Gillian Secord 🇨🇦
@gilliansecord.bsky.social
📝 SFF Writer || 🍁 2x Aurora Award Finalist || ☕ probably needs coffee || Stories in Diabolical Plots, Fireside Fiction, OnSpec + more
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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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ICYMI my story "the love song of house and lake" is out now from OnSpec! It's a sweet lil love story set in a long slow summer
(And go send @onspecmag.bsky.social some ❤️ while you're there - this awesome mag is shutting down soon, after decades of publishing fantastic Canadian Spec fic)
(And go send @onspecmag.bsky.social some ❤️ while you're there - this awesome mag is shutting down soon, after decades of publishing fantastic Canadian Spec fic)
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Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
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It is honestly hilarious to watch all these high-dollar professionals wring their hands over something that literally does not matter even a little. It’s James Bond. He’s been nine different middle-aged dudes for 70 years with no explanation. No one is asking for one now and no one cares.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It is honestly hilarious to watch all these high-dollar professionals wring their hands over something that literally does not matter even a little. It’s James Bond. He’s been nine different middle-aged dudes for 70 years with no explanation. No one is asking for one now and no one cares.
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Hard same.
Someone asked me the other day about something and said “you know in chatGPT when you click on…” and I stopped them, because, my dude, I have never even SEEN ChatGPT, let alone used it.
Someone asked me the other day about something and said “you know in chatGPT when you click on…” and I stopped them, because, my dude, I have never even SEEN ChatGPT, let alone used it.
Never have. Never will. Not interested in going anywhere *near* a crap app built out of countless millions of hard-won words stolen from my colleagues, the use of which will (bonus!) begin progressively to degrade my cognitive skills and blunt the edge of the tool I’ve spent half a century honing. 🤨
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Hard same.
Someone asked me the other day about something and said “you know in chatGPT when you click on…” and I stopped them, because, my dude, I have never even SEEN ChatGPT, let alone used it.
Someone asked me the other day about something and said “you know in chatGPT when you click on…” and I stopped them, because, my dude, I have never even SEEN ChatGPT, let alone used it.
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I just read it this afternoon, after the event at Bakka. Loved it! It’s my favourite story in the anthology so far.
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I just read it this afternoon, after the event at Bakka. Loved it! It’s my favourite story in the anthology so far.
This is today!!! C'mon out and support some awesome Canadian SFF
Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.
November 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is today!!! C'mon out and support some awesome Canadian SFF
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025.
If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/
If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) – Home of the Prix Aurora Awards and CSFFA Hall of Fame
www.csffa.ca
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025.
If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/
If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/
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Come see me at Bakka-Phoenix this weekend! I'll be doing a reading from "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" and we'll be launching an awesome volume of Canadian SFF!
Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Come see me at Bakka-Phoenix this weekend! I'll be doing a reading from "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" and we'll be launching an awesome volume of Canadian SFF!
Come see me at Bakka-Phoenix this weekend! I'll be doing a reading from "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" and we'll be launching an awesome volume of Canadian SFF!
Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Come see me at Bakka-Phoenix this weekend! I'll be doing a reading from "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" and we'll be launching an awesome volume of Canadian SFF!
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Hehe.
Cartoon from @skullpizza.bsky.social
Cartoon from @skullpizza.bsky.social
![Cartoon panels showing a female-coded scientist in a white coat and goggles, a monster made of eyeballs, and a pumpkin-head creature on the final panel:
[scientist] I LOVE YOU, JEREMY, BUT WE CAN'T DO THIS!
[eyeballs] BE HONEST, PROFESSOR.
IS IT BECAUSE YOU MADE ME OUT OF EYEBALLS?
[scientist] NO, NO... IT'S UNETHICAL FOR ME TO DATE PUPILS
[pumpkinhead] NOPE. THAT’S IT. COMICTOBER'S
CANCELED. SORRY FOLKS](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yhpcrxbxkp2nsnpno7ow3uw4/bafkreid5pm5gtcutlkuuzwrdhm2krsle46ixdurmxu3fnsb7alr7iz3a2e@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Hehe.
Cartoon from @skullpizza.bsky.social
Cartoon from @skullpizza.bsky.social
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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!!! It sounds like not only everything I loved about early SPN but also everything I want in broadcast supernatural TV. Give us more MOW!
SUPERNATURAL #1, in comic book shops TODAY!
"...exactly what constitutes the core of the best Supernatural TV episodes."
screenrant.com/supernatural...
"...exactly what constitutes the core of the best Supernatural TV episodes."
screenrant.com/supernatural...
New Supernatural Series Drops the Perfect Season 1 Episode We Never Got To See
Supernatural returns to its roots with new stories.
screenrant.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
!!! It sounds like not only everything I loved about early SPN but also everything I want in broadcast supernatural TV. Give us more MOW!
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"It’s just crazy to me to see this engine for intellectual property theft that is totally indefensible taking place with the full cooperation of Amazon.”
Generative AI has made Amazon’s knockoff problem more inescapable than ever. Authors tell Rolling Stone it’s leaving them frustrated— and the internet worse in the process.
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
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October 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"It’s just crazy to me to see this engine for intellectual property theft that is totally indefensible taking place with the full cooperation of Amazon.”
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There's only 5 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we just unlocked our 80% goal! 🎉
@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!
Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!
Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There's only 5 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we just unlocked our 80% goal! 🎉
@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!
Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!
Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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RIP English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, died this day 1400, best known for The Canterbury Tales.
"The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love,...
"The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love,...
October 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
RIP English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, died this day 1400, best known for The Canterbury Tales.
"The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love,...
"The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love,...
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god, i love the sky. every now and then you'll just be going about your day and then WHUMF whole lake gets dropped on you. fantastic stuff
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
god, i love the sky. every now and then you'll just be going about your day and then WHUMF whole lake gets dropped on you. fantastic stuff
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When Guillermo del Toro was a child, he fell in love with "Frankenstein." With his long-awaited adaptation in theaters, the filmmaker explains his lifelong fascination with horror, and why the genre "illuminates our souls":
Why Guillermo del Toro made Frankenstein
The director writes about feeling destined to adapt Mary Shelley's classic.
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
When Guillermo del Toro was a child, he fell in love with "Frankenstein." With his long-awaited adaptation in theaters, the filmmaker explains his lifelong fascination with horror, and why the genre "illuminates our souls":
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Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that.
Thank you, Greg, and rest well.
Thank you, Greg, and rest well.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that.
Thank you, Greg, and rest well.
Thank you, Greg, and rest well.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Some good news to start your morning off with
Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews
These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them
Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.
www.abc.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Some good news to start your morning off with
My post-apocalypse story about fatherhood and fighting fascists "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" is in this!! Go check it out, and all the other amazing Canadian stories in this incredible anthology 🇨🇦
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My post-apocalypse story about fatherhood and fighting fascists "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" is in this!! Go check it out, and all the other amazing Canadian stories in this incredible anthology 🇨🇦
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
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New #WriterBeware blog post: An army of bots on Discord, flashier websites, impersonations: the Nigerian marketing scams are not just proliferating, but morphing. I've never seen anything like it. writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...
Army of Bots: Deeper Into the Vortex of Nigerian Marketing Scams - Writer Beware
I’ve published a couple of posts now about the tidal wave of AI-driven marketing scams from Nigeria that has swept over the writing world in the past year or so. A hallmark of these scams has been how...
writerbeware.blog
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: An army of bots on Discord, flashier websites, impersonations: the Nigerian marketing scams are not just proliferating, but morphing. I've never seen anything like it. writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...