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Rascal Hartley
@rascalhartley.bsky.social
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I write. Supposedly.
dear stupid penpal - out now! 🪐
This Is Why I Saved You - in the loving hands of @duckprintspress.com 🐏

unfortunatelyobsessed on AO3, 2019 Hugo award winner (iykyk), bestselling author (apparently?!)
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chroniclebooks.bsky.social
Unlock the secrets of a mystical tome with Codex Regenesis!🔑

An antiquarian bookseller recently vanished under strange circumstances, leaving only a copy of Codex Regenesis behind.

Available everywhere books are sold and at our link: www.chroniclebooks.com/products/cod...
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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flaremagazine.bsky.social
(1/2) FLARE is a year old! Woohoo! To celebrate, we're hosting our first writing contest: Strength in Stories Writing Contest, which is FREE to enter, but winners get PAID! Subs are open NOW through March 1st! Read the guidelines here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/contests/
off white background with pink and blue balloons, streamers, lollipops, presents, and cake: FLARE Magazine is 1! off white background with "Let's Celebrate" graphic with confetti: Strength in Stories Writing Contest OPEN Now Through March 1st! FREE to enter! Winners get paid + publication Theme: Disability as a Strength Visit flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/contests for more details! off white background: 1st place winner gets $125 + online publication, 2nd place winner gets $75 + online publication, and 3rd place winner gets $50 + online publication There will be 3 runners up and they will get online publication ONLY money bag pictured below from Canva off white background: Special Note: This contest is FREE to enter, but if you donate to the 2025 GoFundMe page and/or buy merch during our open contest sub period, ALL proceeds increase the winners' monetary prize! Find the GoFundMe page and merch page on the FLARE site! illustration of dollar bills pictured below from Canva.
January 2, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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chucktingle.bsky.social
ITS THAT TIME AGAIN
cover of POUNDED BY THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF THE WEIRD DULL SADNESS THAT HAPPENS AFTER THE HOLIDAYS END AND JANUARY ROLLS AROUND featuring a lonesome buckaroo with no shirt holding his heart next to the manifestation of january blues
January 2, 2026 at 3:11 PM
rascalhartley.bsky.social
ME?!
The word is sultry. This author is ace
January 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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dirkmyers.bsky.social
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):

Dear Stupid Penpal, Rascal Hartley @rascalhartley.bsky.social

Genre-meddling epistolary fun. Slow reveal done well, engaging characters. Perfect read for a long dark night. On my "gift copies of this" list immediately.

4/?
December 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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factrat.bsky.social
Hey, look what was in that amazing box! It's REEF MIND from @hazelzorn.bsky.social and DEAR STUPID PENPAL from @rascalhartley.bsky.social and bonus stuff and frankly I spent so much time writing the Alt-Text that I'm just gonna lie on the floor and space out for a bit. Thank you for your indulgence.
My apologies for the filthy, filthy carpet that makes for the backdrop of this otherwise impeccably staged photo array, but, fun fact, it is what it is. So first there's Hazel Zorn's REEF MIND, the cover boldly illustrating the endlessly writhing colors and shapes of a coral reef, all reds and blues and pinks, but there's a human figure down at the bottom, apparently the focus of it all, and it looks like it all plugs into him. Intriguing! Then there's DEAR STUPID PENPAL, which cover has the title at the top in all lower-case, with a pixelated red-yellow-orange mix down the left side that blends into the suggestion of a spaceship cockpit sort of view along the bottom. There are also some bookmarks and stickers, because Tenebrous Press always goes above and beyond like that, Weott bless’em.
December 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
And if you wanna check out @rascalhartley.bsky.social’s DEAR STUPID PENPAL for yourself:
YOU SHOULD.

store.tenebrouspress.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
rascalhartley.bsky.social
Aaaah! I'm so glad you liked it! And please give your dog my love 🥺💛
January 1, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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carlydraws.bsky.social
Lining up projects for next year, so drop me a line if you would like to work together on something exciting!

Portfolio- carlydraws.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Solid ground beneath your feet?
That means death💀
Get to the water.

KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social is out in February.
Preorder here: store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by @kerissonlp.bsky.social
Interior art by @blackyshep.bsky.social
Cover art by Kerisson Wemerson: illustration of a lone kayaker traversing the waters into a the mouth of a massive, monstrous skull + Blurbs from Max Booth, Sonora Taylor, Laura Cranehill
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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carlydraws.bsky.social
give the gift of a reminder of your own mortality this season! :-D
grim reaper with a santa hat on
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
rascalhartley.bsky.social
Reading The Kingkiller Chronicles. Ademic is Toki Pona and not even Rothfuss can change my mind
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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jd-rivers.com
🐺 A downtrodden ex-soldier.
🦭 A lost inn-owner.
❤️ Blossoming feelings.
🗡️ A dead body.
🏝️ An island, where justice is deadly.

Selkie x werewolf
Urban fantasy!

Buy direct: tinyurl.com/DPPSalt
duckprintspress.itch.io/the-salt-in-...

