hi all! i rarely come to this part of town but wanted to visit and invite you to a virtual fireside tomorrow (on ONE MORNING SUN's book birthday!! 🎂🎈🦎 9/23, 7-8pm EST with MJ Anthony and Matteo L. Cerilli! readings! chatter! Q&A! gay shit!!!!! register here to get tickets: tinyurl.com/mvxxj27

so late, but love this 😍

And the first book sold out at #Worldcon is Pluralities by @thescreambean.bsky.social - some of our other stories are selling out fast so head over to table 408 if there’s something you’re looking for!

Putting on my Publisher hat, I have an announcement: Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK! It’s not open yet. But while we wait… AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.

I HAVE WANTED TO YELL ABOUT THIS SINCE DAY ONE (but my brain has not been great lately) BUT I JUST LEARNED I HAVE TWO DAYS AND EIGHT HOURS LEFT SO HERE WE GO IT IS GO TIME.

Get on board!! I'll need more people screaming with me I'm sure

📣SOHMENG HAS OPINIONS AND I BET YOU DO TOO 📣 itching to get your claws on a copy of ONE MORNING SUN before september 23rd? eager to tell the world how you feel about it? fill out the google form below to request a digital ARC!!!! 🦎📖‼️ ARC REQUEST: tinyurl.com/4me9wjvz

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Well this was an excellent thing to wake up to! Let's keep the momentum going and get this funded so I can bring you the conclusion to my queer firebending dragon rider series. Save my mental health and back it now 😂 🌈📚 #booksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/vri...

Oh my GOD it's so pretty and so soft !!

evan may has TAGGED me and so I am IT and by IT we mean a PROUD LIL QUEER GREMLIN

it is officially here!!! 😍 the cover reveal for ONE MORNING SUN, the final book in the Sãoni Cycle! please go take a look and yell with me about how cute my little guys are as they enjoy the sunrise together 🥰 @haleyrose.bsky.social has made magic yet again!!!! thank you LGBTQ Reads for sharing ❤️!

ppl keep mistaking Jurassic Park for a survival film against dinosaurs when it's actually a survival film against startup culture

I know you've tried everything, but have you tried just actually writing it?

Just a reminder that anyone can nominate books for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Only a week left to do so -- nominations close at midnight Pacific on March 31.

As a reminder, @utopiascifi.bsky.social is open right now for our Disability Pride issue until April 1st!! Please send me your poems to read! I'm specifically looking for ones centering disabled rather than caregiving or other experiences. Would love to read your poetic utopias!!

It’s worth saying that book sales are down across the board so far in 2025. If you love authors, buy their books and celebrate them loudly online. We really need it.

As a sidenote, it's weird trying to do the "buy my book" dance in the middle of everything going on. It's like trying to sell ice cream during a neverending earthquake.

This is an awesome list, and I'm going to be all self-serving and toss in my own trans-authored book:https://ecwpress.com/products/withered

We are BESHRANG with excite to see many CanCon friends are Nebula Finalists! Congrats @suyidavies.com, @kurellian.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, @sillysyntax.bsky.social, @vriccithode.bsky.social and @thesuiway.bsky.social!! EXTREMULOUS!! nebulas.sfwa.org/8528-2/

YES

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Anyone who treats any career path as easy is just plain uninformed. Building an audience in the self-pub arena is freaking HARD.

this has not left my mind since i first read it

current joys & victories: I am more than halfway done with edits on the sãoni cycle finale, I've happily reconnected with an internet pal after 14 yrs (my first BIG teenage friend breakup!!!), yesterday I took a very long walk through a beautiful local park 🌳 what about you? what's your Good News?

My silliness aside I want to encourage/support books by other authors that are feral and unhinged and that say oh no, we are not doing what anyone wants or expected. I am making you a story that doesn't understand rails. Put your rails aside. This isn't an product this is an interactive art exhibit

3 more days to back this wonderful anthology!!!! COMMON BONDS has such a special place in my heart; it's home to my first ever short story sale (which is still perhaps my favorite thing I've written?) and I am SO GLAD that the world is getting another heap of aro goodness. 😍

THIS IS SO COOL. LYNNE IS SO SMART. I love to scream about the whole gender/genre situation, and Lynne takes things to a whole new level here 😍

i'm participating in an incredible class rn where we study and then literally rewrite Torah, and: a) HaShem is everyone's worst ex b) this work feels a little like "I can fix Him" c) the anguish of that feeling is actually very spiritually grounding??? fighting g-d in a 7/11 parking lot continues!

rolling over on the beach to say that voting for the 2024 Aurora Awards ends TOMORROW! 🌟 for your consideration: PLURALITIES is partying it up in the Best Novelette/Novella category! wouldn't it be so sexy and cool if you voted for it? i think maybe it would. 👀

#Booksky LAST day for the #PrideStoryBundle! Get 13 great queer books by authors like Melissa Scott, Ginn Hale, Avi Silver, Sarah Pinsker and more and help support LGBTQ refugees! storybundle.com/pride

✨ONE DAY LEFT✨ to grab PLURALITIES (along with 12 other fantastic books!!) when you donate $20 to the 🏳️‍🌈2024 Pride StoryBundle. 🏳️‍🌈 this year, you can give a portion of your donation to Rainbow Railroad to help LGBTQI+ people escape state-sponsored violence 💜 storybundle.com/pride

This year's Pride StoryBundle includes the incredible novella PLURALITIES from my friend @thescreambean.bsky.social and WE'RE HERE 2022 from @cypayseur.bsky.social, Naomi Kanakia and @neonhemlock.bsky.social, plus a host of other excellent-looking queer SFF. Check it out! storybundle.com/pride

15 MINUTES! 😍

Help jamal:

This Sunday May 5th I'm going to be interviewed by P.L. Stuart on his Youtube channel for his Six Elementals interview series! 📚🎙️✨ Tune in at 11am ET for our chat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGx... Aaaand check out P.L's very kind words about PLURALITIES here: beforewegoblog.com/review-plura...

Hope you're as excited as us about this Best Novelette/Novella ballot (feat. @tiffmorris.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @nalohop.bsky.social @thescreambean.bsky.social & @fondalee.bsky.social):

Additional shout-outs to @augurmag.bsky.social staff @thescreambean.bsky.social and @kelllsify.bsky.social, nominated for Best Novella and Best Poem/Song respectively, and to the other Augur Magazine creators on the list. Incredible work from everyone. 💚 bsky.app/profile/augu... (3/3)

- T&F contributor @premeemohamed.com, nominated for her short story, "At Every Door a Ghost" AND her short story collection, "No One Will Come Back For Us"! - T&F Art Director Lorna Antoniazzi, nominated for her cover of Augur Magazine Issue 6.1! (2/3)

The Aurora Awards ballot is up! HUGE congrats to all the nominees! Special shout-outs to... - Jade Zhang, nominated for her cover of Tales & Feathers Issue 1! - T&F contributor @tiffmorris.bsky.social, nominated for her novella, "Green Fuse Burning" AND her poem, "Awakening" (1/3)

We're on this year's Aurora Awards ballot in THREE different categories! A huge congratulations to Lorna Antoniazzi, Dominik Parisien, and Justin Dill for your nominations. Check out the full list here: www.csffa.ca/awards-infor... #augurmagazine #csffa #auroraawards

LET'S GO CAN*CON BABES

a delightful birthday present for me: PLURALITIES is a nominee for the Aurora Awards!!! 🤩 this year's ballot is SO STRONG, and I am obsessed with every single work in this particular category!! 🌟 congrats to all the nominees, and THANK YOU to those who nom'd!!

And an extra shout-out and publishing sib @thescreambean.bsky.social for a nomination for PLURALITIES!!! Especially because it's also his birthday!!! 🎉🐍🎉🐍🎉🐍

Congrats to this year's Aurora finalists!!! Particularly stoked to see @waub.bsky.social @kateheartfield.com @afsulli.bsky.social @cornellwriter.bsky.social @sillysyntax.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social @mariahaskins.bsky.social plus ephemera and Scintillation on the ballot!!!

We are thrilled - THRILLED to say that Pluralities by Avi Silver is an Aurora Award finalist! Give the list a look to see the brilliant spectra of Canadian Art! #AuroraAwards #Auroras + HAPPY BIRTHDAY @thescreambean.bsky.social AND @mariebilodeau.bsky.social! #Twinning www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

LOVE BEING ON A BALLOT WITH THESE AMAZING HUMANS 🥰

I am a puddle of feelings and delight!!!! listening to god thoughts and gender thoughts at can*con has me absolutely rabid!!!!!!!!

DEEPLY excited for this panel that's kicking off in 90 hot minutes!!!!!!!

Six days out from Can*Con Virtual! Do you want to miss @thescreambean.bsky.social leading C.L. Clark, @mayadeane.bsky.social, and Naseem Jamnia in a discussion of the Mythologizing of Gender? YOU DO NOT! Join us!