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Jamie Lackey
@jamielackey.bsky.social
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SF/F author of 200+ stories, 2 novels, 6 novellas, 1 novelette, and 5 collections. Likes reading, gaming, hiking. 80% tea. Lives in a 2-cat household. Asexual agnostic socialist. She/her.
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The Forest Gods is now available in ebook format on Amazon! Other platforms coming soon!

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The Forest Gods
The Forest Gods - Kindle edition by Lackey, Jamie. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Forest Gods.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The story Jamie and I co-wrote is in this anthology! It’s got shapeshifting robots made of spiders, oppressive government regimes, and kissing! What more could you ask for?
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An anthology called “Way of Worlds” edited by J. R. Martin containing a story cowritten by Jamie Lackey and Patrick Ropp
September 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Join @jamielackey.bsky.social and AaN on October 17th, 6:00pm, at Blythe Books in Brentwood for our “The Forest Gods” book launch. RSVP here - www.blythebooks.com/shop/p/an-ev...
Poster showing book covers as well as a QR code for the event and info on Blythe Books.
September 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Proud to be the 41st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1
A collection of stories from the first 60 issues of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, presented on physical media for the first time with a full page illustration for each story and a color cover.
www.backerkit.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Busy day for Tiny Forklift and the Crew. "The Forest God" by @jamielackey.bsky.social is an expanded edition with two new short stories added, and "The Forest Gods", the new sequel. Both are now in stock aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

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A Matchbox car forklift and HO scale figues unpack books much too large for them in a "warehouse" themed photo. Both book covers shown, first shows a rabbit bounding, second a turtle turtling.
August 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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We're doing a special second edition of The Forest God! It contains two bonus stories set in the same world, and it's availalbe to preorder now!
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air and nothingness press - our catalog of books
the air and nothingness press was created to explore book arts and graphic design with an emphasis on limited edition hand-made livre d artiste books and editions of poetry, fantasy and science fiction. we also design and publish on-demand collections of poetry
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August 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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"The Forest Gods” by @jamielackey.bsky.social is the new sequel. Available for preorder (ship 9.7.25) - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
A side by side of both book covers, first shows a rabbit bounding, second a turtle turtling.
August 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The Forest God" by @jamielackey.bsky.social [cover illustration by @carolinejamhour.bsky.social] is an expanded edition with two new short stories added (This is by far our most requested reprint). Available for preorder (ship 9.7.25) - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
A side by side of both book covers, first shows a rabbit bounding, second a turtle turtling.
August 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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"The Forest Gods" by @jamielackey.bsky.social has been dispatched to the printer. "The Forest God" is on press currently and both books should arrive within a few weeks and be available for sale soon after. Stay tuned for a book launch party annoucement. We are currently filling in the details.
A side by side of both book covers, first shows a rabbit bounding, second a turtle turtling.
August 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Turned in the final edits for The Forest Gods today!
August 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Off to the printer within the next few weeks. "The Forest God" by @jamielackey.bsky.social [cover illustration by @carolinejamhour.bsky.social] is an expanded edition with two new short stories added (This is by far our most requested reprint) and "The Forest Gods", the new sequel.
A side by side of both book covers, first shows a rabbit bounding, second a turtle turtling.
August 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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2026 Books: “The Forest Gods” - sequel novella to the “The Forest God” by @jamielackey.bsky.social , published by AaNP in 2020.
Cover shows a vintage illustration of a turtle sitting by a pond and a rock. Title and author are in a nice fantasy feeling font and all caps.
July 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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"Qila-Kolis" (reprint) and the sequel "Ild-Irys" (new) are both now available for preorder. Copies ship on, or before, Aug. 1. Poetic musings on an imaginary city and country. Only 50 of each available, signed and numbered. aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
Cover "Qila-Kolis" showing a pencil drawing cover with several city towers rising above a heavily forested foreground. Cover to “Ild-Irys” showing a pencil drawing of peaceful city towers in the foreground drifting off to a pastoral forested landscape with large mountains in the far distance.
July 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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So close to the 2nd stretch goal!!
aanpress.bsky.social Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · Jul 9
Our final post of the KS (aren’t you glad) - 14 hours to go on campaign Stretch Goal 2 for “Mmeory”- a multigenre anthology of memory manipulation stories - Help us add extra authors (96% SG2 [$291 needed - 9 backers]). - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky
Mmeory: A genre spanning anthology of memory manipulation
An anthology of memory manipulation stories: magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone wrong.
www.kickstarter.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Down to 72 hours on the KS campaign’s author adding stretch goals for “Mmeory”- a multi genre anthology of memory manipulation stories and we have our first Stretch Goal met, 95% for SG2 [$400 needed]) to add 2-3 more authors - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky
Mmeory: A genre spanning anthology of memory manipulation
An anthology of memory manipulation stories: magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone wrong.
www.kickstarter.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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July 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Wanna hear some messed up deer facts and thoughts from @kayv.bsky.social ? Well, backers of #TheDeerIsMessedUP are in luck — we've got our second interview posted and it's a banger! 🦌 👀

Check it out:

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screenshot of a Kickstarter update titled "Exclusive Interview: Kay Vaindal!" text reads: "Welcome back to another exclusive interview with one of our authors, Kay Vaindal! 👀 We talk about the favorite parts of writing about messed up deer and what kind of were-cervidae Kay would be... Q: What was your favorite part of writing your messed up deer story? A: I really liked playing with a setting that’s familiar to me, but I hadn’t written on before. I write about Maryland constantly, but I mostly stick to the watery parts. When I heard Messed Up Deer, though, I wanted to channel my Appalachian roots a little bit and get into the magic of that ancient world up there. I still stuck to the watery parts, though."
May 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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It's alive... ALLLLIIIVE!!!! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #horror #booksky

Come check out @probablyharmless.bsky.social and my epic horror anthology—full of messed up deer! 🔥🦌

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THE DEER IS MESSED UP
An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer. Edited by Theodore Hill and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
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May 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Just 3 hours left to back this year's Triangulation anthology! Get a limited edition deluxe paperback copy! And a story by me!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/156...
Dark Hearts: An Anthology of Women Anti-heroes
The 22nd annual Triangulation Anthology: fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories and poems.
www.kickstarter.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Triangulation: Dark Hearts is doing a Kickstarter campaign! Back for a special edition paperback and get my angry feminst retelling of The Birds along with a bunch of other excellent stories
www.kickstarter.com/projects/156...
Dark Hearts: An Anthology of Women Anti-heroes
The 22nd annual Triangulation Anthology: fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories and poems.
www.kickstarter.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Strange Horizons will have 3 FICTION SUBMISSION WINDOWS in 2025.

General
April 16th
with a 1,000 story cap

Novelette (10k to 18k words)
June 4th
with a 300 story cap

Indigenous Authors
November 3rd
with a 500 story cap

Submission windows will begin at 9am UTC and end when we reach the cap.
Fiction submissions opening 3 submission windows for 2025 General April 16th Novelettes (10,000 to 18,000 words) June 4th Indigenous Authors November 3rd
March 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I guess its #NationalUnicornDay!?

Here's an illustration for "The Fire of Countless Stars", a short story by @jamielackey.bsky.social, with prose so beautiful it's almost poetic.

#art #unicorn #illustration #fantasy #dragons #magic
A young farm girl has collapsed, exhausted and drained. She leans against a unicorn, brought out of its torpor by the magic leaking out of her body. The dragon eggs, once lifeless and cold, have hatched into healthy baby dragons that have taken to exploring the barn. The same magic has also sprouted flowering vines of wild magic flowers. Flowers that will make magic free for all once again.
April 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A certain powerful author said some staggeringly mean things about ace people yesterday and I find myself more upset by that than I would have expected. I mean, I know she's a monster, that's not news. I think maybe it's the other people joining in that makes it worse?
April 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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5 minutes left!
jamielackey.bsky.social Jamie Lackey @jamielackey.bsky.social · Mar 25
We're in the final stretch!
jamielackey.bsky.social Jamie Lackey @jamielackey.bsky.social · Mar 23
Only 3 days left to back my Kickstarter! Pledge now to get not one, but two new novellas written by yours truly! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
March 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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We're in the final stretch!
March 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM