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Jen Donohue
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Doberman owner, SFFH writer, 💀, SFWA member, library clerk.

Exit Ghost
https://books2read.com/ExitGhost

Werewolf trilogy:
https://authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/learn-to-howl-trilogy.html

Burn Up In Victory:
https://books2read.com/burnupinvictory/
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 11d
Run With the Hunted 8: Neural Howlround is OUT NOW

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Cover and cover blurb for Run With the Hunted 8: Neural Howlround. the cover for Run With the Hunted 8: Neural Howlround: almost entirely horizontal pixels in blues and some green and magenta and white, with what is a face or maybe computer equipment maybe discernible through the noise on the left. The blurb: In the fast-paced, tech heavy future, tech still hasn’t given up on the AI dream. The trio is clothes shopping for Nicolai’s wedding when they’re offered the job: extract a powerful person’s niece from a yacht that she doesn’t want to leave. Word is it’s an AI cult, and Bits is adamant that it’s never a real AI, has never been a real AI, and will always just be a glorified chatbot. Nevertheless, Bristol is pleased to have the opportunity for some yacht relaxation and rich people networking, while Dolly isn’t one to turn down an umbrella drink or two until her special set of skills is needed. There was always going to be trouble in paradise, but when it finally reveals itself, all was not as it seemed. and a link: https://books2read.com/RunWiththeHunted8 .
authorizedmusings.bsky.social
"This anthology was brought to you by Squarespace'
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
so you see, my problem is I want to write this current book, and then another book, and then maybe one more, and I guess another wouldn't hurt, well I suppose I probably have time for another (I don't), and we're here already so why not one mo—
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence! Show me yours if you want

VILE LADY VILLAINS, cover reveal this Friday
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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I'll play. Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Add yours if you'd like
First sentence (and then another) of CLUB CONTANGO. (Chapter title: After) "When I think about Chance and our time together on Freeport Station, I remember the birds. And I remember Chance pushing me over the edge."
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
authorizedmusings.bsky.social
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

(This is the first page of Exit Ghost)
Arranging the ritual took time. The circle of sea salt, covering the hardwood bedroom floor. A folded t-shirt, one of the last ones he wore, softly prickled with black dog hairs and the rotary phone from his office resting on top. Music in these things was always optional, but for this circle, for her dad, it was necessary. Jules slipped a crackling record on the turntable, one of his Zeppelin albums. Sprawled on her bed, Yorick groaned and laid his head on his paws. As the witching hour neared, she lit a scattering of balsam candles about the room, broke a razor free of its plastic moorings and made a small shallow cut above the tattoo on the inside of her bony left wrist. The music ended as she flicked her blood into the guttering flames, and she waited in the silence, the magic’s tidal pull roiling around her. The phone rang. Yorick groaned again as Jules reached across the circle to pick it up, kneeling on the floor. “Hi Dad,” she said.
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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it's #novellavember! what further sign that it's time to start reading Run With the Hunted?
authorizedmusings.bsky.social Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · Sep 28
AND, to sweeten the deal, the first narrative cycle (that is, the first three novellas) are 99¢ each in ebook, pay-what-you-want on itch, or FREE on HOOPLA if you've got that through your local library!

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November 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Oh I am SO excited.
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
authorizedmusings.bsky.social
since we want a Hugo for translations, we want translations, right?

and I DO read outside of sffh every once in a while, actually. I think it's important to just. READ. Especially things that come from outside my perspective, expectations, and experiences!
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Oooo I’m Death. I'm a mean skeleton with a fancy sword. Fuck off, bone boy
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Month 8 / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2920, 58% / isiZulu translation is now funded / Kiswahili translation is currently off...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Please help me raise $1000 to move by Dec 1. I need to escape my family’s financial and emotional abuse. I am hiring a moving truck and movers because I am disabled and moving 200 miles. Please help me, I have raised 0 so far. Dec 1 is coming quick!
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I gratefully accept tips, donations, whatever you want to call them

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November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Reminder:

Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:

otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS

RUN WITH THE HUNTED
authorizedmusings.bsky.social Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 11d
Run With the Hunted 8: Neural Howlround is OUT NOW

books2read.com/RunWiththeHu...
Cover and cover blurb for Run With the Hunted 8: Neural Howlround. the cover for Run With the Hunted 8: Neural Howlround: almost entirely horizontal pixels in blues and some green and magenta and white, with what is a face or maybe computer equipment maybe discernible through the noise on the left. The blurb: In the fast-paced, tech heavy future, tech still hasn’t given up on the AI dream. The trio is clothes shopping for Nicolai’s wedding when they’re offered the job: extract a powerful person’s niece from a yacht that she doesn’t want to leave. Word is it’s an AI cult, and Bits is adamant that it’s never a real AI, has never been a real AI, and will always just be a glorified chatbot. Nevertheless, Bristol is pleased to have the opportunity for some yacht relaxation and rich people networking, while Dolly isn’t one to turn down an umbrella drink or two until her special set of skills is needed. There was always going to be trouble in paradise, but when it finally reveals itself, all was not as it seemed. and a link: https://books2read.com/RunWiththeHunted8 .
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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jeremycshipp.bsky.social
Meet my newest creation: Jasper the Festive Moth of Doom! I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered him. Jasper fervently believes that just because he's a moth of doom doesn't mean that he can't also be a fun and celebratory fellow.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Here's a lovely photo of Jasper. He's a black fabric art moth with a gray face and seven red eyes. He has a small open mouth with two sharp teeth on the top and three slightly larger sharp teeth on the bottom. He's covered with red embroidered flowers with gray lines around them. Short red lines and gray points and other folk art looking markings cover his body. He his twirly black antennae covered with short red lines all in a row. There's green fur in the background of the pic. Here's another lovely photo of Jasper. His antennae are pointing upwards in this one with a slight curl at the end.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE!!!!

