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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 3h

They'll be talking about how antifa turned the frickin frogs gay

🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.social · 9h

I love the Frog Costumes because you just know in a couple days we're going to see the President of the United States and the head of the FBI go on national TV to talk about the frog wearing "antifa terrorists" and it's going to sound like something straight out of satire.

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Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · 3h

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Kill Bill

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 3h

John Carpenter's Gone in 60 Seconds

Verati @verati404.bsky.social · 4h

John Carpenter's Equilibrium

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 3h

Saaaaame

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 4h

Fall snacks are so fun. I love unhinging my jaw to swallow whole pumpkins and dry leaves.

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Feb 22

My debut M/M Romance MERCY is available here! I'm a queer trans masc author. :)

books2read.com/mercynovel/

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Nov 25

Looking for a supernatural queer read?

🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality

Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Available here:

a.co/d/bufFU4f

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 4h

Hey! You!

Read trans authors!

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 3h

I fucking love that movie. And Rhys Darby is one of my absolute favorites.

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 3h

John Carpenter's Gone in 60 Seconds

Verati @verati404.bsky.social · 4h

John Carpenter's Equilibrium

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 4h

John Carpenter's The Devil Wears Prada

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 3h

Yeeeees! One of the coolest of the cool! How exciting!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21h

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 9h

I'd love for you to read my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book during the Halloween season.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 4h

i'm ness (she/they), queer & disabled & the 1st self-pub author to win a nebula award! i mostly post about my dogs, writing, & health stuff, and seasonally about gardening, monarch butterflies, & halloween. there’s swearing & rants. details in thread & more about me on my website: thodestool.ca 1/12

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 4h

This was the best thing ever. My partner and I loved watching.

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 4h

Yeeees! I sure hope so!

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 4h

You should be on such a list. You are quite underrated and super cool.

I think we know a few who fall into those categories.

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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 5h

As a reader, I do love a bargain. But as a writer, seeing this much overlooked talent at that price point *guts* me.

And sooner or later, as indies, we have to identify as one over the other.

Purchased nonetheless. Also I should be on such a list but eh I'm already free-to-read so w/e

Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 7h

Marketing is hard. #Book marketing is super hard. Getting reviews for those books is harder still. Here we have a #collection of #SFF books that seem to largely fall between the cracks of easily defined genres, deserving of some attention.

Maybe check 'em out.

itch.io/b/3305/under...

#sale 🧡🚀📚

Graphic for the "underrated book bundle" on Itch, depicting a number of books surrounding the text graphic. The text reads: "Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of."

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 4h

Yeeeees!!! I hope you see some cool art!

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 4h

I love me some Midwest Gothic. Things feel eerie? Most likely the corn fields.

There's something in them, ya know? They're called cornstalks for a reason.

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 4h

Omg. I'm using that now

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Abigail F Taylor @abigailtaylor.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks for the fun questions! #QueerWritersChat

You can get my sapphic horror MARYNEAL, 1962 today for just $4.99
a.co/d/3aKG1Go

🎉Free to read!🎉 My story about coyotes taking revenge on the settlers who poisoned them:
sites.google.com/newmyths.com...

#WriteStuff

A promotional poster for Maryneal 1962. It shows the front cover with a girl running towards the audience covered in blood behind her the bloody title is on a movie marquee.

To the left of the cover is a blurb that says "a small town girl must find a cure before the next full moon or she'll have to kill the boy next door". Underneath that is the Barnes & Noble and Amazon logos

An image of the desert with a quote from the short story packs of yellow eyes. It says all who wants belonged here or not welcome.

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 7h

Occasional reminder I wrote a billionaire forcefem story starring a trans cyborg who’s really good at her job (forcefemming billionaires for The Cause)

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danifinn.itch.io/iris

books2read.com/b/b6DAgM

Also available in this mini omnibus

danifinn.itch.io/the-incorpor...

books2read.com/b/4jd7ql

Iris by danifinn

A sci-fi billionaire forcefem short story

danifinn.itch.io

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Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you so much for hosting, Amara! I greatly appreciate the #QueerWritersChat

I run an SFF writers discord: discord.gg/GdnxhzNv

I have a Kofi, if you want to support a struggling trans artist: ko-fi.com/transcendrag...

My website, with links to my other socials! theodoresnapdragon.com/about/

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.bsky.social · 6h

#QueerWritersChat Q5 Self Promo!

Y'all can find my currently published books universally (bit.ly/AE-Bross) and also on itchio (aebrossbooks.itch.io).

Hope you all have a lovely evening 💛🥰

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A.M. Boone is in rewriting hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 6h

A snip from when Devontae (the MC) transformed into his magical boy form for the first time. If you can't tell, his theme color is silver. 😂

(My friend said that his outfit kinda sounds like a two-bit cosplayer getup, but that's the point.)

#QueerWritersChat

I swallowed again, then cried, “K-Kingdom of Eternity! Give me your power!”

And for a split second, nothing happened. For a split second, my heart fell. She was lying. She had to be lying—

Then a spiral of rainbow light burst from the bracelet and wrapped around my body. Everything else melted away, and in that moment, it was just me and the magic latent in my soul. I closed my eyes, letting it take me—transform me—into whatever it wanted. Beautiful music echoed around me as I slipped into my magical form—my true form.

Before I even knew what was happening, it was over. I took a few deep breaths. Everything was different. My center of gravity was higher, and…

I glanced at myself in the nearby mirror, then did a double take. I was wearing a white, frilly suit, with accents in silver, and a silver cape billowing behind me. I even had matching boots and gloves.

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