Cloud Nixie
@cloudnixie.bsky.social
I'm a happy little cloud who loves fantasy and sci-fi.
Great choice to make it a period piece with a retro future aesthetic. That will distinguish it from the others.
The trailer for Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps has landed! Guys this is the last Fantastic Four reboot, we promise!
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reactormag.com/the-fantasti...
The Fantastic Four Take Their First Steps in a New Trailer - Reactor
Did you know they're a FAMILY? Well, you'll certainly know it after this.
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February 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Great choice to make it a period piece with a retro future aesthetic. That will distinguish it from the others.
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Space Unicorns! There are many ways to support Uncanny Magazine! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Pledges to Kickstarter! SPREADING THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!!! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/support-uncanny/
February 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Space Unicorns! There are many ways to support Uncanny Magazine! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Pledges to Kickstarter! SPREADING THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!!! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/support-uncanny/
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This was my response in The Guardian 3 years ago when I was asked if my work was a response to the prevalence of whiteness in science fiction.
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
November 24, 2024 at 4:02 PM
This was my response in The Guardian 3 years ago when I was asked if my work was a response to the prevalence of whiteness in science fiction.
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
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Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
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#Booksky #Minneapolis For local folks and beyond (there’s streaming tix too) Phoenix Theater in Uptown is currently hosting an adaptation of Patricia Wrede’s “Dealing with Dragons” with dragon puppets and a delightful story.
www.phoenixtheatermpls.org
www.phoenixtheatermpls.org
Phoenix Theater | Arts' Nest
www.phoenixtheatermpls.org
January 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
#Booksky #Minneapolis For local folks and beyond (there’s streaming tix too) Phoenix Theater in Uptown is currently hosting an adaptation of Patricia Wrede’s “Dealing with Dragons” with dragon puppets and a delightful story.
www.phoenixtheatermpls.org
www.phoenixtheatermpls.org
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With the new year, we'd like to share our Starter Pack for Non-Corporate Conventions: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Whether you're a vendor, panelist, guest, or just looking for more fun conventions around the world to attend that are community-minded and focused on fandom, this list is for you!
Whether you're a vendor, panelist, guest, or just looking for more fun conventions around the world to attend that are community-minded and focused on fandom, this list is for you!
Non-Corporate Conventions
Join the conversation
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January 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
With the new year, we'd like to share our Starter Pack for Non-Corporate Conventions: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Whether you're a vendor, panelist, guest, or just looking for more fun conventions around the world to attend that are community-minded and focused on fandom, this list is for you!
Whether you're a vendor, panelist, guest, or just looking for more fun conventions around the world to attend that are community-minded and focused on fandom, this list is for you!
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okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
January 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
I took this twice and got THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell and DEATH OF THE AUTHOR by Nnedi Okorafor.
Unsure about which book is right for you? We've created a narrative quiz to help.
Four cubes sit before you.
69zh29cj.play.borogove.io
Four cubes sit before you.
69zh29cj.play.borogove.io
January 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I took this twice and got THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell and DEATH OF THE AUTHOR by Nnedi Okorafor.
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This is the most fun, most ACCURATE “you should read this next” quiz I’ve ever taken! Also, the quiz itself is a fantastically mystical piece of interactive writing.
Unsure about which book is right for you? We've created a narrative quiz to help.
Four cubes sit before you.
69zh29cj.play.borogove.io
Four cubes sit before you.
69zh29cj.play.borogove.io
January 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
This is the most fun, most ACCURATE “you should read this next” quiz I’ve ever taken! Also, the quiz itself is a fantastically mystical piece of interactive writing.
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I have gifted this beautiful book so many times to writer friends and now is a good time to gift it to yourself too
Back in 2020-2021, I wrote a book about how to survive scary hard times by writing your own stories and getting lost in the imaginary worlds you create.
So this feels like good timing: Never Say You Can't Survive is just $2.99 in ebook formats for just one day.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
So this feels like good timing: Never Say You Can't Survive is just $2.99 in ebook formats for just one day.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Never Say You Can't Survive
WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST RELATED WORKFrom Charlie Jane Anders, the award-winning author of novels such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City...
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January 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I have gifted this beautiful book so many times to writer friends and now is a good time to gift it to yourself too
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And any Pennsylvania resident can get a library card from the Free Library of Philadelphia!
catalog.freelibrary.org/MyResearch/r...
catalog.freelibrary.org/MyResearch/r...
Get a Library Card
catalog.freelibrary.org
January 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And any Pennsylvania resident can get a library card from the Free Library of Philadelphia!
catalog.freelibrary.org/MyResearch/r...
catalog.freelibrary.org/MyResearch/r...
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I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives.
Eee!
Eee!
January 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives.
Eee!
Eee!
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Reading for the Hugo and Nebula Awards?
