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Sue Archer 🍁
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Canadian fantasy writer, sometime editor, and #StetWalk enthusiast. Trying to read all the things before my TBR topples. She/her. Books2read.com/FortunesShadow #AmReading The Drowned Man's Daughter by @cjlavigne.com
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 7d
Notes from #CanCon2025

1. Your name deserves stickers. Everything is better with stickers.

See also: buttons.
A CanCon name badge featuring a castle with a heart, a cheerful pink and purple butterfly, and a button that says "Proud TBR Pile Owner" which is totally me. A ribbon underneath tells everyone I'm a first time attendee. Many people who saw that started friendly conversations to welcome me, which was awesome.
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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 4h
I can't get enough of this season 😍
Trees surrounding a pond on a bright autumn day. The sky is an intense blue with a perfect smattering of clouds. The tree leaves are shades of orange, yellow, and green. And the pond is reflecting it all.
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 19h
Today's song. Loving Sarah's new album.

"So take your dirty hands off of my wheel" 👏 m.youtube.com/watch?v=8d_M...
Sarah McLachlan - One In a Long Line (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by The Official Sarah McLachlan
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 20h
Your quarterly reminder that bullying the government works and we need to do more of it

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...
Ford government walks back on plan to consider changes to renters’ right to ‘security of tenure’
The Ford government says it won’t be moving forward with consultations to modify the law that protects tenants’ right to remain in their unit.
www.ctvnews.ca
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 1d
Among the add-ons are signed copies of Plague Birds and We Who Hunt Alexanders. So hurry over and support a great magazine!
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d
There's just 4 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we're SO CLOSE to hitting our 20k goal!

Our full catalogue of critiques, ebooks, merch and more will all be gone on Halloween. Don't miss out on these limited edition items and donate TODAY! 💜👽🎃

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Cow getting sucked into UFO tractor beam. "Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 4 DAYS Needed for Liftoff: $2,182 $17,818/$20,000 Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!" Story/Excerpt Critiques E. Catherine Tobler (up to 5,000 words) Spencer Nitkey (up to 7,500 words) A.C. Wise (up to 8,000 words) Aimee Ogden (up to 6,000 words) A.V. Greene (up to 10,000 words) Ivy Grimes (up to 5,000 words) Lindz McLeod (up to 5,000 words) Risa Wolf (7,500 words) Sam Fleming (7,500 words Slush Reader Critique Cool Offerings Tarot card affirmation by Los Mei-en Kwa Marie Vibbert Tuckerization Apex Appreciation Online Workshop "World-building from the Inside Out" New EBooks and trade paperbacks available now! Available only on the Apex Magazine Kickstarter! Shadows of Glass and Other Stories by Jamie Lackey Tiny Planet Filled with Liars by Stephen M.A. Chlorophilia by Cristina Jurado The FULL DIGITAL CATALOGUE from Jennifer R. Donahue! PLUS! Become immortalized in a short story by Science Fiction Author Marie Vibbert! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/apexpublications/apex-magazine-2026 Stickers and hoodie now available worldwide!
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1d
On a mission to get subscribers to my free newsletter up to an arbitrary number. If you're interested in the workings of a historical fantasy novelist's career, you can read the archives here. Stuff like what my editing process looks like, what I'm reading, craft/career things I'm working through.
Kate Heartfield's Newsletter
I'm Kate Heartfield, a writer of historical fantasy novels and other things. My newsletter is a way to let you know what I'm up to, and to talk about books and ideas. It comes out every second Friday.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d
I have a brand new spooky novelette out at @reactorsff.bsky.social! It's a take on phantoms I've wanted to write for decades.
wiswell.bsky.social John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 5d
New story day!

"Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.
Phantom View - Reactor
A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father try to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.
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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 1d
Can*Con is done, but another event looms! In Toronto!

Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!
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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 16d
hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
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Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...
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Jaime Sperling @diedofennui.bsky.social · 1d
Hi again, Canada! I'm in Toronto, who wants to meet up? (I have very little meeting-up time.)
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1d
Drafting with my bud @kevinhearne.bsky.social in our fave coffee shop and we have an Audrey
The bar of a coffee shop, decorated in bright colours, with an open mouth carnivorous plant on a barstool.
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 1d
Oh no, they are everywhere
In a theatre costumes and props warehouse sits Audrey Two from Little Shop of Horrors. (In Stratford, Ontario.) It is adult person-sized so that the operator can move from within. Not something you want to run into in a dark alley after a total eclipse of the sun!
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Suzanne Purkis @hypoxia75.bsky.social · 1d
When I found myself
on a precipice
of someone else’s making
(your making)
the terror was nearly suffocating

Choosing between
bad and worse
(the only choices you left me)
I closed my eyes
and jumped

#vss365 #terror #poetry
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 2d
Also clearly a good-luck charm 😀
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Sheila Burpee Duncan @sheilabduncan.bsky.social · 2d
#vss365

condemned haunted house
slated for demolition
that’s a terror down

#terror
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 2d
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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · Jul 28
One like, one MM book written by a man.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 2d
When you buy Countess or Skin Thief, please know you are supporting queer goth mimes. Thank you and Happy Scorpio Season. My month has arrived.
me with mime make up wearing a beret. Me derssed as a mime.
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 2d
two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton
Alt: Two male sportscasters are sitting at a table in front of a crowd, and one of them is saying "that's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for him"
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 2d
As always, Clare is spot on!
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 2d
First, you must turn three times counter-clockwise

In a garden

At precisely 9:16 p.m.

On a Tuesday

During a leap year

In a place where the Canada geese roam freely

...

As you can see, it is not for the faint of heart to gain this power
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 2d
These days, practically everything looks like the Beaverton!
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 3d
That's a lovely piece of work!
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 3d
I vote for two!
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Sue Archer 🍁 @suearcher.bsky.social · 3d
The power of purple. Or pink! All I know is it went "pow" at me as I walked by. 💪 #StetWalk #Bloomscrolling
A symmetrical, vibrant, round purple-pink flower with several layers of pointed oval-shaped petals is facing me head on. It contrasts strongly with the green lawn below it and the green leaves above it. A smaller one is peeping below it in the background.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 3d
Found this suit jacket with elbow patches and a maple leaf pattern on the inner lining at the thrift store.
With it I have reached my final form. I have become Canadian history. I can see all our history through time and space.
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