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Back the Kickstarter now and leave room for dessert!

(My characters always enjoy a meal.)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiansky/khumalo-tales

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Your Black Speculative Fiction Month News of the Day

Milo Jetstream, Ramses Jetstream, Desiree Quicho, Neon Temples, Fiona Carel, Yvonne DeCarlo Paul, Luscious Smoove, the Battle Ready Bastards, and Be will be back. There *will* be a Jetstreams 3.

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I got to chat with the Functional Nerds again. This is my 3rd stint as guest. In bowling that's a Turkey.

I'm a turkey!

Minus jive.

https://functionalnerds.com/2026/10/episode-721-with-zigzag-clayborne/

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Why U Should Back This Fantasy:
-Stretch goals. Stretch goals & the smashing of them.
-This full tasty blurb from
C.S.E. Cooney.
.-Readily clickable link.

Oh, and also a completed series. No waiting on lane 2.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiansky/khumalo-tales

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Spent the afternoon doing a Picard Tripleshot with @Like Mucas :pumpkin_ugh:

"Tapestry"
"Family"
"Yesterday's Enterprise"

Pizza and Rock & Rye floats on the menu.

Mental coolant leaks sealed; spiritual warp nominal.

Like Mucas :pumpkin_ugh: · 1w

We need to do this more frequently. NEED.

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ICYMI - re fantasy: "I knew when Zig decides to do something, it's not gonna be the way that other people do it..." - M. Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydKGpwHi4Uk

Zig Claybourne · 1w

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I'd say "Just go search for more" but AI would have you believing Brandon Sanderson wrote AFRO PUFFS ARE THE ANTENNAE OF THE UNIVERSE, so instead

*splays hands*

https://geraldcoleman.com/beginners-guide-to-black-science-fiction-and-fantasy-part-iii

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BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION MONTH

Approaching the 2nd weekend of the annual October celebration of the Black Fantastic, gotta ask if you've read anything by Charles Saunders, L.A. Banks, or -contemporarily- Veronica Henry, Malon Edwards, Tana Jenkins, Leslye Penelope, Rob Cameron, Linda Addison...

Zig Claybourne · 1w

I'd say "Just go search for more" but AI would have you believing Brandon Sanderson wrote AFRO PUFFS ARE THE ANTENNAE OF THE UNIVERSE, so instead *splays hands* https://geraldcoleman.com/beginners-guide-to-black-science-fiction-and-fantasy-part-iii

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I don't wear blurbs a lot, but to celebrate the completion of this trilogy? Zoolander Blurb Runway of Advance Readers! About KHUMALO TALES, friend and ice cream connoisseur nostr:npub1ksfsk7zf88lk37th...

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Amended for posterity.

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I don't wear blurbs a lot, but to celebrate the completion of this trilogy? Zoolander Blurb Runway of Advance Readers! About KHUMALO TALES, friend and ice cream connoisseur @Like Mucas :pumpkin_ugh: had this to say.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiansky/khumalo-tales

(He said more, but this reaction was gold)

Zig Claybourne · 1w

Amended for posterity. https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/117/408/086/933/308/794/original/5292dca84e5d891e.png

Like Mucas :pumpkin_ugh: · 1w

Nothing but the truth, sir.

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I stand up with every person who chose "I'm broke." I, too, am broke. Spartacus!

Like Mucas :pumpkin_ugh: · 1w

Have you supported nostr:npub1k4a2c7ypejdu2ed2dpuz0mfu4dwttxf09q6jjuqxs7t05dppn3asvdqt94's new book yet? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiansky/khumalo-tales

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LOL!!! I don't think Joyce Carol Oates has ever gotten a personal poll like this. IN YOUR FACE, JOYCE CAROL OATES.

Like Mucas :pumpkin_ugh: · 1w

Nothing but the truth, sir.