Gianaclis Caldwell
@gianaclis.bsky.social
Indie upmarket speculative. Trad nonfiction 📚 Pacific Northwest on Takelma land🌲 🏳️🌈 she/xe💜Newsletter https://linktr.ee/gianaclis
If you're in Eugene Oregon area this coming weekend, check out this new event, I know it has at least one terrific author! #writingcommunnity #bookfairs #eugeneor
This Sunday, come to Eugene, Oregon, for the Lane Literary Guild's first annual book fair. I have story collections to sell! Ask for the BlueSky discount and make the secret sign! ;-)
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you're in Eugene Oregon area this coming weekend, check out this new event, I know it has at least one terrific author! #writingcommunnity #bookfairs #eugeneor
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“Walking into one of these bookstores became an experience rather than a shopping trip”
Specialty Bookstores are the Future of Publishing
Get Bigger by Going Smaller
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November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Walking into one of these bookstores became an experience rather than a shopping trip”
GDT and other classic horror writers do this: The thing that looks like the monster is never the real monster. I love that approach!
I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
GDT and other classic horror writers do this: The thing that looks like the monster is never the real monster. I love that approach!
This book is one of my faves!
Hey L.A. people! This Monday I'll be talking about When We Were Real, my book about living in a sim, with Dr. Jocelyn Holland. Stop by if you're wondering how we can escape
Writers in Residence Program
When We Were Real
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November 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This book is one of my faves!
First experiment with sprayed edges. Got some cheap paperbacks at Friends of the Library. Was super easy and fast. Today I'll try it on my novel! #indieauthor #writingcommunity #sprayededges #bookart
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
First experiment with sprayed edges. Got some cheap paperbacks at Friends of the Library. Was super easy and fast. Today I'll try it on my novel! #indieauthor #writingcommunity #sprayededges #bookart
Let's hear it for the librarians!
"The librarian is a seeker and keeper of truth, and that makes her a dangerous figure in the eyes of those who fear the fullest, most comprehensive, and most uncomfortable truths emerging."
In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…
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November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Let's hear it for the librarians!
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5:30 am. Dark. Me walking the dogs. saw these two campers in the gloom. Guess they overstayed their welcome. Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
5:30 am. Dark. Me walking the dogs. saw these two campers in the gloom. Guess they overstayed their welcome. Happy Halloween!
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October 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Looking forward to getting my hands on this book! #Readingcommunity
Cover reveal. The author and an ARC of his beautiful new book, “The Divide,” from Cornerstone Press, release date of February, 2026. I’m so pleased with the folks at this press!
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Looking forward to getting my hands on this book! #Readingcommunity
So nice to see my book hanging out with a dear friend in the local bookstore! If you love goats in history check out Tami Parr's awesome new book Goats in America. @pdxia.bsky.social #goats #writingcommunity #bookstorebuddies
October 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
So nice to see my book hanging out with a dear friend in the local bookstore! If you love goats in history check out Tami Parr's awesome new book Goats in America. @pdxia.bsky.social #goats #writingcommunity #bookstorebuddies
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Meet these great indie authors who also write and read the genre at the Speculative Fiction Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #speculativefiction #writingcommunity #authorsky go.bsky.app/RSAwztf
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October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Meet these great indie authors who also write and read the genre at the Speculative Fiction Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #speculativefiction #writingcommunity #authorsky go.bsky.app/RSAwztf
Last day of the 99 cent sale on my alt history audiobook set in a North America where the West was never won. Recognizing national asexual week with a book with an ACE main character. #althistory #ace #dystopia #utopia #readingcommunity #indieauthor
The Binding
What if the American West was never colonized? In this “fast-paced, tense” 2025 release that’s “reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s classic The Handmaid’s Tale” (Kirkus Reviews), the Appalachian Mountain...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Last day of the 99 cent sale on my alt history audiobook set in a North America where the West was never won. Recognizing national asexual week with a book with an ACE main character. #althistory #ace #dystopia #utopia #readingcommunity #indieauthor
I recommend this one!
Good morning, friends!
Look, a giveaway!
Between now & Halloweeeeeeeeeeen (which is coming up way too soon, gosh I don't want October to end) you can enter for a chance to win a paperback ARC of my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS!
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Look, a giveaway!
Between now & Halloweeeeeeeeeeen (which is coming up way too soon, gosh I don't want October to end) you can enter for a chance to win a paperback ARC of my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS!
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I recommend this one!
I'm celebrating all week by digging into my cozy horror manuscript just back from my outstanding dev editor. How 'bout you? #writingcommunity #whywrite
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I'm celebrating all week by digging into my cozy horror manuscript just back from my outstanding dev editor. How 'bout you? #writingcommunity #whywrite
There's nothing like having other writers supporting you. Hanging out last Saturday at the local Willamette Writers meeting with dear author friends Libby Gill and Jen Sherman Roberts. @jshermanroberts.bsky.social #writingcommunity
October 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
There's nothing like having other writers supporting you. Hanging out last Saturday at the local Willamette Writers meeting with dear author friends Libby Gill and Jen Sherman Roberts. @jshermanroberts.bsky.social #writingcommunity
Oregon, Washington writer friends, a great opportunity! I'd go if I was closer. #willamettewtiters #writingcommunity
PORTLAND! I'll be doing a reading and signing next Wednesday with my buddy Rafael Frumkin at White Oaks Books in Vancouver!!! Please tell all your friends!
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Oregon, Washington writer friends, a great opportunity! I'd go if I was closer. #willamettewtiters #writingcommunity
How often should we authors update our headshots? I really want to know. #writingcommunity #writinglife #authors
October 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
How often should we authors update our headshots? I really want to know. #writingcommunity #writinglife #authors
Just trying to imagine the epic battle between @danchaon.bsky.social and spell check. Really digging the creativity and voice in #oneofus
October 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Just trying to imagine the epic battle between @danchaon.bsky.social and spell check. Really digging the creativity and voice in #oneofus
Excited to be volunteering with @swsworlds.bsky.social in the author engagement committee! If you haven't partaken in the awesome free readings they do, give it a try! strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com
Strong Women-Strange Worlds
Our mission is to elevate the voices of women and other underrepresented gender identity authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror; to highlight stories featuring strong female and non-binary...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Excited to be volunteering with @swsworlds.bsky.social in the author engagement committee! If you haven't partaken in the awesome free readings they do, give it a try! strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com
Ennie meenie miney mo, with which book should I go?
First, I mean. I'm freaking reading them both! @danchaon.bsky.social #buffalohunter #oneofus #creepyreads #readingcommunity
First, I mean. I'm freaking reading them both! @danchaon.bsky.social #buffalohunter #oneofus #creepyreads #readingcommunity
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Ennie meenie miney mo, with which book should I go?
First, I mean. I'm freaking reading them both! @danchaon.bsky.social #buffalohunter #oneofus #creepyreads #readingcommunity
First, I mean. I'm freaking reading them both! @danchaon.bsky.social #buffalohunter #oneofus #creepyreads #readingcommunity
Little time out at a tap House for Vern's 63rd birthday. Got to love Ashland Oregon, while we sipped our beer we watched aerial artists practicing in Lithia park . #ashlandor #oregon Skout Taphouse
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Little time out at a tap House for Vern's 63rd birthday. Got to love Ashland Oregon, while we sipped our beer we watched aerial artists practicing in Lithia park . #ashlandor #oregon Skout Taphouse