Thank you to everyone who applied to participate in the SFWA Career Mentorship Program! Applications are now closed, and those who applied can expect to hear back by March 21.

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#WIPSnips Have the singular "medium" instead, from Chapter 15 of THE DEVIL'S BIND 💙📚 Irene is being shown around the Hall of Records, where each and every human life is documented and preserved.

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It's March, which means next month is #IndieApril - a month where people all over the internet commit to buying and reading only #IndieBooks! To celebrate, we'll be spotlighting one indie author per day - and you can apply to be one of those authors RIGHT NOW using this form:

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🚨NOVELLA NEWS🚨 Veteran hunter Nadine accepts a high-paying bounty to capture a crafty art forger, expecting an easy job... but one look at her mark tells her she's in over her head. 💙📚🪐 Now priced at $2.99... forever! Available on Amazon, Ko-fi, Itch, & Payhip! elizamares.carrd.co#catmouse

The Best Kisser in Prague 🇨🇿 Amid the post-Revolution chaos of 1994 Prague, two expats determined to ‘kiss and run’ find their philosophy derailed by a single night of connection. #WSPit #W #A #Hi #R #L #WSPitWIPs

In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. ཐིཋྀ THE MOTH KING (109K) ཐིཋྀ #WSPit #W #A #F #R #ND

A dark romance that drives a man to madness. After the horrific death of his lover, R.M Renfield receives a letter from the mysterious Count Dracula calling him to Romania to help the Count to manage his affairs. He didn’t expect to become one. A prequel to "Dracula" #WSPit #P #F #R #D #LGBT

When demon warrior Ashrah finds a sapient sword, she embarks on a quest for freedom that will change the realms of the undead and the living. 🐉 Asian-inspired 🥋 Wuxia/xianxia elements 🌈 A queernormative world with sapphic MCs 🦇 A vampire society 😈 So many demons! #WSPit #W #A #F #LGBT #ND #In #CS

"Virgil Mora burned in Hell. It was a pretty good job." Virgil has 3 months to turn around a vampire ran Ohio gas station to save Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for, from a celestial pink slip. But old mistakes, come back to haunt him. Literally. THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS #WSPit #W #A #F #Hu #LGBT

#WSPit #A #W #F #LGBT ⚔️ WHAT RETURNS ⚔️ A Seer with indecipherable visions, a knight returned from the dead, & a motley team of spies & mages must form a plan to defeat a grief-mad necromancer-queen & her massive undead army, preferably before the continent is swallowed by civil war. No pressure.

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

🌹 Volume I and Book 1 of The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya begins today! thecarpetmerchant.reimenayee.com/comic/volume... We start with Zeynel in the middle of tempting a client with magnificent carpet wares, and with me contending with the fact that I'd be drawing so many elaborate patterns.

Three days, slightly under $3k to go in order to fund WHAT ELEGANT STARS, a space opera & fashion anthology that I am deeply, deeply excited to write for ... if it gets funded. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Here's a new bundle for Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! We're celebrating with this awesome bundle of 23 works starring aromantic and arospec characters for just $23 (including Capt. Austin Queen in From the Grave of the Gods). Pick it up here: itch.io/b/3517/aroma... 💙📚🪐 | 📦📚

Announcement: Next month I'm running a War March ebook bundle on itch. It'll last all of March and will feature a collection of stories containing battles and soldiers alike. Fantasy, sci-fi, and modern military stories are all welcome! Sign-ups are open through the 23rd: forms.gle/nwhTguWjvTPm...

2026 basically

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished. I have neighbors everywhere.

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Writers--I'm open to queries for the next few weeks. I'm looking for YA/MG/PB and adult and kid NF. Take a look at my #MSWL and see if we might be a good fit! manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/sh...

It’s out!!!! Go read it!!!

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#WIPSnips No "perish," but plenty of "died"... From Chapter Thirteen of WHAT RETURNS 💙📚

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Don't enter this. You'll lose all rights to your story. Period. Competitions like this need to be called out, so they learn their good reputation shouldn't be used to steal the bread from writers' mouths. And that we're not all clueless rubes waiting to be taken advantage of.

