** NEW INHERITANCE BOOK ** JOIN US (totally not a cult)

Tbaqaok (verb): to cheat at Scrabble

The Crossing

Want to know how the Stage 2 process works at CoW? At this point, stories have been read and recommended by multiple readers. Sometimes everyone loves them at Stage 1, sometimes opinions are more mixed, but if any of the team indicate they see something special, it usually goes up. 1/X

It's bisexual visibility month so let me break stealth for a moment to tell you about this pair of disaster bisexuals and their horrible trauma 😘😁

THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS by Nebula award winner @wiswell.bsky.social is a heartfelt & humorous fantasy where a dragon's three heads bear rather… different personalities find family in the most unexpected of places. Available June 23 2026. Cover Director: Adam Auerbach Artist: James Fenner

New @wiswell.bsky.social alert! I think it's going to be a banger! [grabby hands]

ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧 The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products! This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word! The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Love of My Life.

This excellent little video really digs into why I'm so fucking angry about how well semaglutide is working for me. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdV2B9cK/

Aaarghhhh bedroom spider double event! Reset the war clock! (If ever you hear me say that I loathe this time of year, big fucking spiders is the reason why.) ((Where are you when I need you, Georg?))

Have you ever wanted to join a cult, but couldn't be bothered with being love-bombed? GREAT! I've got just the thing!! ravenswordpress.com/discord

My ridiculous crochet vegetables took second prize at the Fulford Show. 😂 (My cherry lace wasn't placed, even though it's a lot more technically impressive.)

It's a tossup between Watership Down and Silent Running; but if we count 16 as a child then I'd have to say Threads. Yeah, *definitely* Threads.

Inside you are two wolves, five sled dogs, eight Norwegian research scientists, Bennings, Norris, Palmer, Windows, Fuchs, Nauls, Blair, Garry, and Doc Copper.

We don't retweet the bigots. We don't dunk the bigots. We don't hand them an oxygen mask because they're tired from all the screaming. Clicks are air. Outrage is air. Every time we do this they live rent free in our heads. Evict them.

People who use generative AI don't respect boundaries and don't seek consent. You can and should view generative AI use as a red flag in a person's behaviour, and call out / shun appropriately.

totally not a cult honest guv

In more positive news the audiobook for HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA comes out on August 26th and is available for preorder NOW…and I retained the right to it so I could make some money off this one lol 🖤🦷💃 www.audible.com/pd/B0DYGK16K... So if you want to preorder or share I would appreciate it!

No, seriously, do - it's a cracking series which I've re-read in its entirety to date more than once, and the people who gather to scream about it on the Discord are totally not a cult honest. (Purchase details in the thread.)

The answer is: *you* do, friends and neighbours! (I enjoyed the heck out of THE TEA MASTER AND THE DETECTIVE and I bet you would too.)

Are you a young author? We will be open to submissions throughout August to all writers aged under 20. Standard submissions guidelines apply. www.castofwonders.org/submissions/

It is the year of our Lord 1836. Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle has arrived in Sydney. Davy Crockett has died at the Battle of the Alamo whilst Elizabeth Garrett, physician and suffragette was born in Whitechapel. We're having a stroll across Baile Hill - do join us!

Fun fact about tradpub: A whole bunch of top tier agents REALLY FUCKING LOVED The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM said there wasn't a single traditional publisher they'd be able to sell it to. So here's some sapphic indie slop for you 😘

If you missed the only new piece of fiction I’ve written/published this year, and my first published short story in many years, it had the honor of being @escapepod.org’s 1,000th episode, it’s about creating in the face of unimaginable adversity, it’s kind of funny? And you can listen for free.

It's a jolly good book, and the next post in the thread has the ebook info.

My little man Onion's days of begging for pea flakes are over. 😥 The best pig.

Please enjoy the tale of Moose's horizon tree, which is a lovely anecdote and includes some gorgeous pictures.

Designed a new sign for my convention table. Might be too subtle, idk, what do you reckon?! No Oxford comma we die like men!

Extremely normal fandom. Totally not a cult. Join. Become one of us. Obsess over imaginary characters in a very normal way. Apply fucked-up fictional men to your brain to cure all mental illness (except theirs). Not a cult. ravenswordpress.com/discord

UK friends and neighbours! For just 99p you can meet Shesheshen, the gooiest monster you'll ever fall in love with.

Social Justice Warrior? I prefer the term “J.E.D.I.* Knight” *(Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion).

Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious cue to again recommend SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN by @wiswell.bsky.social!

Sex workers can be exploited and coerced. But so can farm laborers, does that mean we should make it illegal to grow food? There is nothing inherently immoral or harmful about sex work or porn. If people are concerned about abuse, then help creators have more autonomy and power, not less.

Literary feast incoming! (Also, do yourselves a flavour, friends and neighbours, and read Matt Wallace's SIN DU JOUR books. You'll never look at a chicken nuggie the same way.)

i will always side with sex workers and smut creators and you should too. kill the puritanical pearl-clutching brainworm raising a stink about respectability and optics. it is a backdoor fascists will use to sneak their way into your sympathies. porn is good, sex is normal, kink is human. grow up.

Coincidentally, I loved A BLOOMY HEAD, which I only bought because I saw someone post about it here. www.sharonjgochenour.com/books

Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish. Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.

In my capacity as a person with Very Firm Opinions regarding whether cutlery is Correct or Wrong, this is an interesting thread.

THIS SATURDAY! There will be a very fun fundraiser for our good friends Andrew and Franklin to help with the insane costs of a VISA. We will be live on TheBrothersMeredith Twitch Channel at 12:00 UK time and you can read about the fundraiser here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/andrew-and...

Here are all your questions answered on why you should leave substack, and how to go about it. No more excuses. Just go.

Nearly 400,000 Britons have now signed a petition calling for repeal of the Online Safety Act. Astounding. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

3 for 2 on all ebooks and audiobooks is only here for four more days. Discount automatically applied in cart, no code required. GO GO GO!! shop.ravenswordpress.com

I got your itch.io shadowbanned adult content right here, and for only 99p. Suck it, Mastercard. shop.ravenswordpress.com/products/jac...

Need more to convince you to read RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND by @alexandrarowland.bsky.social (out in paperback from Tor Books on 6/17!)? Here’s the vibes of main character Avra Helvaçi, brought to life by my friend Ash 😍

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Quick! (Every one of these books lives in my 'Keepsies' e-reader folder, where I store my comfort re-reads.)

Just finished RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND by @alexandrarowland.bsky.social and, like YIELD UNDER GREAT PERSUASION, it's gone straight into my 'Keepsies' folder of comfort re-read books. (1/2)

This itch.io kerfuffle seems like a good time to remind you that it is not and never has been a war on pornography. It's a war on women and marginalised people to attack and remove their capacity for earning income and financial independence.