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R. Jean Bell
@rjbell.bsky.social
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aka bex. she/her. Reader, writer, poet, editor-ish. Socially awkward. My sense of humor is broken and I tend to hermit. Disabled (chronic pain). US native living abroad. Submissions Editor at Apex Mag.
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I never got around to doing a 2024 wrap-up even though I had two things published I am REALLY proud of. First, "Remember Me" appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Issue 52. (36 lines, 190 words)

eyetothetelescope.com/archives/052...
Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
eyetothetelescope.com
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Less than 24 hours left in the Apex Magazine Kickstarter. If they get a few thousand dollars more the world gets to read a special issue of Apex focused on unpublished authors!
Our Kickstarter ends in just 24 HOURS! This is your LAST CHANCE to shop our catalogue of new ebooks, author critiques, and exclusive merch before it's gone for good. Check the 🧵 to see our full selection!

Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Spider looks sad. I want to snuggle it.
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Hellllooooo from the static! It is fundraising season for many spec mags out there. We are doing things a little differently with a small gofundme to help us into 2026.

We are already at $2 and just need a little boost to help us to our goal of $2400 👻

www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher
For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices
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"It was one of the many fossil houses of dry bones and cured scales that served generations, and still stood in clusters in Old Dodoma, a land of dryness that was once an ocean." 🦴🐟

New ECO24 excerpt by @genni.bsky.social: "The Water Runner"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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want to buy my ENTIRE DIGITAL CATALOG?

well you can do that AND benefit Apex! It's an add-on!
Our Kickstarter ends in just 24 HOURS! This is your LAST CHANCE to shop our catalogue of new ebooks, author critiques, and exclusive merch before it's gone for good. Check the 🧵 to see our full selection!

Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Are you remembering to stretch? With 53 hours to go as of this post, @apexmag.bsky.social has lots of stretch goals yet to unlock. Like a 5th issue dedicated to previously unpublished authors, since Apex loves to support those debuts.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
Knowing that Apex Magazine will still exist next year brightens my day. As an extra bonus, I get to go to the library today.
Intriguingly, the Danish name for this is NOT witch's butter. That's a slime mold instead.
French toast is not frivolous. You deserve more frivolity.
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Friends, I am currently under the weather, very behind on work, fighting SAD--my heart, it cannot take this. Please, give and get @apexmag.bsky.social to their goal so I can save my dwindling supply of tissues for my nose and not my tears.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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We're officially at 48 hours remaining in our Kickstarter campaign?! This has gone by so fast!! There are still some rewards left:

🎲 play a TTRPG with the co-founders!
📝 short story and query letter critiques—AND we dropped the poetry critique price!!

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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The Kickstarter for @apexmag.bsky.social is only a few hundred dollars from hitting their funding goal. Help push them over the top!

As a reminder, among the add-ons are signed copies of Plague Birds and We Who Hunt Alexanders. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
Okay, I left my hermit cave and went out yo meet new people today. And actually had fun. But then it was a gathering of a specfic book club, so....
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There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to fund Apex Magazine in 2026, and we JUST unlocked our 70% reward!!

The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩

🎃 Help us reach our funding goal and donate TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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@retreasure.bsky.social and I are watching Night of the Demons over on the Apex Discord. If you're part of our Discord community, jump into the Apex Voice channel and join in the fun!
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Okay, listen: @apexmag.bsky.social is SO CLOSE to their funding goal, but there are only 5 DAYS left. And I know we're all barely able to put food on the table, but whatever you have to give, please consider giving to Apex TODAY so there can be just one more light shining in the darkness in 2026.
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
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THEY HIT $17,000!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
There's only 5 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we just unlocked our 80% goal! 🎉

@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!

Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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There's only 5 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we just unlocked our 80% goal! 🎉

@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!

Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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If you donate to the Apex Magazine kickstarter, you could get personal critique from top authors, or a character named after you by me!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
Please help.
Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.

I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
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Sometimes the slush pile is so depressing--when I am on the no side of a piece that is awesome, that is exploring something about a marginalization that I'm sure will resonate with many others who share it... but when the piece just isn't a fit for the market I'm reading for. *much sad*
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I've really been struggling to cope the past few years. Both personally and because of world insanity. @apexmag.bsky.social has been one of the threads keeping me connected to myself and something resembling sanity. If you can, please help make sure they're still around next year for everyone.