$23, 480!!!

up to $14,600!! go go go!

A year's subscription (ebook format) for $25!

YOU'RE WELCOME I CAN'T WAIT TO READ IT 🎉🎉🎉

Some Magical Girls are ✨WOLVES✨

HELP THE DEADLANDS KEEP BRINGING US DEAD THINGS

THANK YOU TO ALL PATRONS THAT HELP KEEP US literally and figuratively ALIVE YOU ARE THE BEST YOU WILL HAVE UNBRUISED APPLES BIRDS WILL ALWAYS SING TO YOU A HERMIT CRAB WILL NEVER CLAMP YOUR EAR WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE OCEAN we love you like bones love osteogenic loading you make us stronger

Congratulations all!

I have made all of my Run With the Hunted covers, through sheer determination (and Canva) I paid my cousin to paint my Learn to Howl covers I bought premades/images for Between the Blood and the Sun, The Drowned Heir, and Burn Up in Victory I made the Exit Ghost cover in Canva it's possible!!!

I have no artistic skills whatsoever and designed four of my own covers! And it was awesome!

all of my art is either: deeply personal expression of emotion OR hey look at this cool monster

The peerless Supernatural Tales reviews STEAL ME: "smoothly takes the reader from the everyday to the plausibly weird"! suptales.blogspot.com/2026/07/stea...

the fuck

Here's the sort of "The Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF unsyllabus" I compiled from this thread as well as contributions from panelists Ann LeBlanc and Sonya Taeffe: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I turn 57 today. Last April, I published my first book of creative nonfiction, a researched memoir in essays. Never let anybody tell you it’s too late.

$23, 480!!!

Finally got around to to reading this (proof that, yes, "intermittent" reposting can be a useful nudge lo). Liked it :) in a way reminded me of the superhero genre: a deft layering of the silly with serious. The characters and their emotions are real even as they exist in an absurd reality.

khōréō is at $14,390 out of their $16500 goal with THREE DAYS left! Share! Donate and share! Let's get them there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Cake in the con suite. 7pm-8pm tonight at @readercon.bsky.social #readercon

Just a little over $2000 to go before we're FULLY FUNDED! We're down to the wire folks, with about three days to go, so let's get this over the hump and across the finish line! 🙌

Mama deer with her twins are hanging out just behind my fence 🥰 (And I noticed before the puppy, so I brought him inside without any of them moving)

This IS my birthday week, btw. Buying a copy of Sundowner’s would be an amazing “gift”—just saying :)

Were my career sufficiently in decline that even specialty presses were now sending me rejection letters, I would crowd-fund my self-publishing endeavors and make high-quality original cover art one of the sales points for the last seventy people who cared about my work.

Charles de Lint has responded to the questions about his AI cover on FB. It boils down to "while it's bad the tool was created through theft, I'm still using it" which is ... not great. If artists are not going to stand with other artists, no one will. Highly disappointing.

I knew this because a hundred people have sent me this from tumblr. Congrats on your good grade Mattie :)

*pinches bridge of nose, eyes closed, takes a deep breath* so do we have ANY idea how many living US Senators there are right now?

there's a discussion in the first scene of the first Run With the Hunted where this is how some fish are farmed!

Finally finished Siege of Burning Grass from @premeemohamed.com. Amazing storytelling, building up a strange world and desperate/determined people and inviting reader into it. Was a hard read for me — took me months. Desc of the war and its consequences too easy to map to too many current events.

Me, recommending media: Check this out Friend: Is it good? Me: Not in the way most people use the definition but you should still engage with it.

wife: how’s the diet going me: [entering a lunch consisting solely of jalapeño cheetos into my fitness tracker while mcdonald’s names a sandwich after me] it’s been worse

once a month someone sends me this game and says "have you seen this" and I have to look up, haggard, with ink stained hands, and say 'yes i made it'

Monday Marketing!

holy gosh!!!! The Death of Mountains won the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social for Best Novella!!!! thanks so much to the judges, to @lethepress.bsky.social for making this book a reality, and @ceciliatan.com for being there in person to read my speech!! all told, Death of Mountains did a very good job

BURN UP IN VICTORY is one of my least-reviewed books, so if you've read it and you get a chance, can you drop some stars and some words on Goodreads/Amazon/Storygraph/etched on a blade to send your rival? 🔥⚔️🔥

I had my coworker 3d print a book cart for me, and little book blocks, and then I (badly) glued my book's covers onto them

Ex-debutante. Single mother. Treasure hunter. Part of Kobo's CA/US summer sale, get Livi Talbot's first adventure for $1.99 www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/... My direct store sales page: payhip.com/skyladawncam... (Price-match coming elsewhere varying by store/region) books2read.com/solomon-s-seal

Wolf and it's not close! Dragonfly outpaces her a couple of times through subterfuge or plays of emotion, but in terms of sheer speed, power, and martial prowess, Wolf could kill anyone else I've ever written on a level playing field. Unfortunately she is also fatalist bordering on suicidal.

Dolly.

CONGRATULATIONS TO NADIA BULKIN FOR WINNING A SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD FOR HER COLLECTION, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY! WE ARE SO INCREDIBLY PLEASED!!! HELL YES!!! AHHHHHH! @nadiabulkin.bsky.social

NADIA BULKIN FOREVER. GHOULISH BOOKS FOREVER. FUCK YES.

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THREE DAYS

For just some reason I feel like reposting my short fantasy story about a wrathful young woman living through a historical ecological collapse and it’s entirely human written! Guess we can’t all be as compelling as the plagiarism machine! Lmao ! www.baublesfrombones.com/westward-i-r...

update: no, it does not go together with that other story, it has legs on its own and that other story is taking shape as something with a different tone/goal

HELLO I hope we can get Strange Horizons to their stretch goals! (My novelette BY SALT, BY SEA, BY LIGHT OF STARS was a crowdfunding reward a while back and it ended up winning a Locus award! I love Strange Horizons!) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

This amazing magazine is a mere 2k short of their goal to fund another year. If you've got a few bucks to support a wonderful SFF publication, please do so! #booksky #sff

Oops I meant 3k. Silly typos. Still very close, with a few more days to go! Let's get 'em there!