GR: tinyurl.com/ys57r2rm
TSG: tinyurl.com/2shv5aed

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The front cover of a book entitled The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers. Stylized artwork shows two men in a loose embrace, one shorter, light-skinned, and pale-haired, the taller one dark haired and darker skinned, both in casual modern-esque clothes. The taller one kisses the shorter one on the forehead, his hand clasping the shorter one's cheek. They stand before a blood-red circle with a star on it, and a brilliant blue wave surges behind them. Illustration by: planetsandmagic Typesetting by: Hermits Writes
December 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Had me in the palm of its hand every step of the way. I don’t know if I’ve been bowled over more by a book this year. Kind of mad at it TBH"

Us too, reader. Us too.

@rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL is leaving scars of a different sort on folks; we're here for it🖤☠️
Cover art by Carly A-F, a lone astronaut in the black of space, their computer pixelating colorfully into the stars. Blurbs from Emma Cole and Ide Hennessey.
December 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
rascalhartley.bsky.social
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social @hazelzorn.bsky.social
👀💛
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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
lithub.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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xvx-kvlt-666.bsky.social
CR: Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social. Pairing experimental queer space opera w/ the latest Sanguisugabogg record seems like the right thing to do. @tenebrouspress.bsky.social w/ the never ending bangers. #BookSky #SpeculativeFiction #QueerFiction #SFF #ScienceFiction
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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stevenpatchett.bsky.social
Just read "Dear Stupid Penpal" by @rascalhartley.bsky.social from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social in one go.
Wonderful novella, absolutely top notch.
Finished it with a big smile on my face.
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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amadolaila.bsky.social
Reading at the airport, and what a book! Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social and @tenebrouspress.bsky.social is so good! I’m enjoying it immensely.

#booksky
📚🩵
November 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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hvpatterson.bsky.social
Really loved this book! Stayed up too late because I had to finish it. Check out DEAR STUPID PENPAL by @rascalhartley.bsky.social!
tenebrouspress.bsky.social Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Nov 14
Astronaut hates space, ship, other crew members💀

Not too fond of his assigned penpal either (at first)💀

Shit goes bananas at the edge of the universe💀

Time gets crazy💀

People die💀

Cosmic Horror💀

...Meet Cute?❤️

DEAR STUPID PENPAL by @rascalhartley.bsky.social
OUT NOW: store.tenebrouspress.com
Cover art by Carly A-F: against the blackness of space, a lone astronaut sits at their console, which drifts into the heavens in multicolored pixels. Blurbs by Emma Cole and Ide Hennessey.
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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pixelsandpins.bsky.social
Bookmail today brought Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social.

The packaging from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social press is just lovely!

#booksky 💙📚🪐
A purple box. The image on top is a flaming skull in a flower crown. The word "Tenebrous" is on the front wall in a serif font.. The previous purple box flipped over to reveal a flower crown skull logo on the back. A sticker with more skeletons. A bookmark featuring book covers from the company, a pin with the skull logo, the book Dear Stupid Penpal.
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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jamreads.com
Dear Stupid Penpal, by @rascalhartley.bsky.social (pub by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social) is an excellent epistolary novel that explores the strength of bonds amid the vastness and horror of space and time.

Full thoughts:
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November 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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stevenpatchett.bsky.social
Book post is the best post. The last @tenebrouspress.bsky.social release for 2025 ends with 'Dear Stupid Penpal' by @rascalhartley.bsky.social
Definitely on my Christmas break reading list.
Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley. The book cover features a spaceship cockpit with a strange pillar of light rising from the console, watched by a figure in darkness.
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Astronaut hates space, ship, other crew members💀

Not too fond of his assigned penpal either (at first)💀

Shit goes bananas at the edge of the universe💀

Time gets crazy💀

People die💀

Cosmic Horror💀

...Meet Cute?❤️

DEAR STUPID PENPAL by @rascalhartley.bsky.social
OUT NOW: store.tenebrouspress.com
Cover art by Carly A-F: against the blackness of space, a lone astronaut sits at their console, which drifts into the heavens in multicolored pixels. Blurbs by Emma Cole and Ide Hennessey.
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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alexwoodroe.com
"...unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller. Readers will be on the edges of their seats."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BABY

www.publishersweekly.com/9781787589186
The Night Ship Alex Woodroe. Flame Tree, $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-787589-18-6 Woodroe (Whisperwood) expertly maintains suspense throughout this unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller about an apocalyptic event in 1987 Romania. Heroine Rosi has “made it a point of survival to think as little as possible about... goings-on beyond what was strictly in front of her.” She’s taken advantage of the logging truck used by her fiancé, Gigi, to facilitate her smuggling business. On a routine excursion in that vehicle, the pair pick up a hitchhiker, Sorin, who claims to be a philosophy student, though Rosi soon comes to suspect that he is a government informant, if not actually a member of the country’s notorious secret police. Before she can test this theory, darkness falls like a physical force from the sky and “swallows the world.” In this new pitch blackness, segments of once solid ground are replaced by an inky substance that drags down all objects that land in it. With the truck’s cabin one of the only safe refuges, this unlikely trio set out to make sense of what’s happened and rescue survivors. Woodroe parcels out reveals about the nature of the dark void gradually but effectively. Readers will be on the edges of their seats. (Jan.)
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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carlydraws.bsky.social
WITCHKING

grotty fantasy inspired
old fantasy mags and ttrpg books

print? in my US printshop (sale on at the moment!) www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...

#art #fantasy #bsnm
a warrior faces the witchking black against green or rainbow red
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM