English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by folklore and nature #WomensArt

It's time for #Drawtober ! Here's my interpretation of 'Candlelit Messenger' 🕯️ #darkart #illustration #folklore

👀Fiction Highlight👀 ICYMI, the short story "Brother, What Is Your Name?" by @leannehoward.bsky.social is free to read! A sisterhood of brewers and their magic beer await you on the mountaintop. Find yourself again with every drop you drink! Story: buff.ly/SBhFiBf Issue: buff.ly/sTRxEtv

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen

Tell Congress to #FundLibraries | ALA www.ala.org/advocacy/fun...

@tachyonpub.bsky.social's 30th anniversary @humblebundle.bsky.social is live for only a little while longer! I'm super honored that QILWA is in here alongside some of my favorite people. Don't miss it!! www.humblebundle.com/books/tachyo...

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My latest newsletter is all about how to be a resilient writer in the face of career setbacks, ego death and creeping fascism. I offer 17 handy tips on how to hang onto yourself and keep going when the challenging times just don't seem to stop. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

I have been out very often lately, and would rather stay at home. #JaneAusten #MansfieldPark

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor (1966-July 2023) (who adopted the name Shuhada' Sadaqat in her last years). Her art below created for the cover of her 1994 album 'Universal Mother' #WomensArt

We have always made delightful little guys.

ICYMI, the short story "Brother, What Is Your Name?" by @leannehoward.bsky.social is free to read! A sisterhood of brewers and their magic beer await you on the mountaintop. Find yourself again with every drop you drink! www.havenspec.com/brother-what... Issue: www.havenspec.com/issue-twenty

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Cannot wait for this one!!

👀July 2025 Fiction👀 "Brother, What Is Your Name?" is a short story by @leannehoward.bsky.social about systemic violence, a sisterhood of brewers, and their magic beer, and you can read it now! Find it here: www.havenspec.com/brother-what...

A lil tribute to the kelp forests along the California coast 🌊✨

I’m so excited to be part of this awesome lineup for July. Check out the story if you like magical beer-brewing sisterhoods! 🍻

Our ✨July 2025 issue✨ is ready at last! Subscribers will get it first thing tomorrow morning, and everyone else can read it next Wednesday! Why not subscribe and be the first to take a gander at all these great stories and poems? Subscribe through Patreon: www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag...

After taking @laviecestmoi.bsky.social's excellent inactive protagonist class and picking up @henrylienauthor.bsky.social's craft book (which I can't wait to dive into; the 1001 Nights example is EXACTLY the one I use), I am PSYCHED to teach this latest iteration of Cultural Storytelling

on a good querying day: who needs caffeine when I can enjoy the natural high of hitting send on a bad querying day: 📚💙

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Election worker: “Emily Mandel. Isn’t that a writer’s name?” Me: “I’m a writer.” Election worker: “Oh, I was thinking Hilary Mantel, never mind”

Arthur Rackham - Watercolor of a cat - 1911

I’m not even joking when I say this copper merchant is famous on tumblr

When I say I'm busy and have plans, this is what I mean

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

Unfollow me now because this is going to be the only thing I talk about for the next six months etc etc

New Yorkers: if you find out your neighbor is ranking Cuomo, it is your solemn duty to put on this song using a speaker against their floor or wall and then to leave for ten hours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIQ6...

Illustration for Audubon's Let's Go Birding Together initiative!!! 🐦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

File under: movies that have made me openly weep on a plane (still highly recommend)

The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

So I’m reading Never Say You Can’t Survive by @charliejane.bsky.social and not only am I loving it, I will officially be adopting “fortress of horniness” into my permanent vocabulary as well

I still think about the delivery of this line: “We were clumsy together.” I adore this story!

Writer’s log, Day 1: I’m trying out a new drafting method where I write the synopsis before I write the book. Is this what plotters feel like?? So controlled? 📚💙

I have a huge request for my readers: Trump's tax and spending bill will be moving through the Senate. Senators can invoke the Byrd Rule to try to remove the anti-trans Medicaid ban and EHB changes. You can find and call your senator here and ask them to do that. Please share as well.

Great time to buy The Bruising of Qilwa by the wonderful @jamsternazzy.bsky.social if you haven’t already!!! You need to read the magic in this book!

Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:

In a world of horrors right now, romance book club was comfort food for the soul. I love my fellow romance readers.

Today's flower is a Foxglove

Sinead O'Connor, 1992 by Jane Bown English photographer who worked for newspapers and was known for her portraits. #WomensArt

ENDING SOON! A titillating ensemble of books by multi-award-winning writers from Africa and the African diaspora, African SF Collection Bundle, curated @genni.bsky.social, features work by @nalohop.bsky.social @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social & more @storybundle.bsky.social storybundle.com/scifi

Brief respite ✨️

Here's my #agentsguide to THE LYRICS OF US, my contemporary women's fiction/romance! #amquerying ☀️ grumpy/sunshine 🏡 forced proximity 📝 secret pen pals 🐮 on an Irish dairy farm 📚 with bookish protagonists & banter ❤️‍🩹 the power of art to heal

Aries: The universe has been cancelled. There will be no refunds.

Damn they really know how to get me

it's one book, Michael. How much could it cost to write? one's sanity?

Askinge "why reade a novel when it kan be summarized for me?" ys lyke askinge "why looke at a mountayne when it kan be grounde ynto fyne dust?"