Oh hey! It's my Vampire: The Masquerade short story, selected by the good people at White Wolf for their Community Writing Contest. Very honored to be a part of this!

You are all so amazing! We’re almost funded inside 24 hours!! If you haven’t had a chance to check out the new Best of SFF anthology we are Kickstarting, take a look! Clones and fireflies and knights, oh my! Locusmag.com/anthology (link in bio) #backthebook #sff #booksky

The gods have spoken, the omens are clear. Doom has come to England.

(*me trying to force someone to put on the One Ring*) Oh my God, it's just a TOOL. It only goes bad for people who don't know what they're doing! Oh, you think Sauron destroying the land is bad? Digging up hobbit holes is way worse for the environment. It's actually classist you won't put it on.

The 2008 Depression taught me that as soon as people start asking "Are we in a recession?" the answer is that we've actually been in a recession for some time, it's just that no one wants to acknowledge it. The mass layoffs the last 2 years have already resulted in more job losses than 2008.

24 hours to go! And we're $204 short of adding 25K MORE words of the best Canadian F&SF! If you were waiting to back the campaign, now is the time! Click the link in the original post...and then enjoy some Ramones ;)

MANTASY.

Pretty sure this is how modern day liches are created, their soul locked forever away in phylactries of cheap plastic and beady black eyes.

You don’t need AI, you need a critique group that meets every month or so, trades stories, and gives feedback. Or even a mentor. You know: a HUMAN you talk to, who knows the right advice to give because they are also a writer and have been where you are. *Stop talking to a bot*.

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I would just like to say that trans rights are human rights and that celebrating the trans community as a part of all communities enriches every one of us.

"I avoid politics." No bestie, you avoid uncomfortable conversations about politics. From the moment you were born til the day you die, you've been thoroughly and utterly enmeshed in the policies, systems, and governance of a society that shapes your experience. You just try not to think about it.

I think with the level of venom with which AI proponents have treated artists, writers, musicians, whole creative industries, they deserve at the very least to have that venom met in kind, and I hope it stings. I'm only sorry it hasn't happened sooner. Party's over, enjoy the hangover.

If you're wondering why there's so many anti-trans articles written by cis people while so few positive ones written by actual trans people it's because they're intentionally being silenced

Amidst all the crazy shit going on in the world for some reason this is the one that is annoying me today: It's not gonna be a Firefly reboot or restart. Almost all of those actors have current acting commitments that take up most of their working time.

The success of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms just proves that, while I would love for GRRM to finish Winds of Winter, what I'm really looking forward to is more Dunk and Egg novellas.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I just think it's wild that the armed professionals who wander our streets are allowed to act in fear, but the untrained normal citizens are supposed to know exactly what to do under terrifying circumstances or die

If you have a special something that others cannot duplicate or doesn't feel focus-grouped to death, readers will eagerly await your next book You are writing to market: YOUR market. The good thing is that I write these things because I like them and my readers also like them, so it isn't a drain 8/

HEY AUTHORS: It's the last weekend before Christmas and/or the end of Hanukkah, so people are going to be looking for last minute holiday gifts, which books are perfect for, so use this thread to tell everyone here at Bluesky about your book so they can go find it at their local bookseller. GO!

So here comes the encouragement: * you are not alone * this, too, shall pass * keep writing because someone needs your story * keep writing because you love the craft * you have survived 100% of the times that felt impossible * art is rebellion * art feeds your soul * winter is for lying fallow 8/

Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense. (Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Worked up a poster for Sinners - that cross section of horror movies, period pieces, and roots music checks an awful lot of my boxes, and heavens but it was beautifully made.

they don't want pussy. they want to endlessly critique pussy

Over the last few months I've become fascinated with Abundance, the new nominally liberal ideology pushed by liberal stalwarts like Ezra Klein. But if you peak behind the curtain and look at the funding you discovering something horrifying: Peter Theil, the Koch Moreover, ICE must b destroyed

AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.

Sometimes an idea so perfect comes along that you get mad at reality that it doesn't yet exist.

Seeing a few people surprised and/or irritated that The Damned King isn’t the final book in a trilogy, so please help me spread the word: THE EIDYN SAGA IS A FOUR-BOOK SERIES. It has been ever since I signed with Orbit in 2021. I’m writing book 4 right now. It’s coming!

*leans in real real intimidatingly close to your face* even if they're a protagonist

Interview with the Vampire. I was 13 and not ready for that level of homo-eroticism and existentialism

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.

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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

This truth from Martha Wells should be slathered across Apple TV's home screen: "Murderbot is a machine intelligence, and ChatGPT is not. It’s called artificial intelligence as a marketing tool, but it’s not actually artificial intelligence. A large language model is not a machine intelligence."

Are they going to start paying taxes??

Israel bombed an Evin, an Iranian prison that housed dissidents and political prisoners. They ended up destroying the trans wing and murdering over 100 trans people incarcerated there, many for simply being queer in Iran. This is unspeakable evil. archive.ph/PA2n5

We are officially open to submissions until August 7th! We want short stories 1k-10k words, poems of 50 lines or less. Dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, Arthuriana. We pay 9c a word, $50 for poems. More guidelines on our website! www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions

Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

I dreamed JKR just started eating trans kids, just grabbing them and devouring them whole, and when people complained, she threatened to sue them. I am worried I saw the future.

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated

When you're a millenial and the US is lying about a country in the Middle East having WMDs: