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Publisher of otherworldly, haunting fiction. HWA + SFWA. Find us at moonstruck-books.com🦇
My loins are so girded!
February 13, 2024 at 2:16 AM
My loins are so girded!
It's book launching time! On February 25, join us at Powells Books on Burnside at 7pm to celebrate our first title The Rain Artist with Felicity and C.R. Foster. The event is free! powells.com/events-update
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February 13, 2024 at 2:13 AM
It's book launching time! On February 25, join us at Powells Books on Burnside at 7pm to celebrate our first title The Rain Artist with Felicity and C.R. Foster. The event is free! powells.com/events-update
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Read # 4 for the year will be Kayli Scholtz’s St. Grit from @ghoulish.bsky.social in eBook form. I was fortunate to read an early draft of this one and I have a story alongside one of Kayli’s in the Nightmare Diaries anthology coming later this year from @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social, so here we go.
February 2, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Read # 4 for the year will be Kayli Scholtz’s St. Grit from @ghoulish.bsky.social in eBook form. I was fortunate to read an early draft of this one and I have a story alongside one of Kayli’s in the Nightmare Diaries anthology coming later this year from @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social, so here we go.
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My first review for @locusmag.bsky.social, covering @khoreo.bsky.social Issue 3.1 and @augurmag.bsky.social Issue 6.1, is now available to read online! locusmag.com/2023/11/a-c-...
November 6, 2023 at 6:07 PM
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If you need inspiration as you toil, this account of mRNA scientist Katalin Karikó is wonderful. #STS www.glamour.com/story/katali...
The Scientist Who Saved the World
Dr. Katalin Karikó devoted her career to understanding—and evangelizing—the possibilities of mRNA. When the pandemic struck, her unheralded work became the basis for the world’s most effective ...
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November 6, 2023 at 4:23 PM
If you need inspiration as you toil, this account of mRNA scientist Katalin Karikó is wonderful. #STS www.glamour.com/story/katali...
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I don’t think of myself as a “snowbird” just because I leave town in winter - I prefer to think of it as being Snufkin-coded.
November 5, 2023 at 4:46 PM
I don’t think of myself as a “snowbird” just because I leave town in winter - I prefer to think of it as being Snufkin-coded.
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If you are a creative writer you likely don't want stock suggestions for your prose / verse coming from a computer's operating system. If you use Scrivener, uncheck this box (as well as others) for a less invasive writing experience.
Scrivener 3.3.6 here on MacOS Sonoma 14.1.
Scrivener 3.3.6 here on MacOS Sonoma 14.1.
November 5, 2023 at 3:20 PM
If you are a creative writer you likely don't want stock suggestions for your prose / verse coming from a computer's operating system. If you use Scrivener, uncheck this box (as well as others) for a less invasive writing experience.
Scrivener 3.3.6 here on MacOS Sonoma 14.1.
Scrivener 3.3.6 here on MacOS Sonoma 14.1.
What’s in your bedside book-stack?
November 4, 2023 at 3:58 PM
What’s in your bedside book-stack?
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And if the earth no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I’m flowing.
To the flashing water say: I am.
XXIX the finale of The Orpheus Sonnets Rilke tr Mitchell
To the flashing water say: I am.
XXIX the finale of The Orpheus Sonnets Rilke tr Mitchell
November 3, 2023 at 9:28 PM
And if the earth no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I’m flowing.
To the flashing water say: I am.
XXIX the finale of The Orpheus Sonnets Rilke tr Mitchell
To the flashing water say: I am.
XXIX the finale of The Orpheus Sonnets Rilke tr Mitchell
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Seconding this! Also, I wrote a bit about it here. vol1brooklyn.com/2023/10/20/a...
A Bravura Update of a Gothic Classic: On Addie Tsai’s “Unwieldy Creatures”
I’d have called this review “The Post-Modern Prometheus,” but The X-Files got there first. There’s a strong case that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein — not to be confused with the Kenneth Bran...
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November 3, 2023 at 9:41 PM
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Fall in the Pacific Northwest
November 3, 2023 at 5:49 PM
Fall in the Pacific Northwest
HBD Womble! 🍰
We at NOAF admire the SFF genre dedication and enthusiasm of @runalongwomble.bsky.social . And it's Womble's birthday today. Happy birthday Womble!
