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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 14h

It's up! My new sci-fi drabble, "Time Capsule from a Crumbling Earth" is now available to read at @100footcrow.bsky.social .

If you have a minute or two free, give it a look, and I hope you enjoy!

Time Capsule from a Crumbling Earth - 100-Foot Crow

By: Allison Mulder. Last. People keep commenting that on the Capsule goodbye forum, and for someone, it will be true. The last entry on the last server shoved in beside the records, the art, the every...

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Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social · 1h

Great new #scifi drabble from @amulderwrites.bsky.social at @100footcrow.bsky.social! This one will stick with me for a while.

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 14h

It's up! My new sci-fi drabble, "Time Capsule from a Crumbling Earth" is now available to read at @100footcrow.bsky.social .

If you have a minute or two free, give it a look, and I hope you enjoy!

Time Capsule from a Crumbling Earth - 100-Foot Crow

By: Allison Mulder. Last. People keep commenting that on the Capsule goodbye forum, and for someone, it will be true. The last entry on the last server shoved in beside the records, the art, the every...

100footcrow.com

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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 4h

Today's community drabble is, "School Trip" by Hannya Kay. The theme was "escape."

Find Hannya Kay at X @Hannya_Kay / BlueSky @HannyaKay.bsky.social

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

#authors #drabble #writingprompts

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Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 4h

My coaching/editing services are now DLP approved! 😁🙌

Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 5h

We're joined by @kaidelmas.bsky.social this week! Listen in as Kai tears us apart in this Live Editing session!

open.spotify.com/episode/2T5I...

Episode 129: Live Editing! (with Kai Delmas)

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 22h

We're steadily ticking up, up, up towards our $13,000 MORE ART!! stretch goal. Help us add interior art type pieces such as fun dividers and headers to each story per issue! Which allows us to hire more queer artists!!

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

OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 3d

YOU ALL DID IT! WE HIT OUR REPRINT STRETCH GOAL! Our next stretch goal is MORE ART!! This is so much more than we dared hope possible so thank you 💜

Beyond more art we also have nonfiction followed by an additional reprint per issue!

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

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." Five goals, of $6900, $8300, $9700, $11000, $12000 are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $13000 (More Art!) and $14000 (Nonfiction) and $15000 (+1 Reprints!) show a closed lock next to them.

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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social · 20h

Ok so I returned to @vromansbookstore.bsky.social to buy my son a book and I ran into @joerlansdale.bsky.social and one thing led to another and he asked me to autograph him a copy of SILK & SINEW from the inimitable @badhandbooks.bsky.social. Thanks, Joe! What an afternoon. Bookstores fuckin rock.

Me signing a copy of SILK & SINEW for Joe Lansdale.

Me and Joe Lansdale, who holds a copy of SILK & SINEW

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

www.kickstarter.com/.../apexpu.....

30% UNLOCKED!

For the first time, Apex will open to nonfiction pitches. We are expanding our nonfiction editorial team! ZZ Claybourne has been our nonfiction editor for the past couple of years, and is doing a fantastic job. His editorial eye has elevated Apex’s nonfiction and has helped us discover many new voices. Rodney Carlstrom will be joining the Apex team as an associate nonfiction editor to help ZZ manage submitted nonfiction pitches.

cow floating in space with some astronauts next to the current Kickstarter number, "$6,000!"

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 2d

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 1d

It's here! @apexmag.bsky.social issue 151 is out now and contains my story "Ghosts of Summer"!!! The end of summer and the beginning of spooky season collide as two witches try to beat the summer heat. But high temperatures and magic are a dangerous combination. 👻☀️

Check out the full issue below:

Apex Magazine Issue 151

EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner"Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson "We Used ...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm absolutely thrilled that @apexmag.bsky.social Issue 151 is out - containing my drabble 'Don't Hide From the Mirror', the first piece I've published with Apex!

🏳️‍⚧️ trans euphoria
🩸body horror
✒️only 100 words!

Check out the full issue now!

