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Today's subscription drive theme is Really Long Titles for small wonders! These are a reminder that for poetry and flash fiction, titles can do a lot of heavy lifting. Also, they're fun. You know what's not a heavy lift and is also fun? Subscribing! store.smallwondersma... 1/20

We're up to 222 pre-launch followers -- a very pleasing number! My pie-in-the-sky dream is 250 by the time we go live. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

Not long now until the debut of LADY TRENT'S FIELD JOURNAL! One reward tier is limited quantity, so if you want a crack at that, be sure to sign up to be notified on launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

That thing you have a streak of 500+ days in? Whatever habit you were trying to build, you have built it. *Break your streak.* Unshackle yourself from the terror of "if I break it now I'll lose All That Work." No. You've gotten what you needed from it. Be free.

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Not long now until the debut of LADY TRENT'S FIELD JOURNAL! One reward tier is limited quantity, so if you want a crack at that, be sure to sign up to be notified on launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

For folks interested, Goodreads is doing an e-book givaway for The Eye of Leviathan! Sign up here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Hey, did you know we're doing a subscription drive right now? It's true! Subscribe now, and get access to the subscriber's corner on our shiny discord, stories and poems in your inbox on the regular, and the joy of supporting poetry and short fiction! store.smallwondersma...

Just sold my twentieth poem! 🎉 Next landmark to pass: more poems than novels . . . (They're a hell of a lot faster to write, so it shouldn't take all that long.)

One week left to nominate! Poetry recs further down in the same thread! #Hugos #HugoAwards

A toxic new trend? Put it in crossword puzzles -- Instantly passé #senryu #sharepoetry

Finally, I should mention that the pattern deck *itself* is eligible for a Hugo Award, under the umbrella category of "related work." Should you wish to get one for yourself, you can do so here! #HugoAwards #Hugos pattern-deck.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

And @emiko-ogasawara.bsky.social/Emiko Ogasawara's design for the card back links the spindle, shuttle, and shears of the deck's three suits together with the thread of fate. Eligible in the fan artist category! (To be clear, that's due to other factors, not art quality.) 4- #HugoAwards #Hugos

@aliellkok.bsky.social/Avery Liell-Kok's Faces and Masks -- think court card/Major Arcana -- are gorgeous watercolors whose "blind contour" technique creates a shifting, overlapping look that perfectly fits the dream magic of Vraszan. Also pro eligible, near as I can tell! 3- #HugoAwards #Hugos

@blueludebar.com/A.C. Esguerra's cards are an intricate series of repeated motifs, compositional layouts, and color groupings that help link them together across the suits. As best as I can navigate the byzantine rules, they are eligible in the pro category! 2- #HugoAwards #Hugos

One week left to nominate! Poetry recs further down in the same thread! #Hugos #HugoAwards

Edward Willett is working to revive the beloved @onspecmag.bsky.social as an anthology series! www.kickstarter.com/projects/edw...

I've highly enjoyed the @macarrick.bsky.social trilogy (as well as the solo work of @alychelms.bsky.social and @swantower.bsky.social ). So I am extremely excited for their new series.

CALL TO ACTION: The Pixel Project's Read For Pixels fundraiser has a few bookish treats available from Subterranean Press, Libba Bray, and Angela Slatter for book collectors who support stopping #VAW. For more details and to donate, visit our fundraising page: tinyurl.com/R4PRallyUpIW...

Lady Trent's Field Journal will be going live in a few weeks, so sign up here to find out as soon as it does! 4/4 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

And then we have the newcomers! The Svaltansk linnorm, bark mites of Mpiany, and painted desert devil of Dek'usna have all been created for this book, as has the Sogope prairie-wing seen in the banner. I had *fun* brainstorming what interesting biological features they demonstrate! 3/-

Others have been mentioned in the novels or short stories before, like the kukulkan, but never depicted: the Yelangese hok tsung lêng, the meteor dragon of northern Otholé, and the Bulskoi wyvern. 2/-

Pre-launch followers are going strong! Now seems like a dandy time to talk about what you'll find in Lady Trent's Field Journal. Some of the dragons in here are familiar friends, like honeyseekers, sea serpent, and a comparison between the quetzalcoatl and (previously unseen) related kukulkan. 1/-

The recording of my Starburst poetry reading can now be watched on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xesq...

The Locus 2026 Annual Fundraiser is now live!! Visit http://locusmag.com/... or the link in our bio to donate and receive fantastic perks like out-of-print collector's editions, toys, chats with authors, signed books, writing advice, tuckerizations, and so much more.

Pre-launch followers are going strong! Now seems like a dandy time to talk about what you'll find in Lady Trent's Field Journal. Some of the dragons in here are familiar friends, like honeyseekers, sea serpent, and a comparison between the quetzalcoatl and (previously unseen) related kukulkan. 1/-

HUGE CONGRATS to the inaugural Nebula poetry nominees! @mariness.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @caseyaimer.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @nytebird45.bsky.social and I think maybe @directorh.bsky.social might be the right username for Jamal Hodge?

Coming up in a little over an hour! www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-...

Coming up in a little over an hour! www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-...

I'll have a newsletter going out this Sunday -- with a bonus poem included! Sign up here: www.swantower.com/newsletter/

#Booksky! Today is RELEASE DAY for BONE & BLOOD! There is a story of a widow & her two daughters, Snow White and Rose Red, the most perfect & darling little girls who had ever lived. This is not—quite—that story. I'm so proud of this one, guys! Please RT! :) www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Hey, we're just one away from 100 pre-launch followers! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

Some additional details about the project are now up on my site! www.swantower.com/2026/03/11/i...

I'll have a newsletter going out this Sunday -- with a bonus poem included! Sign up here: www.swantower.com/newsletter/

For those overseas from me: this will include a digital delivery option! Usable for either printing your own sheets, or coloring them on a tablet.

In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo

For those overseas from me: this will include a digital delivery option! Usable for either printing your own sheets, or coloring them on a tablet.

TONIGHT! I hope to see some of you there!

the #HugoAwards nominations are open and i am eligible (???!!) in the Pro Artist category for the tarot / oracle cards i illustrated. if you enjoyed the ROOK & ROSE trilogy, please nominate us and/or spread the word! #Hugos #SFF #illustration

Every time I see an SF story with the premise "the Earth is fucked so we have to go terraform somewhere else to live," I can't help but ask: why do we not use that technology to, y'know, terraform *where we already live* back to habitability?

<sigh> And now I also have to nuke spam comments on my AO3 fanfics. Thanks, AI!

In general I believe that workers of all kinds should be allowed and even mandated to take breaks, but it's particularly lovely when the roofers currently tearing the shingles off my house do so, because then I get a few blessed minutes of quiet.

I'm in here with a story written as a prize for a charity auction . . . which I finally wrote a decade *after* that auction; good thing the winner was a friend with a lot of patience 😅

18th-century version of "too many tabs open" 64.media.tumblr.com/764b09b53a4b...

After 12 years and editing close to a thousand different writers, I've learned there are two edits that will transform a perfectly pleasant human into a nearly homicidal figure: - Suggesting that a non-grammatical comma used as a pause could be cut. - Changing an American's use of "grey" to "gray."