Happy Book Birthday to my fellow writer-parent @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social out there making the magic happen! So excited to read about romantic, magical, winter witches!

dudes rock

Just booked a writing retreat, so, er, I'd love to fit in a couple more clients/workshops for fall to help offset the cost! I'm a writer, editor, & marketing coach. My sweet spot is helping authors w forthcoming titles navigate the book marketing engine + plan for launch. (pottern.com) 🧵

Why am I telling you all this? Because Tiffany once more has a couple of slots for new clients. If you're even curious, I highly recommend you contact her via @tiffscribes.bsky.social Chat with her to see whether the two of you might be a good fit. Do it soon. She's a precious and limited resource.

This is something I've also come to believe in my years working as a book marketing coach. While it is helpful to have a date to coalesce all your marketing around so it can snowball, using the sales of that one instance of concerted marketing should not define a book's success! 🧵

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

Hey, who turned out the lights?? 🕯️🕯️🕯️ The theme for September's flash fiction contest is CANDLELIGHT! You have until the end of this month to submit. Full submission details linked below ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

New story day! "The Truth About Crows" is a sweet fun story about what happens when a dragon finds a crow trespassing in her lair. I think my fondness for both crows and dragons is well documented by now! It's the perfect length for a Friday afternoon break, too: factorfourmag.com/the-truth-ab...

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

Allison is a brilliant writer, editor, and marketer (and a joy to work with to boot.)

Look maybe the jellyfish are trying to tell us something. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's Thursday, so we are looking through our bag of gems to feature. This week, enjoy a laugh to get through: Allison Pottern's Cryptid Car Rental magazine.trollbreath.com/cryptid-car-... @apottern.bsky.social

I have the immense privilege of being not only in the same @viableparadise.bsky.social cohort as Allison, but now the same critique group. She's SO SMART you guys. Get IN HERE while the door is open.

Allison is a fantastic writer, editor AND marketing coach, so she's really got it all. Plus she's an awesome person. If you're looking for a little help in any of those areas, definitely reach out to her!

I've taken a marketing class with Allison and learned a ton! She understands so much about working with those of us (all of us?) who know we need to market while also loathing the very idea.

Ooo I took a class from @apottern.bsky.social ! Marketing, which she excels at and which gives me anxious fits. GAVE me anxious fits: now I have class notes. Allison is practical and will give you forms. I need those.

Allison is a phenomenal coach, teacher, and writer! Get on her roster. You will learn so much and get so much out of it!!

I have a new book out today! It's a Sapphic steampunk western adventure about the dashing Karen Memery riding to the rescue as Annie Oakley's stunt double in a beleaguered early movie!

Just booked a writing retreat, so, er, I'd love to fit in a couple more clients/workshops for fall to help offset the cost! I'm a writer, editor, & marketing coach. My sweet spot is helping authors w forthcoming titles navigate the book marketing engine + plan for launch. (pottern.com) 🧵

Cha - os. Still say it that way in my head when I read it, like it's a dance number.

This story still makes me actually guffaw.

The HWA Diversity Grants is open for applications until October 1 (midnight EST). Membership in the HWA is not a requirement for application. @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Please share. horrorscholarships.com/diversity-gr...

Most of my posts on BlueSky are boring. You know what isn't boring? This funny, feel-good, paranormal story I wrote last year about a poor sweet muffin of an artist has no clue what she's gotten herself into asking for travel advice online. TGIF. Enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/cryptid-car-...

Genre rules are only guidelines anyway! Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device? We've got all that and more! 1/3

OK, I promised @apottern.bsky.social awhile ago that I would start a newsletter so I am FINALLY starting a newsletter -- next week! Sign up here (please): www.kmveohongs.com/newsletter

☎️ SH CRITICISM HOTLINE NOW OPEN In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special. What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad! ⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com

Ah, the whims of Am*zon: the pb is now... $7.54! Look, don't ask questions, just grab it while it's cheap! PLUS, the ebook is still less than $5 for a few more days! Doppelgangers, time travel, simulations, alternate realities, magical transformations, you name it! books2read.com/newyearnewyo...

Scotland, 1925: A gentleman thief, a lonely demon hunter and a married sorceress embark on a glittering heist to bring down the English occult. Forbidden passions, demonic conspiracies, and their own ambition threatens to bring them down. Bi rep, ace rep, mf, mmf, mm #queerpit #a #f

"...but I also think that nostalgia isn’t just about the books—it’s about a different way of books coming into the world. A more accessible way; a less specialized way. It’s not really about the size of the book, is it? It’s about what it meant, and means, to each reader." !! @mollytempleton.com

What a fantastic opportunity! 📚✨ Grab that paperback while it's cheap! Can't wait to hear about your Worldcon adventures! #SFF #BookLovers #SeattleWorldcon

The second Worlds of Possibility Anthology is alllllll poetry, and you can get the ebook free through August 20th! www.juliarios.com/worlds-of-po...

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee. This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges. I want to see an awards panel that represents the field. forms.gle/WWsFSAZLPvqb... 1/

PLUS, Am*zon has still decided to sell our paperback for stupid cheap so if you want to have a book gift waiting for you when you return from @seattlein2025.org, now is the time to order it! #worldcon #seattleworldcon #sff #fomo

Major FOMO re: #worldcon!! Half of our anthology's contributors will be there, so the ebook is more than half off! Grab a copy and say hi to @darylwriterguy.bsky.social @chriscampbell.bsky.social @fechoe.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @avani.bsky.social books2read.com/newyearnewyo...

Our little-anthology-that-could is still randomly on super-sale from Am*zon. Less than $5 for this beautiful paperback: a.co/d/0NE0fgO It's the perfect time to get your hands on these tremendous SFF stories from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, F.E. Choe, Shen Tao and more. #speclit #booksky

Our little-anthology-that-could is still randomly on super-sale from Am*zon. Less than $5 for this beautiful paperback: a.co/d/0NE0fgO It's the perfect time to get your hands on these tremendous SFF stories from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, F.E. Choe, Shen Tao and more. #speclit #booksky

Some of the Years Best Eco Fiction and Years Best Weird Fiction all in one place! You could spend over $50 to read these stories separately so why not spend $4.47 to read them together.

As someone with stress-induced reflux, I GET IT.

No idea why, but Am*zon put our book on deep discount! Get our kickass anthology IN PAPERBACK feat. stories by @matociquala.bsky.social @darylwriterguy.bsky.social and up-and-comers from @viableparadise.bsky.social FOR LESS THAN $5! Go, now, before the algorithm changes its mind! a.co/d/0NE0fgO 📚🚀

SF authors of color, Under the Volcano's Imagination Unbound Fellowship is opening up again. Get after it! Winning this fellowship for 2021 changed my life, and I will never forget the experience of being in Tepoztlan, learning and working with STARS. tinyurl.com/36jkwnum

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Here are three pieces of life advice for survival under a government that hates you, from a Native. None of them are going to be the prepper bullshit I see currently circulating around- that's all bad advice, by the way, that one's free.

Have you read? Cryptid Car Rental by Allison Pottern at Trollbreath Magazine This is a hilarious story of a person who makes art trying to get a good deal on travel and ends up in a very strange travel forum. So enjoyable. I really loved this one. https://magazine.trollbreath.com/cryptid-car-ren…

Indigenous artists in Canada and USA, applications are open until July 10 for the Emerging Native Arts Grant. The award pays $15,000. Go get it! walkeryoungbird.org/emerging-nat... #IndigenousCreatives #Indigenous #NativeAmericans

Preorder link: 🖤🍄❤️ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wife-shape...

Happy book bday to one of my bestest writer friends! @kslivensky.bsky.social has their SECOND picture book out today and it’s friggin adorable. Order now or join us @portersqbooks.bsky.social on Saturday!

It's almost time to ROCK!!! Just one day away, folks! 😃🪨🤩 #KidLit #PictureBooks #Geology #STEMLit

So many of my writer pals have GORGEOUS books coming out in 2026. Do. Not. Miss. This. One. You can pre-order right now!

Excelsior! THE FOLDED SKY is just a little over two weeks away. Here is a post I made with a bunch of places to pre-order it (including ordering signed and personalized copies) and some information on the appearances I will be doing to support it! buttondown.com/matociquala/...

✨Are you a @bsfa.bsky.social member and thinking about @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social? The BSFA is sponsoring two in person memberships for persons of colour, persons with disabilities and those with financial difficulties for any reason. Details on how to apply are in the latest newsletter.✨