Marty Cahill
@mcflycahill90.bsky.social
USA Today Bestselling author of Audition For The Fox; author of Critical Role: Armory of Heroes. Repped by Hannah Bowman. Email: Martintcahill @ gmail
Black & Trans Lives Matter. He/Him.
https://www.martincahillwrites.com
Black & Trans Lives Matter. He/Him.
https://www.martincahillwrites.com
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2025 Eligibility Post
Holy shit, I published a lot of stuff this year. Five short stories, one commissioned short story, an essay pamphlet, an article with Writer’s Digest,...
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My 2025 Eligibility post is now live! Holy shit, I had a lot of work out this year. Featuring writing w/ @undertow.bsky.social, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @reactorsff.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @criticalrole.bsky.social, @tachyonpub.bsky.social, and more!
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Some of my fav. places to find book reviews + news are @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, @reactorsff.bsky.social, @emilyhughes.bsky.social, @seizethepress.bsky.social, @xraylitmag.bsky.social
And of course what friends read + good presses put out
And of course what friends read + good presses put out
February 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Some of my fav. places to find book reviews + news are @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, @reactorsff.bsky.social, @emilyhughes.bsky.social, @seizethepress.bsky.social, @xraylitmag.bsky.social
And of course what friends read + good presses put out
And of course what friends read + good presses put out
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OMG Enchanting the Fae Queen is officially a USA Today bestseller!!!!!!! Thank you so much to every reader who made this happen. ❤️❤️❤️
stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
#romancelandia
stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
#romancelandia
February 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
OMG Enchanting the Fae Queen is officially a USA Today bestseller!!!!!!! Thank you so much to every reader who made this happen. ❤️❤️❤️
stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
#romancelandia
stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
#romancelandia
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2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor
Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...
reactormag.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
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I would like to make a little thread/sloppy directory, here: If you write about books for any outlet (by which I mean not a newsletter, somewhere that you have an editor), please reply and tell me what you cover and where?
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I would like to make a little thread/sloppy directory, here: If you write about books for any outlet (by which I mean not a newsletter, somewhere that you have an editor), please reply and tell me what you cover and where?
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JESUS CHRIST.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
JESUS CHRIST.
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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
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this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children
February 4, 2026 at 1:29 AM
this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children
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Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Statement on ICE Operations in the USA
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US facing these conditions.
strangehorizons.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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If you've yet to experience the beauty, majesty, and heartbreak of @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, it's okay, you did nothing wrong but you DO have to fix it, and you can fix it by reading this from her in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social. Absolutely thunderous and lovely.
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Ichthyosis - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is how it begins.
psychopomp.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
If you've yet to experience the beauty, majesty, and heartbreak of @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, it's okay, you did nothing wrong but you DO have to fix it, and you can fix it by reading this from her in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social. Absolutely thunderous and lovely.
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
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Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:
Martinez ends her testimony with this:
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:
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@sapphomancer.bsky.social's new novel THE FELICITY COMPLEX is INCREDIBLE. Rich motherfucker apocalypse survivors who arrive at secret shelter to find John Carpenter's The Thing cheerfully taking their luggage. It's body horror, it's sci-fi, it's camp, it's personhood, family & fallout of all kinds.
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
@sapphomancer.bsky.social's new novel THE FELICITY COMPLEX is INCREDIBLE. Rich motherfucker apocalypse survivors who arrive at secret shelter to find John Carpenter's The Thing cheerfully taking their luggage. It's body horror, it's sci-fi, it's camp, it's personhood, family & fallout of all kinds.
If you've yet to experience the beauty, majesty, and heartbreak of @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, it's okay, you did nothing wrong but you DO have to fix it, and you can fix it by reading this from her in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social. Absolutely thunderous and lovely.
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Ichthyosis - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is how it begins.
psychopomp.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
If you've yet to experience the beauty, majesty, and heartbreak of @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, it's okay, you did nothing wrong but you DO have to fix it, and you can fix it by reading this from her in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social. Absolutely thunderous and lovely.
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
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So thrilled to see my story "Piglet Delivers" in the amazing new issue of Apex Magazine! It's my dark-ish take on Milne's books about Winnie the Pooh and the creatures in the Hundred Acre Wood.
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...
Apex Magazine Issue 152
EDITORIAL"Musings from Maryland" by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Unsettled Nature" by Jordan Kurella"Piglet Delivers" by Maria Haskins"Ascension" by P.L. McMillan"The Island of Sea Turtles and…
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February 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
So thrilled to see my story "Piglet Delivers" in the amazing new issue of Apex Magazine! It's my dark-ish take on Milne's books about Winnie the Pooh and the creatures in the Hundred Acre Wood.
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...
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The main business model of Silicon Valley from Uber to AirBnB to Spotify is: skim profit off others' goods and labor. Often in ways that are exploitative of individuals or destructive of larger forces (as with Amazon and the retail that kept people heading out in public).
Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.
futurism.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
The main business model of Silicon Valley from Uber to AirBnB to Spotify is: skim profit off others' goods and labor. Often in ways that are exploitative of individuals or destructive of larger forces (as with Amazon and the retail that kept people heading out in public).
@sapphomancer.bsky.social's new novel THE FELICITY COMPLEX is INCREDIBLE. Rich motherfucker apocalypse survivors who arrive at secret shelter to find John Carpenter's The Thing cheerfully taking their luggage. It's body horror, it's sci-fi, it's camp, it's personhood, family & fallout of all kinds.
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
@sapphomancer.bsky.social's new novel THE FELICITY COMPLEX is INCREDIBLE. Rich motherfucker apocalypse survivors who arrive at secret shelter to find John Carpenter's The Thing cheerfully taking their luggage. It's body horror, it's sci-fi, it's camp, it's personhood, family & fallout of all kinds.
How was I not following this wonderful magazine yet on BSKY? Submit, friends!
✨ I’m excited to share that Orion’s Belt will reopen for submissions from March 1 to May 15! We’ll be seeking spec flash, micro, & poetry, as well as translations & reviews! Most importantly, our payment for poetry & art will increase. Follow us on this new adventure and for more exciting news! ✨
February 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM
How was I not following this wonderful magazine yet on BSKY? Submit, friends!
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We are legitimately so close to funding in the first 24 hours and that would be so exciting I might have a fit about it
Hornywizards.com to back it!!!
Hornywizards.com to back it!!!
February 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
We are legitimately so close to funding in the first 24 hours and that would be so exciting I might have a fit about it
Hornywizards.com to back it!!!
Hornywizards.com to back it!!!
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Happy book birthday to @justinkey.bsky.social , whose first novel comes out today! The Hospital at the End of the World is thrilling, but it's also a thoughtful character-based meditation on AI and medicine and the human costs. And also makes it clear that I could never have handled med school.
I should be sleeping but I HAVE A NOVEL OUT TODAY!!!
February 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Happy book birthday to @justinkey.bsky.social , whose first novel comes out today! The Hospital at the End of the World is thrilling, but it's also a thoughtful character-based meditation on AI and medicine and the human costs. And also makes it clear that I could never have handled med school.
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Astoria and Long Island City: it’s Special Election Day! @DianaforQueens has my full support in her run for my old Assembly seat.
Polls are open until 9PM and you can vote for Diana on the @NYWFP or Democratic line.
Learn more at dianaforqueens.com
Polls are open until 9PM and you can vote for Diana on the @NYWFP or Democratic line.
Learn more at dianaforqueens.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Astoria and Long Island City: it’s Special Election Day! @DianaforQueens has my full support in her run for my old Assembly seat.
Polls are open until 9PM and you can vote for Diana on the @NYWFP or Democratic line.
Learn more at dianaforqueens.com
Polls are open until 9PM and you can vote for Diana on the @NYWFP or Democratic line.
Learn more at dianaforqueens.com
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Did you just find out your favorite, super successful author is a piece of crap?
Good news! There are literally hundreds of other, amazing and vibrant writers out there who are pretty rad. Not perfect (who is?) but definitely worth your time.
Good news! There are literally hundreds of other, amazing and vibrant writers out there who are pretty rad. Not perfect (who is?) but definitely worth your time.
February 3, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Did you just find out your favorite, super successful author is a piece of crap?
Good news! There are literally hundreds of other, amazing and vibrant writers out there who are pretty rad. Not perfect (who is?) but definitely worth your time.
Good news! There are literally hundreds of other, amazing and vibrant writers out there who are pretty rad. Not perfect (who is?) but definitely worth your time.
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Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear
Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over
Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.
futurism.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear
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furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman
In Neil Gaiman’s “I did nothing wrong ever” statement he says there’s been no good journalism about him or his assaults. There has been, of course.
Thing is, he said the same thing in 2018 when @moryan.bsky.social reported on issues behind the scenes on American Gods www.moryan.com/a-burn-it-do...
Thing is, he said the same thing in 2018 when @moryan.bsky.social reported on issues behind the scenes on American Gods www.moryan.com/a-burn-it-do...
A Burn It Down video extravaganza, and thoughts on Neil Gaiman, creative gods, American Gods and rotten pedestals
Hello!
Chicago folks, on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m., I’ll be in conversation with my friend Steve Darnall at The Book Cellar in Chicago. The occasion is the reissue of Uncle Sam, a brilliant graph...
www.moryan.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:24 AM
furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman
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Lit Hub lists THE RAINSEEKERS as one of February's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books.
Prepare yourself for Frankenstein summer (and new sci-fi and fantasy books by Matt Dinniman, A.D. Sui, Makana Yamamoto, and more).
Mars Rainfall, Death Monks, and Frankenstein Summer: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
As we slog through the end of winter, with an extra-nasty flu season and subzero temperatures, at least there are some stellar tales to keep us entertained until the first whispers of spring. Trave…
buff.ly
February 2, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Lit Hub lists THE RAINSEEKERS as one of February's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books.
ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces.
Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.
Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.
February 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM
ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces.
Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.
Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.