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205d

Live in BCS #450 Science-Fantasy Month 8: "Like Thorns on Her Tongue" by @rhiannonheld (sequel to a story in BCS #350).

"No, she’d learned to keep acting in the midst of such spiraling thoughts. A couple of her backup knives were in her bike saddlebag—and her family laughed at her for having so many! Trist made it to her feet and grabbed up the bag. The screams must have come from Maya, up at the orchard."

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/like-thorns-on-her-tongue/
#fantasy #sff #sciencefantasy #shortstory

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304d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion

Levi Jacobs always of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi's journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.

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The ad flyer for the series The Wizard's Scion.

(Background) View of a planet from space.

(Top Center) A black flying saucer surrounded by this text:
Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my!
Just another day for a young wizard.

(Top Left) The cover of Troll Song displays a woman in battered, muddy armor with her two swords crossed against the neck of a dwarf.

(Lower Left) The cover of Forgotten Legends displays a child reading in bed as a black, smoky monster with red eyes peeks out from under the bed.

(Lower Center Left) The cover of The Third Wish displays a wizard on top of a mountain, looking to the sunset, over a city of sky scrapers that have plants growing on them. In his shadow is the red eyed creature from Forgotten Legends.

(Lower Center Right) The cover of Dark Moon displays a witch and wizard fighting back to back, holding pistols, while objects fall around them, with the moon behind their heads.

(Lower Right) The cover of The Inverted Glass displays a line art hourglass with a white figure in black sand at the bottom, with a black figure in white sand upside-down in the top. Balanced on a scale are a heart and a feather.

(Upper Right) The cover of The Wizard's Scion: The Complete Series displays several figures in silhouette representing the main characters, as they traverse a wormhole. Behind them is a red-eyed octopus.

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1y

BCS #435 ebook is out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by KJ Kabza and @betsyaoki , behind cover art by Ankush Sharma.

(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing all replies personalized. Thank you!)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-435/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-435-ebook/dp/B0FD87RBC9/
#fantasy #sff #ebook #litmag

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1y

Some shameless self-promo: I've set up a #kofi shop. You can buy DRM-free copies of my #sff #books there (your choice of epub, mobi, azw3 or pdf). You can also buy me a coffee if you'd like.

https://ko-fi.com/treelobsters/shop/books

Current cover art for 8 of my books

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205d

Chapter 14 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole faces apparitions from her past, as she deals with the regret dredged up by being forced to kill.

Mol'os wants a re-match, Nork is embarrassed a 'little girl' defeated him, Irini accuses Nicole of hating her own kind and Krikor forgives.

Nicole runs from each of them...

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204d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

Amelia and The Book of Newts are in conflict. She wants to explore her feelings. It wants to explore space, taking back the gift for mathematics and piloting it gave her. She’s left unable to plot a direct course home. She’s desperate to see the man she loves, lest she lose him forever and The Book is in her way…

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(Left) The cover of The Next Horizon, by Owen Tyme.

The black silhouette of a man and woman embracing. They stand atop the dark side of a planet or moon in space, which has a slim crescent along the right side. The background is the stars of space, but some have been highlighted with a heart shape that surrounds the couple. Everything is in shades of blue.

(Right) Deep space, displaying the edge of an orange and blue gaseous cloud from a nebula, while most of the stars appear golden in color. Floating in space is a square, red leather book with the image of a newt stamped on the cover. Over the top of everything is the following text:

“You can back down and cooperate, right now, or Marta will hit you so hard, you should reach a tenth the speed of light…”

“No one will ever find you again, but even if someone does, there’s no way they’ll have the capacity to safely slow you down, before you’re gone to them!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheNextHorizon

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203d

Chapter 15 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Aurora Rosegrass, Queen of Queens, looks back on the day Minerva died, when her successor challenged her for her title...

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1y

Today's the day. SHADOW OF THE ELDERS is available wide both in ebook and paperback! If you've been waiting until it left Amazon to check it out, now's the time!

https://books2read.com/shadowoftheelders

#bookstodon #books #fantasy #SFF #writingcommunity @indieauthors @bookstodon

Book promotion image with a hooded rider on horseback on the left Shadow of the Elders book cover on right. Author Will Elm. Red background, black tree in the center growing out of a white angular design and surrounded by repeating white lines that recede into distance. Three people, black, shadows, walk white paths towards the tree. Quotes on the left read "Imaginative, intense, and full of heart." with 5 stars beneath it. Available wide at barnes and noble, amazon, apple books, ratkuten kobo, smashwords, bookshop.org, google play books, and more.

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1y

finished reading Akarnae 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Lynette Noni.

Fairly derivative YA fantasy: teenage girl crosses into a parallel world, where she becomes a fish-out-of-water at a school for talented students, and discovers she's the only one who can prevent the obliteration of humanity. Some ingrained patriarchy - why do female heroes always have to be hot? Totally needless. Nice enough but nothing special.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #YoungAdult #Fantasy #SFF

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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1y

finished reading Sleeping Giants 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Sylvain Neuval.

An alien artifact triggers a race to harness its immense power. Told mostly via interview transcripts, which kinda works (I liked how the interviewer gradually becomes more of a protagonist, and more invested in the interviewees) but doesn't do justice to the action sequences. Smoking Man X-Files vibes.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #SciFi

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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1y

I've finished: Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory

A wonderful zombie novel for people that don't like the killing fest that is most zombie media.

Written in sections, each part explores new ideas about zombies, exploring their nature and treating them like an extreme type of marginalized people.

Each turn the story takes supplies an interesting new twist that takes you on a new path away from the cookie cutter version of the Zombie Apocalypse story.

I never expected to encounter a 5-Star Zombie novel.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f9f7d019-aee2-4726-bdc3-8e69ffc78a15

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#SFF #zombies #amReading #bookstodon #AudioBooks

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1y

BCS #438 ebook is out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of lands beyond and what it takes to return from them by Stephen Case and Trae Hawkins, behind cover art by Ankush Sharma:

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-438/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-438-ebook/dp/B0FJZH38LD/
#sff #fantasy #litmag #shortstory #ebook #magazine

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1y

My schedule for Seattle #Worldcon later this month!

Come watch my panels on hopeful fiction and speculative poetry, or check out the research posters (including mine) at any time in the 4th floor Paramount Lounge. Looking forward to talking #solarpunk with other #SF fans!

#seattleworldcon #worldcon2025 #sff #digitalhumanities #climatefiction #poetry

Solarpunk Now Worldcon 2025 schedule

First, a blueprint for hope, wednesday august 13, 9am-10am. Second, the future doesn't have to suck, wednesday august 13, 1:30pm-2:30pm. Third, solarpunk fiction as a catalyst for climate action, thursday august 14, 9:30am to 10am, research presentation followed by a poster session. And finally, can speculative poetry change the world? saturday august 16, 9am-10am.

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202d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TrollSong

Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?

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(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant. The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue. The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter. The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene:

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong

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183d

BCS #453 ebook out early today @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of mothers and their children by W.A. Hamilton and Justin Wesley Ferguson, behind new cover art by Silas Goewey.

(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors and our First Readers. Thank you!)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-453/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-453-ebook/dp/B0GRP4G2GD/
#fantasy #sff #litmag #ebook

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1y

What if a neural implant therapy for stroke resulted in your spouting ads for the corporation that manufactured the inplant?

@MarissaLingen 's latest in Clarkesworld feels absolutely like something that could be happening now.
#recommendations #sff #AmReading

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_08_25/

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198d

Chapter 17 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Irkith, the first king of the Ulkun, is restored to life, while Nicole's neck continues to ache.

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201d

Chapter 16 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole takes center stage for the dress rehearsal of the command performance, but she has an odd little ache in her neck, the whole time...

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163d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon

On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links the full moon and catastrophe, revealing the existence of the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures from the moon that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?

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(Left) The cover of dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols. The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations. Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting. The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads. Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A white moon, on a background of the stars of space, with the following quote over the top of it:

“Idiot! You’ve likely killed us both, leaving us stuck out in the open like this.”

“We’ve got incoming. I know you’re angry and I suppose you’ve got every right to be, but we need to defend ourselves.”

“ ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, for now, and then we decide what to do about the conflict between us.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon

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140d

Chapter 42 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Umak hand-delivers a wax stamped and sealed letter from Kazic, which Nicole is quite excited to read, because it's a formal invitation to some mysterious event...

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200d

If y’all haven’t heard, Hedone Books is closing. That means a lot of incredible books, mostly queer SFF books, will become unavailable after March 31. The one I recommend the most is How to Survive This Fairytale—it was one of my favorite reads last year, and I read a LOT of good books last year. I recommend grabbing it while it’s still available. #QueerBooks #SFF @bookstodon

https://books2read.com/u/mqkYrQ

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197d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?

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(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes.

In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible.

(Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center.

The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair.

Upper right is a planet seen from orbit.

Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow.

Lower right is dandelions among grass.

The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve.

(Right Foreground) The following quote:

He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards!

He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage!

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

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177d

Chapter 26 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Having enjoyed fighting Ustrina, because the event reminded her of being young again, Eden asks Nicole to take her on one of her upcoming missions, that they might share an adventure...

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124d

Chapter 49 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on #RoyalRoad: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Having lost her temper, Nicole attacks Koko, who calls for help from the Queen of Queens...

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162d

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch

The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…

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(Left) The cover of Starwitch, by Owen Tyme.

In the background is a red, orange and white nebula.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior is red, with an appearance similar to stained glass.

(Right) In the background is a red and orange galaxy, with a blue core, which bears a resemblance to an eye. It has the following text over it:

“First you turn my dog against me, then you steal my ship’s core? What’s next, pulling my teeth?”

“We didn’t ask for this! You attacked us! Why don’t you just let us go?”

“I might as well cover myself in tartar sauce, then go swimming in shark infested waters! My lieutenants would tear me to shreds, just the same!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch

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