SEASON TWO: IRIS AND THE CREW RIDE THE RIFT! by Cait Gordon
Now that Hot Wings and Sauciness is veering towards the editing phase, what will I work on next? Oh, nothing much. Just another little space story.
*smiles like The Grinch*
Hey Artists of Bluesky! PAYING GIG: 2-4 pieces of original interior B&W/greyscale SFF art for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Vol 4. Canadian artists strongly preferred. 🇨🇦 Any style, NO AI. Post links to portfolios below. Need artwork in May/June. Pls share WIDELY! #ArtSky #ArtistsOnBluesky #Illustration
Mark A. Rayner and I revisit childhood with Canadian author Arlene F. Marks, as Arlene introduces us to one of her favourite paintings, Children’s Games by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
#podcast
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Today was A Lot and I'm still only 1/3 through revisions so I'm going to try to stay offline for a few days and see what I can get done.
You can preorder Waverly Jones #5, I hear brings me good luck to get through this book again. www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/... books.apple.com/us/book/a-da...
Also, tell your friends to buy books! They're better than looking at the news (even with all the trauma)!
QRP with some #vampires
STARFLEET ACADEMY early reactions: 🖖
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Each day, I post one carefully curated news item from the Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery, Horror, and Suspense genres. Start your days dialed in to the exciting worlds of #TSJ!
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #TimothySJohnston
![An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below.
Text reads:
ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA
CREST by A.D. Sui
After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together.
But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home.
CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock).
Coming Fall 2027
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC
For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lamjrufb4kabavnm4jojmbre/bafkreidlmhp2jdgite5bcvhxp4xwiah6hymfxxpcxlny7fu6im2atnfln4)
An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below. Text reads: ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA CREST by A.D. Sui After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together. But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home. CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock). Coming Fall 2027 Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images
✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
Book promo and Kickstarter post. Black background with gold, Art Deco-style filigree in each corner. In shimmery gold, the title Fascination spans the top. Beneath it in white says, An Anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish. On the left side is a water-colour style red-cap mushroom, and on the right-hand side is a trio of skinny yellow mushrooms.
okay, so in about 2 weeks, this is gonna go live! Hit the "notify me on launch" button so you don't have to worry about missing bsky announcements! 😂
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My flash fiction, "Kill Switch Override", was published today in Infocalypse #1.
www.infocalypse.press/issue-one/
We do indeed have signed copies in stock!
Shovelling snow found to be number 1 cause of Canadians muttering ‘fuck this fucking shit’ over and over
📣16 days until the submission deadline! #SpecFic #Horror #SFF #CanLit
Just a friendly reminder that today is the last day to recommend works for the Stoker Awards!
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Yes! I was in a Twitter conversation years ago, and I told people not to dare me to write a romance novel. Because it’ll be awkward and weird and called something like Hot Wings and Sauciness. Dear reader, they dared me. And I couldn’t resist. #SpoonieAuthChat
white text on a blue night sky background that reads: Tollar’s got a stolen dragon egg, and that’s the least of her problems! Available on Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, itch.io, Kobo & Kobo Plus, Smashwords, and more! Including libraries. Art by @leeshahannigan. With cover art featuring two women and a dragon on a blue night sky background. #NessPromo
If you like ace romance with wry humour, messy queers fighting for justice and epic worldbuilding, The Dragon Next Door is for you!
🐲 Sword lesbian (bi)
🐲 Secret baby (dragon)
🐲 Friends to lovers (ace)
🐲 Found family
🐲 Opposites attract
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A delightfully creep micro-fiction from Robert Runte is up on Sudden Fiction. Free to read!
I've bought a lot of pre-made covers from Skyla (and have commissioned others) & she's wonderful to work with. Check them out ⬇️
If you're seeing this note about Celu Amberstone's story collection Refugees And Other Stories because it got reposted by @sfcanadawriters.bsky.social, remember to look for her science fiction & fantasy novels at books2read.com/amberstone!
If you're seeing this note because it was reposted by @sfcanadawriters.bsky.social, take a look at my timeslip novel Plum Tree. It pairs well with Island Views: short, scenic, & the setting dominates the storytelling.
books2read.com/plumtree
Robert Runte's micro-fiction "The Family Home" was reprinted in Scribes Micro #52, December 2025, having received an Honourable Mention for the Scribes Prize! Robert was also interviewed by Scribes. A delightful chat about his micro-fiction, & it can be found:
I feel like that bumper sticker is excellent marketing for our anthology Saltwater Sorrows, edited by @rhondaparrish.bsky.social
Lemme know if you agree: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
Of possible interest to anyone thinking about trying to write flash fiction. Karen Schauber was the person who got me into, and published my first, flash fiction.
This is a fantastic adventure series for those wanting a modern day paranormal treasure hunter.
A promo graphic that says "Adventure starts here!" and there's a woman silhouetted by a sunset climbing up a cliff. The book cover for Solomon's Seal is there in eBook and audiobook, an adventure novel with a woman's silhouette in the mouth of a cave. The rest of the text says "audiobook $12.99/€9.99 January 1 - 31. $1.99 in eBook January 8 - 21" and there are several other book covers to indicate this is an adventure series.
Ex-debutante. Single Mother. Treasure Hunter. Escape the news in this world by going on adventures with Livi Talbot.
Solomon's Seal in audiobook is $12.99/€9.99 all month long for Kobo's Start a New Series sale: www.kobo.com/ca/en/audiob...
Just $1.99 in eBook: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
Currently in the middle of book 2 of this, and I already cannot recommend it enough.
When I read I tend to hear each character’s voice in my head. And Mrs. Egerton’s voice (to me) is absolutely Susan Rigvava-Dumas in her role as Danvers in the Rebecca musical.
Refugees And Other Stories by Celu Amberstone "Amberstone's seductive and enthralling stories employ fantastic elements to balance the joy of kinship with the devastating effects of colonialism. A must-read collection!" -Dr Joy Sanchez-Taylor, professor & author of Diverse Futures books2read.com/refugees
A week after Smashwords' sale, Celu's Refugees And Other Stories is still trending in Indigenous Fiction!
Find it there or on Kobo, Apple, Amazon & a dozen other online vendors at books2read.com/refugees
#booksky
Island Views by Paula Johanson "I seem to have stumbled into an internal monologue. Let me introduce myself again." books2read.com/islandviews
#booksky Here's something to read during winter weather: a short novel with mystery & a little wholesome romance set on SaltSpring Island!
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