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Sara K Ellis

@skateellis.bsky.social

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She/her. Words in Analog, Fusion Fragment and Shoreline of Infinity. Forthcoming in F & SF. Lambda Lit Fellow 2011. Milford '17 & '22. SFWA. Codex. 日本語もOK. Comics, food, film and fic. Debut novelist—If the Stars Are Lit

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · Apr 15

This might just be the best Tuesday ever. Happy Book Birthday and a massive thank you to @lunapress.bsky.social for giving this story a home and for your patience through this journey, and to the amazing @tarabush.bsky.social for this dazzling cover! #bookbirthday

Graphics by @bookcravings01

Cover of “If the Stars Are Lit” graphics by bookcravings01

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 1d

No, you’re right. It’s a record store on Hawthorne. The business that was in the same space in the late ‘80s was an adult video store. Pre-gentrification PDX.

Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 1d

If I remember right, Jackpot was an adult video store, which then became something bird-related.

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 1d

Bagdad! Lol

Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 1d

It seems we’re losing quite a few of the lives-well-lived folks this autumn. Some very good memories of coming here before Shakespeare in the park.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Farewell to the truest of legends, long live Zabar’s.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Book 🎂 @dmbeucler.bsky.social ! Very excited for this! And that cover! 🔥

Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Book Birthday to @dmbeucler.bsky.social 🥳 It is always so exciting to see your words making it out into the world! Congratulations Denise!!! 💙 #debut2025 #bloodmagic @booksfromscotland.bsky.social

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 1d

Just awful, seeing the neighborhood I grew up in, the place I worked in high school, like this. We will remember the food cart Maginot line.

jason. @vagrantmachine.bsky.social · 6d

Night strolls on Hawthorne in the middle of my “war ravaged” city.

📸: Portland, Oregon

A color photo of a stencil spray painted on the sidewalk that reads “EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY” in black with a red spray painted heart around it.

A color photo of a corner pizza shop all lit up at night.

A color photo of the same street corner featuring the Bagdad Theater and businesses all lit up.

A color photo of inside Jackpot Records at night with a pink “RECORDS” sign in neon front and center.

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D. M. Beucler @dmbeucler.bsky.social · 5d

My husband gave me something to deal with my stress, 3 days to go.

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small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 10d

Sci-fi, by Tracy K. Smith

[...] Weightless, unhinged,
Eons from even our own moon, we'll drift
In the haze of space, which will be, once
And for all, scrutable and safe.

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 3d

😬

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 3d

“I would eagerly bet that each and every prosing gasbag in Pride and Prejudice had a prototype in the realms of what people sometimes foolishly call Austen’s ‘limited experience.’”

Revisiting Mark Edmundson’s “Why Write?” #lovedthis #booksky

Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 3d

Sleep is still choppy, but I wake up really, really early and enjoy the quiet. This usually results in conking out by nine.

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 3d

New Review - today on the blog a look at the way different writers write fantasy with Writing The Magic - Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and @richardvhirst.bsky.social out now and strongly recommended! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

Writing The Magic - Essays On Crafting Fantasy Fiction edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst — Runalong The Shelves

Publisher – Dead Ink Books Published – Out Now Price – £10.99 paperback £5.99 ebook From Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones , over the last hundred years few genres have captured the publi...

www.runalongtheshelves.net

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 4d

Folks on threads applauding Japan for ‘breaking the glass ceiling’ by annointing a Lina Wertmüller villain.

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Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social · 4d

Japan’s next PM, Sanae Takaichi, wasn’t chosen by us but by 370 LDP insiders & dues-paying loyalists—mostly old, rural, ultraconservative men. The LDP is neither liberal nor democratic, just a business. She’s a xenophobic sociopath who opposes gender equality

open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...

The Rise of Japan’s Female Trump: Why Takaichi Sanae Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Japanese Democracy Since Abe 2.0

Takaichi endorsed “Hitler’s Election Strategy” in the ‘90s, threatened TV networks as communications minister, claims foreigners abuse Nara’s deer without evidence and speaks to the Gods #InsaneSanae

open.substack.com

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Philip A. Suggars @felipeazucares.bsky.social · 4d

So something very exciting turned up in the post … an #ARC for #TheLighthouseAtTheEndOfTheWorld thanks @dancarpenter.bsky.social and everyone at @titanbooks.bsky.social

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Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social · 5d

this is bad lol takaichi is a member of the nippon kaigi, supports the revision of article 9, and much like her idol, Margaret Thatcher, has extremely regressive views of women's rights, among other things.

Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com · 5d

BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi elected first female leader of Japan’s ruling LDP
trib.al/lz8joW3

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Denise Ruttan @teawhilewriting.bsky.social · 5d

Update from war-ravaged Portland (Corvallis actually). Whenever I hear a bunch of sirens I listen to a police scanner app on my phone (former journo habit). Tonight's call with dozens of responders? A Hyundai crashed into a deer on the highway and the female driver was ok but not alert

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 5d

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is so beautifully dated, but the season one episode about Willow getting a AI boyfriend feels very relevant

Willow saying, and he’s romantic and we agree about everything

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 5d

A big thanks to Taylor Swift for dropping “Actually Romantic” directly after “Ruin the Friendship.” Haven’t gone from wrecked to cackling so fast since Lowery’s “A Ghost Story.”

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 5d

Ooooh! Ahhhh! @felipeazucares.bsky.social @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social

A copy of The Lighthouse at the End of the World by Philip A. Suggars sitting atop a tablecloth printed with classic book covers.

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Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 5d

Can't believe they thought it was even newsworthy.

Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social · 5d

Tilly Norwood is to Hollywood what swinging on the flippity flop was to Gen-X.

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Philip A. Suggars @felipeazucares.bsky.social · 5d

I bet when you first read #Dune you didn’t realise that you’d end up on the side of the #ButlerianJihad.

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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 5d

Pre-orders are now open for Memory and Magic, the debut novel of American author D. M. Beucler - stunning cover created by the amazing Tara Bush! Out Oct 7, 2025. www.lunapresspublishing.com/novels @dmbeucler.bsky.social @tarabush.bsky.social #romantasy #debut2025 #booksfromscotland #bloodmagic

Things About Writing as a Parent #10
By D. M. Beucler
Burnout as a parent who writes is so real.
Your time on is often almost the entirety of your waking hours.
A good writing community can help in the moments when things feel over your head.

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 6d

Honored to have a new Morag and Seamus story in @clarkesworldmagazine.com 's 19th anniversary issue! In which Morag grapples with loss, Casey grapples with change, and Seamus makes some new friends. clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_10_25/

The Cancer Wolves by Fiona Moore

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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