Kobo is doing a 30 day free trial promotion for their Kindle Unlimited competitor service Kobo Plus for new subscribers (not sure if this is US only), if you like queer indie books, small press SFF, and backlist SFF from large publishers there's a lot to choose from on this service that's not on KU!

convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. share yours if you want! (The Gentleman and His Vowsmith)

convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. share yours if you want! (The Gentleman and His Vowsmith)

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

actually, being trans is like having a surprise second job you didn’t ask for it’s just that 95% of the work is self-preservation and wondering whether the car mechanic you usually go to will freak out at you now

being trans is an exercise in irritating considerations no one should ever have to bother thinking about. i need a haircut, but i can’t just get a haircut. i have to think about where i go, what i say, will the hairdresser get cold and uncomfortable when i ask for a masc cut? (has happened)… 1/3

actually, being trans is like having a surprise second job you didn’t ask for it’s just that 95% of the work is self-preservation and wondering whether the car mechanic you usually go to will freak out at you now

With only days until my very first crowdfund, I feel I must "warn" people that this book is rude and crude. YA levels of edginess, probably. Swearing on every page. Cocks mentioned every other chapter. I'm not even exaggerating 😂 Disclaimer: it does occasionally get serious and people die lol

being trans is an exercise in irritating considerations no one should ever have to bother thinking about. i need a haircut, but i can’t just get a haircut. i have to think about where i go, what i say, will the hairdresser get cold and uncomfortable when i ask for a masc cut? (has happened)… 1/3

football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it

I feel like there is this recurring thing in internet responses to fiction where anything non-utopian in the worldbuilding is treated as a flaw in the writing rather than the society.

I wish cis people understood how it feels to see Harry Potter every-fucking-where constantly.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is. Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right? If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS. No one should have that much.

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

watching people get thrilled about stuff Australia is doing from a headline is wild. this isn’t so much a climate change win as it’s a government trying to appease people on cost of living while energy prices and inflation keep going up. same govt is green-lighting new mines and gas projects…1/2

It's back! We're just a bunch of local authors sitting around and talking plots and contracts and editing woes over beer and pizza. If you're in Naarm/Melbourne and you write literally anything, join us!

I see lots of apps and pop "science" socmed trends about this too: face shape/body shape/limb length etc can tell you something about the person. It's not cute or a curious game or quiz (as it's often presented), it's normalizing race science and eugenic thinking. It's all been debunked, stop it

Tired of getting updates about your community from people in your community? Now you don’t have to! We’re taking over all your personal connections so they can be mediated and filtered by a corporate robot! Pointless Tech Inc: If we could sell you a hug from your own mom, we would do that too!

THIS IS SO GOOD

“The call center is expected to receive and process 6,000 to 7,000 calls per day.” if everyone calls and reports an I.C. Weiner, or Amanda Hugnkiss I bet we could help them with their quota, no problem

Editing slots are filling up for 2026 already!!! Now booking for June onwards. If you'll have a manuscript ready for developmental or line editing next summer or later, get in touch at [email protected] to secure your slot. Prices at www.thewriteadvice.co.uk ~ Anna

Clearly Dick Cheney was a load bearing shitbag and the timeline is self correcting

Writer: You want the good or bad news first? Character: ... good. Writer: Good news is, you're my favourite character. Character: Oh, nice. Phew... so what's the bad news? Writer: Bad news is, you're my favourite character.

the messages that keep you going when things are rough in being-a-creative land 🥰

I love how he explains this - putting CG stuff in gives people permission to stop believing.

A poem I wrote some months ago showed up at my door today in the first issue of the relaunched Southerly magazine.

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

But this issue is bigger than Deseret Book or its target demographic. As a society, we need to stop letting the VERY vocal minority of close-minded bigots determine what the rest of the public can enjoy. And we need to stop letting them weaponize the innocence of youth in their agendas of hate.

The Prince in Pink is a fictional character. He doesn’t need defending. But there are very real kids who identify with characters like him. A story like this can help validate their right to exist and create real world space for them. 7/

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

publishing needs to get rid of fucking non-competes. i am NOT your employee. you do NOT pay me even near a living wage. i have NO control over when you’ll even publish the damn books. but i DO need to fucking eat? if i’m not important enough to pay well, i’m not important enough to be “competition”

This is all of us

publishing needs to get rid of fucking non-competes. i am NOT your employee. you do NOT pay me even near a living wage. i have NO control over when you’ll even publish the damn books. but i DO need to fucking eat? if i’m not important enough to pay well, i’m not important enough to be “competition”

Editor's note: I feel very strongly that, even in a high fantasy setting, we can agree that 'fuckboy' is one word.

What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

the Paris Masters, introducing tennis players like new challengers in Street Fighter ✨ v dramatique ✨ #tennis

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

"Capital disapproves of every excess but excess wealth; it is based on the magic belief that capital is productive, when in fact it breeds anxiety and paranoia and dis-ease and debt." - Ian Penman (writing in 'Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors' of all places)

i know, i know, i’m extremely fucking late to the party but thanks to a very good and very persistent friend, i have finally started watching the Interview With A Vampire series and yes, okay, it’s great, you were all right, y’all don’t have to be so smug about it

Also, keeping this handy should I ever run into binary bullshit discourse again. No. We’re not making another set of boxes. Don’t mistake a conceptual label for an incredibly wild and varied reality.

words youngest child shouted from the kitchen: “if you were going to ask if i’m harassing giant spoons or not, the answer is yes!” we are a very unserious household…

why does Hitler’s art look like he made it with AI? 😂 those windows! so flat! so depressing in tone!

Online censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org