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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 17h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 21h

Self pub folks: have any of you heard of or used Blurb for printing? I'd not heard of it before and am looking to hear about anyone's experience with it :)

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 1d

I see it's on Kobo Plus, at least in Canada! I've already added it to my library so I'll see it and remember to read it after I finish my current book 🖤

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow this looks like my jam. Will definitely read very soon. Congratulations on your book birthday!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Rex! 🖤

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

Also, I was trying to think of what I might be in the mood to read tonight and seeing your name reminded me that TRVE CVLT is still sitting on my 10p shelf, waiting for its moment. Am I about to give myself nightmares?

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

Gamut reprinted it last year (though I still usually try to send people to Cursed Morsels for it when I can)! And I'm trying to find a publisher for a collection that it's in!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

You're so nice! Perhaps this one will be of special interest to you as it's a sort of a sequel to the one you published in No Trouble At All...

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!!!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

Awww Tiffany 🖤

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

I just got my first acceptance note for an original short story since February of 2024 and I am screaming inside my heart

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 2d

I wouldn't be who I am if I hadn't been raised by these books. Intrigued but skeptical about the concept of an American film.

Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

the moomins are great because its like “here is your whimsical children’s adventures, I made it full of melancholic explorations of community and longing, subversive anarchist leanings, and bisexual yearning just like you asked” and some of us DID ask so thank you

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 5d

25% THERE!! 🍾🎉 That means we're only 5% away from opening to NONFICTION SUBMISSIONS for the first time EVER! Thank you all so much for your support 💜👽

🌙🐄 Come fly to the moon with us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

A cow is lifted into space by a UFO tractor beam. Two little ghost friends are following. The cow's thought bubble reads, "$5,140!"

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 3d

YOU ALL DID IT! WE HIT OUR REPRINT STRETCH GOAL! Our next stretch goal is MORE ART!! This is so much more than we dared hope possible so thank you 💜

Beyond more art we also have nonfiction followed by an additional reprint per issue!

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

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." Five goals, of $6900, $8300, $9700, $11000, $12000 are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $13000 (More Art!) and $14000 (Nonfiction) and $15000 (+1 Reprints!) show a closed lock next to them.

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 4d

There are some real bangers on this list of stories! Delighted to find my own "Cire Perdue" (reprinted by @houseofgamut.bsky.social after its initial appearance in a @cursedmorsels.bsky.social anthology) included and described as "capital-W Weird" (such a lovely compliment!).

Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 4d

New entry on my personal blog!

Buncha links to some cool seasonally-appropriate stories.

antonyfb.com/blog/nefario...

#personalblog #horrorlit

Nefarious Narratives on the Net

In which the author provides links for some (mostly horror) stories he's found on the web recently.

antonyfb.com

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 4d

Kay Dick's THEY feels so so so relevant right now

www.kaydick.com/books/they

They — KAY DICK

www.kaydick.com

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Right? There's just something about her!

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

I MEAN:

youtu.be/i5h0x5twPB8

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot stop watching ADÉLA’s music videos on repeat. The combination of ethereally furious pop songs with perfect uncanny ballerina style (and genuine ballerina dance chops) is, apparently, the purest of Kryptonites for Ariels.

youtu.be/oCvdBnRj67k

ADÉLA - SexOnTheBeat

YouTube video by AdelaMusicVEVO

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 5d

**eBook ANTHOLOGY BUNDLE SALE**

GREEN INFERNO - Eco-Horror
IN SOMNIO - Gothic gone Weird
YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY - New Weird Horror by an all Trans/GNC crew

All 3 for just $8.99!

Why? Dunno, but they all seem pretty thematically relevant these days🖤☠️

store.tenebrouspress.com/products/ten...

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

It's so relaxing! (So, not much like running a real bookshop.) I am maybe halfway through and finding it more engrossing than expected.

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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 5d

Tiny Bookshop lets you furnish (and refurnish, and repaint, and redecorate) a little bookshop on wheels and the ground around it. Not a house but furniture! And books!

I've also been eyeing Camper Van: Make it Home. Still not a house but also decorating (and more home-oriented than Tiny Bookshop).

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