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Kerry C. Byrne
@kercoby.bsky.social
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SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. Aurora Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, video games, D&D. Publisher @augursociety — Augur Mag, Tales & Feathers Mag, Augur Books. Contact me via www.kerrycbyrne.com
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · Nov 17
✨ I have started a broad #CanSpec starter pack!

This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…

It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.

ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !

Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !

go.bsky.app/Q7MUTiT
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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 15h
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!
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 7h
Buddy!
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 10h
I have officially smacked revision notes on 70 pages of the manuscript !!

34 to go before I head into reworking the first hundred pages 🙏
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 10h
Work is really trying you this week eh
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 2d
it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!
Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 2d
Realizing I have a bad habit of writing the things I don’t know about a manuscript INTO the protagonist of the manuscript 🙀😭

What a wild way for my ADHD to take the wheel (it would be too boring to stop and figure it out)
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 2d
Clock me avidly looking up reviews during intermission to figure out wtf is going on (it helped a lot)
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 3d
Yes !!
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 3d
I have heard their Act I aesthetics are opposite!! I saw only this one though 👀 (And Sense and Sensibility)
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 3d
Never 50 First Dates?!
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 3d
Today I witnessed the strangest interpretation of As You Like It that I think I will ever see

DYSTOPIAN As You Like It

By intermission, I was ready to walk out

By the end, I was delighted

I am confused and baffled
A purple-lit circular stage with flowers and garlands
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d
K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art
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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 3d
Oh crap, it's back at #1 in movies again today on Netflix too. That's awesome!
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 3d
In my 20s I was so stressed that I couldn’t imagine wanting to remember them — but the 30s are SO much better and I wanna return to all of it !!

An excellent tip
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 5d
I hath been blessed by the softest pillow ever
A blonde person with oversized glasses holds an immense, soft sage pillow
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 5d
HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAY
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 5d
One would think that as an editor who has this skill for others that it would be transferable for yourself but alas alack they are different beasts
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 5d
This year I’m building the writing soft skill of ✨ gratitude for the imperfect draft of work that will get you to the version you imagined all along ✨
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 5d
Resisting the urge to smack an image on there is one of the deepest battles there is
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 5d
I have found a hat that looks good on me

I am now a Hat Guy

🧢
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M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 5d
New day, new stretch goal! @othersidespec.bsky.social is only $800 away from unlocking reprints of no-longer-online or out-of-print queer stories. (No solicitations ever, $100 flat fee for reprints.) If you’re as excited about the thought of bringing back lost queer stories as we are, check it out!
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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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 6d
Heck yeah!
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 6d
Absolutely! If I didn’t believe anyone could—maybe should—start a zine, I never would have started Kaleidotrope. (I’m just this guy, y’know?) I’d like to think I’m a better editor and publisher than I was two decades earlier, but it’s an ongoing learning experience.
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 6d
Reminder: anyone can found and edit a SFF magazine.

There’s no regulatory body or hoops. You create the position for yourself.

Many of these people are amazing—

But mag Editors are just guys who decided to spend a lot of time on something they love.

Just people.
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 6d
Sasha
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 6d
Piggybacking on this thread (read the whole thing btw, lots of great points) to say how important this is. If you want to start a mag, you only need 3 things:
1) the time and spoons to give it the energy it deserves
2) the desire to support writers and the writing community
3) the audacity!
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 6d
Reminder: anyone can found and edit a SFF magazine.

There’s no regulatory body or hoops. You create the position for yourself.

Many of these people are amazing—

But mag Editors are just guys who decided to spend a lot of time on something they love.

Just people.
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 6d
Heck yea!
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