I think this is 100% correct.

I’d love to read both more theory and experiences from other intersex nonbinary people, but I’ve had trouble finding what I’m looking for (and presently have no academic library access). Any recommendations?

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Have you guys checked out the Aliens & More sale yet? 14 excellent books from free to 1.99, all featuring non-human characters! sheilajenne.com/april-aliens...

On the blog today, I explain how omniscient POV works. It's not so common anymore, but it can be very effective. The only problem is that both readers and writers are sometimes confused about what it is supposed to be. sheilajenne.com/2026/04/23/o...

Today begins my second themed sale: non-human characters! We've got 14 books from free to 1.99, all of which feature aliens, monsters, or some other non-human hero. It will run from today (April 23) through the end of the month. sheilajenne.com/april-aliens...

OH BOY here's an #AprilWorldbuilders I can do! Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Both are much smaller than ours; Deimos would look like a very bright star and Phobos only a little bigger. Their gravity is so faint as to be useless for walking around on.

I think I'm good at writing accurate science without it taking over the story to the point that it's a slog. I also think I'm pretty good at writing feelings and character development.

The conversation about didactic art vs art for art's sake is constantly muddied by people calling both blatant preachiness and gay people existing "politics." It's okay not to like books that preach at you! But we can't really talk about that and representation in the same breath.

Can't really write books about revolutions without mentioning politics! Now some people are going to say "well everything is political" and that's also true. But in my case even when I try to write smut, elections just kinda. Happen.

I picked this up on sale and read it today. Definitely recommend if you've ever sat by a pond and imagined life as a fairy or water sprite 💙 www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

I tend to start a writing session by reading what I wrote last time and editing a bit. Often that means my stories grow fractally as I think of stuff to add.

If there is one thing Lucy is good at in Under False Colors, it's lying on her resume 🤣

Moving to Invasive for this one, because the characters travel several lightyears from home to build a new home far away. But they don't really belong there. They were much too willing to believe that the place was theirs and they'd fit right in. #QueerWritersChat

I feel like more often than not, my characters are far from home. Home's the place you love and miss. It's very specific the way you miss home, not just "Mars" or something, but a particular pebbly beach, the way the sun slants down outside your front door. #QueerWritersChat

Kostya lives in the Imperial Palace, in the city of Landing, Mars. As a prince, he has his own wing of apartments there. After the first chapter, Sagan lives there too, in servants' quarters. #QueerWritersChat

Hi, I write science fiction with queer and neurodivergent characters. Lately I've been working on a tie-in novella in my Imperial Mars universe. It's almost ready, it just needs a little.... something. #QueerWritersChat

We can't trust trad publishers to be the gatekeepers of quality.

NASA uses my ideas to send humans to Mars with a solar sail. Hey dream big, right?

It seems this is pretty easily solvable with the $20 new account fee. (Or even simply making sure no two accounts have the same tax info—though I can see that would involve more labor.) The $12, though—it seems unnecessary. Couldn't they have started with the $20 and see if it worked?

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

That's the thing, all of our success relies on the ecosystem as a whole. I can't sell on a platform nobody else is on, because the readers will abandon it. Half of us are going to pay the $12 and half aren't, but when wide marketplaces were already struggling, this could kill them.

I also tried to say this before but then my internet died which was probably a sign, but I'm going to say it again anyways: A lot of people make so little on D2D because for every 10 people who yell at an author for selling ebooks on Amazon, maybe 1 person will actually buy them somewhere else.

Meanwhile, just today I got this email. Draft 2 Digital is not a significant part of my sales income. I do it to help combat monopoly. A thing I thought D2D wanted to help me with. But if it drives smaller authors off the site, it's just going to increase Amazon's monopoly.

Thanks for a great sale this weekend, everybody! If anybody missed out on scooping up Invasive, I'm leaving it on sale till Friday. It's a book that hasn't really found its audience yet and I'd love to see it win over readers.

