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are your hearts ready? have your blankie? your soothing beverage? because it's ToC o'tuesday!! and let us just say this issue is MEMORABLE issue 35!! thread (just a little forewarning, there's a partial spider on the last post!) FIRST UP, Editor's Note by @ect.bsky.social 1/

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I AM SO EXCITED, @amalsingh.bsky.social!!!!

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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DAMN WOW congrats to our very own @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social on this win! so proud!!! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

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!”

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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

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At #readercon?? Stop by the Psychopomp table (We have Halloween candy) (And free @thedeadlands.com pins!!) And ALL of our books 👀👀💀

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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...)

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Sneak peek of issue #35 going out to our Patreon backers. If you'd like to be one of those mentioned in the Ledger of the Dead, it's real simple: www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

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I almost never love stories under ~2000 words, and I loved this story.

Wonderful to see "Totality" by Brandi Sperry on this list, from Deadlands #33. It's a gorgeous read. We're waiting on print copies from the printer...soon! Get your copy via our Patreon patreon.com/the_deadlands

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Have you read? I Love Him Artichoke, by Anna-Claire McGrath at The Deadlands Haven't you learned by now I love these retellings? I adored this take on Orpheus and Eurydice. thedeadlands.com/issue-34/i-l...

I Love Him Artichoke, by Anna-Claire McGrath - The Deadlandsthedeadlands.com Your name, he told me, sounds good to sing. Eurydice, he said. It ends with a vowel sound. Like Persephone. Eurydice. Persephone. Beyoncé.

oh hey! Paula Guran reviews 5 of issue 34's stories for the July @locusmag.bsky.social! AND doorbell dot mov by @authorizedmusings.bsky.social, The Clockmaker by Marc Joan The Slave Boy by Denzel Xavier Scott made her recommended reading list! find them all here: thedeadlands.com/issue-34/

Here It Is, Issue 34 of The Deadlandsthedeadlands.com Within the intersections of grief, a slave boy meets a mysterious stranger, the city of New York flails in a pandemic, we are become plastic, and more...

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it's here! JOANNA'S BODIES, by @foxesandroses.bsky.social a new, amazing novelette free to read. CELEBRATE! 💀🪙💀

Joanna’s Bodies - PSYCHOPOMP.COMpsychopomp.com Publisher’s note: this is the second of four novelettes we will be publishing this year. You can read this for free on our site (via this very page you're on)

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#PC845: Amma's Kitchen written by @rati.bsky.social and read by @shwetaadhyam.bsky.social.Previously published by The Deadlands. Rated PG-13. Content warnings for death and injury. podcastle.org/2024/06/25/p...

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Just got a nice note from someone who had discovered my essay about the Gardiner cemetery that ran in @thedeadlands.com. He had recently visited the cemetery and found it as creepy and delightful as me, and in fact referred to the town as a kind of "Salem's Lot." Sounds about right!

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we usually do our cover reveals in the morning but why? we're Psychopomp--we are creatures of the NIGHT so here it is: the cover reveal for Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories 2023 curated by @vajra.me also available for PREORDER (do it. preorder it) +click through for the full cover+

Afterlives 2023 by Vajra Chandrasekera - PSYCHOPOMP.COMpsychopomp.com Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories 2023, curated by Vajra Chandrasekera, series editor E. Catherine Tobler: the best death fiction from 2023 collected.

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A reminder that @thedeadlands.com is open to fiction from ONLY BIPOC writers until the end of the month. We'll be closed to submissions in July and open again to everyone in August.

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u + patron = existence 👇 the deadlands 👇

"Denzel Xavier Scott’s story is vicious and unrelenting." we LOVE this story from issue 34! so happy to see it in @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's must read list!! reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: May 2024 - Reactorreactormag.com A collection of bittersweet stories, involving death and finality and a few tinges with hope...

if you're a - patron - author (of issue 34) - staff member (of The Deadlands) - human person that bought a copy of issue 34 via our store you should know that - you're awesome - we love you - issue 34 is on its way to you TODAY. 💀💀💀

hello new issue coming 1 month thx bye

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It has works from venues such as @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com @thedeadlands.com @interzone.digital @strangehorizons.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social and others. Don't forget to check out the rec reading list too odekpeki.com/2024/06/18/t...

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3 TOC & Recommended Reading Listodekpeki.com The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3 will be out later this year, in the month of November. It's edited by myself and guest edited by Chinaza Eziaghighala. It will be published by Caez...

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the ferryman, moonlight in their voice, asks for coin, yes, but SUCH gifts in return! place your coin here: psychopomp.com/lovely-creat...

Lovely Creatures by KT Bryski - PSYCHOPOMP.COMpsychopomp.com KT Bryski's Lovely Creatures is a journey across a wasteland within the belly of a wooden whale toward a distant, mythical river.

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oh, beloveds, we have BOOKS! Lovely Creatures by @ktbryski.bsky.social is out NOW: psychopomp.com/lovely-creat... These Dark Abodes by @lmanusos.bsky.social on netgalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... and don't forget A Voice Calling by @cbarzak.bsky.social psychopomp.com/a-voice-call...

Lovely Creatures by KT Bryski - PSYCHOPOMP.COMpsychopomp.com KT Bryski's Lovely Creatures is a journey across a wasteland within the belly of a wooden whale toward a distant, mythical river.

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FROM THESE DARK ABODES by @lmanusos.bsky.social is on netgalley (link below) we are looking to get this INTO THE HANDS OF REVEWERS / TASTEMAKERS / ETC !!! "From These Dark Abodes invites readers into an endless house where immortals discard their skins and dance in their skeletons."

From These Dark Abodeswww.netgalley.com NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

update on the print version of issue 34: we accidentally ate some forbidden sweets and became cursed with many printer problems however, we persisted and issue 34 is on its way to The Deadlands right now, so should be in your hands hopefully soon. also PS join our Patreon to support us, thedead

our very own copy editor extraordinaire @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social is a 2023 Shirley Jackson Award nominee for SHORT FICTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💀 well done! (and congrats to ALL nominees 🖤🖤)

did you enjoy Doorbell dot mov by @authorizedmusings.bsky.social? how about Etch a Sketch by by Stephanie French? poetry? we got you. like the golden armor of science by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social all in issue 34! PLUS MORE! here! thedeadlands.com/issue-34/

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A version of “Peristalsis” is also the opening of my forthcoming second novel RAKESFALL, and I'm happy to be able to say that Polish translations of both RAKESFALL and THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS will be forthcoming from Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca! No dates yet but just a heads up lol