Hello all✨ A little preview of the rest of the cover! A variety of stories packed into our first volume from a variety of authors across the globe! Releasing on the 30th of June (22days!!) you can grab your copy from Amazon soon!✨ #coverart #coverreveal #writercommunity #novel #writers

It's Pride! Follow trans writers before we're all banned go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

Nightwish cover of the Phantom of the Opera.

FINALLY I can announce the author line-up for the FIRST EVER We Write at Dawn Anthology!! 🥳 We have a truly incredible group of writers who contributed to the anthology, and I can't wait for you all to read it!! P.S. When you see the cover made by @augustsstudio.bsky.social you are going to DIE.

If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it. "You and your sad little lifespan. This temple you stand in, this city you think ancient, this empire I've tended from infancy - such things take time to build and grow. Yet you presume to call me hasty. I am nothing if not patient."

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

I went down a rabbit hole learning about rice, does anyone want a big rambling thread about rice?

Dune Cat Budget Version

I can't remember if the discussion was here or on discord, but someone was asking about gender demographics of bookstore customers. Today I was in a chain bookstore in my local mall, on a Saturday afternoon. There was a mix of ages and genders. Lots of people looking for new books to read.

How about

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Oblivion. It was buggy, there were like 4 voice actors for all of the NPCs, and there weren't really any choices win consequences, so I don't think it's even a true RPG. However, I sank tons of time into it and had fun.

I picked these up at Armageddon Expo (a comicon / pop culture type event in New Zealand). Haven't read any of these authors before.

Not me, laughing at this for 10 minutes straight.

They are playing my jams at the car mechanic.

Do people not know that they did not speak English in ancient Rome and ancient Greece?

Moth, bug, crab, frog (run over), bat, sailing ship on a bear pelt, snake eating money, bug, Eiffel tower

me, after coming up with a revolutionary idea and then immediately forgetting it for ever

How dare

May the 4th be with you, and happy revenge of the 5th!

This is what Harrow will wear after she usurps the throne from John Gaius.

how it feels to be hyperfixated on your own ocs

Oh, nothing special. Just the climactic scenes of the book I've been working on for years.

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Die of a kidney infection by age 20, probably.

Jousting is hard work 💋⚔️ #art #illustration #knight

I've seen it on The Expanse.

🌟 THE DIVINE RITUALS 🌟 ⚔️ A bronze age adventure to attack and dethrone god! ⚔️ ✨ Magic as science ✨ Heroes on a journey (but not a hero's journey) ✨ Ancient people doing even more ancient archaeology ✨ Melting pot city states ✨ Oh no, the god emperor is hot ✨ Horse #QuestPit #A #F #W

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Be great to see Worldcon over this side of the world *not* during a global pandemic which meant the in-person event didn't go ahead (which was what happened to Wellington in 2020). If you're in spec fic spaces, give Brisbane in 28 a follow; if you're a Worldcon site voter this year, vote Brisbane!

I honestly don't remember. I watched a lot of movies and was quite desensitised. I remember my friends being scared, but I felt very little. I did scream out loud in the theater when the alien head popped open in Independence Day. So I am clearly vulnerable to jump scares 😅

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

"You're right, it was my bad. I knew the first law of robots said I'm not supposed to harm humans. I saw the warning light for low oxygen, but the oxygen levels were normal, so I turned the O2 down so it matched the warning light. I should've checked for a malfunction in the warning system. Oops!"

Introducing, coming to Winnipeg this summer: Other Places Books. A bookstore specializing in science fiction and fantasy. opbooks.store

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character(s). Wrong answers only.

Good guy Dafyd says no to writing with AI

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

This is how I picture Mors Brandegor

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

its unfortunate that artists get talked out of their rare perspectives so often. ‘its just not done that way’ someone says and artist goes ‘oh okay guess ill sand that part off.’ bud that is your SPARK. so much of my success is from holding firm on the things i do that were called ridiculous

Neuromuncher, that should be. Weekly podcast wherein I describe my favorite snacks and local snackeries.

I don't know who Mr. Beast is, and at this point, I'm too afraid to ask.

This is, in fact, how people who "write well"* with AI do it. It's all shuffling between models until something passable comes out. * According to their own claims.

In a world where "AI" submissions are a plague, human-written stories are the cure for an editor's breaking heart. Don't let the flood discourage you from sending your work out there. You are better, no what the hype of the moment says. We want your stories. Not the slop-infested noise.

Got my copy today. I got so anxious reading The Mercy of Gods that I had a full night of insomnia, so for this one, I need to find a time when I can read it in one sitting.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

working on stuff

guys, this is how you lose the time war