Antennenwels
@antennenwels.bsky.social
avid fantasy and sci-fi reader; amateur writer; she/her
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Antennenwels
@antennenwels.bsky.social
· Aug 20
In a Lizard's Wake
The scarves around Cyra’s neck fluttered in a violent gust of air. Barely ten paces away, red clouds rose straight into the sky, towering over her like a wall. A raging, howling storm encircled the se...
www.cossmass.com
It's been two years since my only English short story found its way into the world. In it you can find wandering storms and giant lizards (that may help you through those storms); just in case you're curious. ;)
www.cossmass.com/stories/in-a...
www.cossmass.com/stories/in-a...
It's been two years since my only English short story found its way into the world. In it you can find wandering storms and giant lizards (that may help you through those storms); just in case you're curious. ;)
www.cossmass.com/stories/in-a...
www.cossmass.com/stories/in-a...
In a Lizard's Wake
The scarves around Cyra’s neck fluttered in a violent gust of air. Barely ten paces away, red clouds rose straight into the sky, towering over her like a wall. A raging, howling storm encircled the se...
www.cossmass.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's been two years since my only English short story found its way into the world. In it you can find wandering storms and giant lizards (that may help you through those storms); just in case you're curious. ;)
www.cossmass.com/stories/in-a...
www.cossmass.com/stories/in-a...
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Hexagon Magazine Issue 20 / Spring 2025 is now available to all for free on our website. 🐸🧡
Our final issue has original short fiction from Kit Calvert, Silvia Heike, Jordan Hirsch, Uchechukwu Nwaka, and Carol Scheina, with amazing cover art from Elaine Will. Edited by JW Stebner.
Our final issue has original short fiction from Kit Calvert, Silvia Heike, Jordan Hirsch, Uchechukwu Nwaka, and Carol Scheina, with amazing cover art from Elaine Will. Edited by JW Stebner.
March 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Hexagon Magazine Issue 20 / Spring 2025 is now available to all for free on our website. 🐸🧡
Our final issue has original short fiction from Kit Calvert, Silvia Heike, Jordan Hirsch, Uchechukwu Nwaka, and Carol Scheina, with amazing cover art from Elaine Will. Edited by JW Stebner.
Our final issue has original short fiction from Kit Calvert, Silvia Heike, Jordan Hirsch, Uchechukwu Nwaka, and Carol Scheina, with amazing cover art from Elaine Will. Edited by JW Stebner.
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Haven Spec Magazine's Kickstarter is now live!
Our goal is to raise $4500, and we cannot do it without you, so please subscribe, pick up some swag or a critique, and spread the word!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...
Our goal is to raise $4500, and we cannot do it without you, so please subscribe, pick up some swag or a critique, and spread the word!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...
Haven Spec Magazine, 2025
A digital science fiction and fantasy magazine publishing five issues in 2025 and featuring fiction and poetry for the 21st century!
www.kickstarter.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Haven Spec Magazine's Kickstarter is now live!
Our goal is to raise $4500, and we cannot do it without you, so please subscribe, pick up some swag or a critique, and spread the word!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...
Our goal is to raise $4500, and we cannot do it without you, so please subscribe, pick up some swag or a critique, and spread the word!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...
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We are excited to reveal that the next series for our Fantasy Sub will be Rook & Rose by M. A. Carrick! 🥳 A Venetian fantasy trilogy written by an amazing duo of writers!
December 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM
We are excited to reveal that the next series for our Fantasy Sub will be Rook & Rose by M. A. Carrick! 🥳 A Venetian fantasy trilogy written by an amazing duo of writers!
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After almost a year of sitting on this news, I can finally share that Marie and I have another project in the works! The first book in The Sea Beyond duology will be coming out in early 2026. Woot!
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
Acquisition Announcement: The Sea Beyond Duology by M. A. Carrick
We are so thrilled to have acquired a new historical fantasy duology by M.A. Carrick, inspired by the Fae and set within the remarkable backdrop of the Spanish Golden Age! The enthralling firs…
www.hachettebookgroup.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:39 PM
After almost a year of sitting on this news, I can finally share that Marie and I have another project in the works! The first book in The Sea Beyond duology will be coming out in early 2026. Woot!
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
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I've posted my GOH speech from #WorldFantasy2024, about indie zines not paying editors limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. It's a call for discussion how to change that, like devising pay standards for editors. 1/2 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/n...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Not Paying Editors Limits Range of Editorial Voices by Scott H. Andrews
(Here is a text version of the Guest of Honor speech Scott (me!) gave at World Fantasy 2024, Oct. 20, saying that indie editors not taking pay is limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. I...
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October 24, 2024 at 2:01 PM
I've posted my GOH speech from #WorldFantasy2024, about indie zines not paying editors limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. It's a call for discussion how to change that, like devising pay standards for editors. 1/2 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/n...
