A.C. Wise
@acwise.bsky.social
Author and reviewer. Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
Don't mind me, just over here performatively reading in public am I doing this right? (Also Red Star Hustle by @sentencebender.bsky.social is amazing and y'all should read it, in public or otherwise.)
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Don't mind me, just over here performatively reading in public am I doing this right? (Also Red Star Hustle by @sentencebender.bsky.social is amazing and y'all should read it, in public or otherwise.)
Just a friendly reminder that I'll be at Main Point Books tonight at 6:30 pm with @timchawaga.bsky.social talking about his new novel, Salvagia!
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Tim Chawaga, "Salvagia" Book Launch
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November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just a friendly reminder that I'll be at Main Point Books tonight at 6:30 pm with @timchawaga.bsky.social talking about his new novel, Salvagia!
mainpointbooks.com/event/2025-1...
mainpointbooks.com/event/2025-1...
In case you missed it earlier, I've started collecting links for my annual eligibility and recommendation links post. I added several earlier and will update again soon, so please spread the word and keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In case you missed it earlier, I've started collecting links for my annual eligibility and recommendation links post. I added several earlier and will update again soon, so please spread the word and keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
This is an absolutely gorgeous collection! Not only is Call and Response by @seraph76.bsky.social full of stunning fiction, it's a physically beautiful book too. Just look at the sprayed edges!
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is an absolutely gorgeous collection! Not only is Call and Response by @seraph76.bsky.social full of stunning fiction, it's a physically beautiful book too. Just look at the sprayed edges!
It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
Happy book birthday to @klschroeder.bsky.social! No One to Hold the Distant Dead is a lovely novella that contemplates what it means to mourn an entire planet and how one finds hope when things seem hopeless.
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy book birthday to @klschroeder.bsky.social! No One to Hold the Distant Dead is a lovely novella that contemplates what it means to mourn an entire planet and how one finds hope when things seem hopeless.
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
Helping @carpelibrum.bsky.social reopen as a brick and mortar store with a shop cat to boot is a fantastic reason to buy books! As if you need an excuse.
We're hoping to get a new space for the bookstore so we can reopen in a brick and mortar format, then adopt a shop cat, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout.
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carpelibrumbaltimore.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Helping @carpelibrum.bsky.social reopen as a brick and mortar store with a shop cat to boot is a fantastic reason to buy books! As if you need an excuse.
A dark, frightening and visceral read that treats the body as a haunted house that the protagonist can't leave. If you're looking for some truly unsettling horror, I highly recommend The Graceview Patient by @caitlinstarling.com!
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A dark, frightening and visceral read that treats the body as a haunted house that the protagonist can't leave. If you're looking for some truly unsettling horror, I highly recommend The Graceview Patient by @caitlinstarling.com!
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Tomorrow, I'll be at the Elkton Branch of the Cecil County Public Library signing and selling books along with other fabulous authors. Hope to see you there!
www.cecilcountylibrary.org/event/meetan...
www.cecilcountylibrary.org/event/meetan...
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tomorrow, I'll be at the Elkton Branch of the Cecil County Public Library signing and selling books along with other fabulous authors. Hope to see you there!
www.cecilcountylibrary.org/event/meetan...
www.cecilcountylibrary.org/event/meetan...
My review of @khoreo.bsky.social issue 5.2 for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!
locusmag.com/review/khore...
locusmag.com/review/khore...
khōréō: Review by A.C. Wise
khōréō 5.2 Diana Dima’s “The Traveling Mountain” in khōréō 5.2 tells the story of a mountain that learns of a land beyond the sea and goes on walkabout. She transforms herself into stones in a qua…
locusmag.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My review of @khoreo.bsky.social issue 5.2 for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!
locusmag.com/review/khore...
locusmag.com/review/khore...
In one week, I'll be at Main Point Books with @timchawaga.bsky.social celebrating the launch of his new novel, Salvagia. Hope to see you there!
mainpointbooks.com/event/2025-1...
mainpointbooks.com/event/2025-1...
Tim Chawaga, "Salvagia" Book Launch
Become a member! Get the The Main Point Bookshopper Tote Bag, up to 20% off all purchases, and more
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November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In one week, I'll be at Main Point Books with @timchawaga.bsky.social celebrating the launch of his new novel, Salvagia. Hope to see you there!
mainpointbooks.com/event/2025-1...
mainpointbooks.com/event/2025-1...
This is an absolutely gorgeous, slow-burning locked room mystery. Get The Iron Garden Sutra on your TBR list post haste!
The Iron Garden Sutra got its first starred review (and is the SFF pick of the month) !!! 👀
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This is an absolutely gorgeous, slow-burning locked room mystery. Get The Iron Garden Sutra on your TBR list post haste!
Psst! Canadians! The eligibility lists for the Aurora Awards are now open for work originally published in 2025. Make sure your speculative fiction, poetry, art, and eligible related work is listed!
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
Eligibility Lists – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)
www.csffa.ca
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Psst! Canadians! The eligibility lists for the Aurora Awards are now open for work originally published in 2025. Make sure your speculative fiction, poetry, art, and eligible related work is listed!
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
A visceral exploration of unhealthy relationships and the balance of power where emotions are involved as a man finds himself cheating on his boyfriend with space-time itself - Time-like Curves, Space-like Curves by PH Lee.
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reactormag.com/timelike-cur...
Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves - Reactor
Is it bad to cheat on your boyfriend with the fabric of space and time?
reactormag.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A visceral exploration of unhealthy relationships and the balance of power where emotions are involved as a man finds himself cheating on his boyfriend with space-time itself - Time-like Curves, Space-like Curves by PH Lee.
reactormag.com/timelike-cur...
reactormag.com/timelike-cur...
Well, this is delightful! Philly is getting a new indie bookstore dedicated to horror, thrillers, and true crime!
thrillerdelphia.com
thrillerdelphia.com
Horror Bookstore Philadelphia • Thrillerdelphia
Philly’s immersive horror, thriller & true crime bookstore. Events, book clubs, signings, and dangerously good reads. Opening Halloween.
thrillerdelphia.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Well, this is delightful! Philly is getting a new indie bookstore dedicated to horror, thrillers, and true crime!
thrillerdelphia.com
thrillerdelphia.com
The wonderful @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social hosted a round table with the authors of Howl, myself included. See what we all have to say about werewolves!
www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/hear-us...
www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/hear-us...
Hear Us Roar: Part One of the Howl Roundtable | Gwendolyn Kiste
www.gwendolynkiste.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The wonderful @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social hosted a round table with the authors of Howl, myself included. See what we all have to say about werewolves!
www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/hear-us...
www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/hear-us...
Tomorrow is the full moon, and with perfect timing, Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women in Horror is out today!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/howl-steph...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/howl-steph...
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Tomorrow is the full moon, and with perfect timing, Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women in Horror is out today!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/howl-steph...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/howl-steph...
Happiest of book birthdays to @vanessafogg.bsky.social! House of Illusionists is an absolutely gorgeous collection and it's officially out today!
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg
A sea-witch calls to souls from the deep. In modern suburbia, a middle-aged woman fights to keep her daughter from the clutches of a Faerie Queen. . . and finds herself confronting her own past and de...
www.interstellarflightpress.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Happiest of book birthdays to @vanessafogg.bsky.social! House of Illusionists is an absolutely gorgeous collection and it's officially out today!
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
Fear, much like beauty, is in the eye of the Beholder. Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Fear, much like beauty, is in the eye of the Beholder. Happy Halloween!
Fancy hardcover German editions of Wendy, Darling and Hooked! With sprayed edges! And ribbons to mark your place! And most importantly, you'll be supporting an absolutely wonderful publication. 💀🖤💀
Get a signed copy of Wend, Darling and Hooked (German Edition!) by @acwise.bsky.social AND ALSO our 2026 Coin For The Ferryman
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psychopomp.com/product/sign...
Signed Wendy, Darling and Hooked + Coin! | Psychopomp
This is for signed copies of Wendy, Darling and Hooked (both German editions) + the 2026 The Deadlands Coin For The Ferryman fundraiser.
psychopomp.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Fancy hardcover German editions of Wendy, Darling and Hooked! With sprayed edges! And ribbons to mark your place! And most importantly, you'll be supporting an absolutely wonderful publication. 💀🖤💀
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Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! 🖤🎃🌿
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
October 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! 🖤🎃🌿
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
Reposted by A.C. Wise
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Support the dead this spooky season and grab some cool swag while you're at it!
we have ferryman coins, yes, but there’s still a few of our premium items left, too!
signed books by @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @acwise.bsky.social, @mariahaskins.com
prompts by @premeemohamed.com
painted skulls by @katelechler.bsky.social
go get em!
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
signed books by @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @acwise.bsky.social, @mariahaskins.com
prompts by @premeemohamed.com
painted skulls by @katelechler.bsky.social
go get em!
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground
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October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Support the dead this spooky season and grab some cool swag while you're at it!