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C.H. Pearce
@chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
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It’s nearing the end of the year somehow, time for my annual blog post (this is why I can’t have a newsletter) + small awards eligibility post! Drop me a line and I’ll happily send you an e-copy! ❤️ Might have 1 more story out by the end of the year…

www.chpearce.net/post/awards-...
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Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Book mail! My 2nd cover art but 1st time getting my mitts on a hardcopy! Thank you @deadsetpress.bsky.social REBELS & RAINBOWS eds. Austin P. Sheehan & Leanbh Pearson for the commission + including my Aurealis reprint “Integrated Learning” and all the authors for your wonderful stories. 🌈🦜✨
January 6, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Happy New Year all! Wishing you a safe and happy 2026 🥳 Blogged about my writing/art 2025 (also rejigged my website, what do you think?) but TLDR it was good, thank you for your support and I am lucky to know you 🥳 🎉 🥂 ❤️ 📚 🎨

www.chpearce.net/post/awards-...

#topnine #topnine2025
December 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Put another small visitor outside but they’re stacking up 🦎 🦎 Also various photos lately 🐀 🦜 🌺 ☀️
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
👀 🍄 🎧 sounds fab, going to listen to this later!
December 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry.

Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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"I would love to see stories grounded on our world that have a subtle speculative twist."
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qglhfpy2bj5tkgpnsq6blpex" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@clgslr.bsky.social‬ #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
December 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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🎶 He knows if you are sleeping / he knows your welcome mat / he knows if you’ve been bad or good / he’s lobster-riding rat 🎶
December 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
SFWA members and general SFF community:

In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.

Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.

SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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COVER REVEAL!

2026 is getting off to a great start with issue #67 (don't tell your kids). Featuring stories from R.L. Meza, Louis Inglis Hall, Ryan Marie Ketterer, Olivia Sowers, Eugen Bacon, Ellison Hyde, Chris Kuriata, and Kaya Skovdatter.

Art by Asya Yordanova
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
👀 📚
We are thrilled to pull back the curtain on the cover of Kaaron Warren’s GOING TO SUMMERTIME. Coming October 2026.

https://smpl.is/afq
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@Kaaron Warren
December 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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I want to do more cover art in 2026, so I'm going to be insufferable about mentioning that from now on. Commissions OPEN.
December 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Some locals from the last few days 🦘 🦘 🦘 🌧️

#kangaroos #canberrawalks
December 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Be there, or be haunted by the knowledge that you missed it; hounded by the spectre of spooks unlistened.
Or, like, catch the VOD later. You do you.
December 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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It appears as though SFWA has had a very quick change of heart and is now back on the right side of this. Shouldn't have happened in the first place. New Nebula Awards eligibility rules for generated text are now:
December 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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An (almost) end of year thought --
December 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"I would love to find a super cozy and quirky mystery."
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qglhfpy2bj5tkgpnsq6blpex" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@clgslr.bsky.social‬ #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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hard same
I agree with this 👇

Any LLM use should be disqualifying. It tarnishes the awards as a whole to allow for 'some' disclosed use.
I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
December 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I'd forgotten how charming the trailer for this is. Beck! Such a great choice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBfF...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Trailer
YouTube video by Christopher Haley
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I’m always saying this (and even when I’m not, that’s a space of productive ambiguity for you to fill in with the memory of me saying this)
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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For the month of December, USA readers can pick up The Rook on their kindle for just $2.99!
December 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙

BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
We are THRILLED to announce @freyamarske.bsky.social's Bodies of Magic, a new medical dark academia featuring mages and murder coming September 16, 2026 from Tor Books!
Announcing Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske - Reactor
A dark academia fantasy arriving September 2026
reactormag.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Pre-order offer! If you pre-order our new antho, ENCOUNTERS, you'll be in with a chance of winning one of five paperback copies on release day. Either post your order confirmation or email it to encounterswithcryptids@gmail.com.

Fifteen monstrous stories. Out 02/14/26 www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4BLN1GR.
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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A reminder that my new horror collection SONGS OF SHADOW, WORDS OF WOE - featuring Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and Australasian Shadows Award-winning stories - is out and desperate for your attention now!
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM