Julie Price Carpenter
@sacredchickens.bsky.social
Author of The Last Train Out of Hell and Things Get Weird in Whistlestop. Cohost of Perdition City Station.
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My new novel is out a week from today — tough timing because of the election & uh, you know, the world. With book reviews an extinct species, it's hard to get the word out. So tell your friends! Meanwhile, I've started the next one, folkish horror set in a bog at a remote Maine hunting camp. Onward!
October 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
My new novel is out a week from today — tough timing because of the election & uh, you know, the world. With book reviews an extinct species, it's hard to get the word out. So tell your friends! Meanwhile, I've started the next one, folkish horror set in a bog at a remote Maine hunting camp. Onward!
This is a great book for Halloween season! A great addition to any horror library.
There's something about @sacredchickens.bsky.social's #BookReview of DIABOLICALLY GOOD that truly warmed my heart. Click the link, #BookSky!
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October 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM
This is a great book for Halloween season! A great addition to any horror library.
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Wrote my first newsletter in ages, instead of writing my books... okay re-directing back to drafting. HERE is my very brief little update on me, for anyone interested <3
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A FLASH autumnal update
Hello my loves! I miss writing blogs/this newsletter. This used to be my only form of writing; moments of confessional, the pseudo-personal essay, in which I would share what was going on with me c…
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October 3, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Wrote my first newsletter in ages, instead of writing my books... okay re-directing back to drafting. HERE is my very brief little update on me, for anyone interested <3
zkabraham.com/2026/10/03/a...
zkabraham.com/2026/10/03/a...
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Join the Cinema Worms as we review BOUCHRA 🐕 the queer anthropomorphic film which follows a 35-year old canid Moroccan filmmaker in Brooklyn trying to make sense of love, life, and her relationship with her mother.
I wasn't expecting this one to hit me in the feels!
I wasn't expecting this one to hit me in the feels!
Cinema Worms reviews BOUCHRA!
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September 20, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Join the Cinema Worms as we review BOUCHRA 🐕 the queer anthropomorphic film which follows a 35-year old canid Moroccan filmmaker in Brooklyn trying to make sense of love, life, and her relationship with her mother.
I wasn't expecting this one to hit me in the feels!
I wasn't expecting this one to hit me in the feels!
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Join us online on Wednesday 16th September 2026 at 6pm BST to hear Erin Edwards and I talk about our sapphic Georgiana Darcy books! ❤️
Event is free but ticketed, so sign up now! Also, you can grab a signed copy of our books, delivered anywhere in the world 👀
Event is free but ticketed, so sign up now! Also, you can grab a signed copy of our books, delivered anywhere in the world 👀
Queering Georgiana Darcy: Lindz McLeod and Erin Edwards
Shining the spotlight on a beloved Jane Austen character and her sapphic lovers, chaired by Emma Butler-Marr.
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September 11, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Join us online on Wednesday 16th September 2026 at 6pm BST to hear Erin Edwards and I talk about our sapphic Georgiana Darcy books! ❤️
Event is free but ticketed, so sign up now! Also, you can grab a signed copy of our books, delivered anywhere in the world 👀
Event is free but ticketed, so sign up now! Also, you can grab a signed copy of our books, delivered anywhere in the world 👀
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Are you aware
This NEEDS more attention
Please read what trump's DOJ just did last week for protesting against ICE
As the January 6th insurrectionists were all pardoned. These 8 people were sentenced to decades in prison
The Prairieland 8
Are you aware
This NEEDS more attention
Please read what trump's DOJ just did last week for protesting against ICE
As the January 6th insurrectionists were all pardoned. These 8 people were sentenced to decades in prison
The Prairieland 8
June 29, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Are you aware
This NEEDS more attention
Please read what trump's DOJ just did last week for protesting against ICE
As the January 6th insurrectionists were all pardoned. These 8 people were sentenced to decades in prison
The Prairieland 8
Are you aware
This NEEDS more attention
Please read what trump's DOJ just did last week for protesting against ICE
As the January 6th insurrectionists were all pardoned. These 8 people were sentenced to decades in prison
The Prairieland 8
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As of now we are officially HALF WAY TO HALLOWEEN. You're going to make it. Everything is going to be fine.
June 1, 2026 at 12:47 AM
As of now we are officially HALF WAY TO HALLOWEEN. You're going to make it. Everything is going to be fine.
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April 27, 2026 at 9:05 AM
This is going to be a great book! And there are 20 copies up for grabs! Get one!
I'm getting married in TWO DAYS 👰👰🏿 and it would mean a lot to me to have the giveaway for my upcoming book promoted more (twenty copies up for grabs! I don't want to worry about social media this weekend!) so good people of Bluesky, please do your thing and repost this like mad.
Book giveaway for The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley (Austentatious, #2) by Lindz McLeod Mar 06-Mar 31, 2026
Enter to win one of 20 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Mar 06-Mar 31, 2026. We’re giving away 20 copies of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLE...
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March 27, 2026 at 6:03 PM
This is going to be a great book! And there are 20 copies up for grabs! Get one!
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Sighing, she retrieves the milkshakes from her yard. Another day, another disappointing haul.
A shape appears, ambling without haste. "I hope I'm not too late?" he asks.
She studies his pale, wrinkled face, his long grey coat. Not a boy, but a man. "No," she says. "Come on in."
A shape appears, ambling without haste. "I hope I'm not too late?" he asks.
She studies his pale, wrinkled face, his long grey coat. Not a boy, but a man. "No," she says. "Come on in."
February 24, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Sighing, she retrieves the milkshakes from her yard. Another day, another disappointing haul.
A shape appears, ambling without haste. "I hope I'm not too late?" he asks.
She studies his pale, wrinkled face, his long grey coat. Not a boy, but a man. "No," she says. "Come on in."
A shape appears, ambling without haste. "I hope I'm not too late?" he asks.
She studies his pale, wrinkled face, his long grey coat. Not a boy, but a man. "No," she says. "Come on in."
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CRAFT CHAT! Let's talk about one of my favourite craft techniques for fiction—the use of colour and shade!
This blog post is a great place to start, and many thanks to Ingrind Sunberg for creating it in the first place.
This blog post is a great place to start, and many thanks to Ingrind Sunberg for creating it in the first place.
The Color Thesaurus
I love to collect words. Making word lists can help to find the voice of my story, dig into the emotion of a scene, or create variety. One of my on-going word collections is of colors. I love to st…
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December 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
CRAFT CHAT! Let's talk about one of my favourite craft techniques for fiction—the use of colour and shade!
This blog post is a great place to start, and many thanks to Ingrind Sunberg for creating it in the first place.
This blog post is a great place to start, and many thanks to Ingrind Sunberg for creating it in the first place.
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reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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It's SAPPHIC SEPTEMBER and I've got three queer-ass books ready for you!
1. Wow, I wonder if the endless staring and pinkie brushing means anything?
2. If I don't seduce the pirate queen, I'm doomed. Fortunately she's hot. Unfortunately she's unhinged.
3. V hungry, v horny, prone to bad decisions.
1. Wow, I wonder if the endless staring and pinkie brushing means anything?
2. If I don't seduce the pirate queen, I'm doomed. Fortunately she's hot. Unfortunately she's unhinged.
3. V hungry, v horny, prone to bad decisions.
a woman wearing a crown and a necklace with a heart shaped pendant on her forehead
ALT: a woman wearing a crown and a necklace with a heart shaped pendant on her forehead
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September 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's SAPPHIC SEPTEMBER and I've got three queer-ass books ready for you!
1. Wow, I wonder if the endless staring and pinkie brushing means anything?
2. If I don't seduce the pirate queen, I'm doomed. Fortunately she's hot. Unfortunately she's unhinged.
3. V hungry, v horny, prone to bad decisions.
1. Wow, I wonder if the endless staring and pinkie brushing means anything?
2. If I don't seduce the pirate queen, I'm doomed. Fortunately she's hot. Unfortunately she's unhinged.
3. V hungry, v horny, prone to bad decisions.
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Scroll.in has an excerpt from my Locus-nominated, British Fantasy Award & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR, which is now out in South Asia as a lovely new paperback (with new cover art by Samya Arif) from @westlandbooks.bsky.social. You can read it here:
Fantasy: Ru, a boy from nowhere, dreams of dragons. What is his connection to these divine beasts?
An excerpt from ‘The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar’, by Indra Das.
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August 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Scroll.in has an excerpt from my Locus-nominated, British Fantasy Award & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR, which is now out in South Asia as a lovely new paperback (with new cover art by Samya Arif) from @westlandbooks.bsky.social. You can read it here:
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Pregnant woman being arrested by ICE. The cruelty is the point.
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August 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Pregnant woman being arrested by ICE. The cruelty is the point.
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Holy heckin heck I got an early copy of God’s Junk Drawer by @peterclines.bsky.social! Looks like a pretty spiffy adventure—time to dive in!
August 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Holy heckin heck I got an early copy of God’s Junk Drawer by @peterclines.bsky.social! Looks like a pretty spiffy adventure—time to dive in!
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I am mildly obsessed with nailing a good first line, and IMO to do so one must convey at least three or four details/pieces of information. As a reader, I want to know several things immediately: what's the MC doing? What time period/era is this? What's just happened to stir up conflict in the MC's
"It cost me every penny in my pocket to get half an hour alone with Haverstock before he was hanged, but if I had known then what I know now, I would have paid ten times as much."
I do like to start my novels with a banger first line. INTO THE CAVES OF HELL WE GO, FRIENDS.
I do like to start my novels with a banger first line. INTO THE CAVES OF HELL WE GO, FRIENDS.
July 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I am mildly obsessed with nailing a good first line, and IMO to do so one must convey at least three or four details/pieces of information. As a reader, I want to know several things immediately: what's the MC doing? What time period/era is this? What's just happened to stir up conflict in the MC's
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I would appear to have won the European Science Fiction Society Hall of Fame award for Best Author
I, hum, am going to need a minute and possibly a drastic reassessment of my self image
(Thx @effjayem.bsky.social for tagging me)
I, hum, am going to need a minute and possibly a drastic reassessment of my self image
(Thx @effjayem.bsky.social for tagging me)
June 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I would appear to have won the European Science Fiction Society Hall of Fame award for Best Author
I, hum, am going to need a minute and possibly a drastic reassessment of my self image
(Thx @effjayem.bsky.social for tagging me)
I, hum, am going to need a minute and possibly a drastic reassessment of my self image
(Thx @effjayem.bsky.social for tagging me)
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This has been A Big Secret for months but finally I can reveal that THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET has also been acquired by a UK publisher!!
(in addition to Harlequin US)
I'm so thrilled to join the Little, Brown family with Atom, who have an incredible, organised, and enthusiastic team! 🎉😍🌈🌺
(in addition to Harlequin US)
I'm so thrilled to join the Little, Brown family with Atom, who have an incredible, organised, and enthusiastic team! 🎉😍🌈🌺
December 6, 2024 at 3:03 PM
This has been A Big Secret for months but finally I can reveal that THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET has also been acquired by a UK publisher!!
(in addition to Harlequin US)
I'm so thrilled to join the Little, Brown family with Atom, who have an incredible, organised, and enthusiastic team! 🎉😍🌈🌺
(in addition to Harlequin US)
I'm so thrilled to join the Little, Brown family with Atom, who have an incredible, organised, and enthusiastic team! 🎉😍🌈🌺
The Last Train Out of Hell Leaves the station today! Get Your Tickets Today! Window Seats Still Available! Pre-order Snacks as Supplies Are Limited!
Order from your favorite bookstore!
Order from your favorite bookstore!
June 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The Last Train Out of Hell Leaves the station today! Get Your Tickets Today! Window Seats Still Available! Pre-order Snacks as Supplies Are Limited!
Order from your favorite bookstore!
Order from your favorite bookstore!