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Indie book authors, you have a whole day to yourself tomorrow. Musicians, crafters, artists and others, your day is Wednesday! (Also don't post your books in this thread, post them at the link above)

Traditionally-published authors (print/ebook/audio): Promote your books today in the 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide! Thousands of readers to connect to your work! Follow the link below to tell folks about what you have available to them this holiday season! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Happy #ArtAdventCalendar! I'll be reposting the art I made this year. Day 1: Corvid Lovers

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

Hey friends. If you have a traditionally published book this year, you should leave a comment in @scalzi.com 's post. whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t... As you know Bob, other types of creators (e.g. indie writers and artists) will get posts later this week). John is a very good egg about this.

It’s really fun to be a historian. We are fun at parties. We will absolutely not ruin your traditions by explaining the history of them.

Choose your strength: #Health, Wealth, or Wisdom? Choose your vice: Envy, Sloth, or Pride? Choose carefully: no refunds! All purchases and resulting life decisions are final! #vss365

"Nothing #matters" is the greatest lie someone who wants you powerless can tell. #vss365

She looked in the mirror and ran her fingers over the rough acne on her cheek, resisting the urge to pick a scab. She brushed with whitening toothpaste the third time that day. She smoothed her eyebrows but one stubborn hair stuck out. Suddenly, her #reflection shouted, "Are you done yet?!" #vss365

"What scares you most about robots? The guns? The enhanced vision? Their wordless communication with each other?" "No." "Then what?" "The #learning... Those other things we gave them. But if they keep learning... they won't need us." #vss365

I highly recommend this author and novel (one is the North American cover, the other is the UK cover). It’s fantastic, excellent read, 🤖🐬🦿🇳🇬🇺🇸.

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

A burst of color for your feed: flowers from yesterday's walk (thread): Calendula and water droplets #bloomscrolling #photography #FlowerReport #PNW #garden #macro #flowers

*playing guess who with werner herzog* werner herzog: does your person have the demented soul of a trapped demon, held infinitely against his will in a universe with no time, his pointless despair flaying his mind into shards me: yes werner herzog: is it clive

To the media, she was another statistic, another young victim of a dangerous social media challenge to garnish their articles and boost their clicks. It's like they were abusing her memory all over again. "But she was already #relevant," I whisper as I lay flowers on her grave. #vss365

"When I was young, my teachers told me anything I wanted would be #achievable given how bright I was." "And was it?" "Hell no! Turns out you need to work hard, too." "And...?" "And I wasn't much interested in that. Sometimes, I wish they'd never had such high hopes in the first place." #vss365

I’m having that thing where you log on to social and everyone is reacting to the new thing but the reactions are vague, aghast, angry enough that you’re struggling to figure out exactly what the new thing is. German must have a word for this.

"We often rate our pain from 1 to 10. But the hurt I'm feeling now without a piece of my soul... It's not #measurable. I need to get it back." "Is that possible?" "Souls, like matter, cannot be created or destroyed. My piece is out there somewhere." "I'll do whatever I can to help." #vss365

"For a Brew to Unweave Time, you must add these ingredients to the cauldron. Quill ready?" "Yes, Professor!" "Quartz, mantis molt, eye of a lost fish, lavender sprigs, and a cup of tea, cold and forgotten. Not intentionally cold: it must have been forgotten." "That's oddly #specific." #vss365

New writers: DO NOT give away your subsidiary tv/film/merch/derivative rights for a $300 short. Not even for legacy mag cred.

What y'all need to understand is that "writing for the market" is flatly bonkers in traditional publishing, because "the market" when you start writing is not the same "market" that will be there when you finish the book, much less when they finally release it 2 years later. Just write a good book.

repeat after me: the year is almost ending, but good things are still flowing my way. i've accomplished more than i often acknowledge. the work i've done on myself is visible in every corner of my life. i've grown, evolved & i am so proud of who i've become

'To crip something is to bend, compress, twist, subvert, and imbue disabled wisdom into systems, institutions, and cultures. As I’ve done before as a physically disabled person, I will now crip the world ... It takes a tremendous amount of emotional and physical labor to crip the world.'

