Ben Berman Ghan
@inkstainedwreck.ca
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SSHRC funded PhD in English at UCalgary. The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits EIC of Paper Bill Press Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
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Hey everyone!! I am starting a chapbook press!!!

rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!

We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
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An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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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
inkstainedwreck.ca
I said it and I'm right and I'll say it again
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Thanks to @inkstainedwreck.ca for spreading the word of NMLCT!

“Had to put the book down several times just to say ‘god damn it that’s good’. NMLCT, or, Animal City, is an example of the author at the absolute top of their game.”
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Whoa, that's me!

And remember kids, if you're online shopping, don't buy your books from the company currently photoshopping the guns out of classic James Bond posters. Not while Bookshop dot org still breaths!

bookshop.org/lists/woah-i...
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Get ready for me to start posting about it a lot more as I demand submissions!!!
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The first year of my chapbook press is now funded!!!

You can still check out our stretch goals and see how far it can take us, but I’m amazed by all the support we’ve received so far

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pap...
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Sasha has a very charitable and generous take on what’s going on in my brain ❤️
sasharavitch.bsky.social
got lucky enough to see for myself the visionary noumena coruscating inside Ben's brain; this'll be worth supporting
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/pap...

and please consider giving to our kickstarter! every little bit helps
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ecatherine.com
Hot take: books should smell like old paper, and that's IT.
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This! Is maybe the worst thing I’ve ever heard
emilyhughes.bsky.social
no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch: 
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's	  	
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
Our 19th anniversary issue of Clarkesworld features original fiction by Isabel J. Kim, Fiona Moore, H.H. Pak, Greg Egan, Liu Maijia, Carrie Vaughn, and Phoebe Barton.

Online now at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229

Subscriptions available at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.
inkstainedwreck.ca
Hey everyone!! I am starting a chapbook press!!!

rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!

We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!
inkstainedwreck.ca
I feel like I've gotten a billion of these at this point :/
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dtmooreeditor.bsky.social
love to see a billionaire who lives in a literal castle suggesting that someone else is "cushioned by wealth and fame"
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two more fucking SECONDS later!!!
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This is like the 30th AI scam email I have gotten about one of my books in the last month or two, and it really nails home exactly how I always figure out when a student has used ai in an assignment.

the specific soullessness of endless summary
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The way my daily writing goal shifted down from 2500 words daily to 750 per day is crazy
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((can it be one just a little bit))
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Everyone look at my bird and tell me it’s a pretty bird!
This is my bird! Wow Omg more of my bird! So much bird on me!
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I'M SORRY
it's good tho