Apex Magazine Issue 151

EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner"Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson "We Used ...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

You all voted for spooky vibes this month, and we heard you loud and clear! 🎃🌒

Gather round the campfire, because October's flash fiction theme is FOLKLORE! You have until October 31st to submit!

www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

a silhouette of a person riding a horse holding a pumpkin

Alt: black and white image of the headless horseman riding a black horse

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 1d

Exciting news! My novel Plague Birds, which was a finalist for the Nebula & Philip K. Dick Awards, will be rereleased by Apex Books @apexmag.bsky.social in an new edition with extra content in June 2026. And a sequel will be published by Apex in Oct. 2026. 1/
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

Cover of Plague Birds by Jason Sanford, which was a finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 5d

25% THERE!! 🍾🎉 That means we're only 5% away from opening to NONFICTION SUBMISSIONS for the first time EVER! Thank you all so much for your support 💜👽

🌙🐄 Come fly to the moon with us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

A cow is lifted into space by a UFO tractor beam. Two little ghost friends are following. The cow's thought bubble reads, "$5,140!"

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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 1d

Today's community drabble is, "When Binding Broke" by Dakria. The theme was "escape."

Find Dakria at dakria.de/

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

#authors #drabble #writingprompts

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Shacklebound Books @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Dread Space is only .99! 23 Dark Military Science Fiction stories!!!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0B23Y38LW

Dread Space: 23 Dark Military Science Fiction Stories! (Shacklebound Books)

Dread Space: 23 Dark Military Science Fiction Stories! (Shacklebound Books) - Kindle edition by Fomley, Eric , Ficke, Jonathan, Nikel, Wendy , Sinnott, Dorian J., Howell, A. P., Dawson, Robert, Short, Lisa, Anningson, Brett, Delmas, Kai, Dunham, T. Fox. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Dread Space: 23 Dark Military Science Fiction Stories! (Shacklebound Books).

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Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome. Congratulations! 🥳🎉🙌

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, this *hits*.

Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 2d

Today's community drabble is, "Fraternity" by Jarune Uwujaren. The theme was "crash."

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

#authors #drabble #writingprompts

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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 2d

Today's community drabble is, "Fraternity" by Jarune Uwujaren. The theme was "crash."

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

#authors #drabble #writingprompts

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Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! 😁💙

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 3d

LOL. Great drabble 🔥

Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 3d

First drabble of the month with the theme Balloons. 🎈
It's free to read. Go ahead and take a look. 👀
www.patreon.com/posts/140463...

A Universe | Kai Delmas

Get more from Kai Delmas on Patreon

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Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 3d

First drabble of the month with the theme Balloons. 🎈
It's free to read. Go ahead and take a look. 👀
www.patreon.com/posts/140463...

A Universe | Kai Delmas

Get more from Kai Delmas on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Addison Smith (Addi) @addi.social · 3d

I was feeling very pink. :p Premade ebook cover for sale if you have a girly punky book. <3 A whopping $50 today. DM me.

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Addison Smith (Addi) @addi.social · 5d

I don't want to alarm you all, but someone actually bought my old flash fiction collection yesterday.

It's a shame that I abandoned it. It's got a ton of great flash in it. A couple hundred pages of my best. But books disappear if you don't keep pumping the machine.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1MQLXW

A screenshot of yesterday's royalties on KDP. Shows 1 sale and $2.76 royalties.

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Addison Smith (Addi) @addi.social · 4d

Anyone need a cover? I'm making some premades this morning, and open to commission as well. DM me for stuff and junk. I just made these three, and am only looking for $50 a piece right now. Prices will probably change as I set up a proper shop. Reposts appreciated! <3
#indiehorror

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Addison Smith (Addi) @addi.social · 4d

I'm putting out my shingle for a limited quantity of book cover design jobs! Details are in the image and alt text. If you think you might be interested, please email me at the address in the image and I will send you a small, private portfolio of my work! I'm looking for five jobs for October.

A white and purple design with an illustration of a man sitting at a computer.
Text:
BOOK COVER DESIGN
Basic Package - $250
* Ebook
*Print
*PSD
*Unlimited Revisions (within reason)
* NO AI
* Licensed Art
Email me for Private Portfolio!
smithaddisonchase@gmail.com

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