Can't talk about it yet, but my Billy-Elliot-In-Space story has finally found a home ✨️⚡️🪰

It's not too early to start working on your submissions for the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's 2027 fiction series! 2027 will be the final year for the fiction series, so this is your last chance. I've put the call for submissions up on the website -- spread the word! alpennia.com/blog/2027-fi...

✨️LAST DAY TO SUBMIT!✨️ Give us delectable, sumptuous, absolutely FILTHY speculative erotica to enjoy over the weekend 😈 It's like Gollum said: we want it raw and wriggling 🐙💦 #erotica #monsterfucking

3 days until subs close! If you haven't submitted an unconventional monster erotica yet, THIS IS YOUR SIGN! 🐙👽💦 We want hot, experiential smut that's weirder than your mainstream vampires and werewolves 🐌🐍🥵 www.nygelmag.com/submissions

Real question: How do you get un-tired?

Final countdown for issue 3 submissions!!! Get your oopiest goopiest monster smuts in ASAP! (we close July 10!) We pay and allow simsubs! www.nygelmag.com

The NYGEL origin story 🐙 (basically our EIC got tired of a magazine like this not already existing) Please consider supporting our spicy mission, and be sure to submit! Our window is open until ✨️July 10✨️ medium.com/@draftingthr...

I love research but damn if my brain isn't pudding

Submissions for FIYAH #40 are OPEN! Deadline July 31. Get more info about "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars" at the link! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Comfort read as indicator of overall well-being... she canna take much more o this, Captain levels.

Finished Star Trek novel. Went to shelf to get the next one and I DON'T HAVE THAT ONE. HOW.

Too tired. Want sleep. Why body like this. Please.

First official author event at Tsunami Books! We had so much fun reading from our gay romcom LESSONS IN TIMING, talking cowriting and the importance of queer representation in fiction, and answering questions from a receptive audience 🥰 Happy Pride, read queer all year! 🌈

First official author event at Tsunami Books! We had so much fun reading from our gay romcom LESSONS IN TIMING, talking cowriting and the importance of queer representation in fiction, and answering questions from a receptive audience 🥰 Happy Pride, read queer all year! 🌈

A fun time at Tsunami Books last night with @thepaintedlion.bsky.social and L.L. Mason. #authorevent #eugene

Ready for our first author event at Tsunami Books in Eugene OR! Happy Pride! 🌈 @mayadrocha.bsky.social @thepaintedlion.bsky.social

Have you sent in your smut yet? 👀 NYGEL is open until ✨️July 10✨️ for explicit, speculative, monster erotica that you think is too weird to get published—we want it unique and we want it HOT! 🐙🌈💦👽 www.nygelmag.com

Yesterday, my co-author @thepaintedlion.bsky.social received cash from a book seller in exchange for books. We've sold over 1000 copies, but this physical interaction -- we give you the book we wrote, you give us dollar bills-- was a first. Felt different.

✨️Clean sheets. Full fridge. Good books to read.✨️

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

The "fine" that I am had never been more Winchester

Heavy.

Nothing feels as good as sunshine on your feet.

Can't recommend this enough. Remember how it used to feel looking through DVD extras? Closest I've come since.

SIGN up NOW at sandersantiago.com Newsletter comes out FRIDAY! 6/19 #novel #books #writer #romancenovel

Folks: if you have a research question about lesbian history for your writing project, two places to start in the Lesbian Historic Motif Project are the index of podcast episodes (alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...) and the lists of content tags for the blog posts (linked in the sidebar of each LHMP post)

Culture and mental health are a weird mix. Noticed the other day that certain numbers in my life are recurring recently and have been vibrating at a low level of anxiety since. One extra Tiktok follower just regulated my nervous system.

Officially back on deadline. Here we go.

Just got a big car bill, which is scary, but it was coupled with the realization that I can pay two thirds of it with royalties/story sale money. And that. Is a feeling.

@diabolicalplots.com wouldst thou help a poor squidfellow out? 🐙🙏🙏🙏 www.nygelmag.com/submissions

✨️AUTHOR EVENT INCOMING✨️ Me and @mayadrocha.bsky.social (Sylvia Barry) will be at Tsunami Books in Eugene, OR 6/27 for a #PrideMonth author event! We'll read from our gay romcom, discuss cowriting, and all things queer lit! 🌈 It's free, so swing on by! www.tsunamibooks.org/events-calen...

IT'S HAPPENING.

Goddammit

we are planning our first ever book event which is an unprecedented career moment for us and the book is about a cartoonist who is attending a big convention which is an unprecedented career moment for him and I'm sure everything will be fiiiinnneee

Having a day where I can't trust my perception of anything or anyone. Cuz my stomach hurts.

Any #authors of #lgbtqbooks in #Eugene Oregon?

NYGEL is re-opening subs ✨️tomorrow✨️ for our third (!!!) issue! We want: speculative, unexpected, unorthodox, just plain hot and weird erotica that you think is wildly unpublishable 👽🦑🍆💦 Go further than mainstream, conventionally attractive monsters—let loose, get freaky, give us your worst 😈

There was a time in my life where I would put my hands in my pockets and find condoms. Now it's N95s.

24 hours left! 🥹 THANK YOU to everyone who helped us reach our goal! ✨ With the finish line behind us, we still have time to reach our stretch goals—and you can get some merch while you’re at it! Again, from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU! 💜

This weekend I will write the last chapter of part one of this fucking book even if it leaves me bitter and spent at the end. I will push through on negative energy, like worn away break pads, like a knee cap with no cartilage, I will work through pain and apathy and my family shall suffer for it.

Censorship and fascism shan't stop us from writing and producing the weirdest, horniest monster smuts you can imagine (and especially ones you can't 😉) 🐙💦 www.nygelmag.com

The absolute tragedy of realizing I left my book at home...😔

I know I've been reading too many Star Trek DS9 novels when every capital Q I scan for gets me excited, and then angry when it's not a Quark mention.

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Re-reading the original Chaos Walking trilogy now, during these male loneliness epidemic times, is a special kind of whaaaohfuckohffffuuuu

Finished another short Fleet story... now for the hard part where I don't look at it for a few days.

Some things even cheesecake can't help

Devastating news. I was a subscriber, love the magazine, and both FIYAH and the IGNYTE awards have been a game changer for the speculative fiction world. (Wondering if alongside crowdfunding and donations, maybe those with considerable means inside the SFFH community would support.)

NYGEL reopens subs ✨️June 1,✨️ so y'all better be getting those weird smuts ready! 🙏🌈 Vampires and werewolves are so yesterday, give us something unique and unexpected! 🐍🐌🐲👽🐙🌲🌷📚 In the meantime, peep our 2 published issues to see what we like 😈 www.nygelmag.com