Hey friends in the Midwest and northeast who aren't used to dealing with wildfire smoke - wear a mask, but also even being indoors will not protect you. Keep windows closed and run an air purifier! You can build a Corsi-Rosenthal box pretty cheap: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E...

Everything always happens all at once! Delighted to be included in this upcoming Halloween Romance anthology launching on Kickstarter September 1! My story "Pumpkin Guts" is a meet cute and revenge at a pumpkin carving event. 💙📚 #romancelandia 🎃 #halloween #romance #books #writingcommunity

OK, very quickly: a dangling participle has come adrift from the subject. Jane Smith wrote "Three Blind Mice" and plays football. A keen football player, Jane Smith is the author of Three Blind Mice. ✅ A keen football player, Three Blind Mice is Jane Smith's first book. ❌

"Even in the pouring rain the city smelled of smoke from the fires a thousand miles distant" is one of the hardest sentences I've ever written, and just straight true of NYC tonight. "I took shelter from the downpour and watched the lights dance off the pavement in the rain..." #cyberpunk #nyc

Important wisdom from Johnson. Do not skip on this one if you’re early and considering what it will take to build you a *career* in the industry, especially the way it is *now*.

Backed. Probably the most excited I've been for an RPG in ages.

For the afternoon crowd! Come read the silliest Ace joke I've ever told. 💜💀🩶🖤 It has flying babies! #ace #lgbtqia ♠️ 🏰💙📚 #queersky

Fountain pens - a great translation device - and if you run out of words you can fall back on Pictionary using the one in your pocket. (Tell Kevin plastic soysauce fish are fantastic for carrying ink samples safely (& you can have a fish with a different colour ink kiss the pen to write in ombre)

It's up! I've been waiting for the chance to recommend this story. Please go listen, especially if you're in need of some good old-fashioned fun 💘

I can finally share that my story "Putti Call" is PodCastle episode 952! Read by the amazing @dustyoldroses.com i am so excited for you all to hear it! #writingcommunity #shortstory 🏰💙📚

They are literally 99% fully funded lets get em over the line

My short story "The Moonfish" won #TheSubmissionPit for June! I'm very emotional that this beloved story I wrote in 2023 has finally found a home in such a fantastic venue. Read for free here: thesubmissionpit.substack.com/p/the-moonfi...

preorder Amusement Park Arcana, receive a gift from yourself in July! Request your local library purchase it! (I work at my local library, it's cool) ebook and paperback! Action Park x The Backrooms in 1994 🎡🎢🎪🎠 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

This morning's tea was dunked exactly 39 times. Followed directions and it is extremely good. 🍵 🫖

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Still a little puzzled by “I didn’t like that the characters thought in italics.” My friend, that ship sailed so long ago that it was owned by the East India Company.

Oh snap we have crossed $1200!! Let's keep that momentum going and see how soon we can hit our goal - and how far past it we can go! Every dollar goes straight into the pockets of disabled authors so we can write more books ❤️

listen up we are within spitting distance of $20k so here’s the deal if we hit $25k I will - per a DIABOLICAL suggestion from @nome.bsky.social - listen to this via the audiobook read by Vance (which is SO MUCH WORSE as a punishment because I’m a very fast reader but the audiobook is EIGHT HOURS)

I went to buy cat food and I came back to $200K??? What is happening! Why is it all bananas! I love bananas and this is amazing!

Upwards, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1929, (rotated, detail), 📸 by Lars Baron

Happy pub day to Trans/Port!!! 🏳️‍⚧️🤖 My next android story is OUT! The future is full of amazing, clever, beautiful, complicated, strong, and thriving trans people. The future is trans, and it's awesome! Won't you join us there? Grab the ebook for just $4 here: draft2digital.com/book/4305329

Today's tea is playing peekaboo. 🐞 🍵 🫖 Still working through the white Anji green from last year, and it's still pretty good.

Had a wonderful time GMing a Daggerheart one shot for #FreeRPGDay at the Brooklyn Strategist. Big thanks to the folks at @pocketbard.bsky.social for the music and joining us on our adventure. #ttrpg

Not bad! Was pretty close on all except one, which was tricky. Anthropeum.com · Jun 27 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟥🟩🟩🟩🟦🟦🟩 70,852 · top 29% of players today!

