The Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Artists and Writers is now open!! No submission fees No rights encumbered 1st Place: $1500 (the art contest’s prize money as part of the Monu Bose Memorial Prize) 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Submit by June 8, 2026 1/2

AUSTINITES! TODAY AT 2pm!

my fav part is how the artist they commissioned for the piece was also like"what the fuck are you on?

#MemeMay #WriteSky Wow I am not good at drawing

I'm a disabled author with a condition that limits my ability to write. I'm also a writer who "sees scenes clearly in my head." I still never use AI to spit out slop and pretend I'm writing. I write. If you use AI you're not a writer. Full stop, no nuance. Disability is not an excuse.

Anyone who "always wanted to write" just could! Literally what's stopping you!!!!???

#MemeMay #WriteSky Let's see 🧙‍♂️🤼🛘🐎🌅

Happy 9th anniversary to Tom Holland's performance of Umbrella on Lip Sync Battle, a pivotal pop culture moment in history! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

#MemeMay #WriteSky Both Lir and Faris complete their performances for the monarch's birthday without a hitch! But they're not good enough.

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

#MemeMay #WriteSky The Decemberists "This Is Why We Fight" youtu.be/oLSOzcEQjiE?...

#MemeMay #WriteSky 🟩 Ambitious 🟩 Clever 🟩 Understands emotions 🟩 Raised an orphan 🟩 Gave a kid in poverty a chance

We have friends everywhere.

#MemeMay #WriteSky I don't think there are any inside jokes or references? Maybe I should add some!

I forget the market but they wanted a mailed paper MS. No electronic subs. This was last year.

Marie Antoinette. People hate the anachronisms but I think they're fantastic.

#MemeMay #WriteSky I have two main characters. Faris and Lir are basically this.

Fiction mags: Follow this model. If you don't want simsubs, respond in under a week like Kaleidotrope does. If you know it'll take you 90+ days to read my story, accept that I'm gonna send it out elsewhere. (I appreciate Kaleidotrope even though they passed on my latest sub!)

Lir and Faris both want to be the next archmage, but when people around them start getting murdered, they have to work together to save themselves and identify the culprit. #MemeMay #WriteSky

Cover Feedback! Hey friends in the #WritingCommunity, I need your artistic eyes! I'm moving to comission the cover for the second book in my Alchemical Green series (same artist, similar style). Can you give me feedback on the first one, what works, what doesn't, so I can adjust the second?

Is it too meta if I share and say my upcoming project is The Book Bazaar? :D There's 10 people upcoming for the May/June event, and then we're gearing up to start taking apps June 1st for Oct/Nov event which will be BIG!

Heh I discovered through trying to complete this meme that apparently I don't have predictive text turned on. Anyway my WIP is a romantasy featuring magic in a secondary world. #MemeMay #WriteSky

Thank you for hosting a wonderful adventure, Mike! My own book is still a wip, but I'll shout out THE GODS OF ATLANTIS by @professoremily.bsky.social out today! #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

Absolutely! No nuance here. The book is a romance, so the couple get their happily ever after. #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

5 topics I could give an hour-long talk on: 1. The Amazing Devil 2. why the popular idea of genetic memory is wrong 3. Our Flag Means Death 4. fiction, fanfiction, and the myth of the "training ground" 5. The Amazing Devil (expanded edition)

It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter

Lir loses his freedom and he and Faris lose each other. At least for a little while. #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

The main change is that Lir and Faris begin to fall in love. After the journey but before the end of the book, they also both learn that they're more capable than they thought and strongest when they work together. #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel.

This is excellent. “It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back.”

Time to find a new notebook brand.

💞💎🚫💀🧑‍🔬 #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

Oh no

It happens long after Lir and Faris return to the capital. Lir is a bit too self-sacrificing, but Faris isn't willing to go on without him. And they both have to put their trust in someone who doesn't trust them. #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

Does anyone know how to get Firefox to block all links to Substack? It's not always clear what links point to that platform and I never, ever, ever want to open a Substack link. #Substack #Firefox

Attention book reviewers! GENDER EVER AFTER is now available on #NetGalley for early reviews. Please help spread the (good) word and celebrate these amazing authors. #GenderEverAfter #transgender #WLW #sapphic #romance www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

No lie, look what happened

Oof, this. Anytime I see long posts about what will happen in some movie or show or book, I can't help but think that a lot of people don't take in stories the way I do. I don't want to be a detective, I want to be the audience. I trust the story to show me what it wants me to know.

This is one of the best pieces of pop culture writing I've read in the past couple of years. These excerpts are great but you need to read how the build to that last one. Goddamn. Thank you @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com

On the journey itself, there's neither. Once Lir and Faris get home and things really go to shit, there's an ally who unexpectedly is perhaps the most powerful enchanter in the world, and neither of them had any idea. #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

Near the end, Lir and Faris realize the monarch is in danger, but of course so are they. They have to choose whether to save themselves or save their monarch. #AprilAdventure #WrireSky

uh! so this happened!! (Ooops we did it again...) THANK YOU! Can't wait to see you all in Anaheim.

There's no point of no return, and Lir and Faris do return to the capital as planned. It's not an adventure in the classic D&D sense, just a journey they have to undertake. But the point at which everything changes is when they realize who's behind all the murders. #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

If either Lir or Faris fails but the other succeeds, that successful one will be named the next archmage. If they both fail then the stonespeaker in Teorello will continue not to work. (This journey is only the first half of the book. The stakes get higher after they're home.) #AprilAdventure

I submitted! Did you?

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Lir is definitely a victim, although it takes a while for him to realize it. Faris is perhaps a victim in a different sense. They are also their own heroes, although they need help to save themselves. #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

Lir and Faris never feel like giving up while traveling. Once the murders start they do hurry home, but going home after fixing the stonespeaker at the coast was always the plan. #AprilAdventure #WriteSky

There isn't much danger aside from the antagonist. At one point Faris is stung by a bee? Mostly though, it's the murders that are the problem. #AprilAdventure #WriteSky