Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.

To start #AroWeek with a bang, we have a bundle with 23 works filled with aromantic characters for you!! Mine is A Study on Magic and Crystals and it features a necromancer (aroace), a fairy (alloaro) and a princess (demiace) going on a roadtrip! 💙📚📢📚📦📚 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...

Hey friends, could I get some crossed fingers for a Yes from a dream cover artist pls?? 🫣❤️‍🔥

When redheads charge toward you fast enough they become blueheads

🌟 FANTASY SHORT STORY 🌟 🍃 fairytale 👩‍❤️‍👩 romantic 🔮 magic 🎭 second pov 🔖 story: mybook.to/WDd0F 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/fire-at-her-... 📖 gr link: www.goodreads.com/book/show/75... [ #booksky ]

This Must-Have Monday I have THIRTEEN new books to ft! Incl ♂️ ♀️ a return to Dorley Hall with @badambulist.bsky.social! 🤖 sapphic scifi heists from @makana-yama.bsky.social! 😺 a magical cat shelter by Heather Fawcett!

I’ve spent a huge amount of time since the start of 2026 working on book design for @shirakipress.com, and while I’m immensely proud of these results, it’s also one of the scariest things I’ve ever done! 😨 joshsutphin.com/blog/doing-i... #bookdesign #publishing #smallpress

It’s my birthday! Wait, how old am I? *looks at calendar* 33 😱 (This means you all should totally buy my books today fyi 😉) Or at least buy *any* indie book ;)

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

I see someone is founding a new cult there @stevewestenra.bsky.social 😄

This “queer tales” series has been a labor of love since we founded Neon Hemlock in 2019. GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDN’T DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title from…

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

MASK UP people, and be sure your vaccinations are current. There is no reason to be a plague rat, and remember some infections are asymptomatic. Just because you feel fine doesn't mean you shouldn't be masking at all times when not at home.

If you ever thought "what would a British version of Hereditary mixed with The Dunwich Horror look like", or if you've never thought that but now you are, I have the book for you www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/821763/thirteenth-by-c-m-rosens/ A gloriously unhinged eldritch family drama #Horror

Everything else is commentary

Gang. GANG. LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS. STOP USING THEM.

One of the hardest things to wrap one’s mind around is that these dudes can write this shit utterly convinced that they’re not having an emotion.

Wie viele Tools gibt es, die bei richtiger Anwendung zu 99,9% effektiv sind und bei denen die Kosten/Nutzen Relation so klar ist? Nicht viele. "Auf bis zu 0,1 Prozent kann eine korrekt getragene FFP2-Maske das Ansteckungsrisiko laut einer Studie des Max-Planck-Instituts von 2021 reduzieren."

Dearest horror readers & monster friends! I have been given the power of the Giveaway Option and can offer a digital copy of this beauty for FREE in case you're in post-Valentine's slump and need a spicy pick-me-up 📚👀😱❤️‍🔥 #BookSky #horror #lgbt

I've been looking FORWARD to this :3 ❤️‍🔥Monstrous spice by HUMAN artists❤️‍🔥 If you're a collector, there's also a SPECIAL, GOLD-FOILED HARDCOVER EDITION among the choices on Dead Fox Publishing's website 📚👀 Support a small press today! Happy spooky Valentine's! 📚😱 deadfoxpub.com/products/twi...

Got a fresh flash out! ⚧️ ironfaeriepublishing.com/category/haw...

"That is why a defense of gender studies is not a parochial feminist project, but a vital stand that extends to the “validity of the entire American system” as a democracy, one based on aspirations for equality and justice for all." Joan Wallach Scott www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

My Rusalka story A ROTTING CROWN OF BIRCH is available today in the Twisted Trysts anthology! I am so delighted this story made it out into the world. If you're looking for something spicy and dark to read on this Valentine's Eve, I hope you'll check it out! geni.us/twistedtrysts

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've been looking FORWARD to this :3 ❤️‍🔥Monstrous spice by HUMAN artists❤️‍🔥 If you're a collector, there's also a SPECIAL, GOLD-FOILED HARDCOVER EDITION among the choices on Dead Fox Publishing's website 📚👀 Support a small press today! Happy spooky Valentine's! 📚😱 deadfoxpub.com/products/twi...

MOSTER LOVIN' OUT NOW, GO GET YOUR VALENTINE! 🖤⚧️ #horror #sff #nsfw #lgbtq #anthology

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Hmm, when I say "We need specialised, tailored, task-specific AI, not this generative pestilence; ChatGPT has KILLED people ffs, we need to act here," I do NOT expect the answer to be, "But think of all the lives ChatGPT has *saved*, we have too few paychologists and this helps!"

So I learned a critical lesson today: While apparently everybody, EVERYBODY here, just goes along with A"I" tools and digital only, I shall be the one weirdo wielding cutouts & paper snippets & little models & actual 3D, touchable objects + experiments Long time since I felt this good amid my rage

Really glad to see we're honouring the classics and doing 99 Red Balloons reenactments now. So precious 🎈

January zine club should be in the mail by the end of the week and hopefully February will be out by the end of the month! Thanks for being patient, friends. 🩷 #zines #snailmail #zineclub ko-fi.com/s/dcc28f448f

** Hugo Award nominations are now open! As usual, I am eligible for Best Fan Writer - I wrote a summary of my year here: microsff.com/2025-wrapped (Hopefully someone will comment with a link to the spreadsheet of doom where you can find lots of other possible nominees.) **

Mandatory training round for everyone at work tomorrow. The three choices are: a self-guided tutorial on AI, an online lecture about AI, or some group work ...using AI 🫩 Anybody feel like abducting me for 24hrs?? I'll pay you too.

History loving nerds, you're up! 👀 @fakehistoryhunter.net do you have any suitable niche people at hand?

My poem about crawling out from the ruins of collapse and establishing queer new ways of being: “Poeisis (Triassic Aubade),” from my collection TIME TRAVEL IS EASY (2025).

"Handily, to make a prediction like this, you don’t have to provide any evidence to support your claim. You can just say shit, and the @nytimes.com will print it." aftermath.site/ai-romance-n...

5 more days until this #itchbundle of SFF Friendship books (and, unfortunately, the concept of friendship) are gone forever!

Every day be like

This sounds WICKED COOL y'all! 🤩

It's not mermay yet, but just in case you'd like a bit of sea spray in your face, here's my <500-word flash story COURTESY and why it really matters to have it 😈 #ocean #sff #horror #ace #mermaid (first story in the set, and do read on too, there are more gems from the others' pens waiting!)

Monthly Trans Creators Boost! - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the notes and look for works to read and share. - Follow new creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #WriteSky #TransSky

If you are on makerworld, please go boost this model just to give our comrade what he deserves. Even if you're not printing whistles. I've boosted it all I can.

An excellent article from romance author Sabina Nordqvist, whose debut IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD is out today! #writing #reading #booksky lithub.com/the-power-of...

Three days until monster smut!

Several times now, I read sub requirements and got "Eeeh, let's not submit stories to this market" vibes for no concrete reason. In quite a number of those cases, shit hit the fan rights- or contract-wise within a year 🫣 Listen to your intuition folks, it's where your brain talks to you

Fuck capitalism and transphobia and the TERF wizard lady specifically Read weird trans books

🚨🚨 Horror anthology alert! 📚😱 📚👀 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT ebook is currently FREE at the Evil Place, and all eventual proceeds go to Butterfly Wonderland and conservation thanks to the wonderful @frommausoleum.bsky.social ! Look how pretty!! #horror #books #sff #anthology #ecology #conservation