I'm set up for #arisia in Boston! If you're here, I hope you'll come say hi!! If you're not here... why not (wrong answers only)?

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

you don't say.

It's like a post apocalyptic "Live Laugh Love" (complementary)

This call is now open 🚀 Looking forward to your queer space opera fashions!

He really is doing all of it.

One of the shitty things about the racist and anti-lgbtq extremist direction of this administration (and all those like them) is people and corporations quit celebrating, or even supporting, marginalized people to avoid 'trouble.' Fuck trouble. Fuck bigots. Raise your voice.

Wednesday is TRANSPHOBES ARE TRASH DAY! Congratulations to those who celebrate this wonderful day. Also, every other day is also Transphobes are Trash Day, I forgot to mention that.

I've gotten a few more things out to markets in advance of my week off so that I can (hopefully) work on something wholly new while I'm gone. I've got a project to expand into a novella, a short story call, and maybe a new Jorunn & Halla story to work on. Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Profiles in cowardice from the publishing industry. Myself and many other queer independent authors are out there putting our work into the world whether publishers have the good sense and guts to or not. Support indie & self-published queer authors.

Hey y’all! REMINDER: I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org

Starting to do my packing for the Wandering Writer's Retreat and having to dig up the summer linens from beneath all the sweaters and fleece-lined jeans. I think it won't be too off from a Beijing summer, including humidity, but it'll be a 30+(C) temp change. Prepping for that is never fun.

Wishing all ICE officers a very happy Napoleon's Retreat From Russia

I've been posting about Beyond the Galactic Tide and remiss about the @duckprintspress.com Patreon. If you like queer short stories, a $3/month backer gets instant access to over 50(!) short stories and more are released every month. www.patreon.com/cw/duckprint...

If you're writing a SFF / thriller you can have all the gratuitous sex scenes you want but the murder and violence has to advance plot and character. If you're writing romance, the *sex scenes* need to advance the plot, and the *murder and violence* are where you go to town. simple.

You know you want to pitch...you know you want to pitch...come, pitch, maybe get into the anthology & come play at one of the coolest queerest small presses around! 🚀🖤🤍💜

Hey you! Your stories are more important than ever. Keep writing. writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com #writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #quote 💙📚

For the record, we saw this shit early in romance, too. There’s a reason @devinharnois.bsky.social had to make a button saying something like “M/M is for gay men, too.”

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks Good morning, friends. Another day of protesting for many of us. Please be careful out there!

QUEER EVERYTHING. QUEER HARDER. QUEER NOW AND TOMORROW AND YESTERDAY. QUEER THE FUTURE. QUEER THE BLACK HOLE AT THE CENTER OF OUR GALAXY EVERYTHING IS QUEER NOW

upcoming Dei travel: 19-26 Jan: Bangkok, Thailand 7-21 Feb: Melbourne & environs, Australia Here's hoping for good writing inspo to keep me going this year! Looking forward to the Bangkok retreat (there will be Dan Wells, @gailcarriger.bsky.social & @piperjdrake.bsky.social leading & I can't wait!)

Beautiful dahlias at Pike Place Market in Seattle #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #bloomscrolling

When my interests collide (my annoyance at textile crafts not being respected as literally one of the most important human invention & my annoyance at genre Romance not being respected as one of the more profitable and culturally influencial genre), I make memes

If you're on the fence and want someone to peek at a pitch, or have any questions about the press, let me know! I'm not sure I'm going to pitch to this one but I would love to help get some new folks into the press <3 If nothing else, pitching helps you get an idea together that you can write later!

ICE is dangerous to all citizens. Keith Porter’s death is as tragic and unnecessary as Renee Good.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

One rejection came in today, two submissions went out. For the moment, at least, I can be a literary hydra. There aren't enough open markets (nor do I have much of a back catalogue) to make this a perpetual state, but it feels good to do it when I can. Up to 8 subs & 2 holds so far in 2026!

Jan 16 - 19 is Arisia, an sff con, held at the Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge. It includes panels, vending, table-top gaming, meet-ups, and more. I'll be in the Creators Corner; there’s also a Dealer’s Room AND an Artist Show! If you’re in the Boston area, I hope we’ll see you there. 2026.arisia.org

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

TODAY on @theflytrapmedia.com, and unpaywalled for all, I'm talking about algospeak, cuteification, and the implications of softening language about hard things.

I solved the 'it's still the Year of the Snake, but everyone thinks it's Year of the Horse' problem. It's now the month of the Snorse. #sygnin

Internet induced anti-intellectualism and rage bait has led modern media criticism to have such an unnecessary moralized mean spirited-ness to it. We can criticize something without assuming the worst about a stranger. And giving grace isn't the same as excusing faults in their work.

I battled my anxiety and won: submitted to a market! now back to *checks* writing more to submit to more markets, and thus wrestling with the anxiety again. *squint*

I did not have anything to sub to this, but I have been rattling the bars of my cage with enthusiasm for it and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Very happy that @duckprintspress.com does NOT hit these flags. Incredible transparency over everything, down to screenshots of financials, planning to not release things too close, and regularly working to recruit and encourage new authors. Everyone gets paid. I get royalties on my short fiction.

I have received a care package from the Netherlands full of delicious treats and a lot of candy-themed Christmas ornaments, and I just have the best friends. Even when I am a miserable, exhausted, tired human, I have the best friends.

I'm re-re-posting this because it's such a good essay. "...writers should also never forget these two secrets of using LLMs to help your writing: - First drafts are where the thinking begins. - If you become dependent upon a tool, that tool can be taken away."

There’s lots of reasons why being colonized by aliens would probably be terrible, but increasingly I’m willing to do it for the irony.

I knit. No one could afford my knitting if I were to sell it, but the most important part is *I don't want to*. I do it because I want to spend time doing something I love and give gifts to people (or use myself) the things I make.

I think, if all the things I have done are correct, then I am going to Thailand for a writing retreat at the end of the month. I need this so, so desperately. And it is with people whose work I greatly enjoy and admire.

hitting a point where if a piece of fiction is advertised to me and more than like 25% of the visible characters are men I'm checking out unless the pitch is really strong, particularly if it's written by a woman, like, girl, what are you doing, they write plenty about themselves

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Having spent theast chunk of time in Guilin, I would apologize in advance if the first wave of stories I write this year are all also set in various iterations of Guilin. But Guilin is cool and I had a lot of fun here so I am not sorry one whit.

Recruitment for authors to contribute to our next short story anthology BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, featuring tales of asexual characters in outer space, will run from Jan 10 - Jan 31 2026! Learn all the many details by visiting our webpage today: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g... 🌈📚 💙🌈

Went to Dragon*Con and was having a hard time catching up with a friend (they were a guest wrangler). We managed to coordinate & their guest was w/ them. Ran up to my friend (who ran to me), hugged, squee'd. Behind them, watching this with baffled eyes, was Alan Tudyk. I waved to him and left.

We are heading down south to Guilin today with the visiting family, then to Xi'an after a few days. I am hoping this gets some of the new story juice flowing for the year; the well is stressed out and dry and I need to do a little refilling.

So I just heard about this book which was a practical guide to how average people could resist Nazis in every day work by bogging them down with malicious compliance etc. Of interest to... Umm historians, I guess? Merry Christmas! 🎄🌟🎁 gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184