Today at #LifeAfterGateway: STAND BY ME is returning to theatres:
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Each day, I post one carefully curated news item from the Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery, Horror, and Suspense genres. Start your days dialed in to the exciting worlds of #TSJ!
#Movies
A photograph, in burnt-orange colour tones, of a maple leaf with a heart-shaped hole forms the background of a square image. 19 book covers are arranged in a pyramid shape down the right-hand side and across the bottom. To the left, white text in an arc says "Hidden Gems!" Below that more white text reads: "19 books by Canadian authors you may never have heard of (but will totally wonder how your bookshelves lived without!)" At the top of the pyramid of covers, to the right, it provides the date of the promo: March 1st to 15th, only on Itchi.io. The books involved are as follows, from the top of the pyramid and then down, from left to right: The Lion The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle The Dragon Next Door River of Crows Hope is the Thing with Feathers The Clockwork Empire Flesh and Bone Goblin Girl Moonshadow's Guardian Your Blood and Bones Winner Takes All The Flaws of Gravity Scrap Metal Angel Destined to be Normal Clipped Bloody Spade Baker Thief Path of the Warrior Prince Ewald the Brave
Local authors Vanessa Ricci-Thode, Claris Lam and K.A. Mielke are involved in a cooperative online book sale featuring 19 Canadian authors from all across the country! The Hidden Gems bundle runs from March 1st to 15th. #reading #books #CanLit #KitchenerWaterloo
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CANADIAN FRIENDS! Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror has a chance to make it on the ballot for the Aurora Awards under Best Related Work! Please consider voting for it -you can do so by claiming a $10 membership at www.csffa.ca
It's Aurora Award Season once again and I'd love if you'd consider my short story The Last Chance Locksmith; a cozy fantasy story about an artificer, her coffee, and the unfortunate adventures that keep rocking her bunker!
Vote for it here! www.csffa.ca
@augursociety.bsky.social
I had to take my email and contact form down off my website, but beyond the places I normally apply, I am available for a couple of online virtual workshops/panels this year.
You are welcome to take a look at my CV and drop me a DM me if you don't have my email already.
kristadball.com/about/
This demonstrates the importance for time travellers of having a change purse with clearly marked compartments for different currencies. (Pick one up any year after 1893)
Also YES HI sorry I forgot and I guess it's official now? I am giving an author keynote at the Academic Conference for Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy at the end of May!
(If you are in Toronto and coming to this, we can hang out!)*
www.yorku.ca/accsff/
Folks, there are 5 days and 12 hours left in this great bundle which is nearly 60% to its goal. If you haven't already, now's a great time to check it out. #BookSky #WritingCommunity
On this episode of the popular podcast "Re-Creative", I discuss a favorite topic with hosts Joe Mahoney and Mark Rayner: re-creative.ca/powerpuff-gi...
#superheroes #podcast #powerpuffgirls
The covers for six of my books: The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts, Dragon Whisperer, Trueflame, Fireborn, Firebound, After the Dragon Raid. Text across the middle reads: Request them at your library!
Dark grey text on a beige background that reads: Get it at the library! Did you know you can ask your library to purchase books? Free for you! Authors still get paid! Others get to read it as well! Support libraries! With a print mockup of The Dragon Next Door on a wooden shelf. #NessPromo
Want to support me without spending a dime? Request my books at your library! The library pays for their copy so I still get paid and you get to read it for free! Best part, others can enjoy it after you! 🌈📚 #booksky
Until March 15th you too can be kept up all night finishing The Silent Places, which will take you from the horrors of watching the news to the horror (and catharsis) seeing the lengths a woman will go to survive for just $2.99! bsky.app/profile/skyl...
white text on a blue night sky background that reads: Tollar’s got a stolen dragon egg, and that’s the least of her problems! Available on Apple, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Google Play, itch.io, Kobo & Kobo Plus, Smashwords, and more! Including libraries. Art by @leeshahannigan. With cover art featuring two women and a dragon on a blue night sky background. #NessPromo
a loveable sword-lesbian inconveniently finds her adventures paused as she inherits her childhood home/farm and has to care for a baby dragon she's got to keep secret. but she's also next door to the woman she's loved since she was a teen
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Cover of Direct Descendant in lower left corner: young woman with cupcake walking in front of a bakery, tentacles in the background. Expanded cover behind the quote showing the upper corner of the bakery and the afford mentioned tentacles. The BOCKs and KWAAs grew louder and overlapped into a rough wall of sound as I walked quickly down the § driveway, hoping I wasn't about to find myself in a cut- rate Canadian Hitchcock remake. The latest KWAA sounded mocking and the BOCKs sounded like raven laughter. I had just enough time to see the approaching runner before he slammed into me and we both went down.
