My loins are so girded!

It's book launching time! On February 25, join us at Powells Books on Burnside at 7pm to celebrate our first title The Rain Artist with Felicity and C.R. Foster. The event is free! powells.com/events-update

Read # 4 for the year will be Kayli Scholtz’s St. Grit from @ghoulish.bsky.social in eBook form. I was fortunate to read an early draft of this one and I have a story alongside one of Kayli’s in the Nightmare Diaries anthology coming later this year from @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social, so here we go.

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If you need inspiration as you toil, this account of mRNA scientist Katalin Karikó is wonderful. #STS www.glamour.com/story/katali...

I don’t think of myself as a “snowbird” just because I leave town in winter - I prefer to think of it as being Snufkin-coded.

If you are a creative writer you likely don't want stock suggestions for your prose / verse coming from a computer's operating system. If you use Scrivener, uncheck this box (as well as others) for a less invasive writing experience. Scrivener 3.3.6 here on MacOS Sonoma 14.1.

What’s in your bedside book-stack?

And if the earth no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I’m flowing. To the flashing water say: I am. XXIX the finale of The Orpheus Sonnets Rilke tr Mitchell

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Fall in the Pacific Northwest

HBD Womble! 🍰

The Sonnets of Orpheus XXVII Rilke tr Mitchell Are we really as fate keeps trying to convince us, weak and brittle in an alien world?

What happens after we read your submission? Here are the 5 steps from review to acquisition 🌈📚 www.moonstruck-books.com/blog/5-steps...

In an effort to keep Bluesky more intelligent and humane than certain other platforms, we’ve been donating invite codes to scientists and academics. If you’ve got an extra, consider giving it to someone in the field! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New today on the site: Celia Mattison’s “Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western”

Art for the (printable) November calendar

"The research revealed that sea stars have a headlike territory in the center of each "arm" and a tail-like region along the perimeter. In an unexpected twist, no part of the sea star ectoderm expresses a "trunk" genetic patterning program, suggesting that sea stars are mostly headlike."

it's November and so I feel justified in asking this question: what are some of the best gifts characters in SFF have given to others, or been given themselves?

Co-sign. This is one of many reasons we made our open call for anthology submissions so long! Quality takes time.

"It's as if movies answer an ancient quest for the common unconscious. They fulfill a spiritual need that people have to share a common memory." - Martin Scorsese

Hello, November 🍂

Platonic soup ideal 🍜

You’ve seen the dog outside of town, lying where the witches were buried.

💥!!!Ebooks!!!💥 available at our website, Smashwords, & Ama$on. Read Tamil, Urdu, and Hausa pulp/ crime/ horror/ romance/ thriller/ scifi stories in English translation, folktales from the state of Mizoram, weird stories about kleptomaniac gentoo penguins, and more www.blaft.com/collections/...

Them: “Cute costume! Me, covered in bloody runes and black feathers, hovering four inches off the floor, finally free: “Thanks!”

“The sleep of reason produced monsters.” —Elizabeth Mavor, A Green Equinox

Evergreen advice 🌲

Today, is a @premeemohamed.com day! As each day should. Here's a great review of NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US. "If you like Lovecraftian elder gods, alternate history, dark science fiction or gothic tales set in elegant, decadent worlds of decay and corruption, check this one out." bit.ly/3SePwP8

Contract day is the BEST day 😍🥰

Biggest honor - guy who works at a meatpacking plant read my slaughterhouse story, "Their Souls Climb the Room," and I got the details down well enough that he asked what plant I worked at. That's some nerd-writer praise right there. inkheist.com/2020/01/08/f...

Hi! If you want to read @tiffmorris.bsky.social's Indigenous swampcore horror novella before its Halloween release, you can get a copy directly from us. Download links are now active and you will get the book immediately. Our ebooks are always on sale! www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...

"So holier-than-thou" first of all do not address me in the nominative informal

Standing up from reading a novel on my phone and looking all over the room for my phone

Today: responding to submissions. The amount of sheer talent in the queue is awe-inspiring 🤩💫

How to tell if your community is healthy (or kind of f*cked up) 🌈📚 www.moonstruck-books.com/blog/communi...

To respond is human—to block, divine.

The Sonnets to Orpheus XII. Rilke tr Mitchell Isn’t your sound protected from all static

𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦—Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Urban Stories Noisy, crowded, ever in motion, the City can be more than a setting—it can be a character, as nuanced and as fickle as a human being... Submission details ➡️ bit.ly/45Z4v3H (1/5)

Some thoughts on white supremacy in indie publishing (and how to push back) 🌈📚 www.moonstruck-books.com/blog/the-fif...

We love to see an intersectional collab! Especially this gorgeous one!

For curious minds who wonder: This book cover was created over 100 hours by a nonbinary graphic designer and a Singaporean woman artist using archival and digital elements as well as design software. It was made by humans who were paid for their labor. ☔️

A submission call for TEEN writers of sci-fi poetry, short stories, and STEM-related essays, from @writepittsburgh.bsky.social. Open through 10/31. www.starryfalselily.com/fall2023

Dark and dystopian—but ultimately hopeful—this trans author’s debut novel is an unforgettable read. Learn more: www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/rain-...

Another 5-star review for The Rain Artist! If you’re on NetGalley, you can read an advance copy. 🌈📚 #bookreviewers

Please welcome—The Rain Artist ☔️ www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/rain-...

This is an incredible anthology!