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mere rain @mererain.bsky.social · Oct 25
I've never had one of these #1 orange banners before!
(and I'm sure it isn't because of me personally, but it's still exciting).
Thanks for supporting SantaCan!
"Love is Magic" #1 Best Seller in LGBTQ+ Anthologies This is a m/m paranormal holiday romance anthology.
mererain.bsky.social
My grandma (also not a hat scientist) said the same
while continuing to not wear a hat herself.
fishfeast.bsky.social FishFeast (Jon) Monsterous Jellyfish @fishfeast.bsky.social · 17h
You lose 40% of your body heat through your head* and cold ears suck. A warm hat from Debbie fixes both issues. They are also ridiculously inexpensive like 'why buy one anywhere else?' inexpensive.

*my mom used to say. She is a reliable information source but not a hat scientist or whatever
debbiecrochets.bsky.social Debbie Crochets @debbiecrochets.bsky.social · 17h
Still have a lot of hats & more coming soon-Double Thick Beanie Machine Knit Winter Hat Choice of Color Warm and Stretchy debbiecrochets.etsy.com/listing/4364...
debbiecrochets.etsy.com/listing/4365...
debbiecrochets.etsy.com/listing/4367...
and more in my shop debbiecrochets.etsy.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
mererain.bsky.social
Also romance with goths.

More of both, please!
sillysyntax.bsky.social Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 19h
Gothic Romance exists.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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michaelboulerice.bsky.social
Michael Boulerice called it "absolutely fuckin bonkers, bro."

For real this easily lands in the top three books I've read over the last ten years. Get it by any means necessary
alexwoodroe.com Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 1d
The Night Ship is fishing up some happy netgalley reviews. Someone called it fun, and Publisher's Weekly called it an "unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller", and that is everything I wanted.

It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!

www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
The Night Ship
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
www.netgalley.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
mererain.bsky.social
February submission date
cursedmorsels.bsky.social Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 8d
To allow time and breathing room for all things (and to preserve my sanity), I've pushed the zine call back to February. Same prompts, same pay, same rad zines--just gotta wait a little longer to submit! See submission guidelines here:
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...
Submission Calls
OPEN Zine call (February 1st through 7th) Zine PromptsFor this zine bundle, I’m looking for written pieces about these five prompts: -Cunty Horrors (cunty horror microfiction and mini-essays …
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November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
Hi, just a friendly reminder that Freydis Moon just released an audiobook last week and that you should not buy purchase that book at all because Freydis a brownfishing white person who likes to bully their fellow trans and queer authors.
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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rabbitearsblog.bsky.social
Etsy is having their Cyber Week Sale. In celebration of relaunching my Etsy shop, there's going to be a 25% off discount for every creepy artwork in my Etsy Shop! Use code CYBER25 to get 25% off your order and this sale runs until 12/03!
www.etsy.com/shop/CreepyW...
💠 #etsy 💠 #cyberweek 💠 #etsyshop
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 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
mererain.bsky.social
In addition to supporting charity SantaCan, this anthology is is also quite long (mine is over 17k!) so if you're planning to spend Thanksgiving avoiding conversations you will not run out of reading material with this antho that releases on the 27th.
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
mererain.bsky.social
Last week to apply to be Teen Poet Laureate of California!
capoetlaureate.org/teen
California Teen Poet Laureate — CA Poet Laureate
California is naming a Teen Poet Laureate for the very first time. Is that you?
capoetlaureate.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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stevewestenra.bsky.social
Not a ton of time for self-promo lately, but . . . here are my books! Two of them! Whole books with themes and characters and shit--they even have beginnings, middles, and ends!
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Some of the supplementary material we designed in house w/@goresorcerer.bsky.social for her book CROM CRUACH, released in 2022.
Sharing for no reason other than I was thinking about it today. Burning paper edges in the name of art🖤☠️

Incredible cover art by @lamantia.bsky.social
Page from a non-existent reference book on Ireland's megalithic structures page from a scrapbook seeking the link between microalgal-bacterial formations and the standing stones of Ireland magazine column from fictional journalist Deirdre Sullivan Jonathan LaMantia's extraordinary wrap around cover art, hyperdetailed view of a skull; or a wolf's head and a claw rising up; or a stalker/slasher; or whatever you wanna see in it, really
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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mcardlejeanne.bsky.social
I think I'm getting better at these silly graphics! This anthology deserves more love: castaignepublishing.bigcartel.com/product/in-t...
Of Bats and Apes In the Eyes of the Hungry historical monster tale, 5600 words For a moment, I watch the large vein of Leandra’s neck, and I think of sneaking up on her, slashing her throat McArdle/Of Bats and Apes/18 before she knows what I’m doing and drinking every last bit of her powerful blood. How amazing would I feel, how beautiful would I be? I wouldn’t have to worry about her anymore. I remember her pressing the cross into my palm, how my hand stung, but I didn’t show any pain. I wanted to impress her. I wanted to take care of her, to make the world as good as she deserves. But for now, I have to trust her. I can’t lose this job, not after how far we traveled, how hard the journey was to get out here, how many towns turned us away for our strange looks.
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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probablyharmless.bsky.social
Is it an awards eligibility post? Is it a retrospective? I dunno, but here it is. I published some words this year. Check it out. (If there is anything you'd like to read and can't find, let me know and I'll get it to ya!) 🫀
A graphic with a gray, sort of cement-looking background with splatters of black ink. Text transcript: Theodore Hill, 2025 Releases. “I Think I Have Lost Someone” The Skull & Laurel, Horror (Flash), January. “Rise” Translunar Travelers Lounge, Sci Fi, February. “Pirouette in Periwinkle” The Ghastling, Horror (Flash), April. “Other Duties As Required” Cosmic Horror Monthly, Horror/Sci Fi, July. “Hammerhead” God’s Cruel Joke, Horrorotica, September. “A Taste” Whisper House Press, Horror (Flash), November. Upcoming: “More Famished Than My Means” (Poem, God’s Cruel Joke, December).
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
mererain.bsky.social
I hope there's a fold-out version of this cover that goes down and down and
trollbreathmag.bsky.social Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 2d
We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
Trollbreath Magazine Issue 6, Winter 2025 Bernie Jean Schiebeling, Jonathan Helland, Gretchen Tessmer, Mir Rainbird Cover of the December 1st Issue: A street corner with a bookshop. A little girl, a shadow, and a dog peek down a hole in the street leading into lights.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
mererain.bsky.social
The town of American Canyon should sue.
Or change its name.
Both.
sky.skymarchini.net Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 4d
why did i log back in. WHY DID I LOG BACK IN. www.telos.news/p/part-2-she...
Part 2: She Did It Again Ryan Lizza Nov 22, 2025 ∙ Paid If you are new to this series, start here. She did it again. It was four years later. Another presidential campaign. Another book project. Another candidate whom she had profiled. Another note—a poem, according to Olivia—though this time from the candidate to her. “Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services, had written to my then-fiancé. “Drink from me Love.” He continued, “I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I’ll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow. ‘Dont spill a drop’. I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.” I can’t say there weren’t any signs. I did find it odd that Olivia was simultaneously reading Robert Greene’s The Art of Seduction and Maureen Callahan’s Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed. But the poem—let’s call it “American Canyon”—and many others, too explicit to print, changed everything. (Thanks to Bobby, I am now aware of something called felching.)
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
mererain.bsky.social
Oh look, it's me!
Lots of fantasy/pnr stories this year, yay!
klnoone.bsky.social K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 8d
Here’s the fantastic lineup for this year’s @jms-books.com Top Ten Gay Romance short story anthology! With my “Hexes of Bronze,” if you’d like some queer #swordandsorcery #fantasy ⚔️🏳️‍🌈📖 #romance #lgbtq #medievalism #BookSky
Green background with book cover showing two men kissing in a contemporary outdoor setting; text next to cover lists top ten gay romance stories included
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
mererain.bsky.social
One week till this holiday pnr anthology releases!
Proceeds go to charity SantaCan to provide gifts for kids in care.
readerlinks.com/L/4995814
Love is Magic anthology releases November 27th. My story features an archaeologist who receives a dangerous artifact and the demon-hunter who rescues him.
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
mererain.bsky.social
And then re-check your settings tomorrow because mine switched Gemini back on in an "update".
booksofm.com Monica Valentinelli is riding to Isengard @booksofm.com · 5d
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
mererain.bsky.social
Edit: there's also some romance, if you scroll down.
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
mererain.bsky.social
Buncha free queer spec fic here:
prismreads.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Prism Reads – Multi-Genre LBGTQIA+ Free Book Blast
prismreads.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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victoriastrauss.com
PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
mererain.bsky.social
Canadian authors--
nptwrites.bsky.social N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 6d
Canadian author friends: If you did not get the email update last week about the AI class action suit against Anthropic here in Canada, you may want to contact the firm that's running it to get future updates. (See next post! 🚨)
#CanLit #CanKidLit

➡️ www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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221bcrow.bsky.social
Access to AO3 keeps cutting in and out.
Lost it, had access again, and lost it again.

Cloudflare is having issues. If you have access to AO3, recommend downloading fic you want to read while it is still up.
#ao3 #fanfic #sitestatus
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November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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machapress.bsky.social
Join us at The Linen Hall Library for this discussion, with readings from Susanna Galbraith & Eilish Martin.

Friday, 21st November 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Tickets:

linenhall.com/event/macha-...

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou and @LottoGoodCauses.
Macha Press: Poets and Editors in Conversation - The Linen Hall, Belfast
Macha Press was founded in 2024 by seven poets, each with manifold areas of practice. Macha publishes poetry that is experimental, formally hybrid and/or interdisciplinary. Join editors Natasha Cuddin...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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aspenwoods.bsky.social
Ana decided to call out payment processors and their unilateral response was attempting to fuck up her life and that should be bigger news than it is as of now
acvalens.com Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · 8d
The full count as of today:

YouTube suspended
Twitch banned 3x
Patreon suspended (temporary)
Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi)
Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?)
Buy Me a Coffee suspended
Vice reporting censored
Pornhub censored 3x times
Fansly censored 1x
mrhands31.bsky.social Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 8d
Is it really a conspiracy to say Ana is being explicitly flagged by finance bros when she's now been banned (or censored) from Twitch, Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, Ko-Fi, and *PornHub*??
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM