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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 2d

I can't make this event @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on Friday, but it's a fantastic idea and I really hope it's not the last one they host: www.eventbrite.com/e/letter-wri...

Letter Write-In with Abolitionist Mail Project

Join Abolitionist Mail Project at the Booksmith to write cards to incarcerated people. All are welcome, cards & stamps supplied!

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 2d

You Are Here: Nine More Stories—my collection of SF/fantasy shorts, some prev pubbed at Strange Horizons, BCS, etc & also a new novella abt growing up & queer devotion—plus witches, spaceships, romcoms, all you need. KJ Charles called it "absolutely outstanding" www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

book cover, showing a serious South Asian woman in a red headscarf holding a globe in her arms with text, YOU ARE HERE: NINE MORE STORIES

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 4d

Transcript available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1HziN...

And this time we're rolling right into recording S3, so expect us back sometime in November for Lives of Christopher Chant!

Bonus Episode - S2 Q&A.pdf

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 4d

We're finally wrapping up S2 today with our last bonus episode for the season -- thank you all so much for the many thoughtful, interesting and insightful letters you sent in for our Q&A!

S2 Bonus Episode 3 - Q&A by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

The first time round most of the catching-up you do is retrospective. The second time round you see it happening. In our final S2 bonus episode, we do a terrible job of not looking ahead to Hexwood a...

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 5d

seeing @wiscon.bsky.social announcements for this year start to go out reminds me that while bouncing around in our archive I've found some really charming news reporting on early WisCons from Wisconsin Public Television

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The Wisconsin Magazine; 624

The Wisconsin Magazine is a weekly magazine featuring segments on local Wisconsin news and current events.

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 8d

My soft sci-fi novella, THE LEGEND LIMINAL, is out today from @starsandsabers.bsky.social! 💫

Climb into the camper van for a surreal roadtrip that slides out of time & reality. TLL is a story about grief, hope, and the shining lifeline of human connection.

🔗: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-le...

Ren holds up a copy of The Legend Liminal, with an empty desert highway in the background. The cover of the book features a camper van driving on a road shaped like an infinity symbol, in front of a vaporwave-style sunset.

The cover of The Legend Liminal by Ren Hutchings is superimposed on an image of an empty desert highway, surrounded by text that says:

➜ Surreal contemporary speculative novella
➜ A slip out of time & reality
➜ Friends on a fateful roadtrip
➜ An unsettling liminal world
➜ A mysterious spooky cat
➜ Messy sibling relationships
➜ Vibes: Donnie Darko meets FINNA
➜ Navigating grief & finding lifelines in one another

The cover of the book features a camper van driving on a road shaped like an infinity symbol, in front of a vaporwave-style sunset.

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GRIM 💬 @gcbaccaris.itch.io · 9d

75% off HARMONY until October 6th!!! 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/1966420/...

Save 75% on Harmony: The Fall of Reverie on Steam

The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.

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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 8d

Honoured to be chairing the @otherwiseaward.org jury 2025, with fellow jurors Cheryl Ntumy, @andrewhook.bsky.social, Kiini Salaam and Rebecca Fraimow. Recognising #speculativefiction that explores and expands gender, #diversity. Online recommendations close in November. otherwiseaward.org/news

News « Otherwise Award

All the latest news from the Otherwise Award, given to a work of science fiction or fantasy in one year which best explores & expands gender roles.

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 9d

excited to share that I'm on the judging panel for this year's Otherwise awards!

AND, RELATEDLY: please recommend things for the Otherwise awards! nominations close 11/14, my reading list for this is already long but I'm stoked for it to get longer

otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...

News « Otherwise Award

All the latest news from the Otherwise Award, given to a work of science fiction or fantasy in one year which best explores & expands gender roles.

otherwiseaward.org

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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 11d

10% of profits from this special edition will be donated to Mermaids, a charity that works to support trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse young people in the UK. I'm very happy and excited about this one!

LitPins&Co @litpinsandco.bsky.social · 12d

Introducing our latest special edition - The Incandescent by Emily Tesh! 🖊️🐦‍🔥🗡️

Head to our Instagram or website for all the details! Pre-orders are open now 💛

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 10d

My surreal roadtrip novella is out soon! Enormous thanks goes out to the brilliant SFF authors who read this weird little book & gave it such heartfelt blurbs.

Please follow them & check out their books! (Tagging them below)

🧭 THE LEGEND LIMINAL is out Sep 30th from @starsandsabers.bsky.social 💫

A stack of books piled up on a wooden desk with a blue cosmic backdrop. THE LEGEND LIMINAL by Ren Hutchings is facing out. Books in the stack are: Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, A Palace Near The Wind by Ai Jiang, The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, We Who Hunt The Hollow by Kate Murray.

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 13d

✨💖✨CUNDRIE ✨💖✨

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 13d

I love having a favorite Arthurian side character. a full millenia of intermittent mentions with wildly variable characterization to get excited about. a book will be like 'he is not appearing in this text, because he's off fixing the drains' and I'm like 'classic my guy! he IS fixing the drains!'

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 13d

ahhh I'm so glad you've been enjoying it!

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 15d

deepest of deep breaths

feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 15d

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."

@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):

reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor

Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 15d

SURELY SOMEONE UNDERSTAND IT. but that person is not me

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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 18d

Many stories I loved, some I did not, and Diana WHERE is the rest of the dragon riding matriarchal polyandry evil wizard dad book.

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 18d

A bunch of stories we really loved, a bunch of stories we'd love to see more of, and a Lot of stories in which a bad adult gets turned into (metaphorical or literal) bacon: it's time for DWJ's short fiction of the 70s and 80s!

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S2 Bonus Episode 2 - DWJ Shorts of the 70s and 80s by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

"She has tremendous talent, of course, or she couldn’t do it at all, but I do sometimes feel that she—well—she repeats herself. Put it like this: I think maybe Carol doesn't give herself a chance to b...

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 18d

I'm really excited to try and diagram out a chronological order of 'when' things 'happen' in Hexwood and end up looking like the meme of the guy with the stringboard

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 18d

It's always hard to keep our rule not to look ahead and NEVER HARDER than in this episode. Hexwood when?!?

Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 18d

A bunch of stories we really loved, a bunch of stories we'd love to see more of, and a Lot of stories in which a bad adult gets turned into (metaphorical or literal) bacon: it's time for DWJ's short fiction of the 70s and 80s!

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S2 Bonus Episode 2 - DWJ Shorts of the 70s and 80s by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

"She has tremendous talent, of course, or she couldn’t do it at all, but I do sometimes feel that she—well—she repeats herself. Put it like this: I think maybe Carol doesn't give herself a chance to b...

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social · 21d

thank you all so much for all the amazing questions you've sent in for our Q&A!!

FOR THE RECORD, although we planned to record that ep today, life events plus the realization that people might have thoughts about the shorts has caused us to reschedule for NEXT THURSDAY 9/25

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 20d

spoiler but that was our favorite of the set for sure

Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 24d

I know that the sort of lingering WWI trauma hanging over the book is one of the things that @epbirdsall.bsky.social was reading for -- it's pointedly pulled out (relevantly but very unsubtly IMO) in the recent musical version that we saw

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 24d

you know what I DO think there's a direct line to be drawn between Gatsby and Swordspoint

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 24d

I also like how strangely like a fairy-tale it is -- the valley of ashes, the big castle and the glittering parties that all disappear in the morning. it's not surprising to me that sff authors in particular keep being drawn towards retellings; the book in itself is almost a fantasy novel

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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social · 24d

one of the things tbh that I keep stumbling over in retellings and adaptations is versions of Nick that seem to take him at face value as the way he tells us he is, and that he so clearly is not

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