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Amy "Gory" Grech @amygrech.bsky.social · 22h

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A Shadow of Your Former Self [Grech, Amy, Buddha, Alien] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Shadow of Your Former Self

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Zakariah Johnson 🪕 @zakariah.bsky.social · 22h

This week I read an anthology I was blessed enough to be in: ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER: A CLIMATE CHANGE CRIME FICTION ANTHOLOGY. Stories focus on the fact that the disaster isn't coming, it's here. Features a who's who of award-winning indie crime writers.
www.rockandahardplacemag.com/on-fire-and-...

Cover of the book paired with an author photo of contributor Zakariah Johnson.

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 22h

Mad Days: Stories and Curses is the perfect reading for Halloween. A terrifying collection of tales and illustrations, available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!

Amazon
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Bookshop
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 22h

It’s #FridayReads time! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I bring you the perfect read for Latine Heritage Month AND spooky season! Monsters from the deep, dark magic, revenge, friendship, a bloodthirsty spirit, and 45% off! Get some.
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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks Gabino!
Out now as ebook and audiobook (paperback coming later this month) from cohesionpress.com - SNAFU: Contagion, an anthology packed with truly "sick" stories of military action and horror, including one of my own, "Black Hell Rising."
Had a ton of fun with this one.

a.co/d/dmsyLIV

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · 1d

Looking at this administration, that might be the hardest insult ever! 😅

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · 1d

That's fantastic!

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Charles R. Rutledge @crutledge.bsky.social · 1d

We're #1! @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social @ajspedding.bsky.social Josh Reynolds

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · 1d

Out now as ebook and audiobook (paperback coming later this month) from cohesionpress.com - SNAFU: Contagion, an anthology packed with great stories of military action and horror, including one of my own, "Black Hell Rising."

a.co/d/dmsyLIV

#shortstories #horror #horrorstories #booksky

Two AWOL Marines travel the Highway of Death through Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War, only to discover that the hell of war is a cozy evening by the fire compared to the different kind of hell awaiting them in the desert, risen from the depths below...

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · 3d

Guess that's the Texas "elite". Something tells me these guys weren't hand-picked by Hegseth...

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Curtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social · 3d

Agree. They owe me as well and have yet to answer my emails. They said back in April that they would get back to us in June w/ an accounting. Never did. Do they owe much in royalties from Stealing Paradise? Likely not, but it’s the principle that matters. Always pay your authors. Pretty simple.

Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 3d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · 4d

Sad to hear Down & Out Books is closing shop. Bad day for #crimefiction. Great publisher, my brief and limited experience with them as a writer is something I'll always remember fondly. Hope to meet these guys again in some other capacities. Thanks and good luck to everyone!

downandoutbooks.com

— Down & Out Books

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 11d

TODAY: Some say the world will end in fire. Some say flood. 15 short stories from some of the best crime fiction writers today. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social Listen to Jordan Harper and order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · 19d

That's almost too much talent for one photo right there... 🫣

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · 21d

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WOW: Jon Stewart CALLED IT

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Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 24d

Our friends at BOLO Books are bringing you all the absolutely incredible cover reveal for ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER, edited by @curtisippolito.bsky.social, coming Sept 30th!

Check out the full reveal here (and preorder when you're done gawking at this beauty)
bolobooks.com/2025/09/cove...

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · Sep 5

Little 200-word micro fiction I wrote, freshly rejected, and rightfully so.
It's titled "Womb to the Tomb", it's utter nonsense, but might just usher in a new subgenre I call fetus noir...
So come get your weird on, enjoy.

#crimefiction #microfiction #flashfiction #noir #shortstories #booksky

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · Sep 5

Little 200-word micro fiction I wrote, freshly rejected, and rightfully so.
It's titled "Womb to the Tomb", it's utter nonsense, but might just usher in a new subgenre I call fetus noir...
So come get your weird on, enjoy.

#crimefiction #microfiction #flashfiction #noir #shortstories #booksky

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · Sep 3

63 editors told me no one wanted my 1st book about black Southerners in a rural noir setting
Now im a comp
Ask @stephenking.bsky.social would say
Life is a wheel ....😎

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · Aug 22

Damn straight.

#science #scienceliteracy #nobullshit

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Peter Rosch @peterrosch.bsky.social · Aug 29

What The Dead Can Do is out in the world and The Mysterious Bookshop’s pick for September!!! I signed a book last night for Michael Connelly 😳 I’m in Troy, NY Sunday night at Paper Moon. Come out! Or grab it from your local bookstore. 🖤🙏🖤🖤 thnx @gabino.bsky.social

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Do you like horror? Noir? Magic? The ocean? Righteous violence? Ghosts? Hanging with your friends? I have one for you!

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks Gabino.
Out now: Starlite Pulp Review #6, featuring my Prohibition-era gangster horror mash-up "Black Well Crossing". If you loved Sinners, you should check this out. Just don't expect vampires...

starlitepulp.com
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#fridayreads #crimefiction #horror #horrorstories

Lots of other great stories in this, too, very proud to be in such fine company here.

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm fucking forty, and I want @marcmaron.bsky.social to be my dad.