These sicko billionaires and their “customers” are monitoring our children on playgrounds and leaving the feed open for any perv to watch. 😡

It's awards eligibility season and we at ConCurrent are definitely eligible for one award: the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. However, if you think we're a good fit for other awards, please do consider us! Short fact thread incoming. 1/

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

call your senators and say:

Kindle Unlimited users, you can read A QUANTUM LOVE STORY for free right now! Seriously, I just discovered this and am not sure how long it'll last. Though if it's a time loop, maybe it'll just happen again. www.amazon.com/Quantum-Love...

The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors. Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

"What’s happening on our shelves isn’t a local quirk, it’s a national stress test of your rights... If they can get away with it here, it’s coming to your libraries too." time.com/7341120/book...

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

ARC requests are open for The Twice-Wanted Witch on NetGalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Summary of Amazon screwing over authors (& readers re. Recaps)- with gen ai bullshit this year. Related; - Bookshop.org US & UK share profits with indie bookstores -You can support Indies & Local Libraries by requesting books -Or buy direct from indies or on Itchio -Or support Canada & buy on Kobo🤷

Joy. Looking forward to millions of bad reviews, failed papers, and false opinions about books based on this “feature” hallucinating at readers.

Vote for The Librarians! 📚💙

THIS is why you never use embarrassing placeholder text, no matter how confident you are that it will stand out enough for you to spot it later. 😅

It's been four weeks since GOD'S JUNK DRAWER appeared in the world, and my thanks to all of you who've had kind things to say about it. May I also use this moment to nudge you into perhaps saying said things on your favorite online review depository? It really helps immensely and is appreciated.

Today is your LAST CHANCE to nominate your favorite books, movies, TV shows, book covers, and more for the Reactor poll!!! go go go go go go!!

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this. What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.

"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

it's here it's QUEER it's the 2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!! 🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈

Guess it’s time to call the senators again, but ughhh can these jerks just…stop? 💀 www.theverge.com/policy/82365...

The GOP is trying to sneak legislation into a bigger bill that would preempt state laws around the regulation of AI, and create a national environment with very little regulation of the technology. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

Lol lmao omg (sound on) #chickensky

SEATTLE-AREA FOLKS-- I know things are absolutely horrible right now but the job requires me to tell you this is happening one week from tonight. Almost exactly one week from right now, in fact. Stop by, listen to me and Django prattle on, get books scribbled in, get a little dinosaur. It'll be fun.

Heard a huge crash and came running to find… this.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Voice Actor Jon Curry reacts to the #ESO community's thirstiest Darien Gautier fan posts in this three part video series: beth.games/482GfRy

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🎉 Some news: Rears & Vices will soon be an AUDIOBOOK! I can’t wait for folks to hear this book performed in audio. Massive thanks to my agent, Cheyenne, for negotiating the deal -- I'm very excited to be working with Podium!! 🏴‍☠️🌈📖 (also, my first PM listing! 😭)

I've just started reading an arc of this and stopped mid-sentence to say: GOD we love some confident prose. GOD. Preorder this now, ship people. "Voicey" might have lost all meaning in recent years but this is it.

I’m doing the Print Run Novembo thing and aiming to complete my edits + at least a draft cover this month. But whoof the “Push hard and get a lot done” monthly challenges hit differently when you’re pushing hard to get a lot done all year. 🫠

I just found out that LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME ebook is only $1.99 for all your X-Files-esque vibes about alien abductions and broken families. Kindle: www.amazon.com/Light-Years-... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... Apple: books.apple.com/us/book/ligh...

What the hell?

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

I don't know how many readers are looking at social media on a Saturday so I'll be plugging this again next week. But THE PHOTONIC EFFECT is now upon Netgalley, my DS9 x Voyager x Mass Effect space opera where intersectionality + Rilo Kiley save the galaxy www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

I miss the days of early Bluesky when we all agreed that putting screenshots of ragebait losers from other websites on each other's feeds was totally Bad and Uncool and behavior Best Left Behind

Trunk or treat night!

right wing bigots have admitted - the “trans women in bathrooms” issue - the “trans women in sports” issue and - the “trans kids getting surgery” issue were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY are you paying attention?

Forgive me for the book shillering but today we're exactly *three weeks* out from GOD'S JUNK DRAWER. Preorder a copy now from your favorite local bookstore! Preorder two copies, just to be safe! Take advantage of that cool preorder offer I mentioned in the newsletter last week!

Casual reminder to #booksky that I have a witchy cozy fantasy if anyone is looking for a season-appropriate break from heavy subjects. ❤️

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

It's time to prepare, Spooky Season is drawing near! 🎃🧹🐦‍⬛ Witches Festival returns to Tamriel on Thursday, Oct. 23. How will you mark the date? 🔗 beth.games/4ndU9Vi

I wrote a guest post for The Nerd Daily! "Craving the Flavor of the Feral: Why We Love Witches, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Monsters in 2025". thenerddaily.com/katie-hallah...

I have some thoughts about this... On the one hand, these guys did nothing wrong. The sleuthing skills that led them to the solution are some of the same required for decryption. Disappointing to have the answer without the method, but still, good job to them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Just completely surprised and honored to learn my story He Who Ruined Everything has won Best Weird Humor in the Strangies! Thanks so much to @drabblecast.bsky.social and the Drabblecast community! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ www.drabblecast.org/2024/02/29/d...

Be a part of history. Together. Join your fellow players to combat the Worm Cult in the Battle for the Writhing Wall world-changing event. This one time in-game event is now live and will continue while the wall still stands. www.elderscrollsonline.com/writhingwall

Okay, so the big book tour for GOD'S JUNK DRAWER isn't going to reach the east coast, but if you're familiar with the Strand bookstore in New York and their Pick of the Month... you might be interested in signing up for their November sci-fi choice. (and it'll be scribbled in!)

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