An update about They Are Still Here - when we close, and what we're still looking for. You've got a month, pobl! @cherylmorgan.bsky.social @rozc.bsky.social @wtpress.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

This, this, this 🔥

This movie is SO good. Beautiful to look at, with a killer ensemble cast: Duvall, Michael Gambon, Annette Bening, Michael Jeter, Diego Luna, & Kim Coates. IMHO Costner is best with baseball and supporting roles (Molly's Game!) - but this is by far and away his gold star western (I said what I said).

Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.

book 9 coming in October!! (I should get going on that soon, huh)

Fantastic composition! Absolutely love the perspective and foreshortening.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Including direct from the author! 💜

Added more DRM-free ebook, comic, magazine and TTRPG shops! 💜 @glacierbaybooks.com @aneido.bsky.social @havenspec.bsky.social @farmergadda.bsky.social @lilliejharris.bsky.social @shirakipress.com @booksforkeeps.bsky.social @underbellypress.bsky.social @mathewkumar.com @hamletmachine.bsky.social

Take a look at @plutopress.bsky.social's Love and Revolution reading list and enjoy 40% off select books until February 20th - including DRM-free ebooks. 💜

Get the book: www.plutobooks.com/product/prac...

“Nobody has described these movements and ideas better than Eleanor Finley” Practicing Social Ecology by @eleanorfinley.bsky.social reviewed in @NewPoliticsMag: newpol.org/review/what-...

Born in March 2017, Libreture has grown to host over 20,000 ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs, for thousands of readers from all over the world. Each month Libreture directs readers to over 500 DRM-free bookshops. If you buy DRM-free ebooks and digital comics, Libreture is for you!

an AR-15 costs less than two sticks of RAM. this is a market economy establishing an incentive structure

Hockey Romances? Yep, We've Got Them! GOAL!!

The Indie Comics United Super Comics @humblebundle.com is out now! 💜 60 DRM-free digital comics from indie publishers Ablaze, Action Lab, American Mythology, Battle Quest, Drawn & Quarterly, Dynamite, Fantagraphics, Heavy Metal, Living The Line, Valiant, Zenescope, Hermes, and Green Ronin.

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Come visit our website. There’s plenty of fun stuff in there, and it took us a long time to get the vibes right, but it’s looking really nice!

pass the word

So the Fermi's Wake @scarletferret.com season pass includes: [email protected]'s Fermi cutaway -A Fermi/Wild West scenario for @exstasisgames.bsky.social's Meatbags TTRPG -New short story -Liz Gordon's reading recs -Alien lander concept art -Oh, and Fermi's Wake scarletferret.com/books/fermis...

And now: a Coconino love story. New twelve-page comic drawn by @bmure.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or download a high-res .pdf for a price of your choosing (process files also available for purchase): hagaipalevsky.itch.io/coconino (1/2)

Save over 50% with the The Dungeoncraft Collection III bundle deal today! Get it here: tinyurl.com/yjffymbm Includes Dead in Daggerford, Divaine and the Dandelions One Night Only, Chaos at the Convention, and more! #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons

The latest Bookshop Update is landing in subscriber inboxes. I've added 13 DRM-free ebook, digital comic, magazine and TTRPG shops to the list so far this year. Susbcribe the The TOC newsletter, and get ebook news and DRM-free bookshops updates straight to your inbox!

Added Indie Story Geek to the The Huge List of Goodreads Alternatives. 💜 Indie Story Geek is a review site that specifically supports indie books and authors (kind of in the name, right?), and uses @armedwithabook.bsky.social's Reading Experience system. 📊

I know I said that I'm not paying any attention to UK politics, but I'm sure other people who are interested in information hygiene will be curious about the fact the AI Minister has published a speech at this URL brit.dev rather than a gov.uk one

It always strikes me, in news items about AI licensing schemes and/or startups, how often authors are simply not mentioned: it's all about making things easy for publishers. Writers will need to fight their publishers--not just the AI companies www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Added more DRM-free ebook, comic, magazine and TTRPG shops! 💜 @glacierbaybooks.com @aneido.bsky.social @havenspec.bsky.social @farmergadda.bsky.social @lilliejharris.bsky.social @shirakipress.com @booksforkeeps.bsky.social @underbellypress.bsky.social @mathewkumar.com @hamletmachine.bsky.social

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

Reminder! This ebook for the sequel to THE NIGHT PRINCE & THE ROSEFINCH will only be available until we get the crowdfundr started in April! Hold on to your ebook receipt if you plan to get a physical copy as well~

Clarkesworld 11/25: Review by A.C. Wise locusmag.com/review/...

