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@mererain.bsky.social
Author of speculative fiction of all genres
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I've never had one of these #1 orange banners before!
(and I'm sure it isn't because of me personally, but it's still exciting).
Thanks for supporting SantaCan!
(and I'm sure it isn't because of me personally, but it's still exciting).
Thanks for supporting SantaCan!
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Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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3LBE Issue 45 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Christi Nogle, Octavia Cade, A.C. Wise, Mari Ness, E. Catherine Tobler, and Avra Margariti. Read 3 stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/
July 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
3LBE Issue 45 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Christi Nogle, Octavia Cade, A.C. Wise, Mari Ness, E. Catherine Tobler, and Avra Margariti. Read 3 stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/
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these paypros are only gonna continue to clamp down unless we call them and make their lives hell!
call some paypros, give em a piece of your mind! And advocate against banking/paypro discrimination to your representatives!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
call some paypros, give em a piece of your mind! And advocate against banking/paypro discrimination to your representatives!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
these paypros are only gonna continue to clamp down unless we call them and make their lives hell!
call some paypros, give em a piece of your mind! And advocate against banking/paypro discrimination to your representatives!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
call some paypros, give em a piece of your mind! And advocate against banking/paypro discrimination to your representatives!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Each month, we do this cool thing on QueerSciFi.com to support indie writers. We share 4 books with our readers for free, and add those readers (with permission) to the author lists.
Grab 'em here (sent out around the 3rd of next month):
queerscifi.com/join-our-mai...
#giveaway #freebooks
Grab 'em here (sent out around the 3rd of next month):
queerscifi.com/join-our-mai...
#giveaway #freebooks
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Each month, we do this cool thing on QueerSciFi.com to support indie writers. We share 4 books with our readers for free, and add those readers (with permission) to the author lists.
Grab 'em here (sent out around the 3rd of next month):
queerscifi.com/join-our-mai...
#giveaway #freebooks
Grab 'em here (sent out around the 3rd of next month):
queerscifi.com/join-our-mai...
#giveaway #freebooks
"Love Is Magic" MM paranormal romance anthology will be releasing on US Thanksgiving, November 27! All profits are going to SantaCan, which gives holiday gifts to foster kids.
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Love Is Magic" MM paranormal romance anthology will be releasing on US Thanksgiving, November 27! All profits are going to SantaCan, which gives holiday gifts to foster kids.
Buy books as holiday gifts (you can give yourself gifts, why not?) and help people eat this winter
Let's go, readers: buy books, fight hunger!
Ruadán Books will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1-12/23/25 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy our books direct:
🔗 ruadanbooks.com
📚 or wherever books are sold!
#BookSky
Ruadán Books will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1-12/23/25 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy our books direct:
🔗 ruadanbooks.com
📚 or wherever books are sold!
#BookSky
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Buy books as holiday gifts (you can give yourself gifts, why not?) and help people eat this winter
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BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
Jury Awards $112 Million to 674 Immigrants Unlawfully Held by Suffolk County for ICE Handover | LatinoJusticePRLDEF
FOR IMMEDIATE
www.latinojustice.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
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YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
I passed a shop the other day that advertised barber and tattoos.
The Barbershop (a painting from the archives)
Limited edition prints available.
Limited edition prints available.
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I passed a shop the other day that advertised barber and tattoos.
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Very excited about this...
Want to learn more about semiotic analysis and cultural research - and how to apply them to your writing projects and practice?
Come join me and @alexdavis1981.bsky.social, and we can make it so!
Want to learn more about semiotic analysis and cultural research - and how to apply them to your writing projects and practice?
Come join me and @alexdavis1981.bsky.social, and we can make it so!
Semiotics for Storytelling with Dr Nat Edwards
A three-week course exploring the world of semiotics and the impact it can have on your storytelling.
www.eventbrite.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Very excited about this...
Want to learn more about semiotic analysis and cultural research - and how to apply them to your writing projects and practice?
Come join me and @alexdavis1981.bsky.social, and we can make it so!
Want to learn more about semiotic analysis and cultural research - and how to apply them to your writing projects and practice?
Come join me and @alexdavis1981.bsky.social, and we can make it so!
Changing other peoples' settings is itself RUDE.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Changing other peoples' settings is itself RUDE.
I got an AI ad screaming "Say GOODBYE to your keyboard"
babes I am not your audience
babes I am not your audience
YOU HAVE TO LEARN AI NOW IF YOU DON'T PICK IT UP IN THE NEXT 18 MONTHS YOUR BUSINESS WILL GET LEFT BEHIND the YouTube ad shrieks at me.
