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Jedediah Berry

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Strong tea, nice ink, piles of dice. Out now: THE NAMING SONG (Tor) and THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS (Phantom Mill Games). Coming in 2026: KILL ALL WIZARDS (Tordotcom). https://thirdarchive.net

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 19d

The next two (!) books of the Wildendrem tabletop RPG setting are coming soon to Kickstarter. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...

Coming soon: Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows

Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 6h

I approve this message.

A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 16h

y'all, this book is the one if you love magic, revolution, and words—imagine Miyazaki & Russell Hoban & the Bread and Puppet Theater all hanging out together

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 16h

1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 7h

Excellent, thanks. For bicycles, see my first novel. For fountain pens, well, that’s just how the work gets done here :)

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 14h

🚂🖤

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 15h

I was so grateful to get to know Howard a little. A marvelous writer. I felt we were just at the beginning of our friendship when we lost him.

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 16h

Hey now that's my kind of party (but I guess you know that)!

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 16h

The Naming Song

Check out The Naming Song - A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro. “The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of langu...

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 16h

TONIGHT! Join us with @leannareneehieber.bsky.social & @shvetathakrar.com, 7pm at the KGB Bar NYC, for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series. Subbing for @datlow.bsky.social will be the Marvelous @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social. Come one, come all!

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 1d

instantly 100x your short story writing prowess by asking yourself these 50 questions every time you write a short story joylandpublishing.com/fiction/50-q...

50 Questions to Ask About Your Story

Does my story have a big enough concept? Does my story have interesting characters? Does my story have interesting set pieces? Does my story have an interesting conflict? Does my story have big eno...

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Daniel Harila @danielharila.bsky.social · 1d

We're live! Pledge early to help us print the best book possible!

Space Penguin Ink @spacepenguinink.bsky.social · 1d

@danielharila.bsky.social 's newest OSE book DUGINTHROAT DIVIDED is now live on Kickstarter! This "dungeon on your doorstep" will take your characters from level 1 to 4 and is a love letter to Weird Fiction, 1980s fantasy, and the classic age of dungeoncrawling.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...

Duginthroat Divided

Weird fiction meets fairytale whimsy in this dungeon on your doorstep! For Old School Essentials and other roleplaying games.

www.kickstarter.com

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · Oct 31

one of my favourite edwardian themes is "the man in the moon is a huge sky perv who enjoys watching couples do it"

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 5d

Articulate, informed, and measured in the face of masked, lawless enforcers with guns and teargas. THIS is politics done the right way.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway watch the whole thing from Broadview. "Proud" isn't even the word, it's nowhere near how I feel about how strong she's been in the last month.

Kat Speaks at Broadview ICE Facility Press Conference | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois

YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 6d

So excited for the new Enriquez! (Also oh, hey, hello!)

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 6d

Handy guidelines for what others can get away with stealing in future.

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 6d

Yep, exactly the same case for me.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 6d

Ijon Tichy may be Stanislaw Lem's greatest creation–a funny, bumbling, imperfect protagonist who refuses to surrender his optimism in the face of absurdity or despair. Here's where to start with his stories...

reactormag.com/stanislaw-le...

Stanislaw Lem's Greatest Character: An Introduction to Ijon Tichy - Reactor

A lovable, honest bumbler, Tichy's not your typical hero...

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 7d

Had to stow the excess whimsy somewhere :)

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 7d

Well that doesn't bode well.

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 7d

Not sure what they're up to but I would not be surprised :(

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 7d

More like this, please. bsky.app/profile/merr...

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 7d

The email is from Affinity, by the way, which is genuinely great, and ever since they were acquired by Canva I've been waiting for them to do something really not good.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 7d

Weird time when an email like this does nothing but fill me with dread. Like, oh great, what have you done to make this software I rely on more terrible, exploitative, or worse for the environment?

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 8d

Our daughter loved her pet box so much, we haven't been able to get rid of it. Though usually it hangs out in the basement.

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 8d

The Naming Song is out in paperback today! Hard to believe it's been a whole year since I failed to unbox my author's copies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImVt...

Un-unboxing The Naming Song

YouTube video by Jedediah Berry

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 9d

Hey, everyone! Adios is on sale today for just $10! That's right: it's cheaper than Arby's and will make you cry in a completely different way!

Get it while it's hot!

store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/...

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 9d

It's a thrill to see this review by B.D. McClay in The Washington Post of MOON SONGS, which I edited for @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social, with a foreword by @kellylink.bsky.social:

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | ‘Moon Songs’ showcases the singular inventiveness of Carol Emshwiller

These fantasy and science fiction stories, spanning from 1958 to 2012, feature brilliant experiments that play with meanings and categories.

www.washingtonpost.com

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