The first and most important step when using an oven is to preheat all the pans you store in there to 425.

I have the instrumental part of a song (which may or may not have lyrics—I can’t remember!) stuck in my head. I tried humming it to both Shazam and my dad with no luck. This is tortuous.

A synonym and a little story within a story for today's #WIPSnips: Melirin is telling the story "The Imposter's Last Lie" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#QueerWritersChat 5: Gems and Star Flowers is up for pre-order, and the audiobook is up already! books2read.com/gemsandstarflowers Also, I'm open for cover and art commissions! ko-fi.com/amarajlynn/c...

#QueerWritersChat Thanks for hosting! I'm hosting the Dracula's Anniversary #Bundle on #itchio and sales have slowed down drastically. We have some great mature rated #vampire #books for you to check out! 28 for $25! #QueerWriters #writesky #writers itch.io/b/3663/dracu...

My debut, He's Not for Me, comes out on June 2! It's a high spice second chance romance about two lonely souls who are just right for each other. Preorder: a.co/d/05oC7XA8 Also, I'm hoping to have more to say on the Sam and Max punk rock story soon — stay tuned! #QueerWritersChat

#queerwriterschat gets the announcement first: as of today, preorder for Balances is live on kobo! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/balances-1 More options to follow in the next week or two. This is just the first.

#QueerWritersChat Thanks for the chat! I love stories about healing, and if you do too, you could check out my books! I have two books and a short story! Sweet & Wild: books2read.com/u/bzNng9 The Need for Dandelions: books2read.com/u/meYkPE Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io

speaking of healing, *pats roof of THE LORD OF THE WOOD* this baby can fit so many disabled characters! and it comes out on July 21 and I think it'd be dope if you preordered it or added it to your TBR www.elizmanderson.com/the-lord-of-... #QueerWritersChat

#QueerWritersChat Wowza, this chat flew by! Per usual, I have nothing to promote, so time for another good ol' book request. What's a queer book you've read that you found cathartic/healing?

#QueerWritersChat A4: Bahaha sorry, it's just that like me, my characters often need someone else to convince/force them to rest and heal both physically and mentally 🙃

#QueerWritersChat A3: I typed out a whole answer that was like "I don't think I have" only to remember that the dad of one of the POV characters of my shelved YA fantasy book about shapeshifters was their community's healer 😅 So, yes, once!

#QueerWritersChat A2: It definitely can be! You can explore aspects of your character/background through different characters, and it may be cathartic. Often the lies that characters need to unlearn can be tied to what an author had to learn to love about themselves when it comes to romance. (1/2)

#QueerWritersChat A1: Hi everyone! I'm Leah (she/her) and I'm writing the first draft of my Be Gay Do Crimes WIP. I wrote 433 words today, and I'm hoping I can finish writing the chapter by the end of the day tomorrow 😅

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat! Our theme this week is: Healing Questions will also be reposted to @queerwriters.bsky.social. Remember to use the hashtag so we can see your answers! Save promo for the outro, please! Introductions at :05! @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writingcommunity

I may have cried a little www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I'm a trans person, and if that makes you feel icky I really don't care. Our rights are not worth less than your discomfort. The world does not belong to you & the idea that you can dictate our ability to exist and move freely reveals an entitled cowardice that you should be ashamed of

The silence that follows is both sharp and brittle—when it breaks, someone will be hurt. #FaveLineFriday #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingSky #WritingPrompts (literally just wrote this line a minute ago😅)

We have model contract language ready to use, and we recommend writers include these clauses in their contracts.

Hi, wondering how to write good image descriptions and #AltText? Here's a detailed breakdown for you 🧵 [I am not claiming to be an expert, this advice is based on my personal experience as a visually impaired person.]

"opportunity" #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#SFFChat Outro: Thanks for the chat! I don't have anything to share, so it's question/prompt time. Who is a person in your writing community whose work you'd like to shout out?

#SFFChat A4: For Ness, it's a sense of camaraderie and support. It's about having each others' backs even when things are terrible.

#SFFChat A3: I'm a big fan of the "found family" trope. Cascade Failure by L. M. Sagas depicts this very well. I also liked how community is depicted in A Half-Built Garden: navigating different communities' (& people within those communities) ideas of how to react when aliens show up on earth.

