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ARC signups are open through 12/31 for THE CHAMOS PROJECT! Sign up if you like sad gays in space! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... #WritingCommunity #SFF #indieauthor

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

I got to read an early version of this and let me tell you all of you who read this are in for a treat (pun intended).

So excited to reveal the cover for Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry! It's a cozy fantasy full of delicious food, magic, found family, and sweet romance (with two queer middle-aged MCs!) Oh, and tea. Lots of tea. First in a brand new series! I can’t WAIT to share it with you #sff #booksky

I'm coming up on 48h awake so I don't have the energy to alt-text the un-alt-texted image, but: bog standard rights grant clause, has all the limiters I look for, you cannot run a website without a rights grant clause, zero reason for panic

People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon

ARCs are coming!!! Want to blurb or review my portal fantasy adventure meets anticolonialist ecological sci-fi, aka Narnia in space? Let me or Kevin know and we'll hook you up!

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Happy Small Business Saturday! It's a great day to support your favorite authors -- especially via your local bookstore, Bookshop.org (which supports local bookstores!), or a smaller ebook retailer like Smashwords. (Mine are on all the stores: www.jomiles.com/books/) Books make great gifts too! 📚🎁

Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?

Can confirm that InkFoundry is really neat. Possibly even neat-o!

Today is my birthday, which you know I always use as an excuse to spoil you! November 14th, everything online is 14% off, no code needed! Just skedaddle on over to the site and get shopping!⁠

Ah, it's that time again...

Things are haaaaaappenning! Seeing art come together is my favorite part, up there with actually holding a book in my hands.

Our Kickstarter ends in just 24 HOURS! This is your LAST CHANCE to shop our catalogue of new ebooks, author critiques, and exclusive merch before it's gone for good. Check the 🧵 to see our full selection! Thank you all for supporting another year of Apex. 🖤👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Audiobook lovers! All three Brennex books are now out in audio, narrated by the excellent Adi Cabral. Available everywhere! Get your anti-capitalist space opera fix: Warped State: books2read.com/u/3Jeere Dissonant State: books2read.com/u/3nBwR8 Ravenous State: books2read.com/u/3RPqAx

"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge."

I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, so... that's gross. Instructions on how to cancel your Spotify subscription: app.sosha.ai/s/kvYKdhBX #DontStreamFascism

I'm super excited for this week's newsletter: I'm going to announce my new series! Obv I'll share here, later, but I like to give my newsletter folks cool news before sharing with the world. Want to hear about my new cozy fantasy before anyone else? You know what to do! www.jomiles.com/newsletter

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

So, you don't start massive renovations to your house if you're only planning to live there for 4 years.

Interested in a query critique OR a short story critique from @jomiles.bsky.social? We’re deeply grateful to Jo for offering both! Jo is the author of The Gifted of Brennex trilogy plus short fiction published in Lightspeed, F&SF, Analog, and elsewhere! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

I'm so excited for this new market! Back it and support queer stories, authors, and artists!!! Cool rewards, too (including a story critique by me)

For every pledge UFO10 receives today, our Chief Canine Officer Leia will get a treat. Who's in? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...

This is such a lovely book. Do yourself a favor and go get it!

in a way aren't we all looking for more sink cheese where we found it yesterday

Hooray, it's Fat Bear Week! The most wonderful week of the year, aka the distraction we all need right now: explore.org/fat-bear-week

As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer: 1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors! 2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy 3) Language learning via Mango 💙📚 And:

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

"But there's nothing I can do!" 1) There is always something you can do to make things better for yourself or someone else. You do not have to Solve National Government today. 2) Having bad feelings, even anger, isn't "doing something." Anger feels like righteous action but isn't.

48 hours left and this Kickstarter still has $1800 to go! If you've got a few bucks to chip in, help bring this delightfully funny Jewish noir to the world! Fighting demons with super soakers full of Manichewitz wine. What more do you need to know?

Brilliant.

Triscuit presents: mixed toe beans!

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Website and email list!!!!! Give that reader who loved your work a place to find more.

As #Andor said — (meme via @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social )

I'll be at Capclave this weekend! Come say hi if you see me! My schedule: A Wizard’s Place (Sat 1pm) Mass Autographing (Sat 7pm) - selling and signing books! Alternative Roads to Hero’s Journey (Sun 12pm) Is SF Political? (Sun 2pm) capclave.org/capclave25/

I don't envy mass mobilization orgs trying to thread this needle right now, listbuilding is important for mobilization and continued engagement with your base. And with mainstream social media the way it is, it is VERY hard to estimate turnout for an upcoming action

Genuine question to people saying "nonprofits don't need your email": How do you think orgs SHOULD follow up and engage people who attend protests or take actions? How should they inform people about future protests, if not email? If you say "social media," I cannot take you seriously.

Part of the point of mass resistance (of which protest is just one part!) is that they can't "go after" everyone involved. They can't arrest literally millions of protesters. We make each other safer when we do this en masse. Make choices for yourself, but don't call other people's bravery "stupid"

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Not that anyone needs me to spell this out (again) but hell, just in case you do, here is explicit evidence that the goal is to isolate, silence, and eradicate trans folks. As folks in the replies below note: trans rights are also YOUR rights. If some lose, we all lose.

I see it's time to put on my nonprofit staff hat again. No, you don't have to RSVP for protests. Yes, you can just show up. If you feel at risk, by all means, don't rsvp. But it is not some nefarious plot when orgs ask you to RSVP! It helps them in numerous ways:

Go support Loyalty Books! But better yet, call your Senators and ask them to push to end the DC occupation. Then buy yourself a book as a reward! Remember that DC residents and disenfranchised and have no senators to stand up for them.

Loyalty is an incredible bookstore with an incredible team. I've done in-person events there, we did the Comfort Reads panels there with @marthawells.com @kjcharleswriter.com @tkingfisher.com, it's a wonderful place. please support if you can. www.crowdcast.io/c/comfortrea...

Loyalty Books is a wonderful independent bookshop that supports queer authors and authors of color. And bookstores are far from the only DC businesses suffering.

We need humor even when the world's on fire. Especially when the world's on fire. I'm glad to see the return of this anthology! (If you like funny SFF, go back it!)