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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait!!!

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Michael R. Underwood (Mike) @mikerunderwood.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thrilled to share the news that I am Lead Designer for the new Dungeons of Drakkenheim Campaign Guide for Daggerheart!

An official collaboration b/w @dungeondudes.bsky.social, @ghostfiregaming.bsky.social, and Darrington Press.

More in my own words here: www.patreon.com/posts/140655...

Dungeons of Drakkenheim x Daggerheart | Michael R. Underwood

www.patreon.com

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to my first in-person @canconsffh.bsky.social NEXT WEEK (how did that happen?). I'll be on two panels on subjects I love: collaborative writing & Alanna the Lioness (and other formative queer fantasy works), as well as celebrating the release of CASTOFF by @brandoncrilly.bsky.social!

Graphic with a pink background and calendar entries. Text reads:

Catch me at Can*Con 2025!

10/18: Panel, 4pm, Collaboration is an Alchemical Partnership, with Corinne Leigh Clark, Brandon Crilly & David Demchuk

Celebrating the release of Castoff at 7p at the Four Authors, Four Completed Series: An Epic Launch Party! Feat. Marie Bilodeau, Brandon Crilly, Lydia M. Hawke and Avi Silver

10/19, Panel, 10am: Alanna the Lioness and the Queer Foundations of Fantasy Fiction with Nara Monteiro, Lynne Sargent, & D.A. Straith

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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 7d

And these? These are all BOOKS.

CATALYST and CASTOFF, together for the first time, courtesy of @atthisarts.com.

Most are bound for my launch at @canconsffh.bsky.social (Oct 18!) and the rest will lie in wait for a special November event at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social w/ @thescreambean.bsky.social!

A stack of five brown cardboard boxes, topped by two books on display. Books are titled Catalyst and Castoff.

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 8d

Delicious, finally some good fucking food!!!!

"We read for the flame. Not the heat of arousal (necessarily), but the way a story changes when two forces meet. Both things cannot maintain the same trajectory."

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 8d

"And to tidy away always the messiness of life, to make it always palatable, that’s the most damning lie of all."

Author @clclark.bsky.social reflects on sex within Nicola Griffith's Ammonite, placing desire at the core of character and experience:

reactormag.com/everyones-in...

Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny - Reactor

C.L. Clark discusses writing sex, desire, and queerness in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 8d

UM WHAT our campaign is officially a Kickstarter "Project We Love"! Now more than ever supporting queer speculative art, poetry, and stories is so important—it means a lot that our want to create space for queer artists, poets, and writers resonates so strongly!

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

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 10d

Be careful out there!

Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 10d

My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet.
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...

Genre Grapevine: Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine

www.patreon.com

Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 11d

My first panel at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is coming up at 3pm EST - When Writing Isn't Your Day Job. Tips, tricks, and how to keep all your separate (or are they?) selves happy while you create.

Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 12d

If you've always wanted to dip a toe into TTRPGs but haven't had a chance, I couldn't think of a better first DM to have than @brandoncrilly.bsky.social (even if a carnivorous plant eats your character).

Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 12d

I'm also running a closed one-shot of one of my Tiny Frontiers adventures, Orchids with Appetite, on Sunday with a group of lucky* players!

*Debatable. Their characters might get eaten by carnivorous plants.

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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 12d

Then tomorrow is "Collaboration for Prose" in Hour 28 (4 pm EST) where I not only get to chat with the very cool @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @mariebrennan.bsky.social, but I get to panel for the first time ever with *my* writing partner @faye-gabriel.bsky.social!

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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 12d

It's @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social time!!

My first panel later today is "Collaboration: The Art of Sharing Success" in Hour 7 (7 pm EST) w/ @mickallister.bsky.social and @hisiheyah.bsky.social. We've got a whole bunch of topics prepared and I can't wait!

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 14d

whoa october is around the corner!

reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.

more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 15d

It's why we need a visibility day, everyone's like, man, you're freaking me out. Can you just tell me where you are?

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 15d

I have SO many questions about it and I hope none of them are ever answered. The mystery makes it even better.

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 15d

This #BiVisibilityDay, now more than ever, as a bisexual, it's my job to lurk ominously in the incongruous shadows of a completely white room. Might fuck around and Emerge later.

The cover of Newsweek magazine from July 17, 1995 depicting a tall light-skinned masculine person flanked by a light-skinned blonde femme person and a masculine person with tan skin and a dark brown beard. All three stare directly into the camera with grim expressions, their faces in half-shadow. The text reads: Bisexuality. Not gay. Not straight. A new sexual identity emerges.

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 15d

!!!!!!

Zoë van Dijk @creepcaptain.bsky.social · 19d

I’ll post more about this on Monday but yes it’s true, ya girl got to draw the new covers for the relaunch of Animorphs. I am… THE LIZARD KING

Exclusive: Revealing The New Covers For 'Animorphs' by K. A. Applegate | The Nerd Daily

We are delighted to be revealing new covers for the first three books in the Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate, which will hit shelves on May 6th 2026!

thenerddaily.com

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 16d

The movies and books were a little different for me, but the emotional journey in this really resonates with the "not queer just a very interested ally" teen I was.

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 16d

“Are you sure you’re not bisexual? America has just elected its very own fascist, and you tell yourself that the intensity of the Brokeback clip’s hold on you probably has to do with how melancholic and homesick you feel."

I Have To Tell You Something - Electric Literature

You think: I want to be like these characters. Then you think: I am like them, even though it’s a romance between two boys.

buff.ly

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 16d

FLIGHTS OF FOUNDRY is THIS week!!! See you on the discord this Friday!

Register: flights-of-foundry.o...

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 16d

I'd love to be added! I'm paneling this year.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 24d

Okay--question for the Bluesky Brain Trust.

Romance novels. Good ones, ones that actually can help me be more romantic in my own life.

(Yes, I'm starting with @courtneymilan.com's works, but...many eyes, bugs shallow.)

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 22d

Gotta also rec my BFF Kathryn Nolan - try Rival Radio for an enemies to lovers battle of dueling radio hosts arguing about whether love exists - or Bohemian, where a shy bookstore owner discovers his wild side with a supermodel who wishes she were a poet, set in Big Sur, CA.

Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 22d

A Gentleman Undone by Ceclia Grant - a math genius courtesan and a shell shocked Napoleonic war vet scheme to count cards in gambling hells...and fall for each other in the process. My #1 rec for romance novels!

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's finally September! Do you know what that means???

Flights of Foundry is THIS MONTH.

Register: flights-of-foundry.o...

Let's gooooo! 🪽🪽🪽

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 27d

hit me with the 2025 SFF short stories you have been vibing with!

especially interested right now in petty queers and sad boys and big diaspora feelings

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Faye Gabriel @faye-gabriel.bsky.social · 27d

This one hit me hard: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/mobi...

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On the day a space pod crashes in Quito, its nose buried in a flowery explosion of cobble, its legs bent, swooping wing-fins and webs of chrome tubing scorched, scarlet handprints dripping down the in...

www.khoreomag.com