Hey! khōréō is a SUPER COOL magazine of speculative immigrant and diaspora fiction, and they only have 4 days left to fundraise year 6! Please consider chipping in. There are unclaimed query critiques in the pledge options if that is a thing you are looking for www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Sam Altman: My product is a result of plagiarism and IP theft. Wanna do business together? Apple: Sure! We're in. Sam: Cool. Apple: Cool. *12 months later* Apple: Wait, Sam why are you stealing from us?

AT LONG LAST I FINISH A COMM FROM THE PREV BATCH!!!!! comm of a very lovely and very sad goddess :) #art #commission

I could not be more excited to reveal the cover for my very soon-to-be release short fiction collection. If you like SFF, this one’s for you.

Happy birthday to @atgreenblatt.bsky.social, one indelible badass of a writer. If you haven't read her work before, may I recommend this banger?

SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

Seriously. If someone can’t tell how against AI in art I am by now, they really REALLY haven’t been paying attention.

Looking for an afternoon delight? Well, this isn't that. This is my primal scream separated by more ellipses than AI could shake a stick at. If you like stories that become something more as you go, something that hurts as much as it heals, this is for you. clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/

Bonnie Tyler, the Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star behind the 1983 chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” has died. Tyler died unexpectedly while being treated for an illness, her family said. wapo.st/4bxEQUm

My book MAKER OF GODS (YA/crossover Fantasy - MacMillan - 9781250888266 ) comes out December 6th! Available on Edelweiss: www.edelweiss.plus#sku=12508882...

My one piece of advice to new writers is that it is really, really helpful to make friends with other writers at every step of the journey. You never know when their shared experience, wisdom, or good humor will save you from some heartache.

And for god's sake. Please. Can we remember that red flags are red next time? It should stop at the Nazi tattoo. It should not take...all this other shit.

Woohoo!!!

This sums up the frantic and coerced deployment of "AI" throughout public and private sectors. Results of even cursory audits are horrifying every time, invariably paired with forced adoption and retaliation for asserting professional norms. Colonialism is a cherry on top.

Whatcha reading? 👁️👁️ [ #cuteart #illustration #booksky ]

Mark your calendars, @wiswell.bsky.social is going on tour! Check out where he's stopping by and join the fun 🤩 The Dragon Has Some Complaints is heartwarming, humorous, and extra spectacular and we know you'll have a blast reading this one! For more dates, check out our Instagram

certified chonk 🦈 #art #sharks

Carson Benge just pulled off a Little League homer thanks to an absolute circus from the Royals' defense

Can you even imagine what the application/retention rate at a business would be like if one of the perks was "two or three times a year we all get on a bus and go on a museum tour or to the aluminum recycling plant or Colonial Williamsburg, pack a lunch"

The audiobook version of *The Bones in the Yard* is 60% off through the end of July on audiobooks.com!!! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

✨My new cozy holiday romantasy MAKING DEMONS BRIGHT is live on Kickstarter!✨ It's up to a burned out project manager and a fire demon to save Christmas... ...and they're snowed in, with only one bed, a mate bond, and oops now she has magic sparkle powers 💖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

If a company has to lay off 10,000 people, the executive team should be fired, because they clearly weren’t businessing very well.

vacation time! if you need me i'll be loafing under a palm tree

SFF community, Ehi Okosun is one of the warmest, most giving people I have ever met and this accident has been horrifying for her family. Let's show up for her the way she shows up for all of us 💜: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

things i do every day: - breathe - eat - sleep - feed the pets - hydrate - go outside - read - talk to friends - EMAILS ALL THE EMAILS WHY ARE THERE SO MANY EMAILS OH MY GOD

I decided to translate this and turn it into a needlepoint chart

How did @bookriot.bsky.social get a copy of my own TBR list??? 👀💯 bookriot.com/new-comics-a...

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The @romancingthevote.com auction does a cool thing, which is that the runner-up is offered the chance to match the winning bid and get the same item, when donors can manage it. I can, so there are now potentially two signed Mercutios available. Lots of very neat items and less than one day left.

The security guard at the door:

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

He's absolutely on the team!!!

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!

too soon

Thank you, Cabo Verde, for one of the greatest matches I've ever seen. Thank you for putting respect on the names of all the so-called minnows in the World Cup. Thank you for bringing the heart and the fun and the joy of football to the world. See you in the semis next time.

My new film POOB is making its way to festivals!

Hey Aussies! If you have time, I would really appreciate it if you could put in a vote for the Detective Beans books in the Better Reading Kids' Top 50! You also automatically go in the draw to win a copy of each top 50 book, neat eh? 😻

Sale time! HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD AND DIE TRYING is $1.99 on Kindle. It's the simple story of a girl stuck in a time loop trying to save the kingdom for a thousand years, who pursues her not-at-all unhinged dream of becoming Dark Lord instead! www.amazon.com/Become-Dark-...

🎉🎉 MISTRESS OF BONES is out today in paperback in the UK!! 🎉🎉 (And it's sooo pretty!!) To celebrate I stuffed myself with donuts (old fashioned > fluffy ones, don't @ me!). And while I don't have pictures of the donuts, I do have pictures of the paperback! 😊 (buy links below)

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Happy Canada Day! We're closed for in-store shopping today while we try not to melt. In the meantime, enjoy 10% off everything online from the comfort of your (hopefully air-conditioned) homes! www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com.

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

A signed, personalized hardcover of MERCUTIO is up for auction for the excellent @romancingthevote.com. I will ship anywhere in the world. This book is not yet available in US stores (and the hardcover never will be.) Auction starts tomorrow morning.

HI HELLO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.

In Pop! Goes The Reader's newest Patreon post, I'm sharing a list of 85 2026 romance novels with LGBTQIA+ representation! Until the end of June, save 25% off your first month or year of membership with the code PRIDE! www.patreon.com/popgoesthere... #BookSky #Romance #Romancelandia

TFW you realize that GenAI is destroying the habitats of the animals it generates videos of.

More Pride Month book recs, these with yellow and green covers. www.antoniaaquilante.com/blog/rainbow... #pridemonth #bookrecs

More book recs for Pride Month, this time with covers in shades of blue, purple, pink. www.antoniaaquilante.com/blog/rainbow... #PrideMonth #BookRecs

The clock says June 26 so it's my birthday!! To no one's surprise, all I want for it is more money in Common Bonds 3 💚 We only have five days left, and every new pledge is going into writers' pay! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...