Native Americans in horror films are GOATED

I wrote a longer response to this sentiment on my Tumblr when someone asked me what I thought of using AI to generate an outline or finish a scene or write a few paragraphs - I genuinely don’t understand not enjoying the PROCESS of writing and refining!

The only thing less useful than a political action you think is useless is complaining on the internet about that action. For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.

A momunmental achievement and wonderfully presented by the Story Lab. Also gotta note the timing of its release - the same week as Tony Abbott's "history" of Australia book/doco.

Nothing could stop me from showing up today — not my skin flare ups, or anxiety, or the congestion of the public transit system today. Knew I needed to make it and use my voice to fight against ICE and Donald Trump with the rest of Chicago. It was an amazing turnout, estimated over 100,000 people.

for those of you not from Indiana, IU and Purdue have a historic long-lasting rivalry and this is absolutely going in the record books as a victory for the Boilermakers. I’m dying. well played AND well done.

My novelette, 'That Slow Nightfall', finally dropped! It features a blind MC who undergoes a study to utilise the eyes of her hot new companion. She's not supposed to fraternize, but when she catches sight of a terrible crime, she's got way more than a broken contract to contend with.

thinking about the concept of “support” as it’s tossed around in leftish online circles and feeling a little bit like we’ve lost the plot because nobody will define what it means and different answers are contradictory and hypocritical, helping no one and confusing everyone. thread, 1/?

Down to his last penny, Jason “J.D.” Donovan makes a deal that saves his life but inadvertently puts his friends and family in danger. Can he save them without sacrificing himself? A horror novella in the tradition of “The Twilight Zone” and Stephen King www.ilenegoldman.com/books #Booksky 📚💙 🩸📚

if we ever figure out what it is about M/F fanfic readers that makes them hungry and eager to buy new original M/F romance while queer fanfic readers have to get strapped into a high chair while authors go “here comes the airplane!” about their queer romances, we will legitimately fix publishing.

“overly ambitious alchemist who will drag her boyfriend along on every adventure even if it ends with him drinking soap or getting turned into a safety pin” x “jock with very little self preservation instinct who will fight anyone at any time if they say shit to his friends”. is this anything.

Thinking about breaking out my cheesy 90s Native fusion cookbook for today but idk what I’d make

happy Indigenous People’s Day! friendly reminder that you can read my cool novella for the low price of $0 and make your local Native fantasy author feel happy at the same time

Murder mysteries are hard

happy indigenous peoples’ day! go flip off your local monument to a colonizer for me

Omg. I just seen a post about yt people being scared of land back and a response to “but where would we go?” Was “I dunno to therapy” and it’s priceless in using that from now on.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. “No team, strong solo.”

Spellcheck hates me for my vast and archaic vocabulary.

- wake up out of dead sleep - need Cold Iced Tea - go get Cold Iced Tea - drink Cold Iced Tea in can - return to bed with plan to finish tea and go to sleep - pick up WRONG CAN OF TEA that I didn’t know was not empty - swallow two mouthfuls of Tea That I Can Smell Is Going Off - silently scream

Between 0-1. I work full time and write in between my other responsibilities and hobbies; if I get 5-7k words in a week I’m very lucky.

Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit

I’m now at a point if I have to decide that my first book in this series is done at ~73k words or if I should carry it through to its original intended end point and boy it feels like an impossible question

who are some of the writers/artists that made you? JRR Tolkien @rosalarian.bsky.social (yes, really) Libba Bray Arthur Conan Doyle Laurie J. Marks Tamora Pierce Sarah Orne Jewett Rumiko Takahashi Kaori Yuki

GROCERY SHOPPING IS A DANGEROUS JOB, out now: - queer urban fantasy - established f/f and trans!m/f relationships - Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school - a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid - $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop... - $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl

Demelza, a world-weary witch, and Uliana, an even more exhausted vampyre, work together to send wayward demons, ghosts and otherworldly creatures back to where they came from. But some jobs are more difficult than others. 🔖 story: mybook.to/RXIIkD 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/on-demon-wra...

🤍 estranged husbands 🥺 close brothers x2 🗡️ an mc who is 100% done 🐺 a love interest ready to grovel 🏫 a haunted, gothic school 🔍 buried secrets ❄️ snowy setting 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-strange-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

“What’s a magic school doing in Indiana? If my mother’s a faerie, what does that mean for me? What’s teaching combat look like? You’ve got to start there if you’re going to hook your audience without an in medias res inciting incident!” “… you don’t have many friends, do you?” Perrenette asked.

