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mia ☕
@miachen.bsky.social
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sff writer • she/elle/她 • 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 💜🤍🖤
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mia ☕ @miachen.bsky.social · Nov 16
hi #writersky #booksky! i'm a chinese-canadian SFFH writer currently working on an idiots-to-??? fantasy in which an alchemist infiltrates a cutthroat academy and only makes bad decisions

i'm the type of book dragon that keeps her library indexed in a spreadsheet bc too many accidental duplicates🫠📚
miachen.bsky.social
my friend wrote a book and it's a stunner 😻
kashinggiwa.bsky.social Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Jul 15
After a devastating battle, a reluctant rebel is forced to work with a dangerous enemy to save their world.

In the mood for a book about found family, fighting technofascism, and second chances? There are 100 free copies of The King Must Die available on GR: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
July 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
miachen.bsky.social
2024 wrapped in reading 📚
I've read 60 books this year, these were the best :
Top row : Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson, The Will of the Many by James Islington, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes (I Who Have Never Known Men) by Jacqueline Harpman, Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine Bottom row : The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, Ce que je sais de toi (What I Know About You) by Eric Chacour, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
December 31, 2024 at 4:00 AM
miachen.bsky.social
this book is so good I've read it twice 🤩
December 7, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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aijiang.bsky.social
For my fellow Canadians, I’ll be partnering with a local indie bookstore— @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social —for part of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (@titanbooks.bsky.social) preorder campaign 👀‼️ First 50 pre-orders will receive art cards/the handmade bookmark 🙇🏻‍♀️🤍

www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/item/64yWJSS...
Bakka Phoenix Pre-Order Campaign graphic including a photo of two art cards and a photo of handmade nature themed bookmarks. Additional text: First 50 Pre-Orders When you preorder from Bakka Phoenix (signed + goodies) Titan Books A PALACE NEAR THE WIND book cover on a backdrop with an illustrated palace shrouded in clouds. Above the cover is the text: A PALACE NEAR THE WIND Below the cover is the text: April 8, 2025 Titan Books
November 29, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
“anything worth doing is worth doing badly”

The ending of this poem brings me to tears every time.
Falling and Flying By Jack Gilbert Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last. Every morning she was asleep in my bed like a visitation, the gentleness in her like antelope standing in the dawn mist. Each afternoon I watched her coming back through the hot stony field after swimming, the sea light behind her and the huge sky on the other side of that. Listened to her while we ate lunch. How can they say the marriage failed? Like the people who came back from Provence (when it was Provence) and said it was pretty but the food was greasy. I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.
November 24, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.
“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”
March 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM
miachen.bsky.social
I absolutely loved SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, can't wait for this 🤩
wiswell.bsky.social John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Nov 19
Unveiling my second novel: WEARING THE LION.

This himbo hero Heracles, Hera's biggest fan, collects a menagerie of monsters in pursuit of the god who destroyed his family.

The trouble? Hera is responsible, and she'll do anything to hide the truth.

Coming June, 2025!
A book cover! The art is by Tyler Miles Lockett. A twinkling night sky and verdant set of hills part to reveal some unusual figures. Heracles, in the middle of a wardrobe malfunction, struggles to keep a giant lion aloft on his shoulders. The lion nuzzles and licks at him like a house cat, while Heracles looks befuddled. In the distance, night casts shadows over a giant statue of Hera, standing over her house of worship, almost like she is watching Heracles and the lion. Text on the cover reads: JOHN WISWELL. WEARING THE LION.
November 19, 2024 at 10:58 PM
miachen.bsky.social
hi #writersky #booksky! i'm a chinese-canadian SFFH writer currently working on an idiots-to-??? fantasy in which an alchemist infiltrates a cutthroat academy and only makes bad decisions

i'm the type of book dragon that keeps her library indexed in a spreadsheet bc too many accidental duplicates🫠📚
November 16, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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thebrokenbinding.bsky.social
Time for our first Bluesky giveaway! We ars giving away a T2 set of the Green Bone Saga by @fondalee.bsky.social

Follow us and repost this post in order to enter 🦋
Green Bone Saga, The Broken Binding special editions. Jade City by Fonda Lee. Digital edges and new artwork on jackets. Banner has a green background with a seafoam texture
November 15, 2024 at 4:42 PM