docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... let mamdani know you would like 0.5% of the city budget for libraries in perpetuity pretty please

baby's first author scam email 🥰

As a woman with a female gaze, simply do not do this. We don’t want this. We want Magnum PI. We want ‘79 Knicks. We want to see what your leg day do.

If you ever wished for small town Grief Horror, Romance, an embittered god with feral cryptid pets, and an alien with connections to Point Pleasant would collide... try reading The Barre Incidents! I'm putting links to Good Ordering Places in comments 🩵

As an editor and publisher, I'm very disturbed by the trend of putting submitter's work into AI detectors without their consent or knowledge. I can tell you this is happening at a lot of major magazines. I don't care if the detector is supposedly not using data put into it. you must gain consent.

Only a handful of people saw the first Pavement show, but every single one of them started a music blog

✨Today’s the last day to take our survey!✨ Tell us about how gen-AI has affected your creative life. 👉 ellipsus.typeform.com/to/ihnZMI82?...

One for the @marchxness.bsky.social crew! I turned my essay into a zine and you can get a copy from Antiquated Future: www.antiquatedfuture.com/zines/die-he...

I believe my stance against this year's dinosaur-heavy "Unearth a Story" summer reading program art is the correct one (yes, I have a favorite dinosaur, it's Ornithomimus)

'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️ mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho

A great way for Chappell Roan to deal with the current attempts at assassinating her character would be to collab with Gwar on a duet version of "Pink Pony Club." www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...

Bassam Tariq's ‘YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER’ follows a hitman struggling to balance his job with his faith & fatherhood. Starring Mahershala Ali, Giancarlo Esposito, John Cho and Tramell Tillman.

Drift, a novel by @abasketofcraig.bsky.social published under our Death of Print imprint, has won the Dactyl Award! dactylreview.com/2026/04/14/d...

it's April 15, around the time Greenwitch's week-long adventure begins. come explore this oft-overlooked book's place in weird fiction with me! greenstreetpress.itch.io/lost-coast

It's me! I'm leading this!

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.

Was getting lunch out today when a feeling stole over me — the eerie sense of being stared at, hard, from close by. Like when your small dog is begging for table scraps. Looked down automatically to the spot by my ankle where our late dachshund would have been waiting, and there was: this duck

Apropos of absolutely nothing, we'd like to remind everyone that Kobo distributes to libraries via OverDrive, and it costs nothing to publish on Kobo. Come join us! #indieauthors #publishing

✨Zine artist feature!✨ Cristina del Carmen (she/they) specializes in oil and digital portraiture, as she enjoys capturing the human essence in all of its beauty and roughness.

New story day! "The Worth of Ashes" is up at PodCastle podcastle.org/2026/04/14/p... Featuring a mother, her dead sister's ashes, and the mother's efforts to trade the ashes for food so she can feed her children (it's more heartwarming than it sounds)

spotted 👁️👄👁️ want your own? bottlecap.press/products/hau...

"Woman in Water" 🎨 George F. Kerr (1902)

why would I use "Clavicular" when I could more accurately say "Braden Peters," the most mid whiteboy name of all time

New author thread! This week I'm featuring Grant Collier @grantcollier.bsky.social 1. Why You Should Read (WYSR) "The Best Version of Yourself" @clarkesworldmagazine.com More and more people are deciding to ascend to Nirvana, even Maria’s mother. inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...

I miss my run making covers for Batgirls so it felt apt to reunite the team for this painting! I'll always have a soft spot for Cassandra Cain ☺️ This is part of RianbowArt April Auction event w/ Raremarq running from April 13-20! 💖 (LINK BELOW!) 11" x 17" in Gouache, watercolors and bioglitters

Places my ebooks will likely be staying - Store.dax.ink - Kobo (incl. Kobo Plus) - B&N - Campfire - Itch - Yearn - Google Play - Amazon - Overdrive/Libby Everywhere else is... Not looking great. So Apple, Hoopla, Everand, Fable, BorrowBox, CloudLibrary, Odilo, etc.

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a human-made creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

Two excellent & thoughtful articles about how big tech enshittification is making artists work harder for ever small returns, this by music marketing expert Darren Hemmings on tQ: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Draft2Digital really sent out an email today that can be paraphrased as: "We love our rich authors but you know what? We HATE the small-time fucking indie authors, so on top of the very little you make, we're going to charge you for that every year! You thought just starting out was hard? HAHA!"

The first issue of Whole Fanzine Catalog (1978) ends with an article to help aspiring zine makers understand the labor & cost involved. He breaks it down step by step & concludes, "You can count on a 24 page fanzine of 200 copies to take about 50 hours to produce." fanac.org/fanzines/Who...

dear Buffalo, what is the UNMISSABLE food option for a weekend in your city

excited to see this gorgeous anthology & verklempt to see Sword and Kettle come so far, do so well. Kickstarter in a week!

if you guess the Death Cab song referenced in "Tape Loop" I will send you an excerpt from my journal during that season

receiving intel that haunt / ology copies are already Out There... you could have one in your hands so soon: bottlecap.press/products/hau...

This is Thursday. I'd love it if you could join us.

Sixteen tales about curiosity, empathy, and what kind of future we want to live in, available DRM-free, directly from us. Yours to keep, yours to read at your own pace. 📖 www.lunastationquart...

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This is your sign to buy a copy of HAIR SHIRT

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

We need creativity and nourishment more than ever. I invite you to join us for both at the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair on May 9. Neta, Tash and I are excited to share space with over 100 exhibitors, dozens of volunteers, and all of you who join us. RSVP → withfriends.events/event/WFzHwJ...

I post for the forsythia fiends

happy book birthday to @devafagan.bsky.social & THE DELTA CODEX! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

You make adventure games? The @adventurex.bsky.social submissions are open! I enjoyed the narrative game con VERY MUCH last year. We showcased Mops & Mobs and had a blast. www.adventurexpo.org #adventure #pointandclick #visualnovel #mopsandmobs #indiedev #narrativegame

How it feels writing books in 2026

My contemporary romance Vice, Vegas Sins 1, is free on Amazon for a very limited time! If you haven't already grabbed this one, you'll want to do so now! Set in Las Vegas, it's an enemies-to-lovers romance, with a high heat level. CW: themes of compulsive gambling. www.amazon.com/Vice-Vegas-S...

coffee & sun & @nataliekreinert.bsky.social before work! THE JUMP is such a treat: protag whose major hobby is catastrophizing (same), airplane-enthusiast dad & cool aunt, upending your life for fun & (??) profit, HORSES.

Final hours on this! We've hit our goal, but yall can still get books!

reaching some Conclusions 2nite, none of them flattering

MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE This is by me, it's about my favorite part of working at my old job at the bookstore and about memory and about I'm very proud of it and I hope you like it ok thanks