November 3, 2023 at 3:56 PM
HBD Womble! 🍰
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The Sonnets of Orpheus XXVII Rilke tr Mitchell
Are we really as fate keeps trying to convince us, weak and brittle in an alien world?
Are we really as fate keeps trying to convince us, weak and brittle in an alien world?
November 3, 2023 at 3:29 PM
The Sonnets of Orpheus XXVII Rilke tr Mitchell
Are we really as fate keeps trying to convince us, weak and brittle in an alien world?
Are we really as fate keeps trying to convince us, weak and brittle in an alien world?
What happens after we read your submission? Here are the 5 steps from review to acquisition 🌈📚 www.moonstruck-books.com/blog/5-steps...
5 steps to collaboration — Moonstruck Books
Publishing horror shouldn’t be hair-raising.
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November 3, 2023 at 5:16 AM
What happens after we read your submission? Here are the 5 steps from review to acquisition 🌈📚 www.moonstruck-books.com/blog/5-steps...
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In an effort to keep Bluesky more intelligent and humane than certain other platforms, we’ve been donating invite codes to scientists and academics. If you’ve got an extra, consider giving it to someone in the field! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
BlueSky Invites
Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, and members of related communities or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and w...
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September 25, 2023 at 4:45 AM
In an effort to keep Bluesky more intelligent and humane than certain other platforms, we’ve been donating invite codes to scientists and academics. If you’ve got an extra, consider giving it to someone in the field! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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New today on the site:
Celia Mattison’s “Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western”
Celia Mattison’s “Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western”
Towards the Afropastoral: What Nope Says About the Black Western
Jordan Peele's 'Nope' refashions the Western as a genre that tells a story of American erasure by its survivors.
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November 1, 2023 at 11:28 PM
New today on the site:
Celia Mattison’s “Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western”
Celia Mattison’s “Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western”
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Art for the (printable) November calendar
November 1, 2023 at 9:21 PM
Art for the (printable) November calendar
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"The research revealed that sea stars have a headlike territory in the center of each "arm" and a tail-like region along the perimeter. In an unexpected twist, no part of the sea star ectoderm expresses a "trunk" genetic patterning program, suggesting that sea stars are mostly headlike."
Where is a sea star's head? Maybe just about everywhere
A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the riddle of sea star (commonly called starfish) body plans, and how sea stars start life with bilateral body symmetry -- just l...
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November 1, 2023 at 7:57 PM
"The research revealed that sea stars have a headlike territory in the center of each "arm" and a tail-like region along the perimeter. In an unexpected twist, no part of the sea star ectoderm expresses a "trunk" genetic patterning program, suggesting that sea stars are mostly headlike."
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it's November and so I feel justified in asking this question: what are some of the best gifts characters in SFF have given to others, or been given themselves?
November 1, 2023 at 7:28 PM
it's November and so I feel justified in asking this question: what are some of the best gifts characters in SFF have given to others, or been given themselves?
Co-sign. This is one of many reasons we made our open call for anthology submissions so long! Quality takes time.
Publishing is already hostile enough to working class writers without magazines that run poorly communicated two hour submission windows in the middle of the day. How do you expect people stuck on call centre phones or waiting tables or driving taxis to send their work to you?
November 1, 2023 at 5:55 PM
Co-sign. This is one of many reasons we made our open call for anthology submissions so long! Quality takes time.
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"It's as if movies answer an ancient quest for the common unconscious. They fulfill a spiritual need that people have to share a common memory."
- Martin Scorsese
- Martin Scorsese
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese — "A Common Memory"
1995 Martin Scorsese
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November 1, 2023 at 8:53 AM
"It's as if movies answer an ancient quest for the common unconscious. They fulfill a spiritual need that people have to share a common memory."
- Martin Scorsese
- Martin Scorsese
Hello, November 🍂
November 1, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Hello, November 🍂
Platonic soup ideal 🍜
my wife has a spreadsheet of every soup she makes, including a 1-5 star rating system. each season the sheet gets more robust and we build toward a mythical Perfect Soup Year.
November 1, 2023 at 4:17 AM
Platonic soup ideal 🍜
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You’ve seen the dog outside of town, lying where the witches were buried.
October 31, 2023 at 10:46 PM
You’ve seen the dog outside of town, lying where the witches were buried.