Spec fic writer+artist. Wrangles words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr | IG: c.h.pearce

Canberra
Can it be awards eligibility time of year already? (will update if/when more happens before eoy)  If you are so inclined you can read my full blog post with links to stories, illustrations, and check out how many parentheses I use (spoiler, it’s a lot!!) chpearce.net/post/awards-eli…
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Book mail! Such a delight to be a small part of with this cover art of a helpful friend cymothoa exigua! 💛 👅 🐟 Love all the stories and the theme “Terminally Online.” 🔥 💻 📱 sarossf.com/issue-7/
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Snowdrop the fastidious orb ✨ ⚪️ ✨ #petrats
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Happy Halloween from 1 confused slug being airlifted outdoors, 3 rats eating wraps, Bubble and Jax
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Rewatched Thirteen Ghosts (2001) and… it was different from how I remembered it in almost every conceivable way… except for this delightful scene of the Angry Princess (Shawna Loyer) and Kathy (Shannon Elizabeth) checking their hair together in the mirror!! 🖤 👻 #fanart
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The Greatest Forms of Potato mini zine by the indefatigable Sarah Hingley (@sazzsquatch on Instagram) a big hit with the birthday girl, thank you ✨ 🥔 ✨ (I love the little guy on the envelope!)
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Such a joy to get to do the cover art for Saros SF #7 ed. K. Thompson, I adore all the stories and the theme “Terminally Online.” 🔥 💻 📱 I even got to write about my current favourite parasite/isopod/metaphor cymothoa exigua! 💛 👅 🐟  sarossf.com/issue-7/
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Spot the friend (bonus smol friend in final pic) 🕵 #kangaroos #canberrawalks
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Great night last night at Spooky Stories at Gang Gang cafe with MC Ben O’Mara, writers Chelsea Fritzlaff, S.R. Underschultz, poet Imogen Wall, John Lombard and guitarist Connor Whyte! Love the cover of Lost Souls 04, can’t wait to read 👀 📚 👻 🖤
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More photos + also Aussie writers and artists, Lost Souls magazine will be open to submissions at the end of this month ✍️  lostsouls.net.au/submissions
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It’s Spooky Stories night! If you’re in Canberra come along to Gang Gang cafe 6:30pm tonight where I’ll be reading a weird horror story (guess what it’s about) with other amazing local writers, artists & musicians + launch of Lost Souls 04! 👻 📚 Info & tix:
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Fantastic author talk last night at @cbrwritersfest Welcome to the Future with Charlie Jane Anders, Barbara Truelove, Garth Nix & Kaaron Warren at Smith’s Alternative! All the pitches were so good I couldn’t resist buying all 3 👀📚 (yes my bookshelf is getting out of control)
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Maximum snuggles (they wouldn’t get out of my dressing gown sleeve so I gave them my dressing gown) 🐀 🐀 🐀  #petrats
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Them (Laurie Holden as Cybil and Radha Mitchell as Rose from Silent Hill 2006)! The faces aren’t quite right but that’s what practice is for! More original art happening in the background too, will be able to share in the next month or two… 👀 🎨  #fanart
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So excited to have my story “Go Eat Some Worms With Callie Cooks” about a young woman’s cooking vlog featuring her helpful live-in fungus friend, Worms, included in RECORDED (ed. Merc Wolfmoor) alongside these excellent names! I am obsessed with the formatting too. 🤩 🍄 🔪 🖤
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ebook out today for backers, retail release in December, preorder link here 🖤 🎥 🎞️ 📚  books2read.com/recorded-anth…
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Locals lately 🦜 🌸
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Excited to have my weird praying mantis story “Fall In” included in @CosmicHorrorMo 76 (ed. Jolie Toomajan) alongside these excellent names! Love the haunting cover art by Katie Beardmore. Last pic is internal art I couldn’t resist including too. 🖤 🦑
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