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Get to Know Your Library: The Complete Checklist What can your local public library do? The answers may surprise even the most frequent libraryΒ user!

What can your local public library do? The answers may surprise even the most frequent library user!

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My review of Big Bad by Chandler Baker.

At my blog: tinyurl.com/msre9xj8.

My other book reviews at Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6 and Bookbub: tinyurl.com/w6hdssu8.

#Fiction
#horror
#shortstory
#bookreview
#booksky
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"Invasion of the Body Snatchers", (1956). Dana Wynter, Kevin McCarthy.

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Sean Connery, born on this day, 1930. Photographed by Terence Donovan as part of an ad campaign for Smirnoff Vodka, 1962.

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Chalkboard sign that says PISS OFF A REPUBLICAN, BUY A BOOK AND EXERCISE YOUR IMAGINATION

Chalkboard sign that says PISS OFF A REPUBLICAN, BUY A BOOK AND EXERCISE YOUR IMAGINATION

Piss off a republican, buy a book

#ghoulish #ghoulishbooks #sanantonio #satx

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The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1984.

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My review of Hellboy: The Bones of Giants, written by Christopher Golden and illustrated by Mike Mignola

At my blog: tinyurl.com/msre9xj8.

My other book reviews at Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6 and Bookbub: tinyurl.com/w6hdssu8.

#Fiction
#fantasy
#horror
#sciencefiction
#bookreview
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8 months ago 5 0 0 0
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Math Challenges | Kristine Kathryn Rusch Get more from Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Patreon

Today's Patreon post went live. And it has actual facts for the math-challenged among us #writers. Also, why #readers rule. (And why traditional publishing is doing it all wrong.)

#booksky

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8 months ago 5 2 0 0
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My review of Far Horizons, edited by Robert Silverberg

At my blog: tinyurl.com/msre9xj8.

My other book reviews at Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6 and Bookbub: tinyurl.com/w6hdssu8.

#Fiction
#sciencefiction
#speculativefiction
#shortstory
#novella
#bookreview
#booksky
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8 months ago 4 0 0 0
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War of the Worlds (1953).

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My scifi/horror story, The Pact, has been published by the good folks at Black Cat Weekly in issue #205!

At my blog: tinyurl.com/2m8pppxf.

#Fiction
#sciencefiction
#horror
#booksky
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8 months ago 6 0 0 0
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My review of Black Cat Weekly Issues #201, #202 & 203, edited by John Betancourt.

At my blog: tinyurl.com/msre9xj8.

My other book reviews at Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6 and Bookbub: tinyurl.com/w6hdssu8.

#Fiction
#sciencefiction
#weirdfiction
#horror
#mystery
#bookreview
#booksky
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Book catalogue project, day 374: Lost Worlds of Space and Time, Volume Two (2005, Rainfall Books) edited by Steve Lines. Paperback. Clean pages, minimal wear.

8 months ago 9 1 0 1
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TODAY BAYBEEEE

8 months ago 2 1 0 0
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This #TremblingWithFear Andrea Cavedo shares An Exorcism, with drabbles by Margaret Eve, Jordan McClymont, and Nicholas De Marino! @mrscavedowrites @ariskari.bsky.social @feersum.endjinn

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#AmReading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors #horror

8 months ago 7 3 1 0
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My review of New Folks' Home: And Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak Book 6).

At my blog: tinyurl.com/msre9xj8.

My other book reviews at Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6 and Bookbub: tinyurl.com/w6hdssu8.

#Fiction
#sciencefiction
#bookreview
#booksky
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My review of Lovecraftiana: Volume 10, Issue 1. Walpurgisnacht 2025 edited by Gavin Chappell.

At my blog: tinyurl.com/msre9xj8.

My other book reviews at Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6 and Bookbub: tinyurl.com/w6hdssu8.

#Fiction
#weirdfiction
#lovecraftian
#cosmichorror
#bookreview
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9 months ago 3 0 0 0

5 movies better than the story:

1. The Relic (Relic by Preston & Child)

2. The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton)

3. Planet of the Apes (1968) (Monkey Planet by Pierre Boulle)

4. The Thing (1982) (Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell)

5. Jaws (Jaws by Peter Benchley)

9 months ago 1 0 0 0

HUT🏈! HUT 🏈! HIKE 🏈!

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the TannhΓ€user Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, 1982.

9 months ago 34 6 1 0
The Bookworm's Nook

Woohoo! Scifi/horror story accepted by a fine publication! Nice to get back in the grove after an long, troublesome interstate move and some health issues. More to follow!

#Fiction
#sciencefiction
#horror
#writing

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9 months ago 10 1 1 0
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My review of Beyond the Black River by R. E. Howard and read by The Cybrarian.

At my blog: tinyurl.com/2aamd4js.

My other book reviews at Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6 and Bookbub: tinyurl.com/w6hdssu8.

#Fiction
#fantasy
#swordandsorcery
#audiostory
#audiobook
#bookreview
#booksky
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9 months ago 6 1 0 0

Hell yeah!

9 months ago 2 0 0 0

My new story "The Interior" is free to read today in print and in a phenomenal narration by @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social! @3lobedmag.com at www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/

9 months ago 47 16 1 3
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Bride of Frankenstein (hands down the tops)
2010
U.S. Marshalls
Evil Dead 2

9 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Important Announcement Regarding My Short Fiction If you had asked me a year ago whether or not I would write a post like this, I would have laughed at you. Then I heard from an industry friend that the sf and mystery digest magazines were for sal…

And, for my #readers, some news about my short fiction.

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9 months ago 7 2 0 2

Detained? Fuck off.
Imprisoned. People with no criminal charges are imprisoned at the concentration camp.

9 months ago 39 3 2 0
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Take action against book bans in the United States at www.bookbanpetition.us

9 months ago 35 13 0 0
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They want to regulate what you and your family are allowed to read - www.bookbanpetition.us

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