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Phantasmagoria
@jamielnathan.bsky.social
She/Her
PNW Storyteller & Bookwyrm 💙📚
Loves the spooky & fantastical
Published in Inner Worlds.

Stories Coming Soon to:
Luna Station Quarterly (March)
Pulp Asylum (April)
A Midnight Kind of Place: Season One (TBD)
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Do you need a break, a rest, a moment to recharge before the week begins again? Then pay my forest witch a visit. Just watch out for her neighbors.

Thanks to Sarah and @innerworlds.bsky.social for publishing my short story, HOOFBEATS.

inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-hoof...
Hoofbeats by J. Nathan
Mind the stones there. A centaur took out part of my stone wall in a hissy fit. Centaurs, what can you do, hmm?
inner-worlds.ghost.io
Don’t write something anyone could write. Write something that could only come from your beautiful weird little heart. That’s what I want to read.

💙📚 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
February 18, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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For the evening crowd...

New Writing and Whatnot blog post all about my workflow and the sites I use instead of Substack.

You do you, but I don't like supporting hate speech. You can't say there isn't another way... I'm giving them to you here. writingandwhatnot.com/blog/diy-new...
February 18, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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I send out a periodic newsletter highlighting new self-pub & small press queer romances I think look promising.

IF YOU are putting out a queer romance in 2026 for retail sale and you are (like me) NOT publishing on Amazon, please reply / DM so I can get you on my radar.

Reposts very welcome. 🌈💜🌈📚♠️
February 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
RECOMMENDATIONS REQUEST:

Looking to read my first Faulkner, but I have no clue where to begin. What is a good starter book? TYIA 💙📚
February 18, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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We're a bit more than halfway through the month, so this is your semi-regular reminder most libraries have a way for patrons to request purchases! It's Black History month in the anti-DEI, extra anti-Black era, so I suggest a particular focus on books by Black authors, especially indie + self-pub!
February 17, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Now re-crafted into a much more compelling tale. 2,000 words written today, doubling the word count from the 1st version. Still has a ways to go, but I’m feeling much better about it.

💙📚📝 #WritingCommunity
It's fun when you write the part where you tell the story to yourself, then you revise and edit that, then you submit it. Then you realize that you just submitted a really nice version of telling yourself the story.

And by fun I mean painfully embarrassing. 😅
💙📚📝 #WriteSky
February 17, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/
February 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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February 17, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Just a reminder that my book came out in January but it is never too late to write a review 🥺
February 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I'm currently reading a book that is in a different tense than the story I'm writing and it keeps drifting into the wrong tense. Editing is going to be extra fun on this one. 😅

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📚📝
February 17, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.

This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
Ramadan Mubarak!

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Laissez bon temps rouler!

Hodesh Adar tov!

Y'ALL

February 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Do you have a go to daydream you distract yourself with on your commute, or as you fall asleep?

What if you wrote it down? What if it was really good? What if you got it published? What if it connected you to your people?

What if?

💙📚 #Writer
February 17, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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Sooo... I know I just released a new book 30 days ago. But... check out what's coming from Neon Hemlock at the end of April. I just posted a sample chapter at my patreon if you want a taste: www.patreon.com/post...
February 17, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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Give trans kids a chance to be kids.
February 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
It's fun when you write the part where you tell the story to yourself, then you revise and edit that, then you submit it. Then you realize that you just submitted a really nice version of telling yourself the story.

And by fun I mean painfully embarrassing. 😅
💙📚📝 #WriteSky
February 17, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Pssst: we’re open to submissions of horror fiction, interior art, and full color cover art AND WE’RE PAYING MORE NOW.

Guidelines here: fraidycatpress.com/submission-g...

#horrorlit #cosmic #horror #indie #shortstory #novelette #magazine #art #illustration
Submission Guidelines - Fraidy Cat Press
Fraidy Cat Press Submission Guidelines Guidelines, open dates, and more information for Fraidy Cat Press (novellas/novels) and Fraidy Cat Quarterly (flash, short stories, novelettes, art) are below. W...
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February 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Very interesting thread, and important for authors to know about.
Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders.

Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond.

Now Herry is threatening me. 1/
February 16, 2026 at 10:37 PM
I took a break and made a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch and started a pot of simmering Costco chicken leftovers to make chicken noodle soup for dinner. Now back to writing.

This is not a bad day.
February 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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It's the end of the Year of the Snake 🐍 💖

#illustration
#lunarNewYear
February 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Rain ☔
Tea ☕
Writing horror ☠️

Living my best life. 💙📚📝 #WritingCommunity
February 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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To hell with the small life. I am not exquisite.
Cannot sing like bone china. This is the blue hour.

I swim in it, alone and perfectly.

'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza

£2 off until 20 February
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
February 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Getting back to writing after my week off. I have two stories patiently waiting for revisions. Let’s go!

💙📚📝 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
February 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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GENTLECREATURES!
Please consider supporting my friend 🌱

Every little bit helps, truly.

As a bonus, it also comforts her friends who are worried about her (that's me!), so please give what you can for her safety (and my peace of mind).

I appreciate your kindness more than I can say.
Help Annie Get Passports For Herself (& Her Mamá) + Leave Her Abusive Home ASAP
Hiii, I’m Annie (she/her). I’m indigenous Mexican-American (3rd gen) and I’m raising funds so I can get passports for myself and my Mamá (2nd gen) and finish paying for my training program studies ! I...
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February 12, 2026 at 5:51 AM