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Em Harriett🍂
@emharriettwrites.bsky.social
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she/they🍂 Speculative fiction author & Associate Member SFWA. Words in Voyage YA, Ember, All Worlds Wayfarer, and more!
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It's been a couple years, but it's still really special to me to have been in The First Line; it's one of the first journals I ever submitted work to when I started my writing career :)
You can read it here!: bluecubiclepress.com/TFLwinter2023.htm

#writing #shortstory #author #litjournal
A pen and piece of labradorite next to a print journal titled "The First Line" with a price of $6.00 and the header "It was the farthest north they had ever been." On the typewriter on the cover says "Volume 25 Issue 4 Winter 2023". A piece of polished labradorite and raw kyanite over an unfolded book page to a story "True North" by Em Harriett.
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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October books read! 😊📚
#booksky #reading #books
Four books side by side: Warriors graphic novel #3, "The Apple" by Sally Coulthard, "The River Has Roots" by Amal El-Mohtar, and "The Obsidian Tower" by Melissa Caruso.
November 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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September books, not a ton of reading time last month but I did finish a couple fun reads 📚
#booksky #reading #books #currentread
Two books side by side on a hardwood floor: "Emberclaw" by L. R. Lam, and "Cabin" by Patrick Hutchison
October 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Books in August! 📚
#booksky #reading #ayearofbooks #books
Five books: "The Chalice of the Gods" by Rick Riordan, "A Wolf for a Spell" by Karah Sutton, "Lu and Ren's Guide to Geozoology" by Angela Hseih, "Lapidarium" by Hettie Judah, and "Twelve Moons" by Mary Oliver.
September 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Small watercolor to announce my short story "A Mausoleum of Hand-Me-Down Memories" will be appearing in the Hope in a Grimdark World anthology from @inkedingraypress.bsky.social ! ✨️

#shortstory #publishing #publication #anthology #writingcommunity #writing
#watercolor #art
A square of metallic white watercolor pigment with three lines, one metallic silver, one metallic yellow, and one metallic orange. Text on paper nearby reads ""A Mausoleum of Hand-Me-Down Memories" @ Hope in a Grimdark World anthology Inked in Gray Press"
August 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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(Some of) the books I read this July! Many library books not pictured lol
📚 #booksky #reading #books
Three books: "The Wager" by David Grann, "Thud" by Terry Pratchett, and "Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame" by Neon Yang.
August 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Books I read in June! 📚
#booksky #books #reading
Four books: "The Fox Wife" by Yangsze Choo, "Beetle and the Chimera Carnival" by Aliza Layne, "North Woods" by Daniel Mason, and "Thief of the Heights" by Son M & Robin Yao
July 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Making up for not many books last month, I read a ton this May!📚
#books #reading #booksky #currentreads #idkwhattagstouseanymore
Nine books: "Dragonfall" by L R Lam, "Heir" by Sabaa Tahir, "Darkly" by Marisha Pessl, "The Last Bookstore on Earth" by Lily Braun Arnold, "Sheine Lende" by Darcie Little Badger, "A Song For You And I" by K O'Neil, "Warriors" graphic novel 2 by Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter, "Rebis" by Irene Marchesini and Carlotta Dicataldo, and "Hourglass" by Barbara Mazzi
June 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Quick sketch to announce my short story "Perennial" will be in the 2025 Fall Into Fantasy anthology from @cloakedpress.bsky.social ! 💜🌿

#publication #sketch #cloakedpress #shortstory #writingcommunity #writersky #writersofbluesky
A pencil sketch of sage and rosemary leaves with swirls of graphite. Text reads "Perennial" @ Fall Into Fantasy 2025 Cloaked Press. A pencil is on the left.
May 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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three was an overstatement but I'm on mug #2

Writers of Bluesky, what are your favorite drinks to have while writing or editing?🍵
#writers #writersky #writingcommunity #teatime
A mug of tea with a fox face on a wooden coaster, beside a notebook with "Draft 3 process" written on it. The wooden desk the mug is on has other pens, index cards, and art supplies in the background.
May 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Getting ready to start my third draft revisions for this sci-fi project, very daunting, very exciting, I'll need at least three mugs of tea before the morning is out
A brown wooden desk with an array of objects: a leather tablet case, blue pens and markers, index cards, a binder clip, blue starry washi tape, a starry notebook, a yellow book, and a latte on a wooden coaster. The notebook reads "Written in the Stars". One index card reads "Chapter # Scene # What events happen in this scene? What is the scene goal? Which scene element(s) discovery, complication, reversal, resolution"
May 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Just finished another book on #writing that is definitely going to be part of my craft library-- "Refuse to Be Done" by Matt Bell. Really useful & insightful with strategies for writing longer form pieces & that process.
A book, "Refuse to be Done" by Matt Bell, on a brown wooden surface. Around it are a wooden coaster, dish with polished stones, and a quartz crystal.
May 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Not a lot of reading time this month, but I did finish this series by Katy Rose Pool!📖⚔️

#books #reading #booklover #currentread #booksky
Two books side by side: "As the Shadow Rises" and "Into the Dying Light", both by Katy Rose Pool.
May 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Books I read in March!📚
#books #reading #currentread #booklover #amreading
Three books side by side: "There Will Come A Darkness" by Katy Rose Pool, "Heavenly Tyrant" by Xiran Jay Zhao, and "The Underwood Tapes" by Amanda Dewitt.
April 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Short month but still had time for some books 📚
#books #reading #booklover #amreading
Three books side by side: "Fox and I" by Catherine Raven, "Amber & Clay" by Laura Amy Schlitz, and "Alone" by Megan E Freeman.
March 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Brainstorming some character and worldbuilding concepts for a short story idea. Lots of plants, trees, etc 🌿
February 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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quote post- writers! post the first 5 songs in your story/writing playlist and a moodboard or art ✨

#writingcommunity #wip #moodboard #playlist
February 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I'm in between projects, so it's as good a time as any to reread my favorite book on #writing craft, "Writing Tools" by Roy Peter Clark. I've had this copy since 2011 when my high school English teacher gave it to me and it's been my mainstay for all these years💚
The book "Writing Tools" by Roy Peter Clark on a brown table. A plush deer in the corner admires the book.
February 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Books I read in January 📚 I'll continue the thread every month with what I'm reading :)
#books #reading #booklover
Three books side by side: Snuff by Terry Pratchett, Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, and Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
February 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I have a lot of short story concepts I want to expand on and write in the coming months... 📓✏️ all hanging out on the desktop until they merit their own folders for organization
#writing #brainstorming #writingcommunity #shortstoryauthor
December 16, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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Quick sketch to celebrate 🦌🍂🧡
December 11, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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A few others:

🔆Scilla and the Brightwood (hearthstories.org/issues/1.html)
🧵The Weaver of the World (amazon.com/dp/B0BVR2M2B8)
🌳A Conspiracy of Trees (acoupofowls.com/2023/12/15/winter2023/)

#shortstories #writing #publication #shortstory #writingcommunity #art #speculativefiction
November 15, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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I like to make an ink drawing for every story publication; here's a few of my favorites:

🎆True North (bluecubiclepress.com/TFLwinter2023.htm)
🌆Green Things On Concrete (acoupofowls.com/2022/08/01/issue-7/)
🧜‍♀️Queen of Brine, Queen of Sorrow (www.amazon.com/dp/B0C22DDJW1)

#writing #shortstory #art
November 9, 2024 at 1:19 AM