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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 20h

Fourth corner of the world author receives their copy.

Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 1d

Just received my copy of Mmeory by @aanpress.bsky.social
Thank you all the way from Thailand! 🖤🖤🖤
I am so thrilled to be part of this amazing anthology.

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 1d

Publication day! My soft, sweet, spooky story (with my take on romance lol) is now available to Black Hare Press Patreon subscribers 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you BHP ❤️🎃

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 1d

Just received my copy of Mmeory by @aanpress.bsky.social
Thank you all the way from Thailand! 🖤🖤🖤
I am so thrilled to be part of this amazing anthology.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Cover image to the book, showing the back of an astronaut in a space suit as he steps off into a psychedelic swirl of cosmic colors and stars. The title circles around the figure.

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Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 4d

We're joined by @kaidelmas.bsky.social this week! Listen in as Kai tears us apart in this Live Editing session!

open.spotify.com/episode/2T5I...

Episode 129: Live Editing! (with Kai Delmas)

Spotify video

open.spotify.com

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 3d

Ain’t no mail like contributor book mail! So proud to be in this anthology from @aanpress.bsky.social

Cover of a book titled Mmeory. The cover image is abstract, like a face with eyes.

The book is open to a story titled “He Walks the Same Streets” by Guan Un.

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Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 3d

New drabble for the week. This one was written with heart. 🤡🎈
www.patreon.com/posts/140846...

Every Breath Gives Life | Kai Delmas

Get more from Kai Delmas on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social · 3d

What's this???

My gorgeous contributor copy arrived of Mmeory, from @aanpress.bsky.social

You can pre-order here: aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

This anthology is a ltd edition of 250, so if you'd like one, don't sleep on it!

#indieauthor #booksky #smallpress #queerauthor #books #lgbtqia+

Author Die Booth is a middle aged white man with long curly dark hair, dark eyes and a dark moustache and goatee. He is pictured here peering over the top of a book wrapped in brown paper with a sealing sticker that says 'AaNPress Author Copy'

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much. 🖤🖤🖤

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 4d

🖤🖤🖤
Is it possible to receive the mini-clip by email?

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 🖤🖤🖤

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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 5d

Today's community drabble is, "When Binding Broke" by Dakria. The theme was "escape."

Find Dakria at dakria.de/

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

#authors #drabble #writingprompts

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI, we're open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds for this entire month!

We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard!

www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 5d

With "Mmeory" now in the hands of most US backers and international backers very very soon, the book is officially available on the AaN site - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm.... And here is a photo of the book at a local bookstore. Order your memory manipulation anthology today and beat the holiday rush.

Photo and zoom photo of Mmeory on the bookshelves at Riverstone Books in Sq. Hill, Pittsburgh.

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 6d

Submit!
Readers are starting to engage with dark magic rituals to face lack of sleep and brain mush, but do not hesitate, they knew what they were signing for (with their blood)!
Submit!
(am I going too horror here? hum, we want FUN, remember 🙄)

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 6d

People keep submitting, we keep reading. Submitting, reading, submitting, reading - will it ever end?

(Yes - 15th October, be sure to submit by then as this the last submission period of 2025! We however will keep reading after that until they've all been considered.)

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 7d

Our readers continue to work through the submissions we've received, and we still want more! Read the submission guidelines for details and a link to the portal. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Black Hare Press @blackharepress.bsky.social · 6d

Campfire Cuisine by Randall Andrews

A Dark Moments drabble. Enjoy!

#writingcommunity #readingcommunity #drabble #microfiction #amreading #amwriting #FREEfiction #writerslife #bookblogger #bookblast #Horror

https://blackharepress.com/blogs/dark-moments/campfire-cuisine-by-randall-andrews

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 6d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Dakria @dakria.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for the reminder and great job by the way. 🙏🙏🙏🥳🥂🎉 That too is part of the writer's daily routine. Just keep going! 🖤🖤🖤

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Dawn Vogel @historyneverwas.bsky.social · 8d

I've been at a conference for my day job since Wednesday, and feeling terribly behind on all of my writing stuff, but I've done a lot of knitting between sessions, so I've accomplished SOMETHING. :)

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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 8d

Today's community drabble is, "Chernihiv Gubernia, October 9, 1905" by Rachael Rosenberg. The theme was "crash."

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

#authors #drabble #writingprompts

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Addison Smith (Addi) @addi.social · 9d

I don't want to alarm you all, but someone actually bought my old flash fiction collection yesterday.

It's a shame that I abandoned it. It's got a ton of great flash in it. A couple hundred pages of my best. But books disappear if you don't keep pumping the machine.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1MQLXW

A screenshot of yesterday's royalties on KDP. Shows 1 sale and $2.76 royalties.

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Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 8d

First drabble of the month with the theme Balloons. 🎈
It's free to read. Go ahead and take a look. 👀
www.patreon.com/posts/140463...

A Universe | Kai Delmas

Get more from Kai Delmas on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 10d

Want to send us a story this month? Stand out from the slush with Apex Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lesley's Rules! ✍️✔️ We're looking for stories that blur sci-fi and fantasy, with that iconic dark Apex edge.

Ready to submit? Visit our submission portal here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/.../apex.../...

LESLEY'S RULES:

If you can take the speculative element out of the story, and the story doesn’t change, the speculative element isn’t strong enough.

If the main character isn’t pushing the plot forward - ie, if the story would basically go on exactly the same whether or not they were there - pass.

Beyond these, I hesitate to set hard fast rules because then you're setting the team up to exclude stories because they don't fit a specific mold.
We want stories that push boundaries. Stories that don't follow rules.

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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 9d

Today's community drabble is, "Extraterrestrial Contact" by Aidan MS. The theme was "crash."

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

#authors #drabble #writingprompts

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