Cindy Phan
@cindyphanauthor.com
A human going | Best of the Net Nom | Pushcart Nom | Stories in Augur Magazine, khōréō magazine, Baffling Magazine & more | Bi | She/her
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Author photo by Rosena Fung
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cindyphanauthor.com
Author photo by Rosena Fung
YES TO ALL OF THIS!!!
Seriously, @thesuiway.bsky.social's work is incredible (see The Dragonfly Gambit), but this novella in particular hits so many of my special interests (trial hiking! urban legends! othersides! old, strained friendships!) that ahhh I can't wait!!
Seriously, @thesuiway.bsky.social's work is incredible (see The Dragonfly Gambit), but this novella in particular hits so many of my special interests (trial hiking! urban legends! othersides! old, strained friendships!) that ahhh I can't wait!!
✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
![An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below.
Text reads:
ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA
CREST by A.D. Sui
After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together.
But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home.
CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock).
Coming Fall 2027
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC
For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lamjrufb4kabavnm4jojmbre/bafkreidlmhp2jdgite5bcvhxp4xwiah6hymfxxpcxlny7fu6im2atnfln4@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 4:09 PM
YES TO ALL OF THIS!!!
Seriously, @thesuiway.bsky.social's work is incredible (see The Dragonfly Gambit), but this novella in particular hits so many of my special interests (trial hiking! urban legends! othersides! old, strained friendships!) that ahhh I can't wait!!
Seriously, @thesuiway.bsky.social's work is incredible (see The Dragonfly Gambit), but this novella in particular hits so many of my special interests (trial hiking! urban legends! othersides! old, strained friendships!) that ahhh I can't wait!!
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It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com
Snow days hit different when you’re the adult and not the child. Also, when the human and not the dog who just wants to tunnel through the backyard.
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Snow days hit different when you’re the adult and not the child. Also, when the human and not the dog who just wants to tunnel through the backyard.
When the subtitles are yellow.
a man with long hair is sitting in front of a laptop computer and looking at it .
Alt: Antonio Banderas throwing his head back in pleasure, eyes closing as he puts his hand to his smiling, parted lips after seeing something incredible on his laptop. I’m sorry I don’t know what movie this meme is from.
media.tenor.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:34 AM
When the subtitles are yellow.
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We still need to raise $529.66
$170.34 of $700 received
Thank you!
We appreciate everything everyone has done. It’s not lost on us that people who have little are sharing it with us when you could be doing something different with your coin. You are choosing to help us. That means EVERYTHING 💛
$170.34 of $700 received
Thank you!
We appreciate everything everyone has done. It’s not lost on us that people who have little are sharing it with us when you could be doing something different with your coin. You are choosing to help us. That means EVERYTHING 💛
Fam, my husband & I could use some help. Things have been rough as fuck. We need to raise $700. Any help is appreciated.
Venmo - @Kimberly-Piper-24
Paypal- @KimberlySession
I hate asking, but my grandma used to say a closed mouth don’t get fed. Any help is appreciated. Love y’all & thank you!
Venmo - @Kimberly-Piper-24
Paypal- @KimberlySession
I hate asking, but my grandma used to say a closed mouth don’t get fed. Any help is appreciated. Love y’all & thank you!
January 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM
We still need to raise $529.66
$170.34 of $700 received
Thank you!
We appreciate everything everyone has done. It’s not lost on us that people who have little are sharing it with us when you could be doing something different with your coin. You are choosing to help us. That means EVERYTHING 💛
$170.34 of $700 received
Thank you!
We appreciate everything everyone has done. It’s not lost on us that people who have little are sharing it with us when you could be doing something different with your coin. You are choosing to help us. That means EVERYTHING 💛
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"Jen why do you particularly promo Run With the Hunted on Wednesdays?"
Wednesday is when it all started!
Wednesday is when it all started!
January 15, 2026 at 12:11 AM
"Jen why do you particularly promo Run With the Hunted on Wednesdays?"
Wednesday is when it all started!
Wednesday is when it all started!
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
January 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
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Time Travel Is Easy, my full length collection of Deep Time poetry, processing queer embodiment in the Late Anthropocene (with dinosaurs), is now available on Itch! dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...
Time Travel Is Easy by Rick Hollon
Poems of Deep Time, queer embodiment, and life in the late Anthropocene.
dinoholler.itch.io
January 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Time Travel Is Easy, my full length collection of Deep Time poetry, processing queer embodiment in the Late Anthropocene (with dinosaurs), is now available on Itch! dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...
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Brave New Weird nominated author! What!
🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press
tinyurl.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Brave New Weird nominated author! What!
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I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:
Resisting the Hivemind: Pluribus, Generative AI, and Empire - Reactor
While its creator tell us that Pluribus is not about advent of generative AI, it's difficult not to spot the many places where the fledgling tech and extraterrestrial hivemind overlap.
reactormag.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:
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🤚👁️👁️✋ Pan's Labyrinth~
Ofelia, no...
Ofelia, no...
January 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM
🤚👁️👁️✋ Pan's Labyrinth~
Ofelia, no...
Ofelia, no...
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Anyway, this "$700 book" is in TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS along with 12 short stories, and that one doesn't even cost $20, let alone thirty-five times that 🫠 sheesh
January 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Anyway, this "$700 book" is in TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS along with 12 short stories, and that one doesn't even cost $20, let alone thirty-five times that 🫠 sheesh
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TERFs discovering this post: "let me explain the rationale for my bigotry I believe exonerates me" lol yeah that's what I'm talking about.
