KJ Kabza
@kjkabza.bsky.social
latest fiction: "The Feather Tree" (in BCS #435) | writing | fitness | I like being outside | 50,000 red foxes in a human-shaped receptacle
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If the venue bathroom looks like this you’re going to die in the pit
Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”
December 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If the venue bathroom looks like this you’re going to die in the pit
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Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
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BCS of 2025! "The Feather Tree" @kjkabza.bsky.social BCS #435 "It was not the same as giving up hope because hope was not a single, stone-fired thing but a thing like a marshland, made of uncountable pieces of intertwined yet separate life" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Feather Tree by KJ Kabza
Loory thought about this. It was not the same, exactly, as giving up hope because hope was not a single, stone-fired thing (when once broken, never the same) but a thing like a marshland, made of unco...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
BCS of 2025! "The Feather Tree" @kjkabza.bsky.social BCS #435 "It was not the same as giving up hope because hope was not a single, stone-fired thing but a thing like a marshland, made of uncountable pieces of intertwined yet separate life" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... #BCSof2025
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In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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New #WriterBeware blog post: per a report by @publisherslunch.bsky.social, Amazon's new gen AI-powered "Ask This Book" feature for Kindle is, in effect, an "in-book chatbot" writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...
Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware
In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. We’re adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle. Story So Far lets you c...
writerbeware.blog
December 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: per a report by @publisherslunch.bsky.social, Amazon's new gen AI-powered "Ask This Book" feature for Kindle is, in effect, an "in-book chatbot" writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...
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if you're upset about Amazon's use of AI, done in the dark of night without publisher or author input, on Kindle books, you can buy ebooks from someplace else. Easily. This isn't an out of the frying pan into the fire type thing or an expensive thing. Plenty of good Kobo readers; Kobo has an app.
December 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
if you're upset about Amazon's use of AI, done in the dark of night without publisher or author input, on Kindle books, you can buy ebooks from someplace else. Easily. This isn't an out of the frying pan into the fire type thing or an expensive thing. Plenty of good Kobo readers; Kobo has an app.
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You never see guys named Hieronymus anymore
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
You never see guys named Hieronymus anymore
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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you cannot capture the beauty of the moon with your phone camera, so just post in your local discord about it so your friends know to look outside
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
you cannot capture the beauty of the moon with your phone camera, so just post in your local discord about it so your friends know to look outside
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm at the combination
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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Hey all, we're getting ready to open again for submissions.
We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st!
Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st!
Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
Submission Guidelines – Plott Hound Magazine
plotthoundmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hey all, we're getting ready to open again for submissions.
We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st!
Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st!
Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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Wanted: reviewers! I'm assembling a team of readers who will commit to reviewing my BDSM-themed paranormal / urban fantasy in January 2026 on Amazon, GR, social media, and other platforms!
Sign up here: forms.gle/4WEARDmHRf...
Sign up here: forms.gle/4WEARDmHRf...
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Wanted: reviewers! I'm assembling a team of readers who will commit to reviewing my BDSM-themed paranormal / urban fantasy in January 2026 on Amazon, GR, social media, and other platforms!
Sign up here: forms.gle/4WEARDmHRf...
Sign up here: forms.gle/4WEARDmHRf...
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
writing in a coffee shop and just overheard the woman sitting next to me to claim to her companion, “Real skeletons don’t have eye sockets”
October 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
writing in a coffee shop and just overheard the woman sitting next to me to claim to her companion, “Real skeletons don’t have eye sockets”
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In my opinion, scapegoats are at the root of many of society's problems
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
In my opinion, scapegoats are at the root of many of society's problems
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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
It’s a rare rainy day in Tucson. I went for a run without a shirt, hoping to feel sprinkled upon and refreshed, but I just felt humid and slippery
October 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It’s a rare rainy day in Tucson. I went for a run without a shirt, hoping to feel sprinkled upon and refreshed, but I just felt humid and slippery
I choose to believe that, rather than giving up, the barista made me a giant squid
October 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I choose to believe that, rather than giving up, the barista made me a giant squid
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My favorite part of baseball is when the manager goes to the mound to tell the pitcher he loves him
March 28, 2024 at 4:48 PM
My favorite part of baseball is when the manager goes to the mound to tell the pitcher he loves him
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next week has been so tiring
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
next week has been so tiring