POV you're the innocent, sleepy drummer of an unsigned indie band and the guitarist has just convinced a fourth dude you guys knew in high school to join the band. wait why are they looking at you like that, was it something you said 🎸 Latest update: keepingtimecomic.com 🎸Start from the beginning

Little Sunfish

Ready to continue an adventure? Look no further. The second-in-a-series bundles is here! "The Wish of a Dragon" included! Check it out here: itch.io/b/3359/conti... and give it some love! 📚🪐📚💙📚💫

It's the first Friday of the month, which means my new Queer Romances post is up on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books! smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/11/nove...

Being done.

If you have even the slightest respect for your own work, don't touch this with a ten foot pole.

Well, as the monster is inside Otar...a gun wouldn't have made a difference. Also all the people around him would have firmly taken it away because, uuuh, he is a trouble magnet...

So many of us started writing because we loved to read, but it's so easy to put reading aside when writing becomes a business. I learned the hard way that I needed to read more for my mental health! Thanks to @blog.readindiefantasy.com for hosting A Month of Rain and Reads! #AMoRaR #writesky 💙🪐📚

It's Friday afternoon in A Month of Rain & Reads, and after a foggy morning, it's time for an interview. This time, we hear from author and game creator Dave Dobson (@davedobson.bsky.social) about the challenges of writing bios. www.readindiefantasy.com/amorar-inter... #AMoRaR #BookSky

Daily Challenge 7: The Long Haul - Share a series you enjoyed. Reply or repost with your answer to enter, and remember to include the tag #AMoRaR

Today we're also celebrating the release of Apt To Be Suspicious by @celialake.bsky.social! The second book in the Liminal Mysteries series that explores the magical community of Britain after the Second World War: www.readindiefantasy.com/a-spotlight-...

🐺 A downtrodden ex-soldier. 🦭 A lost inn-owner. ❤️ Blossoming feelings. 🗡️ A dead body. 🏝️ An island, where justice is deadly. Selkie x werewolf Urban fantasy! Buy direct: tinyurl.com/DPPSalt duckprintspress.itch.io/the-salt-in-... GR: tinyurl.com/ys57r2rm TSG: tinyurl.com/2shv5aed 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

It's not your recycling that's the problem nor those few miles you drove into town for your shopping. These are the bastards to blame for where we are.

Stripe does not get enough shit, like Mastercard and Paypal receive the bulk of the ire because, well, they’re the biggest processors, but in the indie scene Stripe have been especially harmful, and deserve just as much flak.

A reminder: AI is a bad translator--it will give you in a pinch the meaning (if it doesn't get hopelessly confused) , but i will not create something that reads like a book. That's why we have professionals. (And everyone who's reread ai translations knows that it's faster going to rewrite them)

New flash fiction: A Murmuration of Starlings, 300 words. A wandering knight witnesses an omen foretelling the death of a king, and is glad for it. "A witch could tell him the starlings’ secrets, but he had been alone for days, and the land around him was empty." www.patreon.com/posts/murmur...

I mean yeah. In EU a lot of things that Mamdani is aiming for exist for a long time. And it's literally a normal Tuesday. It feels so weird to see right wing americans panic about it.

This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals. I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons. We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely! imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb

I know this won't last but these numbers make me proud. I've worked very hard to become a better writer and people take see the results with my lastest release <3 I'm proud of past me. You did the work and it shows. Read what others are saying: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

COMMON BONDS lovers, you can get even more of the good stuff. An entire anthology of short stories and poems that have: 💚 science fiction and fantasy 💚 aromantic MCs 💚 a focus on platonic relationships! Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla... 🌈📚

From the Guardian. Cartoonist Ella Baron.

Luiza quer aventuras, Amara só quer ela sã e salva em casa. 🔮 Bruxas queer 🪐 Viagem espacial 💚 Relacionamento Queerplatônico ✨ Magia! Capa pelo Ren Nolasco 🌈📚 💙📚 📢📚 maybarros.com.br/journey-home

This will be your LAST CHANCE OF 2025 to get signed books directly from me - and you can get murdered on site too! I hope to see some of you there!

