The Silver Age of comics was hilariously unhinged

The horse giving the sly side-eye. He knows all about bones.

Wouldn't mind so much if he at least found somewhere to store all these boxes of Xenofestation paperbacks.

Out Now! The brand new season of the award-winning satirical sci-fi monsterotica epic Xenofestation starts with tentacles and troubles galore. From all good ebook vendors and some naughty ones too... books2read.com/Xenofestatio...

Out Friday! The brand new season of the award-winning satirical sci-fi monsterotica epic Xenofestation launches with a bigger bang than a billionaire's badly-built rocket. Download your copy from your favourite naughty book vendor... books2read.com/Xenofestatio...

My stories: www.frolicme.com/erotic-autho... If audio is your thing, there's tons of narrated stories as well, including five of mine: www.frolicme.com/audio/

So proud to have my ninth story on frolicme.com! The films are gorgeous #ethicalporn, and a story account is free!!

*gently to my cat*: you cant be a little fucker. You have to be good. No more being a little fucker. *My cat, purring*: the Being a Fucker hour draws near

On a related topic, I received a marketing email from an audio-visual company called AVAG the other day, who had unaccountably bought the domain www.useavag.com. This probably made sense to the marketing department at some point.

Noice

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

If you've any on there, get your artwork off Spreadshirt quick. "In the coming months we will additionally unlock an AI functionality for our customers, allowing them to easily adjust marketplace designs via prompt."

I do love a story with a happy ending.

Five years ago today, I opened a blank document and started writing, just for my own interest, just to find out whether I could. Six novels and a bunch of short stories and novellas later, I'm still finding out.

Five years ago today, I opened a blank document and started writing, just for my own interest, just to find out whether I could. Six novels and a bunch of short stories and novellas later, I'm still finding out.

Age verification? I used to write with a chisel.

It took me WAY too long to realize that this was about a pair of researchers at University of Houston (UH), and not that the headline was stalling to find a euphemism for what they REALLY are. The Internet has ruined me.

Just posted: The first in a series of blog posts about in-jokes and pop-culture references in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st edition. graemedavis.wordpress.com

#books #booksky 📚

I've had to email D2D support, because it is an utter complete shitshow.

So Draft2Digital have completed the long-feared consolidation of my D2D and Smashwords accounts, and (sigh) it's all a complete mess. Duplicate books, weird series numbering, spurious publication outlets, all sorts of chicanery.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

In June, Amazon is lowering royalties for print books under $9.99 from 60% to 50%. But what does that mean for authors and readers? Let's take look at the numbers. Apologies, this is going to get a bit mathy (check the ALT text if you want even more numbers). 🧵

I'm out of the starting blocks for May!

Oh yeah, it's the toughest time of the month again.

Those signs that are in a suspiciously uniform format and that I keep - erh - stumbling upon? Well I put a bunch of em into a big art print which you can get from my website or Indie Makers in the corn x yes you can yes you can.

are authors talking about this at all? i do not want AI summarizing my books!! techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/a...

For me, it's not simply that they are using AI to do this, but that they are doing it at all. As writers, we carefully curate our stories, plan exactly what we show to readers and how it's explained, we build recaps into the story itself. This rides roughshod over all that hard work.

if the artist had time to draw this picture, he had time to stop the assassination

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Wife thinks I'm cheating on her, I'm not, I'm just two years into writing an embarrassing smut novel and I can't let her know about it.

I once dated a rich man who would always buy me expensive gifts. But his writing was atrocious. Always full of typos, missing punctuation & misplaced apostrophes. Huge turn-off. Ended it. Dated & married an English teacher who is also an author. Grammar is a girl's best friend.

Yay, they bought the second episode!

April's #erotica prompt is Spring Formal! We're thinking debonair, dapper, chic, extravagant... But remember: fancy and filthy go well together! jkmill.medium.com/spring-forma...

Just logged in to find somebody's dropped 1* ratings on a bunch of my titles on Amazon. Which... sigh... is a really great motivator for a weekend's writing. So if anyone likes my books and hasn't yet scattered a few stars on the site they bought them from, I'd really appreciate it.

To the lovely reader who bought the first episode of Xenofestation yesterday and then came back today to stock up on ten more... you've missed the second episode... books2read.com/Xenofestatio...

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Apropos of nothing, I was explaining "crash blossom" / "garden path" sentences earlier that make you stop and reinterpret because they lead you down a nonsensical meaning, and found this excellent and pithy example

"This is a methodically-plotted, beautifully-written, very smart and very engrossing series. This is how erotica, science fiction, humour, and social commentary are done. This is how literature is done." Xenofestation. Start your journey here... books2read.com/Xenofestatio...

Someone point them in the direction of the expert.

GNU Terry Pratchett

Thank you to whoever nominated me and those who voted for me to be the Rookie Smut Star in the Golden Pigtail Awards!! Thanks Alexa for organizing this! alexasommers.com/the-golden-p...

Congratulations to the Golden Pigtails Award winners! It was a fantastic honor to participate with many talented erotica writers. Thank you to all who voted! Thank you to Alexa for hosting! Now check out the winners/runner-ups for some salacious reads! http://alexasommers.... #Books #Erotica #Smut

Congrats to Golden Pigtails winners and EE writers @posychurchgate.bsky.social @celiamckinley.bsky.social @hazport.bsky.social @meganlandonauthor.bsky.social @paragonasvaunt.bsky.social @misskmagpie.bsky.social @kayleepace.bsky.social ! Congrats to all finalists! alexasommers.com/the-golden-p...

Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up in this year's Golden Pigtails awards. I'm pleased and proud to see my own Xenofestation pick up the sci-fi prize. Thanks to @alexasommers.bsky.social for all the work that goes into running these awards. alexasommers.com/the-golden-p...

Grab my books at up to 50% off in the Smashwords "Read an Ebook Week" sale. www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Xenofestation Writing Diary... Got to my desk this morning clutching about ten pages of notes hurriedly scribbled overnight. Bits for Episodes 20, 22, 23, 25, 29, 32, 33 and 36. Somewhat scatter-gun, but this is really starting to flesh out now.

In general, I've learned to be suspicious of any "brilliant" ideas I have at 2:00am, and they rarely survive the light of the next morning. But when it comes to writing I've found quite the reverse.

Xenofestation Season 5 Writing Diary... I've started writing!