Today's word is LAUGH. Today's #BookQW from Direct Descendant (@dawbooks.bsky.social 2025) a contemporary fantasy/cosy horror where the eldritch horrors are cuddly, the hellhound is a very good boi, and souvlaki is on the menu because all diners in small Canadian towns were originally owned by...1/2
Based on a True Story...
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fablespro #comic
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
In just four days, patrons get new Waverly story that dovetails into the fifth book wherein we attempt to solve the SUPER MYSTERIOUS COMPLCIATED MYSTERY of why Waverly can't find a new assistant.
(Spoiler: it's that she hates everyone.)
Join now and help new books get made!
LORRIE MOORE How to Become a Writer First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star / astronaut. A movie star/missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age — say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables.
Lorrie Moore
SEASON TWO: IRIS AND THE CREW RIDE THE RIFT! by Cait Gordon
Now that Hot Wings and Sauciness is veering towards the editing phase, what will I work on next? Oh, nothing much. Just another little space story.
*smiles like The Grinch*
Hey Artists of Bluesky! PAYING GIG: 2-4 pieces of original interior B&W/greyscale SFF art for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Vol 4. Canadian artists strongly preferred. 🇨🇦 Any style, NO AI. Post links to portfolios below. Need artwork in May/June. Pls share WIDELY! #ArtSky #ArtistsOnBluesky #Illustration
Mark A. Rayner and I revisit childhood with Canadian author Arlene F. Marks, as Arlene introduces us to one of her favourite paintings, Children’s Games by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
#podcast
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WSFS Deadline Purchase a WSFS membership by January 31, 2026 if you wish to nominate for the 2026 Hugo Awards
If you intend to nominate for the 2026 Hugo Awards, now is the time to sign up for a WSFS membership. Only those who are WSFS members prior to the end of day on January 31, 2026 have the right to nominate for the Hugos.
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Today was A Lot and I'm still only 1/3 through revisions so I'm going to try to stay offline for a few days and see what I can get done.
You can preorder Waverly Jones #5, I hear brings me good luck to get through this book again. www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/... books.apple.com/us/book/a-da...
Also, tell your friends to buy books! They're better than looking at the news (even with all the trauma)!
QRP with some #vampires
STARFLEET ACADEMY early reactions: 🖖
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Each day, I post one carefully curated news item from the Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery, Horror, and Suspense genres. Start your days dialed in to the exciting worlds of #TSJ!
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #TimothySJohnston
![An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below.
Text reads:
ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA
CREST by A.D. Sui
After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together.
But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home.
CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock).
Coming Fall 2027
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC
For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lamjrufb4kabavnm4jojmbre/bafkreidlmhp2jdgite5bcvhxp4xwiah6hymfxxpcxlny7fu6im2atnfln4)
An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below. Text reads: ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA CREST by A.D. Sui After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together. But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home. CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock). Coming Fall 2027 Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images
✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
Book promo and Kickstarter post. Black background with gold, Art Deco-style filigree in each corner. In shimmery gold, the title Fascination spans the top. Beneath it in white says, An Anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish. On the left side is a water-colour style red-cap mushroom, and on the right-hand side is a trio of skinny yellow mushrooms.
okay, so in about 2 weeks, this is gonna go live! Hit the "notify me on launch" button so you don't have to worry about missing bsky announcements! 😂
Follow the project here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
My flash fiction, "Kill Switch Override", was published today in Infocalypse #1.
www.infocalypse.press/issue-one/
We do indeed have signed copies in stock!
