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R. Jean Bell
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Still probably increased their anxiety about person.
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aka bex. she/her. Reader, writer, poet, editor-ish. Socially awkward. My sense of humor is broken and I tend to hermit. US native living abroad. First reader at Apex Mag.
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R. Jean Bell
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Still probably increased their anxiety about person.
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Jordan Kurella 🏳️⚧️🍉
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Apex Magazine is one of my most FAVORITE short fiction magazines out there, and they need your help. they need OUR help! if you can afford to back the Kickstarter, you can get some neat rewards! if not? please repost!!
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Marissa van Uden
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Friends, this is a huge one for us! I absolutely adore this magazine & working with this team, and we need your support more than ever. Can you help keep Apex Mag in the form we know and love? Whether through funding or spreading the word to brand new readers, every bit helps!❤️🔥
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R. Jean Bell
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An excellent cheering section ready to celebrate your writing successes, big and small. Reading chat and recommendations and writing chatter. It's a super fun community and occasionally we even throw festive potatoes. Or at least I do.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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R. Jean Bell
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A variety of cats (occasional appearances from supreme Apex overlord Pumpkin), moss, lichen, cool views, bugs, and spoilered shots of my obsession with spiders, AND SO MUCH MORe. So much cute and calm and things to love remotely. Also space to seek crit buddies or con friends, ...
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R. Jean Bell
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Note that the subscription and higher tiers generally include access to the @apexmag.bsky.social Discord space. As well as hanging out with team and subscribers, this also lets you see the pets-plants-and-places channel, which often includes Dax (corgi), Skye and Freja (BCs)....
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R. Jean Bell
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A few smaller markets. I think it's a misunderstanding because of long form subs.
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Hexagon SF Magazine
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June was Hexagon’s lowest earning month since May of 2023. Funding a free magazine requires support from the community! 🧡 In the next few months we have our Year Four anthology, a new issue in September, and FOUR new MYRIAD Zines (with calls coming soon)!
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R. Jean Bell
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I mean if anyone thought your children were experimenting with real planes... That's kinda expensive.
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R. Jean Bell
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This is why they were barking. They sensed his bad guys vibes.
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Sarena Ulibarri
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I have a story in the Strange Locations anthology, and you can get it as part of the $15 Strange Anthologies Bundle!
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R. Jean Bell
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Def not dead. Follow more folks
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Apex Magazine
@apexmag.bsky.social
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Oh no! There's a chance more will be opened later in the KS.
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Lesley Conner
@lesleyconner.bsky.social
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Bex is absolutely correct! The Apex Magazine amazing slush team is offering 10 critiques as an add-on to the Kickstarter. You get critique notes from three of our first readers! 4 of these critiques are left. You can grab one as an add-on. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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R. Jean Bell
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I was going to bleet about how much I LOVE when I get a personal rejection from the @apexmag.bsky.social flash comp and recommend checking the affirmation review rewards in the Kickstarter just to find they are gone already. I think you can still get crits from the slush team though.
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Jordan Kurella 🏳️⚧️🍉
@kurellian.bsky.social
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here’s an idea!!
stop paying for something that causes discord (your choice), and toss those coins to a short fiction magazine of your choice!!
here are some fundraisers going on now!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
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R. Jean Bell
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Be distant all you need. Just know you are missed and there will be joy when you return and when I can read more words. Take care of yourself!
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R. Jean Bell
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That is actually the first thing of yours I read and I loved it.
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R. Jean Bell
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I appreciate your words. Also I miss seeing you around but hope it means you are writing lots more words.
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R. Jean Bell
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It hates orange juice. It is filled with selfhatred and despair and the teen peer pressure. It is voice. It is horror.
For Apex Magazine to publish more stories that punch you in the gut and shred your throat with their claws, they need financial support.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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R. Jean Bell
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My next example for why we need more @apexmag.bsky.social will surprise some who know me. I'm not easy to hook on second person. But "Wet, Dry, Bitter" by @leahning.bsky.social is so powerful a reason to get over that ridiculous bias.
apex-magazine.com/short-fictio...
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Renan Bernardo
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I'm slow these days for personal reasons, but I had to come here and give a shout-out for Apex Kickstarter. I had 3 stories published there (and 1 non-fic piece coming up) and it was always wonderful to work with this team. And always the place to find the best of short fiction.
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R. Jean Bell
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I want more @apexmag.bsky.social next year to get more stories like "Shevitsa" by @kojiadae.bsky.social. As an immigrant who needed to learn a new language and struggled with acceptance and mental health in a new country, I felt so much for Anna in this story. apex-magazine.com/short-fictio...