#SFFChat A2: Other than this chat and in general posting on BlueSky about the SFF books I'm reading and writing, I haven't engaged much with the SFF community. I'm more introverted, so I tend to prefer online spaces. I enjoy geeking out together about magic and science. (1/2)

#SFFChat A1: In my current WIP, Be Gay Do Crimes, the main character Ness longs for a feeling of community, of belonging and being safe.

#SFFChat Intro: Hiya! I'm Leah (she/her), and I have started reading Dracula. I'm 19% of the way through it, so basically I just got past the part where Mina is all "dearie me, I've received three different marriage proposals in like a day!"

IT'S COVER REVEAL DAY!!!!!! 🥀😭🥀😭🥀😭 Look at this gorgeous art by @sylleth.bsky.social???? The typography by @goldfinchbkservice.bsky.social??? Dream team, omfg. My queer fantasy romance, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher and Dragon Age, comes out this fall! 🥰 #QueerAdultBooks 🌈📚💙📚

(these dems voted for it, if you see your rep's name on here, give them hell)

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

I reached 80k in my Be Gay Do Crimes WIP ✍️

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

#QueerWritersChat #🌸🦌 Beautiful, But Deadly is being released next Saturday (23 May)! It feels surreal. Perfect for people that love monsterfucker awakenings and wished the BatB Beast STAYED a beast! Official Page: gt-anthony.itch.io/beautiful-bu... 😁 And a Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I have some sapphic novellas & short stories up for perusal! While my music taste is often genre ambivalent to a point, my writing sticks in the broader fantasy category. kris-madigan.itch.io #QueerWritersChat

#QueerWritersChat Q5 Thank you for hosting! If you want to check out the books I wrote for my playlists, you can find them here! Sweet & Wild: books2read.com/u/bzNng9 The Need for Dandelions: books2read.com/u/meYkPE Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...

#QueerWritersChat like gallows humor? Non-binary, ace-spec leads? Standing up against corrupt, fascistic leaders & defending others from them? Check out Aloe! Part of the book bazaar summer bonanza launches May 28th, sign up now! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

#QueerWritersChat A5: No promo for me, just book rec requestssss What's a queer book you've enjoyed where music plays an significant part?

#QueerWritersChat Thank you to everyone for sharing your playlists and/or favorite artists to listen to! I am so ready to discover new songs 🎶

#QueerWritersChat A4: Hah, Spotify will tell you the artist I listen to the most is Olivia Rodrigo. As for an artist that I often find inspires me to write, I'd have to go with Hozier.

#QueerWritersChat A3: Kind of? My reward to myself is that whenever I finish drafting a chapter, I get to buy a song. So, here's the one I've been making for the 1st draft of my Be Gay Do Crimes WIP. Some of the songs fit the book and others I just like 🤷‍♀️

#QueerWritersChat A2: Yes (usually)! Often I just put my liked songs on shuffle. If I'm hyperfixating on a song, I listen to it on repeat for hours. Most recent hyperfixation song: Joshua Tree by Rozzi

Hi #QueerWritersChat! I'm Leah (she/her) and I am * still * writing the first draft of my Be Gay Do Crimes WIP, an adult fantasy romance. One of my CPs sent a reel to me today about taking 5 years to write a first draft and I've been on and off writing this draft since Dec 2021 😅

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat! Our theme this week is: Playlists! Questions will also be reposted to @queerwriters.bsky.social. Remember to use the hashtag so we can see your answers! Save promo for the outro, please! Introductions at :05! @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters

Today is Nakba Day, when we commemorate the roughly 750,000 Palestinians who were forcibly displaced by Zionist militias during the 1948 Palestine War. Acknowledging the Nakba and making restitution is the precursor to building a better future for everyone living in the region.

So excited about this one, friends. ❤️

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

The way AI is being quietly deployed during our most vulnerable moments is terrifying. We don’t have any idea who has access to this info, how it’s stored, or how much of it law enforcement can get. It’s like no one believes HIPAA exists when AI is involved and I HATE it

A synonym for today's #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I've just started reading Dracula. The very first thing Dracula says is, "Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!" Like "I am greeting this human lawyer in a normal and not at all odd way!"