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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 19h

Ooh!

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 1d

Great read!

Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love for you to read my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book during the Halloween season.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 2d

On Spec has long deserved recognition for best semiprozine at the Hugo Awards, but has never even made the ballot because it's Canadian and most Hugo voters are U.S.-based.

2026 will be your final opportunity to nominate an institution that has been an incubator for so much talent.

On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 2d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 2d

Very sad to hear this. @onspecmag.bsky.social was my 1st fiction sale. Over the years I've been writing they published me four times & each one was a thrill. I'm certainly not alone among Canadian authors who placed their first story with On Spec. As a reader & a writer, thanks for all the stories!

On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 2d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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David Michael Nolan @conanriquelme.bsky.social · 4d

My favourite moment from
Fraction & Jimenez’s Batman so far.

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Looking for some spooky reads? The Huldra House Samhain Sale is on!

3 FREE horrorotica stories!
50% off all subs! ($9 USD for 24 stories, plus the collected edition, w/extras once out.)

Sales go to me yeeting my deadname! (8/15 to goal!)

www.huldrahouse.com/shop/samhain...
itch.io/s/160941/the...

A sale banner with a dark background, centred on a red-hooded figure holding a long axe with its blade pointed toward the ground. They stand in an open doorway, and moths flutter around them. In the foreground is matte white text that reads: The Huldra House Samhain Sale is on now, through October 31st!

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 3d

That is a *GORGEOUS* cover, Kaya!

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 3d

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 3d

Portage.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh! Loved Hench! Can't wait to read this!

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 5d

I love this so much. More of this please.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 5d

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 9d

I was running a game last night so I wasn't able to check in live. Really curious to see how this campaign unfolds.

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 10d

Nice! I'm going to start my day by day reread tonight with my ratty old pocket book.

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 11d

I haven't read something by Stephen Graham Jones I haven't loved yet. Looking forward to getting to this one.

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Tyche BoooOOOoooks 👻🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · 11d

The very last day to get some mysteries & thrillers on sale on Kobo! We have cozy, paranormal, hard-boiled, & dark fantasy -- check the thread.

Tyche BoooOOOoooks 👻🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · 24d

Kobo is having a Mystery/Thriller sale this month! (Getting you ready for horror in October! 👻) We have a few books in the promo, so check 'em out! 🧵Incoming... from relaxing to my-grip-on-the-ereader-is-so-tight-my-knuckles-are-white:

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Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in a dark suit, smoking a cigarette.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12d

Kent Monkman's #Montreal exhibition challenges colonial gaze with Indigenous narratives

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Kent Monkman's Montreal exhibition challenges colonial gaze with Indigenous narratives

The exhibit, entitled History is Painted by the Victors, is on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from Sept. 30 until March 8. In his grandiose works, the Cree artist paints colonial scenes t...

www.cbc.ca

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, I will also add:

Promote other people's work without expectation of anything in return. Community building is found in sharing things you find interesting, and building connections through mutual enjoyment of things. Transactional marketing gives the ick right quick, and people will remember.

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 13d

Hey everybody (especially the Winnipeg crew),

I'll be reading some uncanny fiction on Oct. 29th at Sookrams Brewing in Winnipeg, along with @dridgley.bsky.social, @smbeiko.bsky.social, and @chadwickginther.bsky.social. Our host will be @badguybirnie.bsky.social.

See you there!

#PrairieSFF

Poster for the reading on Oct. 29th: bits of white paper with the information typed on them, placed on a black-and-white background so as to look more than a little bit like a ribcage

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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 13d

www.oglaf.com/embers/

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Lou Inglese @chaos440.bsky.social · 14d

Got my performance review.

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

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Erin Wraithburn 👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 15d

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail."

Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 16d

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.

www.newyorker.com

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 16d

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 16d

Tonya's a fantastic writer and this looks great!

Tonya Liburd is querying Postcolonial Horror & Fantasy @spiderlilly.bsky.social · 17d

COVER REVEAL!
My short story eBook is now out!
If you like Caribbean-centered dark fantasy, this is for you!
@nisishawl.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @gemmafiles.bsky.social, @ranylt.bsky.social, & @kurellian.bsky.social say wonderful things about it!
www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FSG2J6X5/

Book cover depicting a black woman, in a gark grey shirt, standing before a wheel of knives, wielding a knife herself. The book title says 'The Ace Of Knives by Tonya Liburd"

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Chadwick Ginther @chadwickginther.bsky.social · 16d

Looks great!

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