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Tanya Huff
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I make a living writing science fiction and fantasy. Mostly fantasy. It's been said I've never met a trope I didn't skewer. I'm good with that. Also, there's cats. And knitting. she/her
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Scheduled Post: Big Kobo sale is live! Solomon's Seal is 99c in eBook and just $6.99 in audio until December 1. Find sales at many other stores (Apple, Smashwords) as well, all links here: books2read.com/solomon-s-seal
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Solomon's Seal by Skyla Dawn Cameron
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November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Heads still further up: $2.99 Cdn Kobo.
nickpheas.bsky.social NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social · 15h
Heads further up: this is also reduced on UK Kobo. £1.99.

Still £4.99 on Amazon

#UKSFFBookBargains

www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I have a 2006 Ford Ranger. I love my truck. But my truck is old and I live in Ontario where 20 years of winter does a number on your undercarriage. My mechanic had begun to suggest that the end was near. The panel under the driver's side door falling off in a shower of rust was another hint. 1/3
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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If it helps with the decision, there's a Valorverse story in here. Not Torin, but Valorverse. (Previously published in Last-Ditch, a Zombies Need Brains anthology)
ourmankoto.bsky.social Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 3d
Because my children are Gen Alpha monsters, they want to know if I've sold 67 copies of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 this month--get it? 6-7 * makes flailing juggling motion and despairs * I'm about 20 copies shy. For Black Friday, want to help an indie publisher pull one over on his kids?
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three: Kotowych, Stephen: 9781738187539: Books - Amazon.ca
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November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Today's word is RUN. Today's #BookQW from Third Time Lucky & Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World. This e-collection contains my first professional sale, initially written on vacation in Cuba circa 1982. The CRS would not allow me to deduct the trip as a business expense...
Digital cover of THIRD TIME LUCKY in the upper left. Lizard from the cover under the text. Magdelene watched a rivulet of sweat run over the corded muscles of his stomach to disappear behind his embroidered, linen loincloth. He looked to be about twenty years older than Joah; tall and sleekly muscular. His skin was a little darker and, just now, glistened in the sunlight. She smiled. Even in the midst of disaster, Magdelene could appreciate the finer things in life. " If you're looking for Joah," she said at last, rolling her eyes as Zayd leapt backward and dropped his spear into a fighting stance, "she isn't here." "Where is the wizard?" Zayd demanded. Magdelene polished off a muffin and bowed.
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Gods below & above, do we feel seen by this passage or what🖤☠️
"In terms of what they publish, small presses see within the wider publishing landscape market-led tendencies towards sameness and repetition, tendencies that they counter through the production of a diverse and imaginative literature. They are vital for the literary ecosystem in that they take risks on books that larger publishers would not; champion genre-bending and innovative forms of writing; pour time and energy into supporting emerging and overlooked writers; are dedicated to publishing books in translation; and tend to publish far more writers from minoritised backgrounds due to their networks, openness to writers from non-traditional literary pathways, and submissions processes. They are also dedicated to expanding the boundaries of the visual form of books through original approaches to design, layout and printing – despite the costs of complex typesetting. Small-press publishers do all of this on extremely limited budgets, often without adequate pay themselves – and, in many instances, any pay at all. At the same time, their books are held to industry standard and compete with titles produced by big publishers: nominated for the same prizes, sold in the same bookshops and reviewed in the same publications. In sum, they are doing the same work as big publishers, only much more of it and for far less reward. Why?"
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The warscape of the Terminator movies could easily be mistaken for Gaza under the IDF or the drone war in Ukraine.
AI warfare is becoming increasingly deadly.
AI scientists warning about the need for guardrails as technology moves faster and faster.
My latest.

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The Terminator Future Has Arrived
Have you ever heard of the Singularity?
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November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Today's word is JAM. Today's #BookQW from INTO THE BROKEN LANDS, a created world fantasy were, given themes of power dynamics & what it means to be human, you wouldn't expect fruity/sugary goodness to occur. But JAM is also a verb.

HC, pb, digital, & audio at usual suspects. Shop indie if you can.
Broken Lands digital cover on the upper left, original DAW cover on the upper right. There are tentacles. These days, there's always tentacles. It's become a thing. The damp cloth over his elbows provided traction against the polished wooden floor. He rammed the toes of his boots against the wall beneath the lowest carvings, and pushed himself forward. Almost ... Then he cracked his head on the ceiling. The walls moved in closer. Rocking from side to side to free himself, he jammed himself in tighter. His breath misted against the floor and he wasted a moment wondering who'd been polishing the wood for the last hundred and sixty-three years.
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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We are greatly saddened to learn of Jean-Louis Trudel's passing. What a staggering loss for our community. Our sincere condolences to his friends, family, and colleagues.
Jean-louis Trudel nous a quitté.
C'est une info très triste qui nous est parvenue. L'auteur canadien Jean-Louis Trudel est décédé ces jours ci lors d'une résidence d'auteur à Vilnius en Lituan
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November 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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FREE Download all Weekend!

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#free #freeread #ebook #sci-fi #adventure #urbanfantasy
#urbanfantasybookseries

#outlawforever #author #wrestler
The Book of Korum: A YA Fantasy Adventure
Amazon.com: The Book of Korum: A YA Fantasy Adventure eBook : Knight, Adam: Kindle Store
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November 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Honestly, Ontario banning speed cameras and most bike lanes is a pretty big blow to urbanist optimism in Canada.

The province is 40% of Canada’s population!
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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The good news is that the recent rain has saturated the soil and the water level in our well is rising. The bad news is knowing this because we've hit the first sulphur pocket.

The trick is making the tea strong enough you can't taste the sulphur.
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'girl' #BookQW
Dan Mackmain's a strong and silent bloke most of the time so he's learned to be very grateful that women talk to each other.
The Green Man's Holiday is now available from your preferred retailer. Contemporary fantasy rooted in British myths and folklore.
Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those. Book extract reads: ‘Do you know if the pub does food?’ She pointed across the village green. ‘The George and Dragon?’ One of the other two replied, ‘I don’t think the dining room will be open, not this evening. The police are using it.’ ‘Really?’ Fin managed to sound suitably startled. ‘Why?’ The first girl looked disappointed. ‘You haven’t heard?’ ‘We’re on holiday,’ Fin apologised. ‘We only arrived this afternoon.’ ‘Someone snatched a baby from a house at the other end of the village.’ The second girl jerked her head, indicating the main road behind us. ‘It’s all right though,’ the third girl said quickly. ‘They’ve found her. She’s back home with her mum and dad.’ The local social networks were impressively quick if they already had that news. How soon would word spread that Fin and I were somehow involved? Other people in Pigeon Lane must have seen the police cars arrive, and the coppers talking to us. They’d have seen the screaming baby being carried out of the cottage. How long before someone shared what we looked like or posted a photo? We’d be instantly recognisable in a place this small.
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Today's word is GIRL. Today's #BookQW from Direct Descendant (@dawbooks.bsky.social 2025) a cozy horror set in Northern Ontario, where the baked goods are French and the eldritch horrors are cuddly. Well, some of the baked goods. Actually, now I think of it, only some of the eldritch horrors...
Cover of Direct Descendant with bakery, birches, and tentacles in the lower left. "Your words have no power over me, Cassidy Prewitt." The other woman had positioned Melanie in front of her like a shield. I could see her hand and the knife and little else. "If you try to breach my mystical defenses, I will slit this girl's throat." "Mystical defenses? Seriously?" asked Amanda behind me. "Girl?" asked the teen with the drone. "Rude. She's like thirty.'
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Hello Canadian Producers and Showrunners! 🇨🇦

I’m an experienced story coordinator, soon to finish up my second season on the critically acclaimed Netflix/CBC/APTN series NORTH OF NORTH, and open to work in the new year!

Let me introduce myself... 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I enjoyed Death by Silver quite a lot! Check it out if you haven't yet.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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It begins.
The view from my porch of a messy front yard slowly being covered in snow.
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The sign outside my Local Yarn Store (LYS) this afternoon.
A blackboard outside a yarn shop. Written on it in blue chalk: I like my yarn like I like my lovers...soft, twisted, and a little kinky.
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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An alert reader let me know the whole Lotus Kingdoms series is available for $2.99 each in ebook! Also on Kobo and other platforms!

www.kobo.com/us/en/series...
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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A visit from a neighbour. #LifeInTheCountry
A white steer stands in my front yard watching me take his picture.
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Today's word is COLOR. Today's quote from the new ebook edition of SUMMON THE KEEPER, a 1998 contemporary fantasy about people who close the holes between worlds and the cats who have to keep reminding them that the food bowl is empty. There's no point in saving the world if the cat is starving.
The cover of the new ebook edition is the background, the tower and tentacles and Austin, a black and white cat, the two clearly visible pieces. The DAW cover for the COMPLETE KEEPER CHRONICLES, all three books in trade paperback and sometimes still available, is in the middle right. The new cover wrapped with caution tape is on the lower right. When Austin refused to answer, Claire decided she'd won, tossed off her clothes, and got into a pair of cream-colored silk pajamas- standard operating procedure suggested night clothes suitable for appearing on the six o'clock news. Just in case.
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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It's aaaaliiiiiive!!! HEART OF STONE is now available again! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome to the world of the Old Races as Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn't just wanted for murder - he's also a gargoyle!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
The cover for CE Murphy's urban fantasy (modern romantasy) novel HEART OF STONE depicts a stylized green and gold stained glass window against a deep green brick background. The title, centered in the window, has a faint heart outline behind it, and below it are two stained-glass gargoyles facing one another. Cover art and design by Fakel Barros Studio.
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Happy Happy release day @kateelliottsff.bsky.social
Nameless Land cover. It does give a bit of "Oz" vibes, doesn't it?
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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This series needs to get a lot more attention. I loved it. Krista even made the politics enthralling, and usually, I run screaming from politics. At least two of the characters have been living rent-free in my head for the last three years.
kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · Nov 19
The Dark Abyss of Our Sins (complete)

Jane Austen meets Dragon Age in this political whodunit: gowns, food, brooding, & demons. So many demons. Way more than necessary.

The Demons We See books2read.com/u/bzEVz4
The Nightmare We Know books2read.com/u/bQ9je7
The Sins We Seek books2read.com/u/4ElEYz
Box set with titles Three covers for the series
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM