I submit my wall of sticky notes and my dozen notebooks of half finished sentences and plotlines that never made it in 😬

Having just moved onto cloudflare for my new site, I'm loving this move from them to target AI scrapers

What gets me is that this only happens when no writer or editor bothers to even briefly skim what got generated. Literally no time or attention in any direction, just blindly churning out content that doesn't even get a quick glance. What a useless vacant shells of nothing these people are.

It's back! @tbrcon.bsky.social is a virtual FREE SciFi/fantasy/horror con, streaming live or on catch up from Jul 26th-Aug 1st. inc. @briewoodfiction.bsky.social @xuetingni.bsky.social @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @alexgrecian.bsky.social & more! fanfiaddict.com/tbrcon2026/

Psst...go to my new site draigbooks.com to see the super secret (not so secret) blurb for the highly anticipated (by me) fantasy novel QUARTZ STORM. While you're there, sign up to Dragon Post and you'll be first to see the fantastic cover designed by the fab @ravven.bsky.social #booksky #sff

A revitalising thread for your morning!

Right. Okay. This requires some backstory. In 1984, a small, low budget film studio in North Carolina produced a parody of Star Wars, called Hyperspace. It was released in the U.K. as ‘Gremloids’. The main character, shown here, was Lord Buckethead.

🎶I'm a bitch, I'm a mother I just ate Brian Glover I'm a xenomorph in space Look at his gurning face🎶

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

Come on Clacton, you've got the opportunity to do the funniest thing in British politics ever, don't let us down

Don't be alarmed if you see my name changing everywhere, I'm still me, just updating all my socials to reflect my pen name before my first fantasy novel, Quartz Storm, launches in October (blurb and gorgeous cover will be revealed...soon!) LE Draig: The writer formerly known as Louise Nicholas

Take a look at this list of awesome disabled writers to follow #WritingCommunity #booksky

♿Disabled ✍️Writers Thread! 🧵 (3/?) @annaham.bsky.social @bumblebigirl.bsky.social @africanmorning.bsky.social @ehtimms.bsky.social @dylanmadeley.bsky.social @kattakis.bsky.social @karendelange.co.uk @lisalhilton.bsky.social @louisenicholas.bsky.social @barryryerson.bsky.social @kitauthor.com

In front of fans and kids taking photos, a Dallas police officer starts shoving staff members of the Egyptian national team here for the World Cup. At one point, he even reaches for his handcuffs. The video is already being shared internationally by news outlets.

Hell yes it is! IN FACT: drop some book recs in the thread, y'all. The more recently published, the better. Authors, don't be afraid to tell people about your latest book, either. In fact, you totally should. Do it! Do it now!

I am this cat

In response to PlayStation going full-digital, Nintendo’s next console should go back to using big, gray cartridges that are mostly empty space and feel really satisfying to push into a slot.

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

in tagalog, instead of saying “whatever happens happens” we say “bahala na si batman” which loosely translates to “let batman handle it” and i think that’s beautiful

Fuck this. It has never been more important to own your own shit (Sony literally just wiped 500+ digital movies people BOUGHT last week) and killing physical media is a blatant attempt to ensure we can't and reducing purchases to little more than a rental that can be wiped at a moment's notice.

Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!

So, how come the only LEGO movie in the last five years was The LEGO Pharrell Williams Movie? (And hello if that's the first you've heard of that one.) Today's ramble is about what happened to all those other animated toy stories while Woody and Buzz came roaring back into cinemas.

Psst. Echoes of Chaos is on Goodreads if you want to add it to your Want To Read shelf ❤️ www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... #BookSky 💙📚🪐

The Green Party is clear on what real change looks like: • Proportional representation • Taxing billionaire wealth • No new oil and gas • Public ownership of water • Rent controls • Ending arms sales to Israel

Read queer books by queer authors for Pride! Oz is queer af. Transmasc Scarecrow & modern witch Theo confront dark magic, evil fae, & devious Nomes. Romance, adventure, humor, a touch of horror, lots of queer rep in my dark urban fantasy series Needle & Straw! most platforms & graythornpub.com

There now go read You have my blessing as Pope Of Books (that is me, I am the Pope, I usually do not tell people because I don't want all the groveling and obsequiousness, you know how it is)

Getting closer all the time to Edge-Lit 12 here in Derby, and plans continuing to take shape for the day! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #Derby #Derbyshire #horror #scifi #sf #fantasy #writing #writers #authors #conference #convention #events

Which is why some of us insist on keeping physical media libraries. (Jason, I know you're out there somewhere. Bring back my special edition T2 or I'll pit the frightners on you)

friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails

I think this means Edinburgh is back to having more statues of animals than statues of women: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2622529...

genuinely concerned that if AI goes bankrupt I might shrug so hard I dislocate both shoulders

It's great to see the UK government taking an evidenced based approach to reducing social media risk for kids by following the huge success of... *checks notes* ...never mind

Because good boys are for life not just until the level ends. kotaku.com/this-gorgeou...

An oft-ignored perk of physical books is that every few pages you can pause and fan yourself with them. - Michael

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Does anyone have a technique for keeping track of timelines when writing with multiple POVs? I'm in the last gasp of edits, and the one thing that keeps tripping me up is making sure that there's the right gaps between events happening to different folk. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Editing

People who are getting super rich from property development should contribute fairly to the communities they profit from. Hannah Spencer, MP for Gorton and Denton, calls for a wealth tax on the super-rich to help councils tackle fly-tipping and invest in cleaner communities.

Apropos of *trying to make a living as an author*... can I interest any of you in a nice math-western alt history satire in these trying times? Renegade gunslinging mathematicians fighting against the vilification of expertise? payhip.com/StarkHolborn

For writers: when you finish a writing session, especially a lengthy one, back up everything twice over on two different external drives, at least one of which is physical. The last thing you want is for your computer to die and take hundreds of hours of work with it.

Procreate lacks a clear “luminance to transparency” option so I made a thread about it long ago, useful for removing white background from scans: bsky.app/profile/pel....

I'm still fairly new to lino printing myself, but here goes... Grey lino is way better for holding fine detail than the other options, but can be hard to work with. You can make it softer by heating it gently with a hairdryer, radiator, or even sitting on it! #ArtTips #LinoPrinting #printmaking

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

The Fucking Point, a short on how AI sucks. Now in one big, easily reskeetable post.

Today I managed to write myself back out of the corners I'd edited myself into, happy with that! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

We know this gets boring, but if you buy one of our books from Amazon it really helps if you leave a review. They notice, and promote books that get good reviews. That's how come The Green Man's Heir got to be #1 in SF&F for a day. wizardstowerpress.co...

Our last oven stopped working because you had to use the app to set the clock, and the oven wouldn't turn on without the time being set. They discontinued the app.

"Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes..."

The Eye of Pokemon sees all. Its gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.