So…who wants to volunteer to be a beta reader for this thing? (119,000 words) I’m more than happy to beta read something of yours in exchange. #writingcommunity #booksky #writerhelp 💙 📚

I'm not really sure what counts as "weird" inspiration… Reddit posts. Franchises and writers I hate 😂. A lot of different medium/genre works. Experiences DMing tabletop. Paintings. Random guy I heard about in a history podcast (but that seems like "normal" inspiration?) #LGBTQWriteAThon

Friends who self-publish: Do you pay for an editor for your works? What kinds of editing do you pay for (e.g. developmental editing, copyediting, sensitivity reading)? If you pay for more than one kind of editing, do you pay the same person to do it, or different people?

I know I’m late to the party, but please drop your queer books into the comments. I love romance, erotica, and fantasy, but anything goes. Pretty please! I need to refuel my TBR with queer books. #booksky #writingcommunity #pride 🏳️‍🌈📚💙

STUPID SPACE BOOK VOLUME 2 NOW OUT! barrows.itch.io/shakedown Contains: Aliens! 👽 Robots! 🤖 Spaceships! 🚀 A disaster ace MC! 💥 Romance? 💓 Adventure! ⛰️ Architecture to make HR Giger proud! 🛰️ Also contains: my love 🪐📚

Even though the perfect meme to describe Alexander is "i'll kick anyone's ass", I feel like I just posted that one for Mememay, so instead let me repost this crude drawover I made for UnhingedPit last year. Sort of about the whole story but also Alexander. 🤣 #JuneJottings

looking to get a new icon drawn for Pride month? look no further! I'm offering Pride Icons at $30 USD apiece— 3 slots! 🫶🏻🩷 vgen.co/ace_of_drago...

Can anyone recommend me good resources on living with chronic pain? (This is for writing research, so I'm looking for more "this is what it's like for me to get through a day" than "this is how you get a medical provider to take your pain seriously")

Two different possibilities popped into mind for #AwesomeCharacters: 1. Alexander could either stare blankly, because aristocrats don't *do* things. Job? Labor? Lmao what? 2. "I do what honor requires and needs must!!!! 😤"

Help some homegrown NZ arts and boost access as we raise funds to get an NZSL interpreter for our show: www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj... TODAY an anonymous benefactor is stepping in to match our donations. So $10 becomes $20 and so on. Thanks 💖🙏

Spoilers??? But you can see this coming: Alexander and Ingrave's relationship will never be repaired from what happens in 1660. They BARELY manage civility, and that only because of their family ties. I plan developments in a later book! They’re… not good ones 🤣

If you're looking for an indie LGBT+ book to read this month, check out my reviews! I've got a master list of indie books I've reviewed, with genres listed! Here ➡️ [ rebeccacrunden.com/indie-book-r... ] Now check out this book! 💫 rebeccacrunden.com/2021/06/15/b... [ #indiepride / #booksky ] 🏳️‍🌈

#freebook promo for June! Check out a score of romances across genres this #pride 📚💙

I've many! But the seed came from thinking about the power of genre while GMing tabletop, then sitting around wishing for comfort media for these Times™️, thinking "swashbuckling", then getting this brainflash of "good rake and evil rake crossing swords". 🤯 Since then I'm obsessed. #LGBTQWriteAThon

Chores 😭 but if voluntary: doodles, composition, or research into something that's tbh tangential and not that helpful to the story… I've been lucky enough to be able to dedicate almost 100% of my creative brain to this project for years, so even my procrastination is Duel-flavored 💕 #JuneJottings

#17thC Tabbed gloves with polychrome silk embroidery of clove pink, tulip, "mary-gold" & bird with rosebud wings, with goldwork, silver-gilt oes & spangles - almost certainly kid or calf skin with silk cuffs, not "grey" @gettymuseum.bsky.social Note: double-ring & tulip motifs in the man's doublet

🏳️‍🌈 This Pride month, please consider supporting small queer owned businesses. 🏳️‍🌈 While you're here, please consider supporting mine. It's rough out there for small businesses, and we are struggling right now. folksy.com/find/shop/Oa...

Weeell 🤣 Alexander's healthiest relationship might be with Klein, his mentor/conscience/life support system. And yet, Klein's a bastard and his servant, so there's a ginormous power gulf involved. Maybe one of my theses is that in such a stratified society, all relationships are tainted by power…

Fiddler has stopped to entertain a group of peasants. And their excellent dogs. As portrayed in 1646 by Isaac van Ostade, whose day was today.

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

When Alexander was first trying to assert his male identity, his parents reacted very negatively. But eventually they broke through their 17thC cultural programming and turned into his fierce supporters. This is all in the backstory because I have no interest showing this process on-page, LOL🙃

Alas, #LGBTQWriteAThon, I don't generally fancast! And my I-Am-The-Emperor-of-the-Universe dream adaptation would be full of unknowns anyway, especially for the large cast of young characters. I'd love the adult roles to be full of character actors going absolutely nuts.

Did you know that in addition to Pride, June is Caribbean Heritage Month in the US? I am a writer who is both of those things! I'm queer and I was born in Trinidad and Tobago! A queer Trini? A Trin-bgay-gonian? Here are my books! ecwpress.com/products/cou... bookshop.org/p/books/skin...

🌧️ Rain at the Battle of Maidstone 🌧️

June is Caribbean Heritage Month! To get you started, here's LINCOLN & THE HARVESTER C-100, the fun sequel to my Nebula & Sturgeon Award winning short, TANTIE MERLE & THE FARMHAND 4200. Our favorite bot meets another in future Trinidad. Shenanigans ensue! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/linc...

Obviously… Lord Blackthorne… 😅 When I pontificate about “I want to express advanced queer thoughts and feelings, not write ‘good rep’” it’s all elaborate justification for my flamboyant, depraved gay villain sashaying all over the place and chewing the furniture while laughing evilly. #JuneJottings

From marching to fighting, from plundering to severe punishment — what was life like for ordinary soldiers during the British Civil Wars? Find out 👉️ earlofmanchesters.co.uk/life-as-an-e...

✨June 2nd-4th✨ #QueerQuarterlyIndieBookSale ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 @mnbennetauthor.bsky.social is hosting a sale Almost 200 books from 100+ indie authors! All queer reads at only 𝟵𝟵 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 each! Get them here: www.mnbennet.com/pride-promo#QueerQuarterlyIndieBookSale #mmromance #BookSky #ReadQueer

Well, Alexander's journey is Manhood, so in a sense he can't not go on it. Tho' he could passively survive to adulthood, that isn't manhood, which must be attained by doing. A requirement, for him, is to act with honor—which pulls him into these episodic swashbuckling adventures. #AwesomeCharacters

"Alexander thinks he is ready but everyone tells him no" is really the refrain of the first half of 1660... #WIPSnips

Average Fencer complains about Italians ten times per year factoid incorrect. Average Fencer complains about Italians zero times per year. Silvers Georg who lives in Elizabethan England and complains about Italians ten thousand times a day is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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*quietly chanting* Trans Masc Tops. Trans Masc Tops. Trans Masc Tops.

About half the characters in 1660-1662 are some sort of queer. I'm writing deeply rooted in my trans queer experience, and with these characters I'm trying to express thoughts and feelings born from it, much more than I attempt "good rep". BUT also, little me woulda killed for this story, I think.

Talio Rossa and the Elixir of Life - 15 days to pub date! TALIO'S WORLD: BIRTHDAYS At the start of the new novel, Talio's celebrating his birthday. The big 4-0. His tactic of planning to stay 39 didn't work. The custom: a birthday vanilla pie with a ceremonial key buried inside. Pazli found it.

ANY PERSON this age group can get a card, whether or not they’re experiencing book bans. That’s powerful for queer young folks in small towns with no libraries or libraries with limited hours or collections, too.

This Pride month don’t forget to BOOKMARK the cool book posts you see so you can grab them when you have the time/spoons/cash

It's Pride! Help a trans guy get some dinner and his meds tonight? Please? ko-fi.com/A0307Q3

If vampires weren't your vibe, then my a steamy mannerpunk romance, Pirates and Poise, is part of the Pride Hard #PrideBookFair! There's 37 books for $40; supporting queer/trans authors and their works. #queerwriters #pride itch.io/b/3675/pride...

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Hey just a heads up a couple days ahead of time, from my theatre persona account over on instagram: a generous anonymous donor is going to match funds starting this Thursday NZT 🙌🎉 so if you were looking at helping out, that'll be the time 🙏💜 www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

And for the people who've been looking to get a paperback or hardcover copy of Name Her Holy, this is the month for you 👁️✨👁️✨ To celebrate Pride both will be 20% through Ingram, links below 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫡 Paperback 💖 shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... Hardcover 🌑 shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

Trying to work on the graphic with the long line of my characters with their best-match pride flags, being homophobically discriminated against by the fact that all these images are different ratios 🤪

✨qrp with your pride flags!✨

What's that sound... could it be? A BUNDLE JUST FOR YOU (& me)? Normally $10, you can get BOOM goes the Bride for less than a buck along with get 31 other books whether text or audio for just TWENNY BUCKAROONIES THE ULTIMATE DEAL JUST GOT MORE ULTIMATER itch.io/b/3691/brigh... #bsnm

I just had to fork over $855 to pay for my licensing exam so it’d be super rad to get some sales of my book to lessen the blow🥺 SoBB is in a pride bundle so you can get a ton of other books as well itch.io/b/3677/pride... Or check out my novelette/short story lillylockwood.carrd.co#voicesofvalh...

Now part of the @bookshop.org sale. 15% off with code PRIDE26 Gents: bookshop.org/p/books/a-ge... Lady: bookshop.org/p/books/a-la...

Queer authors! It’s Pride Month! Let’s do a megathread of queer books for people to read for Pride. Comment below with a blurb and a link to your work, mention the queer rep, and add anything you’d like to say about yourself, if comfortable. Allies, please repost & support! 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚💙 #writingsky

Please buy my books! 💙📚🌈🤖🐺👹 I think you'll like them, and my YA is written to be enjoyable for adults, too! NICEF is a space opera with mechs! Demon King Daughter is modern slice-of-life with demons! Cry Wolf is a werewolf lesbian romance! All Purchase Options: pjccahill.carrd.co #booksky 📢📚

Hello again #LGBTQWriteAThon! I'm Isaac, still gay and trans and STILL working on my queer swashbuckling farce set in 1660 England! 🤪 My goal this month is to completely finish the 3rd draft revisions, including a line edit pass, and be ready to query in early July!!