A goodreads giveaway on a well-written, thought-provoking book: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

The Devil has a new torment:

The soul knows no age. Only the body follows the seasons of life!

After eight years of work, The Garden Witch is finally here! #Fantasy #Romance #NatureWitchCovens

5 things you don’t need to call yourself a writer: • an MFA • a book deal • a bestseller • to write full time • anyone's approval #writers

Police reports on people who preserve publicly disseminated statements. Of course... And the law these villainous liberals are breaking is...?

Looking for a low-stakes writing workshop? Love the thought of hanging out on the Washington coast hanging out with cool editors, agents, and authors? Why not check-out Cascade Writers' 3-day Critique Workshop? (I'll be teaching there w/@arleysorg.bsky.social!) cascadewriters.org/2025-three-d...

An incomplete list...as poetry.

Promo with a little help from my artistic friends! #fantasy #romance #star-crossed-lovers #magic www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTJ2RSLB/

It's finally live! I'm so excited. Book One of the Tales of Riardan. Book Two, The Garden Witch, due out next month... #fantasy #romance #star-crossed-lovers #magic www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTJ2RSLB/

Wishing you all a blessed Solstice, and the new year that it marks. May the coming year be full of creativity, beauty, and strong, healthy relationship for you!

Our lives depend on this community.

Yesterday was my 25th anniversary of finding sobriety. I've received so many gifts in the rooms of AA, among them learning again how sacred stories are. #amwriting, #sobriety, #writingcommunity

#AmWriting Check out / follow / support these writers: @scottalexanderhess.bsky.social @jwportwood.bsky.social @joeokonkwo.bsky.social‬ @sonofolokun.bsky.social @celestinemartin.bsky.social @cthackett.bsky.social @colingarrowauthor.bsky.social @jamespenha.bsky.social

Throwback to the March for Science—an inspiring day standing up for facts, progress, and the importance of evidence-based policy. #MarchForScience #ScienceMatters

For the "your body, my choice" crowd...

Yup. Welcome!

After months of looking for a new agent to represent THE GARDEN WITCH, I've resolved to publish it myself. I've been working on this book for a long time. It's time to get it out there. Soon! I'll start with the prequel, THE LAST LADY OF ALBESSIND. #Romantasy #ClimateFiction

Welcome to old friends, welcome to new friends. I love the feeling of a growing story-telling community.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #370,346! It's been a while since I got an official award for participation, but my husband won't let me tape it on the fridge door. Sigh.

I'm just gonna leave this here without comment...

Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards! Congratulations to @kjcharleswriter.com for another terrific story. #writingcommunity #Lammies

A consequence-free environment for hatred, bigotry or arrogance is not what tolerance means. Tolerance means an accountable relationship where respect for difference is a given.

This. And I'm glad this is the way it is. To run out of ideas would be worse than death.

my attitude towards writing and life

The APA is coming out SWINGING, utterly rejecting the stigma and misinformation around trans healthcare, calling for a total repeal of all anti-trans healthcare bills, & going for the throat of transphobic lies! I know it's not the same as gov't policy, but this is still great. This passed 153-9.

Your reminder the organization behind those Christian "He Gets Us" ads you'll see during the Super Bowl also gives tens of millions of dollars to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right lawyers who overturned Roe and write most of the anti-trans laws in the country

24 years sober this morning. Life is good, one day at a time -- far exceeding my expectations. The promises come true.

I laughed.

So this happened, and FINALLY I can share the news! TBH, it's been a long and sometimes discouraging slog, and it wouldn't have happened without my fabulous, resourceful and relentless agent, @askamycollins. #writingcommunity

Through the lens of a fallen leaf in Autumn.🍁 📷 by William Smith

How many levels of irony is there when some arsehole who thinks that prompting an AI to adapt stolen art to create new images makes them an artist, starts whining about other people 'stealing' 'their' 'art'?

Guess what I brought back last week from a luthier in Cornwall? Left-handed octave mandolin. Can't wait to build a working relationship with it! Its sound is already vibrating in my writing. #music #MakeMusic #AcousticFolkMusic #WritingCommunity

One of the many reasons my husband and I moved from Florida to France. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better...

If AI can't be optioned, and we confirm AI 'novels' can't be copyrighted, we might actually be getting somewhere, at least wordwise. Now we need a really robust definition of what constitues AI including 'rewritten' text.

My latest poem -- In Love with Autumn. lloydmeeker.com/2023/09/27/i... #WritingCommunity, #Poetry

This is good very good news!

Did you know that you can block OpenAI's web crawler from accessing their website? We've gathered some practical tips for authors to utilize so that they may protect their work from AI.

Gut-wrenching horrors committed in the name of righteousness. The road to genocide is paved with ideological certainty.

...a point easily overlooked when floundering in a sea of "democratization" gobbledygook.

Interesting article on Tor.com about unexamined bias in fiction which supports a status quo that isn't healthy. https://www.tor.com/2023/08/08/the-problem-with-small-town-witch-romances/ #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy

Had my monthly phone call with my agent Amy Collins of Talcott Notch yesterday. I'm grateful for our rapport, and I'm encouraged about, well, everything in my writing world.

Had some medical tests done today, and something about our relatively posh neighborhood finally landed. Our apartment building is on Alée Jay Dee. Jay Dee is a hip hop music producer. My doctor's office is on Rue Ray Charles. 'nuff said. The medical lab a few blocks away is on Avenue Nina Simone!!

From our balcony -- morning in Montpellier, FR. We've signed the lease, moved in, but so much more to do to actually settle in. It will take time, but now we have both time and place.

For months I’ve been working on a problem related to my current writing project, and this essay came out as a part of my conclusion: arrogance without context is hubris. #writingCommunity, #WritersLife, #AmWriting https://lloydmeeker.com/2023/03/29/arrogance-without-context-is-hubris/