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Now Available: Dragons of Cymeria, volume 1

Volume One collects the first twelve stories (plus one bonus) of the series Dragons of Cymeria, introducing a wide-ranging world of fantasy stories. Headstrong women, mysterious dragons, scholars and thieves.

KoFi: https://ko-fi.com/s/66fb85b45a
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yuuana/shop/dragons-of-cymeria-volume-1-188661

Look for Volume 2 in late Summer 2024!

#ShortFiction #ShortSFF #SFF

SFF story/poem recs in my newsletter last week:

* Abhinav in @thedeadlands
* Nkone Chaka in Asimov's
* Ernestas Parulskis in @StrangeHorizons
* @RobotLeBlanc in Baffling
+1 paid rec!

Check out the archives -

https://buttondown.email/bogiperson

#ShortSFF #ShortStories #Stories #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFinTranslation #TransLit #Poetry #PoetryCommunity @shortstory @shortsff @bookstodon

Yesterday's short story rec on my daily recs newsletter was “The Little Free Guide To Dronewatching, Abridged & Annotated” by @RobotLeBlanc in Baffling Mag!

Trans love and feral drones!

https://buttondown.email/bogiperson/archive/feral-drones-the-little-free-guide-to/

#ShortStories #ShortSFF #TransLit #Drones #ScienceFiction #FlashFiction @bookstodon @shortstory @shortsff #TransFem #BafflingMag

Today's story in my daily story/poem recs newsletter is my favorite story I read in January:

"The Pigeon Wife" by Samantha H. Chung in the 2023 Nov/Dec issue of F&SF, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas!

The best folktale retelling in recent memory & also about workers' rights, and a lot more.

https://buttondown.email/bogiperson/archive/strictly-temporary-arrangements-the-pigeon-wife/

#Bookstodon @bookstodon #SFF #Fantasy #Fairytale #Labor #SamanthaHChung @shortstory @shortsff #ShortSFF #SFFBookClub

My new short story collection is coming VERY soon! With a cover by Galen Dara which I absolutely love.

"A seamless juxtaposition of intricate truths and bold fictions, these stories mesmerize." - Nicky Drayden

https://www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p112/Power_to_Yield.html#/

#SFF #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #ShortStories #Bookstodon @bookstodon #ShortSFF #Mazeldon #Trans #Intersex

This week's short story and poem recs on my daily recs newsletter:

* Ng Yi-Sheng in @clarkesworld
* @emlinden in @StrangeHorizons
* leena aboutaleb also in SH
* @sloane in Lightspeed
+ a paid rec!

Try:
buttondown.email/bogiperson

#ShortStories #ShortSFF #SFF #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Bookstodon @bookstodon @shortsff @shortstory #PoetryCommunity #Poetry

My free daily story recs the past week:

* Tia Tashiro in @clarkesworld
* @SoniaSulaiman in Fantasy
* Lowry Poletti in Lightspeed
* Corey J. White in @InterzoneMag
+ a longer paid rec.

Sign up to get these in email :) + You can read what I had to say about them right now in the archives!

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My daily SFF reading recommendation is from @SoniaSulaiman in Fantasy Magazine!

Check out my thoughts here, subscribe to more recs, back Sonia's fundraiser & more -

https://buttondown.email/bogiperson/archive/ambiguous-is-a-worthy-name-negative-theology-of/

#Bookstodon #ShortStories #Palestine #Fantasy @bookstodon @shortsff #SFFBookClub #ShortSFF @shortstory

BIG news -

I'm relaunching my daily story / poem recommendations (formerly on Twitter) as a Buttondown newsletter!

Pay what you want - including free, but paid backers get a longer update for weekends + other bonuses!

Check it out - reposts much appreciated:

https://buttondown.email/bogiperson

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Today I'm reccing “Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land” by Ruthanna Emrys, a very sweet story about sharing magic and growing community

https://www.tor.com/2014/08/20/seven-commentaries-on-an-imperfect-land-ruthanna-emrys/

#DecRecs #ShortSFF

New story! Presumably the final one for 2023.

"The King's Ending" - Out now in Hexagon's Winter 2023 issue.

A hero at the end of his quest sets out to find the love interest he had to leave behind.

Available in pdf and epub editions here: https://hexagonmagazine.ca/issue-15-winter-2023/

#ShortSFF #WritingCommunity #ShortFiction #EpicFantasy

Do you review books? Would you like an early Black Friday surprise?

I'm sending out e-ARCs of my new collection POWER TO YIELD AND OTHER STORIES, coming Feb 6 2024! (With a cover by Galen Dara!)

This way to request your ebooks -

https://forms.gle/tu6DvseLiy9bgrcM7

#SFF #WeirdFiction #PowerToYield #Bookstodon #ShortStories #ShortSFF #BookReviews

I have a new story in the November issue of @clarkesworld today. It started as a story about a robot uprising, and ended up as something way more contemplative. In which an artificial being loses a (vital?) part of themself:

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hughes_11_23

#Writing #ShortSFF #ShortFiction #WritingCommunity

OKAY my new short story collection POWER TO YIELD AND OTHER STORIES (coming on Nov 7!) finally has a Goodreads page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199334284-power-to-yield-and-other-stories

(Multiple technical issues have been successfully vanquished!)

@bookstodon #ShortStories #ShortSFF #SpeculativeFiction #2023Books #ScienceFiction #Fantasy @shortsff @shortstory #TransLit #QueerBooks

For anyone reading my story in @SmallWondersSFF this week, I wrote a tiny bit about its writing on my website, here:

https://louisehugheswrites.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/new-story-the-only-way-out/

#writingcommunity #shortsff

New short story!

In which a taxi driver, helping those in need, receives an unexpected request.

My flash piece in Issue 2 of @SmallWondersSFF is free to read from today on their website:

https://smallwondersmag.com/pieces/the-only-way-out/

#writingcommunity #shortsff #shortfiction

Extremely excited that Spouseperson @rblemberg is a Le Guin prize finalist!!

https://electricliterature.com/announcing-the-2023-shortlist-for-the-ursula-k-le-guin-prize-for-fiction/?fbclid=IwAR2t6FwOtgdnJPa5wpwM8BY7SUFb8It-OrVrogzPsaHcoeOJhGKXNNTtdNw

Doubly so that it is the Birdverse short story collection from Fairwood, I feel like this book has gone a bit underappreciated with RB's other books being out this year, BUT IT IS SO GOOD and I am so happy.

#Fantasy #SFF #SpeculativeFiction #LeGuin #LeGuinPrize #RBLemberg #Birdverse #ShortStories #Bookstodon @bookstodon @shortsff #ShortSFF #Fairwood #Mazeldon #JewishAuthors #TransLit

"Mr. Fifteen was a hand-me-down Camera from Aunt Lucy when she died. She used to dress him up in a little suit and call him Herbie. When the Cameras were invented, so were many excuses to think of them as people."

Read "Mr Fifteen" by Tom Pike in Issue 6 🤖

https://fantasticotherbloghome.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/thefantasticother_issue06.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A71%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C33%2C734%2C0%5D

#SFF #ShortSFF #ShortStory #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SpeculativeFiction

"The full moon isn’t necessary. But shapeshifters are nothing if not concerned with appearances..."

Read "The Shapeshifter's Apprentice" by C.N. Heaton in Issue Six:

https://fantasticotherbloghome.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/thefantasticother_issue06.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A52%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C33%2C734%2C0%5D

#SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #ShortSFF #ShortStory

"Razi turned to the creature, who had watched the performance quietly, and they stared, brown eyes meeting amber. Razi had been around for a while, a century in Armenia alone, and knew the creature wasn’t a dog or a bird—but something more complicated."

Read Marianne Xenos' beautiful story "A Thousand Ways To Go Home" in Issue 6, out now! https://fantasticotherbloghome.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/thefantasticother_issue06.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A108%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C33%2C731%2C0%5D

Photo by Aram Grigoryan via Unsplash

#ShortSFF #ShortStory #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #Armenia

New Story Day!

My story, "AI Aboard the Golden Parrot" is now up @clarkesworld. It is a fun story about some AI on a Pirate Ship. There are references to sea shanties, and imaginative robots. #shortfiction #sf #shortsff #robots

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hughes_03_23/