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C. M. Harmon

@cmh-writes.bsky.social

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Speculative fiction writer, black, loves a vegan dessert. She/her

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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm so honored and excited to share I have a new story in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social coming out this October! Look at this incredible cover!
Cant wait for y'all to read it :')

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve been lucky enough to workshop this piece! It’s got such a gorgeous lush world and the tension between Vesper and Ireika?

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C. Luculent Zuan @c-luculent-z.bsky.social · 19h

THE NIGHTBLOOD PRINCE X JUJUTSU KAISEN
After being kidnapped together with the heir she's duty bound to protect—and def not fall in love with—Vesper’s road home includes beasts to exorcise, a rival court to trick, and pasts to unravel.
#Dvpit #YA #F #Asian

Teenage boy and girl wearing hanfu robes stare at the camera ahead of a long journey. (Art also by me.)

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm so honored and excited to share I have a new story in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social coming out this October! Look at this incredible cover!
Cant wait for y'all to read it :')

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · Sep 4

“A hallmark of being a Black child in advanced literature classes is the ability to separate the art from the artist, even before you know you’re doing it.”

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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Fifth Season :’)

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Sep 5

That feeling when you lend someone a book and they come back and ask if you have the sequel???
Unparalleled.

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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Sep 3

A few more books joined my “writing goals” shelf in the first half of this year:

Kaikeyi by Vishnavi Patel.
I love a complex woman character. Unabashed anger? Battering down double standards?? Gimme.

How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
1 word. P r o s e.

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · Sep 3

📚 Since 2022, the @BrooklynPublicLibrary has offered free eCards to teens nationwide facing book bans in their local communities! ✊🏾✨

📖 Parable of the Sower by @OctaviaEButler
📖 The Hate U Give by @angiethomas
📖 Gender Queer by @MaiaKobabe
📖 All Boys Aren’t Blue by @GeorgeMJohnson

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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Sep 2

So I just started listening to Writer’s Routine. And I cannot believe that the Anthony Horowitz of my beloved Magpie Murders is the SAME Anthony Horowitz that wrote the Alex Rider series.

Talk about a callback!!

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jul 16

Yes! And it’s entirely available on YouTube for folks not in the UK. Improving sick days for folks around the world :’)

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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jul 15

One aspect of being chronically ill is I know, indisputably, what the best sick at home show is.

Taskmaster.

It is funny. It requires 2 brain cells max. You can pass out and wake up and not feel you’ve missed a thing.

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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jul 13

Decided to learn how to sew.
I’m definitely not picking up another hobby to purchase all the supplies for and abandon in 3 months.

But I am enjoying picking out several patterns and pinning fabric stores and ooooh notions!

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jul 9

Listen closely. Hannah is one of the most talented writers ever. And I mean ever. Go read all her stuff, she has linked to a lot of beautiful work on her profile. It’s the best thing you’ll do with your day!
(Also give her more awards they’re so well deserved!!)

Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social · Jul 7

Shocked and delighted that my short story “Everything in the Garden Is Lovely” in @apexmag.bsky.social made the shortlist for the World Fantasy Award!!

World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · Jul 7

The World Fantasy Awards 2025 shortlist is now out! Congratulations to all the finalists.

Please see the post on our website for the full list and more info: worldfantasy2025.co.uk/world-fantas...

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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jul 7

I want super flowery speculative fiction. Give me the most vivid violet prose but with magic and time travel.

Apparently some of these books are hiding in the Fiction TM genre but how do I tell them apart? Just read every back copy from a-z?

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jun 6

Honestly every time I hear this rendition I think about The Read podcast. Whew quality content.

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jun 5

Me having an ardent debate at work at 4:59 pm.
Then 🕔 (🍕)

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · Jun 5

Life decisions.

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jun 4

I know writing a novel is a rollercoaster of emotion but what if it was just nice and flat?
I have an idea —I wrote the idea— I didn’t cry about the complexity of the idea—I finished the idea
Just. So nice. So flat.

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jun 3

I just downloaded the Bookshop.org app!! Excited to try out e reader alternatives to the Big Online Store

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · May 31

My theory is 83% of people who love their jobs do super niche things that only a handful of the population can possibly do.
Like “Panda barber” or “food mosaic artist”.
Out here like “I’m super happy also my joy is impossible to reproduce!”

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · May 5

I really want the New York Times to do a “which house did they pick” but for the nyc rental market.
Did they take the cosy sunny unit with 0 closets? The large unit that with 2 windows both facing a brick wall? Or the huge sunny affordable one a 35 min walk from the subway?

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Mar 9

Has anyone figured out the balance between wanting to write tons of snarky skeets and wanting the kind of privacy that is living in a cabin by a pond, writing all your work via typewriter and shipping it to your editor in a box?

Bc if so pls share lol

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jan 20

Why don’t we have a workplace comedy about airports yet?
With an operation this complex I’m sure there’s some shenanigans that you could wring 4 seasons of laughs out of

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Jan 11

Okay who made the little claymation frog to go with Bad Bunny’s new album?

I’m o b s e s s e d this lil guy is so cute

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Dec 27

Finally I get to make a “announcement” in writerly fashion!

Thrilled to share I’ll be attending Futurescapes in Florence, Italy this May!!

So excited to work with the incredible Ali Fisher. Already loved her thoughts on Writing Excuses and the idea of getting them in person?? 🥹

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Dec 19

What a helpful and concise thread thank you!

C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Dec 19

The holidays are almost upon us! Time for all writers to overestimate how much time we’ll have to write because we’ll have a “break”