THE LOOP Candy Cane: Apr 17 ✅ 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 Enjoying my discovery of this little game. Something new to be obsessed over for a bit. www.britannica.com/games/loop

Yes this PLEASE. They have so many great songs in Japanese but this is my favorite

I really, really need the help. I hate to beg, I do. But I’ve been breaking down almost daily due to how much stress I’m under. I’ve been thinking of taking a loan out, but I feel like it’d be more of a pain. I don’t qualify for the care credits or scratch pay. Reposting helps. A lot.

A Tasting Menu of Speculative Fiction Delights A Tasting Menu of Speculative Fiction Delights. 8 minute bites from 6 authors May 1, 2026 at noon EDT Free Event on Zoom Register Here Now Featuring: Elly Bangs, Lauren Beukes, E.D.E. Bell,A Y Chao, A.L. Kaplan, and Anne E.G. Nydam #SWSWQR

I WORKED ON THIS AND I'M SO EXCITED PLEASE GO SEE IT

What's going on with Bluesky right now is a preview of what will happen everywhere when companies decide to rely on AI bullshit and vibe coding en masse In case you needed another reason to hate AI

Yup, it's like this

trying to post through it rn

We got in some science fiction and fantasy books from @atthisarts.com today! carpelibrumbaltimore.com/collections/...

Indie Authors, if you have any interest in D2D; read this thread! Delilah pulls out some key facts that have just come to light from D2D, and cuts into a lot of speculation about what's going on and the intent behind it, answering many questions we've been asking ourselves.

I've been working on this for awhile now and I am looking for beta testers for authors who sell direct (woo commerce, shopify, lemonsqueezy) or semi direct (Itch, Kofi, Etsy). Any and all genres. No AI.

So hey I just had to pay a bunch of self-employed indie author taxes and uhhhh if you're looking to buy some widely-enjoyed books about super gay magical girls having adventures in Portland, and suggest to your friends to do the same, it would help me out a bunch 😅😅😅😅😅 magicariot.com/buy

Around Cambridge, England? Translator Kateryna Darchyk has organized a Ukrainian Literary Salon at King's College this Saturday, with proceeds to charity. One reading will be from Embroidered Worlds: “Havrylovna” by Oleksiy Zhupansky, «Гавриловна» Олексій Жупанський. You can register here:

Years ago, a writer friend was passing through on tour. I didn't know him that well, but I liked what I knew of him - and when he suggested that I join him (and the other writer touring with them) to hang and sign stock, I said "Sure, let's do it." So the three of us spent a day doing that. (1)

The genre community seems worried about forced sameness, shadowbanning, control. I think they need to create some intentional space and support for media / bloggers / podcasts who will talk about the presses doing what's different. Even when their authors tend to be, by necessity, quieter.

I have run several small businesses in my life, in highly competitive creative fields. [Bath & Body, and fiber arts] Nothing prepared me for how devastatingly soul-crushing it is to be an author, especially a self-published author. I knew coming into it that there were challenges, but... +

"How can you put your work on an unethical platform?" PLEASE POINT ME TO THE ETHICAL PLATFORM THAT ACTUALLY PAYS YOU MONEY I'M HONESTLY BEGGING YOU.

#Booksky It’s Werewolf Wednesday and there’s a great deal on the audiobook of Catherine Lundoff’s SILVER MOON! Menopausal werewolves for the win!

Atreides: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

hell fuckin yeah, MD!

it feels like summer today. I have a book coming out in the summer and the story occurs at the end of summer. Can't wait for that, but in the meantime, maybe check out When Yesterday Ends? books.earlronove.com/whenyesterda... a curse to break before summer ends...

Please share as widely as possible. This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not. Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

Monday is doing the most mondaying today

Could have been writing today but instead I've spent my day chasing down info that I shouldn't have to fight for and filing my taxes. My therapy session was the best part of my day 🙄 But! I got delightful bookmail, I'm drinking some absolutely sumptuous coconut chai, and I look extra cute today.

- desperately need help ; please repost - I now have the estimate for Tsuki’s tooth extractions and spay. It turns out her spay would be only a couple hundred more in the estimate. Around the same price of the one I would’ve gone to. ko-fi.com/missalppy

Only a few hours left in this sale, and then it's done!

Coming this week! Check us out at our new time, 7:30 p.m. EDT. Six authors, six stories, endless fun! Sign up below to get a reminder and the link! #SWSWQR www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

Strong Women Strange Worlds QuickReads Join me and Elly Bangs, Lauren Beukes, E.D.E. Bell,A Y Chao, and Anne E.G. Nydam at this live reading of speculative fiction stories by women and nonbinary authors. May 1, 2026 at noon EDT! Free Event on Zoom Register Here Now #SWSWQR

So - do you like trans books with trans main characters read by trans narrators illustrated by a trans artist? 'Cause that's what we've got here. And your supports, your shares, they matter. #BookSky #Kickstarter #Trans #TransJoy

👇 YOU STILL HAVE TIIIIIIME 👇

#Booksky We released a terrific collection of queer pirate stories this week and you can get your copy direct from us, at your local indie via Bookshop, at Smashwords, B&N, Kobo and beyond and even at your local library! We also have review copies for book reviewers!

If you've decided to switch away from buying ebooks from Amazon, try these DRM-free ebookshops instead. My list currently includes over 500 ebook, digital comic, magazine, and RPG bookshops - all selling in formats that you actually own, get to keep, and read on any device.

Disabled doesn't mean discarded. Claire Rosewood takes what she deserves, even when people don't think she does. A Dress to Kill For [FREE]: books2read.com/AD2K4 A Dress to Save Me [99 cents]: books2read.com/AD2SM Go to the sale: indiebook.sale

Great thread of recommendations for books you can grab in the Indie Book Sale, happening this weekend!

It's happening! Get your choice of almost 300 Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror books during the Indie Book Sale this weekend! indiebook.sale #booksky #📚🪐

my head hurts and I'm pooped but WHAT A BLAST

“We’ve created a society where most people can’t do without” a car. Yeah that’s Baltimore, with Maryland’s under-investment in transit. It stinks.

FUCKING THIS. EVERY DAMN DAY we have to deal with a whole bunch of putting some man's "value to society" over our basic humanity. EVERY DAY. "But he'll be a good president." Find someone else. "But he's a good comedian." So will someone else be. "But he catches footballs good." FUCK OFF WITH THAT.

It's the Narratess Indie Book Sale! Grab my space opera novel The Screaming Void and loads of other amazing books all weekend (and Monday!) at indiebook.sale. See you there!

In case you didn't see it yesterday, the entire Reanimator Mysteries series is on sale for a limited time! Grab it for an autistic necromancer, his undead love, and the mysteries that bring them together🫀

Are you Team "Over 200 Books In the Narratess Indie Book Sale" or Team "Nearly 300 Books In the Narratess Indie Book Sale" 🔁 for Over 200, ♥️ for Nearly 300 Indiebook.sale #NarratessIndieSale

Hey folks, the annual Narratess spring sale is here! Get hundreds of sci-fi, fantasy, & horror books for 🚨$1.99 or less🚨 There are itchio bundles & reduced prices on Amazon & elsewhere! 🏳️‍⚧️Women & Other Creatures🏳️‍⚧️ is $1.99 for the sale--5 shorts, 2 novelettes, & a novella! indiebook.sale

Today's good things: -woke up to some sales [yay!] -going with my mom to watch the BTS Goyang concert at the local movie theater -seasonal allergies are dying down for now [I think Bradford pears are on my list, ugh] -didn't feel like hot ass when I woke up [see above]

It's happening! Get your choice of almost 300 Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror books during the Indie Book Sale this weekend! indiebook.sale #booksky #📚🪐

interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists

It's Day 1 of the #NarratessIndieSale! Grab stellar deals on nearly 300 indie #SFF books from now until the end of Monday, including THE RE-EMERGENCE for just $0.99. Support an indie author this #IndieApril and find your next favourite read: https://indiebook.sale#NarratessIndieSale!#SFF💙📚🪐 | 📢📚

Who Will You Save? x Gareth L. Powell

This is worth a read, but I have a long-winded answering essay in my head that can be summed up by saying: look at mainstream publishers and how they lean on/create "what's popular" -- and look to indies [publishers and self-published] for a flourishing genre that can't easily get on shelves.

the indie book sale is this weekend! you can find be not afraid at 99c and many other books at similar cool sale prices. be sure to pick some up! indiebook.sale also check out the itchio bundles & get a bunch of books together for one price! Like the horror bundle below itch.io/b/3626/narra...