I built a free scholary converter for 20 premodern calendar systems — Julian, Hijri, Solar Hijri, Coptic, Armenian, Byzantine, Syriac, Athenian and more: kalkal.online

"But wehh wehhhh, the big conglomerates, they are too much the conglomerating" I HEAR YOU! Fortunately @bookshop.org is also having ANTI-PRIME DAYS from June 23-26 and you can get free standard shipping! DELICIOUS AND TASTY AND FREE here's my store btw bookshop.org/lists/premee...

I know I have writer friends out there, and if you're looking for a chill weekend workshop to advance your project (or get it moving again!), my colleagues have a great online mini-retreat coming up later this month!

Editorial Men's Wives Attend Luncheon (1940) Source: Hennepin County Library The wives of the men attending the Minnesota Editorial association meet for lunch at the Nicollet hotel. Shown (L to R): Mrs. Howard, Tygeson of Annandale is an editor and Mrs. Landy of Olivia.

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HEALTHCARE IS NOW ONE WORD IN @apstylebook.com!!!!! The people rejoice!!! #apstyle #amediting #editorsky #ACESAPStyle #ACES2026

#ACES2026 kicks off tomorrow and I have a painfully early flight, so I’m packed already. Probably. What have I forgotten to pack for my editing conference?

Are you studying, researching or teaching a history topic and not sure where to start? Try a search using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

If this is you, I want you to know that the amount per work is very likely to be > $3000. Half that if you're splitting with your publisher.

100% agree with all of this, and also why I think it’s important for authors to develop a sense of rigor, of wanting to work hard and make your work the best that it can be (and develop the skill to know when its not there yet), because you can’t guarantee anyone else will care as much as you do.

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

Some professors at the University of St. Thomas are doing a research project on the effects of the ICE occupation on Twin Cities parents. They're looking for parents who are US citizens, who live in the Twin Cities metro area, and who have kids ages 5-10. stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Would you like a literary agent’s feedback on your book query? Would you like to help families in Minnesota? Checkout Headwater’s fundraiser!

From mid-February 2026, the MGH is able to make all articles from the DA and NA available in digital form, fully searchable and open access! #medievalsky mgh.de/en/publicati...

As an editor with a background in K-12 nonfiction, I’m having complicated feelings about this. Another free and reliable reference falls.

A fantastic collection of books, art, manuscript and portfolio reviews, and AMAs with authors and publishing staff up in this fundraiser for Minnesota organizations!

In the midst of Everything right now, it seems appropriate that I am using the Murderbot series in the same way that Murderbot uses Sanctuary Moon.

Timeline cleanse: the incredible and much-missed Rebecca Luker singing the soprano's lament, "Not Funny," written for her by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid.

"We’re fucked" is the laziest narrative of our time. Humans don't live in reality. We live in stories. Choose yours accordingly. www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-...

So as someone who's a professional creator, and has always been a creator of art in many mediums ... I've encountered a lot of people in life A LOT OF PEOPLE who want to do art, who think they have good ideas for art, but don't want to do the work Now...

I highly recommend this thread from Ann Leckie as writing motivation for the new year.

So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up. Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.

C'mere, pookie. We need to talk about how now is a difficult time for lots of people in publishing. Not just bc--*waves arms*--but bc we're seeing Best of the Year lists and Award Eligibility posts, and bc the last book deals of the year are being announced while sub times are longer than ever. 1/

… it's time for another Kickstarter. I'm still hammering out some details, but plan to launch in November. If you have an interest in this area, I'd love it if you signed up to be notified and/or shared the link with someone who would be. Read on for more info… www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...

Just over two weeks left (!!!) to get your applications in for our first ever Wholehearted Writers Week. Come bring your whole self to write, learn, and build community just in time to kick off the new year. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com

Things to expect from our conference: 1. A lively, lovingly moderated private Slack server for connecting with fellow writers and your four facilitators. Ask questions, share experiences, set goals, and report on your progress every day. #writersconference #w3 #writers

Not to attempt Discourse, but 3-item lists are not proof of AI writing. Human writers just LOVE 3-item lists, so AI mimics it. Long before LLMs, I was highlighting two or three or more lists per paragraph and begging writers to resist the urge. Same goes for em dashes. It’s us. The problem is us.

We originally published this in 2022, and its official title is 'Birds Are Real' but unofficially it is known as 'This is how you lose the safety war'.

Sunday marks five years since the murder of George Floyd

Tonight I’m sparkling at the IBPA awards dinner with 🌟IBPA Gold🏅 winner Linda Ruggeri (for ‘Networking for Writers’)!

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers. www.instagram.com/p/DI9PlxCRp38/ #BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚

Just an editor wrapping up conference surveys from #ACES2025 while eyeing her inbox with suspicion... If we chatted at the conference, feel free to say hi here or drop me a note!

Vikings in the Mediterranean. Open access conference proceedings. Good reading! bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/b...

The ACES conference this spring is in Salt Lake City. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

well that alt text got me crying on a Tuesday morning

When discussing this strategy I've run into a lot of folks desperate for news. My suggestion is the one I just gave my mom, which is to watch PBS News Hour once per day. They will have had time to collect the day's events into a cogent narrative instead of disjointed headlines. And there's few ads

Me: Oh hey, improving my desk ergonomics is an easy 2025 goal to meet! Five days, one missing monitor arm plate, four screws of incorrect length, and two temporary reassemblies of my previous workspace later… 🤦🏻‍♀️

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

I've teased people with this enough, here it is at last... GATEWAYS (Book of A Life) #ArtistBook. Mineral pigments in egg tempera on hand-cut paper, coptic binding with linen thread, cork for the cover. 28 × 20 × 7 cm, 1.9 kg. Completed: 13 January 2025. vimeo.com/1047527713

"The rules governing the exercise of power in a representative democracy should not — must not — be Calvinball." The MNGOP illegally seizes power in the statehouse. It's part of a pattern. From MSNBC. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Combining the 8.4 million individual exposures (2TB of data) into a single keogram covering the 4 years from 2021 upto 2025 shows the repeated change in length of the night, and also highlights the small differences in sunset and sunrise times due to the eccentric orbit of the Earth around the Sun.

For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography

Today I’m thrilled to have nabbed the very first copy of @madeleinevasaly.com's ‘The Proofreader’s Guide to Comic Book Style,’ hot off the presses, at a talk by Russell Harper, principal reviser of ‘The Chicago Manual of Style,’ risking some kind of ecstatic style singularity.

PSA: Because Internet is on sale! I think the description of Old Internet People vs successive generations of internet users in chapter 3 is particularly relevant to explaining the dynamics of bluesky 🦋

Admiring some of my favourite examples of brutalist architecture, finding inspiration in the primal power of raw concrete

K-12 education/publishing folks: Layoffs at NASA reportedly include the JPL K-12 education team, so curriculum resources at www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/ may not be available going forward. You may want to archive anything you reference frequently. (Layoff info is under News>JPL Workforce update.)