Shiny New Cover by @conradaltmann.com Follow and Back the Project on Backerkit for Shiny new covers for all the books!! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

And new green-winged #orchids are popping up in the park #spring

Iris season has begun!

I have a new crowdfunding project! All books in my queer, dystopian Sci Fi Series, The Elite & the Rogues, are getting new covers by @conradaltmann.com, new edits & maybe new character art by @janjanartsss.bsky.social (🤞) Check it out! 📚💙💕🌈📚🖤♿📚🌈📚🪐📚🌈♠️ #queersky www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Dear Adobe It’s you, not me. It’s been a good twenty years, but you’ve changed. Neither my budget nor my conscience can afford this relationship.

About to sit down with a group of high schoolers to talk about being a writer and author. I’ll be reading an excerpt which I haven’t decided on yet. Feeling a bit self-conscious…

First rain of spring and I’m going on a hike!

"For authors, this is not just a technology, it’s a moral issue. Authors feel their work has been stolen." —Seth Fishman www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

Poison flower season has begun! Featuring Helleborus purpurascens and Daphne mezereon! 🌱☠️

‘The researchers said it was “maddening” that such easy action to fight the climate crisis was not being taken, and said people should be angry. Stopping the leaks can even be free, given that captured gas can be sold – methane is the “natural gas” that fires power stations.’

Salvador waits every day to ask the salvage tugs if they’ve found any batteries. Any size, as long as they hold a spark. He can wire them into his network to drip any remaining juice into his defunct phone. Just enough power to see her face again… #vss #climatefiction

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It took me a year to learn how to teleport without voiding my bladder every time. Just planning ahead so that there would be a change of clothes at my destination was enough to drive me to diapers. I can hold it now… but I need to squeeze my eyes shut when I pee so that I don’t jump accidentally.

The manual librarian collects only manuals and operations guides of anything mechanical or electronic. His warehouse looks more like an ordered hoarder’s fantasy than a library, ever spine thin and white. Impossible to reference, but everything’s there if you look long enough.

The North Atlantic Free Peoples Haven, or 'Berg' was a pseudo-island built from cobbled and cabled together abandoned shipping containers and other flotsam found drifting across the North Atlantic. #wip #windupiceberg

Chaos Cat Creative is proud to present our first publication, the debut novel from our founders @marbach.bsky.social and @rwmeadors.bsky.social THE MAJOR ARCANA: Coming April 7, 2026 A huge thank you to Lizbe Coetzee for the amazing cover design! Find her on instagram: @bookcoversbylizbe

The Middle Earth Stamp Collection - PRINTS! www.inprnt.com/gallery/brucemackay/the-middle-earth-stamp-collection #Illustration #LordOfTheRings

“The modern attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word,” Rose Horowitch reports. “Now professors are finding that they can’t even get students—film students—to sit through movies”:

Thread up, and especially this part. No one in a creative field should be using gAI in *ANY* way. You don't get to sell out other creatives just b/c it's not "your" field. No gAI writing, art, narration, music, etc. Just. Don't.

I’m deeply involved with the development of this game. It’s gonna be truly an experience to play with others.

Aching for the wet, Whole Reaches crave Yearning for the light Our terminals flutter With anticipation Expansion brings joy. [flush of nitrogen]

New arrangement at the county library sci-fi section 📚🪐💙

An important message, not just for Americans open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Dudes would rather pretend to have mass hallucinations rather than admit they saw some Borrowers.

Horrible situation. Glad it was resolved, but I can help thinking that it’s allegorical to how the US is going right now…

Definitely worth grabbing and reading!

We live in the most connected era in human history, yet loneliness is widespread.

In 1949, C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man warned that the final victory of man’s conquest of nature would not end in collective prosperity, but rather prosperity for a handful of men who had conquered the rest of us by first conquering human nature itself. We are living out his warning today.

Memento Moreau by @conradaltmann.com A fascinating collection of futuristic Sci Fi with tales that have you yearning for more. #booksky #readersky #readers #books #booksonbluesky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Two days to go until the special fifth anniversary #CoverReveal for The Re-Emergence! I am really excited to show you all what I've worked on 😁 You can check out my writing update blog post for more info about why I'm doing this www.alankdell.co.uk/...#CoverReveal 💙📚🪐 #SFF

Wordle 1,671 2/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Day 300!

book cover design is part of writing your novel. It is part of the experience of reading your book. Don’t use ai or readers will assume you used it throughout. #noai #genai

Sorely disappointed with DW today after not being able to watch a “documentary” on War of the Worlds (YouTube). Their inexcusable use of genAI ruined the experience and makes me wonder if they used AI to write the documentary as well. If DW uses ai in their documentaries, what about the news?

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An encouraging watch for indie authors and people who are considering becoming one (and readers of course!) 📚💙 #booksky #readsky

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

So far, the only people to have read this collection are me, @alandistro.bsky.social, @rachelharrison.bsky.social, and our top secret special guest intro writer. Wanna be among the next? Well, I KNOW A PLACE you can go …

Weltschmerz is hitting hard these days. Looking for some encouragement.

Classic.

View over the city.

I'll often see people express displeasure with books having AI-generated covers because they can't trust AI wasn't involved in the text. Sure, but even if it wasn't, a gen AI cover is a problem on its own. It's a betrayal of real artists, and the harms caused by "AI" persist no matter the output.

Looks to be a snowy winter here in Ardeal this year. Longing for the greener days on hard won mountaintops. 🌱

I struggle with passive protagonists sometimes and these are good tips for fixing narrative issues related to flat characters. 📚💙

So I've posted about seeing disinformation. But let's say you're the one who's been caught reposting a lie, an AI fake, or other disinformation... You fell for it! And someone called you out, it's probably not the 1st time! What now? Some remedial steps 🧵 ↓

What a fantastic opportunity to support indie authors! 🥳✨ Their creativity knows no bounds! Can't wait to dive into these gems! #IndieSFF #SupportAuthors 📚💖

Happy #sciencefiction day #readsky! Support your favorite sci-fi authors wherever they sell their stories! 📚💙🪐 #booksky

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