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Trey Weller

@treyweller.bsky.social

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He/him. Author of Rapscallion. I should probably be writing a book about now… https://treyweller.com/ For way too much info on what I've been reading for the past decade or so, there's always https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/54311497.Trey_Weller

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · Aug 29

So I usually use Bluesky to talk about what I’m reading, but I write too, so let’s talk about it! #Booksky #author #indie

Rapscallion is my debut novel, a swashbuckling heist fantasy with a diverse cast, exciting action, a sprinkle of romance, and found family in a setting reminiscent of Germany 1/

Cover of Rapscallion by Trey Weller, depicting a sketch of a red-haired thief on a wanted poster that’s splattered with droplets of blood and nailed to a wooden surface

Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 22h

Petition to call this site Boosky for the remainder of October

Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 22h

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 8: If you want your eldritch horror blended with action-packed epic fantasy, @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social’s Kagen the Damned trilogy is for you! It starts off at a run and never lets up, effortlessly balancing dread and fun while allowing characters room to grow.

Cover for Kagen the Damned by Jonathan Maberry, depicting a bloody dagger surrounded by a ring of roses (not pictured: Lovecraftian monstrosities)

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Blucifer @realblucifer.bsky.social · 1d

ok i’ll admit it: yes, i was the reason your flight was delayed yesterday

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 1d

Dickens was serialized, which meant his installments had to be roughly the same length. It’s why a lot of his stories are of a similar size (David Copperfield, Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend, etc.). Luckily for us, he used that space for memorable characters.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 1d

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 7: Spread Me by @sarahgailey.bsky.social is a quick read that’s sure to… rouse your interest. Desert-set body horror reminiscent of a movie I won’t dare to name, but with touches all its own, in more senses of the word than one. This book gets inside you— recommended.

Cover of Spread Me by Sarah Gailey, depicting a bio-dome with dark tentacle-like growths stretching out beneath it, against an orange backdrop

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 2d

Actual footage of the designers behind this checkbox

a person is writing on a piece of paper that says " do n't believe his li "

Alt: a person is writing on a piece of paper that says " do n't believe his lies” (it’s from Memento)

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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International Talk Like Jar Jar Binks Day @talklikejarjarday.com · 2d

Jar Jar Binks Quote of the Day: "What? Mesa no have a booma!" - Jar Jar Binks, The Phantom Menace #jarjarbinks #jarjar

Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 2d

They’re also choosing to invade American cities. Maybe that should be a point of focus now?

Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 2d

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 6: Reading An Evil Premise by T. Marie Vandelly feels like going insane (complimentary). It draws you in with a simple hook and holds your head underwater until you drown in the increasing surreality of the story. Impossible to describe, impossible to look away.

Cover of An Evil Premise by T. Marie Vandelly, depicting a pencil that’s been snapped in two, the jagged ends bloody.

Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 3d

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 5: Bloom by @delilahsdawson.bsky.social is a beguiling little book, one part cottagecore Pinterest board and one part sapphic horror. It draws you in, pulling you deeper and deeper before reaching a killer punchline. Dawson’s horror novellas are always winners.

Cover for Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson, depicting a partially flayed woman surrounded by flowers

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 4d

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 4: Come Knocking, @mikebockoven.bsky.social’s companion piece to FantasticLand, is a thrilling, unputdownable study of the intersection between paranoia, online radicalization, trauma, and live theater. Nobody does this sort of thing quite as well as Bockoven.

Cover of Come Knocking by Mike Bockoven, depicting a spectral mask against a black backdrop

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 5d

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 3: My Ex, the Antichrist by Craig DiLouie is not just the best title of the year, it’s also a hell of a ride. Impeccable late 90s pop-punk vibes, told in a true crime interview style, with an eye for those little details that make horror images sing. Great stuff!

Cover of My Ex, the Antichrist by Craig DiLouie. The text is in red against the backdrop of a vinyl record, except for the first T in “Antichrist,” which is replaced by a white cross that casts a red shadow. The red shadow of the cross itself makes a cross with a speaker cord. Tagline: Love can be hell.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is:

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...

Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag

To begin, for those of you who do not follow such things with intense interest, a little context about the “AI” company Anthropic being sued for stealing authors’ works and reachi…

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 6d

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 2: Full Throttle by @joe-hill.bsky.social is a story collection without a single bad entry. My favorite is “Late Returns,” about a bookmobile that takes the title literally, but he also plays with form in other stories to great results. Genre-blending to great results.

Cover for Full Throttle by Joe Hill, depicting a big rig truck made up of swirling images: a faun, tentacles, a playing card, some dice, a handgun, and a bottle of Jack Daniels, to name some.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 7d

Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 7d

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 1: What Stalks the Deep is @tkingfisher.com’s third Sworn Soldier novella, a series that perfectly blends horror, sci-fi, and humor. These are all great reads, and this time was no exception. If you aren’t reading Kingfisher, start now! 2/2

Cover for What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher, depicting a strange fusion of bones, sticks, a mammalian snout, and viscera against a white backdrop (it makes sense in context)

Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 7d

To celebrate October, every day I’ll be recommending something to #Booksky that will send those good good tingles down your spine. With that in mind… 1/2

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 7d

This duology is fantastic! Definitely start with the first one, but you’ll enjoy the second too.

Stephen Aryan @stephenaryan.bsky.social · 7d

For the entire month of October, The Warrior is on sale. My shortest pitch is The Wizard of Oz in the Upside Down. Four very different people go on a quest to a dark world that has been tainted.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 11d

Kern needs to stay on his weird oversized novelty marketing bus.

Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 13d

I’m excited to introduce ICONOCLAST, Book 2 of Rapscallion! Join my crew of lovable (mostly queer) thieves as they attempt to pull a job on a man who claims to be a demigod! Gambling, swordfights, romance, disguises, and all manner of swashes buckled!

Releases 10/21, on sale SOON! #Booksky #author

Cover of Iconoclast by Trey Weller (me), depicting a young smiling man in a puffy Renaissance era shirt on a wanted poster that’s weighted down onto a white marble table by stacks of black poker chips

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 14d

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang is one of my favorite reads of the year. Smart, with an academic/paradoxical approach to magic, a clever visualization of the underworld, and believable trainwrecks of characters. Plus I love any book that ends on a meta joke about Dante. Affecting and engaging. #Booksky

Cover of Katabasis by R. F. Kuang, depicting a pair of students running up the stairs of a library with papers flying through the air… only the stairs are Penrose steps, meaning there is no beginning or end.

Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 15d

Incredibly frustrating the ways so many of our institutions have bent the knee to this administration, even when they know how dire the consequences will be.

Also, as someone with autistic family, this framing of autism disgusts me to my core.

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 15d

Let's go over all the ways in which this is bad journalism. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Trump’s Tylenol diatribe was rooted in frustration

The president wants to solve the autism problem even if it means pregnant women don’t treat their pain and delay their kids’ vaccinations.

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 15d

#rapture

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