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Leah Ning

@leahning.bsky.social

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SFFH writer. Alien tech lord 🔧 at Apex Book Company. Words at Apex, BCS, PodCastle, Dark Matter, air and nothingness, and more. Reading for Diabolical Plots. Website: www.leahning.com

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 12h

Gay JOHN WICK x MAD MAX FURY ROAD + soul magic

When his ma’s murdered, Noah embarks on a cross-desert hunt for answers—w/ an annoyingly attractive war criminal offering help. As Noah’s suspicion turns to feelings (ugh!), secrets from his companion’s past threaten to destroy them both. #dvpit #a #f

A mood board of eight pictures: reddish dunes, the wheel of a dirt bike, two silhouettes of men, silhouettes in a nightclub, a truck driving through dust, tents in a desert, and a lone house on flat sand.

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you!!

Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 8h

In the Tongue of Unbanished Ghosts:

🏜️ A desert full of war
🔪 A mother whose secrets lead to her murder
🩶 A clueless, clumsy widower who forges watches with soul
🩵 A war criminal who is, unfortunately, very attractive
🏍️ And there was only one dirt bike

#dvpit #f #a

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 9h

Love the comps!!

Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you!! :)

Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 11h

Ahhh thank you!!

Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 12h

This sounds amazing?? Yes please??

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 12h

A knight princess falling for a fae queen 👀

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 12h

Yessss thank you!!

Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 12h

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 8d

DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰

Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳

Photograph of a smiling Chinese American woman in a skull crown holding a copy of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 7d

I think this was Stephen King - if I remember correctly that anecdote was in On Writing, and the editor told him to cut 10%! :)

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 16d

Oh 👀 I have some pages in your inbox that might fit the bill of tears and friendship!

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · Aug 31

Hi!
(the ebook version of) The Long List Anthology Volume 9 will be officially released on Monday September 8th!

You can pre-order it at many ebook vendors right now, which are super helpful as they all count as release day sales toward the sales algos.
www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/

Cover art by Evelyne Park
shows a red kiwi bird floating in space and curled into a ball so that it resembles a sun, among a blue background and planets, with lighter blue title text and white text to list all the authors. In the foreground alongside the authors is a spacecraft with a tethered astronaut facing toward the bird

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · Aug 24

Just a reminder that i have a story in this upcoming Best Of Anthology!

"A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life

Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social · Apr 17

Here's the cover of THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOLUME SEVENTEEN
Art by Asya Yordanova

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · Aug 18

Was great to meet you!! Hope to see you at another con sometime!

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Aug 17

Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!

Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Winners

The winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced on August 16, 2025 by Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World…

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · Aug 12

That would be lovely!!

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · Aug 5

I feel like I'm late to the game in this discovery but...the @clarkesworldmagazine.com website has a dark mode?? This fills me with inordinate amounts of delight.

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Sean Wallace @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social · Jul 29

I have need for two reprints, preferably published within the last two years, only in print (not online), either in a magazine or an anthology or a ss coll, under 6,000 words, sent to [email protected]. TIA!

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · Jul 25

Issue #437 of BCS has my story "Turn to Stone Ourselves" as the From the Archives pick 😊 (and two new stories by Rosemary Claire Smith & Malda Marlys!)

From the Archives (of BCS) "Turn to Stone Ourselves" by Marie Croke. "Could i taste the inklings of my first life, when flesh had ruled me rather than stone?"

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · Jul 25

Slowly preparing to exist at Seattle Worldcon. Excited to see some folks there - shout if you're going and want to say hi!!

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Jul 21

Submissions for our last themed issue of the year CLOSE in TEN DAYS! Get it polished, get it in. The squad can't wait to feast on your words 🍽️

All the info you need to submit is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Share with a Black writer who needs to rip the band aid off. Don't self reject!!!

Title: GODS & MONSTERS.
July 31 2025
fiyahlitmag.com/submissions
Image: A silhouette hand reaching toward ethereal light.

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Jul 7

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨

We want your books.

So we can acquire them.

And print them.

For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨

Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.

Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.

Pass it on 👀

Augur press novella and novelette submissions now open! Be a part of augur press’ debut line up. We’re looking for works from 12,500-40,000 words to launch as print books in 2027-2029. Canadian & international authors welcomed. Open July 6-August 30. Guidelines at augursociety.org/press-submissions.

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thank you!! :)

Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · Jul 7

Short story sale!!! Super excited to be returning to the pages of @apexmag.bsky.social with "We Used to Wake to Song" this October. Read if you're into messed up parent-child relationships, body horror, and the ocean claiming our bodies to fix what we destroyed. 🌊🪸

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