great book, more people should read it

I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.

Hey all! I'm finally finding some equilibrium, after months of intensive care work with my mother, and seeing daylight on several creative projects. Including: the 2025 Publishing Derby. My latest book is one of the books on this page! Can you guess which one is mine? 2025pubderby.carrd.co

Last book buys till next week's Among the Burning Flowers. @mdanielmcdowell.bsky.social's came too and it really is MMP!

I still kind of can't believe it, but my gruesome twosome Ilwyn & Vencario will be in SHATTER THE SUN! This is the last thing I wrote before the wheels came off my personal life again at the beginning of the year, so it carries a perhaps-disproportionate amount of my emotional freight in it.

I think one of the complicating issues is that it’s a dual issue twice over - the desire for romantasy is coming both from YA and from fanfiction, into SFF. (Not saying romantasy IS either of those things, and fwiw, I come from YA and fanfiction, too.) Excellent piece by @readingtheend.bsky.social 🎉

Stop reposting terrible takes that are in the process of being monetized. Particularly when published by the NYT.

"Are resold books ethical?" What utter rot. Settled for hundreds of years. No links. No clicks. Starve this risible trash and mock those responsible.

It's 2025. We don't have to feed this any more. Uses bookstores are among the best place on the planet. Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Lmao. Okay so, this is a serious account. We love making art. We try to be "professional." But: some words from the heart. Imagine. For a second. Needing fucking AI to write your books for you. That's so fucking embarrassing I think I'd ask it to dig a hole for me instead to crawl inside.

Caw caw new Thing coming soon

the labor of art is mostly invisible. what you don't see in a finished piece is all the hours of thought it required, all the little discoveries and surprises and tragedies of production. art IS the process. if you aren't interested in the process, then i don't really know why you want to be artist

Also, begging people to realize that if they want more quality art of any time and don't like paying for it, then for the love of the universe support UBI and Universal Healthcare. Then creatives can create more art without having to turn it into a side hustle.

Seeing some great queer book promos on #itchio recently, and I figure that some readers might be second-guessing them because they're not sure they can read those ebooks on their Kindle. But hey, I have a guide to help with that! 💙📚

That’s exactly it. It’s not that it’s wrong but wrong in so many unknowable ways. That breaks the scientific method’s only way of adjusting for errors. Can’t systematize, can’t falsify, cannot document, cannot collaborate on best practices.

And the stakes of human error are so sufficiently high (oh I don’t know that lib lady demon can latch onto you) that you cannot really outsource this.

I could do more work when I was much poorer and less institutionally embedded because I could trust publications, citations. I could aggregate high quality sources, untouched by advertising influence. Now I just made sure that a paper I read was actually from the journal it says it’s from

I’m sure it’s been commented upon but everything takes me so much more time to accomplish now than it did even seven years ago. The information ecosystem has been sufficiently trashed to the point that every basic task of writing and publishing takes twice as long to complete. And I’m PRIVILEGED.

The headphones I got with my iPhone 8 years ago aren’t compatible with my current phone. Why would I let Apple put technology in my brain?

Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country! It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.

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Oh, I also have a book out today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

“More than one thing is wrong/bad here and the badness of one does not in any way mitigate the badness of another” is a notion I personally feel like people should be able to get their heads around after first grade but it sure seems like a massive number of folks never got that lesson

Finished "Long Live Evil" by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social and had to make Key fanart about it. You can't write me a fucked up little man with a violence fetish and stars in his eyes and NOT expect me to retaliate.

OH MY GOD

Claymore

Worn out writers in your area looking for a nap.

Last chance to get in on this giveaway before it ends!

Ends today!

It's alive... ALLLLIIIVE!!!! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #horror #booksky Come check out @probablyharmless.bsky.social and my epic horror anthology—full of messed up deer! 🔥🦌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

I'd feel more confident in the "GenAI is like medical advances" argument if the technocrats weren't enthusiastically trying to sink the NFS, NIH, etc.

The Black Swordsman Based on Kentaro Miura's 'Berserk' #inkdrawing #fanart #berserk #fantasy #art #tradart

This stuff has to be blown up much bigger than it has been. You want a kitchen table issue? Cancer is a kitchen table issue.

So Sticker Mule scrubbed all their pro-trump posts from their insta and they’re deleting comments that bring it up fast af. This is ur reminder they had a 100+ foot pro-trump sign installed on their building just 6 months ago. NO TAKE BACKS, ANTHONY. WE MEMBA.

🌹 Period drama queer romantasy 😈 Demon summon gone wrong 🌷 2 societies (occult & polite) pushing marriage on a talented, stubborn fmc 🔮 Magical hijinks amid the banter of a semi-toxic (& in love) cohort MERE FLESH has been out 1 week today! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQVR7L63 [ #romancelandia 🌈📚 💙📚 ]

US at tipping point for return of endemic measles www.reuters.com/business/hea...

If I could name one consistent feature of people who end up having miserly, paranoid, counterproductive politics, it would be this—the attitude that care should flow TOWARD you but not FROM you.

Thought-provoking thread and comments about caring for each other and mutuality

I've been an art tutor to tons of kids. Some come to me with some ability/good fine motor skills, some don't. "Talented" kids that don't draw are rapidly outpaced by average kids who are committed to daily practice. That's why talent is such bullshit, dedication surpasses natural ability every time.

New short story coming your way!! 🦑 This issue has one of the first horror pieces I ever wrote in it. Any other horror piece of mine came after, despite being pubbed before (as it goes). I struggled placing this & am DELIGHTED to have it join these amazing folks (that are way outta my league, lol).

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

AMPLITUDES: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social ! Featuring @mayadeane.bsky.social Margaret Killjoy @sarahgailey.bsky.social @itsneonyang.bsky.social & more Out May 27, 2025! #TDOV reads @erewhonbooks.bsky.social www.kensingtonbooks.com/978164566086...

Hello all! My next book, BRIGHTER THAN SCALE, SWIFTER THAN FLAME, will be out very soon (May 6th)! I call it my 'lesbian dragons novella'. It's gotten a starred Library Journal review and it is a Indie Next AND LibraryReads pick for May. Right now B&N are having a preorder sale, until 25th April!

Soooo not been paid again! Good time to remind you beautiful people that I have commissions open! A kofi! And a new Comic on Kickstarter! The Immortal Crow Bastard! All my links linktr.ee/mattgarbutt

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People who just go 'it sucks' instead of wailing on ai with the hatred of a thousand suns is just softballing criticism in case it grows to some modicum of competence so they can use it without pushback later. No. Ai doesnt just suck. It is a mega black hole of suck fueled by theft and a dying earth

It’s ya (non-binary) boy comin’ at ya with a cover reveal!