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Micro press publisher of science fiction and fantasy novellas. Jennifer Crispin, publisher. Lansing, MI.
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This is the last week to snag this amazing deal!

The 2024 Pride Bundle available from ‪https://storybundle.com/pride‬ includes 13 queer-themed SF/F books, chosen to celebrate the community with intelligent, nuanced, queer SF/F. For $5 you’ll get the basic bundle of 4 books in .epub format. For $20 you get all 13. With option for charity donation

We are over the moon that A Feast for Flies by @leighharlen.bsky.social is included in this year's Pride StoryBundle! Check out all the amazing stories here: storybundle.com/pride

This is your last weekend to vote for the Locus Awards! Please consider voting for A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen in the novella category!

poll.voting.locusmag.com Welcome to the Locus Awards Poll. Deadline for voting is April 15. You can return and edit or add to your ballot up until the deadline.

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General Edo, Ikenna and Touraine are elite, badass SFF protagonists. I love them because they're all varying degrees of fed-up with the world around them and they decide to actively change it. These books deserve your eyes!

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I haven't introduced myself in a while so hey new guys! 👋🏽

So I have a *lot* of new followers since my last intro thread so: Hi! I'm Sarah. I'm a writer and artist from the southern US. I have two books out (The Royal Heretic, Bride of the River God) and a graphic novel (The Violent Vixens Ride Again). I am a dork so you've been warned.

'Harlen knows how to write relationships in compelling ways. It’s not just the queerness, but the way characters interact with each other. [...] All I want in life is to hang out with Marlyn and Zira and Bea at Marlyn’s bar, drinking beers and telling stories.'

Alex Brown Reviews A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen locusmag.com/2024/02...

Alex Brown Reviews A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlenlocusmag.com A Feast for Flies, Leigh Harlen (Dancing Star Press 978-1-73214-186-5, $11.99. 163pp, pb) November 2023. Cover by Vitalii Ostaschenko. Leigh Harlen has only published a collection and one novella, …

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From the Locus Recommended Reading List! A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen. A sapphic noir novella taking place on a generation ship, with mind reading and support dogs! www.dancingstarpress...

A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen | Dancing Star Presswww.dancingstarpress.com A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen. A sapphic noir novella taking place on a generation ship, with mind reading and support dogs!

Does this friend look familiar at all?

This is a Feather Star. The closest thing we have to walking plants 🌊🌟💃 📸: Lewis Burnett

In case you missed it, A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen has been recognized on both the British Science Fiction Awards longlist and the Locus Recommended Reading List! If you are reading for either prize, now is a great time to pick up a copy! www.dancingstarpress.com/product/a-fe...

Thrilled to see A Feast for Flies by @leighharlen.bsky.social on the Locus Recommended Reading List!

Beyond delighted to see @leighhendrix.bsky.social's A Feast for Flies on the BSFA longlist for Best Shorter Fiction!

Vote for the BSFA Awardswww.bsfa.co.uk

A Feast for Flies has been out in the world for nearly two months! If you've read it, would you leave a rating or review? Here, Goodreads, Amazon, StoryGraph, LIbraryThing, it all helps other people discover the world of Zira, Bea, &. Marlyn!

A Feast for Flieswww.goodreads.com Zira once had a life. A girlfriend. A favorite bar. A h…

Check out the newest issue for a great review of A Feast for Flies! @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social said: "All I want in life is to hang out with Marlyn and Zira and Bea at Marlyn's bar, drinking beers and telling stories."

Issue 755-6 Table of Contents, Dec 2023/Jan 2024 locusmag.com/2023/12...

Issue 755-6 Table of Contents, Dec 2023/Jan 2024locusmag.com The December 2023/January 2024 issue of Locus magazine is a special double issue and has interviews with Robert J. Sawyer, Andrea Stewart, and Ai Jiang, and a spotlight on artist Winona Nelson. Che…

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Requisite awards eligibility post: consider my late in the year sapphic cyber-noir novella, A Feast for Flies. It's got crime lords, weird drugs, a hot tech savvy bartender ex gf love interest, and the goodest dog. If you're a reviewer/nominator person I or my publisher can hook you up with a copy

THE GOODEST DOG.

A bunch of you have been using this coupon to pick up an ebook of A Feast for Flies, which seems like a good time to mention that the ebook was designed by my friend, Christina Ghezzo! She's a whiz with css and whatever other magic makes an ebook ebook and was great to work with!

Our little press website has been struggling for a while. Over the weekend we migrated to a new hosting service, and just like that, all our speed and capacity problems are in the past! To celebrate, we are having a little sale! Use the code DancingFaster to get 30% off of everything in the store!

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If you were looking for sci fi with service dogs, look no further than A FEAST FOR FLIES I'm honored to have author @leighharlen.bsky.social on the blog today to talk about where this story originated, making the scope smaller, and what they're working on next

Author to Author with Leigh Harlen (A Feast for Flies)jowritesfantasy.me If you were looking for sci fi with service dogs, look no further than A FEAST FOR FLIES I'm honored to have author @LeighHarlen on the blog today to talk about where this story originated, making the...

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Reminder: the virtual book launch is TONIGHT! Hope to see you there!

Join us for a virtual book launch of A Feast for Flies by @leighharlen.bsky.social! Hosted by Argo Bookshop, and in conversation with @sillysyntax.bsky.social. The event is November 16th at 7 p.m. EST. Tickets are free, so RSVP below! www.ticketsource.us/argo-booksho...

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😍my book baby's first review! "This novella honors the stakes of a noir and the world-building intricacy of ship-bound space sci fi for something truly thrilling."

Came out yesterday: A science fiction noir about a mind-reader with a service dog trying to save herself from a job she didn't ask for and to preserve the future she wants 4/5 | ARC Review: A FEAST FOR FLIES by @leighharlen.bsky.social (2023) jowritesfantasy.me/2023/11/15/a...

A Feast for Flies by @leighharlen.bsky.social is out TODAY! 🚀 Generation ships 🔎 Space noir 🚨 ACAB 🎰 Casinos & crime bosses 🌺 Weird plant bullshit 🐕 Support doggo 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic second chance

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It's here, it's queer, and the flies are hungry! Out tomorrow from @dancingstarpress.bsky.social @sillysyntax.bsky.social and I will be talking at the virtual launch Thursday with Argo Bookshop Buy: www.dancingstarpress.com/product/a-fe... Tickets (free): www.ticketsource.us/argo-booksho...

Today is the last day to get pre-order pricing for A Feast for Flies! Get your sci-fi service dogs, your resistance in a broken corrupted system, your reclaiming of parts of yourself that you had lost today!

Thread for A Feast for Flies by @leighharlen.bsky.social, out November 14! It's got generation ships, crime bosses and corruption, psychic abilities, a very good support doggo, and two women who are SO TIRED of the compromises they've had to make to survive in such a brutal system.

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It's Friday! And you know what would be a perfect weekend read? The Violent Vixens Ride Again! Four retired villains get back together on one last heist for old times sake. Get it in my store: www.ko-fi.com/sarahamacklin/shop

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TODAY IS SHIPPING DAY! I am sending out the first batch of A Feast for Flies by @leighharlen.bsky.social pre-orders today! If you want to get your paperback copy in hand ASAP, you've got a few hours to make it into today's batch! (Psssst, this is a novella, so this is a #Novellavember post!)

Thread for A Ruin of Shadows by @ellethevillain.bsky.social! 🧑🏿Older Black woman badass protagonist 🗡 Assassin army 🧞 Wise-cracking djinn 🦏 War rhinos 🏞 Lush world-building ⚔️ fighting, revenge, chases, escapes! ✨ a little bit of magic, a bit more gore

Thread for She Who Hears All Whispers by @davaun.bsky.social! 🔥 a story of revenge set on fire 🦀 coastal ecology 🦠 a magic system powered by disease 🧟‍♀️ body horror 🌊 what horrors lurk beneath the waves? ☄️ magical battles 👩🏿 dominated by Black women

Thread for Bride of the River God by @killianfantasy.bsky.social! 🐠 all ages fantasy novella 🐟 petty, petty gods 🐸 talking animals, some helpful, some tricksters ⚡️big myth vibes 🐡 coming of age 🚫 there may be a bride, but there is no romance in this picture