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also if you think to yourself 'DANG i could never just say that my book is good and people should get it, seems a little self centered'... GOOD. center yourself buckaroo, you deserve it. YOUR BOOK IS GREAT. YOU ARE THE INCREDIBLE PRODUCT OF A THOUSAND CRASHING STARS. THE CENTER HAS ROOM FOR EVERYONE

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

The Idaho state legislature just passed a full trans bathroom ban with felony charges that applies to all public bathrooms in the state. It heads to the governors desk.

1. Idaho has passed the most extreme anti-trans law in the nation, a bathroom ban. The second offense would be 5 years in jail, and the 4th offense could lead to life in prison due to Idaho's 3 strikes law. It now heads to Governor Brad Little's desk. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well.”

no i am aware that im the worlds greatest author so it would be a huge determent to the world if i did not share my art. youre welcome world. what is just as cool is that YOU are also the worlds greatest author, or artist, or chef, or painter, or dancer. whatever you want to be. so share

Hugo Nominations close Saturday, March 28, 2026, 09:00 AM PDT! Remember to send in your ballots (and share what you submitted)!

This is Tokyo. She got parvovirus and developed a complication where the intestines fold into themselves, causing a life-threatening obstruction. She needed surgery to remove 6 inches of intestines and supportive care to survive. You can help us cover her extensive care below ❤️‍🩹 1510.fan/tokyo-bsd

If you see someone with the handle KindleBookPromo, block them. Ignore them. Definitely do not use the site or give them money. Alwin Gnanaraj is listed as operator and he's a well known scammer. You will not get the exposure or services you paid for.

When ur about to drag a shipful of sailors down to Davy Jones’s locker and u remember u left the oven on.

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

I have 3 dollars to my name, and payday is two weeks away. Please help. Anything can help my family remain fed and housed. www.paypal.me/devyntheauthor #mutualaid #helpsky

It’s Uni’s 6th birthday today! 🎉 Say “happy birthday Uni!”

yeah, i will be honest and it may come as a surprise but i don’t like this idaho bill one bit.

Beatrice is no longer my cat (I had to give her up when I moved to Thailand), but I just re-discovered this picture of her looking at me, and it makes me miss her so much. #CatsofBluesky

This is the issue with the US education system in a nutshell, folks. We are so busy evaluating mistakes and teaching to tests that teachers have no room to actually TEACH. And teaching, at its core, is all about recognizing differences in learning styles and needs and actively adopting to that.

Here's what's going to happen: every woman, cis, trans, intersex, will have to undergo a humiliating test for a specific gene. A non-trivial number of women who have lived as women for their entire lives will find themselves labelled as "not women" because biology is more complicated than one gene.

If you know trans kids or adults, anything you can do to support them right now is going to go such a long way. I am sure I’m preaching to the choir as I post this, but governments all over the world are trying to make trans folks disappear in many ways, so letting people know you care is important.

This is not a case of separating the art from the artist because the art DOES NOT MATTER. I do not care about whether or not it’s the greatest work ever written, you’re LITERALLY COMPLICIT IN HER CHILD-MURDERING AGENDA if you give her a penny.

He writes 8 solid hours a day five days a week and has a staff of 35. Someone cleans his house, makes his meals, handles his admin, and does his laundry. One cannot compare oneself to Sanderson levels of output 😆

When in doubt, go by this rule of thumb: if this or anything else were actually a competitive advantage, the Russians would have had countless athletes doing it already

Making female athletes take sex tests but not male athletes is all the proof you need that at its core, transphobia is also misogyny. It’s the same fight.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Frank Herbert's Dune

There were enough reasons to never, ever use generative AI from day one—environmental damage and plagiarism-on-demand alone; stop treating it like it’s your assistant, your confidante, your plaything, seriously, STOP—but if you need a political reason to help you quit, a compelling one just dropped:

Lets do a promo day! If you're a trans author then share your work here and tell people how best to support it :) #WritingPrompt

so funny when people get all upset about genres that other people DARE to enjoy. these big think pieces about ROMANTASY or COZY HORROR or DARK ACADEMIA and how dang upset they make the writer of the article. bud who cares what other people like youll be fine. let people read their books oh my god

Is this a good time to once again repost this Something Positive strip that Dear Uncle Randy made a few years back? Answer: Unfortunately, it is. It shouldn't have to be, but it is.

I don't want the kind of love they call a drug, to tear each other down just so we can get high again. I want to build something so incredible it #frustrates the gods. If getting close feels perilous, then we must get even closer; like pyramid stones, so close a blade can't pass between us. #vss365

The United Nations have overwhelmingly voted against considering a proposal from the United States that would ask UN member states to define “gender” as referring only to men and women. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/24/u...

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

a collection of 2026 debut books by trans and nonbinary authors, and authors with other non-cisgender identities

Clan of the Cave Bear. As an adult, I see how the Earth's Children series piqued my love of the prehistoric, the thought experiment of "what if?". But as a kid the rape in Clan of the Cave Bear was hard to process. My mom, who forbade me from reading the books, never talked to me about it. 😞

Wtf shuttering digital humanities? In this economy? No, seriously. We need people who are digital media literate more than ever.

Somebody to Love 💕

This senior pup was spotted all snuggled up for a snooze. The walker in the background suggests their human might also be a senior, and we can't stop thinking about how they still kindly laid out a blanket for their pup. So glad they have each other in their golden years. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

Oh this is a really important win. So you know people who use AI generated images and then copy that as a physical painting? This means that as it has no copyright protection (because AI does not), if it's too similar to the existing art AI ripped off, it is easier to fight back legally.

Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of PYR established in 1961, has been closed, resulting in a number of layoffs and moves within the division. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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I got asked about “tropes” in an interview yesterday and I said what I always say: “The word tropes is where joy goes to die.”

2026 PEN America Finalists locusmag.com/2026/03...

friend: how long is that book you're writing? me: oh, about 90,000 words. friend: okay, but how much is that in pages? me: what the hell are you talking about?