My story, "The Firebird Plains," just got voted Silver Honorable Mention for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest !! #writers #authors #writing #WritingCommunity

Basic math suggests I will only read about 1,872 more books in my entire life... not sure how to feel about this...

My story has been accepted to Dragon Soul Press's Fire and Ash anthology!!! Coming Jan 2026!!

Quick! Someone stop me before I buy all of these books!! #books #reading #writing #WritingCommunity

My first ever short story has been published! You can read it here: www.orions-belt.net/archives/jus...

Post a photo of an AMAZING book no one's ever heard of. I'll go first: STAR SPLITTER. In which teleportation is possible but requires destroying and reprinting your body elsewhere. I weep for what the world is missing. #books #writing #writers #authors #reading

Incredible story 🔥

I tried 4 times to get through Way of Kings and concluded the book must be a practical joke. Today yet another person tells me it's "really good." What am I missing? #books #authors #reading #writing #writers #sff

What's the most under-appreciated book you've ever read? #writers #books #authors #reading #writing #booksky

#writers What's the most rejections something of yours has received? My story, "How Not to Retire from Dragon Hibernation Maintenance," has been rejected 25 times! Who can beat that? #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writing

Updated author website! valeriesirenko.com Thoughts? #authors #writers #WritingCommunity #writing

I'm going to write an entire story that's just em dashes.

Started a new book even though I haven't finished the 15 others I'm already reading... #books #reading #authors #writers

Me: This book is terrible. Husband: Why are you still reading it? Me: I don't understand the question. #books #authors #reading #writing

My #SFF story "Just Listed: Hardwood Floors and a Generous Curse"—about a realtor selling a house with some unusual complications—has been published in Orion's Belt Magazine! 🎉 www.patreon.com/posts/just-l...

I don't care how "benevolent" their rule was--Aragorn and Arwen in Gondor was a dictatorship. Fight me. #LOTR #SFF #Tolkien #books #authors #writers #fantasy

There's nothing like helping a five-year-old spell words in English to make you feel like a complete and absolute charlatan. #writing #parenting

SCREAMING!!!!

For everyone who needs to hear this today:

Whenever it's been a week without any rejections, I get suspicious. 🤔 #writerslife #writing #WritingCommunity

#writerslife #writing ##WritingCommunity #amwriting #authors

These are all books by PEOPLE I KNOW! Are we, like, famous? @taylormunsell.bsky.social @jmorgynwhite.bsky.social @adidenner.bsky.social @boregenerations.bsky.social

What's the hardest thing to explain to people about your job as a writer? Me: I spent the whole day reading, which is A FULL DAY'S WORK even though that's what most people do for fun. And yes, it *was* fun, but it was also work. #Writing #writers #authors #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writesky

How many of these have you read?

THRILLED to be accepted to the @futurescapesww.bsky.social Long Manuscript Workshop with the extraordinary Dianna Vega at @torbooks.bsky.social! #amwriting #writing #writers

What are you reading this week? Here's mine! #books #SFF #reading #booksky

HOT TAKE: (Spoilers!) I love James SA Corey but did you *have* to kill every female character except one?! I did not think we needed to have this conversation in 2025...

BEARS! (You never know who you'll meet on a hike...)

Where do you get your inspiration? The world of my fantasy novel ECHOING HOWL looks like this: #fantasy #SFF #writers #writing #WritingCommunity #books

#writingcommunity Help! Which author photo should I use?? #Writers #amwriting #authors

Where's your happy place? #Yosemite

Writers, may your royalties be as fat as this pizza squirrel 🍴🍕 #booksky #books #writing #WritingCommunity #writers

Why do I find stacking up all my research books like this so satisfying?? #books #WritingCommunity #booksky #reading

Reminder: anyone can found and edit a SFF magazine. There’s no regulatory body or hoops. You create the position for yourself. Many of these people are amazing— But mag Editors are just guys who decided to spend a lot of time on something they love. Just people.

New Issue: BCS #442 Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue, with stories by James Morrow and @willmcmahon36.bsky.social today, @patricksamphire.bsky.social and @rjtaylor.bsky.social next week (but in the ebook now), McMahon podcast, art Bruce Brenneise: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Working on a story today about firebirds attacking colonists on Axiom, Octavia's largest moon. #WIP #SFF #WritingCommunity #amwriting #firebirds

For a #SFF short story, which title do you like best? 1.) Dragon Hibernation Maintenance 2.) Dragon Maintenance for Early Retirement 3.) How Not to Retire from Dragon Hibernation Maintenance #WIP #WritingCommunity

My first collection, UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, @undertow.bsky.social is now available. Kind words for it by Kelly Link, Brian Evenson, Jeff Ford, Premee Mohamed, John Wiswell, and more. Cover, Ove Tøpfer, design, Vince Haig. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta... books2read.com/uncertain

I swear this book is about to BLOW UP! If you haven't read Caty Rogan's KISSED BY THE GODS yet, what are you even doing?

Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉 (general submission window 15-31 October) Seeking speculative stories about our inner lives: 💙 500 - 2,500 words 💚 £0.02 per word, min £20 💛 Sim subs welcome! 🧡 Reprints welcome! inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g... #SubmissionCall

What are you reading today? I'm diving into TOO CURSED TO KISS, a steamy urban fantasy romance by @jmorgynwhite.bsky.social 🔥

Meeting one of the canine cuties who inspired my fantasy novel ECHOING HOWL 😃

Check out my new author page! I know html is baby code but I'm so proud of it 😊 www.valeriesirenko.com

Okay, funny bookstore category

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

This story about a tech start-up capturing your wasted time and selling it back to you is TOO REAL! 😲 #SFF Read "Idle, Inc" by Benjamin Parzybok in Bourbon Penn: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/idl...

Ghosts! Guilt! Grandma! Complicated Family Dynamics! Some of my favorite recurring themes, all wrapped up in "Who Could Feel Haunted With Luck in Their Pocket?" Now free to read online at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social #shortstory

This #SFF story has it all--Kissing, Brain Parasites, and a (Mild) Nuclear Explosion share.google/HBa7C7gXSf9i...

Ever wondered what could be worse than online dating? Online dating an eldritch horror! Read the flash fic story here: "The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club" – Flash Fiction Online share.google/3CvQPwaB2V1z...