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Phantasmagoria
@jamielnathan.bsky.social

Storyteller & Bookwyrm 💙📚
Loves the spooky & fantastical
PNW Girl
Words in Inner Worlds coming soon.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year.
What's everyone bringing to Thanksgiving tomorrow?
(And by that, I mean what books are you bringing to sneak off somewhere quiet to read?) 💙📚
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Good luck to everyone making pies today. 🥧
May your crust edges always turn out golden brown and never burn.
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The plan for 2026 is to be open to submissions these three times:

April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24

I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
Do you have a specific date for opening back up for submissions in 2026? If you care to share...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Stuck in place you don’t want to be this Thanksgiving? I got you! Like every year, I can be your boss, angry/needy boyfriend, friend in trouble, the mob, or whatever you need on the phone. Also happy to yell at your racist uncle. Price? Purchase a copy of this beauty! Rescue and a book, baby.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Find yourself someone who bakes a pumpkin pie so good it doesn’t need whipped cream and never let them go.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I retrace my snowy footsteps back towards the gate, sweeping my lantern in front of me, keen to see even the faintest glint in the drifts. The light bounces off an object pushed into the snowbank by the garden gate. It's glass. 1/3
It's not until you've bundled inside, stomped ice from boots and burned lips on hot chocolate, that you realize you lost your necklace out there in the drifts. You suit back up, search in the waning light, but the necklace remains lost. What do you find instead?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I get asked a lot for advice I'd give first time writers and honestly, it's... just get the words on the page. That's it. Don't worry about anything else until you've got the words on the page. Let that first draft be messy and glorious and fun. Deal with the rest of it later.

#amediting
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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It’s time for my Thanksgiving Storewide 25% Off Sale! 🎉

Now thru Sunday, December 7th, every item - originals & prints - in my Etsy shop is 25% Off.

Time to go holiday shopping for your favorite art lover!

Find it all here:
Etsy.com/Shop/TheArtOfRobHusberg
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
400 words written. Really hard to focus with it being Thanksgiving week. So much to do. But I hope to make some good progress in between the chaos.

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📚📝
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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My birthday is this friday! Which means my gift to you is that Songs of Broken Bells is on sale for the whole week!

Universal Link: buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij
Payhip: payhip.com/b/hKG10
Itch: voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/songs-of-bro...
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Good gods, I just read a submission call that "pays in exposure". 🤯

#WritingCommunity #SFHH #WriteSky
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!

acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Ernie is set to star as Private Detective Wigglesworth in the classic noir thriller Whiskers Crossed. #catsky
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Maybe you think it’s okay to get in here and insult and berate folks who use AI to make “art,” and I’m here to tell you that you’re right. Good job, everyone. Keep it up. Much love.
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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“Do you know how to read?”
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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In some good book news this morning, Books We Love is live! I have a bunch of recommendations in here.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 2d
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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If you want to read one of our books but can't afford it, just ask. We'll send you a free ebook.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Forever proud of this novella.
Have I improved as a writer since? Yes. Do I still love this story and these characters? YES. Do I have impossible sequel ideas? Yes, my good b*tch 🖤
Please purchase from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social , they are the realest of deals 🖤
November 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this. Photo from my collection, 1949.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Something that's really important to me, especially as I've gotten older, is hearing people own their mistakes. We're all human. We all fuck up at times. But it's okay. Own it. Learn from it. If you're in the wrong, don't shift the blame elsewhere. Acknowledge, learn, grow.
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Hey, the minute I throw those cables away I’ll need them.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM