Alys Abbott
@alysabbott.bsky.social
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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Today my debut novel THE BELLES is out in the world. What a wild journey it’s been so far.
Left: my 4th grade author bio, where I hope to “papluse” a book one day.
Right: Me and my published book.
Left: my 4th grade author bio, where I hope to “papluse” a book one day.
Right: Me and my published book.
September 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Today my debut novel THE BELLES is out in the world. What a wild journey it’s been so far.
Left: my 4th grade author bio, where I hope to “papluse” a book one day.
Right: Me and my published book.
Left: my 4th grade author bio, where I hope to “papluse” a book one day.
Right: Me and my published book.
Just got my @charliejane.bsky.social LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER pre-order! This makes me so happy. 🌸🌼
August 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just got my @charliejane.bsky.social LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER pre-order! This makes me so happy. 🌸🌼
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🇨🇦 Morning Laugh 🇨🇦
June 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🇨🇦 Morning Laugh 🇨🇦
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Look if we’re ignoring Supreme Court rulings then every American woman has a right to an abortion again
April 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Look if we’re ignoring Supreme Court rulings then every American woman has a right to an abortion again
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“Children will go hungry. And they don’t have to."
Meals-to-You sends boxes with five days’ worth of meals directly to low-income households during the summer, when kids didn’t have access to free lunch. Then DOGE swept in, and everything came to a halt.
Meals-to-You sends boxes with five days’ worth of meals directly to low-income households during the summer, when kids didn’t have access to free lunch. Then DOGE swept in, and everything came to a halt.
One of the Most Effective Programs to Reduce Child Hunger Is Caught in DOGE Limbo
Jeremy Everett, who piloted the initiative at Baylor University, is working hard to make sure kids get fed this summer. The clock is ticking.
www.texasmonthly.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
“Children will go hungry. And they don’t have to."
Meals-to-You sends boxes with five days’ worth of meals directly to low-income households during the summer, when kids didn’t have access to free lunch. Then DOGE swept in, and everything came to a halt.
Meals-to-You sends boxes with five days’ worth of meals directly to low-income households during the summer, when kids didn’t have access to free lunch. Then DOGE swept in, and everything came to a halt.
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The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐
April 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
Just read The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social. This book deserves all the praise and more. Eye-opening topic, intriguing concept but, perhaps first and foremost, Due is an ingenious storyteller!
April 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Just read The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social. This book deserves all the praise and more. Eye-opening topic, intriguing concept but, perhaps first and foremost, Due is an ingenious storyteller!
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‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum
With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.
www.wsj.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
Just read @foxesandroses.bsky.social Loneliness Universe and it left me floored. It’s a dead-on depiction of that aching feeling that the more interconnected we become (through tech, through socials, through all things screens) the further apart we move.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
Loneliness Universe - Uncanny Magazine
From: [email protected] To: Cara Hasani [email protected] September 18, 2015, 5:36 am Subject: I am drifting, but thank you for the photos My dear Cara, Thank you for sending me the pho...
www.uncannymagazine.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just read @foxesandroses.bsky.social Loneliness Universe and it left me floored. It’s a dead-on depiction of that aching feeling that the more interconnected we become (through tech, through socials, through all things screens) the further apart we move.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...
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In case you missed it, I have a new weird horror (romance?) story that unfolds in a strange Japanese mall out in The Dark this month!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-philosop...
www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-philosop...
The Philosophical Quandaries of Meeting Your Doppelganger In Moonshine City - The Dark Magazine
Moonshine City still had that new building stink. Aya stared at the white lines in the parking lot as rain dotted the asphalt. These lines were the only traces left of MAPITA Mall, that charmingly run...
www.thedarkmagazine.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In case you missed it, I have a new weird horror (romance?) story that unfolds in a strange Japanese mall out in The Dark this month!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-philosop...
www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-philosop...
ANOTHER GIRL UNDER THE IRON BELL has to be one of the best stories I read last year. Such luscious prose, such vivid rendering of Japanese mythology. Gawh! I love me some horror romantasy.
And now it’s a nom for a Nebula! Congrats @angelaliu.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/anot...
And now it’s a nom for a Nebula! Congrats @angelaliu.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/anot...
Another Girl Under the Iron Bell - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: violence, sexual abuse, suicide, cannibalism There is no limit to the number of curses in the world. For each one the monks try to exorcise, ten more take its place. We are not here be...
www.uncannymagazine.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
ANOTHER GIRL UNDER THE IRON BELL has to be one of the best stories I read last year. Such luscious prose, such vivid rendering of Japanese mythology. Gawh! I love me some horror romantasy.
And now it’s a nom for a Nebula! Congrats @angelaliu.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/anot...
And now it’s a nom for a Nebula! Congrats @angelaliu.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/anot...
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My essay on Solarpunk noir is live at Apex Magazine! If you write dangerous, exciting, near future, solutions based stories, let me know! Take a read. Would love to have more creatives open up this space.
Systemic hope. Radical change. Surviving and thriving in any conditions. Is the world ready for solarpunk noir? 🌃
Don't miss @brklyndragon.bsky.social's essay, "The City is Breathing: Solarpunk Noir. Please Don't Call it Cyberpunk," out now!
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Don't miss @brklyndragon.bsky.social's essay, "The City is Breathing: Solarpunk Noir. Please Don't Call it Cyberpunk," out now!
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
March 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My essay on Solarpunk noir is live at Apex Magazine! If you write dangerous, exciting, near future, solutions based stories, let me know! Take a read. Would love to have more creatives open up this space.
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Seriously Google? How does your "AI" get "but has also faced criticism for publishing AI-generated stories" from the countless news stories written about us NOT WANTING GENERATED STORIES and actively fighting against them. Oh wait, it's not actually intelligent, is it? Just bullshit all the way down
March 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Seriously Google? How does your "AI" get "but has also faced criticism for publishing AI-generated stories" from the countless news stories written about us NOT WANTING GENERATED STORIES and actively fighting against them. Oh wait, it's not actually intelligent, is it? Just bullshit all the way down
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Writers! Spread the word! Uncanny Magazine will be open for Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from March 24-28. www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
March 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Writers! Spread the word! Uncanny Magazine will be open for Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from March 24-28. www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
Every time, Bradbury, every time.💗
Writer friends, when you need revitalizing, give Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing a try.
Writer friends, when you need revitalizing, give Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing a try.
March 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Every time, Bradbury, every time.💗
Writer friends, when you need revitalizing, give Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing a try.
Writer friends, when you need revitalizing, give Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing a try.
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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Finally watched 🎬 Anora🏆 last night. Deserved every award it received! And I’m so grateful that Sean Baker had the gall to resist any pressure to spoil the true magic of that movie with the trailer.
March 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Finally watched 🎬 Anora🏆 last night. Deserved every award it received! And I’m so grateful that Sean Baker had the gall to resist any pressure to spoil the true magic of that movie with the trailer.
Thoroughly enjoyed the retro sci-fi vibes in this race to survive through a dystopian techno future (and what a transcendent ending!) in @veganaynormal.bsky.social BODYHOPPERS.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/vega_02_25/
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Bodyhoppers by Rocío Vega, translated by Sue Burke
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March 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed the retro sci-fi vibes in this race to survive through a dystopian techno future (and what a transcendent ending!) in @veganaynormal.bsky.social BODYHOPPERS.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/vega_02_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/vega_02_25/
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At the end of the day, we tell you that generative AI is built on unethical copyright theft, exploits and underpays its workers, causes catastrophic environmental damage, and produces increasingly terrible looking shit, and you just decide not to care.
March 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
At the end of the day, we tell you that generative AI is built on unethical copyright theft, exploits and underpays its workers, causes catastrophic environmental damage, and produces increasingly terrible looking shit, and you just decide not to care.
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This column also includes stories from @nightmare-magazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @apexmag.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social + a bonus novella and novelette.
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Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Fiction Roundup
As the world seemed to shift and break around all of us, I found myself drawn to stories about rage, resistance, resilience, and even a bit of love. In “Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness” in…
strangehorizons.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This column also includes stories from @nightmare-magazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @apexmag.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social + a bonus novella and novelette.
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