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Celebrate Amazing Stories & Science Fiction's 100th Birthday! (with a cover of Amazing Stories and a slew of names)

Celebrate Amazing Stories & Science Fiction's 100th Birthday! (with a cover of Amazing Stories and a slew of names)

Hey gang! I am going to be talking about the last century of #ScienceFiction at Verbatim Bookstore in North Park this Friday at 7pm! Y'all come!

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Can confirm.

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Appalachian Folk Horror: MORSEL by Carter Keane - Launch Party! Celebrate the national launch of debut Appalachian horror novelist Carter Keane in conversation with award-winning author Marie Vibbert

Tuesday, April 14th, I'll be at Loganberry Books to celebrate the launch of Morsel, Carter Keane's debut horror novella about Appalachian gods and multi-level marketing register at evenbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/1979913938...

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This was really funny. Thank you, Lorelei!

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#animatic #queeraf #ScienceFiction #YoungAdult

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#TheEighthKey: Plot-relevant gay sex before it was cool.

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Available in ebook, audiobook, and paperback.

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Book giveaway for Multitude by Marie Vibbert Mar 17-Mar 31, 2026 Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Mar 17-Mar 31, 2026. We're giving away 25 first edition copies of MULTITUDE by award-wi...

Holy dork! 1,200 people have already entered the Goodreads Giveaway for Multitude!! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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#TheEighthKey: Plot-relevant gay sex before it was cool.

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Available in ebook, audiobook, and paperback.

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New Release! Majera (featuring two hunky guys, a planet, a ship... and the promise of a fantastic read)

New Release! Majera (featuring two hunky guys, a planet, a ship... and the promise of a fantastic read)

Others have talked about our newest book—it's about time we did, too!

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#ScienceFiction #space #queer #queeraf #TheKitraSaga

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The Big Idea: Gideon Marcus On occasion, you know the ending of your story before you start writing. Most other times, you find the path as you go, each twisting turn appearing before you as you continue on your merry way. Th…

Majera, last book (for now) in #TheKitraSaga, is featured on John Scalzi's "The Big Idea"! And the comments are weird...

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New Release: Majera – Gideon Marcus QSFer Gideon Marcus has a new queer sci-fi book out (ace, bi, gay, lesbian, poly): Majera. Their last flight? Testing a new Jump drive far beyond the Frontier, Captain Kitra Yiilmaz and her friends pl...

Hey! Queer Sci-Fi featured my latest book!

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The Kitra Saga: Kitra - Journey Press Nineteen-year-old Kitra Yilmaz dreams of traveling the galaxy like her Ambassador mother. But soaring in her glider is the closest she can get to touching the stars — until she stakes her inheritance ...

"Truly amazing book— the exact book I wish I’d had as a kid— space travel, adventure and queer characters I would have been so happy to see myself in— and that now, I get to make sure the kids in my life have a chance to see!"

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Three covers for the Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women series, each with a classic 20th Century illustration by Kelly Freas

Three covers for the Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women series, each with a classic 20th Century illustration by Kelly Freas

We started our publishing house originally just to anthologize science fiction stories by women. The Rediscovery series has been a big success. Dr. Yaszek actually contributed one of the introductions!

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It has the virtue of being true!

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Cover for Multitude featuring a kraken-like silhouette in the water against a background of stars

Cover for Multitude featuring a kraken-like silhouette in the water against a background of stars

A brilliant new novella by Marie Vibbert ( @reasie.bsky.social ), possibly this century's greatest #ScienceFiction author.

Pre-order it now!

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Coming February 10, 2026—Majera, the fourth book in #TheKitraSaga! In audio, e-book, and paperback!

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The Kitra Saga Kitra — The Kitra Saga #1 By Gideon Marcus Stranded in space: no fuel, no way home… and no one coming to help. From the pen of Hugo Finalist Gideon Marcus comes the found-family, YA Space Adventure…

Majera, the fourth book in #TheKitraSaga, comes out this Fall — now's a good time to read the first three so you're ready for the arc's conclusion!

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New Audio Book! Featuring a picture of the book, Hyvilma (with Marta in a green jump suit holding a beamer) and narrator Lorelei Esther!

New Audio Book! Featuring a picture of the book, Hyvilma (with Marta in a green jump suit holding a beamer) and narrator Lorelei Esther!

