“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.

I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!

📝 400+ pages 🥀 urban fantasy 🌃 set in washington state 🔥 slow burn 🤍 romance and angst 🗡️ demons and vampires 📕 first in a duology 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Just pre-ordered this - finished the series a few weeks back and loved it, so can't wait to read the prequel :)

Could anyone please recommend a comprehensive guide on grammar, speech, and tense in fiction? I'm usually ok with self-editing, but finding some issues that I never came across in academic writing. I'm happy to buy a book, but preferably not several books. #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritingCommunity

This looks promising

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

It's the end of the week so it must be #PublisherFriday! If you are an #IndependentPublisher why not let us know a bit about your press, some links, current projects, crowdfunders, submission windows, some of your authors #publisher #SmallPress #publishing #IndiePress alt text in pictures please

With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton. No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.

Exciting news! I've been working all year on a vertigo arts project in collaboration with others in academia, physical therapy, puppetry, and dance. Now the first part is out: I'm running a creative writing workshop for people who are directly or indirectly affected by vertigo. >

These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱 Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The spookiest words of them all 🎃

It occurred to me that I should start telling people, repeatedly, that I have a new book coming out. It's called At the Road's End, and it's about how even a villain might have loved ones they wish would accept them. Here's a picture Toini, the main character. Art by @nushdeco.bsky.social

dracula

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."

Nope. Nope. Nope. Not cool. Not here. Not ever. We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

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books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

On my final push to get this draft finished before the half term break interrupts in a week. I reckon a chapter a day will see me right, unless my MC goes off on any more side quests - as she is wont to do! So we both need to focus this week :) #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

More evidence of what i had to report to the @bsfa.bsky.social and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social this year - that publishers made a lot of noise about inclusion but have largely, in my experience, stopped working on this. As you might imagine i have opinions.

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Holy trickery, Batman! I thought we were friends! -Robin www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

When I had my breakdown it was 6 months til my first phone appt with NHS counselling; I'd already resigned because work would not consider the reasonable accommodations I needed. Took 2 more years for a proper diagnosis #ADHD So yeah, the problem is totally fixed by applying for jobs.

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Proof whatever the author's intentions, a reader can miss them.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Two out of three POV plots are now complete. Just gotta write my MC's final few chapters then that's draft 1 of book 2 done. Aiming for an ambitious mid-October finish, wish me luck! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #QuartzStorm

isn't the whole point of copyright that you are opting out of people stealing your work

With the current climate of misinformation and fear-mongering, there couldn't be a better time for this. Excited to form @divergent-paths.bsky.social with @shonak.bsky.social We have big plans, and we're ready to listen to *all* neurodivergent people across the publishing industry.

Shit, that reminds me I forgot to opt out of havimg my house burgled this month when the terms and conditions changed.

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

"You talkin' to me? To you? To me?"

This is important context for Friday's #TheFilmCrowd viewing of Dracula @thefilmcrowd.bsky.social

I'm ready to start on my fall projects 🍂

NEXT: Lets get Gothtober started early with an all time great Hammer Film DRACULA! Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee go head to head in Terence Fisher's gothic horror favourite. Join #thefilmcrowd this Friday from 9pm! www.dailymotion.com/video/x9fgmgk

Remember all my mad book drama? (If not, buy me a pint and I'll sing you the ballad of the dodgy ex-publisher...) Well, I'm absolutely delighted to say it's over! An enormous thanks to my wonderful new publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social Queer As Folklore will be back in the wild! 🧜🏼‍♂️

I've some signed first edition books that I've accumulated over the years. Now I'm a broke writer I've decided that to sell them so I can afford decent book cover art etc, but I don't know how! Are there auction places? Booksellers? Surely not vinted? Any advice welcome! #WritingCommunity #booksky

I've some signed first edition books that I've accumulated over the years. Now I'm a broke writer I've decided that to sell them so I can afford decent book cover art etc, but I don't know how! Are there auction places? Booksellers? Surely not vinted? Any advice welcome! #WritingCommunity #booksky

"BLAZES A TRAIL INTO THE DEPTHS OF OUTER SPACE" Join #thefilmcrowd tomorrow from 8pm for some old school B-Movie Monday antics with DESTINATION MOON. Mansplaining, dials, poor pacing and Woody Woodpecker explains space travel?! Produced by 50s sci-fi maestro George Pal.

Chemistry explained