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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 2d

Hire me to do grotty black and white drawings in your novel/book/ttrpg sometime maybe :-D i promise maximum GROT and DRAMA

carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · Jun 18

Me! I've been making art inspired by old bookplates and grotty art in adventure books and rpg mags.

spooky crow art by Carly A-F
grotty textured black and white art of a crow on a skull

lonely spire art by Carly A-F
grotty textured black and white art of mysterious mountain

spaceships art by Carly A-F
grotty textured black and white art of spaceships

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 1d

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 1d

‪I got my first cat review!!! This is Mandy, and Mandy thinks "What A Fish Looks Like," - from @stelliform.press - is good for faceplanting! Mandy, like all cats, is perfect, so there you go.

Photo of perfectly furry orange and white cat napping in sun with face planted on copy of my book, What A Fish Looks Like. Her ears are forwards so she looks like a rocket.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI, we're open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds for this entire month!

We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard!

www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 1d

SPRAYED EDGES! That's next level.

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 1d

Oh these are beautiful!!!

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 11d

!!!! THIS IN THE WORLD NOW PLEASE! Let's make it so!

M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 11d

WE FUNDED YEAR ONE! Now let’s smash some stretch goals and fund year two so we can stick around!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 12d

Ahhhhh I’m so excited!!!

T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 18d

San Francisco! I’m hosting a reading and discussion with four wonderful local authors:
📚 Charlie Jane Anders @charliejane.bsky.social
📚 Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social
📚 Charlie Getter
📚 Lehua Taitano
& my co-host @fabulistmag.bsky.social
OCTOBER 2 - 1246 FOLSOM
Details: cafesuspiro.com/pages/stir-a...

Poster for the seasonal reading series Stir at Cafe Suspiro and Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco.

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 15d

@neonhemlock.bsky.social makes the most beautiful books. OPENS SOON!

Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 17d

whoa october is around the corner!

reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.

more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15d

Sama'a's family is struggling. They have two little girls to feed and clothe, one still an infant, and every dollar counts. Please join me in digging deep for them.

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 22d

I could NOT be more excited for a sequel. FRIENDS you have just enough time to order @boriscrito.bsky.social EG Condé's Sordidez from @stelliform.press. You won't be **ready for this greatness, but you can at least prepare.

E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks to your support for Taínofuturism, @stelliform.press is publishing TWO standalone sequels to SORDIDEZ in 2026! 📕The first is called CACIQUES. Set in Borikén, our heroes learn how to live without the Empires that have long defined them. Can they vanquish the lingering ghosts of coloniality? 9/

Publishers Marketplace announcement for CACIQUES and MAQUECHES with Stelliform Press forthcoming in 2026.

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 24d

You are GOING to want to go to this! @kristinaten.bsky.social is a genius storyteller and every story she writes is an absolute banger.

Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 25d

Midweek story time! Tomorrow evening, come sit criss-cross applesauce, or however's comfortable, for an hour of livestream stories told by @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social and me 🖤📚

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Sep 4

Seriously, why did you have to do that to my heart? (mad/notmad)

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Sep 4

So proud of my brilliant wife Kadet, who after decades of being a first/only queer/woman game audio designer in so many places, is the audio lead of Civilization 7 so we can have queer/femme warriors like god intended. Awesome article in @asoundeffect.bsky.social www.asoundeffect.com/civilization...

Designing Sound for the Centuries in 'Civilization VII' – with the Firaxis Sound Team | A Sound Effect

The sound team on Firaxis Games 'Sid Meier's Civilization VII' discuss their approach to taking the game's sound to new heights by honoring the past and embracing the new, designing new sounds for bio...

www.asoundeffect.com

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Drugs are not expensive because they're made of platinum or something."

May we continue work towards a society that puts the care of its people and the place we live at the heart of its mission (because seriously WTF else is the priority).

John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 3

As we see ANOTHER huge drop in the cost of curing tuberculosis, I am reminded that 1. drugs are not expensive because they're made of platinum or something, and 2. the fruits of activism are often harvested over many years. Thanks to all the folks who made this happen. www.stoptb.org/news/breakin...

Breaking News: Historical Drop of DR-TB Treatment Cost Below $300 After Third Major Cut in 2025 by Stop TB’s Global Drug Facility | Stop TB Partnership

www.stoptb.org

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Sep 4

Kristina Ten's @kristinaten.bsky.social's story BUNNY EARS in @nightmare-magazine.com is SUCH a banger. I can't remember the last time a horror story hit me on so many levels. LISTEN NOW! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/bunn...

Bunny Ears - Nightmare Magazine

Hannah’s first impression of Colden Hills Music Camp is that, for a place with “hills” and “music” right in the name, it’s too flat and way, way too quiet, and the one thing she initially thinks must ...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am so excited to announce the news that some of my very favorite queer spec artists in the whole world will be performing at The STUD in SF for the launch of What A Fish Looks Like from @stelliform.press!!! I can't wait to share! SF Come through! Link in comment!

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Sep 2

So many books I love so much on this list. Congratulations, @michaeldeluca.bsky.social and @olivasthewriter.bsky.social this news brought me so much joy today!

Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social · Sep 1

It is time to announce the semifinalists for the Small Spec Book Awards.

Thank you to our readers, who worked diligently to assign ratings to all books. The competition was close.

Authors, we hope you are proud of your stories because we are. Thank you for sharing them with us.

A graphic of the fantasy semifinalists:

1. BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY by Evan J. Peterson (Broken Eye Books)
2. CURSED UNDER LONDON by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch (Farrago Books)
3. GHOST APPARENT by Jelena Dunato (Ghost Orchid Press)
4. TALIO'S CODEX by J. Alexander Cohen (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
5. THE EXTRAVAGANZA ETERNIA by Kristin Osani (Ghost Orchid Press)
6. THE HARLEQUIN: THE DRAPER’S REEL by J.A. Mortimore and Penelope Hill (Elsewhen Press)
7. THE JAGUAR MASK by Michael J. DeLuca (Stelliform Press)
8. THE MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING by Sam Flynn (Timber Ghost Press)
9. THE WITCH AND THE OSTRICH (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
10. TREE GODS by R. Lee Fryar (Midnight Meadow Publishing)

Horror semifinalists:

1. A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE by Carson Winter (Tenebrous Press)
2. BEAR SEASON by Gemma Fairclough (Wild Hunt Books)
3. BENOTHINGED by Alvar Theo (Haunt Publishing)
4. CHURCH OF SKATAN by Damian Casey (Mad Axe Media)
5. FROM THE BELLY by Emmett Nahil (Tenebrous Press)
6. RESISTERS by Chris Campeau (Anuci Press)
7. SUNDOWN IN SAN OJUELA by M.M. Olivas (Lanternfish Press)
8. TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE by Michael Merriam (Queen of Swords Press)
9. THE SCIENTIST, THE SPACEMAN, AND THE STARS BETWEEN THEM by A.L. Davidson (Timber Ghost Press)
10. YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD by R.A. Busby (Stelliform Press)

Semifinalists for science fiction:

1. A TRUTH BEYOND FULL by Rosie Oliver (Elsewhen Press)
2. EMPRESS OF DUST by Alex Kingsley (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
3. HER GILDED VOICE by K.C. Aegis (Elsewhen Press)
4. MOON DUST IN MY HAIRNET by JR Creaden (Mythic Roads Press)
5. MORE BUGS by Em Reed (Knight Errant Press)
6. THE MOSQUITO FLEET by Andrew Penn Romine (Broken Eye Books)
7. THE RIGEL REDEMPTION by Robin C. M. Duncan (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
8. THE SEA OF CLOUDS by Sheila Jenné (Midnight Meadow Publishing)
9. THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS by Ben Berman Ghan (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers)
10. WORLDS ALIGNED: WORLDS APART 2 by Terry Jackman (Elsewhen Press)

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Sep 2

AHHHHHHH!!!!

T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · Aug 26

September 10! Syr Beker’s debut book, What A Fish Looks Like, launches at The Stud. I had the pleasure of reading an ARC of this delightful, poignant, punk collection of climate fiction from @stelliform.press & am so thrilled that I get to perform at the in-person launch party in San Francisco!

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Aug 11

I am about to announce a lineup that is going to be, ahem, OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! Please save the date, SF Bay!

Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · Aug 11

ICYMI: SF BAY AREA PLEASE SAVE THE DATE!

Syr Hayati Beker is having a launch party at The Stud with Fabulosa Books for What A Fish Looks Like, coming out September 4th.

APOCALYPTIC ATTIRE ENCOURAGED. Hope to see you there!

Fabulosa Books, The Stud, and Stelliform Press present: T-minus 60 MIN, a launch party! Celebrating What a Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker. September 10 at The Stud. Full line up to be announced. Save the date!

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Jul 25

DIED at twice. Raises cup of tea in solidarity. Why do we do this? 😹 Congrats though!

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is the framework I needed today, to love, to get out of bed, to fight, to be in this moment. Brilliant, necessary.

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · Jul 23

this week's post is something I wrote in 2019 but has been offline for awhile, How To Live Like the World Is Ending.

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...

How to Live Like the World is Ending

or: on the planting of trees

margaretkilljoy.substack.com

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Jun 20

When you wake up to see your book held, and read, by one of your favorite writers working today, is there a bigger honor than that? (spoiler, there isn't).

B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social · Jun 19

queers, if you want a book to hold your heart through the current awful, preorder this magnificent collection by @syr.bsky.social, out in September from @stelliform.press. it's a guidebook on how to love a world (& each other) through constant, unendurable loss. www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...

Cover of Syr Hayati Beker's What a Fish Looks Like: black, with two silvery-blue merpeople gently cradling each other at center (one human-head-fish-tail, the other fish-head-human-legs).

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · Jun 20

!!!!!! I just arrived to see this. Grateful beyond words, thank you so much. What an honor to have my book read by you.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jun 18

Me again. I’m writing this 12 hours ago, so I’m hoping we’ve had some support come in for this single lifeline for 6 families and a displacement camp. I’d like to think we can do better than going more than a day without support, i.e. food, for them.

chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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