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Isabel Cañas

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Your friendly neighborhood horromance evangelist. THE HACIENDA & VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE out now and more to come! | Clarion West and Odyssey alum | Bram Stoker Award nominee | UChicago PhD
www.isabelcanas.com/short-fiction

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Amal El-Mohtar's avatar Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com
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ok so you've seen the cover, would you now like to read an excerpt from my next book in [checks notes]

[checks notes again]

... Cosmopolitan magazine

www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainmen...

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Mere Smith's avatar Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social
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it’s that last sentence tucked at the end that the right is truly terrified of

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G. V. Anderson's avatar G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social
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I feel very lucky to have just read a copy of this. It will stay with me for a long time. @nassos.bsky.social never disappoints. 💜

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Bilbo Yaga 's avatar Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social
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I want more folks to know about libro.fm as an alternative to Audible or Spotify or other shady corps.

It’s 100% employee-owned and works like Audible, except your credits support an indie bookstore of your choosing instead of Amazon.

Go listen to a disabled author for Disability Pride Month! 💙📚

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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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on deadline, world's on fire (apart from the UK eyyyyy!!!!), looks like hyperfixating on crochet is the, THE, only solution

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rahaeli 's avatar rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social
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Remember: Texas is not a red state. Texas is a massively voter-suppressed state, with a lot of people working very hard and very thanklessly to fix that.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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Good, chilling, creepy, short. Like a cold slice of apple splashed with lemon. Perfect for a hot day!

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Hexagon SF Magazine's avatar Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
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Hexagon submissions are open until July 7th! 🧡 We are specifically on the hunt for: 🦑 Eldritch Horror 🪳 New Weird 🏚️ Haunted or cursed places 🚫 Anti-corporation 👨‍🚀 Speculative employment 🧛🏻 Vampires on alternative diets

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)'s avatar Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com
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If you are mad at the NYT and don't feel like fucking with the auction today, I also invite you to just go directly to donate.romancingthevote.com which is where all of our auction payments will go, and from there directly on to voting organizations who will make sure those who WANT to vote can.

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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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Greeks in spaaaaaaaaaace! Cannot wait to read!!

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Natalia Theodoridou's avatar Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social
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I have a new story in this!
"Aktis Aeliou, or the Machine of Margot's Destruction" is science fantasy about Greek gods in space, needy love, and running towards oneself.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/theodoridou_...

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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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absolutely rabid for my local public library branch to reopen after renos; the website say "summer 2024" and AHEM. SUMMER IS HERE. also my husband saw them dismantling scaffolding recently and AH. AH! WHEN???

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Marie Brennan's avatar Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social
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A conversation on our Discord has prompted me to say again: remember, y'all, what really sells books is not the author talking about their work, but *readers* talking about it. Word of mouth drives far more sales than advertising or any other engine. So if you loved a book, tell your friends!

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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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wait hold the door open i'm coming too!!!

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wow i so have not had enough coffee to be in america this morning

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Maria Haskins's avatar Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.bsky.social
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- Finish your stories. You learn more by finishing a story than not finishing. AND! You'll have a story. - Read your work out loud. - You can make shit up. It's your story. It's fiction! Anything can happen. - Using strong memories of people/places/situations in your writing can make it better.

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John Dellaporta's avatar John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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me: i'm going to write a sci-fi short story also me: *ends up with a horror idea involving doppelgängers and ritual cannibalism* me: this is going to ruin the tour

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Premee Mohamed's avatar Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com
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*wearily taps the sign* SUPPORT YOUR MIDLIST WRITERS THANK

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E. Catherine Tobler's avatar E. Catherine Tobler @ect.bsky.social
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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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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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one does not simply read “a quick chapter” of Asunder, you could read two (2) sentences and then all of a sudden it SUCKS YOU IN CHEWS YOU UP SPITS YOU OUT

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Aimee Ogden's avatar Aimee Ogden @aimeeogden.bsky.social
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The problem with saying that I'll treat myself to a quick chapter of @kerstinhall.bsky.social's "Asunder" before getting back to work is that then I HAVE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT and suddenly I've read 6 chapters and it's 5:30 and my spouse is home and I have to "eat" "dinner" with my "family"

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Suyi's avatar Suyi @suyidavies.com
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Wrote a little how-to for authors thinking about putting together an in-person book launch event, with notes from how I recently did mine.
suyidavies.com/essays/how-t...

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A Pile of Skulls's avatar A Pile of Skulls @newageamazon.bsky.social
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This is the future liberals want.

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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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I wrote a book and now I have to EDIT it???? 😫

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Eugenia Triantafyllou's avatar Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social
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This story is literally greater than life. Because when life seems to end this story keeps going, fighting against hope and fighting to hope for another breath passed trough salt-chapped lips.

by @nassos.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social

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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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The end KILLED me. KILLED ME 😭😭😭😭😭

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Brent C. Lambert's avatar Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social
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ASUNDER is just a stellar damn book. It's SABRIEL meets HELLRAISER post a brutal invasion of gods slaughtering all the current gods. Karys Eska, the MC is a deeply wounded person who is fighting for her life quite literally. The world is fantastically different & painfully familiar. GET THIS!

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Marissa van Uden 's avatar Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social
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I'm so excited to announce the launch of my imprint Violet Lichen Books under @apexmag.bsky.social. Violet Lichen publishes literary dark fiction, esp. New Weird, Weird, folk horror & eco-fiction!🖤🍄www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontpage/apex-announces-novella-imprint-violet-lichen-books

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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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do you ever just sit there and think about how writing horror was the best thing to ever happen to you and your craft because I sure do 🥹

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Brent C. Lambert's avatar Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social
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Kerstin is probably sick of me talking about this book 💀💀 but man does she have a skill in making each location in this book feel individualized. They all have a look and smell and character. I need to take notes!

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Isabel Cañas's avatar Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social
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quote post with a picture of you outdoors

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turns out it’s a novelette, phew, my current book deadlines are safe (for now)

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a werewolf book idea has taken over my brain, oh no

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