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IT LIVES! We created the #RookAndRose wiki privately for ourselves, to track worldbuilding and such, but it's now publicly available for viewing and fan editing. Spread the word!
rookandrose.wiki.gg/wiki/Rook_%2...
rookandrose.wiki.gg/wiki/Rook_%2...
Rook & Rose Wiki
Welcome to the Rook & Rose Wiki, a collaborative wiki resource that is open for anyone to edit!
rookandrose.wiki.gg
October 24, 2024 at 9:46 AM
IT LIVES! We created the #RookAndRose wiki privately for ourselves, to track worldbuilding and such, but it's now publicly available for viewing and fan editing. Spread the word!
rookandrose.wiki.gg/wiki/Rook_%2...
rookandrose.wiki.gg/wiki/Rook_%2...
Read it! It's an excellent series!!!
THE MASK OF MIRRORS is a Kindle Daily Deal today! A whole brick of a(n ebook) for only $3! @alychelms.bsky.social
www.amazon.com/Mask-Mirrors...
www.amazon.com/Mask-Mirrors...
Amazon.com: The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose Book 1) eBook : Carrick, M. A.: Kindle Store
Amazon.com: The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose Book 1) eBook : Carrick, M. A.: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
February 29, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Read it! It's an excellent series!!!
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Hexagon published 18 short stories, 1 poem, and 1 novelette in 2023. Everything we published is eligible for various awards. Hexagon itself is also eligible for several awards as a Semiprozine. 🧡
View our full 2023 Awards Eligibility list here 👇🏼
View our full 2023 Awards Eligibility list here 👇🏼
2023 Awards Eligibility
Here is a complete list of the pieces that we published in 2023 that are eligible for awards. Hexagon Magazine is eligible for the 2024 Best Related Work Aurora Award. Hexagon Magazine is eligible for...
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December 14, 2023 at 7:28 PM
Hexagon published 18 short stories, 1 poem, and 1 novelette in 2023. Everything we published is eligible for various awards. Hexagon itself is also eligible for several awards as a Semiprozine. 🧡
View our full 2023 Awards Eligibility list here 👇🏼
View our full 2023 Awards Eligibility list here 👇🏼
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@dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social Issue 14 is out, and I am in it! "A Tale of Two Tarōs," based on a famous Japanese folktale, is currently free to read right here:
dreamforge.mywebportal.app/dreamforge/s...
dreamforge.mywebportal.app/dreamforge/s...
DreamForge
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December 13, 2023 at 9:38 PM
@dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social Issue 14 is out, and I am in it! "A Tale of Two Tarōs," based on a famous Japanese folktale, is currently free to read right here:
dreamforge.mywebportal.app/dreamforge/s...
dreamforge.mywebportal.app/dreamforge/s...
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Hey! Have you heard about our end of year campaign??
We're currently running our first ever end-of-year fundraiser.
If you love what we do, it would be terrific if you could support us...
Link to more info:
escapeartists.net/2023/11/13/2...
We're currently running our first ever end-of-year fundraiser.
If you love what we do, it would be terrific if you could support us...
Link to more info:
escapeartists.net/2023/11/13/2...
November 22, 2023 at 10:08 AM
Hey! Have you heard about our end of year campaign??
We're currently running our first ever end-of-year fundraiser.
If you love what we do, it would be terrific if you could support us...
Link to more info:
escapeartists.net/2023/11/13/2...
We're currently running our first ever end-of-year fundraiser.
If you love what we do, it would be terrific if you could support us...
Link to more info:
escapeartists.net/2023/11/13/2...
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Vaki þu, Angantýr, vekr þik Hervör,
eingadóttir ykkr Sváfu;
selðu ór haugi hvassan mæki,
þann er Sigrlama slógu dvergar.
. . . which is to say, happy U.S. book day to THE WAKING OF ANGANTYR! Out now from the publisher, Book View Cafe, and many other fine retailers!
eingadóttir ykkr Sváfu;
selðu ór haugi hvassan mæki,
þann er Sigrlama slógu dvergar.
. . . which is to say, happy U.S. book day to THE WAKING OF ANGANTYR! Out now from the publisher, Book View Cafe, and many other fine retailers!
The Waking of Angantyr - Swan Tower
The bondsmaid Hervor is used to dead men whispering in her sleep. They’ve been doing it for as long as she can remember; it’s the living she has to watch out for. And when a new arrival at her hol...
www.swantower.com
November 14, 2023 at 8:56 PM
Vaki þu, Angantýr, vekr þik Hervör,
eingadóttir ykkr Sváfu;
selðu ór haugi hvassan mæki,
þann er Sigrlama slógu dvergar.
. . . which is to say, happy U.S. book day to THE WAKING OF ANGANTYR! Out now from the publisher, Book View Cafe, and many other fine retailers!
eingadóttir ykkr Sváfu;
selðu ór haugi hvassan mæki,
þann er Sigrlama slógu dvergar.
. . . which is to say, happy U.S. book day to THE WAKING OF ANGANTYR! Out now from the publisher, Book View Cafe, and many other fine retailers!
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Our Kickstarter is live!
We will get to 8¢/word come hell or high water!
Authors: Ai Jiang / @aijiang.bsky.social, Somto Ihezue / @somtoihezue.bsky.social, Eugenia Triantafyllou / @foxesandroses.bsky.social, Suzan Palumbo / @sillysyntax.bsky.social, and Christi Nogle / @christinogle.substack.com
We will get to 8¢/word come hell or high water!
Authors: Ai Jiang / @aijiang.bsky.social, Somto Ihezue / @somtoihezue.bsky.social, Eugenia Triantafyllou / @foxesandroses.bsky.social, Suzan Palumbo / @sillysyntax.bsky.social, and Christi Nogle / @christinogle.substack.com
Haven Spec Magazine, 2024
A digital science fiction and fantasy magazine publishing six issues a year and featuring fiction and poetry for the 21st century!
www.kickstarter.com
November 1, 2023 at 2:01 PM
Our Kickstarter is live!
We will get to 8¢/word come hell or high water!
Authors: Ai Jiang / @aijiang.bsky.social, Somto Ihezue / @somtoihezue.bsky.social, Eugenia Triantafyllou / @foxesandroses.bsky.social, Suzan Palumbo / @sillysyntax.bsky.social, and Christi Nogle / @christinogle.substack.com
We will get to 8¢/word come hell or high water!
Authors: Ai Jiang / @aijiang.bsky.social, Somto Ihezue / @somtoihezue.bsky.social, Eugenia Triantafyllou / @foxesandroses.bsky.social, Suzan Palumbo / @sillysyntax.bsky.social, and Christi Nogle / @christinogle.substack.com
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Hexagon doesn’t have kickstarters or crowdfunding campaigns, but once or twice a year, I make an extra effort to try and bring in new subscribers. So, in honour of it being approximately that time, here is a run-down of all of the fantastic things that subscribers receive! 🧡👇🏼
November 4, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Hexagon doesn’t have kickstarters or crowdfunding campaigns, but once or twice a year, I make an extra effort to try and bring in new subscribers. So, in honour of it being approximately that time, here is a run-down of all of the fantastic things that subscribers receive! 🧡👇🏼
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A little robin to brighten your Sunday
October 8, 2023 at 2:55 PM
A little robin to brighten your Sunday
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Only 0.7% of BCS readers support the magazine. Any readers interested in helping us pay authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of their work writing all rejections personalized, please support us on the BCS Patreon. Thank you! www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...
All of them, actually. If you'd like some suggestions: Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, FIYAH, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Analog, Asimov's, Apex Magazine, and the Magazine of F&SF is a good starting point.
October 7, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Only 0.7% of BCS readers support the magazine. Any readers interested in helping us pay authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of their work writing all rejections personalized, please support us on the BCS Patreon. Thank you! www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...
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Marie Brennan's THE WAKING OF ANGANTYR is out in 3 weeks! zenoagency.com/news/marie-b... @swantower.bsky.social @awfulagent.bsky.social
Due to be published by Titan Books, on Oct.10th.
Due to be published by Titan Books, on Oct.10th.
September 20, 2023 at 7:14 PM
Marie Brennan's THE WAKING OF ANGANTYR is out in 3 weeks! zenoagency.com/news/marie-b... @swantower.bsky.social @awfulagent.bsky.social
Due to be published by Titan Books, on Oct.10th.
Due to be published by Titan Books, on Oct.10th.
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If you'd like to see short fiction magazines survive, consider subscribing to some of these: https://tinyurl.com/2ra4a6ue
Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscriptions - Trollbreath
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August 10, 2023 at 10:23 PM
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It'll be four weeks tomorrow, since my first English short story was published. Sadly, Cossmass Infinites has since announced their permanent closure.
Remember to support the short story venues you love, or they might disappear.
Remember to support the short story venues you love, or they might disappear.
September 16, 2023 at 3:43 PM
It'll be four weeks tomorrow, since my first English short story was published. Sadly, Cossmass Infinites has since announced their permanent closure.
Remember to support the short story venues you love, or they might disappear.
Remember to support the short story venues you love, or they might disappear.
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We are up and running on BackerKit! If you missed the pattern deck Kickstarter, you can now pre-order the deck, guidebooks, enamel pin, pattern dice, cloth bag, or horoscope right here!
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Pre-order Rook and Rose Pattern Deck on BackerKit
Oracle cards for divination and games
pattern-deck.backerkit.com
September 8, 2023 at 7:44 PM
We are up and running on BackerKit! If you missed the pattern deck Kickstarter, you can now pre-order the deck, guidebooks, enamel pin, pattern dice, cloth bag, or horoscope right here!
pattern-deck.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
pattern-deck.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Very sad to see them go; I loved reading the magazine. And I will always be thankful to Paul for publishing my first ever english story (last month).
September 7, 2023 at 8:52 AM
Very sad to see them go; I loved reading the magazine. And I will always be thankful to Paul for publishing my first ever english story (last month).