Now that Facebook is killing their metaverse, the company name seems rather Meta

It's all about the fine print 🎉 🦈

I'm warming up for my next writing project by reading books with similar age protagonists. I just finished Shut Up, This Is Serious, a YA book (not speculative) by Oakland author Carolina Ixta. I started just curious about the voice, but I read the whole thing! Great book 🎉 amzn.to/4pGHgF6

Two days left in the Miss Bennet's Dragon 0.99 sale (US/UK) geni.us/MBD-bsky Wish I had scored the coveted BookBub US Featured Deal promo, but running this new ad which is performing well, so it's all good 😀

I am finally reading Cloud Atlas

Author, are your queries summarily rejected? I have discovered the cause! Agents are busy signing characters from the comics. This is the third one this year

Check out this very cool kickstarter by @jcsnow.bsky.social queer high fantasy and great art! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Another on-point marketing/web team.

New #ARC for interested #booksky readers: o Releasing November 6 o Multi POV fantasy + romance, straight & queer o Noblebright (intense but not dark) o Gaslamp + Dragons o Completes a trilogy ARCs via #NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Time to reuse some buttons and lace, and of course denim #embroidery #handembroidery #broderie #upcycling

I MEAN, this company - !!! 😍🦇

#BookRelease #BookLaunch #NewBook Haunting Netherfield Star-crossed lovers whisper in the halls of Netherfield, seeking a path to the other side. #Ghosts #MrDarcy #PrideAndPrejudice #Regency #Romance #Romancelandia #KindleUnlimited #Books 📚💙 mybook.to/HauntNether

I just texted: "I moved the dragon out of the toilet delivery zone for safety" Might be the first time that sentence has ever been written #dragon #toilet

Book 3 is on it's way! DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES launch day is November 6 🎉The ebook is up for preorder already geni.us/DGW-kindle

Congratulations to Miss Bennet's Dragon by @mverant.com You are through to the #BBNYA2025 final!!!

The Only Constant is Change Have you heard the phrase "The only constant is change?" It's true, especially in publishing. Trends change, and you have to go with it. And that's why the entire Blood of the Raven series is getting new covers to celebrate the release of book three! Wait, what? Didn't…

Need your AI to go stark raving bonkers in your next story? Let us count the ways... www.livescience.com/technology/a...

I'm out of ISBN numbers. Time to pay tribute $$$ to the Bowker shakedown of US publishing. Hmm - $295 for 10. That'll last 6 years. - $595 for 100 so I never, ever have to fork out these ridiculous prices again. (Peers longingly north at Canada: free ISBNs + health care + a non-fascist government🍁)

The cover artist is working on book 3 cover, so I'm officially switching from writing to launch planning. Just roughed out the launch timeline. Egad, 75 items on it already!

It's cover reveal day for The Seaglass Blade! Much gratitude to @alawinans.bsky.social for this incredible artwork. It captured so much of the feel and themes of the book (and it's just flat out gorgeous so I love to look at it!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

Reading Peter S. Beagle's: I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons. He's one of my favorite writers, and having a new book is sweeeet... #fantasy

I really like NetGalley's new consumer site Booktrovert. But when gmail users with Enhanced Safe Browsing enabled click a book link, they get this error. Time to update to https, perhaps? :) @booktrovertcom.bsky.social‬

I just realized that Wednesday = Daria

Always liked how early the Royal Navy started down its path of giving its most lethal warships embarrassing names. Nothing worse than discovering you've just had the crap kicked out of you, in naval terms, by the "Peter Pomegranate"

I want to give a shout out to an online writing critique group that I've been a part of since 2018: The group is welcoming and open to diversity in all its myriad forms. Check it out at www.meetup.com/east-bay-sci... !

I woke up to wonderful news: Miss Bennet's Dragon has advanced to the semi-final round of @bbnya.bsky.social 2025! We got the new cover just in time 😅 This is turning into a big year! Jane Austen's 250th birthday is on Dec 16th, and book 3, DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES, will be out... November?

SNOW CRASH is on a $1.99 sale. I've owned a print edition for decades, but I love it so much I bought it for my Kindle, as much to honor a seminal SF book as because I need it www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBJCJE

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Just saw #MissionImpossible. Thumbs-up if you ignore plot holes. A collage of: - Insane, impressive stunts - Long, redundant exposition - MacGuffins (note plural) - Tom Cruise running - Quite good acting - The Mission Impossible theme song, which I imprinted on as a kid so I never get tired of it

Solving Rubik's cubes in 0.103 s! What I love is the engineering limit is the Rubik's cube itself -- they have to upgrade internal parts so it doesn't just explode! I wonder where the competition will take us... bespoke Rubik's cubes of carbon fiber... #engineering www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpFm...

BREAKING: The Authors Guild and a group of scholars and writers filed a class action lawsuit against the NEH, its leadership, and officials within the “DOGE” for unlawfully terminating millions of dollars in committed grants. Full statement: authorsguild.org/news/ag-file...

BookBub is setting up a service to run websites for authors. It's in beta and I just got an invite -- I blurred the url because I can't share it, but hopefully this will become generally available before too long.

Back in 2023 ChatGPT was insisting that I was in a plural marriage with former Minnesota State Auditor Rebecca Otto. Which makes me think that using it to vet people is not going to generate useful results.

Saw Sinners -- wow, what a movie! If you're in the Venn diagram of Blues + Horror, this movie is for you. I'd go again just for the soundtrack (which I'm listening to right now)

Canada's Liberal party is projected to win the election. Only real question remaining is whether it'll be a minority or majority government. This is a crazy but very welcome reversal of polling from a few months ago. The change is driven almost entirely by Trump's election and behavior in the US

Critical scholarship for those writing historical settings. I studied the tapestry and I'm with Team 94th Penis www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I need help on grammar! I have a sentence with an adverbial clause that has two conditions: The air thinned until my heart pounded and the sun burned. A beta reader suggested a comma before "and": The air thinned until my heart pounded, and the sun burned. Does anyone know which is correct?

Sadly, in the Washington Post subscription cancelation flow, the "Other" choice does not allow free-form input, so I couldn't write "Because your owner is a dick" #wapo

Interesting Amazon book promo method I haven't encountered before: an email allowing preorder of a free "sneak peak" of an upcoming release. I'm guessing this is only available to trad. I signed up though :) I love Joe Abercrombie

I've finished my full pass check of the draft ms! Almost ready for beta read 1

ROFL actual screenshot I just took of the DOGE website

What's today? Thursday? Okay, fine. How about a cover reveal and a pre-order? That sounds like a great plan. Iconoclast available on May 6th. #books

Weird how we say "whole 'nother thing". I don't think 'nother is used for any other purpose

I've invented a new typo not flagged by Word: "googles" instead of "goggles". Pretty sure "googles" is an anachronism in 1813.

AI-generated books are flooding marketplaces and increasingly look and read like human-authored books. Human Authored is a first-of-its-kind official certification system. Note: Certification is only available for members but will expand in the future. Learn more: authorsguild.org/news/ag-laun...

I'm doing my first full readthrough of the draft book 3 of Jane Austen Fantasy. Tackling big writing fixes (wandering goals/conflict) but also... Emma has gloves, then no gloves, then she's wearing long sleeve satin gloves in the middle of the day! wtf? Costumer, stat!

I've reached the point of drafting the last sentences of book 3. It's not easy choosing how to finish a 3 volume, 380K word, 5 year project. My prior endings have popped out fully formed on the first try. This one I need to think about. #writing

Book 3 of Jane Austen Fantasy is nearly done. 3 denouement chapters written, 1 to go, then the epilogue. A full draft might be measured in days, not weeks. (That's ignoring the TODOs plastered everywhere in the ms!) 130K words right now, so I'm betting 135K when done.

I love Merriam Webster editorial asides. They unleash repressed snark: "Blimey is labeled chiefly British in our dictionary, which is one way of saying ‘mainly used by the British, but occasionally used jocularly by Americans who put on a bad Cockney accent and pair it with words such as guvnor.’"