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Zig Zag Claybourne
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11 days to go. Crunch-time.
Have a vibe.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...
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Kelly Robson
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If you love it, pay for it!
New Kickstarters in our community, from @apexmag.bsky.social, @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, and @neonhemlock.bsky.social:
Apex: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Uncanny: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...
Neon Hemlock: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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R. Jean Bell
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Find the Kickstarter at www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Should you select to support with a slush team crit, you might get MY feedback on your piece!
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R. Jean Bell
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I want more @apexmag.bsky.social next year to get more stories like "Shevitsa" by @kojiadae.bsky.social. As an immigrant who needed to learn a new language and struggled with acceptance and mental health in a new country, I felt so much for Anna in this story. apex-magazine.com/short-fictio...
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Apex Magazine
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AND WE'RE LIVE! Our 2025 Kickstarter has SO MUCH included! Here are some of our rewards: ☀️ Affirmation Critiques 🎨 Graphic Design Bundles and a Website mock-up 🖐️ Personal Snap Judgments ✍️ Critiques 📚 Book Bundles 👽 12 month subscriptions 🍸 Strange Anthology Bundle
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Apex Magazine
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Apex Magazine will be closed for submissions for the month of July while we run our Kickstarter. Sign up to be notified when we kick it off!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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Jason Sanford
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I’m teaching the online workshop "Writing Tips and Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers" on July 20 through @apexmag.bsky.social's Reach Your Apex series. I'll share all the tips and strategies that help me as a neurodiverse author. Register today! reachyourapex.com/product/writ...
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R. Jean Bell
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Sinus infections suck. Add an earache with random stabbing pains. Then to really make my day fun... I just got my first hearing aids and they have formmolded insert thingies because my hearing is really quite insufficient. Having them in definitely better for my brain but can't always stand them
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R. Jean Bell
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How do they compare to European ones? The big slugs have been huge mental adjustment coming here.
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R. Jean Bell
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As a child, we called my mother's the "ant plant" ..
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R. Jean Bell
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*sits over there quietly* but to be honest I know minimal music anything
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R. Jean Bell
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My husband keeps complaining he wants his old pillow back and his new pillow is too thick... It's the same pillow. My crime is that I washed it and used tennis balls and the dryer to get it dry. (We haven't had a dryer long and this is his first one ever).
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R. Jean Bell
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You were recharging your writer cells
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R. Jean Bell
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Perhaps a certain alien overlord has declared you offlimits due to your essential nature as a member of the team.
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Kari Dru
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If someone asks who did your book cover, and you dodge the question, I'm assuming it wasn't a human, ok? Normalize credit to the artist when doing a cover reveal, as frankly should have been normal all along! "Hey look at this cool art that magically appeared from the ether!"
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Small Wonders
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Greetings, poets! We will be opening to original poetry starting on July 1. Prepare your words, tighten your scansion, and, when you are prepared and July has arrived, kindly submit your poems at smallwondersmag.com/submissions/
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Ali Trotta
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Just saw some extremely bad writing advice, so: You're a writer if you're not writing right now. You're a writer if you write 1 short story a year. You're a writer if you take breaks. You're a writer if you're still working on *that* story or poem. There's no *one* way. This isn't Highlander.
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R. Jean Bell
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Oooh! Not required to sit on my hands. @smallwondersmag.com is accepting my weird lonely zombie poem "Even Ferns Cringe" and I am so happy.
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R. Jean Bell
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Of course it did. It is absolutely awesome and so filled with Apex vibes.
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Apex Magazine
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CINDERWICH made the Diamond Books best-seller list!
Huzzah @cmpriest.bsky.social!
www.apexbookcompany.com/collections/...
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R. Jean Bell
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Okay, that sounds fun. Ridiculous but fun.
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R. Jean Bell
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*bounces around while waving vaguely snd saying absolutely nothing*
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Derrick Boden
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Always the dream to appear in @mariahaskins.bsky.social's incredible roundup!
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FIYAH Literary Magazine
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Hey Folks,
Don't forget that #FiyahLitMag's subs open til July 31, 2024, with guest editor Kerine Wint Themed: SPACEFARING AUNTIES.
It’s time to explore the adventures of bold, fearless women who defy societal expectations and embark on daring space voyages!
Deets: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
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R. Jean Bell
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Handwriting stories makes me lose all sense of word count. Or maybe I've just done too much micro. I start worrying I'm about to exceed 1k then copy into another file and it's under 300....
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Apex Magazine
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Attention writers!
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R. Jean Bell
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I've worked hard to remove sense of it being me, as this increased my bias. Trying to see it more as character talking to self sort of thing or as referring to an unknown someone
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