ICYMI, PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

It's cover reveal day for The Seaglass Blade! Much gratitude to @alawinans.bsky.social for this incredible artwork. It captured so much of the feel and themes of the book (and it's just flat out gorgeous so I love to look at it!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

Getting ready to run my first ever Kickstarter and discovering it really _is_ therapeutic to play with Canva all day

Yay M.! Such a fun book and a great new cover too. :)

The Sovereign, CL Clark ⚔️

I would just like to say thank you, this makes my day and so glad the cat boy is loved, which he totally deserves 🐈

Didn't get a lot of writing done today but absolutely worth it

Welcome to OTHERSIDE, a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! This October, we’ll be fundraising on Kickstarter. Until then, you can join us on our Patreon! We’ll open for submissions in January 2026. See thread for details! 🪐🗡️ (1/5)

Last night while I sat peacefully on my bed, writing a fantasy novel, two giant racoons tried to get in thru the pet door. I was sitting RIGHT THERE. Racoons did not care.

Why did I wait till I was this old till watching this movie? 🥹

A kind reader of my gothic historical lesbian horror adjacent novella draft called it "dark and f*cked up" (in a good way) and once again wondering where my subconscious is going these days

This month in newsletter: carpal tunnel, revisions, seeking sapphic scifi and serials 👀 open.substack.com/pub/snowjc/p...

I have also been thinking this and it is a not good thought.

Today's beach trip before the rain

California spring, brought to you by the neighborhood turkeys, low tide in the Bay, and my dog 🥰

I want to say something cutting and clever but just disgusted. There is no gesture too petty and mean-spirited for these people.

From the academic historian and very angry half of my brain open.substack.com/pub/occasion...

Sad that so much cool SFF book stuff is East Coast timezone :(

why is it every time I try for a snarky MC it becomes a cover for traumatic backstory? *random thoughts at dog park*

Finished my academic book review 🫠 and now free to beta read and write fantasy lesbians at will

In this mood today @mruthrobinson.bsky.social open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

Well glad that's settled

Most of my chapters run around 2500 words, but running up to the midpoint they've suddenly jumped up closer to 3800 and after four revisions FINE be that way

Carpal tunnel surgery update: can now tie shoes and open doors! 💪

Wondering at what point Fox News is going to start showing these clips of Trump and Vance that are so obviously insecure middle school bullies harassing a kid for his lunch money when war and human suffering are at stake.

Editing, editing, nothing's more fun than editing (and realizing I have had a totally unnecessary subplot) #writing

Carpal tunnel surgery complete and can still tap on phones!

Whenever I see someone talk about how chatgpt can do research for them and organize their outline for a first draft (fic or nonfic) instead of spending time not knowing where to start, I'm just...sad. (Partly thinking oh god no, it will lie to you) but also, you lose so much 🧵1/?

We have found the snow :)

We were thinking of visiting Zion and Bryce Canyon in April 😢

You know that sinking feeling when you listened to feedback and rewrote things and can't tell anymore if it's better or if you just took out the good parts by accident 🫠

For this month's queer fantasy newsletter, in honor of Valentine's Day and the general state of the world, my favorite angsty sapphic romantic fantasies 🏳️‍🌈 open.substack.com/pub/snowjc/p...

I'm watching the superbowl at our son's best friend's family party and I am in a zen state of understanding nothing and eating chips

It seems that I will never stop sobbing my eyes out at Iron Giant.

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book (or in this case, book-in-progress). "Blessed be the Line that keeps us safe."

I'll say this for American conservatives (just browsing today's headlines): when they decide something's a sin they go hard. "Sin of empathy?" Gone. Not one twinge left for the suffering of anyone not white, straight, American citizen, healthy, and rich.

In a world with so many amazing stories to consider for awards, here is a sapphic epic fantasy short story to include in the eligibility parade! Free to read in _Beneath Ceaseless Skies_.

Oh no OpenAI did someone illegally steal your work without permission to train an AI that competes with you and undermines all your efforts? That is so awful. No one should do that.

Ugh, flu. Takes forever to get back to 100%.

I honestly look to SFF and sapphic romance for riveting storytelling. For newspapers, I'm really just looking for...journalism.

Living the wild lesbian lifestyle: staying home from church today since my wife is on a business trip and the kid is sick, looks like a good time to reread Locked Tomb again 🥰💀⚔️🏳️‍🌈

My day job is delightedly trafficking in queer books! Demand your publisher submit your very gay 2024 publication to one of our 26 (dear god) award categories before March 21

As I'm revising, just had a random thought...how did Shakespeare do this? Rough draft and then line by line edit? Was the first draft already iambic pentameter or did that come in draft six?

Having a fantastic time listening to @clclark.bsky.social 's playlist for Magic of the Lost while waiting for book 3 (also filling out expense reports, unrelated)

Nominations open soon for the 2025 Hugo Awards! To cast a nominating ballot, you must either be a member of the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon, or purchase a Seattle Worldcon membership by January 31. Don't wait, get your membership today! https://buff.ly/3DNhcp9

Going to keep poking Bluesky till it works and I start seeing fun stuff! Random post for today, my wife just reached Kota Kinabulu and now it will be three weeks of constantly checking the time zones when I text her 😅

I have a new release today books2read.com/u/3GLl5K

Getting all the happy new year notifications but it is still 2024 for three hours here 😅

My wife made beignets 😍