What a surprise to discover that two Stelliform books took home top prizes at the Indie Ink Awards this weekend! Congrats to two amazing writers and their incredible books: Tiffany Morris and E.G. Condé for best Indigenous and Latinx/Latine Rep respectively! See more here: https://indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-awards-2024

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I'd signed up for an event on Indigenizing Horror last night. It was hosted by Reelspeak and I was looking forward to it, but I was never sent a link. Did anyone else get to see it? #IndigenousHorror #Indigedon #IndigenousHistoryMonth
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/scare-them-on-screen-indigenizing-horror-tickets-1367298680159
Scare Them on Screen: Indigenizing Horror

In this panel filmmakers will discuss what goes into creating monsters, frights, and building tension while crafting a compelling narrative.

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Looking for a weekend read you'll be thinking about for months? Tiffany Morris's GREEN FUSE BURNING is now available in audio format on Audible, Kobo, Overdrive, Hoopla, and more. Read by the author.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Green-Fuse-Burning-Audiobook/B0DW1M8BT1

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Green Fuse Burning

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. After the death of her estranged father, artist Rita struggles with grief and regret. There was so much she wanted to ask him–about his childhood, their family, and the Mi'kmaq language and culture from which Rita feels disconnected. But when Rita'...

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Mark you calendars because when we get back from winter break we're hosting original horror from the margins!

On Sunday, February 16th at 7pm ET, contributors to "Death In The Mouth Vol 2," a new horror anthology showcasing BIPOC and other ethnically marginalized writers and artists, will be discussing their work and the genre. "Death in the Mouth" features 20 stand-alone prose stories spanning from the mythic past to the far future, crossing between real and fictive worlds, and exploring unique and unsettling manifestations of horror.

Learn more and grab a copy of DITM2 at https://firestorm.coop/events/3279-original-horror-from-the-margins.html. Not able to make the date? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to enjoy on your own schedule.

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Original Horror from the Margins

A panel featuring contributors to Death In The Mouth Vol 2, a horror anthology showcasing BIPOC and other ethnically marginalized writers and artists from around the world.

The finalized schedule for Can*Con is out & I'm VERY excited! Sat am, I'll be a panelist for "Oceans and Coastlines of the Near Future" with Cathy Hird & Mark Robinson & modded by Clare Wall, then I'll mod the Sat pm panel "Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Post-Apocalypse" with Tiffany Morris, Suzan Palumbo, & Waubgeshig
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Hope to see you there!

#SF #sciencefiction #scifi #IndigenousHorror #Ecohorror #PostApocalypse #ClimateChange #Oceans #Coastlines #FutureFiction #Futurism #CanCon24

ICYMI, TWO Stelliform novellas have made the Ignyte Awards finalist list: Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris and Sordidez by E.G. Condé. The Ignyte Awards do amazing and important work highlighting speculative fiction by marginalized authors and we are so honored to have two books make the list! The Ignyte Awards are decided by the public and voting is now open! Please vote! https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

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Vote - The Ignyte Awards

Public voting for the 2025 AWARDS IS NOW OPEN THRU AUG 15. GO VOTE OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE – Justinian Huang (Mira) THE SENTENCE

The Ignyte Awards - your favorite author's favorite award

This fabulous news just dropped - Tiffany Morris is an Indigenous Voices Award Finalist! Congrats to Tiffany and the other amazing finalists!

From the IVA Insta: Congratulations to the authors, illustrators & publishers of the 16 works shortlisted for this year’s Indigenous Voices Awards for published work in English and French!

Be sure to check out the full IVA post for so many amazing books by Indigenous authors to add to your TBR!

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Three-time Bram Stoker award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste was kind enough to read Green Fuse Burning and share some thoughts about the book. Thank you Gwendolyn!

We're finishing up some final adjustments to the audiobook now and it will be available on our website very soon and everywhere else shortly after.

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ICYMI, Tiffany Morris's Green Fuse Burning made this awesome end-of-year reading list at The Coast!

If you need a very last minute gift, pick up the ebook of this queer swampcore novella. We're still working on the audiobook (our first one!) but it will be ready early in the new year.

https://www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/6-books-by-nova-scotia-authors-you-need-on-your-end-of-year-reading-lists-31993613

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6 books by Nova Scotia authors you need on your end-of-year reading lists

There’s a well-loved equation among bicycle enthusiasts that answers how many bikes a person should own: n+1, where the variable “n” is however many bikes you already have. Book lovers will know the same rule applies to the printed page—except the n, in this case, can also extend to however many books you currently have in your shopping basket.

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Green Fuse Burning made the Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Books of 2023 list! So exciting! Thank you Alex Brown for being a champion for this "transformative Indigenous eco-horror novella"!

https://www.tor.com/2023/12/13/tor-com-reviewers-choice-the-best-books-of-2023/

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Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2023

It’s been a very good year for reading. The book releases in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, young adult, and beyond took us to faraway kingdoms, beyond the stars, into haunted houses…

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