This is so true. I still have the 44 question email from Abby & Anna, who translated "Our Lady of the Open Road" into Chinese. The questions clarified the meaning and feeling behind my phrases "scuzzy too-bright barroom" & "the sweet old-school crunch of my Les Paul played through Marshall tubes."

Folk have confirmed that this applies to ebooks from Apple & Bookshop as well!

This whole, forked-but-wonderful thread. In many industries, including (probably) all the artsy ones, and lots of the "lettered" high-rise ones, it's not what you know, it's who you know, but you know them because you knew them BEFORE any of you broke in.

This is a very serious opportunity for the farm sanctuary I work for. We take care of the most vulnerable animals that have no other place in this world. Please consider a donation to meet this enormous matching miracle!

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

Your mail carrier in Canada, however, *can* accept cash. Even if it isn't cash, consider a little something as a tip, especially for those out there in the lousy weather and of course for all those who lost wages this year due to intransigent, lying management.

Hampstead Heath, December 1938. Photograph by Frederick G Roper

This young family could sure still use some help. Yes, Canadian health care helps with some things, but often it's the bare minimum, and Ezaias has enough things going on that they can use every boost we can give them. www.gofundme.com/f/help-baby-...

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We could try to make Leiber a posthumous bestseller by claiming his 1943 novel "Conjure Wife" as Dark Academia. (It was filmed multiple times, most famously as "Burn, Witch, Burn" aka "Night of the Eagle".)

EEEEEEE it arrived! Merry Christmas to me -- my FIRST EVER appearance in the wonderful BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR, edited by @datlow.bsky.social ! My story THE NIGHT BIRDS was originally published by @undertow.bsky.social in NORTHERN NIGHTS, an anthology of Canadian horror. :)

Christmas Eve Sky (contrast amped up a bit)

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

We are dying from the cold. My children need you, so do not ignore us. Share my post. Donate even a little 💔🙂‍↕️ gofund.me/f82dc56ea

As of yesterday, I'm old enough to qualify for seniors' discounts. Whee! I'm researching what's available in Vancouver.

Help a great writer who is in a pinch, would you?

Got grades in just before midnight last night. Bye, 2025!

When racists build the algo, the algo will be racist.

This book is fabulous!

Happy Wednesday! I'm a disabled queer trans artist trying to stay housed while medically complicated & unable to do gig work. Currently sitting at $100/$775 needed Jan 1 for rent. Only $675 left to go! Please help me stay housed. TYSM! 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️ #MutualAid paypal.me/rookkilljoy CashApp/Venmo: foxrook

As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help. The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.

I was so grateful the other day when @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social named it as one of their top 10 books of the year: www.threads.com/@mystgalaxyb...

I love @pridesource.com 's list of Queer Winter Reads: "Charlie Jane Anders blends witchcraft, academia and family secrets into an irresistible winter read... a cozy yet suspenseful tale about the magic we inherit and the secrets that can either save or ruin us." pridesource.com/article/quee...

My novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster is just $2.99 in all e-book formats today. (Kindle, Kobo, Nook,etc) This is the book of my heart. It's a queer mother-daughter story about healing and forgiveness. It's got 18th century lit, riot grrls, and filthy weird magic. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

We're running a sale on the website in memory of our shop cat, Stan Lee. Get 20% off the new books with promo code Catmas at checkout. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/collections/...

2025 Books We Loved: When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur locusmag.com/2025/12...

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This was such an amazing interview & convo - worth a listen!

Book birthday for me! It's kind of amazing to see the series all in one place - thanks to @qospress.bsky.social for the collection!

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

I encourage students when writing folklore-based fiction to look into the folktales fr their own cultures. For their final piece, 1 of my students researched the folklore fr their very specific southern Ontario community & came up with a Gothic horror piece drawing on it & I'm so tickled!

I wonder whether anyone's even invented a drinking in which you take a drink (it could be of lemonade!) every time a Star Trek crew member says, "We're venting plasma from the port nacelles?" What was up w Federation ship construction, anyway?

🚨 US House of Representatives are voting on two anti-trans bills next week in an attempt to severely restrict gender affirming care for youth. HR3492 would criminalize parents and providers charging them with felonies if they even attempt to access care. Join us next week and fight back! Link ⬇️

(screams myself hoarse) This one is so much. It's SO MUCH, you don't even know!

It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

Anyone else find this notice existentially hilarious?

The Subtle Art of Folding Space got a starred review from Library Journal! www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-s...

This morning, the most elegantly long-nosed red setter left her person's side to look with deep curiosity into my eyes while she sniffed at my newly applied lipstick. I stroked her face. Made my hands itch. I didn't care. I taught class soon after, and the chalk dust on my hands took the itch away.

Hey, just got word that there's someone out there emailing people from annleckie05 at gmail, pretending to be me "reaching out" to people. That is not me! If I email you out of the blue it will almost certainly come from annleckie.com, or possibly my personal email which doesn't contain my name.

do you or someone you buy gifts for love speculative fiction? activism? HAVE I GOT THE BOOK FOR YOU! Getting fantastic reviews already! Out THIS TUESDAY!

Eyesight 2 poor, hands 2 arthritic to thread my sewing machine needle. But I just figured out a hack: 1) Remove needle fr machine 2) thread machine to just before the needle. Leave a long tail. 3) thread needle outside the machine. Use needle threader if that helps. 4) Re-insert needle into machine.

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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…

Charisma is a local trans artist, creator, bookseller and all around wonderful human. I've been so lucky to get to hang out with them, and I've gotten to admire their art and their incredible positivity. They had to move a while back due to fuckery. Please give whatever you can!

Izolde is a wonderful member of our local trans community who's going through a really rough time right now. Please help if you can!!!

Some Indigenous/First Nations science fiction, fantasy, and horror recs for your Wednesday!

Bought a folding indoor-outdoor picnic table manufactured by Enduro. Turns out the plastic of the table top was imbued w strong perfume -- that's really a thing! -- not in the description. Washed it w vinegar, soap, surfactant; nothing got it out. It was making people sick, so I had to toss it.