Aaaaaand there it is.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

“The hurt and anger caused has been a matter of deep concern to everyone associated with the prize... despite these events, we are committed to going forward with the prize this year... undertaking a full review... ahead of next year’s awards.” The Polari Prize doesn't understand the situation.

Indie authors who use Itchio as your website – especially if you have erotica in your catalogue – be aware your website may now be blocked to UK readers. Have an alternative landing page! #IndieAuthor #Author #Writers #OnlineSafetyAct

YES! 👏 Thank you every Labour MP who stood firm and everyone who has supported this campaign. If we stand together and fight for what’s right we’ve proved again we can succeed

🌈 It's here! 🌈 I picked up my copy of Teacher of the Year by @mawardell.bsky.social from my local indie bookstore Red Lion Books today! I'm (re)reading this for the @diversepridereadthon #Queerbooks #Booksky #DiversePrideReadathon #PrideMonth #PrideReads #ReadMoreQueer

🏳️‍🌈 Pride is a protest & a demonstration of LGBTQIA+ existence & joy. 🏳️‍🌈 This year, Pride month feels more needed and less of a party than it has for me since my teens in the 1990s. ...

📚 Author top tip... There's a Threads discussion about how authors can make sure their editor/proofreader is qualified. The BIG green/red flag I see in online spaces is: ➡️Are they comfortable talking style guides, style sheets, and dictionaries? 🦋... #Authors #AuthorSky #IndieAuthor #Editor

🩵🤍🩷 20+ books for Trans History Week 🩷 I haven't yet read all of these yet, so let me know if you have! #Transhistoryweek #transrights #transbooks #Queerbooks #Booksky #LGBTQbooks

📝 Indie Author Reduced Cost Proofreads! 📝 If you're an Indie Author looking to get a final check done on your book or short story, then I offer a reduced cost single run-through proofread service. lindseymiddlemiss.square.site/rates #IndieAuthor #editor #writercommunity

📚 New release I got to work on! 📚 Rough Trade by @_ksterling_ Out now. Perfect for fans of Emmy Sanders' Elite 8 series and anyone looking for an inclusive, emotional exploration of the meaning of sex. #editor #indieauthor #booksky #queerbooks

📚 New release I got to work on! 📚 Author, Author by Will Forrest @willthewriter.bsky.social Out now. books2read.com/authorauthor #Queerbooksky #queerbooks #indieauthor #gaybooks

⭐️100+ Queer Books with Disability Rep ⭐️ April 20-26 is Disability Book Week. I love finding queer, disabled rep in romance books both because it's personal and because it is such a hard-hitting intersection! #Booksky #QueerBooksky #LGBTQbooks #LGBTQIA #DisabilityBookWeek #DisabilityBooks

Happy Non-binary Parents' Day to all the non-binary parents out there

This is who Keir Starmer met with

Amazing to see the huge numbers in London, especially with concurrent #TransRights protests happening all over the country. The gender critics are vocal & dangerous, but they are a minority. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

🩷🩵🤍 80+ books with trans rep 🤍🩵🩷 Trans rep books – showing that trans people are real, valid, and as deserving of love & choices as anyone else – are both a protest & a way of learning more about trans folks. Read trans rep books now & all year round!

Huge love to everyone protesting today. An injured foot is keeping me home or I'd be in Parliament Sq. Stay safe, know your rights, have the backs of the people around you. And cis allies... we need you to stand up now more than ever. Be loud, physical & proactive in your support of trans people.

We are going to see a deluge of cases brought against institutions that (I think lawfully) want to continue to adopt trans inclusive policies. We will run an accelerated process to hire an equalities lawyer to advise them and (try and) ensure trans voices in those cases.

Anyone supporting JKR, promoting HP inc. the new series in any way is complicit in funding hate. Yes, that includes anyone with their house in their bio. Yes, that includes authors still making HP references in their own books. Yes, that includes the actors in the new series. Just STOP

Remember... TWs/CWs are for content that could be triggering to someone dealing with trauma, a MH condition, eating disorder, etc. They are NOT just supposed to be for topics that the general public agrees are upsetting to many. I see a LOT of authors get this confused. ... #AuthorSky #WriterSky

I'm sorry, WHAT? The collection, incarceration & enslavement of people by ICE should take a more business like approach? I know the USA never really got rid of slavery, but DAMN 😳

These euphemisms for "cock" over on Threads are hilarious. But what is often missed by writers is that euphemisms & descriptive/flowery language can pull the reader out of a scene. I'm a keep it simple kind of editor. Call a spade a spade, etc. #authors #indieauthors #queerbooksky #booksky

I've added an FAQ to my website. Is there anything else you think should be on there? lindseymiddlemiss.square.site/faq The website & especially the blog is a WIP. It's the age-old challenge of the sole trader/freelancer: the more work we get, the less time we have for work admin. #Editors

In the absolute shitstorm that 2025 is, my job – the work, the clients, their queer BOOKS – and the local queer community I have found IRL are absolutely lifting me up. Queer joy is a protest. Disabled joy is a protest. Queer books are a fucking protest that I will NEVER take for granted. 😘

And sometimes, those people are gay men 😭🤬

The people who are fighting to be allowed to say trans people are mentally ill are the exact same people who argued the same for gay people in the 80s. “I find it icky, therefore you shouldn’t exist” was basically Tory and Republican policy. They can’t do that anymore, so trans people it is.

So many indie authors hate writing blurbs/synopses or, at least, struggle to find the enthusiasm to do them on their own. If you have an author PA, many PAs will help with this. But if not, you might want to outsource! #WriterSky #IndieAuthor lindseymiddlemiss.square.site/additional-s...

This is my top tip for self-editing & one I use myself in editing ALL the time (the main reason I cannot edit much with my kiddos around 😆). Read your writing aloud.

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

Thoughts and prayers for the American gun owners who might have to deal with a dictator that objects to the 2nd Amendment being used as originally written @underthedesknews.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DGjhmu3...

1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Okay so I can’t do #stuffyourkindleday technically, BUT I can make Name Her Holy ✨free✨ on itch.io today 👀 Pspspsps c’mon and get your disaster lesbians! Sale is only good for today! aubreyennis.itch.io/name-her-holy #sapphicstuffyourkindle #booksky 🌈📚

HELLO FRIENDS. Today is Sapphic Stuff Your Kindle Day! yearofqueerlit.com/2025/02/23/s...

Guess what! The ebook of In the Valley, A Shadow, is discounted today to $0.99 as part of a sapphic stuff your kindle event hosted by Year of Queer Lit! Also, there are over 150 other books discounted or even free from hundreds of sapphic authors!! #booksky yearofqueerlit.com/2025/02/23/s...

Well, it's happened. I've been restricted by Meta. Not sure if it was the pro-LGBTQIA+ content, the anti-transphobia in government posts, or suggesting that Christians worshipping gold statues haven't read their Bibles.

🌈 18 LGBTQ+ Rugby Romance books 🌈 Are you watching Six Nations or what Ilona Maher is doing? Want some rugby romance, but make it queer? There are some brilliant rugby romance books out now, even if we need more sapphic rep. #LGBTQBookSky #Rugby #Booksky #SportsRomance

There truly is something special about getting to exist in neurodivergent queer spaces. Marvellous discussions last night on the overlap of ND & LGBTQIA+ identities, queerness vs assimilation, comphet & compulsory monogamy, intersectionality and stories shared without ever being "too much"

💚🤍 Books for Aromantic Awareness Week 🩶🖤 The week after Valentine's Day is Aromantic Awareness Week. I love learning more about the LGBTQIA+ community from books, and aromanticism is one of the harder identities to find rep for—especially as I mostly read romance! #booksky #queerbooksky #aromantic

Omg @gaystheword.bsky.social is here! Everybody go follow them 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

🌈 Body and Soul (Wayward Sons #4) by L Eveland @leveland.bsky.social A spicy dark romance with BDSM elements, mental health rep including DID, and a cult to tackle that has been torturing their young for decades. One of the best dark romances I have read recently. #LGBTQbooksky #QueerBookSky

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say the NHS, under Wes Streeting, is engaged in a hostile attempt at mass forcible detransition of young trans people: that is the conjoint effect of denying public healthcare, punishing those using private healthcare, and intrusive and hostile data gathering.

I've been on social media since it started but still get giddy when I see certain new followers.

Queer rugby romance recs? Sapphic or achillean. I have read all of Charlie Novak & Jay Hogan's rugby books #Queerbooksky #Booksky

Save the date next Thu., Feb. 20, at 6 p.m. EST for our Candid Conversation with line/copy editor, book coach, and ghostwriter Dayna Reidenouer on the topic, "Subtle Slurs: Everyday Language's Ableist Origins." RSVP here: the-efa.online/feb-convo-bsky

With everything going on, today was not a great day to find both casual transphobia and bierasure in queer Romances. DNFed one, taking a break from the other. Sadly queer romance (and yes, even those written by queer authors) does not always mean escaping this BS. #LGBTQBooksky #Indieauthor

🌈 Touch in Excess (The Carnal Tower #5) by EM Lindsey 🌈 💜MM Contemporary Romance 💜Hard of hearing Sexworker 💜Lebanese-American Autistic Cam-boy Virgin 💜Diphallia (yes, really) 💜Meniere's Disease 💜Lebanese food 💜Found family 💜Inherited debt 💜Mention of religious abuse (secondary character) 💜A HEA

Want a marvellous queer book with no romance, found family, bisexual & demisexual rep and ghosts... Shadows of Cathedral Lane

Give indie authors grace on typos. My tween just found a typo in The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett. First published, 1983. I'm so proud. 😁 #Editors #AuthorBluesky #Authors #Indieauthors #Booksky #QueerBooksky

🌈 9 Fiction Books for LGBTQ+ History in 2025 🌈 LGBTQ+ historical fiction books that seem more important than ever this year. What's an LGBTQ+ historical fiction books you think more people should read?