The winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Sargassa, is out in paperback! This is the first in a speculative trilogy that is equal parts political intrigue, queer romance, and revolution. Read this? Preorder Bloodtide, book 2, out next week! buff.ly/vY1LYFw

One week baybee!!

i am being negatively polarized into support for the White Sox

Putting the final touches on this book before it goes off to line/copy edits and I am actually kind of terrified to share this with the world. #writingcommunity #indieauthor

9 stories now!

It's hard to fathom the speed with which we fell from the nation which was about to cure cancer with mNRA vaccines to one that wants to ban Tylenol for pregnant women.

You can find the eBook on Amazon now. Like the competition proceeds, all profits of the book will go to Trans Lifeline: a.co/d/a09dx1c

I have another story out today, my 2nd this week! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS3Y69ZN

I've now had 8 stories come out this year (all SFF, all queer), and the links to all of them are on the Short Fiction page of my website: alexisamesbooks.com/short-fiction/. #WritingCommunity #SFF

I tried commenting on this to see if any comments about Palestine were allowed, and nope, they're being now auto-filtered! Disgusting.

A story publication and a story acceptance all on the same day 🥰

I have a new story out today in Black Cat Weekly! blackcatweekly.com/b/i0IDJ #WritingCommunity #SFF

I hope I can live long enough to see Stephen Miller prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced for his numerous crimes against humanity. I hope we can all see him sniveling and crying as he's taken to prison.

I'm mad that I found something wholesome on TikTok, and that's the #curriculumclub people who are designing curriculum for themselves to learn about something they're interested in and they give themselves homework and it's all to combat the brain rot of social media. Ugh it's so cute.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

The feeling of going "you know what, I don't actually care" and DNFing the book/TV show/movie that is no longer bringing you joy is unmatched, actually.

Having lots of ideas and projects going at the same time is terrible actually because I get paralyzed by choices. Do I work on the rock band WIP? The bounty hunter WIP? Self publishing tasks? And then I get overwhelmed and do nothing.

Anyone out there have recs for books featuring queer couples with an age gap? And like, an actual age gap, not a "one of us is an immortal who is hundreds of years old but looks twenty." 😂 Give me human-years age gaps!

Why didn't we lower the flags for those killed in the Annunciation shooting? Or any other school shooting? Or when a Democrat lawmaker was assassinated this summer? 🤔

It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”

Indie authors, I'm here, on Twitter, and unfortunately now on TikTok as well. Do I also need to get on Threads??? #selfpublishing #writingcommunity

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

I hate TikTok. What do you mean I added some random song to a video and now it gets almost 4 times the views as my other posts?

I have so many red and orange submissions on Submission Grinder, PLEASE I need some lit mags to release me from my misery 🙏

The heat doesn't come on until the house dips below 57 degrees. I spend too long under the tyranny of summer each year to voluntarily make my house warm.

I've fleshed out my self-pub calendar and have planned out what needs to happen on a monthly basis for the next 18 months if I want to release 3 books by February 2027 😬

I had a coworker ask me today if I ever forgot things I wrote in past stories. Buddy, I've read entire books of mine and not remembered writing a single word 😂

Happy Labor Day 🙂

Cozy in the Apocalypse now open for submissions of speculative fiction and poetry of a comfortingly apocalyptic nature. angrygablepress.com/submissions/

My September update is out, talking about self publishing and my 3 upcoming short stories! (If it went to your spam folder...I'm working on it 😔) alexis-ames.kit.com/posts/septem... #WritingCommunity #SFF

I've drafted up some newsletters and blog posts to last me until October. I hope you're all ready to be sick of me ceaselessly talking about my gays in space until release day!

I don't know how to make videos and I will never show my face online but I broke down and got a TikTok for self publishing purposes 😂 I don't know what I'll do with it yet, but you can find me there @/alexis.ames1.

Worked out a self-publishing timeline for the release of 3 books over the next 18 months...let's hope I can pull this off 😂

INKFOUNDRY HAS 1000 STORIES!!! I'M GONNA GET A BIG FANCY CAKE!!!

I already posted this on Instagram, but here it is for the Bluesky folks: 3 more upcoming stories from me that will be released this year! #SFF #WritingCommunity

3rd story acceptance in a row! 🥰

Hey all, if you ever find that something is behind a paywall, go throw the link into archive.ph so you can read it (yes this is about the club chalamet daily mail article)

I'm going to have at least 9 short stories published by the end of the year, my second-best year since the 13 I had published in 2020 😍

A story acceptance on a Sunday night? Don't mind if I do!

The thing about self publishing is that I can choose to publish this sci-fi doomed love story on Valentine's Day and no one can stop me.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

I'm self publishing a book! Follow along here: alexisamesbooks.com/2025/08/22/a... #WritingCommunity

✨COVER REVEAL✨ My debut science fantasy, THE DEMON STAR, will be out next July from @dawbooks.bsky.social artist is Kieran Yanner, who could not have done a better job of capturing the vibe and setting of this book!

Delighted to be part of this collection!

Omg it me!

I couldn't be more delighted to accept this award. Thank you so much!

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

I made up a slur for robots in a book I wrote 13 years ago and I'm devastated that it will never be as good as a random twitter person coming up with "clanker" 😭

I'm not able to check social media much anymore thanks to the demands of a new job, but what I'm gathering from the five minutes I spend here now is that itch.io is no longer the place for people to distribute their queer books?

SURPRISE! We couldn't wait until next week—our Kickstarter pre-launch page is live right now!!! Sign up to be the first to know when it launches in October, and please spread the word and tell a friend! Every sign-up makes a huge difference. We are officially one step closer to OTHERSIDE!