Getting a little wild on a Tuesday night. Anybody else? #art #artists

Your favorite holiday and christmas themed books? Genre doesn't matter. Need some timely reading for the next couple months. #booksky #amreading

At Interstellar Flight Mag, R. Thursday interviews IFP author Griffin Rockwell on their new book of poetry, LISTEN-a poetic creature, a book-length SFF cento inspired by the greats (and not-so-greats) of SFF history. medium.com/@richaund...

Another alien bug, or the beginning of one anyway. I'll probably draw a lot of these and then just keep my favorites for the project. #art #drawing #artist

Just caught myself missing an entire line of hand-made sci-fi writing from my novel. Glad I caught that. Would've been really embarrassing. Kind of surprised it didn't come up before now, though?

My son: Grandma, play with me! Me: Daddy will play. My son: No, I don't want daddy to play. Go keep cleaning, daddy.

Authors: Where do you send your digital ARCs for review? Asking for sci-fi and/or queer-leaning fiction, specifically. Can be magazines, sites, cool people that read a lot, whatever. #writing #writers

Going back through the glyphs I made for this novel, it's funny to find little errors. Like graphic typos. Didn't stop my editor from solving the glyphs in less than a day, so nbd I guess, but I'm still fixing them up. #writing #authors #art #BookSky

Working on the glyphic system that features in my space opera (Queen Pyre Ever Screaming releases in January!), and really enjoying the outcome. Some of my favorite words that I've put into glyphs today. #writing #art #BookSky

Putting a bit of work into alien butterflies today. Don't want to overdo visual elements in my stories. They need to stay prose- focused. But don't want to miss opportunities to expand and get creative either.

Launch of my novel was pushed back to January, and that's okay. Life has been a lot lately, and I think that's true for all of us! So I can't complain about a couple months of breathing room.

I'd like to think that AI can't imitate the kind of multimodal work I'm doing right now. On the other hand, I really don't want to have to think about that!

My little dude looks like he's gone incognito in a Marvel movie

Happy 4th from a pair of former Texans! Escaped to IL. My hat got crushed in the move. Maybe for the best!

Me to myself while #writing, "This feels wrong. I'm going to have to rewrite this. Oh well, just catch vibes for now." Me, three years later, "And these remain some of the most inspired lines in the whole book."

Started "I Cheerfully Refuse" be Leif Enger. My first book by the author, but the summary sounds right about my alley. Love dystopian weirdness. That said, the opening has been very ivory-tower-literary anti-sentimental, side-eying interesting subjects in favor of perfunctory quirkiness. #BookSky

Finished "Hondo" during a road trip. I found the military maneuvering at the end fascinating. Mostly made me want to read more real history about the era. The conclusion of the novel was a bit clumsy and abrupt. Overall a fascinating, troubled book with moments of shocking beauty. #BookSky #Western

Reading Hondo. A henchman goes down and LL spends two pages digging into the tragic waste of the man's life. Beautiful, heartbreaking pages out of nowhere. Honestly needed a half hour to recover from that. #BookSky #Western

Reading Hondo. Really like how this story handles soldiers. It kind of epitomizes the machismo ideal of honorable service. Just that right mix of mythic fantasy and real world authenticity, with all the romanticized brutality that makes the historical military drama work. #BookSky #Western

Thinking about my grandpa reading these lines near the end of his life. Almost biblical before a segue into the mindset of soldiers. He'd been a sailor in WW2, but was never one to tell war stories, so we don't know much. Anyway, I wonder how felt about these lines, book in his hands. #BookSky

My novel, Queen Pyre Ever Screaming, is coming from Balance of Seven in November! A dark space opera, it tells the stories of an ensemble of narrators - a laborer, a soldier, an addict, and others - who become truthseekers in a galaxy collapsing into war. Can't wait to share more! #BookSky #Writers

When my grandpa passed away, I inherited a collection of worn down Louis L'Amours. From his bookmark, he had Hondo in the hospital with him. LL's first book. I'm sure the book held a lot of nostalgia for him: a raw new writer's primordial formula for essential Westerns. #BookSky

Just finished reading through the 16-book Vorkosigan Saga. Could use a simpler one-off or something as a reset before digging into something else big. What works as a palate cleanser for your reading? #booksky

Anybody thinking ahead to their 2025 reading goals? #booksky I'm genuinely considering if it might be the year to bite into Wheel of Time.

Making #reading a habit is pretty easy. Just pick a #book and spend a half hour with it. If it doesn't work the first time, try a different book. Keep trying new books until one evening you sit down to read, then suddenly the sun is up and you feel like something has been lost. #booksky

Omg I posted day 1 of the 20 books thing and then completely spaced it. Like two weeks ago. I'm totally clueless out here sometimes.

For a while, reading around my toddler was hard because books fascinated him. He'd grab for any book, run off with it, or just yell and yell if denied. Now that he's older, he's more interested in his own books, though he still pulls out my bookmarks sometimes and tells me if he likes the cover.

Trying to write an article for work, looking for reviews for a music album from last year, can't find anything but AI stuff about how it's "an incredible journey in music" and "a reflection on society itself." This from major music sites. The internet's rotting from the top down.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚 Day 1

We're considering a move. Realtor looked around our house and said there were too many books. Apparently house shoppers don't like seeing books? I can't imagine seeing a bunch of books and reacting negatively.

I appreciate Bluesky taking off but can we not just make it Twitter 2? I never knew what to do with Twitter. Let's do something new and better with Bluesky.

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This is a thing I don’t think the AI adopters don’t understand: you’re not getting a *good* story when you use it. You’re getting a story that a good editor, even if they approved of AI, would almost certainly reject.

People who use AI really just do not understand how glaringly obvious AI writing is, and how awful it consistently is. I encounter AI writing every day at work, and I've started to see it everywhere. People really just do not get it.

My little guy barely eats at home, but take him out in public and gets real hungry. Don't know what's up with that. Kid being a kid!

Trying to read on the drive back from CO and my little guy kept demanding "Book." Then, pondering for a little while, he would report, "Cool!" I agree, buddy. It is pretty cool.

A trip to Colorado always feels like going home. I belong in the mountains. I belong in Autumn and Winter.

"The baby can stay dressed for breakfast. I'll just feed him carefully and he won't get that messy," I said to myself. This turned out to be hubris, and I've paid for it.

This kid is growing at a shocking pace. And so darn photogenic! He never takes a bad pic!

Hey there new DIAGRAM issue 23.5: thediagram.com/23_5

Guys I want to write but someone needs to watch the baby. Do you think it's hard to teach a baby dictation? He can almost consistently hold a pen when it's placed in his hand.

Y'all started your christmas lists yet? If you don't start your holiday shopping in November, you won't have time in December.

I recently got a new job in marketing and the work is opening my eyes to some things I've gotten wrong and some opportunities I missed back when I was doing more self-publishing. Not going in depth yet, but I'm learning fast.

Congratulations to Samantha Mills! @samtasticbooks's “Rabbit Test” won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story! You can read it here!!! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabb...

If I'd known early on just how important and complicated self-promotion would turn out to be for writing, I'd have double-majored in communications or something back in undergrad.

Still trying to decide what I want to do with Bluesky. The writerslift stuff from twitter never felt right to me and I don't want to spam marketing stuff like it's insta. Maybe I'll just post about being a dad (who writes).

Once more with correct tags: My queer/bi novelette will be out from the fantastic @tenebrouspress.bsky.social around Halloween. Lady lighthouse keepers, historical fiction, lots of bones 💀🖤 And big thanks to @alexebenstein.bsky.social for careful edits!

Shout out to this portion of the PubLunch article on AI use by publishers #authors #WritingCommunity #kidlit

PLEASE RP Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine will be open to short story submissions from October 2 to October 16! WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ YOUR STORIES!!! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

I've gotten a lot of positive energy lately from sending out many queries for different projects, and I find the rejections don't hurt much. Always be querying! I'll try to keep that in mind going forward.