APRIL - 1805 NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM THERE IS NOTHING IN NAVAL LAW STATING THAT A GOLDEN RETRIEVER CANNOT SERVE HIS MAJESTY AS CAPTAIN OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

my desire to support other writers by subscribing to their email newsletters is at odds with my desire to work toward Inbox Zero

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

difficult thing about the internet is that my friends and acquaintances are always having interesting conversations, but I can't get involved because I need to write my book

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

This is something that probably hurts user growth but is unambiguously good about the day to day use of this website. There’s so many grifter accounts with a shit ton of followers that I forget exist bc I don’t repost them and the people I follow don’t repost them, you can actually curate your feed

Today is my birthday and that means 3 things! 1.) I get cake! 2.) I ask you to do something nice for yourself and tell me about it! 3.) I put my ebooks on sale for 32% off through Monday at shop.foxglovefiction.com!

I'm wishing @isobelcarr.com a peaceful transition from this world, and am in awe of the friends who are caring for her through this last phase of her life. Her GoFundMe is nearly met - gofund.me/514cc87e4 May we all have friends like this.

A lot of this is what's being discussed by authors in my circle. Glad that, unlike so many other articles on the fandom to trad pub pipeline, it acknowledges that fandom is a deeply queer space but trad pub isn't interested in that part of it. at all.

hey have you all heard of this movie called The Third Man it turns out its good

isaac chotiner’s interview with bret easton ellis about his little book of nonfiction essays is still one of the funniest and most brutal things ever put in print

I heard it was #BiVisibilityDay so here's a link to my books, all of which have visible bisexuals! They come in various genders and relationship configurations, as bisexuals do

Useful piece. I'd jump off it to make a slightly different point too: if trad pubs are mining fanfic (either reskinning or clearly using the grammar of it) for the bulk of their queer books (which they *are* for queer dudes in SFF), then all queer rep looks like fic & don't we *also* deserve canon?

YES

Chotiner is surrounded by corpses like a samurai in the final act of a Kurosawa, and for some reason every ghoul thinks that they'll be the one to show him the true meaning of the code of bushido.

Happy #BisexualVisibilityDay from some of my many bi characters. Maybe you all find your happy ending, whatever it looks like, and may you be loved for who you are.

"Let’s establish a new fandom stigma for the new millennium. We will continue to celebrate, not stigmatize, reading, writing, and loving fanfic. But we will feel free to disdain the practice of shadow franchising, especially for properties like Harry Potter that are owned by monstrous people."

COVER CLOSE-UP! I always knew I wanted this cover to have - old-school "clinch" feel - watercolor style - all 3 chars. I handed Jan (@thistlearts.bsky.social) a challenge and he delivered! Just look at D’Arcy’s expression. Ev’s demeanor. Vitya’s precious face. 😭 On NetGalley now: emcaro.carrd.co

HAPPY BISEXUAL VISIBILITY DAY

Happy BiVisibility Day! All of these couples are bisexual couples because in both real life and fiction, the gender of your partner does not erase your bisexuality. So I write about the many different life experiences of bisexual people because there is no one way to be bisexual. #BiVisibility Day

I love this one and I hardly ever see people talking about it so I'm glad to see it here!

I think about this book all the time

Judy Cuevas putting her own translations of Baudelaire poems in her historical romance novels so that the Venn diagram of my interests could become a circle labeled THIS RIGHT HERE

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

yesssssss

I didn't work on my novel today (at least, not yet) but I did write 700 words of newsletter AND make challah and apple cake, which is a lot better than most days

this made me feel so good about being a paying subscriber 💪

📣📣The MA Senate is voting on comprehensive data privacy legislation this Thursday. Your senator will be hearing from the Big Tech lobbyists trying to water down the bill. They need to hear louder from you. #mapoli actionnetwork.org/letters/data...

time to do the September 21 ritual youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Not only are @safety.bsky.app's new rules gross censorship, they're also painfully lazy. Myopic regulations aren't going to help you with your (already broken) moderation processes, they'll just chase everyone - creatives and their readers/viewers - away from your platform.

You are not the Protagonist. Some of these problems are going to have to be solved by people better placed to solve them than you are. Your job is probably various kinds of support, continuing to create things that make life worth living, and joining huge group efforts to assert your values.

my compromise for now is that I am still opening the Bad News App but I am sharing stuff about BOOKS, goddammit

I am halfway through TROTH right now and keep internally screaming about Madison Things, lol these are excellent even if you never lived in Wisconsin, though, I promise

this is from A BLOOMY HEAD by J. Winifred Butterworth and you should read it

How you doing? Need a little break? Maybe some cute and cozy stories would help. Totally free at alhessbooks.itch.io and set in a soft and overgrown post-post-apocalyptic world inspired by the song (Nothing But) Flowers by the Talking Heads 🤖🪻

Highly recommended, if you can swing it: blocking off 24 hours for a “readathon” where you just try to read as much as you can in the time that you have. No phone, minimized distractions I finished two books today and started a third, and I feel significantly less stressed and despairing

love to open the Bad News and Bad Feelings App 30 times a day by reflex

Some throwbacks to my very first dark season up here. We're a couple of weeks out from aurora season now and I am so excited I am basically vibrating

the urge to shave my head is strongest when I have to cut all the long hair out of the vacuum's carpet roller

I will be there speaking on Action Scenes and Love Scenes. Also unveiling a new talk: Raiders of the Lost Archives with @shawntelle.bsky.social

Do one thing today to help. One thing tomorrow. One thing the day after. Taking a swing at every bad thing happening is just going to burn you out. Remember, if everyone does their one thing the world changes

I was lucky enough to beta read this and it’s great!

not that we really need to further Explain the United States of America, like, this country is fully displaying its disgusting unwiped asshole at all times now, it's pretty simple but on the other hand, I do think "Disney censors a children's cartoon" explains a thing or two

A heads up: in this book, Verbena falls for a character named both Flora and William. Flora-William consistently refers to herself as both "he" and "she." Some readers might think this character should be referred to with they/them pronouns. This is incorrect. Here's why 🧵

go get this!

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yes! this is what we do

Hey writer types! I'm working on a presentation about revision. Anyone have questions/problems/other stuff they want to kvetch about with the process? Anyone want to talk briefly about what your process *is*?

I wrote something about disability. #RomBkBlog

I've said it before and I'll say it again: STOP. GIVING. YOUR. ENEMIES. YOUR. MONEY.