One more day until this amazing novel is released! Grab your last-minute preorders while you can 👀

WHAT RETURNS is a WIP dark romantic fantasy novel featuring... 💀Nationalism & civil war 💀Hero worship 💀Chosen/found family 💀Overcoming grief & trauma 💀Lady knights 💀Childhood friends to lovers 💀The slowest of burns 💀Queer-norm setting 💀Soft magic system and it's sapphic! 🏳️‍🌈 #questpit #W #DF #R

🥀WHAT RETURNS🥀 A Seer with indecipherable visions, a knight returned from the dead, & a motley team of spies & mages must form a plan to defeat a grief-mad necromancer-queen & her massive undead army, preferably before the continent is swallowed by civil war. No pressure. #questpit #W #DF #R

#WIPSnips The opening of Chapter Four, from WHAT RETURNS 💙📚

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My editing & beta reading comms are open for #SFF & #romance projects of all lengths! $1 books a no-obligation email consult. I offer a sample chapter upon request, & I have reduced rates for marginalized and/or in-need authors. Book your consult at the link below! 💙📚 ko-fi.com/elizamares/c...

#WIPSnips An almost-full page from Chapter Eight of WHAT RETURNS, after a plucky young guard asks Valerie if the soldier life is really as good as it's chalked up to be... 💙📚 warning for gore & descriptions of violence

We all need an occasional reminder, so listen up. Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

Gift link - we all need to read this. Shoot this Resistance into my veins! After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CAT/MOUSE!!! 💜 One year ago, I released my first novella into the world, and it's been a true delight to see how far it has reached! Thanks to everyone who bought and read this silly little space-lesbian romp.

#JanuaryWorldbuilders Caveat that the non-soldiers of the gang aren't expected to actually fight, instead being trained in the art of dodging pointy things, but: Selba (eventually) gets a polearm, specifically a pike. It's easy to use with minimal training & doesn't require close proximity.

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

Reminder that fellow writers are your companions, not your competitors. We all want the same thing, and we should support each other along the way! 💜✨

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS

⚓FROM THE SEA FRET⚓ Callum Point moves to the dead-end town of Perne to scrape together a new life. Unfortunately, what greets him is a place rife with secrecy, religious zealots and creatures beyond comprehension. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #H #OV #TR #LGBT

Racthoh's Tale: Racthoh, an exiled elf confronting profound loss, demands vengeance from those who destroyed his home and family. Alongside a compassionate Paladin and a struggling minotaur, they navigate a war-torn world of forgotten gods, necromancers, and dragons. #BluePit📖 #F #A #Q

AN EDUCATION IN MALICE x PETER PAN A cranky immortal & a smug pirate are forced to work together in order to save their loved ones from their common enemy: Peter Pan. ⚔️Enemies to Lovers 💀Dark Reimaginings 👩‍❤️‍👩Bi FMC × Lesbian FMC 🫂Found family 🌶️Spicy Sapphics 🩸Pan-pires #BluePit📖 #A #W #F #H #LGBT

CONAN x LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS VAYAL THE HUNTER is a sword and sorcery novella about a guy who hunts a demonic shapeshifter. 🐸genderless communist frog-people 🌳trees the size of mountains ⚔️plenty of battles/monsters 🐛giant centipedes 🪦grief 👬power of friendship 👑ambitious protag #BluePit📖 #A #W #F

#Bluepit Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space 6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy? #Q #SF #SFF

It's the Year of Our Undying Queen Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine. The disgraced priest and serial philanderer Dr. William Savage has just been resurrected by his ex wife. And he's about to be tried for treason. Featuring: 💀priestkink 💀toxic m/m/m 💀regicide 💀enemies with benefits #sludgepit

#BluePit 📖 #W #A #F #LGBT All her life Selba's had smoky visions of the future, but they're never helpful. She can't predict weather or fate, & certainly not her BFF's tragic demise. But when her dead friend returns & asks her help to end a civil war, Selba's finicky Sight might just save the world

#BluePit📖 #W #A #F #LGBT DEADGIRLSWIP (working title) is a dark sapphic fantasy novel featuring... ⚔️ Lady knights 💗 Childhood friends to lovers 🔥 The slowest of burns 🏳️‍🌈 Queer-norm setting ✨ Soft magic system 🛡️ Nationalism & civil war 🥀 Hero worship 🤝 Chosen/found family 🪦 Overcoming grief & trauma

Having relevant university memories dredged up now, and I can’t help but share. My bachelor’s was in technical writing. In one of my first classes, the prof (noticeably queer) spent most of the time teaching clarity in writing and instructions. One lesson, he gave us documents from Auschwitz.