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Maura Yzmore / Fiona Embers 🎃🎃🎃
@maurayzmore.bsky.social
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Author of dark short fiction (as Maura Yzmore) and spicy romance (as Fiona Embers). HWA. Math nerd. Opes in the Midwest. Novel SOFT REBOUND out now. Buy at https://books2read.com/fionaembers
Socials: https://linktr.ee/maura.yzmore_fiona.embers
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aerynrudel.bsky.social
Got a new story out at @flashpointsf.bsky.social today. Another in my series of stories where I turn biblical characters into monsters and hitmen and stuff. See if you can guess who gets the makeover in this one by the image. :)

#flashfiction #writersofbluesky
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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jheijndermans.bsky.social
If you have Kobo plus, all my books are available on it, so worth checking out.

(En in het NL, door Kobo staan mijn boeken ook als ebooks op bol.com)
quartzen.bsky.social Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 4d
Kobo is doing a 30 day free trial promotion for their Kindle Unlimited competitor service Kobo Plus for new subscribers (not sure if this is US only), if you like queer indie books, small press SFF, and backlist SFF from large publishers there's a lot to choose from on this service that's not on KU!
Rakuten Kobo
www.kobo.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
There are always going to be people who, sincere or otherwise, want all art to conform to their controlling bland "manager policing their workers' bodily autonomy" perspective.

And it's important to shut those people out in the cold and create art of wild indulgence and freako obsessions 🤘
alexandrarowland.bsky.social Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 10d
You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
maurayzmore.bsky.social
Coming soon from @evernightpub.bsky.social

RINGS TRUE by Fiona Embers
(Book 1 of a new STEM romance series)

The girl of Seth's dreams has always been married to someone else… Then suddenly, she isn’t. Now he has four days to make her his — or lose her for good.

🌶📚💙📚 #romancelandia #booksky
Quote from RINGS TRUE: "I take off her jacket and slowly unzip her dress, the creamy flesh of her shoulders soft and yielding beneath my fingertips. I push the bodice down her arms, and she shivers, goosebumps emerging wherever my skin brushes across hers."
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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jamesmontgomery.bsky.social
‘Thirteen was the year I discovered spite.’

Such incredible characterisation in just 73 words - wow! Sarah Chin in @xraylitmag.bsky.social 🎂

xraylitmag.com/ages-by-sara...
AGES by Sarah Chin
Thirteen was the year I discovered spite. Fourteen, eyeliner. Fifteen, seduction in a slow blink. At sixteen, I mailed seventeen birthday cards to myself, all unsigned. My mother asked who loved me th...
xraylitmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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bradley-david.com
JMWW Journal is open for poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid/beyond genre submissions. Closes 11/15

jmww.submittable.com/submit
JMWW Submission Manager
jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry,  hybrid work, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly. We are happy you found us!We want to see your work, but don't be all stalke...
jmww.submittable.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
maurayzmore.bsky.social
Periodic reminder that I also write kissing books

Angsty, spicy contemporary romance featuring heroines who are too much and heroes who can't get enough

SHOOT YOUR SHOT: friends-to-lovers, athlete heroine
SOFT REBOUND: hookup-to-lovers, plus-size rep

Buy online: books2read.com/fionaembers/

📚💙🌶📚
Covers for Mad City Moments series by Fiona Embers
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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gabino.bsky.social
I know many new writers worry about how readers will receive their work. That’s a valid concern! That said, two things:

1. This gig is only worth it if you write what YOU want.

2. Some will hate your stuff, but some will like it. Your readers. They’re awesome. Write for them.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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jheijndermans.bsky.social
My Beautiful Beasts sale bundle ends this week, so if you want to get the first three books in my series of erotic novellas for $8, now's your chance!
#monsterromance #novella #booksky #smut #monsterfucker

Find the bundle on Itch here: itch.io/s/163776/bea...
Cover to return the rose, the first Beautiful Beasts book. Colored in monochrome purple, a large beast with a lion-like face and stag antlers embraces a partially undressed woman with long flowing hair. She clutches onto his antlers, wistfully looking at her lover, the beast. Tropes: beauty and the beast, romance in the rain, preferring the beast, broken beds, romantic scars, prisoner to lover, magical genetalia, predator role play, sapphic experiment. Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek. Tropes: consensual tentacles, sengoku jidai era japan, octopus yokai, literal foxy lady, brutal revenge, evil ronin, slightly benevolent monster, secret sex worker, protective surrogate mother. Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness. Tropes: vampire smut, blood drinking, mind control, shape changing, lgbtq romance, emotional abuse, vampire violence, disability & blindness
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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jheijndermans.bsky.social
The sale ends this week, so if you want to pick up 3 short story collections for $10, now's your chance.
#sciencefiction #sffh #shortstories #ebook #booksky
jheijndermans.bsky.social Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 21d
So to alleviate some medical costs, I've put my three short story collection up for sale on Itch in a bundle. Get all three #scifi, #horror and #fantasy collections on #ebook for $10!!!

Find the bundle here: itch.io/s/163297/hei...
Cover to All Through the House and other tales from a Random place by JoachimHeijndermans. Black and white art in boxes symbolizing the short stories within. It inclused a dives accosted by tentacles, a bee, an alien eating noodles, a pig, a round drone, a clock with an omega symbol, a mech suit, a digital smiling face, a pod in space and a ouroboros with arms reaching out. In the center, a set of claws pick up a cookie on a plate for santa. Tropes list: weird Santa claus, 26 short stories, worlds last pig, mindfuck prison, apocalyptic zookeeper, kaiju death cult, Christmas in space, televised deathmatches, bored Eldritch god, udon addicted aliens, superhero speeddating Cover to Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans. A power button symbol in the center is surrounded by a collection of small circles with symbols for the short stories within. Topes list: 18 short stories, literate puffins, kaiju survivors guilt, raccoon, imsane orca, sentient bomb, war tourist meets soldier, poison ocean, space travel podcast, poison ocean, owl griffin Cover for the short story collection Rage from a Cage by Joachim Heijndermans, the title in thick bold lettering. On a white background, marred with scratches and damage, is a set of black shapes of triangles and trapazoids, who together form a broken pentagon. Within the middle shapes is the skull from a sabre-toothed cat, its maw open and the broken pentagon appearing as the bar of a cage. The animal is snarling for freedom. Tropes list: 30 short stories, apocalypse parties, desolate worlds, lonely undead, norse god roommates, cat trials, clockwork gunslinger, vengeful robots, sentient zombie viruses, superhero violence, weird experiments
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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aerynrudel.bsky.social
Hey, folks, got a new story up at @factorfourmagazine.com. It's about demons, social media, and the perils of practicing magic while high. 😉

I'm also sharing the ToC with superlative writer and frequent critique partner @mmschreier.bsky.social.

#writingcommunity

factorfourmag.com/care-and-fie...
Care and Fiending by Aeryn Rudel
Ran out of toilet paper. Had to use paper towels. Not recommended. Jerri, my ex, bought toilet paper, the dish soap, and all that other household stuff. So I got in the car and drove to Target. Wha…
factorfourmag.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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mmschreier.bsky.social
Very excited for this new issue of @factorfourmagazine.com. I've got a little #scifi #flashfiction in it called "Things I Don't Tell My Sister"

Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social

Check it out here:
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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screamkings.bsky.social
Granny the Vampire Slayer
Text: when you want to knit but also want to slay vampires
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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havenspec.bsky.social
ICYMI, our general submission window is open this entire month!

We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!

Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
maurayzmore.bsky.social
Billie's face breaks into a grin.

“You sneaky #little bitch!” I lean over to smack her playfully on the shoulder. “That was an Oscar-worthy performance!”

“Anything to ensure my maid of honor's happiness,” she replies, getting up to leave. “She’s all yours, Javi.”

#WIPSnips
Book 2 new STEM romance
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
maurayzmore.bsky.social
Seth and Billie hold hands as they approach, the length of their joined arms wedged tight between their sides.

Javi walks next to them. If he were in a cartoon, there would be a dark, stormy cloud over his head, thunder and lightning synchronized with his #movements.

#WIPSnips
Book 2 STEM romance
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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abigailmyers.bsky.social
And Dorianne Laux's "The Shipfitter's Wife," which I just read today. (2/2)
I loved him most when he came home from work, his fingers still curled from fitting pipe, his denim shirt ringed with sweat and smelling of salt, the drying weeds of the ocean. I'd go to where he sat on the edge of the bed, his forehead anointed with grease, his cracked hands jammed between his thighs, and unlace the steel-toed boots, stroke his ankles and calves, the pads and bones of his feet. Then I'd open his clothes and take the whole day inside me — the ship's gray sides, the miles of copper pipe, the voice of the foreman clanging off the hull's silver ribs. Spark of lead kissing metal. The clamp, the winch, the white fire of the torch, the whistle, and the long drive home.
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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abigailmyers.bsky.social
I read 2 poems this year that made me immediately buy the respective collections and then some: Marie Howe's "Magdalene: The Addict" (1/2)
I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? 
 I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse could come. Then nothing did, and no one.
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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mynachang.bsky.social
I have a little ghost story in SFPJ today -
"Jimmy. Fucking. Bang."

Thanks to Francine!
November 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
A reminder: if you write book reviews or want to pitch a review, I have a new book coming out in January. It's a collection of speculative short stories from @jacklegpress.bsky.social

Getting eyes on books gets harder and harder, so I'd be grateful!
The cover for Every Galaxy A Circle by Chloe N Clark
November 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
maurayzmore.bsky.social
Reassembling short-fic collection. Reading through everything I've ever written. It's heartening to see how much better the newer stuff is. Makes me cringe that I once didn't see how the older stuff was flawed. Grateful to everyone who's ever published me, before and now
#amwriting #amediting 📚💙🌶📚
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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okaydonkeymag.com
It's November 1, which means OKD is open once more for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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jheijndermans.bsky.social
Ok, while not a Halloween sale per se, all my monster smut books are now available in a bundled sale, with all being just as spooky as they are sexy. Still going strong and all sales help me alleviate some medical bulls. So check the bundle out!

itch.io/s/163776/bea...
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
maurayzmore.bsky.social
An oldie but weirdie

wyldblood.com/among-the-mo...
Among the Monsters | Wyldblood Press
Maura Yzmore Wyld FLASH August 20th 2021 Drawn by a soft glow, I leave my home of mud and slime, and I crawl through thorny bushes toward a strange dwelling at the edge of my domain. There are creatur...
wyldblood.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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duosuma.com
Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social ⭐ will be closing to submissions soon on 4 calls. #CallforSubmissions
Closing Soon to Submissions on Duosuma: Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social ⭐
Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social ⭐ will be closing to submissions soon on 4 calls. #CallforSubmissions
duotrope.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM