If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Dear America, You are known around the world (for better or worse) as an unruly people. Get out there and prove it.

Props to Benjamin for sharing the details of his contract. Unfortunately no props to MRM because there's a lot of extremely outre stuff in here that I'd refuse to sign. Let's run it down. (Context: If you're negotiating a contract with Strange Horizons, I'm the person you're negotiating with.)

This week on Planetside… Curious how fantasy settings can reflect real Arab history and culture more accurately? @jdharlock.bsky.social offers fresh insight and practical tips in “Avoiding ‘Arab Land’ Stereotypes when Depicting the Premodern Arab World”: www.sfwa.org/2025/09/16/a...

Please check out @rsagarcia 's stories "Bishop's Opening" & "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" beamed directly into your ears! Here: locusmag.com/2025/09... or on our YouTube channel. https://rsagarcia.com/ for more of Garcia's work!

Book Release Day! Long List Anthology Volume 9 is now available in various ebook vendors for purchase! www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/

For a dream to be prophecy, it must come three times. This week, Reading the Weird dips into @nkjemisin.bsky.social short fiction collection "How Long 'Til Black Future Month?" for a story about hope, herbs, and horror grounded in the real world reactormag.com/reading-the-...

What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.

Loved seeing In Another Time Magazine listed under the "Magazines Received" section of @locusmag.bsky.social this month! Read more about the fabulous list of new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals here: locusmag.com/2025/07/maga...

Just accidentally deleted my old post about this while trying to re-share (don't post tired folks) so here it is again in case anyone wants to take a look. I have a story in this lovely magazine about grief, faeries and friendship and it's in some fab company. #shortstory #fantasy #sff

Are you troubled by strange notions in the night? Do you experience feelings of dread at your writing desk? Have you or your family actually seen a spook, specter or ghost? If the answer is yes, then don't wait another minute. Send your short stories to Perseid Prophecies! Submissions now open!

"War Without End, Part Two" explores a lot of time shenanigans...as well as answers to questions posed back in season one. @kradec.bsky.social is sur-Valen-ing (sorry, I had to) the situation and reporting back in detail for this week's Babylon 5 Rewatch! reactormag.com/babylon-5-re...

The Submission Grinder launched about twelve and a half years ago! In that time, 712,809 submissions have been recorded by 12,436 users. Of those, there were 42,894 acceptances have been recorded by 5169 of those users. So the overall acceptance rate of submissions records on the site is 6.0%.

Locus Mag, a non-profit org, has been an integral part of the California Bay Area SFF scene since 1973. We rely on readers, writers, and fellow science fiction fans to keep us going. And we have a Patreon for monthly support - check it out! patreon.com/locus

Issue 3 has been out for about a month now, and it's always fun looking at the sales data. For example, one day this past month someone in Spain bought a copy of Issue 2. Not the first issue, not the most recent issue. Issue 2. You get some intriguing data sometimes, and we'll most likely never

Hi! If you feel you need to withdraw a story from the Diabolical Plots submission queue for any reason, please be aware: 1. this is fine dont worry about it, truly! 2. please read the confirmation email! If no staff had voted on it yet you can submit something else in its place, email will say!

Its time to put on goggles, Its time to mask up right Its time to send your stories to Diabolical Plots tonight (in a week (parentheticals don't count against the right scheme right? (I am pretty sure)))

Every shelf deserves a copy, and everyone should definitely take a look!!

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

Greetings puny mortals, it is I, TOTO! I want to let you know that my summer reading list was likely vastly superior to yours bc I read #LocusMag, and therefore have a team of humans to select books from the best of the best. Curses! I let the secret out. locusmag.com

"Real bookworms read #Locus!" Treat yourself to a magazine that opens the door to the Science Fiction Fantasy Horror community. Get industry news and book stats, convention news and insider info, as well as author deep dives from a trusted source! locusmag.com

It's almost July, friends, which means: PodCastle will soon be OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS! General subs call, so: fantasy stories <6k, originals or reprints. You can send one of each at a time, and submit as soon as you're rejected, so get sending! escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...

Happy Summer Solstice everyone! You know what you can do to celebrate the longest day of the year (at least in this hemisphere)? Get yourself a copy of the 3rd issue of our magazine (links in thread), which is themed around "Illumination" this year...

Happy #Juneteenth! 🤎🙏🏾✊🏾

Want to keep #LocusMag thriving? It can be as easy as following us on YouTube or join our Patreon! Your support helps us bring amazing SFF content to readers everywhere: linktr.ee/locusmagazine#LocusMag

My job is doing a popcorn fundraiser if any of yall want to order and help out a good nonprofit thats facing severe cuts from this fascist administration: s.dgpopup.com/1pjb5y09

Have you gotten your copy of the 3rd issue yet?? Warning, they may come blessed by cats...

My latest writing news round-up. I cover my latest story to be published, the sale prices of 2 of my books, my 1st magazine art sale, & what's coming soon. Thanks. #WritingCommunity perpetualstateofmildpanic.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/j...

Issue 3 is now available! What to love about this issue of our magazine: It's now available both on Amazon AND Barnes & Nobles (links below) Wonderful stories by fantastic authors (some tagged below) Amazing cover art by @moravianart.bsky.social Fabulous interview with @lollardfish.bsky.social

So this gif feels very relevant for many reasons this year around... have we mentioned there's only one more day until our third issue is released!?

We officially only have two more days until Issue 3 is Live at Amazon and Barnes & Nobles! Unofficially the Kindle version is already live and someone (or someones?) has read 59 pages already. We love to see the enthusiasm!

Important Update: I have illustrated the Diabolical Plots submission window announcement. (the announcement has not changed, the update is just the illustration) I may take a better picture in better lighting later. this took me about 45 minutes to draw.

We got the proofs, everything looks fabulous, so we're getting ready to list the magazine through Amazon/Barnes & Nobles. Countdown is starting now for 3 days. Mark your calendars, June 14th is the launch date for Issue 3 of In Another Time Magazine!

It's that very special time of year!

Ducklings learning to chase bugs. You’re welcome.

Anyone ever seen the Suzy Eddie Izzard skit about trying to use a printer? Over here at IAT we're in the final stages of uploading our magazine to Barnes & Nobles/Amazon, and we're not going to say which one, but one of the E-Book editors is... diabolical... very reminiscent of this skit!

Hey! Did you know we have a drabble contest running RIGHT NOW themed around Jason Sanford's WE WHO HUNT ALEXANDERS?? Would YOU like to write about bad men going to your own personal Super Hell? Then check out the details in the thread below! Submissions close on the 20th!

So, in your head, do your characters have a full wardrobe or are they like cartoon characters where they just wear the same outfit every day?

We're going through the steps now to get set up to sell our magazine through Barnes & Nobles, and not just Amazon this year! Anyone else sell through B&N, or tend to order books through them?

The submission window for our special issue on environmental justice amid war and conflict, IT WAS PARADISE, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, closes this month, June 22nd!

Happy Pride Month to all my beautiful friends.

Hey Bluesky! 👋 We're Tractor Beam, a quarterly fiction publication dedicated to soilpunk: radical visions of hopeful futures built from the ground up. 🌍 ⬆️

Your brain lies and they aren't perfect in there, it just glosses over the rough parts. Never expect the version that comes out of your fingers to be the same as the one in your brain. But one that comes out of your fingers can be differently great. Work on it.

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” Terry Pratchett from I Shall Wear Midnight

THIS IS OUR LAST PUSH! We have 2 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a ways to go!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

Want a surprise stack of Locus in your mailbox? 📬 Get a Curated Magazine Flight (12 back issues!) when you support our fundraiser: igg.me/at/locusmag2025 ✨ Perks include box ads, mugs, e-bundles, and more!

I'm working on @apexmag.bsky.social issue 150 and I am so excited! This is the previously unpublished/unpaid authors issue that we funded through our last Kickstarter. We have 4 original short stories and two pieces of flash fiction from new authors!

St. George and the Dragon 30" x 20" Oil on Panel collection of Cat Conrad Program cover art from DragonCon 2010 and a demo on oil painting for the IMC. Had the honor of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art trying to purchase this when it appeared in the 'Enchanted' exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum.

This is my morning gift to Bluesky