Try the short story "The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei" by Cheri Kamei!
You can read it here!
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-feast-of-baku-the-yume-no-seirei/
Try the short story "The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei" by Cheri Kamei!
You can read it here!
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-feast-of-baku-the-yume-no-seirei/
January 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reading for the Hugo and Nebula Awards?
Try the short story "The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei" by Cheri Kamei!
You can read it here!
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-feast-of-baku-the-yume-no-seirei/
Try the short story "The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei" by Cheri Kamei!
You can read it here!
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-feast-of-baku-the-yume-no-seirei/
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Anti-A.I. stamps!
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
January 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Anti-A.I. stamps!
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
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Maybe you're forgetful, like I am. You can turn on reminders!
Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text.
Done! Easy accessibility.
Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text.
Done! Easy accessibility.
Use alt text
November 25, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Maybe you're forgetful, like I am. You can turn on reminders!
Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text.
Done! Easy accessibility.
Settings -> Accesibility -> Require alt text.
Done! Easy accessibility.
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Collaboration tea blend for Deathless with @catvalente.bsky.social now live at www.oldgrowthalchemy.com/collections/...
November 25, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Collaboration tea blend for Deathless with @catvalente.bsky.social now live at www.oldgrowthalchemy.com/collections/...
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I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)
When I was a buyer at a large indie, my rule of thumb was:
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
More detail: When booksellers get pre-orders, it's a quantitative and qualitative signal that there is like *something here* about a book. The avalanche of new books out there is hard to communicate if you're not in the industry, and pre-orders are one of vanishingly few signals. It is a real thing!
November 19, 2024 at 7:16 PM
I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)
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When I was a buyer at a large indie, my rule of thumb was:
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
More detail: When booksellers get pre-orders, it's a quantitative and qualitative signal that there is like *something here* about a book. The avalanche of new books out there is hard to communicate if you're not in the industry, and pre-orders are one of vanishingly few signals. It is a real thing!
The thing about pre-orders: If you pre-order thru an indie bookstore (which generally doesn't cost you up-front!) it is HUGE for the lifeblood of the book, it is a boost to authors, the publisher, and the booksellers who steward this life. It's a little thing but it's meaningful should this inspire!
November 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
When I was a buyer at a large indie, my rule of thumb was:
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
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Befriending the local gryphons
November 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Befriending the local gryphons
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Hi Christina! My adult horror Phantom of the Opera x Chinese mythology set in a Beijing opera house novella, DEMON SONG, comes out Sept 2025 from @titanbooks.bsky.social!! 🎭🩸🖤
www.kelseayu.com/demon-song
www.kelseayu.com/demon-song
November 18, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Hi Christina! My adult horror Phantom of the Opera x Chinese mythology set in a Beijing opera house novella, DEMON SONG, comes out Sept 2025 from @titanbooks.bsky.social!! 🎭🩸🖤
www.kelseayu.com/demon-song
www.kelseayu.com/demon-song
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If you see me out and about, you can totally get one of these stickers for my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster.
It's about a young witch who teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic. It's full of queer joy, tenderness, grief, trauma and forgiveness.
Pre-order link: tiny.cc/qzlnzz
It's about a young witch who teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic. It's full of queer joy, tenderness, grief, trauma and forgiveness.
Pre-order link: tiny.cc/qzlnzz
September 26, 2024 at 6:03 PM
If you see me out and about, you can totally get one of these stickers for my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster.
It's about a young witch who teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic. It's full of queer joy, tenderness, grief, trauma and forgiveness.
Pre-order link: tiny.cc/qzlnzz
It's about a young witch who teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic. It's full of queer joy, tenderness, grief, trauma and forgiveness.
Pre-order link: tiny.cc/qzlnzz
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Oh, hey! If you love fantasy that feels like it was written in heart's blood and gall on the palimpsest of a lost liturgy, this one by @nghivo.bsky.social may be for you!
The City in Glass by Nghi Vo: Review by Liz Bourke locusmag.com/2024/11...
The City in Glass by Nghi Vo: Review by Liz Bourke
The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom 978-1-25037-682-4, 224pp, $24.99, hc) October 2024. Nghi Vo has a Hugo Award and a Crawford Award to her credit for The Empress of Salt and Fortune, the openin…
locusmag.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Oh, hey! If you love fantasy that feels like it was written in heart's blood and gall on the palimpsest of a lost liturgy, this one by @nghivo.bsky.social may be for you!
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@catvalente.bsky.social A line from The Past is Red has always stuck with me. To paraphrase: This person was so important in my life and it’s been years and here they are again and no one, not ever, has ever figured out how to process that.
November 18, 2024 at 11:16 PM
@catvalente.bsky.social A line from The Past is Red has always stuck with me. To paraphrase: This person was so important in my life and it’s been years and here they are again and no one, not ever, has ever figured out how to process that.