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Crystal Connor is an award-winning Master Imaginationist. She currently works for the Department of Sleep Prevention as the Chief Operating Officer for the Bad Dreams & Nightmare Division. She also moonlights as a photographer for Instagram. Or in layman’s terms, she writes horror and takes tons of selfies. In 2010, Crystal Connor published her first novel, The Darkness Book I, in a three-part series title. In just three years’ time the 258,840-word, 774-page trilogy was complete. To date, Crystal Connor has fourteen publications accredited to her name and is featured in the award-winning documentary Black Minds in Horror. https://www.wordsmithcrystalconnor.com/


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6 Apr 2026

On the street, you will begin to see the faces of the dead in those of complete strangers.
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Fakafuumaka said, “Our pathfinding instruments are mighty. As you sail the oceans, so we sail the space between stars."
In this episode of Critical Friends , the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Jenny Hamilton and Anushree Nande join Dan Hartland to discuss romance and romantasy.
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