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Lyndsie Manusos

@lmanusos.bsky.social

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She/Her | Indie Bookseller - Wild Geese Bookshop | Pushcart Nominee | Fiction in Reactor, F&SF, The Deadlands, Lightspeed, etc. | Sr Contributor for Book Riot Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Literary Debut novella FROM THESE DARK ABODES available now!

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · Dec 8

I’m finally doing my 2024 eligibility post! Immensely grateful to the editors, presses, and publications that gave my stories beautiful homes. 2024 was a year of many firsts. Here’s to another year of creativity and inspiration.

Read more about my eligible work on my site: tinyurl.com/2r8pr738

List of 2024 eligible works by Lyndsie Manisos, ranging from the novella FROM THESE DARK ABODES, a novelette, and 5 short stories.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 14h

Short, sweet & bloody! Thrilled to see Tell Me Yours among @bookriot.bsky.social’s 🥊Knockout Horror Short Story Collections🩸 alongside @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, @comptonwrites.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @samantaschweblin.bsky.social. Ty @lmanusos.bsky.social!

6 Recent & Upcoming Knockout Horror Short Story Collections

Dabble in the abuses of power that happen everyday, read about Halloween pranks going horribly wrong, and more

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 20h

feed me your booooooooooks

Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · Aug 1

I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but...

Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 20h

🎉🎉 COVER REVEAL TIME 🎉🎉

I am so, so hyped to bring you THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY 🥳 coming May 2026!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 20h

Many thanks to the generous @lmanusos.bsky.social at Book Riot for spotlighting @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS as a 'knockout horror collection'.

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6 Recent & Upcoming Knockout Horror Short Story Collections

Dabble in the abuses of power that happen everyday, read about Halloween pranks going horribly wrong, and more

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

lol if you are a young pregnant American citizen in an ER you may not get the treatment you need and instead get sepsis because of forced birth Republican laws

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 1d

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 1d

Whew you can really tell those book club spam emails are AI when one refers to my Reactor short story "The Sound of Reindeer" as full of "warmth and humor" and an ideal book club pick. 🙃

Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 1d

In my latest @bookriot.bsky.social, I list 6 Recent Horror Short Story Collections with work by @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, @comptonwrites.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, Samanta Schweblin, and @kristinaten.bsky.social!

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6 Recent & Upcoming Knockout Horror Short Story Collections

Dabble in the abuses of power that happen everyday, read about Halloween pranks going horribly wrong, and more

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 1d

"Uncertain Sons is sure to be a collection that reverberates through the horror scene, and if you haven’t read Ha’s work before, you need to remedy that ASAP."

Many thanks to @lmanusos.bsky.social for the inclusion w/ some great recent collections. Yes, if you need to remedy ASAP, links below! Ty!

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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to be included on this list of finalists!

Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop's free shipping sale ends today! Support indie bookstores and get cool books.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

Wearing the Lion

Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 2d

The Deadlands fundraiser is live! Get your 2026 coin, signed books, and other goodies, including a signed copy of my novella, FROM THESE DARK ABODES.

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 3d

Come help us fund year six of The Deadlands--paying for stories, poems, essays, and staff! Your mushroom coin enters you in spooky giveaways throughout 2026. We can't do this without you!

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Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 2d

The Deadlands fundraiser is live! Get your 2026 coin, signed books, and other goodies, including a signed copy of my novella, FROM THESE DARK ABODES.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 3d

Kate that story is SO GOOD!

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Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social · 3d

So honored to be featured on this amazing list!

Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 7d

A new addition to my newsletter! Where I talk about forgetting, upcoming publications, and short fic recs with amazing work by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @catvalente.bsky.social, @katemcintyre.bsky.social, @noirbettie.bsky.social, and @babblewocky.bsky.social.

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On Forgetting

The Long Haul The audacity of needing to write newsletters in order to have a newsletter! It’s been a while, friends! Let’s see if I can get back in the...

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4d

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 4d

reminder that you can be the gentlest, kindest person--you can dedicate your life to protecting the planet!--and still keep a little list of people you fucking hate. it's okay to be angry! anger is a symptom of giving a shit!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 4d

Amazing!

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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 4d

So thrilled to be invited to speak at Wholehearted Writers Week! You'll finally learn how I keep my chaos demons in check. Just kidding! You'll learn the EXACT opposite, and I can't wait 😈

Wholehearted Writers @wholeheartedwriter.bsky.social · 8d

We're so excited to have emelkrishnan.bsky.social join us!

M. L. Krishnan has been awarded Fellowships & Residencies from Tin House, MacDowell, the Carnegie Corporation, Millay Arts, and the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.

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Annika Boo-ranti Klein @noirbettie.bsky.social · 4d

guys, if this one goes belly-up i don’t think i can do this again. please subscribe to my newsletter if you want to stay in touch. (i’m not flouncing, just reading the temperature in alarm.)

Annika Obscura

Have you ever joked "I'd subscribe to your newsletter"? Well, I have great news. This is it! I miss blogging. Subscribe if you want to hear my thoughts on writing, editing, and publishing, but also po...

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 6d

Okay so we've had trans rights but what about TRANS WRONGS???

Murder! Blood magic! Kissing! Monsters!

Cover for Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright, The Sunday Times bestseller. Black cover, with a scowling long-haired woman in a Gothic style red and gold headdress and brocade sleeves like wings against a background of red and white roses. Her hands are tipped in gold claws and she holds a long dagger. Blurbs from Melissa Caruso — “Dark, dangerous, and entrancing” — and Sara Hashem — “A decadent story that won’t let you go.”

Cover for LORD OF RUIN by K. M. Enright. Black cover, with a dark haired Filipino man in a Gothic style embodied suit jacket in shades of blue and gold. Black wings with a similar gold embroidered design stretch behind him against a background of blue with white flowers. His hands are tipped in black talons and he holds a bright red anatomical heart. Blurb from Thea Guanzon — ”K. M. Enright is definitely one to watch.”

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 6d

Lovely seeing my coastal vampire novel ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT appear with other fine horrors on BookRiot's "15 Queer Books on My Halloween Month TBR" 🫀

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15 Queer Books on My Halloween Month TBR

Here are 15 of the seasonal queer reads on my October TBR, from sapphic gothics to trans horror to an asexual haunted house romance and more.

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much, Daniel!