If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.
January 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM
TERFs discovering this post: "let me explain the rationale for my bigotry I believe exonerates me" lol yeah that's what I'm talking about.
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Happy Weird West Wednesday!
Between the Blood and the Sun is the novella I wrote about vampires and terminal illness and the choices you make at the end of things.
books2read.com/BetweentheBl...
jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...
Between the Blood and the Sun is the novella I wrote about vampires and terminal illness and the choices you make at the end of things.
books2read.com/BetweentheBl...
jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Happy Weird West Wednesday!
Between the Blood and the Sun is the novella I wrote about vampires and terminal illness and the choices you make at the end of things.
books2read.com/BetweentheBl...
jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...
Between the Blood and the Sun is the novella I wrote about vampires and terminal illness and the choices you make at the end of things.
books2read.com/BetweentheBl...
jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...
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None if this trash is ever inevitable and you can help crush this surveillance creep tech by calling it surveillance creep tech.
The funny thing is that you can see these exact same articles written about Google Glass in 2012. Casting them as inevitable is part of the hype cycle.
You Won’t Be Able to Escape Smart Glasses in 2026
Meta is betting big on AI eyewear, with production of its Ray-Ban collaboration expected to hit 10 million pairs annually by the end of the year. But will the tech-ified accessory ever actually be con...
www.gq.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
None if this trash is ever inevitable and you can help crush this surveillance creep tech by calling it surveillance creep tech.
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Last request for the night for shares. Anything helps. Thank you!
$35.34 received of $700.
$35.34 received of $700.
Fam, my husband & I could use some help. Things have been rough as fuck. We need to raise $700. Any help is appreciated.
Venmo - @Kimberly-Piper-24
Paypal- @KimberlySession
I hate asking, but my grandma used to say a closed mouth don’t get fed. Any help is appreciated. Love y’all & thank you!
Venmo - @Kimberly-Piper-24
Paypal- @KimberlySession
I hate asking, but my grandma used to say a closed mouth don’t get fed. Any help is appreciated. Love y’all & thank you!
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Last request for the night for shares. Anything helps. Thank you!
$35.34 received of $700.
$35.34 received of $700.
Very pleasantly hovering between wired and tired! I should read or solder something that’s the vibe.
January 14, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Very pleasantly hovering between wired and tired! I should read or solder something that’s the vibe.
Post a picture YOU took, no description just the picture.
January 14, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Post a picture YOU took, no description just the picture.
Waiting…and waiting.
January 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Waiting…and waiting.
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Profiles in cowardice from the publishing industry.
Myself and many other queer independent authors are out there putting our work into the world whether publishers have the good sense and guts to or not.
Support indie & self-published queer authors.
Myself and many other queer independent authors are out there putting our work into the world whether publishers have the good sense and guts to or not.
Support indie & self-published queer authors.
Depressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com:
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ...
#kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation
"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LGBTQ+ books.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Profiles in cowardice from the publishing industry.
Myself and many other queer independent authors are out there putting our work into the world whether publishers have the good sense and guts to or not.
Support indie & self-published queer authors.
Myself and many other queer independent authors are out there putting our work into the world whether publishers have the good sense and guts to or not.
Support indie & self-published queer authors.
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oh shitttt!!!
We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS.
Congratulations, Thomas!
Congratulations, Thomas!
January 13, 2026 at 9:25 PM
oh shitttt!!!
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My story centers on the complicated relationship queer people sometimes have with their hometowns. Then I throw it in the blender with vengeful demonic queens, mercenary husbands, enchanted tongue piercings and a militia inspired by the Sacred Band of Thebes.
Check it out!!
Check it out!!
💓 BEATING HEARTS & BATTLE-AXES🪓
is now on Amazon in digital, softcover, and hardcover.
www.amazon.com/Beating-Hear...
Edited by @jayxwolf.bsky.social, it holds approx. 72,000 words of fiction, spread across six spicy Sword & Sorcery tales with a romantic relationship at their heart!
is now on Amazon in digital, softcover, and hardcover.
www.amazon.com/Beating-Hear...
Edited by @jayxwolf.bsky.social, it holds approx. 72,000 words of fiction, spread across six spicy Sword & Sorcery tales with a romantic relationship at their heart!
January 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
My story centers on the complicated relationship queer people sometimes have with their hometowns. Then I throw it in the blender with vengeful demonic queens, mercenary husbands, enchanted tongue piercings and a militia inspired by the Sacred Band of Thebes.
Check it out!!
Check it out!!
LISTEN: as someone who’s outlived assholes in her own life I want to make it VERY clear that that feeling of euphoria and righteousness?
Seems lasting doesn’t it? Even nourishing?
That’s because it is! It’s a gift, even if it’s a consolation prize for them having existed in the first place.
ENJOY
Seems lasting doesn’t it? Even nourishing?
That’s because it is! It’s a gift, even if it’s a consolation prize for them having existed in the first place.
ENJOY
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
LISTEN: as someone who’s outlived assholes in her own life I want to make it VERY clear that that feeling of euphoria and righteousness?
Seems lasting doesn’t it? Even nourishing?
That’s because it is! It’s a gift, even if it’s a consolation prize for them having existed in the first place.
ENJOY
Seems lasting doesn’t it? Even nourishing?
That’s because it is! It’s a gift, even if it’s a consolation prize for them having existed in the first place.
ENJOY