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JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th @jd-rivers.com · Aug 30

Cooooooooooover! Book coming soon!

"The Wish of a Dragon" (Otar's Universe #2), release: October 15th

Preorder:
tinyurl.com/ysxyvfk6
books2read.com/u/47p7XL

TBR:
GR: tinyurl.com/yc6a7xke
TSG: tinyurl.com/ya34yu4w

Artist: @planetsandmagic.bsky.social
Cover: @hermitwrites.bsky.social

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The cover for JD Rivers' "The Wish of a Dragon", second book in the Otar's Universe trilogy. The main colors are purple, pink and dark blue. We have one of the main characters, Andres, facing the audience with his back, while we see the POV character Otar, only with his hand at Andres' neck, a bot of his blonde hair, and the other hand holding up a ball of flight behind Andres' back, holding a sleepong dragon. There are also more lights around it.
In the upper part it reads the title: The Wish of a Dragon, down below is the author: JD Rivers.
The illustrator/artist is planetsandmagic
the typesetter is: Hermit-writes

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 7h

The October Film Haunt by @michaelwehunt.bsky.social (pub by @stmartinspress.bsky.social) is a perfect novel for genre-loves, especially if you've been into the community and into slasher/found footage. A well paced thriller horror that is simply excellent.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 8h

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

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 3d

#Booksky Our two bestselling duologies are still packing them in! Menopausal sapphic werewolves by Catherine Lundoff and gay gaslamp murder mysteries by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, for the win! queenofswordspress.com/shop/

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JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th @jd-rivers.com · 6h

The hot phase as started, expecting peak itchiness tomorrow

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I forgot how itchy new tattoos can get when healing...

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 12h

It's Mystery Series Week, and we're celebrating with 27 queer mysteries!

You can also see this list in text format: duckprintspress.com/2025/10/08/m...

If you're looking to buy any of these, they're all in our Bookshop.org affiliate shop, and shipping is free today! bookshop.org/lists/myster...

Graphic 1 of 4. A graphic of a murder board and text on the background of the Rainbow Flag. The text reads: Our Favorite Queer Mysteries.

Graphic 2 of 4. Nine book covers on the background of the Rainbow Flag. The books are: Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk; Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells; Murder at Pirate's Cove by Josh Lanyon; Falcon's Favor by Dana Fraedrich; The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison; The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal; The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older; Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie; If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio.

Graphic 3 of 4. Nine book covers on the background of the Rainbow Flag. The books are: Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen; Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian; The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson; Silent Reading by priest; A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark; Liar City by Allie Therin; Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles; Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo; A Break in the Clouds by Huai Shang.

Graphic 4 of 4. Nine book covers on the background of the Rainbow Flag. The books are: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett; The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell; Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell; A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft; Watson's Sketchbook by Lee Knox Ostertag; Death by Silver by Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott; Fake by Sanami Matoh; Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 10h

My son (age 9) who we've been warning about genAI all along, but who has seemed a bit dubious, watched this video and came out ranting about how much he hates AI slop so maybe it'll help some of y'all convince unsure folks you know (Kurzegsagt is great in general). www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 11h

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 16h

It's time to vote in my annual poll for which of my series should get the next tie-in short story!

Subscribe to my Patreon at the Dragon Ruler level to vote now: patreon.com/stephanieburgis

Creating Stories and Book Recs

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JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th @jd-rivers.com · 10h

This sounds very interesting.

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JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th @jd-rivers.com · 10h

Yeeeeeeeeees

JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th @jd-rivers.com · 14h

Otar's story continues! Preorder today!

🐲 dragons! in space!
🛣️ more roadtrip
🏛️ more ruins
⁉️ archaelogy! in space!
❤️ idiots in love

"The Wish of a Dragon" out: October 15th

Preorder:
tinyurl.com/ysxyvfk6
books2read.com/u/47p7XL

TBR:
GR: tinyurl.com/yc6a7xke
TSG: tinyurl.com/ya34yu4w

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JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th @jd-rivers.com · 15h

I forgot how itchy new tattoos can get when healing...

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 19h

This absolutely looks like the sales process for a successful product that everyone wants.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 20h

Oh hey bluesky, I need to come up with comp titles for Dominion of the Fallen--they need to be available in trade paperback, published within the last 3-5 years.
Any ideas? I'm coming up blank.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

Ohohoho free shipping (free?!!) from @bookshop.org on Oct 7 and 8! Two very fine days to pick up, perhaps, books written by a huge bug?

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Premee Mohamed Bookshop

Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hug...

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 1d

KEEPING TIME returns, as promised!!

#KeepingTime is a bittersweet bummer of a gay band romance that just started its 4th chapter, which means there's already 106 pages for you to dive into. #webcomics

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com

Full page spread of a close-up of a bulletin board. A flyer that reads, "Chapter 4: My Father's Dreams" takes front and center of the spread. Around it, numerous flyers and business cards are pinned to it with colored thumbtacks.

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K. Rhodes and Jen Xu @kaijubean.bsky.social · 2d

Wait a sec...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

I am very excited that ALL OF US MURDERERS has been picked as one of Kobo's Best of the Month!

It's out everywhere today, in e at all platforms, in print at all good bookshops (it's the BA Indie Book of the Month!) and in audio read by Sonny Archer. Have at it!

books2read.com/u/mloE7q

Flyer with ALL OFUS MURDERERS cover and text saying 'One of Kobo's Best of the Month'

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 1d

Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 3d

Oct 7 Politics and Prose, Washington DC 2/11

politics-prose.com/martha-wells...

Martha Wells — Queen Demon (Rising World #2) - with Dr. Leigha McReynolds — at Union Market

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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JD Rivers | Wish of a Dragon October 15th @jd-rivers.com · 2d

Just a bit of promo. 🎉🤣

Otar's Universe #2 out in 9 days! | JD Rivers

Get more from JD Rivers on Patreon

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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