Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.

Happy Pride Month!

For Pride, you can preorder my & @cypayseur.bsky.social's favorite queer speculative stories of 2025! There have been many discussions lately about how queer publishing in the US is being squeezed from all directions. Pls support this ONGOING series & make sure it *remains* ongoing 💕 It matters!

A sapphic romance with a fat person??? SIGN ME UP

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HI. HELLO. I HAVE NEWS. 👀 Thrilled to share that I'm now represented by @knifewitch.bsky.social at @kiagency.bsky.social! My adult fantasy novel, "A Vengeance, Most Tender," feat Black sapphic necromancers, is in wonderful hands. 🙌🏾

We are delighted to welcome the Bid to Bring Worldcon to Edmonton in 2030 as a sponsor of the 2026 Ignyte Awards! @edmontonin2030.bsky.social

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan. A queer time travel adventure of sapphic longing, Chinese immortals, and Artist4Magician Old Man Yaoi, this novella utterly charms. Our drink is a mocktail: The Dragon's Daughter.

We're preparing the 2026 Shortlist for announcement and the open voting period on June 8! There are currently 2 ways to support: General Donations (for which you receive our thanks): ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/ Sponsorship (for which we might send you stuff): donorbox.org/sponsor-the-...

_Your Body Is a Fever Dream_ This is not my work alone (although I have a story in it) An anthology of queer cosmic horror from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social which will raise money for trans charities (a companion volume to their award-winning YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY)

Below are some projects I love that are accepting money at this time and the costs of their products.

Baffling Magazine has for years been producing the queer fiction I didn’t know I was starving for. A patreon subscription starts at 3 USD monthly. www.patreon.com/neonhemlock

FIYAH the magazine's hiatus does not impact the operations of the Ignyte Awards or a future convention. We are operating on some shared infrastructure, though, so expenses related to being fully hosted independently will be taken into account in a future crowdfunding/sponsorship cycle.

Our stories are powerful and worthy and deserve a platform. I'm confident that this magazine can return stronger than ever under new leadership, and barring that, new pathways will emerge to share our work with the world. Black writers, we need your stories. Keep writing. Keep going!

DaVaun was my first editor; one of the first folks who saw something in my work. FIYAH brought me into community with many beloved Black SFF authors/kinfolk. But its editors & staff deserve to run the mag with appropriate financial backing. Point, blank, period.

FIYAH is going on hiatus. More here:

You have to support the projects you love with money. I am sorry we do not live in a world where that is not the truth.

Cannot stress enough that WE did not make this a problem. Trans people just want to mind our own business. REPUBLICANS made it a problem and liberals went along with it. You didn’t have to do this.

Quickly approaching 100 hours in Fields of Mistria. Cannot express how much I love this game. It brings such silly joy to pet my bunny rabbits, ducks, cows, horses, alpaca, and chickens+ my house cat (who goes outside to fetch wood for us during the day!). And the towniesssss! 🥹

THE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...

I tell you what: two women, clasping hands, & running off together as the world burns? Hits. Every. Time.

In other words: tell us your prose reads like a disembodied camera dictating tedious physical mannerisms, sans interiority, without telling us that.

:( :( :( more like cantvas

Ok ok ok here we go! Cover reveal for my next novel: THE FIST OF MEMORY. Check out that lovely dynamic design. And look at those amazing quotes by the incredibly generous @aptshadow.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social to whom I am greatly indebted! Get the book y'all! buff.ly/X3CHaZk

We're officially at the 30-day mark of our Kickstarter campaign! Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far ✨ We must reach our goal of $5,000 or Kickstarter returns every dollar. Let's give queer writers of color the home they deserve. Back us today 💜 #SFF #Queer #bipoc #qtpoc #anathema

do not use chatGPT

I will DIE on this hill.

As a trans CSA survivor, I cannot emphasize enough how infuriating, dehumanizing, and devastating it is to watch the majority of society around me get so agitated about the hypothetical bogeyman of the "pedophile" (aka queer person) while intentionally ignoring the actual pedophiles in their midst.

I CAN FINALLY YELL ABOUT THIS BOOK!!! Skeletons!! Legendary swords that are maybe past their prime! Absolutely garbage wizard ethics! Witches and ghosts and experimental beasts! I also need everyone to look at this absolutely killer art team. I will NOT be shutting up about this anytime soon!!

While L.D. Lewis’ new novel takes inspiration from both Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, and the 1989 Disney adaptation, this reimagining “is very much its own thing. And what a glorious thing it is.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews Year of the Mer! reactormag.com/book-review-...

It’s been six months since the publication of PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE! This Southern Gothic historical fic novella chronicling coming of age, putting duty to the dead before the constraints of living family, and the strange, yet beautiful magic of funeral rituals has had a wonderful reception.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.” My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

Still working on getting the last $350 of my overdue rent together. (It's been a very long month already.) I'm taking on more editing work, any size gig welcome (though NB: I rarely take on books over 150k). Rates, etc., at the link: mathesonfreelancing.com Can contact there or DM here.

I did not know it was Sapphic Visibility Day? Even if it's not, for the next 24 hours, I am visible. WAIT NO, I mean, yes, I am visible, but also, THE MEMORY HUNTERS features sapphics and they ought to be visible too. Someone please lmk if you can see them www.kensingtonbooks.com/978164566208...

I hope y’all will watch this fantastic panel discussion that @veronicaghenry.bsky.social and I worked hard to put together! #booksky #libraries #AI

Excited for this FREE @wehere.bsky.social panel event, organized by @bookish-afrolatina.bsky.social & moderated by @veronicaghenry.bsky.social. All are welcome! Come through. 🙌🏾 luma.com/ud0psx3b

ProPublica has marketed themselves as the good guys doing trustworthy news. I even gave them the money I used to give WaPo before they flipped the breakers on democracy. Make their actions align with their words. don't cross the picket line and demand they deliver what their advertising promises.

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

that being said, [long, piercing shriek]

Jfc.

The question I want answered by every member of the Senate and the House is "what did you do in the last 8 hours?" That's it. I don't need spin, I sure as hell don't need a story. I just want a list. What the fuck did you do today?

dave ring took me behind the scenes of Neon Hemlock in his roles as publisher and managing editor! bsky.app/profile/ther...

From 18k words to 140k! 🥹

And do not tell me Republicans did this all. Even if it were true that only Republicans committed war crimes, the people who twiddled their thumbs and were like, "ah, well, boys will be boys, let's move forward" do in fact bear some measure of blame.

It's super American to downplay this shit and make it about us instead of the Iranian people who are on the receiving end of these threats

I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait. Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world.

Sort of. Surviving under a constant state of terror shortens your life.

Feeling poopy about your draft? Go back and read one of your published / polished pieces. Might just remind you that YOU GOT THIS SHIT. 🥹

Oh hey that’s me! There’s also a zoom chat and a story crit available. ALSO there are SO. MANY. COOL. PEOPLE. offering rewards for this campaign.