🕯️WHEN OTHER PEOPLE SAW US, THEY SAW THE DEAD ed. @ltdavila.bsky.social🕯️ An anthology of dark, unsettling writing from exciting contemporary BIPOC writers. Blending Gothic, horror, folklore & fantasy, these eerie short stories will disturb, move & humour you. www.hauntpublishing.com/books/p/laur...

Hello all! I’m taking a peek at pitches during #PicantePit for Inked In Gray Publishing! If I like your pitch, please submit your query, synopsis, and first 3 chapters to me at [email protected]. Please DM me with any questions!!

ICYMI, I have a few items up at the #KidLit4Ceasefire auction! All money raised is going toward families as well as immigrant and trans rights collectives! You can bid on them here: www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS.... Thank you to @sandraproudman.bsky.social for organizing as always!!!

Here is where you can find me this weekend at the @writehive.bsky.social conference! I'm so excited to be joining for my 5th year in a row!!! See you all soon! #writehive #conference #author

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. 🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/

Friends. Followers. People of Bluesky. Please check your knowledge of Black and Native history before declaring the US has never

Anyone putting together #awp2026 conference proposals? DM me if you still need a panelist to add to the proposal! 👀

SCBWI and more than 40 organizations representing parents, grassroots organizers, authors, librarians, booksellers, and publishers have signed a statement on the Trump Administration's firing of Dr. Carla Hayden. Share and ACT NOW bit.ly/EmailHayden

@writehive.bsky.social is putting together a #WriteHive2025 participant starter pack, so if you see someone you like, follow 'em! (Here's hoping I did this right lol) go.bsky.app/Pr6CWWy

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Hopping onto the #posterpit event! Here's something for my gothic short story collection THE PATRON SAINT OF WHITE MENAGERIES (Creature Publishing, 2026)!

For everyone concerned about tariffs in book publishing, PW has a great explainer with okay news for now: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Hello! Putting out a call for writers who would like to teach! We are seeking genre fiction writers (YA/adult) and/or contemporary poets! Diverse writers are especially encouraged to apply! All positions are remote + paid! DM with questions! www.cognitoforms.com/PocketMFA/Ap...

Interested in writing short fiction for MG or YA readers? @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2 night virtual mini-course with the Highlights Foundation! You can read more and register here: www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/int...

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

Hello! We are looking to possibly bring in more writing mentors at PocketMFA! If you’re interested in a paid teaching opportunity (especially for genre fiction!), we’d love to see your application! www.cognitoforms.com/PocketMFA/Ap.... Feel free to PM if you have any questions!

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Semicolon is a Black woman owned and operated bookshop, and you can support them in many ways. Visit them if you're in town—an easy walk from the Chicago blue line stop. Order directly from them online at semicolonchi.org. Use @bookshop-org.bsky.social to support them. Or donate here 👇🏼

Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

sending love to all the revolutionaries who know their personal comfort is not the priority with so many marginalized lives and futures at stake to all of you pushing past biases and out of your comfort zones to show up for those with less privilege than you, I see you and and I love you 🖤

Given recent events with Trump, Christina Sng's poetry collection A Collection of Nightmares feels scarily accurate. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/products/a-c...

Happy Black History Month! Celebrating this month as a unified showcase and forever & always! These are just a few of my book recommendations. Enjoy these amazing stories! 🫶🏼 #booksky 🩸📚

#AuthorsAgainstBookBans is the rare coalition where you get out more than you put in. If you're a published book creator (author, illustrator, contributor, etc.; indie or traditionally published), just sign up and show that you're with the 71% of people who oppose book bans. tinyurl.com/mr2bwku7

✨Please Share✨ Just 2 more hours to bid on the almost 300 items to benefit Gaza families and a small portion going to those affected by the LA fires! 🇵🇸💛 Ends at 6 PT / 9 ET! www.32auctions.com/KidLit4Cease...

Art is empathy. Art is shared wisdom. Art is political. Art is protest. Art is humanity. As everyone is searching for how to fight back in these times, remember art is important. That's why the fascists are coming for artists, too.

What can you do about book banning? How can you support essential public institutions of democracy like public libraries and public schools? Want to understand why "school choice" is an outright lie? I've got OVER FOUR YEARS of those answers and more in this pinned thread.

Hi! Gallery Nucleus is hosting: ART FOR LA - an online charity exhibition from January 24,2025 - March 25,2025 All the proceeds will go to Wildfire Relief Fund , LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, as well as artists and animators that have been affected by the fires.

Writing little stories doesn't feel like enough today. At least for me. But I know there's going to be (and has been) lots of days like this. I guess we all need to find other ways to make a difference and help each other.

Hi friends!! Very happy to be here! If you’re interested in publishing and all bookish things, give me a follow!! #author

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