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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to announce that "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" is available in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue 443!

This was my first pro sale, and in one of my favorite mags to boot. Still doesn't feel entirely real.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 3d

BCS #443 ebook out early today @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social and @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #443

Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward nd cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

weightlessbooks.com

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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 3d

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM

✨mecha dragons
🪐disabled protagonist
💜Mexican American diaspora worldbuilding
🌈bi love interest + an ex-BFF
🌌epic space opera
🐉a hivemind of corrupted dragons somehow back after centuries in an entirely new solar system—it's fine!

#DVpit #A #SF #Latine #DIS #LGBT

Moodboard of the evil hivemind of corrupted dragons. Everything is in red, there are three rows of three images, with a middle row having a text box in the middle.

First row: a broken red crystal, red filter spacescape, and a close-up of red crowing crystals.
Second row: red filtered snakescales (to stand in for robot dragons), text box that says: beware the Myriad, beware their crystals bright and red. Survive, survive, but don't let the Myriad take you alive. Third is a canyon crevasse in the shape of a menacing looking eye.
Third row: more angry red space scape and then a red filtered texture effect.

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 4d

And my second October story is here in issue 151 of @apexmag.bsky.social! “The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night” is a Shakespeare-inspired story about Stories featuring a doomed young lover(?), weird burial rites, and a cat.

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...

Apex Magazine Issue 151

EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner"Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson "We Used ...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 5d

Today is my favorite person @brentclambert.bsky.social 's birthday! The SFF field is better for his part in it as a writer, a reader, a friend and cheerleader and my life is brighter for sharing his light. If you have not let it bless you just yet, pick up and devour his A Necessary Chaos today.

A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert — neon hemlock

This title was published October 3rd, 2023. An 8” x 5” novella. 145 pages. In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos follows two mages, Althus a...

www.neonhemlock.com

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DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social · 9d

Hello! I'm open to unsolicited submissions for the first time in ages...

Looking for: Adult Epic Fantasy and Horror only

Guidelines are here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...

Submission Guidelines — DongWon Song

www.dongwonsong.com

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 9d

Apex is back! Submissions are open again! Help them fund another year of beautiful dark fiction.

My horror fantasy (and very messed up love) story, “The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood,” which comes out in 2026, will be available early to all Kickstarter backers once they reach 60%!

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

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social · Sep 9

ICYMI, I have a new story out in Lightspeed Magazine about lovers aboard a doomed science vessel!!

It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food.

Check it out:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

Last Meal Aboard the Awassa - Lightspeed Magazine

Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and t...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 11d

Psst! In honor of the spookiest month, you can grab a bundle of eerie ebooks from @undertow.bsky.social for just $10! The bundle includes my collection, The Ghost Sequences, along with several other wonderful titles!

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 11d

It's October! Hurrah!

I've specially curated 5 of our spookier titles, and discounted the eBooks to just $2. Grab a couple, or all 5 for $10. It's your choice.

@seanbirnie.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social

undertowpublications.com/ebooks

5 book covers: Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8 (Michael Kelly, ed.) - Finalist for the World Fantasy; Shirley Jackson; and British Fantasy Awards. Reprints in 2 'Best Ofs'. Featuring Kay Chronister, Krisit DeMeester; Brian Evenson, M. Rickert, and more.

Aickman's Heirs (Simon Strantzas, ed.) - Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Finalist for the World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. Reprints in 5 'Best Ofs'. Featuring Nadia Bulkin, Brian Evenson, John Langan, Lynda E. Rucker, and more.

The Ghost Sequences, by A.C. Wise - Finalist for the World Fantasy; Locus; Bram Stoker; and British Fantasy Awards.

To Drown in Dark Water, by Steve Toase - Reprints in 2 'Best Ofs'. Praise from Booklist, and Rue Morgue.

I Would Haunt You if I Could, by Seán Padraic Birnie - Reprints in 2 'Best Ofs'. Praise from The Toronto Star, and Library Journal.

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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 11d

My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and--
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/09/shor...

Short fiction recs! July and August 2025

It’s the last day of September, and this round-up is way overdue. Some things I read and loved in July and August. Strange Tales o...

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 15d

On the advent of Black Speculative Fiction Month *and* Black History Month in the UK, I’d like to remind you that my very Bjack, very queer collection of short stories publishes on October 14! You can pre-order here: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock

A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

www.neonhemlock.com

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Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social · 13d

I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 15d

If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 14d

This calls for cake...and a new fountain pen lol

Stacks of Year of the Mer paperbacks and one copy upright and centered

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 20d

She's here!

Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 20d

We are thrilled to reveal the UK cover of YEAR OF THE MER by @ldlewiswrites.com! A dark and explosive epic fantasy of revolution and dark magic pacts, as the Little Mermaid’s granddaughter marches to war.🧜‍♀️

Coming April 2026! https://tinyurl.com/yvs4d29t

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 20d

"As the Little Mermaid's granddaughter marches to war."

Get some is obvious.

Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 20d

We are thrilled to reveal the UK cover of YEAR OF THE MER by @ldlewiswrites.com! A dark and explosive epic fantasy of revolution and dark magic pacts, as the Little Mermaid’s granddaughter marches to war.🧜‍♀️

Coming April 2026! https://tinyurl.com/yvs4d29t

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Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social · 20d

Ditto! It was so good finally meeting you!!

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Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social · 22d

Got vaccinated for Covid and flu, negative on a rapid test this morning, stocked up on masks...

Ready for Capclave! Hope to see some familiar faces soon :)

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 25d

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved!
horror.org/awards/curre...

HWA Bram Stoker Award Recommendations

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 23d

"I did nothing to these people, but every day I have to see them gleefully cheer online about the anticipated death of my chosen profession. I had no idea we artists were so hated—I still don't know why. What did my silly little cat drawings do to earn so much contempt?"

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 24d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 23d

Black women protect your peace at all costs, even from you if necessary.

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 23d

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed!

"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"

Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting - Lightspeed Magazine

Dear Dr. Erzsébet Krajcsik-Nagy, I am contacting you as a member of the general public, and not as a fellow scholar, though I must say my chosen field of art history does have certain similarities to...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 25d

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

Article in newspaper stating the removal of slavery images from public spaces by the administration. Features photograph of enslaved man with deep scars on his back.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 26d

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

A pile of Uncertain Sons, just a lot of uncertainty and a lot of sons

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 26d

I loved this collection. Thomas is one of our absolute best working right now. Go get it.

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 26d

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

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♿️ Eva V Roslin (They/She) 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social · 26d

I have a schedule for Flights of Foundry! It's Sep 26-28! Eeeee!
flights-of-foundry.org -- attaching my schedule in the image below. I hope I will see many of you there virtually! 🎉

Find Eva at Flights of Foundry - Program Schedule - Panel: Pray for Us Sinners -- Dissecting the Film's impact, the History behind it, and More, Date Friday September 26 2025, Time EST 4:00pm to 5:00pm | Interview with the Vampire: The Fandom Squee Panel, Friday SEptember 26, 2025, 8:00pm - 9:00pm

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