Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

Look, y'all, I get it. You really love Itch. Loving it is the only thing that gives you hope anymore so you can't accept that they are just another shitty platform. I don't care if you use it personally, but people need to know the risks. Please stop pretending this isn't happening.

November's Writers Chat Deep Craft: MJ James's Inside a Dark Space. "I want people to enjoy my books, but I write them because there is something that I need to say. I write them so people know they aren't alone." 🌈📚 https://www.lilianzenzi.com/dont-let-the-f-ckers-win/

It's newsletter Friday! This month: a brief intro to Ghost, my newsletter and website provider, links to my free novellas, a snippet from the new Writers Chat Deep Craft with MJ James discussing INSIDE A DARK SPACE, and some monthly promos courtesy of Bookfunnel. vist.ly/4ffb9 to subscribe.

Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives. If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜

Next up on Writers Chat Deep Craft: Don't Let the F*ckers Win: Portraying Resilience and Resistance through Identity, Connection, and Community. MJ James talks with me about resistance and communty in Inside a Dark Space. (Check out their Kickstarter to fund the sequel!) @mjjames

The first lines from each of the Synchronists titles so far. The Stars Provide is a prequel novella available for free to newsletter subscribers. Spark and Tether and Flare and Bind are available most places online. 🌈📚 #queeradultsff

🐉🌈📚 New LGBTQ+ book releases: November 14, 2025. 🔗 Find them here: bit.ly/m/QBR Happy reading, y'all! 🖤✌🏼 #queerbookreviews #sapphicromance #queerromance #mmromance #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #sapphicbooksky #queerbooksky #readqueerallyear #booksky #romancelandia

Next week's Writers Chat Deep Craft features MJ James's newest release Inside a Dark Space. Subscribe to my newsletter to get the link first, and check out MJ's kickstarter to fund the sequel. vist.ly/4dxim

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Let's put it this way: Newsom is California's Cuomo: started better than what else we had at the time, ending terrible and aligned with far-right people, now we don't f*cking want him anymore either. And, based on Cuomo's results for NYC, I'M THINKIN NEWSOM AIN'T GONNA CUT IT EITHER.

Spark and Tether, first line: Sacheri woke with a shiver in his nerves trying his limbs like a lit fuse. Audiobook narrated by Josiah Sweetnam and available everywhere, including libraries and direct from the author on payhip.

October's Writers Chat Deep Craft with Tamara Jerée on The Flowers I Deserve. WCDC is a monthly series of chat-style interviews where I talk with authors and artists about their work. Newsletter subscribers get the link first–sign up on my website. vist.ly/4c4ag

Get a free ebook of SPARK AND TETHER (Synchronists 1) when you sign up for the Queer Sci Fi email list this October! along with three other titles. 🌈📚 #queeradultscifi https://www.queerscifi.com/join-our-maillist/

Healing on Instinct, Leaning into Whimsy: Embodying Themes Through Poetic Tension and Turns. October's Writers Chat Deep Craft is live on my website. I talk with @tamarajeree about their latest release: The Flowers I Deserve. vist.ly/4bkh3

I dislike sweeping statements about what kind of writing has or doesn’t have real artistic merit. I once read an amazing short story written in future tense with a 2nd-person POV. “Trashy” romance can be deeply insightful about life in specific times and places. YA helped me survive as a queer teen.

🌈📚 My Synchronists series is queer science fiction about interconnection and building better worlds. vist.ly/49xpp

In the next Writers Chat Deep Craft, I talk with Tamara Jerée about their newest release The Flowers I Deserve. Interview posts on my website on October 17; subscribe to my newsletter to get the link first. 🌈📚 vist.ly/49pf7

Worldbuilding facts from the Synchronists series. SYNCHRONISTS is queer sci fi about interconnection and relationships. Available directly from me or wherever you buy books.

The first WCDC post is live on my website; the second features Tamara Jerée and posts October 17. Sign up for my newsletter if you'd like the link first. 🌈📚

Sundays are for long walks and beach time. I started & art class last week so I took my sketchbook along. The sound of the stones underfoot is one of my new favorite things. I’m not writing much yet. Still adjusting. The words all sound different in my head now. Need more time to settle.🌈📚

The fungi and (friendly) artificial intelligence are the good guys. People take care of each other. How we show up in the world matters. No weapons or war. Wrongs are meant to be righted. Can you imagine? 🌈📚 (Available direct from me on my Payhip shop, you know where to click.)

The first Writers Chat Deep Craft is up on my website. Thanks so much to Dawn Chen for joining me. The Witch Who Chases the Sun is out September 30 and preorders are open everywhere. 🌈📚https://www.lilianzenzi.com/wcdc-dawnchen/ (reposted with alt text)

I’ve been making books more than I’ve been writing the last few weeks. And since I gave all of my autumn decor to a beloved neighbor when we moved, I found a new friend and a tiny purple glass gourd for my desk for the season. I think my new gnome friend needs a name…

My September newsletter is out today. You can still subscribe on my website and read it there: vist.ly/47e4r 🌈📚 This month's update includes the link to my chat with Dawn Chen @dawn.writesstuff about her upcoming novel The Witch Who Chases the Sun, book promos, and a mutual aid request.

