Melanie C Duncan
@melaniecduncan.bsky.social
Cataloging librarian, addicted to books, web comics, enamel pins, and the freedom to read.
Very excited to contribute my poem, "Morrigan," to the White Winged Doves anthology! @whitewingeddoves.bsky.social
Meet the poets who will be featured in White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology.
April 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Very excited to contribute my poem, "Morrigan," to the White Winged Doves anthology! @whitewingeddoves.bsky.social
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FanExpo Vancouver 2025 went well :) So happy!
February 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
FanExpo Vancouver 2025 went well :) So happy!
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Good news! You can search Bluesky #MSWL just as well as Twitter Advanced Search.
We recommend searching #MSWL with:
* Your genre
* Possible comp titles
* Date range (if you do frequent searches)
* Keywords related to your book
Demo here! youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE
We recommend searching #MSWL with:
* Your genre
* Possible comp titles
* Date range (if you do frequent searches)
* Keywords related to your book
Demo here! youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE
How To Search #MSWL On Bluesky: Genre, Comps, Date, Keywords
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February 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Good news! You can search Bluesky #MSWL just as well as Twitter Advanced Search.
We recommend searching #MSWL with:
* Your genre
* Possible comp titles
* Date range (if you do frequent searches)
* Keywords related to your book
Demo here! youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE
We recommend searching #MSWL with:
* Your genre
* Possible comp titles
* Date range (if you do frequent searches)
* Keywords related to your book
Demo here! youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE
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Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features
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February 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
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If you're voting for Nebulas or Hugos, I hope you'll consider my 2024 works. Spread the Word is free to read on the Apex site and is on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading list. So, please: spread the word!
February 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If you're voting for Nebulas or Hugos, I hope you'll consider my 2024 works. Spread the Word is free to read on the Apex site and is on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading list. So, please: spread the word!
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This is your periodic reminder that we're actively seeking pitches: essays of all types, reading lists, and reported features (oh my)! Details here: longreads.com/submissions/
Submissions - Longreads
Thank you for considering Longreads for your work! Please read these guidelines on submitting and pitching to us. Nominate a story as an editor’s pick To recommend an already published story at anothe...
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January 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is your periodic reminder that we're actively seeking pitches: essays of all types, reading lists, and reported features (oh my)! Details here: longreads.com/submissions/
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Hiya! We're on Bluesky now <3
January 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Hiya! We're on Bluesky now <3
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Artemiy <3
art for a keychain
art for a keychain
January 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Artemiy <3
art for a keychain
art for a keychain
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We will be at Emerald City Comic Con at Seattle in March 💚
January 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We will be at Emerald City Comic Con at Seattle in March 💚
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That year, I grew from a lil writer to a writer who knew a little bit more. (2)
Anyway, justice for fic writers. This is a great essay by @ceruleancynic.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
Anyway, justice for fic writers. This is a great essay by @ceruleancynic.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Breathtaking Condescension Tango - Uncanny Magazine
Every year or so an article gets published in a mainstream magazine with some variant on “this hitherto unexplored phenomenon of Fan Fiction”—always two words, always capitalized—which covers the exac...
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January 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
That year, I grew from a lil writer to a writer who knew a little bit more. (2)
Anyway, justice for fic writers. This is a great essay by @ceruleancynic.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
Anyway, justice for fic writers. This is a great essay by @ceruleancynic.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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My Kickstarter is soooo close to 100 backers. This is a new record for me! 🥹
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...
#genderaffirmingcaresaveslives #transrights #transhealthcare #lgbtq #transgender #protecttransfolks #transartist
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...
#genderaffirmingcaresaveslives #transrights #transhealthcare #lgbtq #transgender #protecttransfolks #transartist
January 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
My Kickstarter is soooo close to 100 backers. This is a new record for me! 🥹
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...
#genderaffirmingcaresaveslives #transrights #transhealthcare #lgbtq #transgender #protecttransfolks #transartist
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...
#genderaffirmingcaresaveslives #transrights #transhealthcare #lgbtq #transgender #protecttransfolks #transartist
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DO NOT feel guilty or inadequate for sharing your queer art and creative works right now. This is one of many things we need to keep doing.
Our art is our voice, our medicine, our community, our progress, our mark on our world. Don't silence yourself when your voice is needed more than ever.
Our art is our voice, our medicine, our community, our progress, our mark on our world. Don't silence yourself when your voice is needed more than ever.
January 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
DO NOT feel guilty or inadequate for sharing your queer art and creative works right now. This is one of many things we need to keep doing.
Our art is our voice, our medicine, our community, our progress, our mark on our world. Don't silence yourself when your voice is needed more than ever.
Our art is our voice, our medicine, our community, our progress, our mark on our world. Don't silence yourself when your voice is needed more than ever.
These books are sooooooo good!
Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast, with a contemporary cowboy twist! Check out my Cowboys of California trilogy today! 🤠💖📚 #blackbooksky
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#blackbooksky #blackbooktok
🌵 https://amzn.to/4cYLaUd
🌵 www.kobo.com/us/en/s...
#blackbooksky #blackbooktok
January 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
These books are sooooooo good!
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January 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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A fake dating pact with your bestie’s ex? What could go wrong?
My young adult rom com, HER GOOD SIDE is out now in paperback and audiobook!
🥪💖🛹
🌞 www.therippedbodice....
🌞www.penguinteen.com/...
My young adult rom com, HER GOOD SIDE is out now in paperback and audiobook!
🥪💖🛹
🌞 www.therippedbodice....
🌞www.penguinteen.com/...
January 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A fake dating pact with your bestie’s ex? What could go wrong?
My young adult rom com, HER GOOD SIDE is out now in paperback and audiobook!
🥪💖🛹
🌞 www.therippedbodice....
🌞www.penguinteen.com/...
My young adult rom com, HER GOOD SIDE is out now in paperback and audiobook!
🥪💖🛹
🌞 www.therippedbodice....
🌞www.penguinteen.com/...
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I guess I should introduce myself properly...
I'm George, and I draw a Sunday comic strip about a stay-at-home dad and his two-year-old called Beware of Toddler. I also draw the comic strip Angel Face Investigates for The Beano as well.
Nice to meet you!
I'm George, and I draw a Sunday comic strip about a stay-at-home dad and his two-year-old called Beware of Toddler. I also draw the comic strip Angel Face Investigates for The Beano as well.
Nice to meet you!
November 12, 2024 at 8:22 PM
I guess I should introduce myself properly...
I'm George, and I draw a Sunday comic strip about a stay-at-home dad and his two-year-old called Beware of Toddler. I also draw the comic strip Angel Face Investigates for The Beano as well.
Nice to meet you!
I'm George, and I draw a Sunday comic strip about a stay-at-home dad and his two-year-old called Beware of Toddler. I also draw the comic strip Angel Face Investigates for The Beano as well.
Nice to meet you!
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Squirrel by Pensacola Bay.
January 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Squirrel by Pensacola Bay.
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This book is both beautiful and frightening. Elegant, emotional horror that hits hard and never lets up.
THE REFORMATORY, by @tananarivedue.bsky.social
Do yourself a favor. Get it.
THE REFORMATORY, by @tananarivedue.bsky.social
Do yourself a favor. Get it.
THE REFORMATORY is out in paperback today!!!
I have been so floored and grateful after the response to this story of Robert and Gloria Stephens — inspired by my family history.
I have been so floored and grateful after the response to this story of Robert and Gloria Stephens — inspired by my family history.
January 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This book is both beautiful and frightening. Elegant, emotional horror that hits hard and never lets up.
THE REFORMATORY, by @tananarivedue.bsky.social
Do yourself a favor. Get it.
THE REFORMATORY, by @tananarivedue.bsky.social
Do yourself a favor. Get it.
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Uncanny Magazine is amazing!
Space Unicorns! There are many ways to support Uncanny Magazine! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Pledges to Kickstarter! SPREADING THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!!! https://buff.ly/3BIbIeL
January 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Uncanny Magazine is amazing!
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This is such great news!
The @sfwa.bsky.social SFWA Board of Directors has approved the addition of Poetry and Comics categories to the Nebula Awards, starting with the 2025 awards in a few months. And a special Hugo for poetry will be given out at next year's @seattleworldcon.bsky.social. Big things afoot in spec poetry!
SFWA Approves New Poetry, Comics Nebula Awards
The SFWA Board of Directors has approved the addition of Poetry and Comics categories to the Nebula Awards. SFWA President Kate Ristau told members yesterday, “We are thrilled to honor and celebrat…
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November 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
This is such great news!
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I'm currently reading THE CITY IN GLASS by Nghi Vo, and I'm just 😭
a) I love everything Nghi Vo writes
b) it is a story about loss, rebirth, growth
c) this demon is hitting me hard in the feels for how much she loves humans/her city
a) I love everything Nghi Vo writes
b) it is a story about loss, rebirth, growth
c) this demon is hitting me hard in the feels for how much she loves humans/her city
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM
I'm currently reading THE CITY IN GLASS by Nghi Vo, and I'm just 😭
a) I love everything Nghi Vo writes
b) it is a story about loss, rebirth, growth
c) this demon is hitting me hard in the feels for how much she loves humans/her city
a) I love everything Nghi Vo writes
b) it is a story about loss, rebirth, growth
c) this demon is hitting me hard in the feels for how much she loves humans/her city
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pro tip: don’t call something a “debate” when one side is just trying to defend their human rights and the other is trying to punish their existence.
November 22, 2024 at 3:54 PM
pro tip: don’t call something a “debate” when one side is just trying to defend their human rights and the other is trying to punish their existence.