✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨ 🎭 a magician’s last act 💖 a burgeoning romance 🗡️ brothers at odds 📓 21 pages 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/H6oGDdB 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-final-ac... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... [ #booksky ]

👾 futuristic world ☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨ 📝 600+ pages 🔥 grumpy x sunshine 🗡️ revenge 🍃 lots of plants 💪 close friendships 🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59... [ #booksky ]

🌟 FANTASY SHORT STORY 🌟 🍃 fairytale 👩‍❤️‍👩 romantic 🔮 magic 🎭 second pov 🔖 story: mybook.to/WDd0F 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/fire-at-her-... 📖 gr link: www.goodreads.com/book/show/75... [ #booksky ]

🕯️🥀🍂 SHORT HORROR STORY 🍂🥀🕯️ One night, Jace finds a runaway in his barn. A boy with a horrifying story. ❌ no romance 🕸️ gothic-horror 📔 26 pages 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/b4aB7L 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/someone-else... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... [ #booksky ]

🚀 spaceships 🌡️ dark conspiracies 🎭 brotherhood ❌ no romance 🐛 strange creatures 🤖 futuristic 🪐 other worlds 🐈 a rescue cat 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56... [ #booksky ]

If you only listen to one piece of advice: Follow what makes you love writing. Prioritize that love for it over everything else. The rest will come. But learning to love writing again is a costly journey. Also yeah. Try to avoid murder.

Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.

My friend @kevinhearne.bsky.social and I are joining two other authors in an evening event at the excellent Kemptville, Ontario coffee shop Bubba & Bugs. Sat. Feb. 28 at 7 pm, 19+, tickets $10, reserve by emailing [email protected].

well, WSJ only “thinks” what the billionaires want them to think

Omg fuck off, last weekend I did the math on a pack of three uncooked chickens at Costco because they were on sale vs what it would cost to buy three rotisserie chickens for meal prep and the rotisserie chickens cheaper. Who is splurging.

This cover is absolutely GORGEOUS and I know a lot of my moots will be all over this 👇👇👇

Ah, yes, when an "indie voices" profile/promotion website has both @victoriastrauss.com & @bookspotlight.bsky.social blocked, that's totally not sus at all 😒 The fact that one of the biggest indie book event hosts is also blocked, @tessahastjarjanto.com, is also not sus😒 Beware of @metareelz.com 📚💙

5 more days until this #itchbundle of SFF Friendship books (and, unfortunately, the concept of friendship) are gone forever!

My favourite thing about the drone footage in the Olympic coverage (other than the incredible skill it must take and how INTENSE it is) is that you can hear the engine whirring and it just kind of sounds like it’s anxiously whining about the safety of the athletes and I can relate to that so much

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

Are you even a writer if you don’t occasionally look up a word to make sure you are using it correctly in that sentence?

**IN 3 HOURS**LIVE!!! COVER REVEAL !! SUNDAY 08 FEBRUARY 2026 - 1PM EST! *A BLACK DRAGON ON RED* ***DROWNED KINGDOM SAGA #6 !!!*** Guest starring @undertheradarb2.bsky.social ! JOIN US!!!

Every so often I need to assemble a few lines from reviews of BRIGHTWASH for various opportunities, and I am reminded all over again how lucky I am to have the most incredible readers. You guys rock, thank you so much for being part of BRIGHTWASH’s journey 🫶

show your self portrait I drew this for @krystlematar.bsky.social when she owed me a dollar for something. I don't remember what. Like most great works, the true meaning has been lost to time.

📢 The Anatomy of Fear is currently available free on Amazon for a limited time 📢 It's hit #1 in the US Fantasy Anthology and Fiction Anthology charts as well 🔥 12 fantasy horror short stories by 12 talented indie authors, this is a chance to try something new! books2read.com/theanatomyof...

The snow arrives in LEGACY OF ASH & STONE, Book 3 in the Tainted Dominion series, so it was a bit of a challenge to find a spot that wasn’t spoilery, but this passage only needed one name redacted so here we go!

#SFFChat I already mentioned Winterbirth, so now I’ll shoutout Mushroom Blues by @adrianmgibson.bsky.social! There’s another fantastic blizzard scene where the MC is really going through it and I absolutely adored the whole sequence!

#SFFChat currently only ONE of my WIPs takes place in summer if only because I wanted to push myself out of my own winter-comfort-zone! But of course the MC is not enjoying the heat and the humidity that I cursed them with because making MCs suffer is the name of the game around here 🥰

#SFFChat I read a book called Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley as a young adult and the battle in the blizzard changed my brain chemistry. It taught me that weather can be just as much of a character as any of the people. And being Canadian, winter weather especially makes it into most of my ideas.

Hello #SFFChat! I’m K Matar and I write dystopian Gaslamp fantasy. My favourite winter activity is skating, especially now that it’s canal and Winterlude season here in Canada’s capital region!

After pretty smooth sailing in my revisions of Ash & Stone since mid November, I’ve hit my first major “I don’t know what to do here” snag and I am trying really hard to be chill about it BUT I AM FAILING. THIS IS HARD. WHY DO I SUCK. WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF.

People often mention the banquet in Brightwash, and this is where everything goes sideways 🤭

What do you mean I have too many sapphic books already? I don't have these! Well, except my own, but that doesn't count. You should all grab this bundle too! 📚💙💕🌈📚🖤♿📚🌈📚🪐📚🌈♠️ #booksky #readersky #readers #books #booksonbluesky #queersky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

The hardest part of ideas (for me) is the plot. It’s been less than 36 hours and I already have ALL THE VIBES locked in. But what is it about?? What happens?? Fuck if I know.

“Oh you’re a writer? Where do you get your ideas from??” Oh well I’m twenty minutes into a documentary called “Secret Mall Apartment” and it’s given me an entire idea for an alt-history not-Ottawa called Bytowne (iykyk) about some kind of retropunk scramble against the greed of capitalism 🤷

This is who runs this account

EVERY TIME YOU READ A BOOK, A TECH BILLIONAIRE CRIES

I did not go to Costco with the intention of buying a rotisserie chicken and yet somehow I have arrived home with a rotisserie chicken

My last "technically Round One" review! This time for Jessica A. McMinn's darkly fun fantasy mystery, Parasitic Omens! beforewegoblog.com/sfincs-revie... Parasitic Omens is one of our semi-finalists & has already racked up a ton of Round Two reviews! 🔥 #SFINCS #SFINCS3

Turning on Forest now or else I’ll spend all morning happy sobbing over clips of that Mark Carney speech from last night and I don’t have time for that because I HAVE QUEER CANADIAN BOOKS TO WRITE 🥹

Working on a third book in a series makes it hard to share lines because a lot of the best stuff is spoiler heavy, but here’s a little no-context moment that’s going to blow reader’s chests wide open when they get there 😌

My new totally unrealistic dream is that I publish IN THE SHADOW OF MY BRIGHT FUTURE (jazz era crime drama + mushroom magic and dragons, with a transmasc MC in a toxic love-hate spiral with a rival hitman) and it does well enough that Jacob Tierney DMs me one day to ask about adaptation rights.

When the introspection fails

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

On a serious note, Grok produced millions of deepfake sexualized images of women and kids earlier this month. If you're one of those people, you can help hold them accountable. Share your story securely with @ultraviolet.bsky.social act.weareultraviolet.org/survey/deepf...

My new totally unrealistic dream is that I publish IN THE SHADOW OF MY BRIGHT FUTURE (jazz era crime drama + mushroom magic and dragons, with a transmasc MC in a toxic love-hate spiral with a rival hitman) and it does well enough that Jacob Tierney DMs me one day to ask about adaptation rights.

I'm happy to announce the first chapter of DEVOURING FORTUNE is up on the Kickstarter prelaunch page, so go check it out 👀👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

This is a really great list I highly recommend checking out

It's not beautiful visually, but here's my article reflecting on a year of reading trans, two-spirit, nonbinary, & gender nonconforming-authored works! It includes descriptions of each book or story to help you find something you might enjoy beforewegoblog.com/a-year-of-re... #transbooks #booksky

We're happy to announce The Big Indie Weekend is back! Round 2 starts February 20th. Featuring 40+ indie authors, hosts and creatives. We're not revealing too much just yet, but here's a sneak peek of who's involved. It's going to be epic! #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks #WritingCommunity #AuthorEvents

I love that feeling when you’ve been cluttering up your beta reader’s DMs all day trying to solve something, and all of that stewing pays off with a solution that you never would have thought of unless you started yapping. Also: ily @afictionalescapist.bsky.social sorry about all the messages 🫶

Never, and I mean NEVER, shut the fuck up about your creations, your characters, the things you made up with your very own human grown brain juices for all to hear and look at

Make or break you say? Well...

When I have an idea for characters and all the necessary worldbuilding but absolutely no clue as to what the plot might be 🫠 Idk she sees ghosts! And there’s magic tattoos! The vibes are immaculate, I swear!