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Between online stores and my Kofi shop, I've sold 14 books this month! Who wants to be #15? I write weird, self-indulgent sci-fi and fantasy atop a soapbox, and I like dead things. www.rebeccareyeswriting.com/work/book-series

Exactly! And let's not forget the elves who kept the forces of evil at bay from Rivendell and Lothlórien. And the dwarves at Erebor who kept that area in check. And the elves in Fangorn, and Beorn etc. etc. If any of those non humans had failed, the Shire might have been overwhelmed.

If you're a queer Texas author of adult or YA fiction & you have one of your books on hand that you'd like to sign & donate to a silent auction bundle for Equality Texas, DM me? The event is Nov 15th so it would need to get in the mail ASAP, or in Austin area I can pick up. Reposts appreciated! 🏳️‍🌈

Sick in bed this week, but managed to submit another short story today☺️ How to choose what to write next? I have a notebook with lots of ideas. Some of them just a few sentences, others whole pages jotted down. I selected 10 and let my girlfriend pick the winner. So a story about fungi it is!🍄

While I'm complaining, you know what? I never see traditionally published authors getting this pushback about having their books on Amazon. And THOSE books have so many more options than indie authored books do. People just expect it from big publishing companies.

Vijf jaar geleden verscheen ‘Voorbij de storm’, de eerste door mij samengestelde verhalenbundel. Het thema is nog steeds heel actueel. Ik werk daarom aan een nieuwe klimaatbundel die zomer 2026 gaat verschijnen met opnieuw verhalen van 25 Nederlandstalige schrijvers! www.facebook.com/share/p/14N9...

O hey, I've got one of these in a short story coming out SoonTM 🤗

Gewoom lekker Amazon blijven boycotten, peoples!! Bol is ook een drama qua werkomstandigheden bij de logistiek (as far as I know), dus helemaal lokaal kopen blijft het allerbeste!

Take 5 mins. Go to Goodreads, the 'Zon, Storygraph... anywhere. Leave a review for a lesser-known book that you wish others knew more about. There's so many issues in the world you can't solve, but you can make someone's day who poured months or years into writing that story.

Leuk ter inspiratie voor SF-schrijvers: milieuvriendelijke en biologisch afbreekbare levende computers op basis van schimmels lijken realiteit te gaan worden. Biopunk! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

WE DID IT!!! 🎉🎉🎉 over $20,000 raised with 3 days still left to go! Thank you all so much to everyone who shared and supported our Kickstarter; we truly, TRULY couldn't have done it without you! 💜👽 Bask in the warm glow of a fully funded Kickstarter with us 🌟 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Deze kwam ik tegen. Geen twijfel, toch?

Finished writing my second short story, woohoo! Now on to the next one, and then another, and another. So many ideas, so little time! Going to submit this bad boy to a magazine, let's see how it goes ☺️

If magazine teams were paid fairly and writer rates increased, mag budgets would be $200k+. Minimum. If you can, subscribe. That’s regular, renewable revenue mags can use to plan for the future. This industry is sustained on free labour and free content. Passion is high, but so is burnout.

All shutters slam closed when a stranger comes to town bleached bones, hat, two guns #scifaikusaturday #stranger #spooktober

The wind in the leaves Singing a secret folk song Tangled up in green #haiku

So to alleviate some medical costs, I've put my three short story collection up for sale on Itch in a bundle. Get all three #scifi, #horror and #fantasy collections on #ebook for $10!!! Find the bundle here: itch.io/s/163297/hei...

she faced death coyly the digital tombstone read upload me daddy #ScifaikuSaturday #haiku #scifaiku 🖤 Another haiku for the theme #strange. I admit it builds more on my other haiku of today than the theme itself.

post-digital flowers mourning her sixth formatting reboot fete at ten #ScifaikuSaturday #haiku #scifaiku Let me know if you figure out the connection to the theme #strange 🖤

Elections here in the Netherlands next week. Climate is an edge issue in the race. Meanwhile our country (which conveniently is in large part below sea level) is heading straight towards one of the more dystopian futures described by my fellow Dutch sci-fi writers. Clogpunk here we come!

My story “Vita Nova,” exploring the SHAPE of love when souls and bodies can part, has been invited to appear in the debut issue of Quest! @readquest.bsky.social

In NRC herleest Clarice Gargard de #Xenogenesis boeken van #OctaviaButler. Over wat ons mens maakt, hoe wij ons verhouden tot "de ander", extreem ongemakkelijk, met een snufje body horror. Briljant. Tip voor iedereen die niet van piewpiewpiew-sciencefiction houdt. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

One of my best friends died several years ago. She wrote a couple of ebooks that are still up on Amazon. It makes me wonder what happens to money made by their sales after death. She wrote under a pseudonym. I'm betting Amazon gets all the money, and my friend's daughter gets nothing.

Indie authors & publishers aren't paid immediately, so there's just 9 days left to where any books bought in 2025 will be paid out to them. So I thought I'd do a thread where people could find some books! (authors, please read 🧵first lol) (Inspired by @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social post)

Finished and submitted a scifi poem, and am nearly done with a story. It's a modern 'New Weird' tale, with a fantasy element at the heart of it 🌑

An anthology of Dutch Halloween stories. Get ready for some spookiness in the polder! 🎃🧹🐈‍⬛ #Halloween #fiction #book

Arabfuturism is coming! It's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY cover reveal day. Don't ask me which one I like more. They're both epic! (It's Gollancz on the left and Saga Press on the right 🫡)

Today Tenby. Tomorrow… the world.

from orbit every planet looks at peace with herself and absurd this notion of possessing whole wide worlds so what if we do not name her never tell #SciFaikuSaturday (peace) #inkMine (possess)

a shocked assembly we thought they said peas in space and brought our pitchforks #ScifaikuSaturday #Peace #haiku #scifaiku

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

!!!! I did not know about this book!!! Also check out the rest of the thread too -

Add my book on Goodreads. It costs you nothing and it makes me happy. Win-win. www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Finished the first volume of Murderbot by @marthawells.com , very nice stuff! Watched the series after, well done 🤖 Now onto the EdgeZero 2024 anthology of Dutch short stories. I read the first three stories and so far I'm having a blast! 🖤

De Edge ZERO bundel 'de beste SFFH-verhalen van 2024' is er, met mijn SF-Klifi-horror-vertelling 'De wondere wereld van onze bijen'. Zeer binnenkort zijn op de website van EdgeZero alle verhalen gratis te lezen. De papieren bundel is te verkrijgen via Amazon: www.amazon.nl/-/en/dp/9493...

Er komt een Edge ZERO Halloween-bundel en mijn horror-verhaaltje Pompoenen komt erin. Eigelijk wel verrassend... geen SF-element, eerlijk gezegd. Maar ik ben er wel trots op!

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

cavern neutrinos dance skyward through rock and flesh drones swoop with joy above #ScifaikuSaturday #haiku #scifaiku

Clearly this isn't an easy time to have a proudly queer children's series, but at the same time that makes it more necessary than ever. SPLINTER & ASH means so very much to me, and I'd love it if you gave it a try. Get it at your favorite local bookstore or at: bookshop.org/p/books/spli... ⚔️💙

-Started rewatching Deep Space Nine and am listening to the accompanying Delta Flyers podcast 👽 -Wrote a flash fiction story and submitted it ✒️ -Reading Murderbot Diaries 🤖 -Got the EdgeZero 2024 Anthology of Dutch SciFi short stories in the mail 📖 -Wrote a #Scifaiku 📡 #SciFiChat Social Hour

Under-Rated Books Itch Bundle! itch.io/b/3305/under... Get 63 of the best books you've never heard of for only $38 USD! That's 83% off! Oct 9th - 13th! Find new favs, and consider leaving them ratings to give us all a boost! 📢📚 #writesky #readersky #writingcommunity

The 11 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is #WAR ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

The five finalists for the Fantastic Stories Competition of Dutch Comic Con are up! Have a read and vote for your favorite! www.dutchcomiccon.com/activities/a...

#booksky #memes #writing

I'm absolutely thrilled that @apexmag.bsky.social Issue 151 is out - containing my drabble 'Don't Hide From the Mirror', the first piece I've published with Apex! 🏳️‍⚧️ trans euphoria 🩸body horror ✒️only 100 words! Check out the full issue now!

The yearly Dutch speculative fiction short stories competition received 267 submissions, a record! Great to see so many writers join. Looking forward to reading some great stories! harlandprijs.eu/record-aanta... #Harland #HarlandPrijs

460 woorden geschreven vandaag - en daarmee is hoofdstuk 1 van mijn nieuwe roman van start gegaan. Morgen verder! #AmWriting

Finished @wiswell.bsky.social's book 'Someone you can Build a Nest in'. Really enjoyed it, would recommend! It seems to have achieved everything it set out to do, which must not have been easy considering the main character. 🖤 Now on to read The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com !

Got my first rejection, or rather: the absence of a message after the judging date went by and finalists were selected. Rather than a defeat it feels as if it opens up possibilities. To quote that one Magic the Gathering card: "When nothing remains, everything is equally possible." On to the next!