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Sandra Sperling @sandysperling3.bsky.social Prize-winning author from Nevada and Minnesota, now living in Kentucky. Enjoys creating costumes for 1860-1890 French dolls, refinishing furniture, and reading. Writes cross genre novels of suspense, drama, romance and crime--all with a dash of humor!
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Zeke Caliban @zekecaliban.bsky.social I'm a Millenial bi/demisexual author of (mostly) feel-good spicy queer M+/M novellas, often featuring fantasy creatures in comedic or erotic situations. Ticklish vampires, frustrated werewolves, etc. Minors DNI. ๐ (He/Him)
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Susan Sage @susansage.bsky.social Award winning author of four published novels, short stories and poetry. Proud Progressive!
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Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social Author, punker, raw nerve. PORTRAITS OF DECAY out now. Co-host of the Dead Languages Podcast. Social media at CHM. https://linktr.ee/CarsonWinter
William Cohen-Kiraly, Author @wckiraly.bsky.social I am the author of Songs of a Befuddled Muse, a book of thirteen eccentric short stories pulled from the nooks and crannies of my mind.
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Sebastien de Castell @decastell.bsky.social I write swashbuckling fantasy novels such as Traitorโs Blade, Spellslinger, Play of Shadows and Malevolent Seven. My books have been translated into fifteen languages and are available in ebook, hardback, paperback and audiobook.
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Ianthe Adora Lamont @queerthe.church The trans that goes bump in the night, out to queer your theology. 
Sadie Hepworth @sadiehepworth.bsky.social ๐ Queer writer of spicy and heartfelt MM romance, including:
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๐ธ Take It From the Top, coming Aug 4
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Rose Mynks @rosemynks.bsky.social Alabama-based queer fiction writer. Here for bookish community, Southern Gothic, drag, craft, queer Southern mess, dark humor, and a good spooky story. She/her
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Bruce Buchanan @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social Writer of fiction. New Adult fantasy novel THE BLACKSMITH'S BOY (2025) and THE RETURN OF THE CERULEAN BLUR (2026), both from Wild Ink Publishing.
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Vonnie G. Clemens Jr. @whogetstobelong.substack.com Queer writer in science fiction and fantasy. | Focused on who gets to belong, and what body do they get to bring? | whogetstobelong.substack.com
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Steve Neal @stevenealwrites.bsky.social Horror writer. Overly tired. Probably annoying a cat somewhere.
Architects of a Dying World out now! Order below! Or wherever!
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Issue #1 releases Feb 27th!
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Marissa Yarrow @marissayarrow.bsky.social Colorado horror author
Island X coming July 7 from Mad Axe Media
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Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
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Swords Against! Magazine @swordsagainst.bsky.social Swords Against! is a sword & sorcery fiction magazine edited by @rpaulwolfe.bsky.social
Issues available at https://www.swordsagainst.com
Thom Todd @thomtodd.bsky.social I write queer sci-fi/fantasy. She/They
Scott Russell Duncan @scorussdun.bsky.social Xicano Writer, author of Old California Strikes Back. Editor/Creator at Maiz Poppin Press. Director of Palabras del Pueblo Writing Workshop. Raza Unida member. Edited first Chicano sci-fi anthology and upcoming Xicanxfuturism