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C.H. Pearce
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Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · Oct 9
📌 ✨ 👋🏻 Hello friends! Quick intro post/links:

Website: chpearce.net

🖼️ 🛒 inprnt.com/profile/chpearce/

💖 tumblr.com/chpearcewrites

🐦 twitter.com/CHPearceWrites

📸 instagram.com/c.h.pearce/

🧵 threads.com/@c.h.pearce

🙃 facebook.com/CHPearceAuthor/

📚 goodreads.com/chpearce

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Short bio C.H. Pearce is an artist and an Aurealis and Brave New Weird Award-nominated and Ditmar Award-winning writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction from Canberra, Australia. Her short fiction has been published in Body of Work anthology, Cosmic Horror Monthly, The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird, and more. Find her work and links to her print shop and social media on chpearce.net C.H. Pearce @CHP..9/7/2024 Hello #WritingCommunity! I'm an Aussie writer, artist and fan artist. I love writing unsettling spec fic, New Weird, eco-horror, corporate horror. Scribbling about doppelgängers, liminal spaces, disaster humans/ entities trying to connect, yearning, and creepy-crawlies.
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rlsummerling.bsky.social
Thanks to Rex for spotting this one! Necropolis contains 5 stories about strange, decaying cities and is now available for purchase at Hexagon's patreon!
@alexfox.bsky.social @omersarae.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @improbablerex.bsky.social and Victoria!
cover art by @warls.bsky.social
Necropolis cover showing an orangey red shell of a building that has been taken over by funghi
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
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jmvoss.bsky.social JMVoss @jmvoss.bsky.social · 1d
My next novel is coming out soon! Stay tuned for more info 👀👀👀👀
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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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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lorekeating.bsky.social
🚨 ATTN Writers, Book Club Scams

For new writers: Money should always flow TOWARDS the writer. NEVER pay for promo.
I've been getting roughly one of these emails a week for the last month. I contacted the real club to give them the heads-up (who confirmed the obvious scam) so I feel I can share
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Scam bot using scraped text to sound familiar with my work" "Your novel Agony’s Lodestone stopped us in our tracks. The way you capture the ache of grief, that terrible void where memory and reality blur is both devastating and beautiful. The concept of a sister resurrected through shifting videotape imagery feels like a modern ghost story in its purest, most unsettling form: haunting not just because of what’s seen, but because of what’s lost" in order to convince me a) they're legit b) I should pay to be discussed in their book club ..... no, honey.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Fantastic anthology launch last night for NEVER SAY DIE at Smith’s Alternative and I had fun reading alongside @merriandrew.bsky.social and Emma Gerts! Thank you everyone who attended and made the night a blast! Great to meet so many of the authors and get my copy signed. Stunning cover 🧵
Never Say Die book cover with an artwork of Death by Madison Lee Martin Never Say Die back cover Author Merri Andrew reading Author Emma Gerts reading
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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coreyjwhite.com
Happy Walking Circulatory System Day to all who celebrate!
lostcitymagic.bsky.social Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 2d
On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.
Comic panel from the watchmen comic book series. A ghostly Dr Manhattan tries to reassemble himself in the military research base he was atomized in. A glowing circulatory system walks towards horrified workers in a kitchen. Caption reads "it's November 10th. There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen..."
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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rlmeza.bsky.social
that coy little “I feel you” smile gets me every time, oh, Mirror People

(go preorder MY NAME ISN’T PAUL for skin suit tips and filament tricks and gooey cosmic horror YUM MEAT)
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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aurealisawards.bsky.social
Just three weeks left to get ALL your 2025 entries in for the Aurealis Awards - INCLUDING those scheduled for December publication!

Check out the updated Entries list and enter on our website:
aurealisawards.org/entries/

#AurealisAwards
a cartoon of a bird sitting at a desk with a laptop and the words deadline vibes
ALT: a cartoon of a bird sitting at a desk with a laptop and the words deadline vibes
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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megapolisomancy.bsky.social
Cheating and picking two:

1) the foreword to Thomas Ha’s UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, because I love the stories and it was great to work with Thomas and Michael at Undertow.

