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Esker Park

@esker.bsky.social

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SFF writer | Unreasonably tall | she/her | Quiet Weirdo | Warning: Morning Person

https://linktr.ee/eskerpark

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@esker.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 5:43 PM

MAINE! yes yes yes!

@esker.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 5:30 PM

I'm so excited for this! Come to Maine to sign books and chat with us please? Nobody ever does and we're just a short bus ride from Boston...

@jenniferhudak.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 8:43 PMReposted by @esker.bsky.social

My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy!
magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...

@esker.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 1:17 PM

This really is wonderful fuel for our rage right now!

@esker.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 7:28 PM

Thanks, Formerly! You gave me great feedback!

@esker.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 1:53 PM

Thanks so much! I'm honored.

@esker.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 6:00 PM

Thank you! Me too!

@esker.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 3:16 PM

And here it is! Cover reveal of my novel coming out May 18, 2027. Art by the wonderful Haley Wakefield, text treatment by @joshsutphin.com and published by @shirakipress.com, where you can pre-order.

Waddya waddya waddya think?

book cover showing an underwater scene with kelp waving in the background. In the foreground is a pink octopus arm with its tip giving a hug to an older person's fingers. Title of the book is: A Planet for Reluctant Revolutionaries, author is Esker Park.
@esker.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 12:37 PM

You can find her work at: haleywakefield.com/about

@esker.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 2:35 PM

Haley Wakefield is an amazing artist, and also a scuba diver, so she was the perfect person to design the cover for A Planet for Reluctant Revolutionaries, my debut sci-fi novel coming out in May (but pre-orderable now). Please please please take a moment to admire it!

@esker.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:44 PM

I'd be interested to know what the careless wish was!

@esker.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:44 PM

Is this what you're trying to say? Arthur will be killed by the Circle of Wizards if he doesn't learn to control his anger, but his rage fuels his search for the evil sorcerer? if so, you might want to say that more clearly. Also, rather than his orphan status, you might want to say his age.

@esker.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:39 PM

This one also has a vagueness problem. I don't understand the significant of the scale in billowing sleeves, nor can I really picture them. Also, the stakes aren't as clear as they are in the emoji one.

@esker.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:37 PM

This one is missing the groundhog day nature of the trap for the suitors and that aspect is really cool. Also the 'power of the sea pulsing agains the shores and in their veins' is too vague to really give a sense of the story.

@esker.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:36 PM

This one of the 3 pitches is the most clear and compelling to me (even though I found the emojis distracting). I love the loom splintering and releasing the suitors.The only thing I don't quite get from any of them is the Lady MacBeth reference. Maybe this one should have a different X with Odyssey?

@shirakipress.comSep 17, 2026, 6:31 PMReposted by @esker.bsky.social

Join us Tuesday 9/22 at 10 AM Pacific time for a virtual tea time celebration with @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social .
Brew your favorite cuppa and sit a spell to commemorate the release of Light & Earth & Marrow!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/shiraki-pr...

@esker.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 10:10 PM

Fantastic news! Great agency!

@esker.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 8:27 PM

Excellent point but here we are.

@esker.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 8:25 PM

And now I must make my own 'Writing Career Bingo'

@esker.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 8:22 PM

Help a writer out! Follow her! She's good!

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