a textbox against a murky image of a forest, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood below the text, all against a dark teal background with gold curlicues in the corners. The cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood on a dark teal background with golden leaves overhead, surrounded by yellow text reading: plant magic; sentient forest trying to oops! murder people; intensely homoerotic shaving scene; the one who heard the stories and the one who was in the stories; hopeless romantic who's clueless about his own sexuality; Beauty & the Beast inspired by not a retelling; dual-POV brother/sister; love interest turning slowly into a beast; wound-tending.
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I’m so excited to share news of my book deal!. Many thanks to the great @frecklywench.bsky.social at Aevitas Creative!. I’m thrilled to be working with @viengsamai.bsky.social , @mcflycahill90.bsky.social and the rest of the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social !
June 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Utterly in love with this pitch!
mihika-biswas.bsky.social Mihika Biswas @mihika-biswas.bsky.social · Oct 8
A reimagining of the TITANIC in Space🚀🚢

The Sungrazer, a decadent space liner, offers new possibilities for working people like Seren, an aerial silks performer, on a new planet.

But aboard, ambitious CEOs and politicians gamble with the fate of the ship and the lives of many.
#DVPit #SF #A #Asian
October 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Loving this setting AND the music magic!
rayrx.bsky.social raya 🇱🇧 @rayrx.bsky.social · Oct 8
To save her family from a memory-stealing plague ravaging 1920s Lebanon, Eura enlists the help of a rival village’s prized musician to find a cure. But there are darker forces at play, and they must confront ghosts of their pasts—even if it ends with 1 of them in the realm below.

#MENA #MV #DVPit
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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this sounds amazing as hell (complimentary)
jelliclejay.bsky.social jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · Oct 8
SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT
A collage with images of sweaty boys almost kissing, a human/bird monster, and a cowboy pulling a horse under an intensely cloudy sky. There are also the words “A love like that made me someone new. Not even because I chose to change, I had no choice in the matter; the feeling swept me up and molded me into someone I didn’t recognize before I could look down and understand just what I had gotten myself into.”
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Straith has a disarmingly charming narrative voice that takes you somewhere unexpected every time. 💙
straith.ca Straith🍉 @straith.ca · Oct 8
GREY GARDENS in space:

A fledgling documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station.

He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience.

#DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella
October 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I had the privilege of reading excerpts of this novel as part of the Clarion Novel Workshop. Uniquely voiced and so vibrant! Agent friends, I hope you’ll check this one out!
dalitdiva.bsky.social Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · Oct 8
WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE 85,000 Word #Spaceopera
🛸 Nesamma Abbas, a washed-up alien musician,
🎸 joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire
✨with a martial art of sound ⚡🎶
.😢She must confront her pain,
🧘‍♀️ Master her powers
⚔️ & choose: revolution
❤️ or redemption
#WOC #Asian #SFF #DVpit
October 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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If you haven't read The Unbroken by CL Clark, it's brilliant and on sale for $4.99 at Kobo (and presumably elsewhere). SO GOOD + the final bk in the trilogy just came out! Highly rec'd. Military fantasy deeply immersed in colonialism, two mesmerizing women, a queen and a conscript soldier. SO GOOD.
Screenshot of the AMAZING cover art for The Unbroken by CL Clark, showing a muscular black woman standing in a moorish arch doorway with her bare arms extended to touch the post on either side, wearing what looks like black leather armor and a sword in a belt, with a blurry dusty yellow scene behind the arch. Text in white near the top reads, "Every empire demands revolution."
October 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Moodboard for my reimagining of the Titanic in space! 🚀🛳️🪐

Seren, a famous aerial silks performer and acrobat, once believed the Sungrazer was her ticket to a new life. Now she's not sure the ship will ever reach.

[TITANIC in space x CARAVEL]

#DVParty #SF #Mys #A #Asian #ND
October 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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EMILY WILDE X SANGU MANDANNA X GHIBLI

very late to Day 1 of #DVParty, but here's my contemporary grounded fantasy about mythical flora and fauna in SEAsia

🌺 academic rivals-to-lovers x found family
🌺 love letter to/critique of academia
🌺 deadly forest, but also bakery, and everything cozy
An atmospheric collage of nine photos: 1. An underwater scene with sunlight filtering through lily pads 2. A cluster of dark lily pads with a single white lotus blooming. 3. A carved stone temple entrance 4. Ancient temple ruins with massive roots through them. 5. A woman in a light dress in a valley 6. Two people sitting in tall grass looking out at the water 7. A pair sitting by a calm lakeshore 8. A traditional wooden Thai house above a lily pond. 9. Sunlight shining through large lotus leaves from below.
October 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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The posts starting to accumulate for #DVpit are looking really exciting! Fingers crossed for you all!
October 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Happy #DVparty day 1, y’all! Here’s a moodboard for my Arab folklore-inspired YA contemporary fantasy featuring:

🗡a stabby ace girl who sees jinn
🏔️a hidden magical realm
💕a tight-knit Lebanese American family
🗝️secrets, banter, and (gasp!) betrayal
💫anxiety/OCD themes

#YA #F
A 3-by-3 icon moodboard for Unveiling the Stars, featuring the following images from left to right: the Gapstow Bridge in New York’s Central Park; a hand with flames dancing at its fingertips; a fountain with roses in the water; a dark-haired Lebanese girl staring into the distance; a quote that reads “We are living, breathing stories, made up of the tales others tell us and those we tell ourselves: light, dark, and the shadows in between”; a cat sitting in a window at night; giant redwood trees in a forest; a dark-haired boy surrounded by foliage; and New York City in the autumn.
October 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Mood board for the Vietnamese gothic fairy tale retelling I've been practice pitching this week for DVpit!

Think the vibes were worth all the nights of writing until 2am? 👀

#DVparty #storyaesthetic
A collage of images of a woman, a man, Vietnam, and Vietnamese food.
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The dark fantasy “Metal from Heaven” by August Clarke is very good.

A political revolution against capitalism led by a lesbian bandit biker gang - it’s bloody, queer, intense, visceral, & sensual. Lyrical prose with Mad Max frenetic energy. 🌈📚
lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · Oct 4
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Fuck yes, WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · Oct 4
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
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August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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For those of you interested in joining the next cohort of the Clarion Novel-Writing Workshop, see my fellow cohort member Jen Brown’s notes on her experience! THIS! ⭐️💜
jenbrownwrites.bsky.social Jen Brown 👻🕸️✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · Sep 27
Ahem...might I offer you some joy, in these trying times? Applications for @clarionwest.bsky.social's 2026 Novel Writing Workshop open soon. So, I wrote about my application experience & programmatic takeaways, thus far.

If you're thinking about applying? Do it. ✊🏾

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On Novel-ing: Clarion West’s Novel Writing Workshop (2025)
Seven months ago, I was accepted into the first cohort of Clarion West’s Novel Writing Workshop. (Or NWW, as we’ve lovingly acronymn-ized it.) Seven life-changing months filled with lec…
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October 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I have 3 chapters left to draft in my manuscript, but I couldn’t resist picking up ALIEN OCEANS to begin research for the new novel trying to coax my attention away. (Thank goodness both MSS & my Clarion NWW cohort are prepared to yell at me to FINISH THE DRAFT. I need you guys to keep me honest.)
The book ALIEN OCEANS by Kevin Peter Hand rests on a worn-down blue picnic table.
October 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Hey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #SpaceOpera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE.

Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption.
Mood board of my upcoming Space Opera We Sang Down the Empire. It features ephemeral and evocative art of artist Joshua Mays to convey the spritual element of the martial art of sound that is at the heart of the book. There are women of color in space age futuristic background and magic practices.
October 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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i would like to go back to being anxious about irrational, or at least highly improbable, things
August 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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he’s way cooler than me
Me, a human ginger, looking one way while Bee, a ginger cat, looks the other.
August 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM