ANNOUNCEMENT TIME 🍋 I'm going to be a part of the @citruscon.bsky.social 2026 Artist Alley :] I'll be having a discount going for con attendees while also attending the various panels, watch parties, game sessions, and (my favorite) artist streams Free online, register here: www.citruscon.com

Also also: the writing community is not inherently your audience. A slew of writers read little, only in specific genres, or not at all. Many will have no inclination to read your books, even if they like your writing advice.

Literally talked about this at work today - how 90s game shows had people spending winnings on holidays etc and how so many times now it is just "I yearn to have stable housing"

It's a weird time to be trying to release a book in the US for the first time, but I guess we all need some medieval werewolves and queer yearning amidst The Horrors? Anyway, it's only a week until THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in North America, and the NA edition is VERY pretty:

I have an event with @tgirlsonfilm.bsky.social this coming Saturday afternoon at the ICA. www.shortfilms.org.uk/programme/tr...

"Not everything is about money." It is. You may not like it, but it is. Money talks. It's a question of how the money is used. It's wrong to simply say "You can't afford groceries." You have to say "Money that could help you afford groceries is being used to shoot your neighbors dead."

I had a guy at a convention once ask me whether I was worried I might lose customers by having a huge pride flag over my table. "I fucking hope so," I said.

🚨”If everyone who came before me had just complied and complied and complied, then I probably would have entered this theater, any theater, through a colored section. Every good thing you have in your life is a product of someone else’s struggle.” ~ Josh Johnson Message: Do Not Comply

Hi, I'm Coreo, and since 2023 I've been healing from severe burnout and PTSD. I can't work full-time anymore, and I cannot afford my roughly $275 monthly credit card payment, on the debt from insurance copays, cat food, car insurance, etc. Can you help me pay down this debt? gofund.me/4903591f2

'If you don't use this snake oil we've poured billions into, the line won't go up!' is a hell of take. I see we're getting desperate and pivoting to victim blaming.

*Puts on glasses and a fake moustache* Inheritance by AK Faulkner would absolutely kill it on HBO or Apple TV and we all know it.

9 years since Richard Spencer got punched and I will never stop reposting this youtu.be/IKICKcMU3MU?...

Murder beans are here!! 🥰🥰 From the wonderful @karlzmindpalace.bsky.social So excited to have something small enough to fit inside my bag, in all their naked glory #Hannibal

I've got high hopes that this turns out to be every bit as disgusting as it sounds 🎃

Anyone got recommendations for travel writing about mountains? Preferably walkers, not ice climbers, preferably in Europe and not doing colonialist summit conquering bullshit, just about people walking in high country.

We wanted health care and we were given concentration camps

Just a little something for ya'll on this #transformationtuesday ;)

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

Updates from Kyiv after the night attack. On the left bank of the city, where I live: no water, no electricity, minimal heating (just enough to keep the radiators from freezing). Many buildings have no heating at all. -12 °C outside.

Funny how basic airborne infection controls (masking, HEPAs, window cracked 2cm) are framed as a "burden," while the burden of being repeatedly exposed to Covid is dismissed as anxiety & goes unacknowledged

I'm cancelling all of my art. I need time to relax and bounce on some dick. I'll post new art when I feel like it...

accurate headline: "Greenlanders in tears, Ukrainians die, Kremlin in joy" euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/19/g...

In our fight for a fairer industry, and standing with creatives against the threats posed by AI, we would love to continue the conversation with you on our other social media platforms. Check these out now: Instagram Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn

Recent news about images produced by its AI tool, Grok, raise further concerns, especially in the light of our campaign for an ethical AI industry. So, we have decided to step away.

We have made the decision to formally close our X social media account. Once a vibrant platform to promote the interests of authors, we feel X is no longer a trusted place for balance, community support, and reliable information.

*slides on over to you* *opens trenchcoat* Psst. shop.ravenswordpress.com/collections/...

BTW,I have a Patreon. I try to post regularly, and since I've been doing it since 2017, there are a lot of back posts you can access too. I talk about writing, mostly, and now and then I put up some fiction, a short story or an excerpt from an unpublished book. patreon.com/KatharineKerr

She’s also on Bluesky and has a Patreon. bsky.app/profile/kitk...

Katherine Kerr is in danger of losing her home after fighting the us healthcare system Please help if you can? (Sorry fb link, I have no other source) www.facebook.com/share/p/1Kbi...

Still feeling icky talking about self-promotion and upcoming books. But here I am: queenofswordspress.com/authors/joyc...

It's also been one area, where for a long time, it had queer representation that was more visible than that in commercial publishing, and largely created by women, for women. I remember when finding the odd LGBTI novel was a marvel in commercial publishing.

4) People make an assumption that being a professional writer automatically means quality and that anything made by a hobbyist is of lesser quality. This also comes from a capitalist mindset.You got those three components working together, and that is why there is such hate against fanfic.

...often think that anything that talks about or expresses blatant sexuality is unintelligent and emotionally shallow. Once again, another good example is the stigma romance readers and writers face.

2) Similarly to Romance, the biggest demographic of fanfic writers are women. And women's interests are often belittled and hyperly criticized. 3) The Conservative backlash. A lot of fanfic is sexually explicit and people...

I actually had a discussion about this yesterday. The hate for fanfiction has 4 components: 1) It directly defies capitalism. Capitalism tells us that only things that are profitable are of worth. Most fanfic is free and so people equate free to bad. 🧵 #fanfiction

Yay! I read like every single one of these books around christmas, and loved them all. 💖 I just adore Quentin and Laurence and want the best for them!

[whispers] If just FIVE MORE people tell me about an upcoming release (their own or one they know about) my list will average one new aspec book a month for two years. (So far most of them are indie, fun fact. I only have, like, five tradpub titles and that's counting graphic novels.)

In any incident where your faith in an artist is broken and you are looking to support another, particularly victims of the harm said artist had perpetuated: consider buying their work, sending them money. A simple follow on their social media isn't going to cut it. And don't forget them either.

“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

Please check your reposts at least for sources or corroboration. Lotta bots and ops these days

There’s a tuberculosis outbreak at an Amazon warehouse in the UK. Sick leave? Respiratory protection? Building ventilation? State of workers T cells? We *must* accept respiratory protection as part of our “new 💩 normal”. www.unilad.com/news/world-n...

*slides on over to you* *opens trenchcoat* Psst. shop.ravenswordpress.com/collections/...

Stop. I can only get so erect.

in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing

I would like to remind you that indie authors are small businesses and that if you buy directly from an author, you are supporting a small business.

Here's to you, Minneapolis.

Aberdeen & north-east Scotland folks, I and the fabulous @mkhardywrites.com duo are coming to Waterstones Aberdeen. In LESS THAN TWO WEEKS, so please book tickets and come join us! There may be book origami creatures 🐈‍⬛🐝🐳🐙 tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/conve... @solarisbooks.bsky.social

If anyone would like to send us some funds to help out, I can take her to a vet to get tested for FIV and other problems, and maybe get her spayed if she isn't yet. Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/jeremycshipp Venmo: venmo.com/u/2252430720... PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/Jer...

We're still looking for someone in the Inland Empire area to adopt or foster this little tortoiseshell kitty. I'm willing to drive halfway to L.A. if anyone there wants to meet up to take her.

Hi, I'm Kara (they/them). I'm a queer, autistic author who writes queer historical-paranormal fantasy books. I've published 10 novels, a handful of short stories, and a novella, which you can get by joining my newsletter. My newsletter: eepurl.com/bfJTW9 My books: books2read.com/ap/nAkLmr/Ka...