It's finally here—the audio book of the third book of #TheKitraSaga! Space pirates, insurrection, Pinky in danger, queer af...

And available from anywhere you want to get it (not just The Evil A):

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A Guest's Eye View of Y/CON 11 This Paris convention celebrating Boys' Love and Yuri is just one more great reason to visit France!

@EricaFriedman@mastodon.social was a guest at Y/CON in Paris! Check it out her personal account:

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New Audio Book! The picture features the Sirena book cover and Lorelei, the narrator.

New Audio Book! The picture features the Sirena book cover and Lorelei, the narrator.

It's been a long time coming — the audiobook for Sirena is finally here! Space adventure. Found family. Queer AF. In mp3, Google Play, or Audible!

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Donate to Help Rogue Star Pay Authors Pro Rates, organized by Tonya Moore Rogue Star is a volunteer-run online magazine of science fiction and fantasy news, r… Tonya Moore needs your support for Help Rogue Star Pay Authors Pro Rates

#GoFundMe Campaign started for @roguestarmag.bsky.social
We are raising funds so that we'll be able to pay authors SFWA pro rates for fiction (one previously unpublished story quarterly) starting in January 2026. gofund.me/cf4360bca #signalboost

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Picture of Erica next to a copy of the book, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga

Picture of Erica next to a copy of the book, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga

Amazing news: Yuri scholar extraordinaire, @okazu.yuricon.com, has been invited to be a guest at Y/Con... in PARIS, FRANCE! Congratulations, Erica!

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Humor and bathos Bathos: the sudden drop from the sublime to the ridiculous, creating an anticlimax.

If you've ever complained about the quippiness of Marvel movies, it's usually a question of bathos. Not that humor was used, not even that it was used at a tense moment, but that it was used in a way that undermines the scene itself.

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Just sold my first poem in two years! The drought (98 failed submissions) is ended!
(NB: I am a snob who only submits to paying poetry markets)

Look for "God and the Aquifer" to come out soon in The Pink Hydra.

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A bespectacled woman holds up a book entitled "At First Contact"

A bespectacled woman holds up a book entitled "At First Contact"

A bespectacled woman sits in front of a table with three books: "The Eighth Key", "Mirror of my Heart", and "At First Contact"

A bespectacled woman sits in front of a table with three books: "The Eighth Key", "Mirror of my Heart", and "At First Contact"

Hugo Finalist and Rainbow winner @janicelnewman.bsky.social (and @lauraweyr.bsky.social) reading and signing autographs at @seattlein2025.org!

#queer #fantasy #ScienceFiction

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Lorelei shading a picture in pen, using a light table.

Lorelei shading a picture in pen, using a light table.

Cover for Majera, by Hugo Award Finalist Gideon Marcus, featuring Fareedh, Peter, and the ship. It looks pretty cool. :)

Cover for Majera, by Hugo Award Finalist Gideon Marcus, featuring Fareedh, Peter, and the ship. It looks pretty cool. :)

@loreleiesther.bsky.social working on the latest illustration for #TheKitraSaga#Majera comes out at the end of the year!

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I JUST DREW ON THE WRONG LAYER IN REAL LIFE. 😭
#artistproblems

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Today is the last day to vote for #Hugo nominees! Don't forget! #ScienceFiction

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I'm smiling and holding up one of my books a red rectangle has the words Confluence Shcedule Sat Noon The New Space Opera Sat 2pm Reading Sat 4pm History & Research in SFF Sun Noon Kaffeeklatsch

I'm smiling and holding up one of my books a red rectangle has the words Confluence Shcedule Sat Noon The New Space Opera Sat 2pm Reading Sat 4pm History & Research in SFF Sun Noon Kaffeeklatsch

My Schedule for ConFluence in Pittsburgh this coming weekend: Sat Noon: The New Space Opera, Sat 2pm: Reading, Sat 4pm: History & Research in SFF, Sun Noon: Kaffeeklatsch

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Statistically, no one gets published (or in this case, seen amongst the flood). But you can't succeed if you don't try...

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Important question for #TheKitraSaga fans: How many of the books have you read?

1️⃣ Just Kitra (so far).
2️⃣ Two of them.
3️⃣ All three!

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