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Tim Chawaga

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Spec fic writer and lobbyist for Utz Party Mix. Stories in Interzone and Escape Pod, Clarion West '19, rep: Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky, He/him 🇺🇦🇦🇷 SALVAGIA forthcoming from Diversion Books Aug 12! https://linktr.ee/timchawaga

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Tim Chawaga @timchawaga.bsky.social · Dec 18

My first bluesky post is a cover reveal!

Just look at it! It's everything I hoped for and more! I am so grateful and excited.

Can any book live up to such a cover? Only one way to find out! Pre-order SALVAGIA now!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Salvag...

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions.

My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

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Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · 7d

Not much cooler than a former student’s new book in the campus mailbox. Thanks, @kristinaten.bsky.social

Kristina Ten’s Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine collection, hot off the press

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 12d

Had more fun doing this interview with @momoshaty.bsky.social for @nighttidemag.bsky.social than I think you’re allowed to have doing interviews?? Talked genre hopscotch, long Seoul walks, and not reading the reviews.

Pictured with last night’s neon dark magic portal…

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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 16d

What are people saying about my eco-horror short story collection, Haunted Ecologies???

“Soggy” - Becky
“Prophetic” - Ai
“Weird” - Dave
“Great” - Regan
“Weird” - Yvonne
“Weeds” - Raymonde
“Thorny” - Hillary
“Fun” - Matthew
“Book” - Kelsey

A photo of haunted ecologies on top of other books

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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 15d

Hey friends!

Next months newsletter is right around the corner. Have you signed up yet?

This one will contain:

@kristinaten.bsky.social’s top 5 short story recs.

My thoughts on assembling a collection.

A sneak peek at The Withering, Verdant End and much more.

coreys-stories.beehiiv.com

Corey's Stories

A newsletter for people who love Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Weird / Between Genre / STRANGE short stories and people who are interested in my short stories/novels.

coreys-stories.beehiiv.com

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 17d

So many bunnies in the dark, creepy, and uncanny! 🥀🐇🖤 I’m thinking Bunnicula, Donnie Darko, Monty Python, Lynch’s Rabbits, Peele’s Us, that scene in Fatal Attraction, and these book covers here…

Scissor-like ears, unblinking eyes. Killer instincts from the bottom of the food chain.

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 22d

The bad news: Legacy media outlets in America are bowing to fascism. The good news: You have another reason to break free of the remakes, reboots and nostalgia porn they sell you. Support indie creators.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 22d

Wrote a photo essay for @puncturedlines.bsky.social about nostalgia, Soviet-era children’s books, speculative fiction, and a recent trip to the country of Georgia. Come for the picture of baby-me talking into a mall phone. Stay for Svetlana Boym 💗

➡️ puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 23d

On the current political era of fear and anxiety.

Donald Trump and his fascist administration want us to be afraid because it helps them advance their agenda. The Progressive media ecosystem wants us to be afraid of what the fascists are going to do because it helps their bottom line. And I've about had it with fear. I fully expect Trump and his MAGA thugs to make life harder for many of us--and probably through violent, illegal means--but I refuse to be afraid. I refuse to feel alarm at the day's latest headlines minute by minute. These vile fanatics have threatened my livelihood (successfully) and safety for years now and I've gone through the stages of grief about what our country has become. I've come to accept that they are as bad as they seem and that most people are going to keep their heads down and go along with it. No new low shocks me in the least. Instead, each feels like an inevitability finally come to fruition. A lot of you are coming around to the truth about them at last and you are scared. If this is you, welcome to the party. I mean that sincerely. We're going to need each other. I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing and saying what I've been saying since 2016: Do not give them a single inch uncontested. Mock them. Ridicule them. Push back at the ballot box. Live your life.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 27d

"It is limiting, to be from somewhere small—you feel it even when you like it."

New gorgeous, rhythmic, perfectly bite-size work from @filiphdz.bsky.social: "The Place I Came To" in @lightspeedmagazine.com.

The Place I Came To - Lightspeed Magazine

The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringe...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 28d

opinions on social media sites:

bsky: mostly benign and non fashy, a little boring sometimes but generally good posts, i mostly use it to talk to ppl / keep up with writing news / journalism / shitpost which colors my opinion

twitter: Its Fascism, Baby! also tech/ai hype and random fandom—

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 29d

Virtual reading one week from today! Me and @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social. It's free, and you don’t have to change out of your house slippers or brush your hair or anything. That’s 10pm for us East Coasters. See ya there!

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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 29d

Come hang out this Saturday at the Spooktastic Bookfair!

I’ll be selling and signing copies of Haunted Ecologies and Living in Cemeteries!!! And I’ll be moderating a panel on social media for readers and writers :)

It’s going to be a lot of fun! Start the spooky season off right with this one :)

A flyer for spooktastic bookfair with ghosts and skeletons on it

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Fonda Lee @fondalee.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy rebirth day to the trilogy of my heart. 😍 I stopped into @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social to sign stacks of the new paperbacks of the Green Bone Saga today. If you move fast, can still order signed copies online or if you’re local to the Boston area, stop in to the store.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · Sep 9

It’s my birthday! Everyone who preorders Tell Me Yours from Stillhouse Press today (9/9 till 11:59pm ET) will get a signed—and, if you want, respectfully doodled in—copy! And one lucky duck will also snag this sexy, sparkly “cool S” pin. iykyk!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · Sep 7

One month till TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE! Got your copy yet?

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · Sep 5

The Fantastic Fiction at KGB series has raised $7K, enough for two years. THANK YOU TO ALL DONORS! We'd like to raise another $7K, for a total of four years. Can you reshare to make that happen? Details here: @datlow.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/fantastic-...

Donate to Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar, organized by Matthew Kressel

Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly speculative-fiction reading seri… Matthew Kressel needs your support for Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar

www.gofundme.com

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · Sep 1

We get cred for Dan!

And Ben!!

And Suzanne!!!

on the Hugo adjacent list.

If there’s ever a series where Peter Grant and Fergus Ferguson and Eli Brody team up…

Until then you have the Stormlight Archive, Rivers of London, Finder Chronicles and Galactic Cold War to enjoy.

Great series all

Dan Moren @dmoren.com · Sep 1

Hey, the Galactic Cold War got 15 votes for the Best Series Hugo, which I guess makes it Hugo Nominated Adjacent? Can we put that on the cover?

Table of nominations for the Best Series Hugo. The Galactic Cold War series is second to last with 15 votes.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · Aug 26

🤔 I’ve got an idea for a book that might be bad but might also be good. No, it’s not one of the three projects I’m supposed to be working on :3

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · Aug 23

new newsletter up—this one covers book preorder stuff and my worldcon postmortem :3

ijknewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/iz-a-newsl...

Iz a Newsletter #6

Book preorder announcement (wow!!! yay!!!) and worldcon postmortem

ijknewsletter.beehiiv.com

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · Aug 11

In the latest episode of the #FictionScience podcast, Tim Chawaga talks about parallels between the plot of his first novel, "Salvagia," and the real-world thrills and chills that are likely to sweep over America's coastal areas due to future sea level rise. cosmiclog.com/2025/08/11/c... #Worldcon

Climate-fiction thriller explores Florida’s flooded future

How will technology — and society — adapt to the dramatic effects that climate change is expected to bring? Will necessity become the mother of invention in a world of rising seas? Will it be busin…

cosmiclog.com

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Meghan Leigh Paulk @paulkwrites.bsky.social · Aug 13

I love this piece! And now I want to read SALVAGIA and re-read all the Travis McGee books...

CrimeReads @crimereads.bsky.social · Aug 13

Tim Chawaga imagines cross-literary bonds in work by Carl Hiaasen, Walter Mosley, and more! crimereads.com/salvage-buds...

Salvage Buds: Four Sci-Fi and Mystery Sleuths Who Would Get Along With Travis McGee

My sci-fi mystery, Salvagia, is set along the future flooded Florida coast. Protagonist Triss Mackey dives for artifacts of the past known as “salvagia” in the shallow water now known a…

crimereads.com

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Tim Chawaga @timchawaga.bsky.social · Aug 22

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jun 27

I was traveling much of June, and as a result we have an extra-large collection of new books and ARCs to consider here at the end of the month. What in this double stack of reading goodness would you like to take on in this final weekend of the first half of the year?

Zoetrope Bizarre, Caitlin R. Kiernan;
Wearing the Lion, John Wiswell;
The Dragon Next Door, Vanessa Ricci-Thode;
The Changeling Queen, Kimberly Bea;
Bright Dead Star, Caitlin R. Kiernan;
On Beyond Bonkers, Robert St John;
King Sorrow, Joe Hill;
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, VE Schwab;
Salvagia, Tim Chawaga;
The Immeasurable Heaven, Caspar Geon;
The Shattered King, Charlie N. Holmberg;
My Jedi Memoir, James Kahn;
Shifter and Shadow, Sharon Shinn;
That Very Witch, Payton McCarty-Simas;
A Rebel's History of Mars, Nadia Afifi;
A Sword of Gold and Ruin, Anna Smith Spark;
An Echo of Children, Ramset Campbell;
Letters From an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss;
Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, Renan Bernardo;
One Last Game, T.A. Chan;
The Truth of Carcosa, Jacob Rollinson

Tim Chawaga @timchawaga.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you for coming!

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · Aug 21

The JABberwocky team had a wonderful time celebrating @timchawaga.bsky.social's debut, SALVAGIA, at WORD Bookstore last night! Congratulations to Tim on a lively event, and shoutout to @victormanibo.com for being a great moderator ✨

awfulagent.com/ebooks/salva...

Extremely cool JAB clients Tim Chawaga (left) and Victor Manibo (right) sitting on the stage at WORD Bookstore and smiling for the camera. A copy of SALVAGIA by Tim Chawaga is displayed between them, and a lighted sign of the bookstore's name, WORD, hangs on the wall behind them.

Extremely cool JAB clients Tim Chawaga (left) and Victor Manibo (right) sitting on the stage at WORD Bookstore and speaking into microphones. A copy of SALVAGIA by Tim Chawaga is displayed between them, and a lighted sign of the bookstore's name, WORD, hangs on the wall behind them.

Extremely cool JAB client Tim Chawaga sitting on the stage at WORD Bookstore and reading from his debut novel, SALVAGIA. A lighted sign of the bookstore's name, WORD, hangs on the wall behind them.

Extremely cool JAB agent James Farner (left), and JAB clients Tim Chawaga (center) and Victor Manibo (right) posing in front of the stage at WORD Bookstore. Tim is holding a copy of his debut SALVAGIA by Tim Chawaga, and a lighted sign of the bookstore's name, WORD, hangs on the wall behind them.

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