Love Can't Save You: Spiral Structure and the Lasting Wounds of Colonialism - my first Writers Chat Deep Craft post goes live Friday when my newsletter sends. Dawn and I chat about structure, symbols, and anticolonialism. The Witch Who Chases the Sun is out September 30–preorders are open!

After a lovely Saturday in Ballinasloe for the Indie Authors Ireland gathering, I spent Sunday back at the shore in a coffeeshop with some poetry and a nice lapsang souchong. The first Writers Chat Deep Craft interview (with @dawnwritesstuff!) posts this week and my newsletter releases on Friday.

I chat with Dawn Chen about her upcoming release The Witch Who Chases the Sun for the first Writers Chat Deep Craft interview. On my website in mid-September–my newsletter subscribers get the link first. Subscribe on my website. vist.ly/469d8 🌈📚

Monday mornings are for planning and organizing the week. I seem to have developed a terrific Barry’s habit in the last month. If I get some things done, this afternoon may hold a trip to the bookstore and the beach with some poetry. The card is from my favorite MoLI exhibit. 🌈📚#queeradultscifi

Marketing bestie says I should re-use content, and it's been ages since I posted this one for Spark and Tether. Should I make one for Flare and Bind, too? 🌈📚 #queerscifi #indiescifi

Sharing for the feeds 🌈📚#indieauthors #queeradultsff

Writers Chat Deep Craft is a monthly interview series launching in Sept. I chat with authors about hidden symbols, fave techniques, where cultural narratives about stories help or hinder us. Big ideas. Deep craft. Curious? Subscribe to my newsletter. vist.ly/45huw

It's been ages and all kinds of things have changed, so let me re-introduce myself. 📚🌈 💙📚 #queerscifi #indiescifi vist.ly/45a58 for newsletter sign up.

It's been ages and all kinds of things have changed, so let me re-introduce myself. 📚🌈 💙📚 #queerscifi #indiescifi vist.ly/45a4i for newsletter sign up and books available.

And listen, follow the money means follow the money. Substack funds transphobes and nazis. Substack's VC money comes from Andreesen Horowitz, a firm that, among other things (incl border "security" and defense projects), committed to $400 million in equity investments toward Musk buying Twt.

A lot of the discourse about Newsom comes down to people finding ways to say “I just think trans people aren’t as important as my other concerns” but saying it in the most cowardly way because they know how dick they would sound it they said it directly But we all know what you are, transphobes

guess what I'm doing today 🙄 (not videos, just scheduling posts like a grown up who has it together)

Occasional reminder that @josiahcdsweetnam 's narration of Spark and Tether is fantastic and available almost everywhere, including in libraries. #queerscifi #indieauthors #indiescifi #indieaudiobooks 🌈📚 💙📚

Really appreciated how @sethf.bsky.social described using AI in the evolution class that we co- teach: “ it’s like paying for a gym membership and then using a forklift to raise and lower your weights.”

I've spoken often about how Chinese writers have reclaimed the concept of Sinofuturism in their writings. So I'm all for Optimistic #Scifi, or at least, stories that take more nuanced courses. Habitats is a fantastic project, you can support vol 2 here! #sff www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...

#SummerOfStory I'm so glad you asked! On my mind lately has been an old favourite technique of Ursula Le Guin's: the Pathetic Fallacy. Here's her definition, followed by some examples of me trying it in Marcie 🧛‍♀️🥀🕊 a vampire romance novella, and A Prayer for the Pirate Queen ⚓️💜🏴‍☠️ a sapphic romantasy

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Would anyone who was impacted by the Itch delisting things be willing to/like to talk to someone at @authorsabb.bsky.social national? We're trying to gather information to formulate how we can assist the already in motion efforts. Thanks ahead of time!

The International Non-Binary Day bundle is over in just a little over 3 days and I'd love for us to hit our $500 dollar goal (and double it??? 👀👀) I have two short stories there: Golden Hue and Journey Home! itch.io/b/3124/inter...

You can get 51 books for $40 and really have a fine collection of non-binary books to get you through Non-Binary Awareness Week! itch.io/b/3124/ 🌈📚💙

This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.

Is your book on Kobo Plus? If so drop the link below 👇 I'm writing a blog post about k+ so I'm going to read as many first chapters as I can and shout out my favorites. I like space opera, sci-fi romance, and anything with autistic-coded characters.

Indie trans lit is honestly kind of addicting because what if all the things you can’t get in traditional publishing were widely available for a fraction of the cost from an increasingly amazing variety of creators you get to directly support by reading? What then?

Spark and Tether audiobook now available everywhere!