Gianaclis Caldwell
@gianaclis.bsky.social
Indie upmarket speculative. Trad nonfiction 📚 Pacific Northwest on Takelma land🌲 🏳️🌈 she/xe💜Newsletter https://linktr.ee/gianaclis
Look what I saw in this holiday gift guide? GOATS IN AMERICA by Tami Parr! If you know any goat lovers, this book is a terrific pick. @pdxia.bsky.social #goats #indiebooks
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Look what I saw in this holiday gift guide? GOATS IN AMERICA by Tami Parr! If you know any goat lovers, this book is a terrific pick. @pdxia.bsky.social #goats #indiebooks
Having a hard time getting restarted on a manuscript I wrote 30000 words of earlier in the year. I feel scared!!
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Having a hard time getting restarted on a manuscript I wrote 30000 words of earlier in the year. I feel scared!!
Just saw that the audiobook is 79% off on Audible for non-members! Hope you'll give it a try! And thanks. @moonlitlotusdee.bsky.social #indieauthor
The Binding
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In an America where the West was never colonized, the Appalachian Mountains mark the border between starkly different worlds: The Atlantic States of America...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Just saw that the audiobook is 79% off on Audible for non-members! Hope you'll give it a try! And thanks. @moonlitlotusdee.bsky.social #indieauthor
An excellent video on how goats love for broadleaf weeds over grasses can restore grasslands. #goats #grazing #nature
How Tiny Hooves Are Rewilding the Great Plains
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I highly recommend this book. I loved it so much I bought a hard copy and the audiobook version. WHEN WE WERE REAL
Having one of those days, and then my agent @sethasfishman.bsky.social sends me news that _When We Were Real_ is one of Kirkus's best books of the year. Look at this list!
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Best of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews
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November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I highly recommend this book. I loved it so much I bought a hard copy and the audiobook version. WHEN WE WERE REAL
It happens a lot, people.
The scariest story of all — what happens when your debut fails to launch 🫣📚
The Publishing Industry Gambled on Me… and Lost
Eight years ago, when I sold two books to an imprint of a Big Five, I was on top of the world. I was thirty-one and eight weeks pregnant, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. My agent s…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It happens a lot, people.
How is it that immediately after finishing the 8th rewrite on my current WIP I have what might be a brilliant idea, but necessitates a 9th go?!!!!!
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
How is it that immediately after finishing the 8th rewrite on my current WIP I have what might be a brilliant idea, but necessitates a 9th go?!!!!!
All set up for my first fiction book signing at Oregon Books in Grants Pass, Oregon. It went pretty darn well, thanks to a lot of darling friends showing up! I appreciate you all!
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
All set up for my first fiction book signing at Oregon Books in Grants Pass, Oregon. It went pretty darn well, thanks to a lot of darling friends showing up! I appreciate you all!
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Advanced Reader Copies of The People's Library are here. Let me know if you'd like one (U.S. only, please). Only a few left!
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Advanced Reader Copies of The People's Library are here. Let me know if you'd like one (U.S. only, please). Only a few left!
First sprayed ombre edges with feather stencil on my novel. Pretty happy with the results if I must say so myself ☺️ I f you want a copy, I'll be at Oregon Books & Games in Grants Pass signing on the 15th. 10-12.
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
First sprayed ombre edges with feather stencil on my novel. Pretty happy with the results if I must say so myself ☺️ I f you want a copy, I'll be at Oregon Books & Games in Grants Pass signing on the 15th. 10-12.
If you're in Eugene Oregon area this coming weekend, check out this new event, I know it has at least one terrific author! #writingcommunnity #bookfairs #eugeneor
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you're in Eugene Oregon area this coming weekend, check out this new event, I know it has at least one terrific author! #writingcommunnity #bookfairs #eugeneor
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“Walking into one of these bookstores became an experience rather than a shopping trip”
Specialty Bookstores are the Future of Publishing
Get Bigger by Going Smaller
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November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Walking into one of these bookstores became an experience rather than a shopping trip”
GDT and other classic horror writers do this: The thing that looks like the monster is never the real monster. I love that approach!
I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
GDT and other classic horror writers do this: The thing that looks like the monster is never the real monster. I love that approach!
This book is one of my faves!
Hey L.A. people! This Monday I'll be talking about When We Were Real, my book about living in a sim, with Dr. Jocelyn Holland. Stop by if you're wondering how we can escape
Writers in Residence Program
When We Were Real
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November 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This book is one of my faves!
First experiment with sprayed edges. Got some cheap paperbacks at Friends of the Library. Was super easy and fast. Today I'll try it on my novel! #indieauthor #writingcommunity #sprayededges #bookart
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
First experiment with sprayed edges. Got some cheap paperbacks at Friends of the Library. Was super easy and fast. Today I'll try it on my novel! #indieauthor #writingcommunity #sprayededges #bookart
Let's hear it for the librarians!
"The librarian is a seeker and keeper of truth, and that makes her a dangerous figure in the eyes of those who fear the fullest, most comprehensive, and most uncomfortable truths emerging."
In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…
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November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Let's hear it for the librarians!
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5:30 am. Dark. Me walking the dogs. saw these two campers in the gloom. Guess they overstayed their welcome. Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
5:30 am. Dark. Me walking the dogs. saw these two campers in the gloom. Guess they overstayed their welcome. Happy Halloween!
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October 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Looking forward to getting my hands on this book! #Readingcommunity
Cover reveal. The author and an ARC of his beautiful new book, “The Divide,” from Cornerstone Press, release date of February, 2026. I’m so pleased with the folks at this press!
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Looking forward to getting my hands on this book! #Readingcommunity
So nice to see my book hanging out with a dear friend in the local bookstore! If you love goats in history check out Tami Parr's awesome new book Goats in America. @pdxia.bsky.social #goats #writingcommunity #bookstorebuddies
October 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
So nice to see my book hanging out with a dear friend in the local bookstore! If you love goats in history check out Tami Parr's awesome new book Goats in America. @pdxia.bsky.social #goats #writingcommunity #bookstorebuddies
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October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Meet these great indie authors who also write and read the genre at the Speculative Fiction Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #speculativefiction #writingcommunity #authorsky go.bsky.app/RSAwztf
Last day of the 99 cent sale on my alt history audiobook set in a North America where the West was never won. Recognizing national asexual week with a book with an ACE main character. #althistory #ace #dystopia #utopia #readingcommunity #indieauthor
The Binding
What if the American West was never colonized? In this “fast-paced, tense” 2025 release that’s “reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s classic The Handmaid’s Tale” (Kirkus Reviews), the Appalachian Mountain...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Last day of the 99 cent sale on my alt history audiobook set in a North America where the West was never won. Recognizing national asexual week with a book with an ACE main character. #althistory #ace #dystopia #utopia #readingcommunity #indieauthor