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Anthony Cardno
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writer, proofreader, book reviewer, collector of books, movies, music, comic books, and too much other stuff. Gay. He/Him pronouns.
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Today's #NovellaNovember / #Novellavember book is Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud, the first in the Lunar Gothic Trilogy. It delivers exactly what's promised: Gothic horror on the dark side of the Moon.
Hand holding tablet on which is displayed the cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider, which features a pale woman's face over a lunar landscape above the book's title and author. Novella November logo: two capital N's above an open book, above the typed words Novella November.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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The past several days of #NovellaNovember / #Novellavember (because I've fallen behind), in several posts.
Novella November logo: two capital N's above an open book, above the words Novella November.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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I am thrilled and honored to be a part of this project. Haralambi Markov's work is transformative and powerful. This collection will blow you away.
mythicdelirium.bsky.social Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 3d
MYTHIC DELIRIUM returns w/ new books in 2026‼️

The 1st step toward that goal’s underway, w/ the forthcoming publication of Haralambi Markov’s debut collection of horror & Weird fiction THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES. (Introduction by @annvandermeer.bsky.social!)

Sale link here! bit.ly/BoneSwans10th

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MYTHIC DELIRIUM returns in 2026 At least that’s the goal! And the first phase is underway, with the forthcoming publication of Haralambi Markov’s debut collection of horror & Weird fiction, THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES. (Introduction by Ann VanderMeer!) In a celebration of Mythic Delirium-enabled debuts, we’ve made C.S.E. Cooney’s BONE SWANS—which turned 10 years old this year—Barbara Krasnoff’s THE HISTORY OF SOUL 2065, and Yukimi Ogawa’s LIKE SMOKE, LIKE LIGHT available at HUGE discounts [US Only] in e-book AND paperback editions, WITH pre-orders of LANGUAGE OF KNIVES + shipping costs included in the prices! Please check it out & spread the word—all found here: https://bit.ly/BoneSwans10th
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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MYTHIC DELIRIUM returns w/ new books in 2026‼️

The 1st step toward that goal’s underway, w/ the forthcoming publication of Haralambi Markov’s debut collection of horror & Weird fiction THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES. (Introduction by @annvandermeer.bsky.social!)

Sale link here! bit.ly/BoneSwans10th

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MYTHIC DELIRIUM returns in 2026 At least that’s the goal! And the first phase is underway, with the forthcoming publication of Haralambi Markov’s debut collection of horror & Weird fiction, THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES. (Introduction by Ann VanderMeer!) In a celebration of Mythic Delirium-enabled debuts, we’ve made C.S.E. Cooney’s BONE SWANS—which turned 10 years old this year—Barbara Krasnoff’s THE HISTORY OF SOUL 2065, and Yukimi Ogawa’s LIKE SMOKE, LIKE LIGHT available at HUGE discounts [US Only] in e-book AND paperback editions, WITH pre-orders of LANGUAGE OF KNIVES + shipping costs included in the prices! Please check it out & spread the word—all found here: https://bit.ly/BoneSwans10th
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Day 14 #NovellaNovember #Novellavember. Treble Swift and the Solar Symphony by Jim Beard. Fun space opera. In a future where the solar system is split between the SolTerran Union and the United-Outer Planets, pilot Treble Swift discovers a plot by SolTer to break the detente and attack the UOP.
Cover of Treble Swift and the Solar Symphony; various characters on a purple background Back cover of Treble Swift and the Solar Symphony, white explanatory text on purple background. Novella November logo, two interconnected N's above an open book above the words Novella November.
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Another author everyone should 100% read. Saint Death's Daughter and Saint Death's Herald are two of my all time favorite books.

#booksky 📚💙
csecooney.bsky.social C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 6d
HEY! MY FIRST TWO BOOKS ARE ON SALE!
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 6d
SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD @csecooney.bsky.social
THE IMMORTALITY THIEF @taranhunt.bsky.social
WANDERERS @chuckwendig.bsky.social
SINOPHAGIA edited by @xuetingni.bsky.social
GORSE and RAGWORT @samkhorton.bsky.social
THE NEEDFIRE @mkhardywrites.com
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November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Check out this deal! I can personally recommend the books by @csecooney.bsky.social, Taran Hunt, @premeemohamed.com, and @isabelcanas.bsky.social as excellent stories.
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 6d
Halloween may be over, but we're still feeling spooky!

So, how about a bumper website exclusive #stillspooky sale of our spookiest titles for only 0.99 each? Shop the sale: geni.us/Solarissale

Titles available vary by your country of origin. Ends on 24th November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
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HEARTBREAK INCORPORATED Alex de Campi GOTHIKANA Runyx BLESS YOUR HEART and ANOTHER FINE MESS Lindy Ryan THE HACIENDA, VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE and THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ Isabel Canas IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL and THE DEATH I GAVE HIM Em X. Liu SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD C. S. E. Cooney THE IMMORTALITY THIEF Taran Hunt WANDERERS Chuck Wendig SINOPHAGIA edited Xueting C. Ni GORSE and RAGWORT Sam K. Horton WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE Lorraine Wilson THE NEEDFORE MK Hardy RED RABBIT Alex Grecian THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Benson THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD, THE GRIEF OF STONES, THE TOMB OF DRAGONS and A THEORY OF HAUNTING Katherine Addison THE LIAR OF RED VALLEY Walter Goodwater THE VENGEANCE Emma Newman SIGN HERE Claudia Lux BENEATH THE RISING, A BROKEN DARKNESS, THE VOID ASCENDANT and THESE LIFELESS THINGS Premee Mohamed NORDIC VISION ed. by Margret THE RITUAL CRIME UNIT THE HIDDEN LEGION and THE SILENT EMPEROR by Snorri Kristjansson
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Infinite Halves" by J.L. Akagi @jlakagi.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