Friends and colleagues, I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

73k words in and I’m like. maybe 25% done with this book. I’m lucky it’s never getting a print release.

there’s slow burn romance and then there’s “one of the MCs doesn’t know the other exists for two whole novels and they spend the third unable to physically touch due to living on separate planes of existence and communicating through astral projection”. why did I choose this? who knows

I continue to make ill-advised ads that i release late at night because this is my Brand and if you're up at midnight EST then you deserve quality late-night shitpost promos. Why see ads for injury claims lawyers when you can get quality infogayment like this?

at the risk of sounding like I’m going to bat for a billionaire (I’m not) I think that perhaps we should consider the misogyny in our criticisms of women’s interpretations of Shakespeare when they don’t sound suitably academic or intelligent but instead engage with his work like any other story

“Bluesky isn’t fun” problem and “Bluesky is the only social media platform where you will actually see the news” problem are the same problem

GROCERY SHOPPING IS A DANGEROUS JOB, out now: - queer urban fantasy - established f/f and trans!m/f relationships - Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school - a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid - $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop... - $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl

Victor Frankenstein? Gay. Milton's Satan? Gay. Bram Stoker? Gay. Quentin Compson? Trans. Carrie White? Gay.

it’s all William and Mary’s fault. it’s also all Henry VIII’s fault, but everyone gives him the blame he deserves already.

Yes, to both. Peri and Virgo are metaphorically haunted by the deaths of their best friends when they were 21, which shattered their partnership and forced an estrangement. Meg, on the other hand, is literally haunted by an exiled faerie king who’s been waiting for her to notice she’s not alone.

#QueerWritersChat 1: I’m Amara, 1/2 of QueerWritersChat, and I’m drafting Night Moth, a cozycreepy moth(wo)man sapphic romance! I’m just looking forward to the vibes of October and soaking those up for much needed dopamine lol

Hiya #queerwriterschat, I'm Emily! I'm working on planning a YA fantasy superhero novel! (heck of a mouthful) I'm looking forward to starting that. I'm also looking forward to a couple get-togethers I'm going to and a couple chances to fix some chronic health problems.

#QueerWritersChat Hi everyone! I'm K, and I'm actually getting ready to send off a fantasy prequel short story/novelette to my editor and search for a cover artist!

Hi #QueerWritersChat! I’m Lucille or Lucy, I write fantasy, and I’m working on what I can only call an adventure/mystery urban f/f romantasy called Blood Ties and Brickways centering around a young woman named Meg as she navigates the faerie Midwest and falls in love with an undead lesbian god-king.

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

it might sound crazy but i actually really like bluesky and enjoy my time here and would like it to be a successful sustainable platform

somehow I wound up doing The Big Faerie Racism Infodump before I planned but I think it works. unfortunately talking about The Big Faerie Racism Infodump makes me sound unhinged.

GROCERY SHOPPING IS A DANGEROUS JOB, out now: - queer teen cozy fantasy - Animorphs meets early Buffy meets boarding school story - want to read about a werewolf and faeries and a human jock fighting a giant squid? - free: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop... - $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl

The original concept stemmed from wanting to write a frustrated response to a certain massively popular children’s fantasy series, but in addition to English school stories I also took inspiration from Buffy, Charmed, Animorphs, Gemma Doyle, Yu+Me: Dream, yuri anime, and the Elemental Logic series

it’s some kind of law of nature since 2020 that Taylor Swift will come out with a song that is eerily similar to the subject of my current writing project after I’ve begun working on it. I don’t know what I’ve done to make this happen but I don’t think it’s going to stop any time soon.

since it's october now let me shamelessly take this opportunity to promote my webcomic that is returning to regular updates this month! it's got monsters and vampires and some blood-drenched little guys doing their best 🩸 www.lieswithincomic.com

Hello! I’m Lucy or Lucille, and I’m plotting book 3 in my urban fantasy adventure/mystery/romance series, Blood Ties and Brickways! In book 1 Meg solved her parents’ murders, in book 2 she got scammed and learned she was being haunted, and now she’s maybe got to resurrect an undead lesbian god-king.