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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen.bsky.social
Science fiction writer, poet, essayist. Minnesota nerd par excellence. Tisanes, leaves, Moomins, snow. She/her. Repped by Kurestin Armada.
www.marissalingen.com
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Absolutely thrilled to see THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS on Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated SFFH Books for the Spring!

But I'm far happier to share that list with great writers like @isabel.kim @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social and @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app. Next year looks rad.
Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: SF, Fantasy & Horror
Fairy-tale elements dominate this season’s fantasies, gothic atmosphere pervades the horror novels, and tech-based anxiety animates the sci-fi outings.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
TFW an old friend you haven't seen since you were a literal teenager finds you on the socials and you look at his posts...and they look like your adulthood friends' posts. \o/
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I am one of Naomi's friends who had shingles! I had it while I had appendicitis, so I got to say to the triage nurse, "I have shingles on my neck and left shoulder, and my abdominal pain is worse than my shingles pain." I got seen quite quickly!
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Look, I promise not to rave about my apple Advent calendar every single day

but also

but also

I just ate a Northern Spy apple and the angels ascended and descended

How could they fit this much happiness in one admittedly gigantic apple
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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It's the last month of 2025, & this year, I published two short stories, one novella, and one novel. ❤️

My short story "Mail-Order Magic" is one of the most personal pieces I've ever written, and it's free to read at
@morningtransport.bsky.social : www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...
Mail Order Magic
March comes to you with Sunday Morning Transport stories by Stephanie Burgis, Eric Smith, Sarena Ulibarri, and Leah Cypess.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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New essay! "The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children’s Fantasy" by Marissa Lingen! buff.ly/mjYuNZh
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Ohhh this @marissalingen.bsky.social short story is the loveliest romantasy story I've read in a long time, and the ending made me tear up in the best possible way. Read it: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...

#romancelandia
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December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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♥️
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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WHAT WE ARE SEEKING got a starred review in Library Journal! A perceptive one, too. Bujold's ETHAN OF ATHOS is definitely a book I thought about while writing it
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social.

Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Holiday deal alert! the paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just $10 on Amazon!

In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
Someone You Can Build A Nest In
Someone You Can Build A Nest In [Wiswell, John] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Someone You Can Build A Nest In
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December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Sentences that tell you the precise subtype of nerd we are here: "Oh shoot, I would have bought M this Fall of Rome Scented Candle if it had been a Fall of Rome Unscented Candle."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
For those who mourn, for those who connect despite struggles, @r-emrys.bsky.social has a new story with @reactorsff.bsky.social : reactormag.com/all-that-mea...
All That Means or Mourns - Reactor
Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most…
reactormag.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Stole this from the Cedar Cultural Center’s page since they aren’t here. ♥️♥️♥️
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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December’s giftable What I Love & Where I’ll Be is up at the patreoblog for all subscribers!

Contains details on December’s 2 free write-in sessions, goal/intention setting workshops, & a list of nifty gifty things.

Not signed up yet? Come on over & check it out!

www.patreon.com/posts/144927...
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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MARCH 10 2026

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

Covers are by @fringe-element.net who did an awesome job
Editions will include introductions plus bonus short stories

There will also be a preorder campaign--more details on that later.
The new editions of the FULL TRILOGY by @aliettedebodard.com are available for preorder now in ebook and paperback, wherever books are sold.

Check out book 1 here:

awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I've been waiting for this @japrenticewrites.bsky.social story to go public on @apexmag.bsky.social so I can share it, shaping our own stories: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night
I was not there at the beginning of Lietta’s story (I am never there for beginnings) so I will tell it to you as I imagine it...
www.apexbookcompany.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children's Fantasy. My wheelhouse? Yeah. Definitely my wheelhouse. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children’s Fantasy - Uncanny Magazine
The beautiful blend that can come of mingling domesticity and the fantastic is having a moment right now, as exemplified by the genre of cozy fantasy, but as we would expect, contemporary writers aren...
www.uncannymagazine.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It arrived two hours ago and I still can't believe a bunch of my friends banded together and bought me an apple Advent calendar.

AN APPLE ADVENT CALENDAR.

Rarely have I felt so seen.
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Happy December! If you're in the US, you can snap up my cozy-spooky gothic rom-com novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c, today only: www.amazon.com/Marriage-Und...

#romancelandia
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Last of the Vertigo Project stories! The Torn Map is a fantasy of uncertain terrain, something those of us with vertigo know all too well: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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✨!! SALE !!✨

THIS WEEKEND, through December 1, EVERYTHING in my shop is 20% off. Now is your chance to snag sparkly things for yourself and your loved ones! Earrings and necklaces featuring new, vintage, and reclaimed stone, glass, crystal, and shell.

www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM