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Lark Morgan Lu
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Writing/Tea | Adult | They/She | 1st gen Han Chinese | Works in F&SF, Augur, Pyre, If There's Anyone Left, & more. | Assoc. Editor @flashfictiononline.bsky.social | pfp @unghostlyCasper

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LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS IS!!!
wtalabi.bsky.social Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 19d
Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance.
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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amalelmohtar.com
OH MY GOD DO THIS, THIS IS INDECENT AMOUNTS OF SALE
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 19h
💀Celebrate the announcement of SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY, the third book in @csecooney.bsky.social 's World Fantasy Award-winning SAINT DEATH series, by grabbing SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER & SAINT DEATH'S HERALD for just 0.99 alongside a wide variety of other Solaris titles! geni.us/Solarissale
Against a background of skulls, white text at the top "Saint Death's Daughter". Below, the book covers for SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER, SAINT DEATH'S HERALD and a mock up for SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY coming Spring 2027. All by C. S. E. Cooney. The white Solaris logo is at the bottom in the middle.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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ideofmarch.bsky.social
My long fiction release this year is “Sequoia Point” in Split Scream 7 edited by @alexebenstein.bsky.social at @tenebrouspress.bsky.social - find it here or DM me if you’re reading for awards:

Ebook: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...

Print: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...
On background of a starry sky with two octopuses in the corners… íde Hennessy 2025 Awards Eligibility long fiction: • "Sequoia Point" 17.000 word NOVELETTE overcoming grief on the mysterious Lost Coast of Northern California, with a little help from a doppelgänger in Split Scream 7 (Tenebrous Press) Weird/Horror/SF •idehennessy.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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hannahyangwrites.bsky.social
2025 roundup! I published three new stories this year. Whether or not you’re nominating for awards, it would make my day if you gave them a read 🥹💛

Thread below: ⬇️ 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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probablyharmless.bsky.social
Is it an awards eligibility post? Is it a retrospective? I dunno, but here it is. I published some words this year. Check it out. (If there is anything you'd like to read and can't find, let me know and I'll get it to ya!) 🫀
A graphic with a gray, sort of cement-looking background with splatters of black ink. Text transcript: Theodore Hill, 2025 Releases. “I Think I Have Lost Someone” The Skull & Laurel, Horror (Flash), January. “Rise” Translunar Travelers Lounge, Sci Fi, February. “Pirouette in Periwinkle” The Ghastling, Horror (Flash), April. “Other Duties As Required” Cosmic Horror Monthly, Horror/Sci Fi, July. “Hammerhead” God’s Cruel Joke, Horrorotica, September. “A Taste” Whisper House Press, Horror (Flash), November. Upcoming: “More Famished Than My Means” (Poem, God’s Cruel Joke, December).
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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i can 100% endorse this one as a terrific example of LGBTQIA & STEM, as i narrated it! absolutely love this story. it's another terrific piece by Ember Randall 🖤🖤🖤
castofwonders.org Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org · 19h
On the back of this, you should really check out this one from our back catalog as a great example of LGBTQIA & STEM ^^ www.castofwonders.org/2023/02/cast...
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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wnwagner.bsky.social
It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics.
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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larkmorganlu.bsky.social
Check my notes app remembering I typed something half-awake:

"Every world a dream
every god a dreamer
every apocalypse a battle"

Thanks half-asleep me this is really what I wanted on a Monday
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
As promised, here is the cover for Muñeca, out June of 2026!

Described thusly: A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Screenshot of a book cover. A woman, visible only from the neck down, is holding a bouquet of flowers, the petals falling off -- are they rotting? -- and blood dripping down from the book title -- Muñeca -- onto the author's name (Cynthia Gómez.)
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER
Cover of the book IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS by Ada Hoffmann. The title is written in bright, colorful block letters and the author's name is below it in a handwriting-like font. A tiny robot peeks out from the "S" at the end of "Instructions." Below the title and author there is a cartoon depiction of the planet Jupiter, against a starry background, with a cartoon spaceship flying up from it. There is a small Jolly Roger flag on the spaceship.
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Need a little eco-horror in your life?

Haunted Ecologies is on sale over at Bookshop :)

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A photo of haunted ecologies on top of a bunch of other books. Cover depicts a woman with a skeleton bird on her shoulder with a mountain of bones in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
larkmorganlu.bsky.social
Check my notes app remembering I typed something half-awake:

"Every world a dream
every god a dreamer
every apocalypse a battle"

Thanks half-asleep me this is really what I wanted on a Monday
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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thedeadlands.com
“This is a story: there’s a marketplace
at midnight. Your voice
calls the dead to awaken.”

today’s new poetry, beloveds! 🖤💀

Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal by @rblemberg.bsky.social

read it here:

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Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is a story: there’s a marketplace at midnight. Your voice calls the dead to awaken.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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horrorsong.blog
In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
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“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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larkmorganlu.bsky.social Lark Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 4d
My funeral home IN SPACE romcom will be forthcoming in Kaleidocast! Will contain:
💪big & smol
🦴the logistics of body disposal in space
🍵tea (obviously)
👉👈 they are both so shy for each other
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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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 · 19d
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
larkmorganlu.bsky.social
My funeral home IN SPACE romcom will be forthcoming in Kaleidocast! Will contain:
💪big & smol
🦴the logistics of body disposal in space
🍵tea (obviously)
👉👈 they are both so shy for each other
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
Halloween may be over, but we're still feeling spooky!

So, how about a bumper website exclusive #stillspooky sale of our spookiest titles for only 0.99 each? Shop the sale: geni.us/Solarissale

Titles available vary by your country of origin. Ends on 24th November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
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HEARTBREAK INCORPORATED Alex de Campi GOTHIKANA Runyx BLESS YOUR HEART and ANOTHER FINE MESS Lindy Ryan THE HACIENDA, VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE and THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ Isabel Canas IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL and THE DEATH I GAVE HIM Em X. Liu SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD C. S. E. Cooney THE IMMORTALITY THIEF Taran Hunt WANDERERS Chuck Wendig SINOPHAGIA edited Xueting C. Ni GORSE and RAGWORT Sam K. Horton WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE Lorraine Wilson THE NEEDFORE MK Hardy RED RABBIT Alex Grecian THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Benson THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD, THE GRIEF OF STONES, THE TOMB OF DRAGONS and A THEORY OF HAUNTING Katherine Addison THE LIAR OF RED VALLEY Walter Goodwater THE VENGEANCE Emma Newman SIGN HERE Claudia Lux BENEATH THE RISING, A BROKEN DARKNESS, THE VOID ASCENDANT and THESE LIFELESS THINGS Premee Mohamed NORDIC VISION ed. by Margret THE RITUAL CRIME UNIT THE HIDDEN LEGION and THE SILENT EMPEROR by Snorri Kristjansson
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social

Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
larkmorganlu.bsky.social
BTW she's been doing this annually for some time... Maybe one might want to consider that for community contribution/related works :V
acwise.bsky.social A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 4d
Psst! I've added a whole bunch of new links to my eligibility and recommendation round up post with further updates to come. Keep sending your links my way!

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What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
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November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Psst! I've added a whole bunch of new links to my eligibility and recommendation round up post with further updates to come. Keep sending your links my way!

acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
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November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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COVER REVEAL! Behold GODFESTATION, my Appalachian weird horror novella, out August 11, 2026 via @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social. Art by Danika Corall. Read more and see the cover art here: jendiagammon.com/202...

#horror #books #coverreveal #2026books #horrorbooks
Cover Reveal: GODFESTATION - Jendia Gammon
Jendia Gammon reveals the cover art for Godfestation, her Appalachian weird horror novella out via Sley House Publishing August 11, 2026. Art by Danika Corrall.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Oh, yeah... read an ARC of this one

If you're into

cosmic-
sort of eco-
what the hell is happening-
horror that never lets up

you're gonna wanna add this to your TBR list pronto! Still living rent-free in my brain 🧠😱

#horror
alexwoodroe.com Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 5d
"...unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller. Readers will be on the edges of their seats."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BABY

www.publishersweekly.com/9781787589186
The Night Ship Alex Woodroe. Flame Tree, $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-787589-18-6 Woodroe (Whisperwood) expertly maintains suspense throughout this unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller about an apocalyptic event in 1987 Romania. Heroine Rosi has “made it a point of survival to think as little as possible about... goings-on beyond what was strictly in front of her.” She’s taken advantage of the logging truck used by her fiancé, Gigi, to facilitate her smuggling business. On a routine excursion in that vehicle, the pair pick up a hitchhiker, Sorin, who claims to be a philosophy student, though Rosi soon comes to suspect that he is a government informant, if not actually a member of the country’s notorious secret police. Before she can test this theory, darkness falls like a physical force from the sky and “swallows the world.” In this new pitch blackness, segments of once solid ground are replaced by an inky substance that drags down all objects that land in it. With the truck’s cabin one of the only safe refuges, this unlikely trio set out to make sense of what’s happened and rescue survivors. Woodroe parcels out reveals about the nature of the dark void gradually but effectively. Readers will be on the edges of their seats. (Jan.)
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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samatlounge.bsky.social
Never been more important to buy from craftspeople, painters, potters, illustrators, makers, carpenters, bakers and the like. Seek them out, follow them, support them and buy their goods. Use them or lose them etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
at what point do i tell everyone who’s obsessed with GDT’s frankenstein that my literary horror dystopia was described as ‘Frankenstinian’ in the Bookseller and features a man/monster doing a Silence of the Lambs-esque moral reckoning with the scientist protagonist, because-
tinywriterlaura.bsky.social Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 19d
loving this little bit of spooky season promo from my excellent publisher @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social!

it’s true, and you can find order links here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
Laura’s book Awakened, featuring a creepy raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back, set against an orange background of flying bats, while below the orange text reads: from an exciting new voice in horror comes a tense and surreal novel, contained and claustrophobic horror, with a tight cast of dynamic and morally grey characters and a mysterious romantic subplot
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM