When the dead character is not really dead but the live character is really undead... writer vague-posting. 💙📚

Holy fuck

100% will use your work to train AI. adios

2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world. That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today. So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based. Image by HEO (from above!) 🔭🧪

"My reflection off the mirror reminds me that I’m not enough." "Write a story about someone who breaks an unwritten social rule and the consequences they face as a result." "I've been trying to find the perfect gift for..." #WeeklyPawmpt

Happy Samhain!

My little free library is my pride and joy. Please download the app, get free books, trade books, enjoy and promote reading books! Come to the library. There could be several within walking distance.

Scarburst

Stoked about this news!!

y'all please tell me I'm not the only one low-key traumatized by these images of the East Wing being demolished by Trump (I'm horrified by everything else too, but this image...it's the literal destruction of *our* white house to make a palace for Trump...why is *anyone* okay with this??)

Highly recommend listening to this one- such great insight into how climate fiction writers can benefit from understanding different story structures #clifi #climatefiction #climate #solarpunk

I am. Despite *flails at everything*.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Great piece: "Anything can be rejected, and for any reason, and there is pretty much nothing you can do about it. Certain rationales for rejection are forever beyond your control." Yes! I have to send out a lot of rejections and there are So Many reasons, and none of them are personal. Keep going!

October is Furry Book Month, and I realize I haven't started a sale yet, so you can save 10% at my store with the code FBM2025 on print books! dancing-jackal-books.square.site

In honor of banned books week, the best kids book about rabbits which I never knew was a banned book but still checked out 115 times as a kid. Most excellent and most sweet. And proof book banners are crazy af. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rab...

They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …

My review of The Island of Last Things, a haunting story of animal activism in a horrifying but ultimately plausible future. ecolitbooks.com/2025/10/06/b... 💙📚🐻

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Looking for a spooky distraction? I'm posting a different paranormal short story every week in October on my website. evelynklebert.com/2025/10/03/h... #booksky #writingthreads #paranormalromance #freetoread #urbanfantasy #shifterromance

One more today. DOGS OF WAR: Vertigo and Kelpie House. Both free. Soulmates, war dogs, demons and reincarnation romance or bloodthirsty vampiric equines and the unicorns that love them. :) claims.prolificworks.com/gg/uBYxoq9SC...

Could you spare a few bob to help a weird little litmag keep going? Here's 3 ways you can support us: 1) Become a subscriber! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne... 2) Make a one-off donation! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne... 3) Buy past issues as EPUB & PDF! innerworlds.gumroad.com

Another giveaway today. This time it's Fantasy and two books in the running. Unlikely and Moth in Darkness. Fey creatures, magic, and romance all around. claims.prolificworks.com/gg/YOrQubz4Q...

your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤

Hybrid Nation book one, Throwback is part of a free scifi giveaway. Genetically manipulated animal people in a futuristic setting. Lions, tigers and bears... and one boy who is too human for his own good. claims.prolificworks.com/gg/17Ok8a5sJ...

Looks like an upcoming submission window and a good place to support buying diverse books. Lovely!

I've had two of these this week alone. Keep vigilant. Don't pay for any service that can't objectively earn you back your investment. Do your research. You know the drill.

I'm reposting this for safety reasons. Fever when pregnant actually is dangerous to the baby. Adding the standard disclaimer: there's not a damn thing wrong with autistic people. Worry about something actually harmful like the measles.

Y'all read this book. It's excellent.

I guarantee you I will only get more autistic from here lol

If you create art with the intent to become famous or popular, it will never be genuine. It has to be for yourself first. Put everything you can into telling the story you want to tell and the rest will follow. Enjoy what others make too, wholeheartedly. It will feed your heart and mind.

Four days unplugged on the beach has done wonders for my outlook. Now to avoid the news for a few more house so I can spend this energy wisely. :D

Get this clear: part of your job is to look out for your and your art’s best interests. And you have every right to expect fair compensation and professional conduct. If it’s not immediately there, then by God demand it. 3/5

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

I like it when a scientist goes on a tangent about their special interest at 3am and I learn about moss. I like it when a historian tells me about some esoteric but super cool person who did something goofy. I like it when someone shows me pretty art. I like it when someone loves the book I love

Need art? Consider supporting a very talented and real artist. And cats. And striking a blow for human creativity all at once.

Re: last RT, the lovely artist who did the Waverly stickers has seen work drop off the past few years and she was once contacted by someone who wanted her to fix their shitty AI image. She has expensive cats so she took the job despite how insulting it was. I was (and still am) LIVID on her behalf.

Taking two classes this quarter (along with the writing, the game writing and the actual day job) *may* have been a little too optimistic. :S

For the cynics who think it doesn’t matter, that the compensation for authors whose work was stolen will be so low it’s not worth fighting, I personally think it’s worth making the monetary punitive damage these companies suffer as big as possible to deter similar theft in the future.

And on a brighter note :)

Writers, are you paying attention to this? A lot of literary livelihood in danger here.

Jules came home for a visit. Looking lovely. Adventure Camel from Transcendent Fiction Publishing.

The Epic Sale of Beloved SFF is live! Now until Aug 11 over 100 #SFF books--each recommended by someone who loved it--discounted to 0.99 USD (or equivalent local currency) or less, including mine! Check 'em out via the sale page link: talesfromthecircle.com/epicsale2025... #BelovedSFFBooks | 💙📚🪐

We've begun a little informal meetup where we grab beverages and sit in a nice lounge-y area all writing with (gasp) pens and paper, and it is like a little secret club of heavenly goodness.

On this episode, @benjamingorman.bsky.social gabs with @bmorrisallen.com , @maggiedotwrites.bsky.social , Lisa Fransson, and Louie Sullivan, authors of HOPE: THE THING WITH FEATHERS, a new anthology from @metaphorosis.com . Show: bit.ly/WNWHome Ad-free version: bit.ly/PatreonBG

That HOPE you were looking for? It's here! Get a copy of HOPE: The Thing With Feathers now! books.metaphorosis.com/anthology/20...

100% effective. :)

Oh, apparently Boundless - Unbound's half-baked successor that promised to pay authors but then didn't and pissed everybody off - is now going into liquidation. Obviously I heard about this via a WhatsApp group, not the company themselves.

Writers should never modify their own prose as a reaction to what stupid fucking generative AI is doing -- that shit stole from us, and it stole poorly, incompletely, and has none of our magic and zero of our humanity, our experience, our wonder and fear, and it never ever will. Fuck AI. You do you.