#OurFlagMeansDeath streaming on BBC iplayer!

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

@garius.bsky.social At what point did uni websites decide that having easy to find department/programme email address was surplus to requirements?

#WritingCommunity So, it's 19 November...WIP has been revived, and IS being revised. Will not be published by 1 December, but maaaaaaaaay finish revising?

No #Whamaggedon but I did hear Fairytale of New York in the shops.

MC: No, I'd not be marrying anyone. We all know how this will eventually go, don't we.

#WritingCommunity 3/4 of the way through editing WIP.

I don't suppose anyone here is overly familiar with Adobe Fonts licensing, but here goes 😅 Is it permitted within the license to send photoshop files with active fonts to clients who have commissioned work from you?

Please could you spread this?

#WritingCommunity Editing and oh yeah, I did have a gondola chase scene.

@nnedi.bsky.social Space Cat arrived today - opened the box, read the whole thing standing up in the kitchen. May have to get a second copy for young relative, this one's mine!

Heads up, people of the internet: This isn't me. I don't have a TikTok account. This person is apparently messaging people over there, but this person, again: not me. Feel free to report the account, or whatever TikTok's version of that might be. www.tiktok.com/@eloranoso?_...

#WritingCommunity I finished reading a book!

#WritingCommunity Anyone else *not* visualising what characters look like when you read/write? I can read a whole book, or write one, and if you asked me to draw a picture of the characters? Nope.

Say hypothetically I had like half a dozen of these little haunted stuff kits from Michael’s (grabbed when everything was +50% off); and while I enjoy coloring them I have no place to put them so… what if I gave them away to folks who provided proof of book purchase from a local indie?

#WritingCommunity This man is to minor he's not even a side character, but I made him as annoying as I possibly could for someone who only has one line of dialogue:

#Rapture A fun thing about being a native USian in the UK is being like "Oh yeah, every couple years there's a Rapture to end the world". The "WTF" looks .... (Also fun: explaining exactly why a subset of Evangelicals support Israel.)

My character: I will read all the books to know more about the origin and backstory of this mysterious object to understand better. Me: reads 5 articles (that basically say the same thing) about recent UK policy. In other news: apparently I *do* add bits of myself to characters. #writerslife

#WritingCommunity Going to attempt to revive, revise and publish this WIP by 1 December.

@quenbyolson.bsky.social Reading the first Miss Percy on my lunch break and wondering: was it a conscious decision to make Fitz seems like a cat?

join meeeeeeeeeeee <3 www.sfincscompetition.com

I have questions, but don't think I want answers.

Coming soooooon 👀👀👀 ✨ August 23-25 ✨

Righto. Guess I have an official charity now. So a promise: If you lot help Holly hit her target, I'll do you a weird history thread every week for a month. Let's help some kitties!

I'm very excited to share @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com 's new cover with you today! Meet Max and Lyle, the main characters for The Chosen One Con. www.narratess.com/books/cover-...

Hey #booksky the world is on fire but I edited for 10 minutes for the first time in a week.

Did my editing, time for #ChocolateAndAChapter. (Reading @quenbyolson.bsky.social 's Miss Percy #1 a chapter at a time while drinking hot chocolate)

Have done the washing up and life admin and a lil editing, time for #ChocolateAndAChapter. Who else is cozying up with a drink and words, #booksky?

Anyone in need of some ancient art to brighten up your day? In need of some _cute_ ancient art? How about this marvel from (probably) the first century CE Rome, currently held in the Getty museum, of a bronze mouse nibbling away!

All right #booksky, I did some more editing and now it's another hot chocolate and Ch2 of Miss Percy.

happy pride month to drunk hanguang-jun specifically

Okay #booksky I edited for 15 minutes instead of doom scrolling, I have earned my hot chocolate and starting Miss Percy.

#WritingCommunity Anyone getting to bed before midnight?

A relative of a relative suggested that there's a conspiracy theory to have there only by 500,000 people left, the richest. Me, genuinely scoffing: Oh please, without the poors to do the actual work those people are going to die.

#WritingCommunity (is that what we're called over here?): A line for us: Her nouns, they wouldn't fade from his memory.

I had a pre-teen dinner guest who said I was "such a good cook".

#Writers of booksky! Soliciting opinions: do I give up KU to go on Kobo and Itch (whatever itch is?)

We're still struggling to pay for our kids' dance education, with last year's summer tuition still dangling over our heads while we figure out how to pay for this year's. Every little bit helps, and the faster we can get it paid down, the fewer fines and fees we have to deal with. gofund.me/fb117509

Wrote actual new words!

Hi bluesky #WritingCommunity, I just read my first 5 star review!

My own little #IndieApril Numbers! Thank you all!

Isn’t it beautiful? 😭🥰 Coming soon! 📚💙

✨ The BIG INDIE SALE is NOW LIVE ✨ My dystopian series is on sale along with so many other great ones! 🎉 Indie sale link: indiebook.sale My books on sale: mybook.to/rSMw0 📚💙

*opens up bluesky, sees a whole bunch of interactions* Um, hello Writers of Bluesky!

I am new to Blueskey and no one will see this but it's a lovely graphic: @endalia.bsky.social 's regular SFF/horror #indie sale is coming soon! indiebook.sale

And thanks to @endalia.bsky.social for running this sale - it's a huge undertaking that means so much to the #indie scifi community!