This feels like an ad written, directed *and* acted by people who have 1. Never played a game 2. Never watched anyone play a game 3. Never seen anyone interact with Alexa 4. Never seen anyone interact full stop 5. Never been alone in a room?

"Just #transport me." "Where to?" "Anywhere but here." "One delightful alternate realm, coming right up!" #vss365

crazy IG em_clarkson

ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...

They said no one would read it. She wrote anyway. They said it didn't hit market trends. She wrote anyway. They said it was too ambitious for a new author. She wrote anyway. They said it wouldn't be real #literature. She wrote anyway. She wrote anyway. She wrote. Anyway... #vss365

It's always funny when young folks read or watch some unique, groundbreaking thing from 30-40 years ago and they're like "Yeah this is pretty cliched overdone stuff" 🫠

Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵

"There are things in life you cannot #measure." "You mean like love?" "No, you fool. I love you exactly 87.3." "That low?!" "Well, you forgot to pick up the groceries. Normally you're in the 90s." "Thanks..?" "Anyway, there are things in life you cannot measure... Like stupidity." "Come on!" #vss365

In this house we ask if someone's games are properly saved when we take turns on the Steam Deck or Switch 2 because we're a loving family who looks after each other's progress.

performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO! tell me about a book that changed you for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"

My mentions are full of people telling me not just about the books but about moments in their lives reading gave them, ppl who passed these titles along, the accidental match making of a book and reader in random shops and libraries, and of course, how words on a page made them into someone new 😭❤️

All I wanted to be was #famous. Back then, being a content creator seemed so fun. But now I see the cruel comments on the backs of my eyelids when I try to sleep. I feel the pressure to post 24/7... or the audience might move on and never come back. I perform so much I forget how to stop. #vss365

Hi! I'm Nicole Sune Sbitani, and I write speculative fiction: mostly dark scifi, but I also dabble in horror and fantasy. My seal is buried at the bottom of a mother-of-pearl chest and locks away the secrets every family hides.

They took our papers and our things. They removed us from our lands and our homes. They said we simply lacked the proper #education and we were lucky that the state would invest so much in fixing us. We could only take refuge in our memories, which-- despite our best efforts--began to fade. #vss365

I voted yesterday, but I'm wearing the sticker around today in hopes that it will remind people to get their ballots in. #vote

The Apex Book Company submission window is now open! 📚✍️ We're looking for surreal stories with unknowable horror, lush prose, and unique POVs. Please email your cover letter and manuscript to [email protected]. Full submission details: www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...

there's an unbreakable ancient bond between writers mentally preparing to write what's next and our characters mentally preparing for whatever the hell we have planned next

You pull me #apart Words fail me; I am breathless Undone with a glance #haikufeels

I legitimately hate how every website seems to think that what I want more than anything else in this world is yet another inbox to monitor and take responsibility for.

Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance. Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!

I conjured a pointy hat and placed it on my head just the right amount of crooked. I enchanted my skirts so that when I twirled, sparks flew. I braided newt tails into my hair. I dusted my lashes with spider legs. It's time to show all the other witches that I mean #business. #vss365

A #beetle skitters Small tracks in the shifting sands As fleeting as I #vss365 #haiku #poetry

"Stop. Don't #hover over my shoulder like that." "But I love watching you work!" "Try YouTube then." "It's not the same..." "GAH! How can a ghost be so annoying!" "..." "Don't look so hurt." "..." "Whatever, I'm leaving. I don't feel like painting anymore!" "...Never meet your heroes." #vss365

You undid me cell by cell, #atom by atom. And then after you broke me down into my fundamental elements you put me back together, but better. Stronger. All my flesh and metal hummed with this truth: I owed everything to you. How could I, a mere machine, not love its creator? #vss365