C. J. Lavigne

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Canadian SFF writer. Author of IN VERITAS. THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER coming fall 2025. Short stories in On Spec, Fusion Fragment, Daily Science Fiction, Augur, PodCastle, and other fine publications. I like coffee and cats. www.cjlavigne.com

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I have withdrawn my novel THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS from consideration for the 2024 Scotiabank Giller prize, along with over twenty other authors. Our work will not be used to aid investors of genocide www.canlitresponds.ca/letter-giller

CanLit Respondswww.canlitresponds.ca Over 20 authors pull work from the 2024 Giller Prize

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Now through July 17, you can get 25% off your preorder of THE FORTUNATE FALL (paperback, ebook, or audiobook) with code PREORDER25. This is a new Tor Essentials edition with an introduction by @bluejo.bsky.social and a beautiful new cover. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fortun...

The Fortunate Fall|Paperbackwww.barnesandnoble.com A debut novel of remarkable beauty and invention, The Fortunate Fall is back in print for the first time in almost three decades as a Tor Essential, with a new introduction by Jo Walton Tor Essentials...

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Apologies if you've seen me announce this elsewhere, but I was waiting for the press release to go up to mention it here. My novel Assassin's Creed: The Resurrection Plot (the sequel to The Magus Conspiracy) is a finalist for the Scribe award! My first nomination for tie-in work. Thanks, judges!

The 2024 Scribe Award Nominees – International Association of Media Tie-In Writersiamtw.org

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Northern Nights, the all-Canadian anthology of dark and strange fiction, is now up for pre-order. (Oct.1.) Behold the amazing ToC. It'd be a "prime" day to pre-order from your fave indie. Thank you! undertowpublications.com/shop/norther...

Northern Nights — Undertow Publicationsundertowpublications.com TRADE PAPERBACK (Shipping Oct. 2024) 296 PAGES COVER ART: Serena Malyon Something stirs in the boundless dark of the Canadian north. Listen. Can you hear it? Northern Nights is an anthology of st...

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✨Submissions are OPEN! ✨We are open to short stories under 5,000 words, translations under 3,500 words, and flash fiction. We offer $0.10/word. Send in your submissions now! More details on submissions are on our website: khoreomag.com/submissions/

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In case you’re wondering where to get my debut novella, THE EXTRAVAGANZA ETERNIA, coming out July 23 from @ghostorchidpress.bsky.social, you can: Ask your library to get it Order it at your local indie bookstore But direct from Ghost Orchid Order on bookshop.org

Hey everyone, IT'S KRISTIN

Ugh fine @cjlavigne.com you win, I’m here

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file770.com/2023-shirley... OMG I WON THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD!!! 😭

2023 Shirley Jackson Awardsfile770.com The 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on July 13 at Readercon 33 in Quincy, Massachusetts. The juried award is given for outstanding achievement in the literature of ps…

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🇨🇦FELLOW CANADIANS🇨🇦 do you want a ✨signed✨ The Dragonfly Gambit, plus postcard, plus extra goodies, BUT you don't want to deal with Amazon or prohibitive shipping rates? starting today and running to July 15th DM me and @neonhemlock.bsky.social and I will make it happen for you! ❤️❤️

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Do you use Firefox? In the new Firefox 128 there's a box, *on by default*, for a feature that collects info about the ads you've seen as you browse and sends it directly to the ad companies. (Chrome has this too, but doesn't enable it without a disclosure/consent box.) I recommend you turn it off:

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“A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff” “TUAW… was sold to … a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers.” www.404media.co/a-beloved-te...

A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staffwww.404media.co TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI...

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It's that time of year again!

The Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Kickstarter features solicited authors John Chu, Aliette de Bodard, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Scott Lynch, Samantha Mills, and Tade Thompson! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

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Love Augur Society? Time to get on board! 👈 We're looking for enthusiastic, creative, scifi/fantasy-obsessed Augurians for our our programming and marketing projects! Apply now: augurmag.com/join-augur-m... #augurmagazine #canlit

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Hello! I have a flash fiction out in Issue 14 of James Gunn’s Ad Astra that riffs on the superhero genre: “How to Survive Walking Home from School.” I hope you enjoy this neutral instructional guide that’s most definitely not based on someone's personal experience! www.adastrasf.com/how-to-survi...

How to Survive Walking Home from Schoolwww.adastrasf.com Photo by Jackson Simmer How to Survive Walking Home from School by Julia LaFond Did a UFO crash into the interstate? Is a nanite swarm consuming and assimilating all electronics, including batteries,...

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We were told in early days of web we had to waste our lives refuting every take. Best thing I ever did was write a GOOD take that could resurface into every convo about subject. This take continues to circulate in discussions about war and gender in video games aidanmoher.com/blog/feature...

"'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative" by Kameron Hurley - A Dribble of Inkaidanmoher.com I’m going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story you’ve ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they eat their young if not raised properly; and ...

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Remember, Kaleidotrope is open to fiction and poetry submissions until the end of July! kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

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DAWNHOUNDS 2 IS OUT IN JUST OVER A MONTH TELL YER MATES. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Su...

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I set up my BlueSky account to require Alt Text before posting. It's honestly the only reason my stuff always has alt text. You can set this up too!

Do you always mean to do it but forget? There's a bluesky setting for that!

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About that vague announcement: Happy to announce that FF will soon be launching a sister magazine, Saros Speculative Fiction! The goal of Saros will be, of course, to publish more great fiction, but also to give those interested the opportunity to work as an editor for an issue!

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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule

wow, standing on principle sure is expensive

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Heigh ho, another day, another fake literary agency. ImplicitPress Literary Agency has all the signs: solicitation, fake publishing offers, a crack "team" of stock images, a website rife with uncorrected typos, and a web domain just 22 days old www.implicitpressliteraryagency.com

WE NEED MORE BOOKS!www.implicitpressliteraryagency.com implicitpressliteraryagency

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REMINDER! If you're working on memoir or creative nonfiction (especially science!) you're very welcome to attend our free, virtual event with two powerhouse authors tomorrow night! 7 pm MT, July 3, bring your questions! epl.bibliocommons.com/events/666b5...

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I keep forgetting to post about the fact that my Nebula-nominated games The Road to Canterbury (travel with Chaucer) and The Magician's Workshop (Renaissance magic) are 34% off in the Steam Summer Sale until July 11. If you enjoy interactive fiction and/or historical nerdery, they might be your bag.

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Look! There's my name in the table of contents! I'm excited to have a story in the latest issue of Baffling. You can read it at the link below.

Baffling #16 dropped today! Rad cover by Morphiria and nine quiet stories from… Jared Povanda P. H. Low Matt Richardson Sydney Paige Guerrero Ramez Yoakeim Rachel Gutin Ada Hoffmann Michelle Exler Hanna A Nirav bafflingmag.com/issue-sixteen

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And because sometimes good news always come in twos I have another story out today! This time in @havenspec.bsky.social. A flash piece about the girls! The girls cannot be and will not be contained and it's time someone learned this lesson. 👀 www.havenspec.com/skinless

Our July Issue is now free to read online! havenspec.com/issue-sixteen Fiction by J.R. Dawson, Valerie Kemp, Marissa Lingen, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Bree Wernicke, and John Wiswell Poetry by H.B. Asari, Mari Ness, Eva Papasoulioti, and Marisca Pichette Cover art: Matthew Spencer

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Friends! My second novelette for the year is out! "Joanna's Bodies" is free to read @psychopomp.bsky.social! Eleni can't stop bringing Joanna back from the dead. This is a story about toxic friendships, forgiving yourself, and my love for Jennifer's Body 🖤 psychopomp.com/joannas-bodi...

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Aaaaanyway. Do people need a few minutes of escapism? With wizards? And/or a sea monstre? (Maybe you do not need a sea monstre.) strangehorizons.com/fiction/by-s...

By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Starsstrangehorizons.com When her bell sounded at midnight, Firion the wizard grasped her stoutest staff (crowned, for non-magical reasons, with a razor-sharp chunk of amethyst) and put her lips to the doorjamb. “Who goes …

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New story day! "This Mentor Lives" is about a wizard working himself to death raising chosen ones--but his kids are worried for him. It's time for an intervention. You can read it free at @havenspec.bsky.social right here: www.havenspec.com/this-mentor-...

This Mentor Lives by J.R. Dawson & John Wiswell, Haven Spec Magazinewww.havenspec.com a magazine of science fiction and fantasy

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💜 Open to novella queries, now until July 14! 💜 guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ queries: querymanager.com/query/Violet...

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A day early, but first episode of the MTG Bloomburrow story is up! I really loved writing this and I hope you enjoy it, too. magic.wizards.com/en/news/magi...

Bloomburrow | Episode 1: Calamity Comes to Valleymagic.wizards.com It's another peaceful day in the land of Valley—until Pondside receives a dark and unexpected visitation.