Yeah, what I'm hearing is that you have 18 months to make all these massively over-leveraged products turn a profit. And that's not a me problem.
Yeah, what I'm hearing is that you have 18 months to make all these massively over-leveraged products turn a profit. And that's not a me problem.
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I got an AI ad screaming "Say GOODBYE to your keyboard"
babes I am not your audience
babes I am not your audience
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This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Sapphic Lit showcase next February! Authors, sign up to offer your book at .00 or .99c
My Gothic "In the Dark Heart of Winter" will be included.
www.cognitoforms.com/YearOfQueerL...
My Gothic "In the Dark Heart of Winter" will be included.
www.cognitoforms.com/YearOfQueerL...
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sapphic Lit showcase next February! Authors, sign up to offer your book at .00 or .99c
My Gothic "In the Dark Heart of Winter" will be included.
www.cognitoforms.com/YearOfQueerL...
My Gothic "In the Dark Heart of Winter" will be included.
www.cognitoforms.com/YearOfQueerL...
This mm romance antho (which includes my monk+jinn story "Three Wishes and a Miracle") released at the beginning of the year, but is now available in paperback.
More news related to this soon, but last year's @jms-books.com 2024 Top Ten Gay Romance short story collection is now out in *paperback*! (Already out in ebook!) It's got my "Midwinter Music," as well as stories from other JMS Books author-friends! #BookSky #romance
www.jms-books.com/paperbacks-c...
www.jms-books.com/paperbacks-c...
2024 Top Ten Gay Romance [Print] : JMS Books LLC, a queer small press
GENRE: Gay Spicy Romance AnthologyLENGTH: 372 pagesRATING: 2024 Top Ten Gay Romance brings together the best-selling short stories published by JMS Books that year.From first love to true love, from s...
www.jms-books.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This mm romance antho (which includes my monk+jinn story "Three Wishes and a Miracle") released at the beginning of the year, but is now available in paperback.
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
"Transcendence" isn't quite the word I was looking for there...feel free to suggest the word I want if you are vocabulacious or psychic!
The sky is all for you.
Take much. Take more.
No, more. Let no one
tell you that the sky is
for others. It longs
for you as you long
for transcendence.
Take much. Take more.
No, more. Let no one
tell you that the sky is
for others. It longs
for you as you long
for transcendence.
Pick three words at random and write your own short poem!
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Transcendence" isn't quite the word I was looking for there...feel free to suggest the word I want if you are vocabulacious or psychic!
The sky is all for you.
Take much. Take more.
No, more. Let no one
tell you that the sky is
for others. It longs
for you as you long
for transcendence.
Take much. Take more.
No, more. Let no one
tell you that the sky is
for others. It longs
for you as you long
for transcendence.
Pick three words at random and write your own short poem!
There are 7 poems in the new Kaleidotrope and 579 different words between them.
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The sky is all for you.
Take much. Take more.
No, more. Let no one
tell you that the sky is
for others. It longs
for you as you long
for transcendence.
Take much. Take more.
No, more. Let no one
tell you that the sky is
for others. It longs
for you as you long
for transcendence.
I used to do black-out poems with my returned school assignments; some of these were actually okay and made me feel a bit better about the massive time loss spent creating bullshit no one wanted to read.
(I was not one of those "joy to have in class" kids)
(I was not one of those "joy to have in class" kids)
a neat editing trick is cutting all the bad parts out and not replacing them; let the absences in your work speak for themselves too
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I used to do black-out poems with my returned school assignments; some of these were actually okay and made me feel a bit better about the massive time loss spent creating bullshit no one wanted to read.
(I was not one of those "joy to have in class" kids)
(I was not one of those "joy to have in class" kids)
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💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚
This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.
If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...
#SFF #Horror
This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.
If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...
#SFF #Horror
August 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚
This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.
If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...
#SFF #Horror
This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.
If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...
#SFF #Horror
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Leaked emails show the “progressive” Chamber for Progress is coordinating with Google to quash copyright suits against tech giants. Its CEO, and several board members, used to work for Google. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/sDcjwJr
‘Progressive’ Tech Group Asks Trump to Block AI Copyright Cases - The American Prospect
The Chamber of Progress’s campaign to promote fair use, which they have created a campaign around called “Generate and Create,” comes as at least three of the nonprofit organization’s past or current backers are being sued over copyright claims.
trib.al
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Leaked emails show the “progressive” Chamber for Progress is coordinating with Google to quash copyright suits against tech giants. Its CEO, and several board members, used to work for Google. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/sDcjwJr
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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...