Leah Ning
@leahning.bsky.social
SFFH writer. Alien tech lord 🔧 at Apex Book Company. Words at Apex, BCS, PodCastle, Dark Matter, air and nothingness, and more. Reading for Diabolical Plots.
Website: www.leahning.com
Website: www.leahning.com
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Leah Ning
@leahning.bsky.social
· Oct 8
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✨NEW RELEASE!!!✨
It’s pub day for my fox spirit Chinese Cinderella romantic fantasy folklore tale, YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST! 🥳🎧🦊🍜💖
Listen for free via Spotify Premium, purchase from Libro.FM, Audible, or your fave audiobook retailer, or request from your local library!!! 🎧🦊🍜💖
It’s pub day for my fox spirit Chinese Cinderella romantic fantasy folklore tale, YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST! 🥳🎧🦊🍜💖
Listen for free via Spotify Premium, purchase from Libro.FM, Audible, or your fave audiobook retailer, or request from your local library!!! 🎧🦊🍜💖
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
✨NEW RELEASE!!!✨
It’s pub day for my fox spirit Chinese Cinderella romantic fantasy folklore tale, YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST! 🥳🎧🦊🍜💖
Listen for free via Spotify Premium, purchase from Libro.FM, Audible, or your fave audiobook retailer, or request from your local library!!! 🎧🦊🍜💖
It’s pub day for my fox spirit Chinese Cinderella romantic fantasy folklore tale, YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST! 🥳🎧🦊🍜💖
Listen for free via Spotify Premium, purchase from Libro.FM, Audible, or your fave audiobook retailer, or request from your local library!!! 🎧🦊🍜💖
It's new (ish) story day!!! PodCastle made a delightful production of "The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been", originally published in Monster Lairs (edited by Anna Madden). Hope y'all enjoy!! There might be a fresh story coming out with PodCastle in the future, too... 👀
#PC915: The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been by Leah Ning, read by Amanda Ching. Previously published in Monster Lairs (Dark Matter INK, October 2023). Rated PG-13
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October 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It's new (ish) story day!!! PodCastle made a delightful production of "The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been", originally published in Monster Lairs (edited by Anna Madden). Hope y'all enjoy!! There might be a fresh story coming out with PodCastle in the future, too... 👀
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Gay JOHN WICK x MAD MAX FURY ROAD + soul magic
When his ma’s murdered, Noah embarks on a cross-desert hunt for answers—w/ an annoyingly attractive war criminal offering help. As Noah’s suspicion turns to feelings (ugh!), secrets from his companion’s past threaten to destroy them both. #dvpit #a #f
When his ma’s murdered, Noah embarks on a cross-desert hunt for answers—w/ an annoyingly attractive war criminal offering help. As Noah’s suspicion turns to feelings (ugh!), secrets from his companion’s past threaten to destroy them both. #dvpit #a #f
October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰
Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳
Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰
Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳
Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳
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Hi!
(the ebook version of) The Long List Anthology Volume 9 will be officially released on Monday September 8th!
You can pre-order it at many ebook vendors right now, which are super helpful as they all count as release day sales toward the sales algos.
www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/
(the ebook version of) The Long List Anthology Volume 9 will be officially released on Monday September 8th!
You can pre-order it at many ebook vendors right now, which are super helpful as they all count as release day sales toward the sales algos.
www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/
August 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hi!
(the ebook version of) The Long List Anthology Volume 9 will be officially released on Monday September 8th!
You can pre-order it at many ebook vendors right now, which are super helpful as they all count as release day sales toward the sales algos.
www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/
(the ebook version of) The Long List Anthology Volume 9 will be officially released on Monday September 8th!
You can pre-order it at many ebook vendors right now, which are super helpful as they all count as release day sales toward the sales algos.
www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/
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Just a reminder that i have a story in this upcoming Best Of Anthology!
"A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life
"A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life
Here's the cover of THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOLUME SEVENTEEN
Art by Asya Yordanova
Art by Asya Yordanova
August 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just a reminder that i have a story in this upcoming Best Of Anthology!
"A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life
"A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life
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Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!
Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Winners
The winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced on August 16, 2025 by Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World…
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August 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!
I feel like I'm late to the game in this discovery but...the @clarkesworldmagazine.com website has a dark mode?? This fills me with inordinate amounts of delight.
August 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I feel like I'm late to the game in this discovery but...the @clarkesworldmagazine.com website has a dark mode?? This fills me with inordinate amounts of delight.
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I have need for two reprints, preferably published within the last two years, only in print (not online), either in a magazine or an anthology or a ss coll, under 6,000 words, sent to submissions@thedarkmagazine.com. TIA!
July 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I have need for two reprints, preferably published within the last two years, only in print (not online), either in a magazine or an anthology or a ss coll, under 6,000 words, sent to submissions@thedarkmagazine.com. TIA!
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Issue #437 of BCS has my story "Turn to Stone Ourselves" as the From the Archives pick 😊 (and two new stories by Rosemary Claire Smith & Malda Marlys!)
July 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Issue #437 of BCS has my story "Turn to Stone Ourselves" as the From the Archives pick 😊 (and two new stories by Rosemary Claire Smith & Malda Marlys!)
Slowly preparing to exist at Seattle Worldcon. Excited to see some folks there - shout if you're going and want to say hi!!
July 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Slowly preparing to exist at Seattle Worldcon. Excited to see some folks there - shout if you're going and want to say hi!!
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Submissions for our last themed issue of the year CLOSE in TEN DAYS! Get it polished, get it in. The squad can't wait to feast on your words 🍽️
All the info you need to submit is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Share with a Black writer who needs to rip the band aid off. Don't self reject!!!
All the info you need to submit is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Share with a Black writer who needs to rip the band aid off. Don't self reject!!!
July 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Submissions for our last themed issue of the year CLOSE in TEN DAYS! Get it polished, get it in. The squad can't wait to feast on your words 🍽️
All the info you need to submit is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Share with a Black writer who needs to rip the band aid off. Don't self reject!!!
All the info you need to submit is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Share with a Black writer who needs to rip the band aid off. Don't self reject!!!
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HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
July 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
Short story sale!!! Super excited to be returning to the pages of @apexmag.bsky.social with "We Used to Wake to Song" this October. Read if you're into messed up parent-child relationships, body horror, and the ocean claiming our bodies to fix what we destroyed. 🌊🪸
July 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Short story sale!!! Super excited to be returning to the pages of @apexmag.bsky.social with "We Used to Wake to Song" this October. Read if you're into messed up parent-child relationships, body horror, and the ocean claiming our bodies to fix what we destroyed. 🌊🪸
Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible
Widower enlists the help of a war criminal to rescue his mom, accidentally falls in love, ohshit.jpg
Widower enlists the help of a war criminal to rescue his mom, accidentally falls in love, ohshit.jpg
writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible
fortysomething autistic guy who gets lost in the woods has a gay/monsterfucker awakening
fortysomething autistic guy who gets lost in the woods has a gay/monsterfucker awakening
Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible.
Trans guy REALLY loves the ocean
Trans guy REALLY loves the ocean
July 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible
Widower enlists the help of a war criminal to rescue his mom, accidentally falls in love, ohshit.jpg
Widower enlists the help of a war criminal to rescue his mom, accidentally falls in love, ohshit.jpg
BCS needs our support!! They are good people and they publish amazing fiction.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
BCS needs our support!! They are good people and they publish amazing fiction.
Baby's second full request?? Don't mind me, I'll just be over here screaming??
June 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Baby's second full request?? Don't mind me, I'll just be over here screaming??
Get this on my bookshelf immediately please thanks
Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️
Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥
Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥
June 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Get this on my bookshelf immediately please thanks
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incredibly honoured to see A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (@titanbooks.bsky.social ) included in this @nytimes.com article by @marthawells.com 😭‼️✨
June 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
incredibly honoured to see A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (@titanbooks.bsky.social ) included in this @nytimes.com article by @marthawells.com 😭‼️✨
I cannot possibly express the depths of my excitement and delight 😭
I know this is just the first step, but the validation, the gratification that comes from sticking it out all these years to get to this moment - it's huge. HUGE. Thank you to @jenazantian.bsky.social for believing in this book of my heart - I can't wait to see what comes next.
June 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I cannot possibly express the depths of my excitement and delight 😭
Finished and submitted my first short story in a while today! Nice to be submitting again. I expect my yeet from The Dark in *checks watch* five...four...
June 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Finished and submitted my first short story in a while today! Nice to be submitting again. I expect my yeet from The Dark in *checks watch* five...four...
Baby's first full request 👀
June 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Baby's first full request 👀