2) “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”, because it’s kind of a précis of everything I’ve been doing.
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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thomasha.bsky.social
Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!
Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications
undertowpublications.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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reasie.bsky.social
I'm editing an anthology! 3 cents a word original, 1 cent for reprints. Full guidelines here: https://www.parsecink.org/submissions

Image is a screen cap from this game I'm working on.
Bad Romance A speculative fiction anthology fiction and poetry submissions open November 15 send me your trash fires
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
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!
The image shows a paperback copy of The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling, propped against a black and white print showing two skeletons dancing around a bottle bearing the label Death. The upper half of a leather plague doctor mask is visible in the lower left corner of the frame. The wall behind the print and the book is red
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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renbolger.bsky.social
Zombie miners 🧟
Dark Fantasy 🐉
X-Files vibes 👽
Romance 🌹
Sometimes you can have all four of those. Not always, but sometimes.
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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thomasha.bsky.social
2025 Eligibility List

passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.
Thomas Ha 2025 Eligibility List Collection UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES Novelette "Uncertain Sons," Undertow Short Story "In My Country," Clarkesworld "The Cephalophore," The Dark "Old Wells," 3LBE "Cry, the Carob King," BCS "The Patron," Sunday Morning Transport
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Writing can be a lonely business, but it doesn't have to be! Even the best of us go through fallow periods, self-doubt, multiple abandoned drafts. The trick is not to let any of that derail you entirely, or to believe that other writers are your competition. They're your colleagues & your champions.
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 6d
What sort of message do you hope people take away from your most recent book/wip? #WritingPrompt
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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pegasusunder.bsky.social
I saw a bunch of movies for the first time this Halloween season; The Fog, The Descent, The Witch...

Watch our THE DESCENT breakdown, including my chaos edits!
Bloody hands breaking through forest floor! THE DESCENT episode of Cinema Worms; Me and Lindz in a heart cut out, smiling black woman facing smiling blond white person
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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megapolisomancy.bsky.social
Various badly drawn memes of needing more weird fiction
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Congratulations! This sounds amazing! 👀 📚
keithrosson.bsky.social Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · 7d
Two more novels with Random House after CRONE comes out next year. Still can't believe I get to do this.
Pub Marketplace announcement for THE HOLLOWLANDS, a two-book deal with Random House.
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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fusionfragment.bsky.social
Excited to see TWO NEW MAGS (!!) launched by past and present FF reading team members this week.

@rottingleafmag.bsky.social edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social <1.5k word eco-fiction

@thephantompulse.bsky.social co-edited by @jexewizabee.bsky.social <3k originals/<5k reprints horror/dark fantasy
November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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vanessafogg.bsky.social
Eeee, it’s Nov 3! Happy book birthday to me! 📖🍰
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
The Apex Book Company submission window is now open! 📚✍️

We're looking for surreal stories with unknowable horror, lush prose, and unique POVs. Please email your cover letter and manuscript to apexbooksubmissions@gmail.com.

Full submission details: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...
Submissions
2025 has been a standout year in terms of the amazing projects we've been able to publish at Apex Book Company. We've had the pleasure of giving homes to titles such as ChloroPhilia, The Map of Lost P...
www.apexbookcompany.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Attempted to take a terrifying photo for Halloween 🐀 🐀 🐀 🥰

#petrats #rats
A pet rat A pet rat under a hat
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
A movie you’ve seen more than seven times.
November 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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ideofmarch.bsky.social
🍂🌾🌖Happy Samhain/Halloween/rainy day book eating/reading season!📚Here’s a thread of my scariest fictions, with links to read/purchase ( or find all the links at idehennessy.com/fiction ) 🧵1

#amwritinghorror #horrorbooks #horrorrecs #womeninhorror
Íde, a blonde woman in her 40s wearing a black embroidered flower dress, bites the corner of paperback book The Off-Season: an Anthology of Coastal New Weird. Text over the image reads, “can I interest you in some spooky stories? The days are getting darker…”
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM