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C.M. Flowers
@cmflowers.bsky.social
Writer • Aspiring SFF/Horror Author • Yapping about politics, books, and my dog, Jester.
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From Tracy K. Smith's book, Wade in the Water.

Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social

#poem #books #writing
April 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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AN ARCANE INHERITANCE, my Adult dark academia fantasy debut, comes out exactly 9 months from today!

It's out for blurbs and so far I'm relieved by how people are reacting 💜 Don't forget to preorder so my publisher knows you're excited!

bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...
April 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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It’s #sapphicSaturday again, more 18th Century lesbians who are just gals being pals.
April 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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SINNERS is an extraordinary fantastic lens through which to process (African-) American history.

Aside from RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, also check out this extraordinary novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America."

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The Devil in America - Reactor
Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them across centuries, out of slavery, and finally to the idyllic peace of the town of Rosetree. The shatteri...
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April 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Supporters will gather at the US Supreme Court on April 22 to rally on behalf of authors whose books form the core of Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case brought by a group of Maryland parents against the Board of Education for the Montgomery County school district. pen.org/authors-spea...
Authors Speak Up About Their Books Being Misrepresented in a Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court - PEN America
“They’re books about happiness and joy and sharing that happiness and joy with other people. They’re not preaching or coercing in any way.”
pen.org
April 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Authors, any time you've deluded yourself into thinking there's a metric you can hit where you'll be happy and feel sufficient, just remember you can literally be one of the most well-paid and widely read of all time and still desperately crave validation and attn enough to become human garbage.
April 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Tried to get my dog to take a cute picture with me. This was the only usable one I got. 😂
March 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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It’s very interesting watching people try to explain how bad it is for the Chinese government to have your information without referencing other places that have your information and the bad things those places are doing without being stopped or even gently chided.
January 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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It has a cover! THE BEWITCHING is out July 15, 2025. Three women, three time periods, and a lot of witchcraft.
Pre-order now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760756...
December 5, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚
November 29, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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Good news for the CEO of UnitedHealthcare: there are no concerns about preexisting conditions in hell
December 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery is officially here!!

Order from @uncpress.bsky.social to receive 30 percent off! uncpress.org/book/9781469...
November 26, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2024 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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So you know how you loved This Is How You Lose The Time War?*

@amalelmohtar.com has a gorgeous-sounding new book out in the spring, & you can pre-order signed copies now.

Ethereal and lyrical and full of heart, a family living on the edge of Faerie & two sisters with entwined fates.
1/2

#Booksky
November 25, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation.

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...
Light in Gaza
Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Is a poem still a poem when you read it out loud?

So a book is still a book, then, when you read it aloud?

#Audiobooks and physical/e-books all tell the same stories, in the same way, with the same pacing and structure, with the same themes. It’s all still reading. #booksky
November 25, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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If you really want to encounter a lot of views different from your own, go read some books. You don’t need right wing assholes screaming at you on social media for that. This can just be a place where you chill.
November 24, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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ICYMI, my attempt at writing a Ghibli-esque story for adults (of all ages) in prose and set in my hometown Calcutta, a mythic realist tale about an extended family who may be extradimensional refugees. British Fantasy and Subjective Chaos Kind of Award winner, Locus Award nominee.
Out now: THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, my uncategorisable novella out about Ru, a 'boy from nowhere' growing up in 90s/00s Calcutta, facing the impossibility that his family may be migrants from another reality, & Alice, a neighbour from Chinatown who is pulled close to their secrets. Links below:
November 19, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I editorialized a little - not my four most recent reads but some of my most recent faves. #booksky
November 24, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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THIS COVER. Out Aug 19,2025!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737414...
November 23, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Liberals who hate leftists more than fascists and leftists who hate liberals more than fascists are both stupid and reactionary
November 23, 2024 at 2:18 AM