Laura Blackwell (she/her)

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Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer: CatsCast, Nightmare, Chiral Mad 5, The Future Fire, AaFS. Copy editor @thedeadlands.com. Cohost @storyhour.bsky.social. Website & newsletter signup at pronouncedlahra.com. HWA, SFWA. BLM. She/her. Photo: Jodi Foucher

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This is TONIGHT!

This week's Story Hour is going to be fantastic! @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social returns (ask to see his new book cover) and nominated-for-everything @rachaelkjones.bsky.social makes her Story Hour debut! Behold the verdure! Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Authors #StoryHour2020 www.storyhour2020.com

The GRACKLE excerpt @acwise.bsky.social read at #Readercon electrified me. If you didn't make it there but would like a taste of her fiction reading (not from GRACKLE, but an excellent full story), check out her most recent @storyhour.bsky.social appearance. www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...

Saw @acwise.bsky.social reading from her upcoming novella GRACKLE at #Readercon. I was rapt. Preorders are open. pspublishing.co.uk/grackle-hard...

Story Hour (feat. Sage Tyrtle and A.C. Wise) | Sage Tyrtle reads "A...www.facebook.com Sage Tyrtle reads "A String of Paper Dolls" and A.C. Wise reads "Seven Times Seven." Daniel Marcus hosts.

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Just a reminder that next week I'll be at Barnes and Noble Rittenhouse in Philadelphia with @gregfrost.bsky.social and J.E. Harter, talking about How to Write Fantasy. It should be a great panel! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-write-...

The Write Stuff: How to Craft Fantasy at Barnes & Noble - Philadelphiawww.eventbrite.com Join us for a panel on writing fantasy with authors Gregory Frost, J.E. Harter, and A.C. Wise on Wednesday, July 24th at 6pm!

This is TONIGHT!

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Some ppl want Biden out because Reagan had Alzheimer's in his second term. I don't think having Kamala Harris and Jill Biden be secret president and vice president is worse than another Trump term

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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congratulations so @amalsingh.bsky.social, Sturgeon Award Finalist! for Notes From a Pyre, issue 33!!

2024 Sturgeon Award Finalists locusmag.com/2024/07...

2024 Sturgeon Award Finalistslocusmag.com The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. “The Rainbow Ghosts”, Violet…

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My Birdverse novella YOKE OF STARS is officially out today!! tachyonpublications.com/product/yoke... Please spread the word if you are so moved.

Yoke of Stars - Tachyon Publicationstachyonpublications.com “Haunting, nuanced, and hopeful, Yoke of Stars is essential reading.” —Izzy Wasserstein, author of These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart In the School of Assassins, Stone Orphan waits for a first ...

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Welcome, new followers, to the hamster-wheel of horrors that is my mind! If you'd like to get earlier notice and more details about my writing (with less real-time hamster-wheel action), please visit yon website to sign up for my newsletter at the foot of any page! #Authors www.pronouncedlahra.com

Laura Blackwellwww.pronouncedlahra.com Laura Blackwell, speculative fiction writer and editor.

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The Sauútiverse is expanding!

Announcing our New Anthology! Sauúti Terrors: The Dark Side 😱 Members of the Collective & co-editors @genni.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social & Cheryl S.Ntumy are thrilled to announce signing with the African Literary Agency 👻💀 READ MORE: www.jaylit.com/announcing-t... @suyidavies.com

Announcing The Sauúti Collective’s New Anthology, Sauúti Terrors: The Dark Side - JAY Litwww.jaylit.com Members of the Sauúti Collective and co-editors of a new anthology, Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy, are thrilled to announce a newly-signed contract with Bieke van Aggelen of the Af...

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FINE

If it is Vance must I promote a 2018 book I published that is a fiery take down on Vance or can I just shrug my shoulders

Amazon.com: What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia eBook : Catte, Elizabeth: Kindle Storewww.amazon.com What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia - Kindle edition by Catte, Elizabeth. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.

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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/

SJA celebration dinner at Montesacro in Walnut Creek!

"By Their Bones Ye Shall Know Them" is a hugely powerful story!

Thrilled for winning editor @jolietoomajan.bsky.social and winning story writer @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social who it's my privilege to be associated with in this book. My story "By Their Bones Ye Shall Know Them" imagines boys unwillingly pregnant with guns as a normal aspect of biological puberty.

Six-feet-deeply enjoyed the Ask a Necromancer Q&A with THE DEADLANDS columnist @stillsostrange.bsky.social. So many questions about corpse preparations and death rituals!

Antonio Bonederas is heading home, but he told me in the most charming of tones that all the gorgeous books and merch from @psychopomp.bsky.social and @thedeadlands.com are available in the Grave Goods store and ready to be packed by flesh-fingered co-workers store.psychopomp.com/collections/...

#Readercon! Antonio Bonederas wants you to know the last copy here of Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology ASEPTIC AND FAINTLY SADISTIC, which contains my SJA-winning short story "The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word," is for sale at the Psychopomp/The Deadlands until noon.

One of the greatest joys of Readercon was meeting Story Hour guests in person. I finally got to meet @tobithedreamer.bsky.social! Hope to see you at more cons, Tobi!

Update: That's Shirley Jackson Award-*winning* anthology ASEPTIC AND FAINTLY SADISTIC, and last I checked, there was one copy left at the Psychopomp / The Deadlands booth. Congratulations to @jolietoomajan.bsky.social and the folks at Cosmic Horror Monthly!

Antonio Bonederas and I both have books here at the @psychopomp.bsky.social / @thedeadlands.com booth at #Readercon! Stop by for copies of AFTERLIVES signed by @vajra.me and Shirley Jackson Award nominee ASEPTIC AND FAINTLY SADISTIC signed by me! @jolietoomajan.bsky.social #Readercon33

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If you need a distraction from doomscrolling and maybe want to do something positive and affirming: I'm spending tonight (and the next 4 months) writing letters to voters with votefwd.org It's super easy, and makes a significant impact on turnout. Join me?

Vote Forwardvotefwd.org Vote Forward volunteers send heartfelt handwritten letters to unregistered and low-propensity voters encouraging them to participate in our democracy. The letters have been shown to significantly boos...

Meg was one of the first to read this story, so it's only appropriate that she share this news

The Shirley Jackson award for short story just went to @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social for her story “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word!”

Saw @acwise.bsky.social reading from her upcoming novella GRACKLE at #Readercon. I was rapt. Preorders are open. pspublishing.co.uk/grackle-hard...

Psst! Sean is letting me mind the @psychopomp.bsky.social booth for ten minutes! Come buy books from me! Make me look good for the boss!* *This is Antonio Bonederas, not the boss

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yes! we have this amazing book, come and buy it! we have issue 33 and 34 of the deadlands, come and buy them! we have novellas by @cbarzak.bsky.social @ktbryski.bsky.social come and buy them! and the just-released AFTERLIVES anthology signed by @vajra.me come and buy them! #readercon

I packed light for #Readercon, but I brought something very important. On my way to drop them off with @thedeadlands.com / @psychopomp.bsky.social! @jolietoomajan.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to SHROUDED HORROR!

My new book is out today!! 🥳SHROUDED HORROR: TALES OF THE UNCANNY (Dragon’s Roost Press) includes 20 tales of terror inspired by Tales from the Crypt + Twilight Zone + Goosebumps! 😈👻🧟‍♀️

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A signal boost would be a colossal help! Right now my novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long the sale will last. a.co/d/0i53afDu

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Y'all, @psychopomp.bsky.social and @thedeadlands.com are at Readercon this weekend—come find us in the dealer's room and grab some BOOKS. (Alas "us" does not include me, but I'm there in spirit...)