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Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social · 8h

Very pleased to announce a return to the world of Gaunt, Bone, and Shadowdrop, in a stand-alone story in the next @bcsmagazine.bsky.social .

Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 15h

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by @librariangoblin.bsky.social and Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social and cover art by @brucedraws.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #443

Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward nd cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 5h

BCS #443 ebook out early today @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social and @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #443

Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward nd cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23h

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

screenshot of a notice that says "You are good to go! You have all 4131 of the expected 3669 blobs. You're done!!"

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C.D. Brown/Dirty Magick Magazine @cdbrown.bsky.social · 14h

Patreon Users: Buy the special Halloween issue of Dirty Magick Magazine now! Better yet, subscribe for great monthly fantasy/urban fantasy stories! #indiepublishing #fantasy #urbanfantasy

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Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 14 | Collection from Dirty Magick Magazine | 6 posts

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 14h

New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...

On Spec Magazine #133 VOL 35 No 3

Volume 35 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine. This issue features short stories by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm ("The Bag of Holding"), Gillian Secord ("the love song of house and lake"), John Park ("When the S...

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 14h

Today's theme is the title song from Primus's 1999 album ANTIPOP (far ahead of its time as usual), only with the letters "p-o-p" replaced with the the letters "p-r-i-m-e" for no particular reason. Then replace "drop" with "die" to make the rhyme work (sort of), and you got yourself an earworm

Cover art from Primus's ANTIPOP but with POP replaced with PRIME in a bad photoshop job

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 15h

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 14h

What sets us apart from Audible? Let us count the ways:

📚 Every purchase supports your indie bookshop
💗 Employee-owned, Certified B Corp, & Social Purpose Corporation
📖 DRM-free (you own your audiobooks)
🤖 Bookseller driven, not algo driven (& our customer support team = real people, not robots)

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 15h

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by @librariangoblin.bsky.social and Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social and cover art by @brucedraws.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #443

Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward nd cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 1d

#Booksky If you’d like to avoid the Behemoth on Prime Day or other occasions, you can also find our great queer books on our webstore (including Kindle format, as well as @draft2digital.bsky.social, Bookshopdotorg, Kobo, iTunes, @weightlessbooks.bsky.social and beyond! queenofswordspress.com

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1d

YAY!!!!

BTW, if you're going to buy the ebook, buy it from Weightless, and not the evil place. Trust me. The pixels just taste better

Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Today from @underlandpress.bsky.social, new horror from @pauljessup.com! CANCER EATS THE HEART: weightlessbooks.com/cancer-eats-...

Cancer Eats the Heart

Welcome to Dark Rivers, a rustic northern town forgotten by most and beloved by few. At its heart is Cannibal House, a crumbling Victorian mansion lorded over by Old Wick, a mysterious wanderer whose ...

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Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm absolutely thrilled that @apexmag.bsky.social Issue 151 is out - containing my drabble 'Don't Hide From the Mirror', the first piece I've published with Apex!

🏳️‍⚧️ trans euphoria
🩸body horror
✒️only 100 words!

Check out the full issue now!

Apex Magazine Issue 151

EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner"Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson "We Used ...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Live in BCS #442: "Pools of Light at the Center of the World" @willmcmahon36.bsky.social "...and the singing of the insects reminded him of another villain in the story of his exile, which was the lute player, from whose clicking mandibles had come..." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/pool...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Pools of Light at the Center of the World by Will McMahon

...and he now wandered alone through the green and bright land of his desire, its air thick with the heady buzz of life, of unseen life, and he paused again and crouched, the joints of his body creaki...

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Libreture - your ebook & comic cloud library @libreture.com · 1d

The Books Are For Everyone reading list from @haymarketbooks.org includes ten books that reflect the spectrum of urgent writing often targeted for censorship by prisons across the country.

Click on individual titles to buy the discounted DRM-free ebooks. 💜

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List

Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Today from @underlandpress.bsky.social, new horror from @pauljessup.com! CANCER EATS THE HEART: weightlessbooks.com/cancer-eats-...

Cancer Eats the Heart

Welcome to Dark Rivers, a rustic northern town forgotten by most and beloved by few. At its heart is Cannibal House, a crumbling Victorian mansion lorded over by Old Wick, a mysterious wanderer whose ...

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

Buy the book you can actually OWN from @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

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120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era

by Nick Mamatas (Author), Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Author), Paul Tremblay (Author), & 7 more Format: Kindle Edition See all formats and editions After midnight is as dark as it gets... Whether thanks to ...

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! No word yet, but it's probably business days so we still have 2 days to wait. Also, if they freeze our funds, we will not be utterly up a creek, thanks to the foresight of one @gavingrant.bsky.social who put a bunch of $ in a rainy day CD years ago. It will, however, be a HEADACHE

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 1d

New issue of @apexmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/apex-magazin...

Cover art for Apex Magazine #151, featuring a woman made of roots nad vines rising out of a tree stump

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Day 4 of waiting to find out if we get to keep selling anarchist, erotic, and trans lit or if a certain corporation is going to freeze our assets, whee

Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Heeeey it's Q3 2025, and we were about to send a bunch of much deserved money to our hundreds of indie publishers, but PayPal has seen fit to limit our account for arbitrary reasons! Ain't corporate-captured late capitalism grand

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dan tachon @dantachon.bsky.social · 5d

“a colder war” is anthologized in NEW CTHULHU: THE RECENT WEIRD, edited by paula guran, which has a bunch of
great lovecraftian stories. (available as a DRM-free e-book from @weightlessbooks.bsky.social!)

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 5d

"The first time I stole someone’s memory, it tasted like burnt coffee and vintage whiskey." ☕🥃

now that's the way to start our Fantasy Friday!!

read on:

The Memory Breach by @wunderkind100.bsky.social

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The Memory Breach - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

The first time I stole someone's memory, it tasted like burnt coffee and vintage whiskey. I didn't mean to do it—I was just trying to help Mrs. Henderson find her keys.

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Heeeey it's Q3 2025, and we were about to send a bunch of much deserved money to our hundreds of indie publishers, but PayPal has seen fit to limit our account for arbitrary reasons! Ain't corporate-captured late capitalism grand

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 7d

October issue of The Dark is here! weightlessbooks.com/the-dark-iss...

Cover for The Dark #125, featuring jack o lanterns and a bride silouhetted against a huge full moon with zombies approaching

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 7d

Welcome to October, or Mis Hydref as we say in Wales. It is a time to connect to the supernatural, and our Kickstarter campign will be doing just that: www.kickstarter.com/...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 7d

Our 19th anniversary issue of Clarkesworld features original fiction by Isabel J. Kim, Fiona Moore, H.H. Pak, Greg Egan, Liu Maijia, Carrie Vaughn, and Phoebe Barton.

Online now at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229

Subscriptions available at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.

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