Margaret should be writing
@mldcurelas.bsky.social
Writer, geek, former librarian, publisher, Canadian. Avatar art by Adriano Moraes from upcoming Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls Who Invent & Imagine.
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A new bookstore opening in Calgary? It's a horror bookshop? Yeah, this I'll need to see! Full open this Saturday. www.nocturnebooks.ca
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
A new bookstore opening in Calgary? It's a horror bookshop? Yeah, this I'll need to see! Full open this Saturday. www.nocturnebooks.ca
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We are greatly saddened to learn of Jean-Louis Trudel's passing. What a staggering loss for our community. Our sincere condolences to his friends, family, and colleagues.
Jean-louis Trudel nous a quitté.
C'est une info très triste qui nous est parvenue. L'auteur canadien Jean-Louis Trudel est décédé ces jours ci lors d'une résidence d'auteur à Vilnius en Lituan
www.actusf.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
We are greatly saddened to learn of Jean-Louis Trudel's passing. What a staggering loss for our community. Our sincere condolences to his friends, family, and colleagues.
A fantastic deal! A great time to get issue 132 (volume 35 #2), which has my story "Mabel's Creek", co-written with @rhondaparrish.bsky.social
Since @onspecmag.bsky.social is closing up shop next month, its publishers have reduced prices on all 100+ back issues of OnSpec to just 99 cents! weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A fantastic deal! A great time to get issue 132 (volume 35 #2), which has my story "Mabel's Creek", co-written with @rhondaparrish.bsky.social
Christmas present for a friend. Stitching on waste canvas onto a tea towel. Pattern is Feliz Navidad by Cross Stitching For Fun. #WIPWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Christmas present for a friend. Stitching on waste canvas onto a tea towel. Pattern is Feliz Navidad by Cross Stitching For Fun. #WIPWednesday
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Time to enter your works on the Aurora Awards eligibility list! 🇨🇦
Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025.
If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/
If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) – Home of the Prix Aurora Awards and CSFFA Hall of Fame
www.csffa.ca
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Time to enter your works on the Aurora Awards eligibility list! 🇨🇦
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I'm organizing a fundraiser to benefit the Edmonton Food Bank and looking for anyone who would like to participate (as a fundraiser, not as a donor--that comes later LOL).
Details here: www.rhondaparrish.com/home/giftmas...
Signal boosts of this post greatly appreciated :)
#Giftmas2025
Details here: www.rhondaparrish.com/home/giftmas...
Signal boosts of this post greatly appreciated :)
#Giftmas2025
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I'm organizing a fundraiser to benefit the Edmonton Food Bank and looking for anyone who would like to participate (as a fundraiser, not as a donor--that comes later LOL).
Details here: www.rhondaparrish.com/home/giftmas...
Signal boosts of this post greatly appreciated :)
#Giftmas2025
Details here: www.rhondaparrish.com/home/giftmas...
Signal boosts of this post greatly appreciated :)
#Giftmas2025
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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Fall is here and many of you may be shopping for an overcoat.
Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵
Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵
Here are four overcoats.
— Which do you think is the most expensive?
— Which do you think is the least expensive?
— Which do you think provides the best value?
Answer below. Tomorrow, I will show what you get as you climb up the price ladder for overcoats.
— Which do you think is the most expensive?
— Which do you think is the least expensive?
— Which do you think provides the best value?
Answer below. Tomorrow, I will show what you get as you climb up the price ladder for overcoats.
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Fall is here and many of you may be shopping for an overcoat.
Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵
Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵
Hauled out this old project to work on a little leading up to Halloween. This is the Supernatural SAL from the Witchy Stitcher. Started the Jinn last night (far right section).
#crossStitch #WIPWednesday #xstitch
#crossStitch #WIPWednesday #xstitch
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hauled out this old project to work on a little leading up to Halloween. This is the Supernatural SAL from the Witchy Stitcher. Started the Jinn last night (far right section).
#crossStitch #WIPWednesday #xstitch
#crossStitch #WIPWednesday #xstitch
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Absolutely delighted by this post to r/crossstitch where the OP doesn’t realize that she’s just broken the world record for largest cross stitch by a single stitcher and is informed of said record breaking status in the comments
[SELF-PROMO]Finally, after 10 years, I finished my project. Size: 1.43 x 2.20 meters. Crosses: 974 x 1637. Total: 1,594,438 crosses. Aida 18 count canvas
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October 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Absolutely delighted by this post to r/crossstitch where the OP doesn’t realize that she’s just broken the world record for largest cross stitch by a single stitcher and is informed of said record breaking status in the comments
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Starting a GoFundMe to get Harry and Meghan to show up to all remaining World Series games in Dodgers hats.
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Starting a GoFundMe to get Harry and Meghan to show up to all remaining World Series games in Dodgers hats.
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I had the opportunity to review "I'll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis" for The Seaboard Review of Books. Some moving and interesting poems! Worth a read.
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/ill-get-ri...
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/ill-get-ri...
I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis
Edited by The Land and Labour Poetry Collective
www.theseaboardreview.ca
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I had the opportunity to review "I'll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis" for The Seaboard Review of Books. Some moving and interesting poems! Worth a read.
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/ill-get-ri...
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/ill-get-ri...
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The in-the-background-financial-mess is also ongoing. At this point I'll take whatever gigs people have to pass along. Might be sorting this problem out for a while, so everything helps.
Unexpected reminder today that I've a small financial clusterfuck going on in the background on my end. (It'll continue until I can sort it.)
