In the last 3 wks you all knocked another 3% off this campaign. Which means there's only $5126 to close it out. I had to stop attending births without a car because surge pricing and inclement weather was making it dangerous for all involved. Finishing this campaign can get me back in the game.

✨ We are delighted to welcome ten writers to this year’s 2026 Novel Writing Workshop. These writers will be working to complete a novel draft under the guidance of novelist and teacher Dr. Karen Lord (CW instructor ‘18 & ‘23) ✨

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

ICE descends on Maine. "[Gov. Janet] Mills said, ‘Look, Maine knows what good law enforcement looks like because our law enforcement are held to high professional standards.... they don’t wear a mask..., and they don’t arrest people in order to fill a quota.’” abcnews.go.com/US/dhs-launc...

In ep161 we're riding the coattails of 3 #historicalfiction writers. We chat with authors Duncan Graham, Anne Vines & @dwnundint.bsky.social Paul Rushworth-Brown about their story inspiration, their writing process & what period in history they'd love to go back to. #Booksky #podcast #booksky

NYC standing in solidarity with MN. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Be safe ppl east of California!!!!

Upcoming event that @emmaliawrites.bsky.social will be lecturing at! Check it out! costumersofcolor.org/events/coco-...

Sincerely hope I have not caught something. I'm exhausted. Might help if I went to bed at a reasonable hour but I guess we'll never know.

America sucks ass right now But it is only not worse because of people constantly resisting and fighting and protesting

Hello, everyone. I'm now open to queries. Visit www.triciaskinner.com/manuscript-w... to see my #mswl. Please note I'm only seeking adult fiction.

No one hates your boundaries more than someone who chose not to defend their own.

Ethnic cleansing is crippling families AND society at large, one person at a time.

The problem with being a writer whose day job also involves being on a computer is eye strain. It really sucks. I've already had one ocular migraine this year and I dont want anymore.

DC can't even be a state & Greenland is supposed to be the 51st state? How about giving statehood to some folks who actually asked for it?

I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

Picked up my recent order from @ravenbookstore.bsky.social --"Speculative Whiteness" (because of a thread from @chanda.blacksky.app) and decided to pick up "We Will Rise Again" from their display of hopeful speculative fiction (@drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social).

Posted on ig but wanted to spread the love.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

I really want Black women to keep some of themselves for themselves. I want us to feel entitled to that peace/piece. I want us to preserve and protect our willing and soft hearts with guardrails and boundaries. I want us to stop running ourselves into the ground and calling it success.

With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

Another year, another dreamcon. Only this time as an author. #DreamCon

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

Yes I'm getting more books from the library when I already have books to read. No I do not see a problem with this.

Finally taking down holiday decor. *sigh* im going to miss the magic of the season.

It's #SundayYellow

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

My short story collection that includes The Pill 💊 is on sale for $5! Support an independent press and also me, your favorite unemployed author.

Mentally illness lies to you about how shitty things are. But has anybody taken a look at the real world?! There's so much to legitimately be concerned & alarmed about. It takes discipline to know what danger is real.

The headless horseman was thought to be nothing more than a myth until Drusilla Van Tassel had a frightening confrontation with him. She is plunged into a world of magic and family secrets. Splinter by Jasper Hyde. buff.ly/4e4eOHa #BlackBookSky #PNR #Romance

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

i know the December holidays are over, but my folks just sent me my gifts that i couldnt lug on the train home from NY, and you all need to see this BEST THING:

Do queer readers think reading the Wheel of Time is worth it? The gender essentialism makes me pause.

Countdown. The People's Library coming to you soon... Preordered yet? You really should. #booksky #blackbooksky #scifibooks

Very excited for this book to come out in February!!!

I read an interview today where Alison Bechdel talked about using chatGPT for a panel of her recent comic -- she prompted it and copied the results -- and I still don't know what to do with that. It genuinely feels in moments like this like so many of our art elders are failing us.

“Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand.” @aoc.bsky.social

Trying not to get my hopes up, but we've had several last-minute pledges today that have me wondering if we can possibly match our pledge total from last year. We're 15 writers shy of it. 🥹 getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/930533.html

Nearly 80% of the way there! Thank y'all for the support!

COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE and CBP challenging federal agents’ unconstitutional and illegal stops and arrests of people in Minnesota. We'll see the Trump administration in court.

✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨ Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up. This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year. Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!

tuck this one away: instead of telling someone with or recovering from covid "feel better!" (an imperative!) or (worse) "get well soon!"—two things someone with a virus with long-lasting impacts on one's health has no control over—try "hope you're getting the rest you need" which almost no one says

I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS

It's a new story day! "Bots All The Way Down" is free to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com . It's a fairy tale about Internet enshittification, and AIs talking to AIs, with a twist. www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=35448

Hey, you. Stop doomscrolling. Go take your meds. Eat something. Drink water. Go for a walk. Hug an animal. Call someone you adore. Breathe. We are inundated with fuckery. You still need to take care of yourself.

The stupidity is incredibly exhausting. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

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‘RHOA’ alum NeNe Leakes confirms long-awaited return to Bravo as Andy Cohen reacts https://www.inbella.com/1471700/rhoa-alum-nene-leakes-confirms-long-awaited-return-to-bravo-as-andy-cohen-reacts/ NeNe Leakes is back, baby! The “Real Housewives of Atlanta” alum will be making her long-awaited …