ICYDK, publishing is in a decline. Many authors who have had dependable contracts in the past are now scrambling to make ends meet and seeing lower advances and fewer sales than ever. If you see lots of book publicity posts, it's because we're scared and trying to keep our jobs during The Horrors.

Hey folks with a Substack, any word what they’re doing over there

Biphobic lesbians will be like, "I could never date a bisexual woman, what if she leaves me for a man?" Skill issue. I cannot stress enough how much of a self-own that is. If she wants to go back to men after dating you, turn in your lesbian card, cause you've failed.

Queer horror/comedy: Queens of the Dead (dir Tina Romero). A cadre of drag queens, lesbians, and trans girls (and one cishet dudebro frustrated by everyone's pronouns) are beset by zombies in the Brooklyn club scene. Was it good? Idk, I was honestly just here for Katy O'Brian in a muscle top.

oh my god, i’m crushed. catherine o’hara you queen

Trans femmes who don't like to tuck or don't want to tuck, my partner got a couple pairs of underwear from LeoLines and is loving them. They also sell custom made bras and swim wear. It's all made to order with compression in the bottoms unless specified. www.etsy.com/shop/LeoLines

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

This is praxis, I’m so serious. Politely wasting as much time as physically possible. Rage doesn’t work. Wasting their money complaining does. This thread contains a GREAT script for being a confused but polite menace, talking point by talking point

"But this is just about porn games!" Yes, and weird religious fascists regularly mischaracterize queer people and queer art as inherently pornographic, they shouldn't be given an inch because there's no line for them, no cut-off point, they'll never be satisfied. Do you think they'll stop at porn?

First day back home and so happy to be in my own kitchen

(Correction from comments indicates this blooms more than one night a year, but each bloom only lasts a night)

Have you ever thought "Damn I'd love to read one of Hazel's books but I wish they were a dollar? Super good news for you, we're doing a kindle countdown deal and all my ebooks published through Riptide are .99 cents today, July 25th! And $1.99 tomorrow, if today's no good.

Decades of Fiction: "and through the power of friendship, the children dethroned and killed God!" Readers: "neat fiction! But we don't have gods only billionaires" Fiction: <nodding leading> Readers: "too bad it doesn't apply to us, wish we had some Gods to dethrone and kill" Decades of Fiction:

Home between travels and got this delight. www.tumblr.com/alexwhitehal...

"it's not cozy fantasy if there's necrophilia involved" okay well firstly everything sounds bad when you say it in that tone of voice

I think I owe the (cat) mob money

Just a reminder: It really helps us indie authors out if you will leave a rating or a review of our book on AZ and Goodreads when you finish. I know, evil sites. I know. But they also generate a lot of traffic and funds we need. So please remember to drop a rating or review. Thanks! 🥰

Shifters: Magic Runs Deep by @alexwhitehall.bsky.social. Buck-wild SF/F: The Glamour Thieves by Don Allmon (plus two sequels). Contemporary @lambdaliterary.org award winner: Love and Other Hot Beverages by Laurie Loft. Cozy Mysteries: The entire Plumber's Mate series by @jlmerrow.bsky.social AND

First petsitting gig of the summer has started....

Just finished! Now to pick what's next...

"Native people deserve better...We deserve to grow old. We deserve to see our own weathered faces onscreen, laughing, stumbling, loving...Our ancestors endured genocide... The violence against us then was openly state‑sanctioned; now it hides behind rage masked as neighborly conflict..."

Guess who I got to see in person last night? It was amazing. #BDylanHollis #BakingAcrossAmerica

Barn cat was being super friendly tonight

🐢 ❤️

Finished The City We Became by NK Jemisin last night. It was a five-star read that has *rough* (to read in the current climate, especially) enemies and some fantastic characters. Audio narration was spot-on!

Ten books to read that aren't Harry Potter. A recommendation 🧵... #kidlit #booksky

🏳️‍🌈🌺 let every kid blossom 🌺🏳️‍⚧️

Day out with friends and a flight of (coffee) drinks. Then home for more hanging out with different friends. A great day but I am all socialed out

My success this week #crochet #ttrpg #dice

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

if you’re struggling to write, it may be because you’ve reached your lifetime total word limit. try unwriting for a while to replenish

Every day I wake up to the news

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

On vacation at Zenkaikon. Mostly shopping and a pretty Lancaster sunrise

🍃 #蟲師 #mushishi

I now *inconvenience* myself as much as I can. I ask online businesses if they will deliver my purchases using Canada Post. If I don't want to cook, I go directly to nearby restaurants for pickup orders. I buy local, cook from scratch as often as I can, DIY whatever I can manage. tiny experiments.

the day witchmark was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world, I was 48 years old.

Mondays

🍂🕯️🥀 SHORT HORROR STORY 🥀🕯️🍂 🏹 dark fantasy horror 🗡️ girls protecting girls 🍃 a forest of spirits 🎭 two sisters 🪦 a deal made in a cemetery 🗝️ children outsmarting adults 👀 only ✨99c✨ 🔖 book link: mybook.to/JeltBy 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... [ #booksky ] [ 🩸📚 ] [ 📚💙 ]

This is a really fun site if you are interested in the production design of Star Trek. It's a catalog of identifiable commercial products used to make things look "futuristic". star-trek.design

What days off are for

Drew some ravens because why not? 🐦‍⬛ #bird #birdart #digitalart #art

I have finally started The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers I have also started Drowned Country by Emily Tesh. It's going to be some good reading this month

If you’re going out —especially to crowded events like conventions—bring hand sanitizer and lotion for after every transaction, every time you touch doors or handrails, and before you eat. apnews.com/article/us-f...

everyone wants an answer so good that it gives them permission to stop learning

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

"To start, Bookshop’s website will have more than a million digital books on offer. Later this year, Bookshop plans to add books by self-published authors and more independent publishers." 👀