Some aftermath things I am thinking about for @flashfictiononline.bsky.social aftermath issue: - the unlearning of social dynamics after leaving a toxic job, relationship - the anger and grief after finally being validly diagnosed and treated and life is meaningfully better

One last thing: I often see people saying things like ‘never talk to the police without a lawyer’ and a lot of people don’t have lawyers and are like, what should I do? The answer is that you should not talk to the police at all.

C4 E23 'Night at the Museum' Boy did these two have a time... #criticalrolespoilers #criticalrolefanart

30 Remember surprise dragon! I felt like it should look a little Haku-ish :) #criticalrolespoilers #criticalrolefanart

Whatever you think the average German should have been doing in 1938, that's what you should be doing right now

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

I think part of why it makes me screamy when the right frames cities as not "real America" is that by definition cities - where you are obligated to live in proximity to many different kinds of people! - have the potential to be exactly what everyone claims on paper was the point of America

Mid-Atlantic friends, I have some book stuff coming your way in July! On July 17th I'll be joining @wiswell.bsky.social to gush over his must-read new book The Dragon Has Some Complaints at Solid State Books in DC. Get your tickets.

The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.

I had to repost this one because it made me CACKLE.

Calling all scientists and academics and researchers who want to raise money to fight voter suppression! Have you got a professional special interest? We have nerds willing to bid to pick your brain about it! form.romancingthevot...

Hey did you know if you get newsletter from people like writers or artists or what and you want to say a thing you can just hit reply and tell them the thing? And then presumably you made a cool creative person happy? I think I will try doing that more often myself!

I'm gonna be a fan of this anti-Prime promo every time Bookshop runs it! Each time, I've managed to get a few more of my #solarpunk books over on Bookshop (as well as secret #romantasy penname) Check out my shop with lists of hopeful climate fiction & non-fiction! bookshop.org/shop/BrightG...

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

ICYDK, I do not actually skeet for a living That is not a thing (yet) I founded and run the biggest comics pub in the Midwest, and it specializes in The Strange and Amazing plz follow it here It's Juneteenth, you have to 🥰 @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social

He'll be reading with me and two other poets at the NYC Poetry Festival (July 18th, 1 pm, White Horse Stage, Governor's Island), then doing Bea Wolf book signings immediately after. Anyone who's going to be in the NYC area that day, take note!

Over on Tumblr, Lonely Cryptid Media posted my author spotlight for Trans/Port: Trans Speculative Fiction for a Queer Future, dropping July 1! I canNOT wait for this anthology to be released. It's my first time returning to a universe with another story! www.tumblr.com/lonelycrypti...

PRO TIPS FROM ME, A LARGE INSECT 1. Do not be intimidated by the blank page 2. New notebook? Open to blank page 3. Write something meaningful on it 4. Now it is no longer blank 5. Go finish your novel

Today's White Anji green tea went really well with these kinako mochi. Brewed and then refrigerated half of it for tomorrow because it is *hot* in NYC this weekend. 🍵 🫖

How cool is this? In all my years in NYC, I have never seen anything like tonight. Simply amazing 💙🧡 Volume up 🔊

The L Train Brass Band leads a Knicks celebration on 5th Ave in Park Slope!

Knowing this, a few projects I want to appreciate: @flashfictiononline.bsky.social RESIST anthology, @neonhemlock.bsky.social’s various projects (The Crawling Moon is a personal fav), @badhandbooks.bsky.social Silk & Sinew, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Your Body Is A Fever Dream

Today's tea is 🧇. 2022 Waffles and website maintenance go well together. Also a little preview of what's coming up for #writingabtwriting. 🍵 🫖 #teasky #amwriting

If anyone out there reading this has been curious about fountain pens, inks, and papers - now's a great time and Endless is a great company to buy from. If you want advice or recommendations - hit me up!

It's Pride! Follow trans writers before we're all banned go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

Come find me at #stokercon for your very own punch card