#novellas — Public Fediverse posts

SLEEK PARANORMAL NOIR is bluesy, queer, and unapologetically Black. Set in a magical city where detective summons the dead and angels, demons, vampires and ghosts rub shoulders with the living; richly engaging. B PLUS

https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-dead-withheld

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Nagori est la nouvelle collection de novellas des Nouvelles éditions Actusf !

On vous en parle ici et on vous en parlera toute cette semaine ➡️ https://buff.ly/Noqjp0P

Le logo est de Lisa Santalucia.

#sciencefiction #fantasy #novellas

Saw this over on Bluesky; #wss366 folks and others here might be interested. #writing #ShortStories #FlashFiction #novellas

https://wyldblood.com/submissions-2/

La collection de novellas RéciFs des éditions Argyll regorge de pépites. Et "Colorer le monde" en est une parfaite illustration. Dans ce recueil, l’autrice chinoise Mu Ming nous propose deux nouvelles axées notamment sur les nouvelles technologies, le langage, l’art, et notre perception du monde. Passionnant !

Ma chronique par ici : https://loveinbooks.com/2025/12/19/colorer-le-monde-mu-ming/

#mastolivre #mastobook #colorerlemonde #argyll #muming #novellas #nouvelles #sf

TWO INTERTWINED THRILLERS, one set in the near past and one in the near future, are high-adrenaline pageturners that also serve as meditations on identity, perception, the power of technology, and Japan’s place in the world. Thoughtful fun. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seesaw-monster-kotaro-isaka/1146125253?ean=9781419777073

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From the British Fantasy Society:

With the latest entry in the Twisted Tales series about to be unleashed, Daniel Willcocks returns to tell us more about the creepy Christmas novella Slay.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-print-daniel-willcocks-on-slay/

#horror #christmasbooks #christmashorror #festivehorror #writing #writers #books #novellas

I can't sell books if people don't know I have books for sale.

I have books for sale: https://books2read.com/ap/6n661n/Grey-Liliy

I have a bunch of genres and most are novella if you need a quick read. :D

#indieauthor #novellas #writing #selfpublished

I've just finished "Michael Kohlhaas", the 1810 novella by Heinrich von Kleist.

I think I'm right in saying that this work is well known throughout the German speaking world but is of much lesser renown amongst English speakers, even though allusions such as that in E.L. Doctorow's "Ragtime" show that it is not completely obscure.

For those unfamiliar with the novella, Wikipedia summarizes the plot as showing

>>the wrongs done to horse trader Michael Kohlhaas by a minor aristocrat. His attempts to obtain redress through the legal system are thwarted by the aristocrat's connections. Kohlhaas gathers sympathisers to capture the miscreant, which escalates into a violent campaign against towns that take in the fleeing noble. Kohlhaas is captured and sentenced to death. Just before being executed Kohlhaas achieves some revenge by swallowing a written prophecy of great personal concern to the regional ruler. <<

Going beyond the plot summary to the actual work will afford the reader the sense of being lost in a set of arcane legal processes that defy not only justice but intelligibility as well.

That juridical labyrinth is no doubt what appealed to Kafka, prompting him to give a public reading of the novella in Prague.

Martin Greenberg, the translator of the edition I read, was drawn to Kleist by his previous work on Kafka. Greenberg notes how "Michael Kohlhaas" presages "The Castle" but also writes testily of how the "realism" of the novella is disrupted by the "shadowy Gothic fantasticness" of the conclusion, which he deems "unsatisfactory".

Greenberg was writing in 1960, when a critical climate of modernism was less sympathetic to the introduction of a disguised gypsy prophetess as plot device than was the romantic era in which saw the publication of"Michael Kohlhaas".

More than half a century after Greenberg, in a post-postmodernist age, readers might be more receptive to von Kleist's melange of the legalistic, the traditional, and the fantastic. I found Kohlhaas's determination for his claim on two horses to be vindicated, leading from serving legal writs to proclaiming himself the viceroy of the archangel Michael as his followers set cities aflame, and culminating in his acceptance of the death penalty with his refusal to disclose a prophecy of a dynasty's doom -- I found all this absorbing and provocative!

#Books #HeinrichVonKleist #MichaelKohlhaas #GermanLiterature #Novellas #NineteethCenturyLiterature
#RomanticLiterature

Image -- On the Gallows, from Woodcuts for Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas -- 1953 -- Jacob Pins: Jerusalem Print Workshop -- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

I'm not sure I will ever find the mood, patience or time to sit down and write again, so I felt it was high time to give my stuff a place on the shelf! The book contains all my better than average short stories, novellettes and novellas with a a short authors blurb as tidbits/curiosa for each of them!

https://amazon.com/dp/B0FLD63WYD

#book #writing #selfpublishing #indieWriter #Indieauthor #author #scifi #ScienceFiction #shortstories #novellas #novelettes

I have never read anything by Heinrich von Kleist.

Should I start with "Michael Kohlhaas"?

https://www.publicbooks.org/the-kleist-we-need/

#Literature #HeinrichVonKleist #GermanLiterature #MichaelKohlhaas
#Novellas #Books

I've been reading all of this year's Hugo-nominated novellas (only one left to go!) and it turns out I just really, really love this format.

#reading #novellas #hugoawards

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Check out a collection of #queer #novels, #novellas and #shortstories
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Do you need a short, fluffy feel good romance to lift your mood? About a girl that falls for a sweet and insecure guy that dresses like a bumble bee and has a fairy garden!?

I got you: https://books2read.com/b/mZAKp3

#writing #novellas #romance #selfpromo #indieauthor

MARVELOUSLY TRIPPY HORROR novella juxtaposes the familiar and the strange in unexpected, powerful ways. This one will haunt you. B PLUS

https://ghoulish.rip/product/familiar/

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In my new interview with author Premee Mohamed, she explains how her collection of dark fantasy novelettes and a novella, "One Message Remains" came together, as well as why they share the same secondary world.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-one-message-remains-author-premee-mohamed/
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Currently Reading: The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation by Trevor Owens (A beginner friendly look into digital preservation.)

Wanna Finish: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Almost done with this sci fi novella. I'm HOOKED.)

Next Up: Future by Tommi Mutsuri (Love me some sci fi)

#books #libraries #digitalpreservation #comics #novellas

A GHOSTLY CHRISTMAS MYSTERY set in a medieval British abbey is delicately drawn and filled with vivid detail. Short, but richly memorable. B PLUS

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9Y3YN7T?geniuslink=true&tag=bk00010a-20

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I've read some of the novellas in the list.

"I particularly love science fiction and fantasy novellas which is why I’m creating this list and I hope you discover your great next read from here. From dystopian futures to epic quests, these novellas offer a rich blend of genres, with both standalone and novella series included in this list."

https://uwadis.com/science-fiction-fantasy-novellas-to-add-to-your-reading-list/

#Books #Stories #Novellas #SFF

@iyamwhoiyam Have you read anything by Nnedi Okorafor? I enjoyed her novella Binti. There are two others in the series that I really need to go track down.

If you like scifi with a noir bent and a splash of sapphic romance, Malka Older's Mimicking of Known Successes is a good one to check out.

#scifi #books #novellas

UTTERLY RIVETING METATHRILLER will keep you in suspense and set you to pondering. Beautifully done, magnificently concise riff on literary stagnation and aspiration. A MINUS

https://shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/when-you-leave-i-disappear-a-novella-by-david-niall-wilson/

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#WhatIf?: 8 #ThoughtProvoking #Books that Explore the #Possibilities

I’ve compiled a list of eight books — ranging from #novellas to #collections to #novels — that hone in on “what if” and tell a #story in a way that #hovers closely to this #particular #thoughtexperiment.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://bookriot.com/what-if-books/

Reading Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries) because *this* year, I'm finishing the novellas on my summer reading list. #SummerReading #Novellas #Fiction #SciFi

Completed another book (well, a novella) from the ol’Summer Reading List: Sins of Our Fathers, the final entry in the Expanse series. #TheExpanse #scifi #novellas #summerreading
https://www.nuketown.com/sins-of-our-fathers/

ELEGANT VARIATIONS ON FAIRYTALE themes with dystopian undertones and a poetic, distinctive voice. Enchanting in every sense of the word. B PLUS

https://store.psychopomp.com/products/lovely-creatures-ebook

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“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/06/04/you-will-think-me-cruel-very-selfish-but-love-is-always-selfish-the-more-ardent-the-more-selfish-how-jealous-i-am-you-cannot-know-you-must-come-with-me-loving-me-to-death-or-else-hate-me-and/

Algernon Blackwood's novella "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" is an astonishingly queer story of nature and loss.

Some thoughts on it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/blackwoods-man-104179022

#Novellas #AlgernonBlackwood #Queer

#IndieAuthors! I am looking for #writers of the #SwordAndSandal genre!

I plan on featuring as many #novels, #series, #serials, #novellas, #ShortStories, #GraphicNovels, #Comics, #anthologies, etc, as possible in the genre on my blog and in my newsletter. If you would like to be featured and have an upcoming (within the next year) or recent-ish (within the last five years) release, please feel free to fill out the form below!

Mostly, I am looking for info on your story, but there is an optional author interview section at the end!

PS: I accept #HistoricalFiction, #fantasy, weird #scifi mash-ups, and #Romance stories based on Sword and Sandal. If you think your book/series/etc fits, just go ahead and fill it out!

#amwriting #indieauthor

https://forms.office.com/r/k06i27Psg4

Can we see some novellas in the awards list this year published by someone other than Tordotcom?

Here’s a good review of mine, ANOTHER LIFE, published by @StelliformPress

And check out the rest of the Nerds of a Feather novella project to learn about tons of other amazing 2023 novellas! 💙📚

#novellas #HugoAwards #NebulaAwards #AwardsSeason #AwardsEligibility #SFFBooks #SciFiBooks #solarpunk

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2024/01/novella-project-another-life-by-sarena.html

#AwardsEligibility post, now with links to the books, and a teaser excerpt for each one! I published two novellas this year, two short stories, and one nonfiction essay.

#solarpunk #ScienceFiction #ScifiBooks #novellas #lunarpunk #SmallPress #2023Books

http://www.sarenaulibarri.com/blog/2023-awards-eligibility

@bookstodon A List of 100 Slim Books
#books #Reading #lesen #Novellen #Erzählungen #novellas
https://waferthinbooks.com/2023/09/10/100-great-short-books-recommended-by-the-caustic-cover-critic/

This image consists of overlaid illustrations of pipes from my new novella #Dreck. This is like a #dreckCloud but with more radial symmetry, so more of a #dreckFlower?

https://cliffjonesjr.com/dreck

#art #artwork #artistsOfMastodon #illustration #trippy #trippyArt #psychedelic #psychedelicArt #mandala #mandalaArt #dreampunk #dreampunkArt #books #novellas #reads #bookstodon

Y is for THE DRAGON OF YNYS by Minerva Cerridwen

Shh, it's "Ynys" is totally the key word here. This one is a cozy fantasy where an aroace knight goes on a quest with his dragon friend!

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#asexualbooks #aromanticbooks #queerbookstodon #AspectoZ #cozyfantasy #novellas #PrideMonth

@bookstodon My #review of #Linghun by #AiJiang is now live! The author's prose is superb, and the stories themselves lovely meditations on death, grief, memory, and obligation.

#ShortStories #Horror #Novellas

Full review here: https://kamreadsandrecs.tumblr.com/post/720880109769408512/title-linghun-author-ai-jiang-genres

My dad received his copy of my new book #DRECK today. I haven't even got mine yet!

https://cliffjonesjr.com/dreck

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@writingcommunity How do you deal with the excruciatingly long wait between finishing a manuscript and seeing it in print?

My debut novella #DRECK has been waiting with the publisher so long that #dreampunk legend Jeff Noon read it and wrote a nice little review a full year and a half ago (#bragging, #nameDropping). Edits and illustrations are complete, just waiting in line behind one other book now. 🥲

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@writingcommunity How do you deal with the excruciatingly long wait between finishing a manuscript and seeing it in print?

My debut novella #DRECK has been waiting with the publisher so long that #dreampunk legend Jeff Noon read it and wrote a nice little review a full year and a half ago (#bragging, #nameDropping). Edits and illustrations are complete, just waiting in line behind one other book now. 🥲

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@writingcommunity How do you deal with the excruciatingly long wait between finishing a manuscript and seeing it in print?

My debut novella #DRECK has been waiting with the publisher so long that #dreampunk legend Jeff Noon read it and wrote a nice little review a full year and a half ago (#bragging, #nameDropping). Edits and illustrations are complete, just waiting in line behind one other book now. 🥲

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@writingcommunity How do you deal with the excruciatingly long wait between finishing a manuscript and seeing it in print?

My debut novella #DRECK has been waiting with the publisher so long that #dreampunk legend Jeff Noon read it and wrote a nice little review a full year and a half ago (#bragging, #nameDropping). Edits and illustrations are complete, just waiting in line behind one other book now. 🥲

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@writingcommunity How do you deal with the excruciatingly long wait between finishing a manuscript and seeing it in print?

My debut novella #DRECK has been waiting with the publisher so long that #dreampunk legend Jeff Noon read it and wrote a nice little review a full year and a half ago (#bragging, #nameDropping). Edits and illustrations are complete, just waiting in line behind one other book now. 🥲

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Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor.

Epistolary novella about two art dealers and the rise of Nazism in Germany. Reads as fresh and unexpected even today (despite the very familiar subject matter). A surprise!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5407309655

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5407309655

#reviews #BogiReads #ShabbosReads #Mazeldon #Jewish #Novellas #Historical #Nazism #Germany #Epistolary #Bookstodon

https://lindagriffinauthor.com/reluctant_hearts_.htm
https://amazon.com/dp/B0BW2FQXNW
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/reluctant-hearts-linda-griffin/1143041313
#ContemporaryRomance #Novellas #wrpbks

Well, I did take a hit leaving Twitter but I’m still adamant it was the right thing to do. Meanwhile, the old ultra-violence rears its head in my novel from 1995 serialized on Substack. Take a look, I say into the void of Mastodin this time with hashtags: https://newnovel.substack.com/p/the-prism-chapter-forty-five?sd=pf #novel #BooksForAll #writing #90s #nyc #novels #novella #novellas #novelist #substack #serialized

Hi

#intro #introductions

I'm #Antisapien

Bienvenue/Welcome

This is a space for all dessinateux, dessinateuses and dessinateurs, etc.

I suppose I'll on with the hashtags:
#animation #indieanimation
#CartoonsForPeace
#lgbtqiapluscomics
#indiecomics
#webcomics
#queercomics
#ezines
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#2Dapps
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073Z5KV11