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Premee Mohamed

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Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · Oct 17

Pinned post time! :D I am a scientist and author based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -- I write about gods, monsters, magic, science, and people running in circles screaming "WHAT IS THAT WHAT IS IT DON'T LET IT TOUCH ME"

My Bookstore bookshop is here! :)

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Premee Mohamed Books

Books I wrote, books I'm in! Not in any kind of order mostly.

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John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social · 2h

Here's a little cartoon for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙

Ink and watercolor cartoon showing an octopus peeking out of a coconut shell underwater. The octopus says: "I've been working on a novel, but I'm afraid to show anyone. Maybe I'll put one page out there." A fish swims up to look at the page and says, "That stinks!" The octopus disappears inside the shell and says, "Everyone's a critic."

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Spooky Scary SkeleFalco @falco.works · 3h

Day 7 -- Feline

Every well educated apprentice witch knows that treats are vital to a familiar's magic focusing abilities ow ow shoot ow dang it ouch

A little witch girl carrying a jug of milk is swarmed by black kittens, who scream and climb her overalls because she's not dispensing the milk fast enough

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 2h

when people complain that a story has “too many digressions” I want to ask them whether perhaps the digressions ARE the story

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 2h

BUT

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 2h

People talk a lot about whether cats or dogs are more likely to consume you after I die but I cannot emphasize enough that the kitten is gnawing on my foot and she just ate TWENTY MINUTES AGO

MY CHILD WHY ARE YOU EATING ME

THERE IS LITERALLY STILL FOOD IN YOUR BOWL

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 5h

help support small press!

help support death magazines!

we're just out here trying to do some cool shit, like:

@vajra.me is guest editing OCTOBER and JANUARY deadlands DOUBLE VAJRA !

with CUSTOM DOUBLE ART BY @carlydraws.bsky.social !!

upcoming NOVELETTE (April 2026) by @dianadima.com !!!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 8h

The image is a six panel black and white comic

Panel 1- A small child is being told "You'll want kids when you're older!" The child responds with "I don't think so..."

Panel 2- The same child, now a teenager, is being told, "You'll change your mind when you're older." To which the teen responds, "I doubt that"

Panel 3- Now an adult, someone off screen asks them, "Aren't you thinking of having kids?" To which they respond, "Nope"

Panel 4- The same person, an older adult now, is being told, "better have kids soon, or it'll be too late!" to which they respond, "That's fine"

Panel 5- Now elderly, they are once again asked "Don't you feel like you missed out?" to which they say, "Still nope."

Panel 6- They are now in their death bed, clearly close to death. The nurse says, "Shame you didn't have kids, don't you regret it?" To which the person says "You know what just kill me already"

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 4h

Hang on I'm just telling him he's cheap

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4h

Heere ys the booke of the humoral and elemental values of the Teenaged Mutante Turtles Who Are Ninjas:

Michelangelo - Ayre - Sanguine - Springtyme
Raphael - Fyre - Choleric - Somer
Donatello - Earthe - Melancholic - Autumn
Leonardo - Watir - Phlegmatic - Wynter

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merritt @merrittk.com · 5h

its like the old saying goes, if you dont get everything done in one day you should give up. its obviously not going to happen

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lilli @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 5h

i love that when someone tries to communicate a Color That Shouldn't Exist in a cosmic horror movie, invariably it's just like. purple

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 5h

Among other less flattering terms :(

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 13h

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! 🐙

Fresco from Rome with an octopus clutching a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles. Dated to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD.
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

An octopus on the early 4th-century mosaic floor in the Basilica of Aquileia, Italy.

Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar with octopus 1200-1100 BC.

An octopus battling with a lobster on a mosaic from Pompeii.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 18h

Hey, do any of you Warhammer nerds have a spare copy of TALES OF HERESY, edited by Kyme & Priestley?

It’s super expensive online, and I’d love to get it for our elder kid’s birthday.

(I know this is probably futile, but I gotta try.)

The cover of the book tales of heresy edited by Nick KYME and Lindsay Priestley, a Warhammer Book

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 5h

Need it to write more bookes!!!!

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💖!

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Fiction Fans Podcast @fictionfanspod.bsky.social · 6h

If you haven’t read this book, go read it. Seriously.

(And then you can listen to us talk about it with Premee, if you want—but go read the book! www.fictionfanspodcast.com/post/author-...)

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 7h

I SUPER DUPER love the voice of the narrator they picked for the audiobook, too! 🤩

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 7h

THERE IS NOT

I JUST SEND SEVERAL BUGGES TO YOUR HOUSE

YOU GOT THOSE RIGHT

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 8h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 7h

I loved this book so much I gave it a Bugge Awarde last year for favourite nonfiction

(those are awards given out by me, a large bugge)

I wish it was a series with like 50 more books

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13h

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 7h

Not necessarily the BEST one but certainly a very LOUD AND STABBY one

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 3d

Somersaulting in here to be like "There are war pteranodons in THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS but those are the least of everybody's problems for most of the book" :D

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 3d

sci-fi has gotta bring back dudes riding pterodactyls, that was a whole vibe

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 8h

PLEASE

(One of my publicists a few years ago sent me a box and I was like "Surely this will be terrible" but it was not terrible and I loved it and I was so sad when the box was done)