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kristinaten.bsky.social
Writer, rusalka. TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE (10/25, Stillhouse Press). Stories in McSweeney's, Best American SFF, more. she/her 🌈! kristinaten.com
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Was already a Mariana Enriquez fan and loved THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE as much as I’d hoped to. From the fourth story onward, pretty much each new story became my favorite.

I'll have a new story free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com this Thursday! Check out the great stories already online today (@foxesandroses.bsky.social! @seoungkim.bsky.social! @solarshades.club! more!), or pick up the ebook to access the whole issue now.

So I wrote an Omelas response story, which is out today in @lightspeedmagazine.com. What do you think? Would you opt-in to paradise if Omelas came calling? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/an-o...

my story "standardized test" is now free to read! please fill out your answers with a #2 pencil and pray for mercy! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/stan...

Friends! "Some to Cradle, Some to Eat", my retelling of "Little Thumb" is out now in @lightspeedmagazine.com! It's a fairytale retelling and a teenage ogre Sapphic romance (this is a sentence I wrote). Two girls save each other from some bad parenting. It might contain a smidge of cannibalism. 🦴

It's @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Split Scream Day!! Celebrating the upcoming Vol. 7 of the devilish duo, we sat down with the series' authors for #NightTideMag's Author Spotlight! nighttidemag.com/2025/02/18/a... 👻

Locus, Hugo, Nebula and BSFA awards voting windows are open. Here's a reminder of my eligible fiction from 2024, Some of which already appeared on recommended reading lists and the BSFA longlist. I hope you'll check them out and keep them in mind as you make your ballots.

Adored THE STRANGE by Nathan Ballingrud. Never felt so at home on a hostile planet. Would go anywhere Belle and Watson see fit to take me.

One of my favourite lengths of story at the moment, both to read and to write, is the novella. More room to breathe than a short story, but more focused than a novel, and all of these are excellent. @lauramauro.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to Corey Farrenkopf‬ and Haunted Ecologies! Stoked for this one.

My latest short fiction recs are up! With stories from @lchanwrites.bsky.social F.E. Choe @ecatherine.com @marissalingen.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @helendecruz.net itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/02/shor...

Calling poets,prose writers & essayists to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue!Send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic. Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are co-editing strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

hug your writer friends today

2025 Books by Post-Soviet Authors -- Thanks to @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social for keeping track of all the upcoming 2025 books by immigrant writers from the former USSR, writing in English and publishing in the US. Take a look -- it's quite a bounty of riches! Authors include: @shustry.bsky.social,

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Big news from contributor @kristinaten.bsky.social ! Her debut collection TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE is forthcoming on October 25th 2025 from Stillhouse Press!

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Many thanks to Sasha Vasilyuk for including TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE on this tremendous list full of books I can't wait to read. (New Shteyngart! Favorites in paperback! Cookbook of my dreams!)

every professional writer i know is an absolute pervert for em dashes but go on

STOP THE PRESSES WE'RE GETTING @kristinaten.bsky.social's BRILLIANT DEBUT COLLECTION THIS YEAR 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

HAPPY PUB DAY TO US🥳🥳🥳 Will This Be A Problem (@willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social): The Anthology is out! Edited by Olivia Kidula and yours truly, and available on Amazon, Kobo & wherever books are sold!!! These brilliant stories will stay with me—and you—forever✨ Link below👇🏽 a.co/d/hi6T45a

It me. THE UNBEARABLE TASTE OF FRUIT & WINE drops from @press-android.bsky.social Feb 14. 2 thieves meet trying to rob the same vault in a post-apocalyptic magical world & sparks fly! It's about finding the strength to be you & love at first sight & it's my escapist gift to you in a burning world.

Pre-orders for my dark space opera DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE are OPEN!!! 💀🌌 If you want to embark on a doomed spaceship and hope it arrives safely on Earth, then you might dig my novella. Publication by Dark Matter Ink. Any boost is appreciated!💙 darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...

ARCs for The Unkillable Frank Lightning are showing up in the wild! Black magic. Broken hearts. Temporary deaths. Mad science. Inescapable violence. Tall tales. Sharpshooters. Love. Hate. A whole lot of blood. Preorder now!!

This is a must buy, folks!

This collection is gonna be killer!!

MY SOUL IS READY! So excited for this book!

Aw hell yeah!

You want this book!!

Surprise! The big Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is up! 25% off all pre-orders with the code PREORDER25. That includes my second novel, WEARING THE LION. Are you in the mood for a goddess getting her life together and a hero with a found family of monsters?

My debut collection TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE is coming October from Stillhouse Press! I put my whole heart into this book, and it’ll be out in autumn: just the season for fortune telling, scary story swapping, strange skin wearing, and pinky promising…