So, uh, hey, anyone have a larger editing job they need done, maybe? I do dev/copy/line/proof/whatever. Rates at the site. Or DM.
mathesonfreelancing.com
So, uh, hey, anyone have a larger editing job they need done, maybe? I do dev/copy/line/proof/whatever. Rates at the site. Or DM.
mathesonfreelancing.com
Matheson Freelancing
Post by @sekisetsu.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The in-the-background-financial-mess is also ongoing. At this point I'll take whatever gigs people have to pass along. Might be sorting this problem out for a while, so everything helps.
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www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Smith’s trip to Middle East draws criticism amid back-to-school mandate
#abpoli #ableg #alberta #MiddleEast #trip #lavish
#NotWithstanding #clause #MIA #SaudiaArabia
#FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPCorruption #teachers
#StandWithABTeachers
Smith’s trip to Middle East draws criticism amid back-to-school mandate
#abpoli #ableg #alberta #MiddleEast #trip #lavish
#NotWithstanding #clause #MIA #SaudiaArabia
#FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPCorruption #teachers
#StandWithABTeachers
Smith’s trip to Middle East draws criticism amid back-to-school mandate
The same day Alberta’s government invoked the notwithstanding clause to bring teachers back to work, Premier Danielle Smith boarded a plane.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Smith’s trip to Middle East draws criticism amid back-to-school mandate
#abpoli #ableg #alberta #MiddleEast #trip #lavish
#NotWithstanding #clause #MIA #SaudiaArabia
#FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPCorruption #teachers
#StandWithABTeachers
Smith’s trip to Middle East draws criticism amid back-to-school mandate
#abpoli #ableg #alberta #MiddleEast #trip #lavish
#NotWithstanding #clause #MIA #SaudiaArabia
#FireTheUCP #FireSmith #UCPCorruption #teachers
#StandWithABTeachers
Student walk-outs are scheduled today, in a show of support for teachers, & my kid will be a part of that. #ableg
An appalling, unjust, law drives teachers back to work. The most dangerous precedent Alberta has seen In many years. Column.
calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a... #abed #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a... #abed #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work
Alberta teacher are going back to work, but the law that drives them lingers as a dangerous attack on rights
calgaryherald.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Student walk-outs are scheduled today, in a show of support for teachers, & my kid will be a part of that. #ableg
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Krista being unhinged about the Mission: Impossible films is just the BEST. :)
Update on this:
We're going to start Saturday (most likely) and the plan is to run out and pick up movie popcorn (like, from the theatre).
And here's my listing of Tom Cruise movies, in order. Final Reckoning is not on the list b/c this was done before it came out.
We're going to start Saturday (most likely) and the plan is to run out and pick up movie popcorn (like, from the theatre).
And here's my listing of Tom Cruise movies, in order. Final Reckoning is not on the list b/c this was done before it came out.
October 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Krista being unhinged about the Mission: Impossible films is just the BEST. :)
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Giant thread of my backlist. I have *so* many books, so flip through and see if anything appeals.
Shitposting is fun and all, but it doesn't pay the bills.
Shitposting is fun and all, but it doesn't pay the bills.
"Men made me very angry." - Goodreads
Read my historical fantasy - an exploration of grief, guilt, and one woman's search for internal peace. Also ghosts.
Complete series.
AMI books2read.com/u/bwqara
AGR books2read.com/u/mZKZzB
SoW books2read.com/u/38V7Ma
ALC books2read.com/u/mKXvDV
Read my historical fantasy - an exploration of grief, guilt, and one woman's search for internal peace. Also ghosts.
Complete series.
AMI books2read.com/u/bwqara
AGR books2read.com/u/mZKZzB
SoW books2read.com/u/38V7Ma
ALC books2read.com/u/mKXvDV
May 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Giant thread of my backlist. I have *so* many books, so flip through and see if anything appeals.
Shitposting is fun and all, but it doesn't pay the bills.
Shitposting is fun and all, but it doesn't pay the bills.
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Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word? I'm hoping for 3 new patrons over at my Patreon. This will help support my art and my life and help stave off the terror of existence in the coming months.
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Get more from Jeremy Creature on Patreon
fabric art, weird little guys, puppets
www.patreon.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word? I'm hoping for 3 new patrons over at my Patreon. This will help support my art and my life and help stave off the terror of existence in the coming months.
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
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I've read a lot of Skyla's backlist, so let me know if you need me to pick out a book for you!
Support Canadians! We're passive aggressive, and often aggressive, but we're also nice! Sometimes anyway.
cough
Um, buy Skyla's books.
Support Canadians! We're passive aggressive, and often aggressive, but we're also nice! Sometimes anyway.
cough
Um, buy Skyla's books.
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I've read a lot of Skyla's backlist, so let me know if you need me to pick out a book for you!
Support Canadians! We're passive aggressive, and often aggressive, but we're also nice! Sometimes anyway.
cough
Um, buy Skyla's books.
Support Canadians! We're passive aggressive, and often aggressive, but we're also nice! Sometimes anyway.
cough
Um, buy Skyla's books.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
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Rick Overwater's protagonist in "Fifth Book from the Sun" is an ex-solider who teams up with the Librarians, freedom fighters leading a movement against an oppressive government.
Get a copy of Starship Librarians! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4ZKNHX
Get a copy of Starship Librarians! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4ZKNHX
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Rick Overwater's protagonist in "Fifth Book from the Sun" is an ex-solider who teams up with the Librarians, freedom fighters leading a movement against an oppressive government.
Get a copy of Starship Librarians! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4ZKNHX
Get a copy of Starship Librarians! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4ZKNHX
A small finish for October! "Halloween Hedgehog" by Cross Stitching For Fun. #CrossStitch
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A small finish for October! "Halloween Hedgehog" by Cross Stitching For Fun. #CrossStitch
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