yay it's me!! love being part of Augur so much!!! 🥰 also everyone please read The Spear Cuts through Water; it's my life's mission to get everyone to read it it 😌

Meet Sri @sriprasad.bsky.social, one of our wonderful editors! 🤩

It's time for our Year End Campaign! From now until the end of the year, donors will match your donation!
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We have just under 3 WEEKS LEFT until our annual fundraising campaign ends!

Donations and subscriptions will be matched 1:1 up to a total matching fund of $7000, meaning you can DOUBLE the impact of your contribution! Links below!

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2025 is just around the corner and with it Escape Artists’ 20th anniversary!! For two decades, we have built a community of speculative fiction authors, narrators, and audiences and been a leader in speculative fiction spaces.

Explore the books on our Kickstarter page, or stick around as we show off ALL the books in a thread throughout today ;)

EVERY signed book claimed = ONE step closer to Augur Press opening to book-length submissions 👀👀👀

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Augurians, just FOUR days left on Kickstarter!! 🙀🤯

Today starts @ $17.4k 💜

Here’s how close our goals are —

$92 CAD / $66 USD — Fund our podcast
$1.6k / $1.1k — Fund Augur Press BOOK 3 !!
$4.1k / $2.9k — Fund BOOK 4 + open to WORLDWIDE novella/poetry book subs !!!

U know it: Share & pledge !! 😻

On Kickstarter NOW, we've got...

12+ SIGNED BOOKS & bundles!

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@aijiang.bsky.social
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@ecwpress.bsky.social
@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
@thesuiway.bsky.social
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& more!

+ they come w a 2-year Augur/T&F sub !

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Mark your calendars: Augur and Tales & Feathers are opening for submissions October 1st! ✨

Send us your slice-of-life fantasy and cozy tales for our 2025 issues! We can't wait to read them. ☕️

If you say “the ‘24 Al Mawasi massacre,” you have to clarify: which one? This was repeatedly declared a “safe zone.” Same if you say “the ‘24 Deir Al Balah Refugee Camp massacre”—not specific enough. The equivalent of multiple nuclear bombs dropped on the world’s most densely populated place.

Signal boost! Please help if you can, @giganotosaurus.bsky.social is an excellent pub!

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#FIYAHLitMag is always accepting donations to support new experiments, sustain the mag, increase wages, etc.

We appreciate all the continued support and know none of this would be possible without an active community.

Here's our updated link:
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I caved and got the month-long free trial of Word because I miss it soooo much. Google Docs can never live up to it

Hey remember that last year Podcast Movement let multiple people in without badges and put me in a really unsafe position during the event?

And apologized to Ben Shapiro after he sent his fans to harass me online?

And never did anything about that?

I wrote about it.

This is indeed so dang sad—and exactly the kind of thing that short genre fiction market people have been saying would happen as a result of the whole Kindle Periodical fiasco