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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 20h

I not only have a Daredevil NOVEL coming, but I also wrote DAREDEVIL: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY for Insight Editions, hitting next month! I'll be signing posters at their booth tomorrow at high noon! Was glad to speak to @io9dotcom.bsky.social about my Year of DD: gizmodo.com/daredevil-il...

Daredevil Celebrates Over 60 Years of Comics History In a Brand New Book

io9 has an exclusive look at Alex Segura's 'Marvel’s Daredevil: The Illustrated History,' a chronicle of the Man Without Fear's adventures.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 1d

Could you imagine eating corn flakes all your life and then someone hands you cinnamon toast crunch?

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

We are now a week out from the release of SILVER AND LEAD, the nineteenth October Daye adventure, and I am staggered and overjoyed by how warmly it's been received.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 2d

Which reminds me, all my books (for the most part) are on @bookshop.org and it's my preferred place for purchase (if you can't order it locally--and even then, you can do it through Bookshop!).

Arthuriana. Queer Regency witches. Marvelous monsters. Etc.

bookshop.org/shop/natania...

Natania Barron Bookshop

Natania Barron believes in monsters and hopes you do, too. She’s the author of dozens of short stories, a fistful of novellas, and a few novels. All of these works contain monsters of one variety of a...

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 2d

Wish me luck, all.

Something something project - vaguebook.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 2d

Nature.

Like jfc.

Also something smart if you're just that businessy instead?

YOURE BUILDING AND SUPPORTING RELATIONS WITH YOUR LIBRARY SYSTEM

Guess what? You can do talks there, singing, meet fans, librarians rec and carry your books too

Use them. Support them

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 2d

A dedicated research librarian?

They have to go to school for this
They exist to help you find stuff
Great fucking stuff
And it's free
And you can read books
And reference them, sometimes email their authors and you doing all of that supports people too and doesn't gobble up resources from

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 2d

One of the saddest things recently was seeing how many baby authors want to even use so for research

Like please fucking no

It lies, it's incestuous, doesn't always lead to good sources, and dumbs down your ability to find those yourself.

Ffs two for one: libraries. Did you know libraries have -

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry wait what.

Nutmeg did...wait what?!

I...blinks. just learned something I guess..wow.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 2d

Living the mood for what you're writing for real:

A little project about cooking food.

Accompanied by cacao and decaf coffee with coconut sugar, some cayenne for kick, a touch of ghee for fat creamy, nutmeg and cinnamon, and served with some apple oat crumble cobbler.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 5d

I forgot about my novelette 'Breaking Water', which was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards in 2016, and follows a journalist and a cook who becomes a 'dead charmer' as they grapple with the spiritual fallout of an epidemic of the undead in Kolkata:

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 2d

Checked out the list of banned books and Allegiant, Carve the Mark, and The End & Other Beginnings are on there (way, way down), which is kind of a weird assortment of my books. Why those and not the others? Unclear.

Anyway, have a look: pen.org/banned-books...

Banned Books List 2025

What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.

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Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com · 2d

October is #FAHM. There’s tons to say about being Filipino, America, and the countries’ shared history than could fit here, so I wrote about it for my newsletter dropping later this week

Sign up now if you haven’t yet. And till 10/13, new subscribers get a chance to win THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED 🔗⬇️

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 7d

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press

REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · Oct 25

Yeah, alright, no. No don't this. I'll do you a few fucking better and teach you right here and now how to do this:
You game? Blurb and lesson time. Got you.
First up, a SPOOC. This is one technique that can be expanded (gonna give you examples too). WRITING LESSONS AHOY:
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Becky @beckygracelea.bsky.social · 4d

She hath risen.

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 1

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jul 31

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work

Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4d

on a fuckin' Netflix special.

No industry will get it. Publishing, media, w.e.

But so many diaspora artists do.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4d

Something heard tonight and it's been said by me, and friends in my circle for ages with similar backgrounds:

"Too Western for India, too Indian for the West." Today I heard Vir Das say that.

It's reached mass media.

No lie...it's kinda nice having it said/summed up -- all the experiences--

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4d

youtu.be/eZfPV3Jvs1w?...

I'll never get over the fact that this exists. A wonderful reader and musician made this for The First Binding.

Sparrows of Keshum

YouTube video by From the Top Handbells

youtu.be

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4d

You're welcome!

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4d

Is there a way to do that investing thing where you invest...like in their downfall and reap the rewards??

Or is that some made up Hollywood thing?

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 4d

Aspiring authors, I’m here to help. Do you have any writing-related questions or dilemmas I can answer? Maybe you just need encouragement or a kick in the pants? Ask away…

#writing

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4d

Just signed the walls at the legendary Fountain Books, signed done copies of Tales of Tremaine for people who want them and to support an amazing indie store.

I learned the series is a staff pick, and one of their best and steadiest sellers!!!

Please support an indie book store today !

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4d

That's the best i can give from my experience. it has not been a detriment or major issue to me, but im also not publishing as prolifically as you so idk what issues you might run into - sorry in advance on that.

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