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DRM-free, AI-free, billionare-free, waitless ebooks from independent presses, sold to you by an actual human being who responds to emails, since 2010. https://weightlessbooks.com

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@wtpress.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:43 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

Happy Book Birthday to the first batch of new books for this October, starting with our fabulous Welsh-themed anthology, They Are Still Here:
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The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.
@endlessbookshelf.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:23 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

you know you need this :

Endless Bookshelf tee shirt, with the fabulous design by John Coulthart (aka @johncoulthart.com )

special pre-order price through 29 October

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Endless Bookshelf tee shirt with Penrose triangle design by John Coulthart
@undertow.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:55 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

Some may recall the great run we had with my 'lit rag' Shadows and Tall Trees. A Shirley Jackson win, several stories reprinted in "Best Of's. Our new lit rag, Pale Grey Idol, harkens back to that aesthetic. 100 pages at 5" x 8". A little gem of dark wonders.

Covers to Issue Zero of Pale Grey Idol, and issues 1 thru 5 of Shadows & Tall Trees.
@bcsmagazine.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:30 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

Less than 1% of BCS readers support us financially. Over 99% do not.

If you'd like to help us keep paying our authors and First Readers, please consider supporting us, like on the BCS Patreon or with a donation. Thank you! www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/support-bcs/...

@weightlessbooks.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:15 PM

4 new titles from @wtpress.bsky.social: THEY ARE STILL HERE, an anthology of Welsh resistance edited by Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall, THE EXECUTIONER'S BLADE and THE EXECUTIONER'S REALM by Andrew Knighton, and WIZ DUOS 4, novellas by Stephen Cox and Ellen Mellor weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...

Cover for The Executioner's Realm by Andrew Knighton, featuring a white-haired, black-cloaked warrior with a sword encircled by a tentacleCover for THEY ARE STILL HERE, featuring a barefoot wizard holding an oak branch surrouned by deer, wolf, and boarCover for The Executioner's Blade by Andrew Knighton, featuring a white-haired, black-cloaked warrior with a sword encircled by a tentacleSplit cover for WIZ DUOS 4, featuring Marooned off Ceres by Ellen Mellor, with an astronaut and sea turtle, and Top Tips for Loving a Lizard by Stephen Cox, with godzilla hugging kong.
@weightlessbooks.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:04 PM

Please help our favorite brick-and-mortar indie bookstore in all the land own the property it lives on!

@bookmoon.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:57 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

Launching 2 new T-shirts in 1 week!
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@bcsmagazine.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:32 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

BCS #468 ebook out early at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, w stories of historical voyage for gods by multiple-time BCS author James Morrow and new one @jordonjones98.bsky.social, cover art by Bruce Brenneise. www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

@thedeadlands.comOct 6, 2026, 11:44 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

this october

instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS

we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay.

no coin fundraiser

only fundraising Elise

🖤🖤

pls join us + spread the word

@inkfoundry.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:33 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

This is one of my favorite pieces by Bruce Brenneise :)

@weightlessbooks.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:27 PM

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social has stories by James Morrow and Jordon Jones and cover art by Bruce Brenneise! weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Cover art for BCS #468 by Bruce Brenneise, feautring a weird seashell-like building perched on a cliff amid waterfalls and tropical flowers
@michaeljdeluca.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:18 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

I sure am absolutely dead tired of talking about the stupidifying plagiarism software being marketed as "artificial intelligence"! I sure do not get to stop talking about it anytime soon

@lilylachance.comOct 3, 2026, 2:52 AMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

Great news!! 🥳 My first-ever satirical column is now live at foofaraw. It was inspired by the righteous rage against "AI" sloppers who take real writers' spots in magazines through subterfuge. Rage went in, humour came out: "So, You Want to be an AI Slopper." Enjoy. 😌

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@michaeljdeluca.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 7:41 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

You know what's awesome? When I post about a new title, flip over to email and find a bunch of people actually bought it and are reading. This is not, in my experience, how social media book promo works in general, and it feels great, like we got a real community going here, bots or no bots

@undertow.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 4:28 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

Friends, grab the eBook of Pale Grey Idol off @weightlessbooks.bsky.social for just $6. Indies helping indies.

weightlessbooks.com/pale-grey-id...

@weightlessbooks.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 4:03 PM

A new folk horror series from @undertow.bsky.social! PALE GREY IDOL ZERO includes work from @seanbirnie.bsky.social, @brianevenson.bsky.social, @stevetoase.bsky.social and more: weightlessbooks.com/pale-grey-id...

Cover for PALE GREY IDOL issue zero, featuring a stylized mask
@adventitiouswords.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:46 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

How many versions of yourself in mirror realities have already purchased a copy?

Background is crumpled white paper. In the center: cover art for Adventitious Issue Five, an oil painting of a young Black woman emerging from dark ocean waves with an owl head emerging from her forehead, merged with her skin, and a full moon rising behind her. "Issue Five" and the Adventitious logo overlay the art, with a small (really cool) astronaut figure beside the title. Surrounding the cover, hand-drawn arrows point to gold marker-style text listing story hooks: "14 stories," "1 novelette," "Time Cults," "Sapphic Rage," "Video Game Reincarnation," "Portal Fantasy," "Found Families," and "Shapeshifter Romance."
@matociquala.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 3:04 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month!

"The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

@weightlessbooks.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 2:36 PM

Today we add two anthologies of emerging Canadian authors from indie publisher Spud Publishing! weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...

Cover art for SEQUEL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF EMERGED CANADIAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS, featuring a mutant rat creatureCover art for DEBUT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF EMERGING CANADIAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS, featuring a purple origami boat traversing the pages of a book
@beckyhalsey.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 12:18 PMReposted by @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

I have stories in this month’s issues of Small Wonders and Adventitious. Thank you Weightless Books for being a huge part of the independent publishing, speculative fiction world. 💓🙌
#LitMagWeek #writingcommunity

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