my art director is feeling especially micro manage-y today

This week marks one year since Pick Your Potion was released. In that time it’s been an Aurealis Awards finalist, longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and on the Locus Recommended Reading List. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported it. That means so much to me. 💖

Need a story with your coffee break? This one's a gorgeously sweet story on finding a loved one again, by the wonderful @ephiny.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com smallwondersmag.com/piece/all-th... #fantasy #cozy #flashfiction #shortstory #cozyfantasy #reincarnation

Some excellent recent reads I’ve really enjoyed.

If you've got a moment, read some microfic & vote for your favourites from nearly 4 years of Pete Wood Challenge winners. ⚡ Featuring stellar stories by @ephiny.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @ericfomley.bsky.social & more! stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2025/07/its-...

I had the honour of blurbing this collection and absolutely loved it! 🎉

As NB.1.8.1 spreads, there’s only one thing spreading faster: misinformation. Here, I run down 5 of the most common errors I see circulating about COVID and encourage people to integrate airborne disease mitigation into their lives holistically. www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...

Happy pride month!! I made a starter pack of amazing queer/LGBTQIA+ speculative fiction authors and I think the best way to kick off the month is to share it around so they can get some recognition for their hard work! Whether you are queer or an ally, support these wonderfully diverse creators!

It's Pride! So if you're a queer horror writer that we have NOT goofed on yet, please post a reply below with your sales pitch and link to where we can buy/obtain/see your writing!

Had a wonderful birthday weekend. 🧁 Got some litRPG books as presents. 📚 My wife wrote me a song (I cried). 🎵 Great Australian election results. 🌭 Attended the Aurealis Awards as a finalist again. 🏆 Felt very satisfied and loved. 💕 Thank you, everyone. 💖

This looks like such a fun read! I definitely have to check it out!

I'm doing an independent study project this semester that's focused on submitter and editor perspectives on literary magazines. If you submit work to literary magazines and have a few minutes, I'd be so grateful if you would fill out my survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Somebody loan me your eyeball lasers, I long to see the forbidden teal!!

My short fiction collection Pick Your Potion is an Aurealis Awards finalist! 🤩🎉 Huge congrats to all of the finalists. 💕 Looking forward to the awards ceremony in May!

Had an enjoyable time at Farmworld this morning. There was this friend! This small crocodile was 4 years old! And there was a dingo!

Did you know anybody can vote in the Locus Awards? See image for what you can vote for and go vote here: poll.voting.locusmag.com

Where she wanted to sit today (on my upper back / across my shoulders).

I haven’t been online that much recently due to a death in the family, but I’m planning to send out a proper newsletter update soon. If you’d like to sign up to receive occasional newsletters, you can do so here: ephinygale.eo.page/newsletter

You can still get where you want to go if you are slow at writing, or inconsistent about writing, or have long periods of time when you're not able to write, even very small and very intermittent progress over a long period of time will still add up if you keep at it and don't give up on yourself

Had fun last night at the Valentine’s Day Salon where my lovely wife Tara gave a reading. 💖

Here is a preview of NBR #39: Mistaken Identity, featuring an excerpt of the short story "Baby" by @ephiny.bsky.social

Thanks to Ephiny for the recommendation! I also loved the descriptions/selling points of all the stories in this video, and now my to-read list is a bit longer:)

Honored to have two stories mentioned here, alongside some *incredible* fiction by amazing writers and friends

eeeek my first time in a *video* recommendation!

My flash piece "Baba Yaga Goes North" is included in this list! 😍 crowcrosskeys.com/2024/01/20/b...

Happy that "Loneliness Universe" made Ephiny's list! There are awesome story recs in there (and a video too!) so please check them out :)

Oh my goodness, Pick Your Potion is also on the BSFA longlist?! This is amazing! 🤩 Going to crack open a decaffeinated iced tea to celebrate. 😂 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Huge congratulations to all the folks on the @locusmag.bsky.social Recommended Reading List! Voting is now open for the Locus Awards. Anyone can vote, no membership required! locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

Speaking of recommendations, my 2024 eligibility and recommendations video is finally up! 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nlu...

I had to look this up again this morning to make sure I didn't imagine it last night... My short fiction collection, Pick Your Potion, is on Locus Magazine's 2024 Recommended Reading List! 🎊 In some excellent company, too. Thank you so much! 🥲💖 locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

Armadillos and Cactaceae🌿✨

This is a powerful, generous thread.

ok but what about five baby foxes playing in the snow, though, did you even consider that

Good morning and happy (or whatever) first day back at work for a bunch of you! 2025 Lammys submissions are now open and considering LGBTQ+ books and plays published in 2024! View our submission guidelines to learn more: lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammy...

My wife’s new book The Spirit Circle is in the January issue of Australian Vogue. 🥲 I am so proud of her. I hope she continues to get all the recognition she deserves. ❤️

Love having a fellow Aussie right off the bat! (Redacted) by Tara Calaby in the latest @kaleidotrope.bsky.social. Twisty and chilling near future sci-fi that unpeels itself beautifully. Heads up: A few CWs here for abuse kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...

wow amazing story by Tara Calaby in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social -- very unnerving.... kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...

Guess who has an asthma diagnosis?! It would’ve been nicer to have this 20 years ago, but definitely better late than never. Looking forward to breathing better soon. 🎉

I published a new YouTube video! It's all about how I created my new book (short fiction collection 'Pick Your Potion') including: - structuring the collection - illustrations - the interior file - the cover - IBSNs - proof copies - paperback - ePub ...and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYB...

Every December I try to suss out what horror filmmakers & studios think is the scariest part of our historical moment. 2024’s message is clear: stop being so fucking polite. @horrorgeekmel.bsky.social www.horrorgeeklife.com/2024/12/28/5...

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas! Mine was filled with family, friends, (too much) good food and some enjoyable reading. 💖 Here’s my Christmas book haul!

After 3.5 years at my latest employer, Friday was my last working day there as Senior Project Manager. I have a couple of weeks off now over Christmas, and then I’m delighted to be launching into something new!

The Shirley Jackson Awards are on Bluesky! Attention Publishers: we are open for submissions for works published in 2024. airtable.com/applhMf88JAF...

We're Here 2024 is open to submissions of queer sff short stories and novelettes originally published this year. So please, as a holiday gift to me and you, SUBMIT YOUR WORK BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR!!!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's that time again! If you'd like your work included in this year's awards eligibility roundup, reply to or quote this post before Dec 19th with: - your name - your category of eligibility - a link to your work or your eligibility page

This is it, the final countdown! We've just posted the last "entries update" file before Sunday's entry deadline - you have just four days left (including today) to get your 2024 Australian-created works in before the cutoff on December 15! #AurealisAwards

You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.

Paperback ARCs for my wife’s second novel arrived! 🎉 The Spirit Circle is a gothic historical novel about a spiritualism cult, and it is SO GOOD. Out in January! 👻💖

At lunchtime I stood in the garden and she lay exactly in my shade (and on my foot), so that I could protect her from the sun. 😭❤️