Support transgressive queer art 🖤

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A special hardcover edition of WE ARE ALWAYS TENDER WITH OUR DEAD (Burnt Sparrow, 1)
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
authorizedmusings.bsky.social
Monday Marketing!

They're not like other wolves!
authorizedmusings.bsky.social Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · Sep 20
2024 was my year of the werewolf, and the LEARN TO HOWL trilogy is COMPLETE!

Now you can get Learn to Howl, Baying the Moon, and The Company of Wolves!

paperback and ebook, including HOOPLA

books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
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The cover for Learn to Howl: a black wolf with blue eyes in profile on a red background, her ear pinned back and her teeth and tongue visible. Painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art cover copy: When a football player follows her home from an illicit party, preacher's daughter Allie unmasks a secret her mama has been trying to pray away for almost seventeen years. The women in their family are werewolves. All except for Allie's mama. To protect her normal life, Allie's mama dumps her off in the wilderness with three aunts she's never heard of, let alone met. But Allie hardly has a chance to find her bearings among these strangers who are family before somebody kidnaps them and burns down their ancestral home. Allie has one high-speed road trip with her wolfier-than-thou cousin, Morgan, to learn how to make her way in a world she never knew existed the cover for Baying the Moon: a open-mouthed wolf facing you so that you're staring down its labyrinthine throat) an at all those teeth, on a red background painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art cover blurb: Six months ago, Allie believed she was a normal human girl from a normal human family. Then one terrible night lead to a breathless road trip to rescue her real family. Her werewolf family. After a begrudging information exchange with the Ward family, Allie's Aunt Rachel has decided it's safest to wait and see what the secret medical organization Allie rescued her from does next. But Allie and her cousin Morgan aren't risking any more of their family. Along with some other young werewolves, they hit the road again to delve into Silvernail's goals and how they found the wolves in the first place. The Company of Wolves cover: a black wolf, head turned to the left and mouth open as though its crying out, and part of it is shattering apart like broken glass or a mirror, with a bullet hole in it, revealing a haggard-looking human face beneath, just a blue eye and some black hair painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art cover blurb: Allie can’t believe that Rachel means it. They have to be able to go home after everything, right? That isn’t something Morgan is willing to discuss; she’s out for blood, and the Wards are going to help her get it. They’re ‘running ops,’ as the Wards apparently call it, hitting Silvernail locations both for information and destruction. But isn’t enough for Morgan, and she gets an even better idea about how they’re going to get to Silvernail himself and end this once and for all.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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If you enjoy what I do, I'd love for you to consider signing up for my Patreon. My goal for the night is one new patron.

Patrons help support my art and my existence. You'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, & other fun posts.

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Get more from Jeremy Creature on Patreon
fabric art, weird little guys, puppets
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November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
happy NOVELLAVEMBER to those who celebrate!

these are my novellas!

Run With the Hunted is a series

authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h...

The Drowned Heir and Between the Blood and the Sun each stand alone

books2read.com/DrownedHeir

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Novellas (with pictures of book covers): The Drowned Heir, Between the Blood and the Sun, all 8 Run With the Hunted covers together in a grid.
November 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Our ECO anthology series isn't the only thing taking root this year! 🌱

We're sprinkling wildflower seed packets across select bookstores and libraries to celebrate ECO24's release in just 8 days! Don't worry, the flowers aren't carnivorous...probably! 🌼🩸

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
A wildflower seed packet with a vintage floral design. Text reads "ECO24 Seed Store"
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Here is a very quick drawing of Scarlet from May I Ask For One Final Thing.

I absolutely love this show.

#Art #Scarlet
Scarlet from May I Ask For One Final Thing, in a minimalist style. She is standing with her side to you, wearing a red dress with black laces, and is in the middle of putting on a black glove with her teeth. Her other hand is already begloved, and the gloves have metal studs on the knuckles. She has long white hair, with some of it tied into a bun.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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an old Kate Bush drawing from 2021
illustration of an abstracted Kate Bush as a knight with a sun shield and sword
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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30 new things went up today including holiday themed things and stitch markers. All money spent here supports LGBTQIA+ artisans. Flat $4 US shipping.

Thank you for peeks/shares!

www.peculiarityshop.com
6 stitch marker polymer clay pieces in purple. A silver and blue bracelet in ornate beads An ornate cat necklace with pearl and onyx. Candy cane stripe chainmail earrings.
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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sillysyntax.bsky.social
Men please feel free to performatively read my books everywhere.

You are absolutely allowed to read!!! Don't let them shame you. They should be ashamed! Stop making collages of people reading and read a book too!
robpalk.bsky.social Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 1d
Oh fuck off
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
#novellavember #booksky
authorizedmusings.bsky.social Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · Sep 12
in The Drowned Heir, if somebody dies without an heir and they are important enough, another person is drowned so that the deceased person's spirit can be housed in the live person's body so their knowledge, experience, etc. isn't lost

books2read.com/DrownedHeir
Hardcover copy of The Drowned Heir in focus against a soft library shelves background the cover art is a pale woman wearing a tricorn hat with a brimstone tattoo on her left shoulder, her head turned to the left, writhing tentacles in the darkness behind her. art by Yorgos Cotronis, and I bought the art in a premade cover pack on his website https://cotronis.com/ and put the text on it myself.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM