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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 4d

Just over 3 months ago Storyteller was published and interest is still going strong.
It’s has been featured on a curated list of indie publishers on Bookshop dot org!
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Check out these gripping, funny, and exciting short story collections & anthologies!

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Aug 28

this was the day the good Jeanne was trapped. this was the evil Jeanne's moment.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is my time. At no point previous have I existed, and now I am at the height of my powers. It's a good time to make the earth tremble and the stars rain down.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm so glad! This is absolutely what I set out to do--people exoticize much about the past/the epic that is simply contextually situated humans making human choices--but try to tame things that should give us culture shock (in the process of helping us experience them as human choices).

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Aug 3

aha, Meryapi will be delighted to hear of this.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jul 31

I'm currently writing a novel from the perspective of Bagoas set in the last year of the life of Alexander that's all about how it feels to be the anvil yearning for the hammer.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jul 31

oh yeah, imagine what I am literally working on today

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jul 17

Tiberius Caesar's favorite trivia question: "What was the name of Achilles among the maidens?"

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · Jul 11

(I'm sharing space with @reckoningmag.bsky.social at table 28, right in front of the doors!)
@marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and Michael Yuya Montroy will read from their work, plus @carinabissett.bsky.social and I will read from two other other stories in the anthology!

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Strong Women, Strange Worlds @swsworlds.bsky.social · Jul 7

Will you look at that! Two SWSW alumni are in People! Congratulations @mayadeane.bsky.social & Ionna Papadopoulou! 😁

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6 Greek Mythology Retellings for Fans of 'Circe,' 'Hadestown' and 'Kaos' (Exclusive)

We love a great myth remix — and they come in all shapes and sizes. Here are 8 stellar novels and short stories, many written by actual Greeks.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Jul 3

For People Magazine, I wrote about creativity in Greek Myth retellings, including stories by many actual great Greek authors of today. Behold novels and short stories by @ioannapauthor.bsky.social, @mayadeane.bsky.social, @ecastroianni.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social & @thisisguan.bsky.social!

6 Greek Mythology Retellings for Fans of 'Circe,' 'Hadestown' and 'Kaos' (Exclusive)

We love a great myth remix — and they come in all shapes and sizes. Here are 8 stellar novels and short stories, many written by actual Greeks.

people.com

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · Jun 30

1 day and counting! I just ordered a book birthday cake for Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! This is the 1st cake I've ordered with a postcard image on top.
bookshop.org/p/books/stor...
@csecooney.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @marthawells.com @mythicdelirium.bsky.social & more!

A shelf of books with the spines facing out, all writtn by Tanith Lee. A postcard rests in front. The Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is printed on the front.

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · Jul 1

Authors include @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @rinrocio.bsky.social @clhellisen.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social Andy Duncan, Amelia Mangan, @theodoragoss.bsky.social Getty Hesse, Alaya Dawn Johnson and more!

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · Jun 25

i love all these pieces Maya does, but this one’s my favorite

i keep getting dreamily lost in it

Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 25

"the place we all return" (firecolor, 6/24/2025, currently altering the forms in eternity to usher me into a more pleasing universe)

a stunningly beautiful abstract river rendered in backlit pastels

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 25

"the place we all return" (firecolor, 6/24/2025, currently altering the forms in eternity to usher me into a more pleasing universe)

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 24

I continue to endorse this book, which dares to ask the question "why are trees so cosmically evil?"

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · Jun 24

COVER REVEAL! 🔪🌊

It's a joy to share the glorious new cover to NO GODS FOR DROWNING! Anna Chiara Stagi has beautifully blended elements of the book into this eerie seaborne majesty.

Thank you Anna, and thank you @badhandbooks for giving it a new port in the storm.

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cover of No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper, art by Anna Chiara Stagi, showing a deep sea background, a bright nine-pointed star in blue, and a lithe figure posturing in front of it, a glow with eerie light. At the top is a quote from Chuck Wendig reading "This book sang to me, and if you let it, it will sing to you, too."

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · Jun 21

10 days! Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology ships JULY 1st! I'm thrilled with how it turned out. These authors are fire!
tanithleestoryteller.com
@marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and more

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 18

the spear cuts through water. it beat me for a crawford a couple years ago and I am super not mad, simon jimenez is a genius.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Spear Cuts Through Water is absolutely brilliant. I am only a fifth of the way through, and my brain is glowing.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Jun 16

The terminally online mind cannot comprehend this

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 17

Can confirm. I read @wiswell.bsky.social's Wearing the Lion last night on a pair of trains and wept. It's quite good--in the best way, reminded me of @mcnamaraluna.bsky.social's Psyche and Eros.

DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · Jun 17

The highly anticipated novel, Wearing the Lion by @wiswell.bsky.social is out today! Run to your favorite bookstore to get yourself a copy of your next favorite read that will have you roaring for more! 🦁🦁🦁

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Stacked photos of multiple copies of John Wiswell's Wearing the Lion on a green table outside

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Jun 17

Happy book day to... me! My second novel, WEARING THE LION, is out in the world!

Come join the messy found families of monsters and gods!

DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · Jun 17

The highly anticipated novel, Wearing the Lion by @wiswell.bsky.social is out today! Run to your favorite bookstore to get yourself a copy of your next favorite read that will have you roaring for more! 🦁🦁🦁

buff.ly/o3Z4GXD

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 16

I read to train precisely one intelligent agent. She doesn't actually need that much training data to do things LLMs trained on The Firehose Of Internet never can.

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 13

I received my contributor's copy of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology today. I wept.

When I was young and in desperate need, Tanith Lee's stories came to me like a wind from another world. I hope her name lives forever. I hope I can bestow gifts like she did.

The cover of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, featuring stories by CSE Cooney, Maya Deane, Andy Duncan, Theodora Goss, CL Hellisen, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Nisi Shawl, and Martha Wells, edited by Julie C Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney.

A page saying: "Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told--on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others--there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change--passing on the fire like a torch--forever and ever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all." -- Tanith Lee (1947-2015)

The first page of Maya Deane's "In Your Shadow":
I. The air was thin this high in the Mountains of Alcar, and cold and dry, but young Alleili par Nasheliu climbed on. Her feet, alternately numb and smarting, tingled on each encounter with the black volcanic stone of Phoenix Burn Pass. Ages ago, the whole pass had been charred with fire. Some rocks had melted and flowed, others were sharp as glass, but all had been baked black.
Yet Alleili felt the change when she came to the spot where the Last Breath of Winter fell.
It was sacred ground.
Nothing about this place looked unlike the rest of Phoenix Burn Pass, but here the cold deepened and cut like knives, piercing the youth's fur-lined cloak and numbing her bones. Alleili shivered, though she had vowed to ignore the cold and finish what she started. A thin snow began to fall. Reaching down, the child broke off a glass-sharp spike of rock. It cut her palm, and her blood dripped onto the rocks."

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · Jun 13

I heard posthumous rumors that it was some kind of decision from on high. But her words will be remembered long after the injustices of publishing are forgotten.

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