This is definitely the cutest guy I've made yet

Creating and scheduling social media posts to promote your work while also sick is a special kind of hell I work so much harder as an author than I did when I was working full time, and make almost no money. #WritingCommunity

FYI Indie Authors, Dax has found a free distributor and the best looking single alternative to D2D we've got. Its ebook and audiobook only (not paperback), and German owned.

Let yourself be old. If you need hearing aids, get hearing aids (if you can afford to). If you need bifocals, get bifocals. Don't let fear of being seen as old stop you from living your life, because aging sucks, but it's also a privilege not everyone gets access to.

My idiot sons from Community Magic Book 4, which is currently out with beta readers. Really happy how this came out. I love my traumatized idiot sons so much. #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

teaaaa

Sometimes I think about everything I went through during GamerGate and then I want to howl WE TOLD YOU THIS WAS COMING at the nearest politician until my throat bleeds

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Bsky staff is scrambling to convince ppl that today's outage has nothing to do with their embrace of ai. That's great. We should make them scramble more. The cost of replacing competent humans with AI needs to be greater on every single level for every single company.

Maybe forcing people to build their creative careers on private online infrastructure that can and does collapse semi-regularly wasn't the best of ideas actually

I like my men like I like my art, posing an existential threat to fascism

I hate Instagram so much I'm there because I sort of have to be, but all my algo shows me is straight content, and what do I have to do to find the gays? Because the straight 'no spice' folks aren't going to read my books #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

I've gotten more new followers lately. If you like my content, might I interest you in checking out my work?

Lol, Kobo capitalizing on Certain Other Company's boneheaded policy decision and I'm here for it

Canada Post is such a fucking rip-off. For me to mail one copy of my book within Canada is fucking $20. Like, this is why you're not making money, Canada post

This nonsense with D2D has me setting up storefronts again. I HATE SETTING UP STOREFRONTS 😭 #WritingCommunity

The first piece of feedback I've gotten about Community Magic Book 4, and I feel so seen I love my idiot sons so much #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

Cover reveal & crowdfunding announcement! I have written another book. Project Tasman is a sapphic dystopian book about a woman in a psychological experiment. I'm so excited to share this beautiful cover from @bmwillows.bsky.social Follow the BackerKit below, pls www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Went to a funeral last night for a friend who was 49, so. This is your reminder to get your screenings done.

If you see this, post something you saved because it's funny

I use Zoho for longer works (I regularly write on 3 different devices), Ellipsus for shorter, Google Maps extensively, and StoryOrigin primarily for beta feedback management and writing tracking, but I've also gotten a few reviews from there as well and there's mailing list tools I haven't even used

Have you ever wanted to kill a billionaire? I can help with that 😈

One more day to take advantage of a great deal!

Remember to make art with your boner. It doesn't have to be a horny boner, it can be a brain boner or a heart boner. Make art that makes you happy and appeals to your own freakish sensibilities. This is imperative.

Making little guys out of yarn scraps: jumpsuit guy

2/ If you are cis and neurotypical, I strongly encourage you to subscribe a neurodivergent and/or trans or both! person's Patreon, subscription, ko-fi on an ongoing monthly basis. Even if it's $1 to $5 your support will help to fight against the systemic harm that's being done every god damn day.

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PSA for my fellow writers, the bots and AI grifters have come for beta reading. Yesterday I posted looking for beta readers and am getting flooded with very obviously new scam accounts offering to "beta read" (ie feed my manuscript to the slop machine) 1/? #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

This account definitely wins the "most obvious grift" award for responses to my 'looking for beta readers' post earlier today Five followers and an AI slop user image? But sure, I'm sure you'll totally read my manuscript and not feed it to the slop machine 🙄

You know what still works? Calibre! Load whatever the fuck you want onto your kindle! That's why Ao3 has a download function, baby! 🔥

After being repeatedly told that I'm not charging enough money for this game, I've raised the price of Fellas, is it Gay is from $5 to $7. (After polishing text and re-doing layout) Still a criminally good $ for hands down the funniest thing I've ever written wundergeek.itch.io/fellas-is-it...

In addition to always blocking "creators" who use genAI to promote their work, I will also always block accounts whose first message to me is about a paid service. It is MIND-BOGGLING how many people try to grift $ out of writers when we have no goddamn $ #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

Looking for beta readers! 🏳️‍🌈 125k MM contemporary fantasy romance 🌶️ Spicy romance + HORNY. GAY. IDIOTS. 🩹 Hurt/comfort & helping reach other heal from trauma 🤝 Starting over and building queer community 💀 Also a billionaire gets murdered in the prologue #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

Okay so Pope Leo once accused trans people of "making up genders", so I'm very much not a Leo stan but It is deeply hilarious to me as a former midwesterner finding out that Leo is going so hard after Trump's Pentagon threatened to create their own Avignon pope Don't fuck with Chicago 😂

I block every single account I see using genAI images to promote their work

Sometimes this is what coping looks like. I write stories about people struggling with anxiety and mental illness because that's the reality that I live, and it's HARD managing that illness in the face of literal political insanity. It feels BAD being powerless to stop this. #WritingCommunity

god I love a bespoke meme

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

yeah hey if this is a dilemma for you, you're a bad human

Internal family systems therapy is amusing when you're a fantasy writer Frex, in addition to "Gary the union boss who enforces breaks" and "the crew of guys who are tired from spending a day in the word mines", I also have "the thresher maw" and "pattern monkey pounding the panic button"

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

Semi-regular reminder that artists and writers promoting their work during [waves out the window in the direction of Washington DC] all this don't feel good about it. But when you can't get a job for love or money, you do what you have to do, so please don't judge. #WritingCommunity

One more week to pick up this bundle of autistic fiction for Autistic People's Month! #Booksky

Happy Ace Awareness Day! I'm an asexual author who really enjoys writing spicy romance. My recently released novel also has an ace love interest, because not enough fiction depicts people who don't experience sexual attraction and still enjoy sex

(nods sagely) Tom

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