A round of applause for inspirational teachers 🫶🏼👏🏼 #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Stopped by one of our favorite old barns in the Mission Mountains last week…🏔️ #photography

The sound is fantastic, but look at those tiny feathers! 🥰 TT: @coppervinefeeders Ruby-throated hummingbird Dubuque, Iowa

SUMMER MARSH GOODNESS! Fledglings being awkward, turtles being charming, flowers blooming, bugs pollinating #birds #invertebrates #heros 🌿 🧪 🐡

We bought a new TV yesterday at Costco and the associate asked if we watched a lot of sports. I need to project my weirdness more, clearly.

A tree is not merely wood; it is a natural air conditioner, a source of oxygen, a support for rainfall, and a sanctuary for birds. It is a safeguard for our future. When we cut down trees, we lose more than just greenery; we invite heat, drought, pollution, and suffering. 🌳 Save trees. Save lives.

I highly recommend reading anything Sam publishes 😍

This is Vinnie. He just got a new splish splash pad and literally can't contain his excitement. Thinks this is going to be the best summer ever. 13/10 (FB: Claudia Carr)

Seeing as we're celebrating our new home @profilebooks.bsky.social today, it's a good time to remind you of all of our wonderful authors! Ft @premeemohamed.com @aptshadow.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @vajra.me @natania.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @edashtonwriting.bsky.social & many more!

This is Lady and Piper. Lady really loves playing fetch. Maybe even enough for the two of them. 13/10 for both (TT: rachaelsteinle)

🐚 THE END IS HERE 🐚 #TheEndOfEverything by M. John Harrison is out today! A haunting dystopia from a master of contemporary fiction. ‘Strange, beautiful, and illuminated by a spectral coastal light. M John Harrison is possibly England’s greatest living writer’ serpentstail.com/work/the-end...

A new expanded database is available to search whether work has been stolen to be fed to LLMs www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

mythical creature #Cat #Caturday

I'm absolutely thrilled to share that my novelette Wolf Moon, Antler Moon is a finalist for this year's Eugie Awards! Huge congratulations to my fellow finalists! It's a fabulous list! eugiefoster.com/eugieaward

geni.us/whilegodssl geni.us/whenthewindss geni.us/whshadowsdw #mythology #darkfantasy #sff

Looking for a last-minute gift for #FathersDay? Gift an adoption of an orphaned elephant, rhino, hippo or giraffe in our care. Set up in minutes and we'll email your dad on your day of choosing. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans

My kind of workplace: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

I love whimsical packaging. Honey in a little bear bottle? Yes please. Cheese in red wax? Absolutely. Do I want a fat little raindrop of mediocre chocolate? No, not really. Do I want one if you wrap it in shiny foil and put a little feather in its cap? You're goddamn right I do, give me twenty

I can’t help but agree….. #BookSky

A boi and his ball #dogs #dogsofbluesky #shepherds

"You stole my thunder" is literal! 1709-Playwright John Dennis invented the Thunder Machine to make thunder sounds for a play that flopped. Later, he attended Macbeth & heard his machine rumble. Incensed, he leapt up & yelled "Damn them! They will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder!"

#SelfPublishing #Storytelling #WIP #WriteMore #writers

As if jumping spiders weren't adorable enough already...

Cringing at your old work isn't embarrassing, it's growth. I was listening to my 2023 album and there's one song I can barely get through now. It bugs me in ways I didn't notice before. That just means I've improved. You don't evolve without outgrowing old versions of yourself. #music #artists

Delighted to be featured this week by the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social britishfantasysociety.org/meet-l-d-col... #fantasybooks #fantasycommunity #SFF #solarisbooks

My friend Daniel closes out the 5-novella series. books2read.com/u/bWDVvM

My ToC buddy and a story about her character's comeuppance... 👀

The wonderful folks at r/fantasy are inviting Hugo finalists in to do AMAs and today, it's my turn! Come ask me things! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Lord of the Rings is my favorite story, because at its core it's about how the power of loyalty and friendship and bravery can overcome even the darkest evil, and how the overlooked are often the ones who save us, and also about how wanting to eat potatoes again badly enough is a superpower

It's out now and free to read! One of the most personal things I've written and already kindly reviewed at Tar Vol on...

Ivy, the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, helps out on the farm. 💕 youtu.be/m2UIvYABozY?...

I hadn't heard of this one. Sounds interesting.

He'll always be Giles to me... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Paying it forward by reposting book publication news, great reviews, nominations & awards, poetry readings & book signings, and work in magazines, journals & anthologies. Also see: @writingcommunity.bsky.social @literarycommunity.bsky.social @literarybulletin.bsky.social @literaryreport.bsky.social

One of the Great Blue Heron nests has four nestlings. These are very busy Great Blue Heron parents to be raising so many young ones, most nests have two or three.

So, who is in Issue Three???? ⛵ @macarrick.bsky.social 📸 @ldcolter.com ♟️ @yelenacrane.bsky.social 🪶 @abigailkemske.bsky.social 🐜 @amandaghelms.bsky.social 🐴 @elismontgomery.bsky.social 🎨 John Saul 👸 Clint Hannah-Lopez 🩰 Anna Kahn ⚱️ @chrisblake.bsky.social 🚪 @mruthrobinson.bsky.social

ARC books, including Audible codes 😍

And another story release for friend and fellow writer, Abigail Kemske... plus cat #sff #shortstories

Publishers: “Short stories don’t sell and are impossible to market so we are not going to take the risk of publishing them.” Also publishers: “What can we publish to fit this era of reduced attention spans when people are reading fewer novels?”

Barred Owlets #birds

It’s release day!! I’m so proud of my little story in this issue, and to be in such good company with some awesome writers. This issue is a banger. Get your copy now!

Barred owl babies are fed by parents for 4-6 months. Even after they can fly at 5 weeks of age they remain dependant on their parents who teach them to search for food.

I don't usually repost AI pictures, but I guess I'll make an exception to make fun of it...

I can't wait for more people to read this masterpiece of fabulism. It's potent and personal with truly heart-erupting action soothed by tenderness and catharsis. 📸

Gonna put this important document somewhere so safe and so obvious aaaaaand it’s gone

Reviews of a few stories from the new issues of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social and @lightspeedmagazine.com including my novelette in Adventitious, "All of My Tomorrows" 😍 #SFF #shortstories

Brianna is the best of the best of the best.

Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few moments and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno

I love owls.