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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 1d

I made croissants at home once and yeah, once was enough

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 1d

I had a story come out today!

If you think too much about fairy tale witches and also murder and complicated relationships, this one is for you.

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Issue seven: flash fiction by Cislyn Smith

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 3d

Listen Val didn’t get a story into Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy for nothing. Plus a dragon named Seafoam

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 3d

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM

A disabled mecha dragonrider struggles in an ableist society. When a hivemind of corrupted dragons threatens her people's very existence, she must team up with 3 riders—her lying would-be lover included—to save the solar system.

#DVpit #A #SF #DIS #LGBT #Latine

A moodboard with 9 tiles. The first row has purple spacescape streaks of light like hyperspace, a dragon egg, and a Latina staring at the egg. The second row has purple crystals and middle text that has crossed out "star-scarred, dragonrider, etli's claw, wave rider" then, underlined "me", followed by a person underwater. The third and final row has a closeup of a snake's eye to represent a dragon's eye, a solar system, and scale pattern to represent mecha dragon scales.

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 3d

A few quick things!

Authors, please treat agent interest as an invitation to query, not a requirement. Pitch events are a great way to discover agents who weren't on your radar yet. Another is the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social's Equity Directory: www.equitydirectory.org

Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to #DVPit tomorrow! If I heart your pitch, please query as normal (letter + ~25 pages), but add "#DVPit" somewhere in the subject line, and include the text of the post I hearted somewhere in your query letter. Can't wait to find projects I didn't know I wanted.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 7d

There are several great magazines fundraising right now, or about to start fundraising, and we encourage y'all to support them!

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 8d

Chatting with @maxgladstone.bsky.social about Higher Magic was such a full circle moment for me. His feedback on the first few chapters of an early draft at Viable Paradise helped me unlock the R&R that got me my fantastic agent, and the rest is history... or debut year, anyway. 💚

In a Way, the Skull is an Assistive Technology

An Interview with Courtney Floyd, author of Higher Magic

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 7d

Newsletter drop! It includes the weird thing I heard Mr. Jane Fonda say that one time. You can read it here, or even better subscribe and find out what other weird personal facts I'll come up with to share. kmveohongs.beehiiv.com/p/beginnings...

Beginnings are Hard

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way around them.

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, look, it's time for me to plug my newsletter again. Click below to subscribe! This month's exclusive content will be weird celebrity encounters from when I worked as a housekeeper at an upscale boutique hotel in the Berkshires in the early 90's. www.kmveohongs.com/newsletter

Newsletter — K.M. Veohongs

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 11d

Sending you all the love, Cislyn 💔

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, look, it's time for me to plug my newsletter again. Click below to subscribe! This month's exclusive content will be weird celebrity encounters from when I worked as a housekeeper at an upscale boutique hotel in the Berkshires in the early 90's. www.kmveohongs.com/newsletter

Newsletter — K.M. Veohongs

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 12d

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

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

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 15d

That’s amazing! Congratulations!

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 16d

I’m reading from my PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE tomorrow and donated exclusives to the fundraiser supporting @thepixelproject.bsky.social's mission to stop violence against women & girls.

Join me! 9/26 at 9:30 am EST/2:30 pm UK.

thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf...

#booksky #Blackbooksky

Stack of my 1st edition hardcover middle-grade novels ROOT MAGIC, CONJURE ISLAND, THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE that are up for purchase as a set for The Pixel Project's fundraiser.
Friday, September 26 at 9:30 am EST/2:30 pm UK.
Three colorful pens are in the pic but not part of the fundraiser.

ARC of my upcoming adult novella PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE as well as the letter paper and envelopes I will use if you buy the handwritten letter from the main character as part of the fundraiser for The Pixel Project. Friday, September 26 at 9:30 am EST/2:30 pm UK.

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Thinking Ink Press @thinkinginkpress.bsky.social · 16d

🎉We’re delighted to announce we’ll be publishing a new sci-fi novella Bright Phaedra by Felicia Martinez!🎉

Bright Phaedra reimagines the Greek myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus with neurodiverse and asexual characters, set in a near-future multiverse with sentient artificial intelligences.

Author Felicia Martínez smiling in an outdoor setting with trees

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 19d

@thisisguan.bsky.social said this made him think of me, and I'm choosing to take it as a compliment

debbspook @debbshock.blue · 20d

sittin on the dock of the bay

sepia photo of a person in a fish costume on the end of a dock looking dejected

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 20d

I always want to write “If I wanted to talk about myself I wouldn’t write fiction” but that probably wouldn’t go over well.

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 21d

I'm teaching a class on basic story structure at the fabulous Write Space in Orange, NJ on October 21st from 7-9pm--more info and signup: bit.ly/4296vX0

Flyer advertising a writing class called NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE: BUILDING ON A SOLID FOUNDATION, illustrated by an angry cat writing on a clipboard.

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nye-ee-luh @narthews.bsky.social · 25d

fair warning: these poems bite back 🌷please continue reading if you experience the following: persistent desire, the urge to give birth to a bird of hell or pick your teeth with an orbitoclast. some also experienced pre-grief for perfect strangers, resentment, reverence, and gender euphoria.

Nailah Mathews • better hands • Print + E-book - Newfound

better hands • Print + E-book Summary Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a ferv...

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 26d

Librarians (and honestly, everyone). Block and/or watch out for this account, which appears to be gathering posts critical of Charlie Kirk/right wing ideology.

Note the misspelling of the handle.

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 26d

Did you know Flights of Foundry is Dream Foundry's biggest fundraiser of the year! If you can make a donation, we always appreciate it and it helps a lot.

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Cuddle pile of Flights of Foundry gryphons including a harpy eagle, a bald eagle, a barn owl, and a cockatoo.

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 28d

We're giving away 5 copies of HIGHER MAGIC on Goodreads this month! Enter by the 21st. ✨ #booksky #Goodreads @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 FoF Reminder for Registrants:

The lottery is open until Sept 15. Results will be emailed Sept 17, even if you didn’t win any seats. After the lottery closes, everyone can directly sign up for remaining seats.

Haven't registered yet? Now's the time!
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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 28d

Was it this one? Because I loved this one a lot

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 28d

Ah yes the book I read more than 25 years ago now and still makes me occasionally go 😩

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