Please boost if you can! The deadline is tomorrow and I'm stressing a bit. :O

I’ve got bookmarks I’ve got stickers I’ve got short stories I’ve got an ebook I’ve got signed paperbacks I’ve got crochet membership boxes ko-fi.com/louellastone...

Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...

That's right, friends! STARLOG is back and I'm the editor-in-chief. We have so much good stuff for you in our first issue, coming this November!! Science! Sci-fi! Fantastic weirdness! Plus you can subscribe now to our podcast hosted by @jhoffman.bsky.social and @da7e.com!

Hey Shakespeare-heads, lend me your aid... What would be a cardinal sin or a fundamental flaw in a "Much Ado About Nothing" adaptation that would make it *bad* no matter the production value or quality of the writing/acting? What change would make you go, "Well they missed the point ENTIRELY"?

Northsky migration complete! that was much less terrifying than i expected it to be.

sometimes i get comments on the fanfics i posted years ago and it warms my heart to see people still loving these stories so long after i put them into the world. it's such an affirming experience to put your heart out there and have people see it and say, "this is what i was looking for."

"But wehh wehhhh, the big conglomerates, they are too much the conglomerating" I HEAR YOU! Fortunately @bookshop.org is also having ANTI-PRIME DAYS from June 23-26 and you can get free standard shipping! DELICIOUS AND TASTY AND FREE here's my store btw bookshop.org/lists/premee...

If there was ever a downside to being indie, it’s having to do your own marketing and have only your own time and budget to rely on. I’m currently having my worst month of book sales in years and it’s hard not to get blue about it. Like, I need a cheerleader’s cheerleader 🙈😩

And you can throw hundreds of dollars down on marketing and get no returns. That's not marketing failure-- that's publishing. Even trad publishers go through it. That's why reviews and sharing the books you like publicly is so important. In the era of AI trash, please help real authors.

I think a big thing here is like, you don't have to be an amazing writer to write a review. I have bought books because someone simply said "This was my favorite read this year." I don't need a reason other than that. Just sharing a cover sometimes will do the trick. The 5 stars on GR, also valid.

Setbacks in learning are often due to your brain needing to rewire and reset. You see it extremely visibly in toddlers, and while it's less obvious in adults, what is often called "art block" is just your brain rewriting itself. Try something adjacent to your art until you're ready to return

good morning to fans of women! If you're interested in helping us shape what volume 1 of our masc x masc zine looks like or just wanna stay up to date, follow the shiny new collective @futurebuff.bsky.social 😈😈😈

Gearing up to start promo for our next novella series! This will be another set of novellas alongside a short story collection, with an especial interest in queer speculative fiction. You can sign up here to get notified when we go live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Suggestion from someone who is on a whole lot of sf and f panels at conventions and has sat through a HUGE number of others where pros make recommendations: be able to recommend POC, queer, nonUSian, disabled and/or even, FFS, female creators who are not you or a BFF. You have a forum: use it.

To All A Fair Summer Solstice, whilst darkness reigns.

THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER IS HERE

it's Midsummer so I am contractually obligated to ask you to buy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS, my queer cozy fantasy about an old man cursed with immortality who hunts ghosts rather than making mortal friends who will die one day www.elizmanderson.com/links #LateNightWrite

Pride isn't over yet! Most of us know the reason for the season isn't just a celebration. It's about surviving prejudice turned into legislation designed to erase LGBTQIA+ people. You can help fight by picking up this bundle of queer books by queer creators until June 30! itch.io/b/3733/pride...

The annoying thing about doing a subscription drive is having to keep yelling about it. Doesn't work if I say nothing. Strange, eh?

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat! Let’s start by settling in! Introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on! No links, please! We’re saving those for the end. Next question at :15! @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

Rising Cost Of Living Forcing More Buddhists To Continue Working Years Into Reincarnation https://theonion.com/rising-cost-of-living-forcing-more-buddhists-to-continue-working-years-into-reincarnation/

I usually don't share personal stuff on this account but Ali's been kicked off of the couch they were sleeping on, which is the crisis that I had to deal with during the #WeeknightWriters chat Please consider donating if you can & boost if you can't. This situation is very serious

Thank you to everyone for bearing with me while I dealt with a crisis tonight & fell massively behind! I love to see you all still having fun & chatting with each other #WeeknightWriters

"I love you. Don't die." (Watercolor edition) www.tumblr.com/eliotqueliot... I painted this for Queliot Week 2026, The Magicians fanworks event: www.tumblr.com/magiciansfan... #themagiciansfanart #queliotfanart #levgrossman #themagicians #quentincoldwater #eliotwaugh #jasonralph #haleappleman

You liked the title "Spiritual Arachnids and Other Unnatural Beasts Brought to Our Shores by Unscrupulous Fruitmongers"? That's a spiritual sequel to this 1882 classic! #WeeknightWriters

hi #WeeknightWriters! I'm turtle, an editor and writer mostly working with @duckprintspress.com. my current WIP is a short story retelling of the boy who cried wolf that will be published in our upcoming anthology, Wild and Full of Marvels!

i'm barely writing, but i did finish reading a whole book this week, which is more than i've been able to focus in... over a year. i'm also doing my assigned editing for my authors and having a good time focusing on other peoples' projects! #WeeknightWriters

I finished chapter illustrations for @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com earlier this week! A lot of little items that I cannot wait to see in action. I had a lot of fun doing them. I'm open to comms still! I'm working on my vgen page, but for now check out my carrd: earlronove.carrd.co#commissions

I recently read Monster, She Wrote and my TBR trebled from that alone. I already knew Elizabeth Gaskell for her social novel North and South, but now I'm a fan of her horror, too! #HorrorWritersChat

and once again, the artist is the incredible and highly recommended @artjinxinks.bsky.social

Thrilled to share the spectacular cover artwork done by Jinx Inks (linktr.ee/art.jinxinks) for our forthcoming anthology WILD AND FULL OF MARVELS: QUEER FANWORKS INSPIRED BY FOLKLORE AND FAIRY TALES. Kickstarting July 8! Follow our pre-launch page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

Check out this GORGEOUS cover! (Do I have a wlw Beauty & the Beast retelling in this one? I absolutely have a wlw Beauty & the Beast retelling in this one!)

Queer/ Neurodivergent/ Otherwise Disabled Authors with books on Itchio, This bundle is OwnVoices, for books with a significant character identifying as & or learning to manage queer/ neurodivergent/ disability life/ non-fic. See graphic for eligibility. Let me know if you'd like the sign up form!

So… I know shit is going down again. But my novella is really a good read, and I just want you to know that.

In case you missed the news yesterday.

A young person who was part of the 2023 Youth Summer Public History Institute that I co-organized here in NYC has now opened their own radical bookstore and mutual aid space in Jersey City called Stelton Distro. steltondistro.com - please support them and their space if you can!

pride month is a good time to donate to help us bring a used bookstore/cafe cooperate to queens! all of our worker-owners are queer, majority of us are trans, we have really good taste in books, and we all know how important it is for things to be affordable: givebutter.com/no-borders-c...

I'm putting together quarterly lists of forthcoming SFFH books published by small presses. I do my best to find the info but I can't possibly know every press or release, so I have a submission form. Please share broadly with small pubs, authors, and everyone & their dog so I don't miss a release 👇

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

one thing i love about being an editor is seeing the diversity of ways imagination works, and learning to see things through all of those different mindsets in order to help them tell the stories they want to tell.

sometimes I think my brain is so ineffable and my despair is uniquely correct, and then I lift some heavy weights and my brain goes, ”much wow, so strong,” and I become unbearable to talk to because I have to proselytize the good news of lifting weights.

Check out the stunning cover for my fantasy novel THE LEAGUE OF LOST SOULS, designed by Katie Klimowicz! Out March 2027 with Tor in e, print and audio (reader tbc). Up for pre-order now!

We're a third of the way through June, time to touch base about our fundraiser! So far, we've raised $86.81 to donate to the Queer Liberation Library and Transgender Law Center. Help us increase that by boosting this post and buying our story + art bundles! duckprintspress.com/shop/ 🌈 📚️

"This is cop mentality. This is putting people in a panopticon; this is assuming people are liars until they can prove they aren't ... [This is] cop mentality surveillance tech meant to appease bad faith actors; a group of people that prides themselves on never being appeased."

Anyone* asking you to provide extensive documentation obtained via surveillance software in order to prove your humanity is asking in bad faith. * lawyers you personally hired in order to represent you in court might have valid request but even that is suss

Happy Friday! Time to save on your purchase at Bad Hand Books. No code needed. Sale ends Monday. www.badhandbooks.com

"Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. ... he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain. " www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

Remember: Ms Maus is a Unitarian Universalist. And she did not use the encyclical as support for her case. A deeply held conviction is available to everyone, INCLUDING NON-THEISTS. Look at her reasoning, it’s universally applicable.

Now is a great time to check out some indie trans books for Pride Month! Aliens, supervillains, werewolves, wyverns, nuns, and more await your eyes.