A'right, screw it. We're feeling generous. Pre-orders for both OPEN ALL NIGHT and GREATER THAN HIS NATURE are *20% off* until next Friday. Tell your friends, my friends.

Order now: atomiccarnivalbooks.square.sit

#indiepublishing #writingcommunity #horror #scifi #sffh

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Cliff Jones Jr. (author) · @cliffjones
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Lauren McMenemy · @spookygirl
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Vampires take so many literary forms these days, which is why world-building becomes so important. Helping us in that task? It's Nicoverley—welcome to Team Vamp, Beverley Lee & Nicole Eigener!

Writing the Occult: Vampires happens 28 October. Tix on sale next week via Alex Davis Events / Eventbrite.

#sffh #genrefiction #fantasywriters #fantasy #HorrorCommunity #horrorfamily #writersofmastodon #fiction #writers #supernatural #occult #horror #vampires #vampirefiction

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Sarah Jackson · @sarahijackson
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Another exciting project: I'm teaching a 5-week online course at @sagetyrtle's fabulous Crow Collective this autumn!

It's all about how to use speculative metaphor to write about real world stuff, looking at examples from contemporary SFF and horror authors.

Registration just opened! Find out more and grab your place here:
crowcollectiveworkshops.com/20

#writingcommunity #WritingWorkshop #WritingClass #writingcourse #sff #sffh #speculativefiction

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Inner Worlds · @innerworlds
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We have a special interest in speculative stories
- about neurodiversity
- about mental health, psycho-emotional distress, or Madness
- about the perspectives and experiences of marginalised groups.
But we're open to everyone, and we want to know how it feels to be *you*. We'll walk with you in the dark places, but we'd love to read about your joy and pleasure too!
inner-worlds.org

#shortsff #sffh #speculativefiction #litmags

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Sarah Jackson · @sarahijackson
1023 followers · 1506 posts · Server wandering.shop

Behold, the Secret Project I've been working on for the last several months...

Introducing @innerworlds! A digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives inner-worlds.org

#speculativefiction #sff #sffh #litmag #shortfiction #submissioncall

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Inner Worlds · @innerworlds
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Inner Worlds is a new quarterly digital zine of speculative fiction which illuminates the different ways that we experience ourselves and our world ✨ 🧠 ❤️✨

Submissions open 1 October! Find out more and read our guidelines here inner-worlds.org

#speculativefiction #litmag #sff #sffh #scifi #fantasy #horror #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Sylvia · @sylvia
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my first short story on my new blog. A silly little ditty about what happens when an alien shows up at your home.

writing.lol/short-story-cupboa

#sffh #shortstory

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Cliff Jones Jr. (author) · @cliffjones
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I just finished a new story called “Strange Attractor at the End of Time”! Coming in at 3,800 words (roughly 16 pages), it'll be just perfect for the upcoming Neutral Milk Hotel -inspired anthology from Hungry Shadow Press! Unfortunately, submissions don't open until December, so I'll have to sit on this a while. (Let me know if you want to beta-read in the meantime.) This one is inspired by the NMH song “I Will Bury You in Time,” and I’m quite pleased with it.

hungryshadowpress.com/submissi

#neutralmilkhotel #nmh #music #indiemusic #lofi #lofimusic #fiction #books #shortfiction #shortstory #shortstories #dreampunk #dreampunkFiction #weirdfiction #sf #sff #sffh #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #litfic #literaryfiction

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Cliff Jones Jr. (author) · @cliffjones
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Cordillera · @cordillera
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maria-is-reading.blogspot.com/

If I wasn't a shitposter with zero attention span, I'd be writing comprehensive short story recommendations like these.

Wondering if I should get back to blogging on (but facing the HTML is friction) or setting up a public page where I dump links.

#neocities #notion #shortstory #blogging #sffh

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Cordillera · @cordillera
460 followers · 702 posts · Server social.horrorhub.club

About to read by . I was intrigued by the premise of an alternate history where people in the had advanced technology to resist the occupiers. Will update y'all if it's good.

#everfair #nisishawl #congo #belgian #sffh #amreading #alternatehistory

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Cordillera · @cordillera
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kittysneezes.com/orc-gusano/

Good episode on with people in mind
- The difference between writing Latinx characters for white people vs for actual Latinx people
- Secondary worlds that shy away from and , when those are the historical forces that made Latinx people possible

1/🧵

#ritegud #podcast #writing #sffh #latinx #imperialism #colonialism

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Cliff Jones Jr. · @cliffjones
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I just got my first review on Amazon for my first solo fiction book!

"Surreal Sci-Fi For Serious Thinkers

This novel from Cliff Jones, Jr. is my kind of science fiction novel: It's unpredictable, profound, philosophical and filled with insightful social commentary and brilliant satire on ever page.

Honestly, there are enough great ideas in this book to fill 3 other sci-fi novels, but somehow Jones manages to cram one ingenious concept after the other into every single chapter.

Once I started, I couldn't stop thinking about it until I reached the ending.

Looking forward to more great writing from this author. He's definitely a talent to watch!"

amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B0C9XD

#dreampunk #dreampunkbooks #dreampunkFiction #sf #sff #sffh #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #cyberpunk #cyberpunkbooks #cyberpunkfiction #weirdfiction #weirdfictionbooks #slipstream #irrealism #transrealism #litfic #literaryfiction #philipkdick #keithgiles #cliffjonesjr #indieauthors #indiewriters #writingcommunity #books #reads

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Sonia Sulaiman · @SoniaSulaiman
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*deep breath* I have news! I'm launching my own Salon, a space for meeting and having conversations with readers and writers over an asynchronous book club!

patreon.com/posts/87250033

#sff #sffh

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Cliff Jones Jr. · @cliffjones
424 followers · 347 posts · Server sfba.social
Cliff Jones Jr. · @cliffjones
424 followers · 347 posts · Server sfba.social

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” —Shirley Jackson

#quotes #quoteoftheday #ShirleyJackson #books #bookstodon #horror #sffh #dreams #dreaming

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Juliet E McKenna · @JulietEMcKenna
997 followers · 1749 posts · Server wandering.shop

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'narrow'. Dan Mackmain learns his adversary under this Welsh mountain has tunnel vision when it comes to humans.

Contemporary fantasy rooted in British folklore. See what other readers think, and check your preferred retailer.

Goodreads bit.ly/3MDYCA3
Amazon UK amzn.to/3ShQ17K

#bookqw #fantasy #urbanfantasy #sff #sffh #books #bookstodon

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Sonia Sulaiman · @SoniaSulaiman
1528 followers · 1951 posts · Server wandering.shop

If the genre magazine provides the stories, art, and non fiction for free, what motivates you to get a subscription?

#sff #sffh

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Kat Kimbriel · @KatKimbriel
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@nancyjane

Maybe not. But if we share it every week, perhaps we will have more than wastewater reports to tell us what's up.

The community may have a better handle on it than most countries, because many people do report in if they catch at a convention.

As I mention occasionally--dying isn't the worst possibility. is to me much worse, because I have lived since I was 9 with Long conditions science didn't recognize or understand. You do not want a Long disease!

#sffh #c19 #LongCovid

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