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November 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Belated Day 12 of #NovellaNovember / #Novellavember is Will Ludwigen's brilliant A Scout Is Brave, one of my favorite books of 2024, and my second favorite Ludwigsen book (Acres of Perhaps still edges it out.
Book cover. Title: A Scout Is Brave above a boy scout surrounded by rough weather and Lovecraftian tentacles, above the author's name. Novella November logo
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Did you like Evangelion but wish it was queerer? Then I've got a book for you!

The Cosmic Color by T.T. Madden — neon hemlock share.google/IUZZDSYL8a4Y...
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Posting again (to try to add Alt Text to the photos):

My friends at Stamza Books in Beacon NY have set up a #NovellaNovember / #Novellavember display, partially curated by me.

If you're in the Beacon area, stop in to Stanza, say hi, and tell them I sent you!
Photo of a display in Stanza Books featuring paperback and hardcover novellas by various authors, next to a sign with the Novella November logo, on a table in front of a brick wall. Photo of the official Novella November logo (the capital letters NN overlapping, above an open paperback book, above the words Novella November).
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Day 11 #NovellaNovember / #Novellavember: The Primrose Path by Bram Stoker. Posting about Stoker's birthday a few days ago reminded me that I've fallen off of one of my ongoing reading projects, which is to own and read everything Stoker wrote. So I brought this novella on this week's business trip.
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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My friends at Stanza Books in Beacon NY have set up a #NovellaNovember / #Novellavember display, partially curated by me.

If you're in the Beacon area, stop in to Stanza, say hi, and tell them I sent you!
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Starstruck, by Aimee Ogden | Psychopomp
a radish, a fox, and a boulder walk into the world... check out the cover for Aimee's amazing novella STARSTRUCK, and preorder your copy today.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Convincing you to read my novella (STARSTRUCK) by sharing the first page - share yours if you want!
Prish had always been the kind of radish who knew what she was about. Maybe that was why she hadn't noticed sooner that Alsing had grown pensive and quiet in the evenings, that she took longer than usual washing up the dinner dishes or with the mending. Prish had never minded long silences; a thoughtful pause could cultivate all manner of interesting things. Plants like herself tended to have more patience than animals. Their lives-before, rooted to the ground and always waiting for a glimpse of sun, required such a temperament. So, out in the sprawling gardens behind their cabin, with the friendly pat of rhubarb leaves on her shoulders and the idle conversation of bumblebees in her ears, it was too easy to miss the things that didn't get said, the hopes that got silently dashed, the neighborly visits that slowly dried up.
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Convincing you to read my novella (AUDITION FOR THE FOX) by sharing the first page - share yours if you want!
Audition for the fox, part one: girl out of time, an hour ago, Nesi had crept through the red and gold trees that were the woods of the world. And so forth!
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY

to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL

No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!

download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤

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No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Day 10 of #NovellaNovember / #Novellavember. Don't Sleep With the Dead is a sequel to @nghivowriting 's The Chosen and the Beautiful, which was a fantasy retelling of the Great Gatsby. Don't Sleep With the Dead takes place years after the novel's ending, showing us what became of Nick Carraway.
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Day 9 (belatedly) of #NovellaNovember / #novellavember looks at "Roadside Assistance" by @jeffreyricker.bsky.social from the anthology Three Left Turns To Nowhere. This is a shared world anthology of three novellas that all take place in the same remote Canadian town.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Missed yesterday's #NovellaNovember / #Novellavember post due to a long travel day (part of which was a long hangout with friends, so not all bad). Will probably do two posts tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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One of my favorite series. Jim's Sgt. Janus books (occult detective) are Also really excellent.
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Day 8 of #NovellaNovember was a re-listen of @nathanburgoine.bsky.social 's In Memoriam, read by @jwden.bsky.social.

This will not be the last 'Nathan Burgoine novella I talk about this month. He's another of my "auto-buy" authors and very much the reason I read romance now.
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Happy Birthday, Bram Stoker!

I only have a fan fiction tribute short story to celebrate the occasion. I wrote this five years ago for #WorldDraculaDay, and sure, that falls on May 26th, I hope nobody will mind too much. :D

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November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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In this newsletter, I talk about other things about the INCREDIBLE Kickstarter for @siennatristen.bsky.social 's Orchestrated Audiobook for HERETIC'S GUIDE TO HOMECOMING.

To the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...

This is where I gush about it: XD (scroll down) buttondown.com/ClaudieArsen...
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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We've done it!! The Trans People Take the World bundle crossed $2000! Everyone has really shown up for this. 🌈📚

I have BAKER THIEF in this, and it stands alongside some truly great works. Go check it out!

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32 book covers, all stories with trans main characters, by trans authors. Centre Text: Trans People Take on the World The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM