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C. J. Lavigne
@cjlavigne.com
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Canadian SFF writer. Author of IN VERITAS and THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER. Short stories in On Spec, Fusion Fragment, Augur, PodCastle, and other fine publications. Rep: Arley Sorg. I like coffee and cats. www.cjlavigne.com
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your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

oh damn
It's Clippy! He's saying "Hey, it looks like you're waiting for ideal conditions to do that thing you've been wanting to do. Need I remind you that ideal conditions do not exist and will never happen?" Your options for response are "I'm aware" and "Wow, rude."
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

OK sure, it's a novella, but perhaps you would like to see the opening for THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER? bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
There's no way that I could really remember the drowned man. People have told me the story so many times, though, that I've seen him all my life. He washed up on the shore below the station, in the crescent bay where the jut of the dead reef lends respite from the sea. Matin saw hm lying there in the first light of dawn, years past, long and pale and unmoving. He was tangled in seaweed, his hand outstretched, but Matin knew even from the bluff's edge that there was no life in him, and she did not hurry on her way down the rocks to the water.
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Face of an absolutely unrepentant goober
A fluffy grey and white mantle tabby sitting on a lap, totally uncaring that he just tried to be an attack hat during a reading.
September 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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No new pictures, where are you at mentally?
A four panel comic. 1) hand of a drowning person in the ocean. Text: me sharing a meme about how difficult everything is rn. 2) another drowning person hand appears. Text: you 3) the two hands high five. Text: "hard relate" 4) both hands sink into the ocean. Text: us
September 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Status update
A fluffy grey and white mantle tabby who is still in the box.
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Problem: this box contained a grocery delivery two months ago, and I would like to recycle it.

It's cluttering the... it blocks the....

nevermind
A fluffy grey and white mantle tabby curled in a cardboard box that he adopted two months ago and apparently has no intention to ever abandon. This is his home now.
September 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Oh, hey, I did this interview with @oncreativewriting.bsky.social! I promised to be at my most sedate and diplomatic.
CJL: Oh, hey, I am not a fan of the environmentally ruinous plagiarism machine. Current LLMs were trained on stolen work, without consent or recompense, and now a bunch of tech evangelists are promising to replace writers and other artists by producing poor sludge imitations of human creativity (and facts, and news, and history). These programs are devaluing our very real skills, and they’re burning the planet. I value our air, water, and work; generative AI is for people who want to feel like they “made” something but don’t actually want to put in any effort or thought. No, thank you.
September 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Goood morning, and HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY to THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER! Here for all your mossy dystopian needs. A heartwarming tale with almost no cannibalism.

Out now from @newestpress.bsky.social, available at your favourite bookstore! bookshop.newestpress.com/collections/... #booksky #novella
A fluffy grey and white mantle tabby lying on the floor and looking up at the camera, being both puzzled and patient about the copy of The Drowned Man's Daughter that some person has leaned against him like he's some sort of fuzzy display rack.
September 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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every author who has ever tried to get their cat to pose for a nice promo photo
A fluffy grey and white mantle tabby who was supposed to pose with a book but has instead shoved the book off himself onto the floor and is busy licking his paw. Author's foot visible at bottom right. A fluffy grey and white mantle tabby who was supposed to pose with a book but has instead gotten up to sniff the camera. Author's hand visible at left, futilely trying to hold book in shot. This photo is out of focus.
September 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

yes look, I will include a pre-order link like a good author: bookshop.newestpress.com/collections/...

LOOK HOW PRETTY not the cat, ok also the cat
A fluffy grey and white mantle tabby who is looking up at the camera with wide golden eyes, wondering why the photographer is making him lie there with a copy of C. J. Lavigne's The Drowned Man's Daughter leaning against his soft tum. He certainly wants you to read this book. A cardboard shipping box filled with copies of C. J. Lavigne's The Drowned Man's Daughter. The book cover has a pair of disembodied green eyes over a backdrop of painted ocean.
September 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Just waiting on my Drowned Man author copies and being very normal about it
Part of a Canada Post tracking screenshot, indicating a package was sent on August 29 and is expected today between 9am-1pm
September 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Grateful for this lovely advance review of The Drowned Man's Daughter in @onspecmag.bsky.social! Generous and insightful. Some minor spoilers: onspec.ca/book-reviews...
"I have to say when I read the opening paragraph of The Drowned Man’s Daughter, I had that delicious feeling I was going to be pulled into a transportive story, and Lavigne delivered beautifully. Her writing and story-telling ability are top of the game, a novelist capable of creating stories which transcend genre and are just simply excellent literature."
August 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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When @sfwa.bsky.social gave me this year's service award, I did not realize it was an actual... physical award? We have defeated the shipping goblins and now look how nice in my office. Aw.
A dark glass statue for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association 2025 Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award, with C. J. Lavigne's name on it. It's rectangular, roughly eight inches tall and an inch thick, with a gold swirly nebula in it. Random things on the shelf include an image of the author's cat, a partially viewed monster finger puppet, and a painted egg. Reflected in the shiny statue you can see shocking details of the office, like a bookshelf, a low filing cabinet, and a printer.
August 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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So apparently The Drowned Man's Daughter comes out in TWO WEEKS?

A watery dystopian tale! Creepy moss! Deadly seals! Almost 100% no cannibalism! I can't think what more anyone might want. Pre-order from @newestpress.bsky.social or your fave bookstore: bookshop.newestpress.com/products/the...
The cover for C. J. Lavigne's The Drowned Man's Daughter, with a pair of green eyes superimposed over a painted ocean.
August 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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post a random picture or everything will go bad in August.

(oh noooo, no no no no damnit Jordan I'm not taking any chances)
An ad for "New VitaCup Peeps Coffee" -- if it uploads as a GIF there's a pink peep and then a blue peep bursting out of a yellow coffee cup. I don't know why I have this. It looks like it might have been an April Fool's thing? What is a VitaCup? Who can say and there is no possible way to find out.
August 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Name a film flop that you wish had done better at the box office.

#filmsky

Nobody rocks the mic like DuJour
The movie poster for Josie and the Pussycats, with Tara Reid holding drumsticks, Rachael Leigh Cook holding a guitar, and Rosario Dawson holding a bass. They are dressed in various forms of purple/pink glittery things. Reid and Cook have kitty ear headbands. So sassy.
July 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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I have ARCs!! Would you like one? The Drowned Man's Daughter, coming from
@newestpress.bsky.social
in September 2025. A heartwarming tale with almost no cannibalism!

Repost this before midnight Pacific on July 3 to be entered to win a signed hardcopy. Will ship worldwide. :)
A hardcopy of C. J. Lavigne's The Drowned Man's Daughter, nestled into a couch corner because the cat was not available to do his duty and pose. The cover has green eyes superimposed over a painted ocean. This is an ARC (an advance copy/uncorrected proof), and the cover is stamped "on sale Sept 2025."
July 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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This is evergreen now, isn't it
The "This is Fine" dog enjoying a coffee in the house that's burning down, except in the panel that zooms in on him in the fire, he's cheerfully saying, "So I have a book coming out."
July 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Hmmm is this what we mean by "Team Arley"
Screenshot of the bottom corner of Microsoft Word, for some unidentified file. Page: 80 of 80. Words: 50,042.
June 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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40 plus appreciation post. reskeet with a pic if you're on the right side of 40.

OK thankfully this does not provide any specifications about the pic
A fluffy grey and white mantle tabby stretched out on his back, right paw extended toward the camera, showing beans and his fuzzy white belly. He looks extraordinarily self-satisfied. He is lying on some sort of human couch that is mostly visible as jeans and purple socks.
June 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Hmmm, is this.... bad?
A screenshot of the air quality health index for Red Deer, AB, on June 11, 2025. On a scale of 1-11 where high numbers are bad, the air is at 11 ("very high risk"). Above is a red line reading Air Quality Warning.
June 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Have somehow managed to update my bio within wordcount--do you think anyone will notice this tiny change

ALSO: thrilled to say I'm now repped by @arleysorg.bsky.social at kt literary!

No one warn him. Shhhhhhh.
A screenshot of C. J. Lavigne's Bluesky bio. It reads, "Canadian SFF writer. Author of In Veritas. The Drowned Man's Daughter coming fall 2025. Short stories in On Spec, Fusion Fragment, Augur, PodCastle, and other fine publications. Rep: Arley Sorg. I like coffee and cats. www.cjlavigne.com." Two scribbled red arrows are pointing to Arley's name, which has also been underlined twice.
June 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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A cartoon drawing of a sad little blue octopus with tears in its eyes. You can't tell, but this octopus is very good at science.
June 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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BABY'S IN THE WILD -- my spies just sent this from Kansas City, where ARCs of The Drowned Man's Daughter have been spotted at the Nebulas.
A small pile of books; they are advance reader copies of C. J. Lavigne's The Drowned Man's Daughter. The cover art has a pair of green eyes over a painted ocean backdrop.
June 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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There is half a bag of cat food on my dining room floor, AMA*

*no actually it is better if we do not discuss
A blurry shot of the floor underneath the dining room table; this is mostly black chair legs and a grey laminate floor covered in very small brown pellets that are gonna be super easy to clean up, so easy.
May 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM