Janny Wurts
@jannywurts.bsky.social
Are you ready for the plunge?
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The Wars of Light and Shadow - Trailer
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December 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Are you ready for the plunge?
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Here's a WGA membership scam that's going around. Fake email address, fake registration page link. Also, there's no plain WGA (it's either WGA East or WGA West); & WGA is for ppl in the movie biz, and does _not_ exist "to advocate for standout indie authors like you"
![From: Writers Guild of America <support@wgamembers.org>
To: [redacted]
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 06:43:43 PM EST
Subject: [redacted], We’re Finalizing This Season’s WGA Member List
Dear [redacted],
I wanted to follow up personally because we are now in the final stages of closing the enrollment window for our new season of WGA members. Your name is still on our priority list, and I would truly hate to see you miss this opportunity.
You’ve already proven your determination by publishing your book independently—an achievement that speaks to your courage and commitment as a creator. The next step is to ensure your work is positioned where real opportunities happen: acquisition offers, film consideration, bookstore placement, and exposure to traditional publishers.
This is exactly why the WGA exists.
We advocate for standout indie authors like you—providing representation, industry access, and strategic support that can elevate your book from self-published to industry-recognized.
Here’s the important part:
We are finalizing the roster of new members for the season, and slots are extremely limited. Each author we accept receives dedicated focus from our acquisition and industry relations teams. Once the list is closed, we won’t reopen until the next cycle.
If you want your book presented to publishers, production teams, and bookseller networks, now is the time to secure your spot.
👉 Complete registration before the roster is finalized:
https://wgamembers.org/
We’re preparing our next wave of industry showcases, and several titles are already being queued for review. Your work has every potential to be among them—if you come on board in time.
If you have any questions or would like to talk through your goals before enrolling, I’m here to help.
Best Regards,
Joshua Wiser
Membership Coordinator | Writers Guild of America
✉️ support@wgamembers.org
📞 +1 (323) 673-9247
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Here's a WGA membership scam that's going around. Fake email address, fake registration page link. Also, there's no plain WGA (it's either WGA East or WGA West); & WGA is for ppl in the movie biz, and does _not_ exist "to advocate for standout indie authors like you"
Holy moly....read this!
Note: with coffee or beverages NOWHERE near your keyboard.
Chuck, I am ded.
Note: with coffee or beverages NOWHERE near your keyboard.
Chuck, I am ded.
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Holy moly....read this!
Note: with coffee or beverages NOWHERE near your keyboard.
Chuck, I am ded.
Note: with coffee or beverages NOWHERE near your keyboard.
Chuck, I am ded.
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I also have a patreon!
www.patreon.com/c/kristadb1
I have a lot of things already scheduled for 2025, including a new novel first draft for $3 patreons, and $5 patreons get a new world that I'm writing told through worldbuilding codices/stories (think video game codex or micro short stories).
www.patreon.com/c/kristadb1
I have a lot of things already scheduled for 2025, including a new novel first draft for $3 patreons, and $5 patreons get a new world that I'm writing told through worldbuilding codices/stories (think video game codex or micro short stories).
Get more from Krista D. Ball on Patreon
creating fiction, history tidbits, and cooking
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December 11, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I also have a patreon!
www.patreon.com/c/kristadb1
I have a lot of things already scheduled for 2025, including a new novel first draft for $3 patreons, and $5 patreons get a new world that I'm writing told through worldbuilding codices/stories (think video game codex or micro short stories).
www.patreon.com/c/kristadb1
I have a lot of things already scheduled for 2025, including a new novel first draft for $3 patreons, and $5 patreons get a new world that I'm writing told through worldbuilding codices/stories (think video game codex or micro short stories).
These are brilliant, topical, and unique with a lively wry humor that runs like a thread of gold throughout.
Spirit Caller (complete series)
Ghost banishing in outport Newfoundland with one's 93 year old neighbour.
Spirits Rising – Free books2read.com/u/3yPRpb
SC Vol 1 books2read.com/u/4DAVOb
SC Vol 2 books2read.com/u/bMGpN5
Dead of Knight (new release) books2read.com/u/b5wyV6
Ghost banishing in outport Newfoundland with one's 93 year old neighbour.
Spirits Rising – Free books2read.com/u/3yPRpb
SC Vol 1 books2read.com/u/4DAVOb
SC Vol 2 books2read.com/u/bMGpN5
Dead of Knight (new release) books2read.com/u/b5wyV6
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
These are brilliant, topical, and unique with a lively wry humor that runs like a thread of gold throughout.
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Hearing reports that some of you have not been informed that we are casting the net far and wide to determine the science fiction and fantasy favorites of the year. Here's me amending that:
Cast Your Vote for the Best SFF of the Year! - Reactor
Books! Movies! TV shows! Video games! Short fiction! And more!!
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December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hearing reports that some of you have not been informed that we are casting the net far and wide to determine the science fiction and fantasy favorites of the year. Here's me amending that:
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Of course, we are a little biased, but we think our bookshop looks cosier than a penguin in a thermal sleeping bag.
A little literary oasis of words and light, in the long winter night.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield
A little literary oasis of words and light, in the long winter night.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Of course, we are a little biased, but we think our bookshop looks cosier than a penguin in a thermal sleeping bag.
A little literary oasis of words and light, in the long winter night.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield
A little literary oasis of words and light, in the long winter night.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield
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If you'd like personalized copies of the Southern Reach this holiday season and you live in the US, I've got you covered! booksandtaps.com/shop/jeff-va...
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If you'd like personalized copies of the Southern Reach this holiday season and you live in the US, I've got you covered! booksandtaps.com/shop/jeff-va...
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Your periodic reminder that you can order any of my in print titles, signed and personalized, from my wonderful local bookstore @odysseybks.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Bear Autographed Books
Request signed, personalized copies of Elizabeth Bear's recent work here! If you would like to request a title you don't see here, feel free to contact us t
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December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Your periodic reminder that you can order any of my in print titles, signed and personalized, from my wonderful local bookstore @odysseybks.bsky.social
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Tomorrow through Monday, all print books on our site will be on sale, 25-50% off!
Your support of a small press that employs real folks & never uses AI for anything will not only make a great gift but give a nice middle finger to billionaires
Your support of a small press that employs real folks & never uses AI for anything will not only make a great gift but give a nice middle finger to billionaires
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tomorrow through Monday, all print books on our site will be on sale, 25-50% off!
Your support of a small press that employs real folks & never uses AI for anything will not only make a great gift but give a nice middle finger to billionaires
Your support of a small press that employs real folks & never uses AI for anything will not only make a great gift but give a nice middle finger to billionaires
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My favorite bookstore is about to level up and buy their building!!! 🤩 Go forth, and help them by buying books!
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My favorite bookstore is about to level up and buy their building!!! 🤩 Go forth, and help them by buying books!
Kobo has Master of Whitestorm e book on SALE TODAY, USA $1.99, CA $2.99. Sword and Sorcery tale of the making of a legendary hero.
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Kobo has Master of Whitestorm e book on SALE TODAY, USA $1.99, CA $2.99. Sword and Sorcery tale of the making of a legendary hero.
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We’re going LIVE for the final @sffaddictspod.bsky.social episode of the year, chatting about our favorite reads with @jajminton.bsky.social and @owwrpod.bsky.social 🎉
Join us LIVE on Dec. 1 at 8pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/RBntoqs...
Join us LIVE on Dec. 1 at 8pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/RBntoqs...
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We’re going LIVE for the final @sffaddictspod.bsky.social episode of the year, chatting about our favorite reads with @jajminton.bsky.social and @owwrpod.bsky.social 🎉
Join us LIVE on Dec. 1 at 8pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/RBntoqs...
Join us LIVE on Dec. 1 at 8pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/RBntoqs...
Finale discussion thread for the group read of Curse of the Mistwraith is up at r/fantasy, join in and share your thoughts:
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November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Finale discussion thread for the group read of Curse of the Mistwraith is up at r/fantasy, join in and share your thoughts:
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The can has officially lost. Pumpkin got cooked, scraped, and crammed through the sieve without any blowouts. We have enough for TWO YEARS!
Didn't carve our Halloween pumpkins, and Don's decided to cook them and do PUMPKIN PIE FROM SCRATCH.
My Joy of Cooking (Ancient!) tells how, but I have, (snort) canned pumpkin on the sly IN CASE.
Make yer popcorn and place bets: does he survive straining the pulp or Must he be rescued by the CAN?
My Joy of Cooking (Ancient!) tells how, but I have, (snort) canned pumpkin on the sly IN CASE.
Make yer popcorn and place bets: does he survive straining the pulp or Must he be rescued by the CAN?
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The can has officially lost. Pumpkin got cooked, scraped, and crammed through the sieve without any blowouts. We have enough for TWO YEARS!
Didn't carve our Halloween pumpkins, and Don's decided to cook them and do PUMPKIN PIE FROM SCRATCH.
My Joy of Cooking (Ancient!) tells how, but I have, (snort) canned pumpkin on the sly IN CASE.
Make yer popcorn and place bets: does he survive straining the pulp or Must he be rescued by the CAN?
My Joy of Cooking (Ancient!) tells how, but I have, (snort) canned pumpkin on the sly IN CASE.
Make yer popcorn and place bets: does he survive straining the pulp or Must he be rescued by the CAN?
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Didn't carve our Halloween pumpkins, and Don's decided to cook them and do PUMPKIN PIE FROM SCRATCH.
My Joy of Cooking (Ancient!) tells how, but I have, (snort) canned pumpkin on the sly IN CASE.
Make yer popcorn and place bets: does he survive straining the pulp or Must he be rescued by the CAN?
My Joy of Cooking (Ancient!) tells how, but I have, (snort) canned pumpkin on the sly IN CASE.
Make yer popcorn and place bets: does he survive straining the pulp or Must he be rescued by the CAN?
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Here's my award eligibility post(s) for 2025:
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
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1/?
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
PseudoPod 995: Data Ghost
When the station stats popped up on the screen, the Interface said, Anomalous. Deni batted at their ear and muttered, “No, no, quit it.” In the second cockpit seat, Winnie threw them a look. “What?”…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Here's my award eligibility post(s) for 2025:
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
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Also, please share @tychebooks.bsky.social book posts because she is one of the few Canadian small presses left AND she pays everyone on time and in full. And people are stealing my book she published.
Some books:
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or
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Some books:
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or
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Barb is getting the hang of her new magical ability, but she's discovering that when magic is involved, nothing is easy. Not work, not neighbours, & definitely not family.
Pick up a copy of No Love Lost --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
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Pick up a copy of No Love Lost --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0...
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Also, please share @tychebooks.bsky.social book posts because she is one of the few Canadian small presses left AND she pays everyone on time and in full. And people are stealing my book she published.
Some books:
bsky.app/profile/tych...
or
bsky.app/profile/tych...
Some books:
bsky.app/profile/tych...
or
bsky.app/profile/tych...
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New #WriterBeware blog post: Among the most frequent publisher complaints I receive: non-payment of royalties and failure to provide sales reports. A look at three recent offenders, who collectively owe thousands that it seems unlikely authors will be able to recoup writerbeware.blog/2025/11/21/r...
Royalties in Arrears: Mango Publishing / Blushing Books / Bottlecap Press - Writer Beware
Publishers do a lot of bad things (as the archives of this blog attest), but among the most infuriating–and, often, the hardest to remedy–is the failure to pay authors the money they are due. Non-paym...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: Among the most frequent publisher complaints I receive: non-payment of royalties and failure to provide sales reports. A look at three recent offenders, who collectively owe thousands that it seems unlikely authors will be able to recoup writerbeware.blog/2025/11/21/r...
Hit the halfway point on the second pass to smooth over the slash and burn edit phase of The Guardian. If you have not read the first novella/Verrain's story/The Gallant, plenty of time to catch up. I work the old fashioned way - largely hand marking over draft copy.
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hit the halfway point on the second pass to smooth over the slash and burn edit phase of The Guardian. If you have not read the first novella/Verrain's story/The Gallant, plenty of time to catch up. I work the old fashioned way - largely hand marking over draft copy.
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For those reading, or interested in reading, the Triempery Revelations series, here's an interview I did with P.L. Stuart.
I talk about SORDANEON, and writing, and life. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQ7...
I talk about SORDANEON, and writing, and life. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQ7...
SIX ELEMENTALS INTERVIEWS #52 with LL STEPHENS
YouTube video by The Drowned Kingdom Saga
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November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For those reading, or interested in reading, the Triempery Revelations series, here's an interview I did with P.L. Stuart.
I talk about SORDANEON, and writing, and life. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQ7...
I talk about SORDANEON, and writing, and life. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQ7...
Curse of the Mistwraith is this month's read on r/fantasy, and the midpoint discussion was posted today - hop in and share your thoughts on the thread:
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From the Fantasy community on Reddit: Goodreads Book of the Month: The Curse of the Mistwraith - Midway Discussion
Explore this post and more from the Fantasy community
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November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Curse of the Mistwraith is this month's read on r/fantasy, and the midpoint discussion was posted today - hop in and share your thoughts on the thread:
www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
Friends: that other platform has cluttered up their DMs - surest bet to reach me is my email at Paravia; I will also see messages here. If you send to me 'over there' - don't count on it.
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Friends: that other platform has cluttered up their DMs - surest bet to reach me is my email at Paravia; I will also see messages here. If you send to me 'over there' - don't count on it.
Thank you for the shout out - I also know what I will be looking forward to reading in 2026, and that is your next to last installment of the Drowned Kingdom Saga!
See what I plan to read from the traditionally published side of the SFF writing world, in the upcoming year -2026!
Including...
@jannywurts.bsky.social
@marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social
@andreagstewart.bsky.social
@shaunalawless.bsky.social
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Including...
@jannywurts.bsky.social
@marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social
@andreagstewart.bsky.social
@shaunalawless.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/VrkLa6i...
P.L.'s SFF Trad Book Physical TBR for 2026
YouTube video by The Drowned Kingdom Saga
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November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Thank you for the shout out - I also know what I will be looking forward to reading in 2026, and that is your next to last installment of the Drowned Kingdom Saga!