New in my shop: wallpaper & hi-res digital download of my personal piece "Dive In". Purchases over 3€ unlock all of my monthly journals, too. More importantly, it is the best way to support me and my art directly! 💚 Wallpapers: ko-fi.com/s/a9b1b418a1 Hi-res PSD: ko-fi.com/s/8521a2ba46

Valiant Beyond: The X-O Manowar - The God Hunt #2 is available now from @alienbooks.bsky.social Get it here: tinyurl.com/5xdnzwey Steve Orlando continues Aric’s quest for glory, honor, and community with artist Diego Giribaldi. #comics #comicbooks #ncbd

Hi hello, if you enjoy sapphic stories told with lush prose and you have not checked out my beloved oomf’s work you are missing out! $2.50 on sale is honestly peanuts for work of their caliber too. I feel like a broken record but I know a lot of you are hungry for good queer lit so here it is!

Yet again I will repost this (because the link periodically trashes itself). If you are wondering about my extensive backlist, and which book/series might best fit your current reading needs/tastes, I wrote this post for you (boy-band style): imakeupworlds.com/where-should...

The Cthulhu Mythos roleplaying magazine Bayt al Azif issue 6 is now for sale! PDF: US$12 Softcover (+PDF): US$25 Hardcover (+PDF): US$35 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... 128 pages - our biggest issue yet!

You can get Bayt al Azif issue 1 through 6 in print or digital! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

Bayt al Azif issue 6 is out! Let's look at some of the things included in this issue. First of course the awesome Dean Engelhardt's "CthuReview" covering THREE years of Cthulhu Mythos publications! Over 100 different releases Can you guess who published the most Cthulhu Mythos games in this period?

This could be relevant for this. I recently jailbroke my Kindle and installed Koreader on it. Any Kindle can be jailbroken, too. People don’t need new hardware to boycott Amazon and read other eBooks kindlemodding.org has the deets Koreader opens all the things for formats, too

Added @briefecology.bsky.social to Libreture's list of DRM-free bookshops, and uploaded the January issue of their magazine, The Eco Update.

ISSUE 6 SHORT FICTION ☆ @enemyofcruelty.bsky.social ☆ Benjamin Duncan ☆ Chandrika R Krishnan ☆ @chriscottom.bsky.social ☆ @dublinwriter.bsky.social ☆ @delgeo14.bsky.social ☆ Eric Herrington ☆Jason Graff ☆Jesse Binger ☆ Laurie Avadis ☆ @lorifontanes.bsky.social ☆ @madeleineswann.bsky.social ☆

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

Out now! BfK276, our first of 2026: Authorgraph interview with Neill Cameron, Alea Marley's Windows into Illustration, new Beyond the Secret Garden, predictions for the coming year & Barry Cunningham reflects on 50 years in children's books🤯#booksky #KidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

Bit of a Special Edition, this one! 💜

Well, no. Before I start flailing! This anniversary edition comes with a shiny new personal essay piece on a decade plus' worth of exploring demisexual fiction. It also features updates to the resources and recs list with shiny, fancy titles for you to check out. It's been TEN WHOLE YEARS OMG!

Hey guess what's back, back, back again for a TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION! That's right! The Princess who Didn't Eat Cake! Actual, proper announcement to follow, but I got excited and all that. Look! It's here: dovelynnwriter.itch.io/the-princess... I'm going to go flail at my terrible timing now.

Wednesday

Reminder since some people are misunderstanding, this is not about the books themselves being demonetized to the AUTHORS or being banned from sale, they're demonetized from the AFFILIATE PROGRAM where a website gets a cut when they link products on Amazon.

Here Amazon go again! If you'dprefer to buy your ebooks somewhere else, here's a list of over 500 e-bookshops - all selling DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Most are independent and author/publisher-owned. 💜

Available to pre-order direct from @shirakipress.com in DRM-free ebook format! 💜 And a new bookshop to add to the list. 👍