it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀 buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon! please like + RT this to help spread the word psychopomp.com/the-deadland... behold!

authors - this is a good time to check and see if your books were registered for copyright. publicrecords.copyright.gov keep in mind that the responsibility varies by contract, sometimes the expectation is passed to the author. if you pub in different names, it could be under a different name....

DAY 4 of #DVParty, a community event to hype up work of Diverse Creators before our pitch event, #DVPit on October 8th, 2025! Any diverse creator can participate! Today's Prompt: Post your story as a meme or a gif! #booksky #writersky #artistsky For more info about #DVpit go to dvpit.carrd.co

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

Dead clients were terrible for business.

AUTHORS: It’s time to submit your claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement. 1. Look yourself up here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup 2. File your claim here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Form asks for ISBN and copyright reg # for each work. Can find in step 1.

Thank you, garlic book, for giving my entire timeline something new to lose its collective mind over.

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤

My writing career summed up in one image:

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

My first advice is: maybe don’t cold pitch people. Cold pitching is when you reply to someone’s post with whatever you’re offering. Bad vibes. Instead, talk to them about what they’re talking about and don’t mention your offer at all. People are here to talk to people, first and foremost.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

Today is #PreDV, the pitch practice event before #DVpit! Post your pitch drafts with #preDV from 8AM-8PM ET Post as many pitches or revisions as you need feedback on! Provide feedback for other participants on their pitches & make new friends! more info at dvpit.carrd.co #writersky

Done in five minutes on my phone so it looks terrible, but when you said Red vs Blue I couldn't resist. Forgive me.

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

That's right - new story out from me today, in The Sunday Morning Transport, about a certain restaurant in southwest Florida.... (warning: may contain marine biology jokes)

Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly

Current mental status: Tried to open the front door of my house with the car key clicky thing.

Interesting, well-thought out piece on writers and publishers. Even dwells a bit on the trickle down impact to indie presses. thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

querying authors, what are some things--like loglines or one-sentence pitches--that agents ask for and authors don't always know what to do with? please share for science and have this sibling blob for the cat tax

I've always been the one on the outside looking in So I made the interior of me As prismatic as it might be So that when I look inward I see all the cool things that Decorate me.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

I will be attending this workshop on Sunday! Please come join us!

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

It's day two of the "just got to hold on until the book check hits" sale! (A very publishing vibes sale indeed. LOL) We have 25% off everything in the shop as long as supplies last (I already emergency reprinted the clicky dumpsters!) Visit http://thebrokencirc...

I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I probably should post about this more because we could really use the help but also I would rather walk into traffic than ask for help most of the time, so you know, that's a thing. BUT! We have some ebook bundles & a few of our ebooks that aren't widely available!

hey @jimmykimmel.com you won your battle, for the moment, with a lot of help from the public, now pay it forward and have this woman on your show

If you're feeling like you want to support small and/or minority owned businesses as we deal with more and more unethical and awful behavior from major corporations, you can can great games from Coyote & Crow! Get them here: www.allplay.com/board-games/... #NativeSky #tabletop #ttrpg #rpg #games

I will be attending this workshop on Sunday! Please come join us!

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

When I had kidney stones during my third trimester of pregnancy with my oldest, the pain was so intense it sent me into premature labor. I spent the night at the hospital. Acetaminophen was the only pain reliever I could take. It still took hours for the contractions to stop.

As someone who is neurodiverse and on the spectrum, I have thoughts on that presidential big announcement about autism. Here we go! We've always been around. We'll always be here. Living, seeing, loving, dying. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/139553...

Curious why a standard picture book is 32 pages in traditional #KidLit trade publishing? And why NOT all 32 pages are for story content? In this #PictureBooks101 post, I explain picture book format & construction: debbieohi.com/2025/09/pict...

I have written a short story, and I still like it a week later!

The rally is giving me hope. The reviews by Hugo winning literary critics like @princejvstin.com fuel my belief. 1 hour 45 minutes left for the crowd funder. $823 to go.

💖 Hi~ I've recently been hired as Illustration & Creative Lead at The Story Division, helping publishers with graphic novel projects. I'm currently updating our artist database & looking for a wider range of art styles. Cartoonists: post sequentials, website, availability below. No DMs/emails plz!

Been talking to people quite a bit about how it's easy to understand "cancel Disney+!" but harder to understand the initial and bigger problem is with Nexstar and Sinclair, so lemme make it easier. Find your local Nexstar channel Find your local Sinclair channel

Whaaaat two recipe threads in a day? Gotta share because @alwayscoffee.bsky.social demanded it I tried making my own granola and it’s …amazeballs?!? Unexpected beginner’s success! WHICH MEANS YOU CAN DO IT TOO Except if you have nut allergies, sorry Okay let’s do this— 1/

Romancelandia: even if you don't read dark romance, the new Bsky guidelines should concern you. Disallowed: "Illustrated or animated" depictions of nonconsensual adult content. Why ban fictional depictions of anything? And how will consent be determined from an illustration?

If you’re not investing a little time and energy into configuring Bluesky to your preferences (it is deeply configurable) you are missing out on the value proposition of this place.

I’ll add that this matters because being moved to tears by something that someone else made is one of the very best parts of being alive.

They're just lil guys! 🐇🌿

Gosh, what's this? A new book?!? GASP shop.ravenswordpress.com/products/swo...

'These terms create the illusion of fairness while allowing institutions to decide who fits, case by case. They reinforce the fiction of a linear arc — beginning, middle, end — when in reality most artistic lives are nonlinear, interrupted, or cyclical.'

All right neurodivergent writers, this one is for you. Join us virtually Sept 28, 1-3pm EDT for Beat the Burnout: Creating, Self-Care, and Business for the Neurodivergent Writer Registration includes a video download of the workshop. Register: beat-the-burnout-writers.eventbrite.com