#FebOutlining Do you make maps to help you plan politics, journeys, or landscapes? If you have a draft map, share it here! (Please remember to use alt text.)

gentle advice for fellow indies: if you want people to check out your work, you need to put a link for people to go check it out if you ran out of space and it's in the reply, that's fine, but it needs to be somewhere that doesn't require someone going elsewhere to click a link

Allos, ilu, but I need you to chill for a bit. Aces, this is our time to shine. reactormag.com/backlist-bon...

#FebOutlining While I do make maps, they're still in the imagining stage for most of my projects. I'll definitely sketch something out as I get closer to writing, though.

#FebOutlining Do you make maps to help you plan politics, journeys, or landscapes? If you have a draft map, share it here! (Please remember to use alt text.)

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“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!

Hear my full review of NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD by @klschroeder.bsky.social (available now from @psychopomp.com ) and see how the drink is made at Bar Cart Bookshelf on YouTube. youtu.be/cRklHaLAlD4

#FebOutlining Do you make or commission art of your characters? Use dollmakers to build their looks? Share the art here! (Please remember to use alt text, and Do Not share AI-generated art; we don't do slop in these parts.)

Hi folks! Some of our friends in the Twin Cities have come back with another request! It's a heartbreaking one but the need is real, so if anyone can help get them more masks & filters for those on the streets to deal with being gassed constantly, that would be amazing!

Donate for Rent Relief to families in the Minneapolis area: gofund.me/263029176

In terms of more modern titles, this has been one of my favourite recent reads. I love the dynamic between the two main characters, and the magic system is both compelling and interesting. Plus I flippin’ LOVE me heist and espionage vibes and this book has those in SPADES!

I love commissioning art when I can. I shared a Khetris portrait yesterday, so today I'll post the other four pieces I have so far. 1. Grisira and Deleyora by @8thcreation.bsky.social 2. Grisira by @danilluzin.com 3. Deleyora by @charnelhousecurios.bsky.social 4. Grisira by @sovka.bsky.social

A milestone birthday for me today causing existential angst that even in the best case scenario, I have a limited time to Do All The Things™ One thing you can help me accomplish is spreading the word about this awesome friendship bundle! Reposts make great gifts💜 itch.io/b/3486/frien...

Juntos is a community-led, Latine, immigrant organization in South #Philly doing important deportation defense, community care work, and more. Spanish-language ICE hotline: 814-205-3293. #philadelphia Donate at the link: secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...

Any way please spend a few minutes calling your reps and yelling at them today

Article by @jessisreading.bsky.social, librarian with Tucson Library and cohost of “When In Romance” podcast, in @bookriot.bsky.social 16 of the Best New Romances by Black Authors. bookriot.com/best-new-bla... #Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #BlackBookSky #BookSky

I'm not starting an award. But I am going on a perhaps quixotic months-long exercise in spotlighting great quality early 2020s queer SFF. The details, the thinking behind it, and a bonus cringeworthy pun are here! I look forward to shouting at y'all about great books over the next few months.

#FebOutlining I do make art occasionally, although I haven't made very much yet for the projects I'm working on currently. Here's Senovar Zataja, one of the characters from Prism House.

#FebOutlining Do you make or commission art of your characters? Use dollmakers to build their looks? Share the art here! (Please remember to use alt text, and Do Not share AI-generated art; we don't do slop in these parts.)

🌹 Roses are red Violets are blue There are over two dozen books In this bundle for you 🌹 29 books for $25 bucks all week long Get in here: itch.io/b/3515/valen...

#FebOutlining Do you make fancasts for your characters? Who are some of the people you'd cast in your current project(s)?

You can support a good cause and get a little printable reading challenge zine from me in this bundle along with a lot of other cool stuff! Please check it out!!

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

It's Aspec Reading Bingo Day -- in which I recommend books for the year-long Aspec Bingo by @nerdydreamer107 and @queerbooksupremacy on Instagram. Today's prompt is NO ROMANCE One slide again! ♠️🌈📚

DO YOU LOVE RELATIONSHIPS?? Because there are two bundles on itchio right now for you! One for romance: itch.io/b/3515/valen... One for friendship (SFF): itch.io/b/3486/frien... I just think it's neat :3 (I'm in the friendship one obviously)

#FebOutlining I'm not really a fancaster--I just don't have a good mental encyclopedia of actors--but occasionally I'll see a face and say, "Yes, that's my little guy."

