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Kate Francia
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Speculative fiction writer; stories in Augur, Best Microfiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. Codexian.
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sfwa.org
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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augursociety.bsky.social
Looking for something to curl up with this fall? Check out our newly released Augur Issue 8.2! ✨

Also, you can find 2 FREE samples on our site! 📚💫

🔗 Link in bio!
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 17d
Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!

🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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An illustration of a field on a sunny day and here’s a clothing line with yellow and red sheets flowing in the wind, and behind them are two people, one with purple wings touching hands. with a blue overlay. At the top of the image reads: “Read it Now” in a yellow banner and underneath reads: “Augur Issue 8.2.” Bellow is the link to the website: http://www.augursociety.org. In the middle of the image is a book with the cover art of Issue 8.1. There are 6 arrows around the book pointing to blurbs from some of the pieces that read: elemental aftermath of an affair, toxic love festers through shed skin & wet sheets, young love, rusted metal, & shattered sunlight, monstrous hymn of awe & destruction, old age drama between two languages, and devastation dripped in honey and rain .
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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jrdawson.bsky.social
GASP!

The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World ebook is a Kindle Goldbox Deal on November 9th as part of the Top Rated Books Goldbox. This means that the ebook is $2.99 across all retailer sites (not just Amazon) for the day!!!!!!

THREE BUCKS!!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
issue 98 is out in the world and yours to read!

read it here for free!

and hey, if you love what you find, consider subscribing. every sub helps us to keep bringing you the kinds of stories and poems you love 💖

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni
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November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
This book was an absolute delight, and also as a bonus, it’s full of delicious descriptions of cheese!
bethcato.bsky.social Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 14d
TODAY ONLY! Cheddar Luck Next Time, my cheesy cozy mystery w/ an autistic lead, is on sale for $.99/£.99!

Please, please spread the word!

US promo link: amzn.to/43ajEjr
Canada: www.amazon.ca/Cheddar-Luck...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Cheddar-Luck...

Also at B&N & Apple!
A mostly green graphic says Amazon Kindle at the top and has imposed the cover of the book on a Kindle screen. Sale price is .99 in US, UK, and Canada at minimum, the deal for one day only, 2nd November 2025.
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
In honor of this spooky rainy Oct. 30, here's a list of my favorite dark fairy tale retellings from 2025! :) Novels by @nassos.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @freyamarske.bsky.social; short stories by @cislyn.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com and @adsui.bsky.social
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October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
There's just 4 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we're SO CLOSE to hitting our 20k goal!

Our full catalogue of critiques, ebooks, merch and more will all be gone on Halloween. Don't miss out on these limited edition items and donate TODAY! 💜👽🎃

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Cow getting sucked into UFO tractor beam. "Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 4 DAYS Needed for Liftoff: $2,182 $17,818/$20,000 Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!" Story/Excerpt Critiques E. Catherine Tobler (up to 5,000 words) Spencer Nitkey (up to 7,500 words) A.C. Wise (up to 8,000 words) Aimee Ogden (up to 6,000 words) A.V. Greene (up to 10,000 words) Ivy Grimes (up to 5,000 words) Lindz McLeod (up to 5,000 words) Risa Wolf (7,500 words) Sam Fleming (7,500 words Slush Reader Critique Cool Offerings Tarot card affirmation by Los Mei-en Kwa Marie Vibbert Tuckerization Apex Appreciation Online Workshop "World-building from the Inside Out" New EBooks and trade paperbacks available now! Available only on the Apex Magazine Kickstarter! Shadows of Glass and Other Stories by Jamie Lackey Tiny Planet Filled with Liars by Stephen M.A. Chlorophilia by Cristina Jurado The FULL DIGITAL CATALOGUE from Jennifer R. Donahue! PLUS! Become immortalized in a short story by Science Fiction Author Marie Vibbert! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/apexpublications/apex-magazine-2026 Stickers and hoodie now available worldwide!
October 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
We're SIX DAYS AWAY from the end of our Kickstarter and 75% FUNDED 🚀✨

Remember, it's YOUR donations keeping us a proudly pro-rate magazine, which financially compensates the skilled authors who bring Apex to life. Help artists thrive in 2026 and donate TODAY 💜👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Cow getting sucked into UFO tractor beam. "Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 6 DAYS Needed for Liftoff: $4,760 $15,240/$20,000 Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!"
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to fund Apex Magazine in 2026, and we JUST unlocked our 70% reward!!

The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩

🎃 Help us reach our funding goal and donate TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Cow getting sucked into UFO tractor beam. "Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 7 DAYS Needed for Liftoff: $5,669 $14,331/$20,000 Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!" 70% UNLOCKED! Lesley and Rebecca will be reading CreepyPasta stories selected by our followers and doing a small affirmation critique of the story. This live event is sure to be hysterical!
October 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.

I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
We're only $1,064 away from the halfway mark!! Thank you SO much for all of your support so far! 💜👽

If we manage to hit $10k by the end of today, we JUST might squeak in under our deadline 🤞 It's scary cutting it so close, but we're no stranger to scary!

🛸 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Kickstarter screenshot of $8,936 pledged out of $20,000 goal.
October 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
It’s a great day to back Apex’s kickstarter if you haven’t checked it out yet! Apex published my tiniest, strangest microfiction piece a few years ago; they are awesome to work with and such a cornerstone for the SFF community!
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 13
There's just 17 DAYS LEFT to back the 2026 Apex Magazine Kickstarter! We've been supporting outstanding authors writing strange, shocking, beautiful stories for 20 years...help us keep doing it for 20 more! 💜👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
"Only 3% to go until...Lesley and Rebecca host a Watch a Horror Movie with the Editors night!" Current Kickstarter funding: $7,323
October 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
As the nights get longer, I'm putting together all my favorite short stories and novels and novellas from 2025 so far (...sooo many). I've decided to do a series of themed recs, because I love thinking about how stories connect and are in conversation with each other...(1)
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
WE HIT 250 BACKERS!! +1 exclusive sticker for everyone who either added a sticker or backed at a tier with sticker rewards! That is our last backer goal!

We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
Info for our Backer Goals! 50, 100, 150, 200, AND 250 Backers are unlocked! All backer goals are in rainbow with an open lock over a blurred version of OTHERSIDE banner art in purple, with a blurred floating fantastical head on the right.
October 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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cjtavares.bsky.social
It's here! @apexmag.bsky.social issue 151 is out now and contains my story "Ghosts of Summer"!!! The end of summer and the beginning of spooky season collide as two witches try to beat the summer heat. But high temperatures and magic are a dangerous combination. 👻☀️

Check out the full issue below:
Apex Magazine Issue 151
EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner"Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson "We Used ...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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marthawells.com
Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!
October 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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nghivo.bsky.social
Hey. Hey.

On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.
A Mouthful of Dust
Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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millieabecassis.com
Preorder my book, get freebies!

If you preorder A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE (release date: 10.21.2025) you'll get beautiful art prints and other freebies! Go to millieabecassis.com/preorder/ to learn more about the campaign and fill out the form.

Available worldwide! Free stuff! Beautiful art!
A collage of illustrations and text in the middle reading "preorder campaign" A visual reading "preorder A Legacy of Blood and Bone and receive free art prints (and more) in your mailbox. A visual reading: Go to millieabecassis.com/preoder (link in description and in author's bio) to learn more and submit your proof of purchase by October 21, 2025. A visual showing the book cover and text reading: Coming 10.21.2025 at Brick and Bloom, an imprint of Row House Publishing + six labels around the book reading Historical Fantasy, Belle Epoque, Sapphic romance, Dangerous magic, Set in France, Politics and intrigue.
October 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
It makes me SO HAPPY that Otherside is fully funded and already passed the first stretch goal on DAY 1!! Here’s to funding even more queer stories and art for the next two years! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
September 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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jelenawrites.bsky.social
✨Cover reveal!✨
I'm thrilled to present you the cover of my upcoming novel, LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE
It will be released in April 2026 by Dark Matter Ink
Cover art by Mona Finden.
Cover of the novel Love Lethal, Death Divine showing a young female knight wielding a sword
September 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
Otherside kickstarter is live!!
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · Sep 29
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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franwilde.bsky.social
In less than a week — six days! — the Canarviers will arrive to steal your hearts!

Make sure you catch your thieves! RSVP to an event near you (it MATTERS!) Preorder, do those magical library holds. The thieves are counting on you!

www.penguinrandomhou...
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Just one week until A Philosophy of Thieves! Make sure you catch them!
September 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
Yesss I have been looking forward to this for so long! If you're not yet following Otherside's Kickstarter, they're launching tomorrow!!
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · Sep 28
Tomorrow is Kickstarter launch daaaay! Tomorrow!! TOMORROW!!! We appreciate everyone who has signed up for the pre-launch campaign—there are 248 of you! Could we get to 250 in the next 24 hours? 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
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September 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
katefrancia.bsky.social
I'm obsessed with this description; thank you so much @nadawn.bsky.social!!
nadawn.bsky.social N. A. Dawn, Author @nadawn.bsky.social · Sep 28
@katefrancia.bsky.social’s
‘Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth’ in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social binds its delicate character study and crisply textured world, personal history and collective destiny, with nettled vine. The finale looms like a hungry shadow.

#sff #fantasy #shortstories #fiction
September 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM