@chpearcewrites
Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
The owner of a disregarded entity (including an individual), rather than the disregarded entity itself…
Filling out a W8BEN and reminded of my favourite part of the instructions. Poor disregarded entity 🥲
Loved this story! ✨ 🐌 ✨
"But I don't know what to nomi—" Let me stop you there. We built an entire resource for this! It's free and operates as both a rec list and a second brain for remembering stuff you read/watched/played a year ago. #HugoAwards
What are your favorite recent speculative short stories OR books about monsters/monstrosity? Please interpret this question as broadly as you would like, and please do not hesitate to recommend your own work! (Bonus points for recs that are interested in queerness or gender in some way.)
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Pitch an unnecessary sequel
The Mist 2: Mist Opportunities
Excited to have a new flash story out today in @nightmare-magazine.com!
“The Doll Problem” is inspired by a strange doll that appeared on a friend’s couch one summer and the burden of always overthinking things.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...
Thanks Emmi you too! 💖 🙌🏻
Here's the cover of Bedfellow by yours truly. The cover is black with a black and white illustration of a bald creature with his face in shadow and tiny white eyes. He's playing with little figures beside a two story doll house.
Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last.
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Can you do me a quick favour? Ditmar Award nominations are open and ‘When Dark Waters Burn’ is an eligible work for ‘Best Novel’, but needs votes* via this form: form.jotform.com/260567334914...
Voting closes: 30 March!
Thank you so much!!
#fyp #sciencefantasy #writingcommunity
Ditmar Award nominations are open:
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Artwork
Cover art for Rebels & Rainbows (Deadset Press)
Short story
“A Shortcut Via the New Tunnel, M-ate” in Never Say Die (CSFG Publishing)
(T.R. Napper below has excellent fiction + a great explainer!)
only four more days until submissions for our fall 2026 issue close!
Blue and gold flier announcing pre-orders for signed copies of I’M THE UNDERTOW
🌊PRE-ORDERS are now open!🌊
Receive a signed copy of I’M THE UNDERTOW when pre-ordering through @greenapplebooks.bsky.social
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A full solar eclipse will be seen in Australia on 22 July, 2028 – a week before our proposed Worldcon in Brisbane from 27-31 July, 2028! Vote for our bid in Worldcon Site Selection so you can make the trip Down Under and do both!
For more info, see our Detailed Bid Proposal:
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Both extraordinary! So atmospheric
Nine games that are important to me via my9games.com
(yay Portal 2!)
3 pet rats in a paper bag
3 pet rats in a paper bag
2 pet rats
A pet rat looks out a window
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Behold! Pre-orders for SIGNED AND DEDICATED copies of my next book THE BURN LINE are open now from my good friends at West End Lane Books (@welbooks.bsky.social)! Order your copy NOW - they will deliver it to you wherever you are on this Earth. Maybe even the Sea.
www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/the-b...
A noir-toned background image of a rainy city skyscape, birds flying with a backdrop of smeared neon lights, with a detective standing on a rooftop in long coat and hat with one arm raised. Right-justified text on the image reads "open call for novellas, opens: 4.01.26, closes: 4.30.26." The Ruadán Books logo is centered above the text.
We're opening to novella manuscripts on 4/1/26! We're looking for dark thrillers, crime noir, & dark speculative fiction—if you've got a complete novella (25k-40k words) that fits, we want to hear from you.
Submission guidelines coming soon: links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs
#WriterSky #AuthorSky
Fantastic! 🔥
Congratulations!
Absolutely loved this novelette down to the last unsettling detail 👀 🖤 Fantastic characters too
How I arrived on Bluesky
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Thank you Thomas! I like the watercolour sketch too! 😃 🖤
Mixed media fan art of Dr Lawrence Gordon (Carey Elwes) from Saw (2004). Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net
Pencil and watercolour sketch of Dr Lawrence Gordon (Carey Elwes) from Saw (2004). Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net
And now for something completely different… Dr. Lawrence “I had everything in order. My whole life was in perfect order” Gordon (Carey Elwes) from Saw (2004). My other fav line is “Stop acting!!” 🎭 🖤
Do you prefer the sketch or the final version?
Watercolour, pen and pencil fan art of Charlie (Erika Henningson) and Vaggie’s (Stephanie Beatriz) song “Easy” from Hazbin Hotel. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net
Watercolour and pencil fan art of Charlie (Erika Henningson) and Vaggie’s (Stephanie Beatriz) song “Easy” from Hazbin Hotel. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net
Still doing art behind the scenes but will share on socials when the publications come out! In the interim please have a sketch of Charlie (Erika Henningson) and Vaggie’s (Stephanie Beatriz) delightful song “Easy” from Hazbin Hotel (alas I overworked this and messed it up, it happens)
A pre-kindergarten girl with dark blonde pigtails wearing blue overalls, a yellow t-shirt, and roller skates sits sulking on the ground. An older girl wearing roller skates, a burgundy shirt, and red checkered bell bottoms with red patches on the knees stands next to her, with the photo cut off at shoulder height. Text on the image reads: This is who writes your New Weird sad-girl grief horror *Split Scream vol. 7 out now
📚 If I’m ever NOT late on a social media trend, you’ll know I’ve been kidnapped and replaced w/ some sort of doppelgänger. SPEAKING OF, have you read my novelette “Sequoia Point” yet?🌲🌊 It’s the second half of Split Scream vol. 7 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ❗️ #ecohorror
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