Not to be all "it's my birthday, buy my books" but it is and you should. THE DEAD WITHHELD: tiny, quick read, queer, paranormal neo-noir, grumpy protag with questionable decision-making YEAR OF THE MER: big, special editions, fantasy, slow burn sapphic tragedy, grumpy protag, worse decisions

Things are soooo pricey these days - and only seem to be getting pricier ahhh - so reposts would be lovely and very much appreciated, but absolutely feel free to ignore. I know we’re all juggling stuff 🫶 ko-fi.com/rjcrunden/go...

Y'all, check out some disabled writers and give them a follow/some support, this #DisabilityPrideMonth and all year long!

It’s been a while since I read a book as quickly as I read Dark Horse by @hollowstone.press and I feel a little light headed. 99% certain I held my breath during most of the final arc. Magnificent action, misdirection, and plenty of avenues for Lucy’s story to go. Excuse me while I collapse

Happy Monday friends! I’ve finished my third book in a week and have started my fourth. I’m leaning into this binge reading time

Friends, do you ever think to yourself, ‘gee, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen some truly excellent world and word craft involving my favourite cryptid, the vampire?’ Well do I have some books for you! I’ve read the first and loved it so much. Can’t wait to sink my teeth into the second 😏

Happy Tuesday! It’s hot and humid, but at least the doggo is off to be pampered. He loves his spa days and I love how happy he is after, but also how good he smells 😂

Blessed solstice ☀️

Morning everyone! I woke up yesterday choosing chaos and messaged five friends ‘good morning you menace’ and I’m happy to report they all had a good time, two responded with some variation of ‘what have I done?’ (no real worry from them) and three leant into the greeting with enthusiasm 😂

Rewild the reflecting pool. Make it a wetland bird sanctuary. Fill it with endangered salamanders. Foster the fermentation of whatever it is that makes swamp gas. Put up little signs welcoming fairies. Let stray senators wander in never to be seen again. Elect a bog witch. Make America Moss Again

A guide to Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel, a queer, heisty, spicy, sci-fi romance manuscript. Good Heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry. Are you its reader? 😍🌈🥵🌌🚀❤️

Happy Pride, my darlings! #freebook this Friday through Sunday for all you vampire loving LGBTQ+ and allies out there! I love you all!❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️ www.amazon.com/dp/B01M28OI6L

"What did teens do before social media!?" Up until a certain age, I spent most of my time at my best friend’s house. We listened to music and imagined leaving the area we lived in Then I discovered fanfic and writing in many forms is all I did. Hours upon hours in a bid to escape my home life

#LGBTQWriteAThon 17/6 In Which Nakia Experiences an Emotion That Isn’t Disdain

Happy Wednesday folks! I’ve fallen behind on the #LGBTQWriteAThon prompts but I actually managed some editing already this week. I’m so close to finishing this revision of chapter 18 🥳

Doggo woke me and the baby up early. At least Sprite is fast asleep once more and I’m having coffee

5 things you’ll absolutely find in my books: Messy queer folks Disability & mental health rep Random items used as weapons Found family Magic

Nostalgia and Radical Politics day 2! A big chunk of today is the workshopping component of the workshop - we've heard most of the papers, let's figure out how to make them into an output!

If you're new to publishing, struggling to find reviewers or just have questions on navigating the community, I've made a handy little blog post for ya! Updated as often as I can :) rebeccacrunden.com/resources-fo... [ #booksky ]

Morning friends, the weekend and days leading up to it have been so very busy. Good memories were made and now I need to recoup

Going on all month long is my Pride Month sale. Three LGBTQ+ books for less than $6. You stuff your ereader with great stories, get to support a trans author, and get to see the queer rep you want to see in books. Win-win-win. 📢📚 itch.io/s/187113/add...

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

Anxiety is hitting high today

True story

My novel is fully released! You can grab a copy of PolyCorpse from Amazon or your favorite brick and mortar bookshop. www.amazon.com/-/zh_TW/Jarr...

For Pride, why not buy my Elgin-nominated poetry collection, TIME TRAVEL IS EASY? It contains my Rhysling-nominated poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings,” and many other poems on queerness and Deep Time. Azn: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7 Itch: dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...

Today’s Thought….

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie -Unclench your jaw, drink some water, take your meds. -Perfect is the enemy of done. You know that, I know that, so let’s all try and believe it. -All the tiny cryptids have declared today as “NO”. I agree with them. ❤️ Auntie Jilli

#LGBTQWriteAThon MC crimes I…have no idea. I mean, murder is technically on the table because there are actual monsters that require slaying. Maybe theft if there was something dangerous in the hands of a dangerous person? Things to consider for the future anyway.

Happy Wednesday! Baby Sprite is learning new skills AND teething, so sleep is not a priority. All hail coffee ☕️

#LGBTQWriteAThon 9/6 Fans will gush over… The snarky queer characters 😁😏

Hello my anthology project is happening again and we've just pre-launched a Kickstarter so please please please follow along www.kickstarter.com/projects/naa...

#LGBTQWriteAThon 8/6 Goals I actually managed to get some editing done over the weekend, and I’m counting that toward last week. So, here’s hoping to more editing this week!

Morning friends! Started the day off doing House Stuffs™️. Do I feel productive? Yup, but I also feel jealous of the napping baby on my lap. I guess watching me run around, pausing to sing and dance with her, tired her out something fierce 😂

I love the idea of MC Bellamy developing an obsession with elk shifters because of his social media algo. Read to see how his attempts to make up with Orion pay off. tapas.io/series/All-V... #queerromance #queerurbanfantasy #fantasy

#LGBTQWriteAThon 6/6 progress I have made precisely zero progress but I blame appointments, parenting, parenting through appointments, new game events, parenting through new game events—do you see a pattern?

On this, the 6th day of our Queer Holy Month of Pride, I'd like to share some queer book resources! 🌈📚 First off, I've been creating/curating queer adult SFF lists since 2019. The latest has links back to all of the previous lists:

📢📚 A little less than 5 days left to stuff your ereader with 37 queer books by queer authors for only $40 by snatching up the #PrideBookFair Bundle #1 - Pride Hard. Sale ends June 8th! 🌈🚀💫 💙📚 itch.io/b/3675/pride...

#LGBTQWriteAThon 5/6 unhinged tropes Shattered Lines Don’t touch void! I touched the void Beating someone up with a thigh master Fuck you for making me care Fuck you there’s no one else I’d dive headfirst into the apocalypse for

I was asked to contribute to a @timeshighered.bsky.social discussion of AI. It’s free to read but you need to login. Here’s a snippet! www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-ac...

#LGBTQWriteAThon 4/5 weird inspiration Sometimes inspiration comes from me mishearing other people or they say something that takes me by surprise and I tell them I’m stealing it. My eldest has also been a source of inspo and has helped me devise a list of chapter titles he wants to see one day 😂

HAPPY FRIIIIIDAAAAAAY! Positive appointment yesterday for Sprite and her allergies. Missed a phone call this morning, I’m guessing regarding my physio referral, so will wait until they ring back as per the automated recording on the number I rang back.

#LGBTQWriteAThon 3/6: Inspo As with most of my ideas, it came from a dream and desperate wish for magic to be real and what it would be like if magic were real but had been bound, and returned to the world different than it had been before the binding

I'm Mara/AJ! I write a variety of queer SFF, usually with romance. I'm also an artist and designer who does their own covers! I'm available for commissions as well. I host writing tags! #queerwriters, #LGBTQWriteAThon, & #queerwriterschat Find out more about my books at www.amarajlynn.com

So. My foot was broken twice by my misstep off the stairs back in February but not in the way the orthopaedic consultant suspected. They’re convinced physio should sort out the pain but if it doesn’t, I have another appointment set up at a later date to discuss. Yeehaw?

🌈🚀💫 #PrideBookFair Bundle #1 - Pride Hard is NOW LIVE!!! 📢📚 37 queer stories by queer authors for only $40, which saves you $148. 💙📚 itch.io/b/3675/pride...

...I tried to make a Pride Stack with my books and i realized i'm missing colors 😭😭 SO WE SHOULD THINK OF THIS AS YOUR SIGN TO BUY MY BOOKS and then i can make the very irresponsible decision of getting new covers so that i can have pretty Pride Stacks do it for the queer gremlin in all of us

💖 QRP with your Pride Flags 💖 Here's mine!

Anything you're willing to give, we're eager to receive 😈 Subs are wide open from now until the end of June and we want to see our inbox STUFFED 💦 Send us the kind of weird smut you think will get you kicked off the internet: www.nygelmag.com/submissions