Last day of the Narratess Sale!!! If you love sci-fi, here are a few of the sci-fi books on there. But there are also many more! indiebook.sale

If characters are outside, they're bound to notice something, even in passing. I often forget though because I'm from a place with the same weather for months. Often the weather matches or contrasts with the characters' mood. Or it presents a challenge they have to deal with. #QueerPrompts

Who doesn't love a little sci-fi? Probably everyone following me likes it, right? I saw all y'all showing genuine excitement about Artemis, I KNOW you like sci-fi. 🌖 🤖🪐 Get 19 sci-fi books for just $25 during the #NarratessIndieSale happening right now! itch.io/b/3627/narra... #SciFi #IndieAuthor

The time has come again! TBR pile not high enough? Let's fix that! Almost 300 discounted books this weekend. Go & browse them all over on indiebook.sale 📢📚💙 ~you can use all sorts of filters to find your perfect match 🏳️‍🌈 There are also Itch bundles, check the thread below ⤵️⤵️ #DiscountBooks 🌈📚😱🩸📚🪐📚🌍

Either the quality of books out there has abruptly increased, or these antidepressants are kicking back in 😅 The past few weeks I've been reading like a fiend. Scooped up 10 books today at this book sale and I hope it'll be enough to hold me for a bit! indiebook.sale

On the blog today: "I have heard it said that robots and aliens should not be autistic-coded, or that these characters can’t represent real autistic people. I’ll be honest, that criticism bugs me a lot. But I also don’t want to dismiss it out of hand." sheilajenne.com/2026/04/11/a...

Did you know that for THREE DAYS ONLY, over 200 SFF books are on deep sale??? The Narratess Sale is the big book shopping day of the year for those of us in the know. indiebook.sale

#SFFChat Gotta be solar sailing. I won't—excellent books already exist on the topic and there's no need to retread their work. But I certainly could go on about it for the length of a book. Might throw in spinning space stations while I'm at it.

#SFFChat Gotta be T. Kingfisher. I have learned so many fascinating things from her books.

#SFFChat Gotta be solar sailing. When I decided to write a solar sailing novel, my brother scoffed at me and said "that would never really work." Well proving my brother wrong has driven many achievements in my life and that was no exception.

#SFFChat I research *so* much. Possibly my favorite part of it. I start months before I actually begin writing, but sometimes the story ends up spurring further research so it never exactly ends. Research often gives me great ideas for the direction of the plot, as well as creating the world.

#SFFChat Hi, I'm the author of three solar sailing books and two about aliens! When I was a kid our favorite library was built on a bridge across a river. So I would go to the reading nooks by the windows and stare out at the river below. At the right time of year I could watch migrating salmon.

I learned about "Mantasy" the other day and while I love the idea of pointing out that what men like is not "standard".... OH MY GOD stop gendering reading!!! I think that books written to appeal to only one gender are flatter and worse.

This is your warning to get out of Amazon's closed ecosystem when you get a chance, or don't get in it. What I have now is a Kobo. But I kind of want one of the Boox ones—you can download any ereader app, just like you can on your phone. I haven't seen another brand that does that.

I blame "queer" being a genre, and becoming synonymous with romance. Can we EXIST and it's just normal???

In that mood where I want something to read but not any of the things I already own. What have you got that's: -thought provoking -deeply worldbuilt -sci-fi and/or -a completely bonkers premise? Bonus if it's on Kobo Plus!

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

A great review for Black Sails to Sunward today from an #SPSFC judge. davedobsonbooks.com/spsfc5-quart... "Rather than a hard-sci-fi approach as in The Expanse, this threw in elements of British naval stories like Master and Commander along with regency romance.

I really wish the world weren't so loud. I moved to the country to get away from the constant noise, only to find they're having a building boom here and bulldozing all the woods around to put in more houses 😭 Guess everybody had the same idea at once.

I'm in this bundle for autism month 🔥 I decided to submit Bisection because it's my most autistic book. All the aliens, as well as the one human in the main cast, are intended to be ND in some way or other. itch.io/b/3598/autis...

The nice thing about never using AI is that I will never be in a scenario where I have to argue that MAYBE I'm just a terrible writer who wrote it myself. "Sure it's derivative and the style is bland and I used the same word 300 times, but I COULD have sucked that bad on my own!"

As well as casting doubts on all of us, in the hopes that readers will believe we're all using it and therefore it makes no difference what they choose to read. Nope, tons of real human writing is getting published every day. Good stuff, with heart. We don't need slop.

Hi Kira and #AprilWorldbuilders! The city of Landing is the capital of Mars, so named because it was where the first colonists landed. It's centuries old, starting out in underground bunkers and built up from there when the terraforming was completed.

For #TDoV I'd like to post some mini-reviews of SFF books by trans and non-binary authors! Some of these may include trans and non-binary characters, but not all. Starting with the incredible @poopraven.bsky.social who not only writes amazing urban fantasy, but is also wonderful to know IRL!