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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · Nov 14

award season! please consider for your ballots, “Stellar Evolutions in Pop Idol Artistry," my speculative love letter to the kpop panopticon—eligible in the short story category at 6640 words & available in the July 2024 issue of Clarkesworld! clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_07_24/

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Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Stellar Evolutions in Pop Idol Artistry by Em X. Liu

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carriegaoo.bsky.social @carriegaoo.bsky.social · 9h

PARASITE, by way of VICIOUS

In the cutthroat world of heritage sports, those at the top plan everything out. That includes making sure their competition can never compete again.

But the one thing they neglect to plan for? When someone they’ve thrown to the bottom wants revenge.

#YA #F #DVpit

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 2d

read this book right now if you haven't yet

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 4d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Sasha✨ SHOP OPEN! @alexskyline.com · Dec 9

A list of reasons to make art:
-horny
-spite
-for the bit
-if you don't who will

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 12d

me yesterday: why am i in such a lousy mood
me today, hours away from being Done and therefore starting to feel a bit better: oh.

em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 12d

discovering that working 14 days in a row the last 7 of which are 24/7 on call days is mentally exhausting even if the daytime stuff is lighter than usual...

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 12d

oh man thank you! that means a lot to me <3 i am glad this for one unfranchisable and kind of niche book has been resonating with people too :')

em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 12d

it's such a... have your terf cake both ways and eat it move absolutely lmaoooo

em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 12d

was going to write something today to get the rusty wheels turning again. spent all evening playing hades ii instead oops

em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 14d

dreamed that some AI generated newspaper flawlessly hallucinated a deal report for my book with the very specific premise intact. i'm not even on sub??

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 15d

deepest of deep breaths

feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 15d

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."

@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):

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With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor

Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 14d

great piece! you've really identified specifically why hp fic feels so... particularly icky in highlighting the cultural capital that jkr still earns from this all, even if she's not getting the literal dollars... i am not a fan!!

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 15d

midday vibes

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 15d

With all the traveling I've been doing this month, I've been lax in my marketing responsibilities and, as a result, we're down 13 over this time last month. So here I am, taking a very jet-lagged moment to remind you that each subscription makes a difference:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Aubrey Wood - BANG BANG BODHISATTVA paperback and audio out now! @briewoodfiction.bsky.social · 16d

Other trans writers on here are taking the opportunity to push their books atm so I thought I'd stop worrying about looking opportunistic for a moment and shill the trans cyberpunk noir mystery I originally drafted in 2019. The world is vastly and grimly different than it was back then. 1/2

Aubrey Wood - BANG BANG BODHISATTVA paperback and audio out now! @briewoodfiction.bsky.social · Jul 1

My trans cyberpunk debut Bang Bang Bodhisattva is out in hardback, paperback and audiobook! It was a finalist for the 2024 Lambda award for speculative fiction! www.amazon.com/Bang-Bodhisa...

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 21d

plot of my next book

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21d

ban social media, put heroin in the water supply

em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 28d

goodreads thinks you should read my book and i am inclined to agree

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 29d

Great to see @emdashliu.bsky.social's THE DEATH I GAVE HIM (a scifi retelling of Hamlet as a locked room thriller) and O. O. Sangoyomi's MASQUERADE (an alt history tale of female power inspired by the myth of persephone) in GoodReads selection of Twice Told Tales/Modern Retellings!

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · Sep 4

pls always welcome

em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · Sep 4

would listen to you talk about this for hours any day

em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · Sep 2

it's contemplating novellas i don't have time to write o'clock

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · Sep 2

:') jazzed to have been two noms away from making the astounding ballot again this year what an incredible slate of authors to be listed amongst!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Sep 1

Reskeet for the #LaborDay crowd!

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · May 1

Quick lil #MayDay stack for y'all! Thinking about work, about the alienation and transformation of work, of utopian principles and the vital spirit of revolution, about the possibilities of other worlds and other ways of being: principled, flawed, necessary, insistent.

A stack of SFF books (bottom to top): KALYNA THE CUTTHROAT by Elijah Kinch Spector, THE SLEEPLESS by Victor Manibo, NO GODS, NO MONSTERS by Cadwell Turnbull, THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS by Ladz, CLUB CONTANGO by Eliane Boey, THE KEEPER'S SIX by Kate Elliott, METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke, and IF FOUND RETURN TO HELL by Em X. Liu. They are flanked by THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING by David Graeber and David Wengrow, OCTOBER by China Mieville, and DEBT: THE FIRST 5000 YEARS by David Graeber.

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · Aug 29

there are some pretty great books in this bundle if you ask me

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Aug 29

Genre rules are only guidelines anyway!

Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device?

We've got all that and more!

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Against a blue background, tiled book covers:

THREE EIGHT ONE and THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley
RAKESFALL and THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera
THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson
THE MOUNTAIN CROWN by Karin Lowachee
THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu
SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER by C. S. E. Cooney
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN by Caspar Geon
METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke

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Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'll be running the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast fiction series again in 2026. Here's the Call for Submissions. Please spread the word.

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Call for Submissions: 2026 Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Fiction Series | Alpennia

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast will be open for submissions in January 2026 for short stories in the lesbian historic fiction genre, to be produced in audio format for the podcast, as well as publ...

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · Aug 26

okay YES tho!! more of this! (tbh i rly wish we had like a centralized location/platform that isn't just wattpad LOL)

em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · Aug 26

right!! or even the chapter by chapter > novel compilation pipeline for specific plot/progression heavy stories could rly generate something big if we had the infrastructure for it i think