I just saw "if you don't buy it, they won't sell it" and I'm just... I didn't buy it, bosses & companies buy it and shove it in everything we use, force it alongside the features we need. My government is buying it, wasting billions in its bullshit. I wanted none of it, yet I am saddled with it.

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

The good news: KS is very open about what can happen, and they still approved the project. The bad new: Stripe can at any point withhold owed money. They are essentially stealing. Today its an nsfw project, tomorrow a queer one, and after?

The biggest thing i've learned as an artist who sells prints and merch is don't make what people ask for. They won't buy it. Make what you, the artist, want to see printed on the support of ur choice. I can't explain why but THAT'S what will sell. People who buy the most are the silent ones. 🫶

Anime, VTubing, adult content, table top, and videos games. So basically, anything fun is "high fraud risk". Got a complaint? Here's a list of their numbers. And a couple helpful links to contact other paypros. #SaveSpeech #StopPayPros stop-paypros.neocities.org anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

I'm raising money for the Fuquay-Varina Emergency Food Pantry, a food bank that kept me fed as a kid. $1 for every $5 spent in my direct store goes straight to them! Come check it out!

Daily Challenge 6: Quest or Cozy - Will you wander outside or rather stay inside? Tell us which you would prefer, but also feel free to share indie books which fit your idea of this prompt! Reply or repost with your answer to enter, and remember to include the tag #AMoRaR

We're starting the day with a fantastic guest post by @angelaboord.bsky.social on the subject of how reading books can help with author burn out, and why we should be reading more: www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-h... #AMoRaR

While I enjoy nice weather, being able to walk outside in a T-shirt in November where I live makes uncomfortable...but yeah there no climate change /s

Page of Swords

Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors! Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Unfortunately for Ashilde, this is her reality. And it is *not* easy. Want to found out how—or if—she overcomes this challenge? If so, then Blood Price, a self-published epic feminist fantasy novel, should be the next book on your TBR! #WriteSky #BookSky 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐

We've got another review for you today, and this is a fun one by @edpool.bsky.social as he reviews Shadecursed: The Bestiary Book One by @chaoskirin.art! www.readindiefantasy.com/amorar-book-... #AMoRaR

🚨 New Itch-io Bundle 🚨 Continue your adventure with this bundle of second-in-series books. This follows on from August's Start Your Adventure Bundle, so if you grabbed that, this is your next stop! 20 books, $19 including The Shadow of Arcadia! itch.io/b/3359/conti... 📦📚🩵 | 📢📚🪐

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

What you could win!

It's A Month of Rain & Reads, and it's time for another cat picture. This time, the cat picture comes joined by an interview with the cat's owner, Minneapolis-based Sci-Fi and Fantasy author Karen Lucia @karenlucia.bsky.social www.readindiefantasy.com/amorar-inter... #AMoRaR #BookSky

I read A Conspiracy of Truths by @alexandrarowland.bsky.social! 5 stars, recommended for fantasy readers who want elderly mcs, no romance, thematically relevant first-person narration, folklore, revolution to overthrow corrupt governments of declining countries, and a little bit of magic.

Re indie marketing scams: if someone is asking you if they can review your book, they want money for it if they really loved it, they'd be posting about it without your permission

The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) and NGC 2023 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/rhRRAz

if you liked this great story about how zohran's campaign and youth outreach, you should 1) donate to the gofundme started by TV's laid-off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido... and 2) hire lex, who i genuinely believe is a generational talent as a politics writer

Otar's story continues in "The Wish of a Dragon"! Buy today! 🐲 dragons! in space! 🛣️ more roadtrip 🏛️ more ruins ⁉️ archaelogy! in space! ❤️ idiots in love Buy: tinyurl.com/ysxyvfk6 books2read.com/u/47p7XL TBR: GR: tinyurl.com/yc6a7xke TSG: tinyurl.com/ya34yu4w 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐

When you add your book title to an upcoming promo list and it auto-completes. (And yes I checked I had already added myself at some point 🤣)

Please could you spread this?

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England. Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions