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C. S. E. Cooney
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World Fantasy Award-winning author of SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER & BONE SWANS. Audiobook narrator. Bandcamp: Brimstone Rhine. Repped by RHA Literary. https://linktr.ee/csecooney
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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 12d
1/2 New newsletter and blog up!
TL;DR? I gotta 10-min play in the Shakespeare SlayFest!
Some of the creatives are appearing on my TWITCH CHANNEL for a PANEL!
When? THIS MONDAY!
What time? 7 PM EST!
Where? www.twitch.tv/csecooney
Black background, red writing that says "Shakespeare SlayFest." This is the poster for the Shakespeare SlayFest, with the bust of Shakespeare in bright tunic and sunglasses, upended. The text in white reads: "Hey Nonny Nonny!" (at the Shakespeare SlayFest). With the subtitle being "I'm in! That is, my PLAY is being produced! And an even smaller text that says: "csecooney.substack.com".
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🖤 Pleased to say my latest poetry book on DEATH ✒️ 📕 🏆 "Cancer Courts My Mother" [Prolific Pulse Press, 11-7-2025] won 2 awards 🏆
A press release went to 312 news outlets
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Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo Wins Accolades
 Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo has received two literary distinctions: the BREW Seal of Excellence from The Chrysalis BREW Projec...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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buy my book it's really good
paper: www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/chain...
digital: www.kithbooks.com/digital/p/ch...
can't afford it? contact @kithbooks.bsky.social through the website
tell your library
tell your friends
perfect for Halloween
more poems at popelizbet.com
kith in print
Great books consume you, speak to you, and it’s tempting, when it happens, to eat the book back. With scalpel held steady, Elizabeth McClellan has managed just that. The centos in Is My Chainsaw a Hea...
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October 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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popelizbet.bsky.social
IS MY CHAINSAW A HEART: 13 CENTOS. Found poetry from the similarly titled novel by @sgj.bsky.social with foreword by the man himself. Everyone needs final girls and horror poetry and these have been praised by @jordanshiveley.bsky.social and @csecooney.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/pope...
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Barcelona is so beautiful & everyone is so nice & the food is so good 😭
Three small plates on a black table top. Clockwise from top left: patatas bravas (fried potatoes served with garlic and tomato sauces) esqueixada de bacalao (a salad of salted cod, onions, olives, bell peppers) and Pa amb tomàquet (bread rubbed with garlic and tomato, sprinkled with salt and drizzled with olive oil) A seafood paella for two Gildas, skewers of olive, anchovy, pickled cucumber and hot pepper. A round flan on a plate with a smear of dulce de leche alongside it, next to a cafe con leche.
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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You might want to check out Letters to the Gods Left in Fireplaces' website. letterstothegods.carrd.co
Letters to the Gods Left in Fireplaces
A queer lit magazine where the forbidden thrives.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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bcsmagazine.bsky.social
Live in BCS #444: "A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe "Even as I watch, a demon emerges. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up and wraps itself around the demon's waist." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Librarian’s Resolution In The Land Of Demons by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
Even as I watch, a seven-foot-tall demon emerges. It growls and looks at the wall that divides the city. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up with unnat...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Oh hey, I just found out that my article for Writing Magazine, "How to Write Romantasy," is available to read for free online now! Check it out: www.writers-online.co.uk/how-to-write...
How to write romantasy
Romantasy is the hottest new genre to have readers devouring pages. Leading romantasy author Stephanie Burgis advises you on how to enchant your readers.
www.writers-online.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Good news for fans of magical bookshops, murdered kings, and The Black Company: November 2025 is packed full of excellent new books, and you can find a list of all of them here!
All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in November 2025 - Reactor
November's fantasy books take us to cozy bookshops and candy stores, as well as a college for necromancers…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This evening is the FINAL stop on @sentencebender.bsky.social 's and my Apprehension/Red Star Hustle book tour. It's been a whirlwind of fun! Meet Sam in-person at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social in San Diego, CA, and I'll be joining virtually. maryrobinettekowal.com/events/book-...
Book Tour: Mysterious Galaxy – Sam only
Join Sam J. Miller (with Mary Robinette joining virtually) for a reading, signing, and conversation at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore. Event is free to attend but they recommend pre-ordering a …
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November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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foxesandroses.bsky.social
I read this glorious collection by @vanessafogg.bsky.social who is one of my favorite short story writers. A collection that thrives in the negative space. In what the characters don’t say. Words missing or left untold. Connections waiting to be made. ✨
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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stephanieburgis.bsky.social
This week's Book Quote Wednesday word is "color," so here's a snippet from Lorelei and Gerard's first meeting in my fantasy rom-com Enchanting the Fae Queen, which you can preorder now: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

Less than 12 weeks to wait!!! ✨💖✨

#romancelandia #bookqw
The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war. The text beside and below it reads: Lorelei released his arm as if it had burned her like the magic-repelling iron rails currently being planned by Imperial engineers to crisscross the vast Empire—part of the mortal world’s endless, vicious fight to extinguish the life and color from every corner of the continent. Meanwhile, the god of war and justice who stood at the head of the Imperial pantheon, Divine Jovar, smiled in benevolence upon His chosen few . . . Including the man who loomed before her now, certain and protected in his god-touched path of conquest. Unfortunately for him, Lorelei had her own divine sponsor—and more than enough personal stubbornness to move mountains.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
The book (SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY) proceeds apace. My next landmark will be when I reach 33,300 words, at which point I'll be 1/3 of the way through. But I'm not there... YET.
Still celebrating my 1/4 mark, which I passed about a week ago, but as Miles Vorkosigan would say...
FORWARD MOMENTUM!
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
"...It is early.
I shall yet be footloose..."

AAUGH THIS POEM.

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Broken Face Gargoyles - poem by Carl Sandburg | PoetryVerse
Explore Broken-face Gargoyles by Carl Sandburg. Discover this evocative poem from the United States. Read and enjoy Sandburg's unique style and themes.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
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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Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves - Reactor
Is it bad to cheat on your boyfriend with the fabric of space and time?
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November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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joshuadoetsch.bsky.social
My story “The Strange Addiction of Johnny Peculiar”is now available on this anthology.
theonyxpath.bsky.social Onyx Path Publishing @theonyxpath.bsky.social · 6d
Now Available: Accursed Tales fiction anthology for #Curseborne!
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Available Now in digital and print from DriveThruFiction: Accursed Tales
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
What's today? It's my friend's birthday! So I WROTE HER A POEM!

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Happy Birthday to the Dread Patty Templeton
There is No Lovely End, Only Lovely Here For Patty Templeton by C. S. E. CooneyOn the occasion of her November 5th 2025 birthday, however the hell years old/young we are they will say of us, maybe …
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November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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zzclaybourne.bsky.social
Every word of this review.
csecooney.bsky.social C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 6d
Rich Horton’s review of my book—did SAINT DEATH’S HERALD really come out THIS YEAR???—is so radiant, so joyful!!! I could not wish for anything more!!!

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Exuberant Magic
A review of Saint Death's Herald, by C. S. E. Cooney
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November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
Rich Horton’s review of my book—did SAINT DEATH’S HERALD really come out THIS YEAR???—is so radiant, so joyful!!! I could not wish for anything more!!!

substack.com/home/post/p-...
Exuberant Magic
A review of Saint Death's Herald, by C. S. E. Cooney
substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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ICYMI!
csecooney.bsky.social C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 7d
For those of you who missed last night's livestreamed panel with some of the Shakespeare SlayFest's creatives, please enjoy this listening whilst doing laundry, dishes, or going on walkies with your VERY GOOD DOG.

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Shakespeare SlayFest Panel of Creatives!
YouTube video by CSECooney
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November 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
csecooney.bsky.social
For those of you who missed last night's livestreamed panel with some of the Shakespeare SlayFest's creatives, please enjoy this listening whilst doing laundry, dishes, or going on walkies with your VERY GOOD DOG.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4hh...
Shakespeare SlayFest Panel of Creatives!
YouTube video by CSECooney
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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See you in 8 minutes! twitch.tv/csecooney.
November 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Going live in 50 minutes!
November 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Amnandi Sails: Book 2 of the Khumalo Trilogy
Book 2 of the Khumalo Trilogy
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November 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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asleepyfrog.bsky.social
"The Raven King (The Mad King)" inspired by a character from "Amnandi Sails" by @zzclaybourne.bsky.social

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-acrylic on board
Lower-left foreground, a dark blue and black shape suggesting a ravens head with yellow rimmed eye crowned in red lines. A swirl of black and green emanates from the ravens head, traveling up over and down the canvas. Red circles are scattered throughout and a few black wing-like shapes with blue tips fall towards lower right.
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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zzclaybourne.bsky.social
Leslie's done several pieces inspired by bits from my books. Every single time my response is (direct quote) "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Captured: the Raven King's vacant soul, his sense of spew, his inherent downfall. I love it.

@csecooney.bsky.social, you will love this!
asleepyfrog.bsky.social Leslie Laurence @asleepyfrog.bsky.social · 7d
"The Raven King (The Mad King)" inspired by a character from "Amnandi Sails" by @zzclaybourne.bsky.social

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-acrylic on board
Lower-left foreground, a dark blue and black shape suggesting a ravens head with yellow rimmed eye crowned in red lines. A swirl of black and green emanates from the ravens head, traveling up over and down the canvas. Red circles are scattered throughout and a few black wing-like shapes with blue tips fall towards lower right.
November 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM