I’m so excited to have a story in this incredible issue! “The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” is 50% insistence that queer love is magic, 50% insistence that poetry is magic too. I hope you love this one. 🌳 🐸 ☀️ 🌊

Not nominated for any awards. Just fun, enjoyable reads. stephaniecaye.com/#books 💙📚💙🌆

Just do it. Send @flaminghydra.com $3/month for a subscription to power a journalist-owned platform. flaminghydra.com/subscribe

so stoked to be doing a show in Saint John 😍 share this if relevant please :) app.ticketowl.io/ZzeGg-mBxAcRRG…

I’m sorry to post this here but I am trying to get help for my baby, One Eye. my following isnt large and I am just desperate. He is my baby and I dont have the funds right now. would really appreciate anything, even just a share. thank you! gofund.me/2b90cbc5e

My winnings from the @writehive.bsky.social auction have made it to the snowy, white north! Thank you, Write Hive and @makana-yama.bsky.social 😍

This is great. I was good until 1200 and then hit a wall.

It's good to have siblings.

Thank YOU for the chat, Bird! Links to my books below. The next two are coming, I swear. Eventually. But the first three comprise a closed enough trilogy, no cliffhangers. Fresh snow brings me joy in these dark times. Spring will bring more joy, tho. stephaniecaye.com#books

Jude is: colour - green flower - dandelion scent - linden emotion - brazen overconfidence song - Relentless by Wildcat! Wildcat! and Wynne soundcloud.com/wildcat-wild... #latenightwrite

A fun fact about Montreal is that the metro trains have wooden brake pads, so sometimes on the platform you get a delightful whiff of warm, burning wood. Cozy as hell or a bit worrying, depending on whether you know about it in advance. #latenightwrite

Beware the groove. Ugh, I am stalled out #latenightwrite but I keep trying to haul myself forward, little by little. 1000 words a week for the last two, which is 2000 more than I had two weeks ago, so, the math checks out.

Whee #latenightwrite is back! I'm Steph and I'm working mostly on Book 5 of my fae urban fantasy series Gravity's Daughter. 1-3 are published, 4 is complete and mostly stable but 5 has crossed its arms, tucked its chin and refuses to budge.

#booksky 📚 little free library

I like enemies to lovers where the characters have grown into each other. If you get along too fast, it's sus. The initial emnity is usually set off by uncomfortable similarities and I like the slow burn of watching two people bob and weave to reach that realization.

#tbruary I tend to be all over the place genre-wise but I guess I'm less inclined toward literary and/or historical fiction. However, I also like long-distance trains and stories concerning the same, so "The Sleeping Car Porter" by Suzette Mayr is my the list. www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...

Looking for haunted houses, white ladies (the translucent kind), & headless horsemen! (And all other kinds of ghosts as well!) 👻

#tbruary I don't remembering adding this one to my TBR but having just found it on the list, now I'm interested all over again! "What You are Getting Wrong About Appalacia" by Elizabeth Catte www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...

Checks out.

Women kissing in dystopias is much too overlooked as a genre.

Great way to do it? Tell me what you liked, ask specific what happens next, and ask if I plan to continue.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Felt like shouting out to the void today: check out my books! They're exciting, fun and pretty well-reviewed. PLUS the ebooks have finally joined their paperback brethren on Bookshop.org. stephaniecaye.com#books 💙📚🌆📚

#tbruary Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho has been on my list for quite some time. Maybe it's finally the dark, wintry month for a gothic classic...? #booksky #readingcommunity

Without naming your job, tell us something you say over and over again at work. "Is this the expected behaviour?"

I've been sick so I missed all the other days so far but I've got an instant answer for this one! The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E.M. Anderson. I have been hearing nothing but very excellent things about this paranormal cozy with an elderly protagonist. #tbruary #booksky #readingcommunity

Watching "The Curse" and laughing at how Emma Stone's character is so over the top controlling, then later I find myself saying to my partner, "I really wish you wouldn't tell the cats I yell at you, because I don't."

No uses of "confident" in Book5 WIP (not surprising given the state of things) so we'll have to go with Book4 WIP. Jude's past is catching up to her. You know, again. As it does. Very minor Book2 spoiler incl. #wipsnips #urbanfantasy #booksky

Heyo I'm Steph. Reading habits are varied--just finished Amatka by Karin Tidbeck and am also in the middle of a book about the St Lawrence River from 1905. GR says 197 books on my TBR but that seems low... My book The Flaws of Gravity is a fae urban fantasy that I'd love more ppl to read. #tbruary

Hello #writingcommunity! It's the end of January, which means #Febchantment starts tomorrow! 🥳🪄 Come yap about your magic systems, both fully formed & under construction! Detailed posts will go up daily at 12am EST. Can't wait to read about y'all's cool & creative magic! ❤️ #writesky #writers

We didn’t think the leopards would eat the resale value on our houses.

When 16-year-old Nia picks the wrong pocket, she unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her friends are on the run with a living doll, pursued by gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #QuestPit #W #F #LGBT #YA

Ugh I am really feeling this right now.

To be clear this pick was in July and I am as they say in the biz, ‘a disaster’ but in 2026 I wanna celebrate things I didn’t get a chance to before. I’m delighted to have Long Live Evil on KU in January to celebrate the coming of All Hail Chaos. Please read, please review & please suffer.

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Happy birthday @flaminghydra.com !!! We unlocked a bunch of stuff today, AND ALSO we've started up a BOOKS PAGE!! Where you can buy books from Hydra authors. Today we're linking purchases through the wonderful @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis. flaminghydra.com/issue-492/

"It's probably perimenopause" might be the best thing a dr ever said to me, bc that means maaaaybe I didn't become a complete failure at every cognitive task, completely lacking in creativity, and also shockingly depressed in one fell swoop all by myself. Fingers crossed, I guess.

This is a fantastic essay and I love it.

I wanted to play "1 like = 1 random line from my books" too but Botchparty is currently watching "Spice World" so...yeah, I cannot make such promises at this time.

I tend not to be detailed in descriptions, preferring to leave it up to the imagination of the reader. My characters' appearances are always a bit nebulous even in my own mind, which makes it difficult to write in detail. #writingq #WritingCommunity

Really excellent short story.

I hate how true this is.... Every time I try to advertise my book (old ones at this point, though I had the same problems when I had a new release) I just feel guilty.

When Metric said "Help I'm Alive," I felt that in my soul.

Save journalism and libraries with my friends

How fitting that today's #wipsnips word of 'climb' comes right as I'm editing a scene of mischief at a climbing gym. Shenanigans are pretty much MC Jude's love language. #writesky #writingcommunity #urbanfantasy

1:11 on 1/11 let's pretend that means something.

I took a normal walk today and now everything hurts. Why.

"The only rule I have yet to break is I refuse to read about billionaires in love, because that’s just repulsive, way more than, say, sexually deranged seven-foot gargoyles or alpha-wolf mating rituals." @swordsjew.bsky.social A billion percent agree.

I sort of hate that even when I drink too much, my anxiety keeps me from posting anything funny. Like is that not the point?