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Liz J. Bradley🌠

@lizjbradley.bsky.social

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Just a small town girl who took the midnight train going anywhere. Writer. Dreamer. Doer. SFWA member, host of Sci-Fi Snacks Podcast https://www.lizjbradley.com

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · Jan 13

Lots of new friends here so I’m gonna do a pinned post of who I am!

📖 SFF writer and poet
🫶 Swiftie born in 1989
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Mom of 2 boys
🐾 husky rescue pup
🔭 (un)healthily obsessed with space
📋 Virtual Executive Assistant
🥾 Slow Hiker
🏕️ pop-up camping fan
🧶🎨🖍️multi-hyphenate crafter hobbiest

Hi! 👋

Liz (that’s me!) a white woman with short curly brown hair lounging in a banana yellow chair, laughing.

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 11h

For the night crowd and anyone who loves a Virtual Reality Fairy Tale Retelling in a byte-sized😉 format

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes you write somethign that is a favorite, but it takes a while to find a home. So happy that 3goats.exe found it's home and is available to read now at 101 words!

101words.org/3goats-exe/

3goats.exe - 101 Words

The final bridge mocked me. Or rather, the gaggle of boys guarding it did. Each day, I donned my VR […]

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes you write somethign that is a favorite, but it takes a while to find a home. So happy that 3goats.exe found it's home and is available to read now at 101 words!

101words.org/3goats-exe/

3goats.exe - 101 Words

The final bridge mocked me. Or rather, the gaggle of boys guarding it did. Each day, I donned my VR […]

101words.org

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 6d

I broke my big toe and while I have a walking boot it’s been one week and I’ve got the worst cabin fever. I want to be out and hiking and just like… walking and driving places without pain

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 6d

Haha they were who I thought of immediately!

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 6d

Have you ever read a story where you weren’t 100% sure what happened but it was such a fun ride it didn’t matter and you wanted to read it again??

This week I talk about a story that did just that for me: A Notorious Intergalactic Criminal

17. Cyberpunk Coffee Machine Robots: A Notorious Intergalactic Criminal

Podcast Episode · Sci-Fi Snacks · 10/02/2025 · 31m

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 12d

Finally finished and started submitting a short story I’ve been working on for over a year and a half.

Sometimes an idea takes a long time to really evolve and have everything fall into place, but I’m so proud of what this story has become. Hope I can share it with everyone when it finds a home

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 13d

Solarpunk story time!

This week I made lemon bars from someone’s grandma’s recipe and read After the Rain by P. A. Cornell. Listen to me yap about what I loved and what I learned:

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 14d

It’s like every extinction event is like: oops volcanoes getting wild again. Let’s chat about this rounds survivors

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 14d

Laid up with a broken big toe binge watching Our Planet Earth and basically what I’ve learned is that Volcanoes are the baddies of history

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Hugo, Girl! the podcast @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social · 16d

Your favorite podcast grandma recently lost a leather bookmark she got in Ireland 30 years ago on a trip with her father. She is so, so sad about it. Hoping to replace it for her, but I've scoured the Internet with no luck so far.

Anybody got any ideas? Similar to the ones in the photo (sold out 😓)

Three green leather bookmarks embossed with gold designs

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 16d

Trying a new thing this week where I spend a focused 50 minutes writing before I do ANY client work and honestly I was resistant but I wrote so much more than I have in the past month and it felt so good.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 17d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 18d

Hey look, it’s me

A photograph of a woman wearing a birthday hat in front of a microphone. The screen behind her is black with white text that says: “The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out.”

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 18d

At my first women’s rugby game and OMG this is awesome and so intimidating. Love it.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 19d

VIRGINIA: Today is the first day of early voting. I cannot overstate how important this year's state election is—for Governor, Lieutenant Gov, & maybe even especially Attorney General, as well as all 100 seats of the House of Delegates. Find your polling site info at acluva.org/voters-rights

Voting Rights in Virginia Elections - ACLU of Virginia

Voting is our right and our civic responsibility. Our democracy is stronger when everyone participates. Know your voting rights and make a plan to vote as early as possible. On November 5, 2024, Virgi...

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 19d

Got kiddo Procreate and a stylus for his birthday and the joy he is having in creating whatever he wants right now is giving me that hope for the future.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 20d

The library is one of the best things this country has to offer and everyone should be taking advantage of their local branch. Also librarians are some of the best people who will consistently fight for your right to read.

(More ways to support libraries here: ilovelibraries.org)

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 20d

just absolutely furious with @alixeharrow.bsky.social for being such a goddamn genius

"the contradictory heart of what prose does, which is to waste the reader’s time as efficiently and sexily as possible...a reader gives you their time, and you tell them, word by word, how to spend it."

y E s

on purple prose

so i love a metaphor! sue me! or...come see me on tour?

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 20d

Podcast day!

This week we dive into to soul punk, so of course I’m eating dirt pudding.

And because I’m a millennial, it’s in a mason jar 😂

A photo of me holding a mason jar full of layered pudding and crushed up Oreo cookies

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 22d

The 100x100 drabble project by @cbdroege.bsky.social has been such a light for me this year. The prompts push me (and tooth was one I was really viscerally against at first!) and I'm honored to be featured again this month.

Read all the amazing stories here: www.patreon.com/posts/100-wo...

100 Word Project - Tooth | Manawaker Studio

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Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 27d

Just finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and it is a must!

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 27d

Podcast cards are in! A slight misprint, so they are fixing and shipping another set, but I couldn’t wait to share them! #podcast #scifisnacks

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 27d

For the night crowd- a new episode to queue up for your morning commute (or this evening’s insomnia- whatever works!)

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 27d

New Episode Day!

When I started asking around about steampunk I was told I HAD to read Monstress- and while it technically wasn’t a scifi short story, there was so much to learn from it I had to share!

A screenshot of the Spotify podcast page for episode 14. Of Sci-fi snacks. Title is: Steampunk meets Kaiju in an Intense Debut: Monstress #1

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 27d

Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social · 29d

I love to yap about my process when it comes to writing short stories. Suzy was so gracious to listen :)

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Show, don't Tell Writing Podcast: #62: In Conversation with Short Story Author Liz J. Bradley

💜🎧💜A Writing Podcast for Beginners to Published Authors. Hosted by Suzy Vadori, YA Author, Book Coach, Editor, Speaker

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