#FebOutlining Do you make fancasts for your characters? Who are some of the people you'd cast in your current project(s)?

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

The situation in Minnesota is still bad. Many people are still in hiding & unable to go to work or anywhere. ICE & other law enforcement still terrorizing people, abducting people, assaulting people. Keep calling your members of congress. Donate $ if you can. Spread the word. 💜 See below:

someone asked me recently if i could rec some more SFF books with butches beyond mine, which reminded me that i made a list for google books a while back. i’ve included that list plus some others i’ve read in the last few years! *as usual, fictional character identities are up for interpretation &c

Great Birnam to high Dunsinane Hill shall come.

Always fascinating to read a book that is technically adept and that does well at what it sets out to do--a book that I can admire as work of skilled craft--but that doesn't resonate with me. It really helps me dig into what I need from a book to be satisfied.

Boosting @laviecestmoi.bsky.social’s fundraiser once again. gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...

Submissions are open for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We want stories that include: an LGBTQ+ main character; a spec fic element; and an Arthurian element. Artworks or illustrations of stories also welcome! Check out the details: juliebozza.com/submissions-...

Hey y'all! The official book page for my forthcoming novel The Fist of Memory is up so you can pre-order it. Here: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-... or here: www.amazon.co.uk/Fist-Memory-... You can also add it to your GR “Want to Read” list! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... 🙏🏾🚀📖🤖

#FebOutlining Do you build character profiles as part of your prewriting? How do you do it--character development worksheets, character sheets from a tabletop roleplaying game, spreadsheets to make sure you remember what color everyone's eyes are?

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

We’ve paid rent for over 270 households so far in February and we currently have a waitlist that totals over $30,000. We distributed rents one by one. We can’t even think about March rent yet. You can help us here: gofund.me/5d4d1a571

Time for 2021! Thanks for all the 2020 recs, you can expect a shortlist of those early March. For now, what queer SFF out in 2021 (the year we thought Tr*mp was gone lolsob) did you really like? Like A- or above. See my starting list in the pictures and alt text. Please offer idea, please RT!

If you could pick any modern author for the Time War/Bigolas Dickolas effect, who would you pick? Many come to mind but I deeply believe that Kai Ashante Wilson and Sorcerer of the Wildeeps is very underappreciated. Would love for him to get some love, especially with his new novel next year!!

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

#FebOutlining I am definitely a spreadsheeter--it helps me to track things like name, physical description, abilities, specializations, family, backstory, overarching goal, factional allegiances, and relationships (depending on project).

I am genuinely really curious what would happen to people's self-concepts as creators if it were possible to make a life of art without worrying about whether art could pay the bills--if time for art weren't scraped from the leftovers after day job(s) and chores and childcare were done.

#FebOutlining Do you build character profiles as part of your prewriting? How do you do it--character development worksheets, character sheets from a tabletop roleplaying game, spreadsheets to make sure you remember what color everyone's eyes are?

Haven't shared this here. I did the shortlist prompts for last month's #Birbfest Graphite and color pencil in sketchbook. Species list in alt text 🎨 #birbfest2026 #birds #birdSky #nature #wildlife #TradArt #sciArt #art #animals #artists #sketchbook

One small thing you can do *right now* — donate $5, $10, $50, whatever you're able — to this rent fund for South Minneapolis daycare workers whose families are sheltering in place. Can we raise $5k today?? Whatever you can give matters. And if you can't give, can you share? givebutter.com/Rbpl0z

Distraught, enraged, and tired. An author cc’d @fiyahlitmag on an email to The Writing Atlas, a site dedicated to “cataloging short stories.” There are 130 FIYAH stories listed with (presumably) AI summaries. Some have LINKS to a Dropbox folder. Our issues aren’t publicly available for scraping.

It's our first #FebOutlining check-in! How is your outlining or pre-writing coming along? Have you discovered anything surprising about your WIP? What's getting you excited to write it? What new problems or puzzles does the project present? What are you planning to tackle next?