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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

Quick reminder I'm slowly restarting my patreon and you can subscribe here for recipes, excerpts, and nerdy deep dives
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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · 2d

UK readers! Sour Cherry is 99p on Kindle this spooky season 👻🍒
amzn.eu/d/buvcraN

Sour Cherry: A fiercely haunting gothic horror novel examining gender and power, reimagining the fairytale Bluebeard eBook : Theodoridou, Natalia: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · 7d

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 7d

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The best of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

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UK only

Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.

The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 9d

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - AUGUST 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up 25 stories by @rukman.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @rfdwrites.bsky.social @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @mererain.bsky.social @whatsmacksaid.bsky.social & MORE!!!
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Some Queer Short SFF - August 2025 | Charles Payseur

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 10d

Just in time to get into the Halloween spirit, I’m teaching a horror writing class with Queens Collaboratory. If you’re in NYC and want to dip your toes into writing horror, this the place to do it. Tickets are $20-$25, and spots are pretty limited. luma.com/9pzyg2tm

Red hands with sharp black nails reach across a dark, smoky background. Text: Horror writing for beginners. October 19, 2-4. LED by Astoria-based author Nino Cipri.

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · 12d

WE NEED ANSWERS

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 13d

"A beautiful read aided by Kurella’s skilled and poetical use of language. This is a story I strongly recommend."

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 13d

New Review - a Mountain challenges Death but not quite as you think - a gorgeous novella awaits in The Death of Mountains by @kurellian.bsky.social out now and strongly recommended! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

The Death of Mountains by Jordan Kurella — Runalong The Shelves

I would like to thank the author for a copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Lethe Press Published – Out Now Price – £8.27 paperback £3.00 ebook The lat...

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 14d

Are you going to @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social? Me, too!

Join me at More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with @nassos.bsky.social, @vajra.me, and @yarntheory.bsky.social in hour 28.

Then @phoebebarton.bsky.social and I talk After Capitalism, Then What? in hour 51.

More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with Natalia Theodoridou. M. Darusha Wehm, Vajra Chandrasekera, Ursula Whitcher in Hour 28 #FoNovellnStories

After Capitalism, Then What? with M. Darusha Wehm & Phoebe Barton in Hour 51 #FoFPostCapitalism

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · 14d

Aw, thank you so much!!! So glad you liked it <3 <3

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14d

Have I mentioned that @nassos.bsky.social's SOUR CHERRY is one of my favorite novels of the year?

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 14d

a character who really fucking sucks written well is such a joy

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · 14d

"Every Ghost Story" came out in @reactorsff.bsky.social last month. reactormag.com/every-ghost-...
Thanks as always, Charles!

Every Ghost Story - Reactor

Following a mysterious world-wide event that makes ghosts visible, a young woman is invited to attend Ghost Camp.

reactormag.com

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Fall for the Book @fallforthebook.bsky.social · 29d

New #podcast alert! Natalia Theodoridou (@nassos.bsky.social) discusses his fever dream of a Bluebeard retelling - about the choice and non-choice of those stuck in cycles of abuse, the power of fairytales, and the toxicity of the patriarchy.

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Sour Cherry with Natalia Theodoridou

Podcast Episode · Fall for the Book Podcast · 09/09/2025 · 24m

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost

- Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below.
- Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share.
- Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter!

NSFW and erotica welcome.

#WriteSky #BookSky

The text "Trans author? Share your work below!" with some background in the colours of the trans pride flag.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Sep 5

BREAKING 🚨

The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.

It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.

But politicians still have time to stop this.

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · Sep 3

OK, more praise for @nassos.bsky.social's debut novel--I tried re-reading my library copy & quickly realized no, I want my own, to underline & scribble margin notes to my past & present & future selves as I read it forward & back and back forward again.
📚 #BookSky

My hand holds a paperback copy of Natalia Theodoridou's novel Sour Cherry against a blurred background of dark woods and bluegrey sky reflected in a fragment of lake below.

The cover is cherry red, lipstick red, dangerous red. At top,
SOUR
CHERRY
in all caps serif font. At right, an antique looking drawing of a woman's head, cut clean at the neck by a penstroke, hanging by her long auburn hair tangled around the second R in CHERRY. At left, a blurb: "A folktale, a whisper, and a dream all at once." --Rory Power

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · Sep 2

FoF Update:

Everyone registered will be emailed a link to request lottery sessions starting today. 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.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just read this to kick off #RIPXX! Ghosts are everywhere? Everyone? Everything?

Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Every Ghost Story" is out in @reactorsff.bsky.social today! Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social, with art by @babswebbart.bsky.social.
Incredibly excited to share this one (what do you mean I may be slightly obsessed with ghosts?)
reactormag.com/every-ghost-...

Every Ghost Story - Reactor

Following a mysterious world-wide event that makes ghosts visible, a young woman is invited to attend Ghost Camp.

reactormag.com

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you so much for reading! 🍒

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · Aug 30

Could not put down Theororidou's debut novel Sour Cherry. A liminal, haunting, magnetic re-visioning of the tale of Bluebeard; I'm going to catch my breath and then start it over again to seek & savor the nuances and echoes. 📚 #BookSky

A paperback copy of
SOUR
CHERRY
a novel
by trans masc author Natalia Theodoridou. The cover is sour-cherry red, bright blood red, lipstick red. A drawing of a woman's head (perhaps severed? perhaps the drawing just cut off at the top of her neck?) at right: it hangs by her long red hair that seems to be tangled around the second R in CHERRY.

At left, a blurb: "A folktale, a whisper, and a dream all at once." --Rory Power

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 4

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · Aug 12

I always rejoice when there is a new Emma Törzs story out
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
@uncannymagazine.bsky.social

The Garden - Uncanny Magazine

Most mornings, the woman sits in her garden. Most mornings, I sit on my roof. In this way, looking down over the tall stone walls of her courtyard, I can see her grey head bent over her grey hands. Sh...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · Aug 12

This one bsky.app/profile/nass...

Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Every Ghost Story" is out in @reactorsff.bsky.social today! Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social, with art by @babswebbart.bsky.social.
Incredibly excited to share this one (what do you mean I may be slightly obsessed with ghosts?)
reactormag.com/every-ghost-...

Every Ghost Story - Reactor

Following a mysterious world-wide event that makes ghosts visible, a young woman is invited to attend Ghost Camp.

reactormag.com

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · Aug 9

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary.

Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is a subtly devastating story about ghosts, love, the search for meaning in this life or the next, and being haunted by your own self.

by @nassos.bsky.social on @reactorsff.bsky.social

Every Ghost Story - Reactor

Following a mysterious world-wide event that makes ghosts visible, a young woman is invited to attend Ghost Camp.

reactormag.com

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