🚑 This came up elsewhere, so FYI: There is usually a switch on electric wheelchairs located on or near the base to switch them to a manual push for emergencies It's still heavy and obviously *ask first* before messing with someone's chair, but in an emergency, it's important to know

Yes! Wiscon was really fun and interesting and my partner was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award last year which are announced at Readercon so we went to that and it was great! I've also been to comicon but that was okay only lol. Too big. Too hype. Tips: 1/3 #SummerOfStories

Wow I checked and double checked this said #QuestPit prep and STILL wrote "QueerPit" 😭

Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel influences: - The high action + drama was influenced by my work as a NYC EMT, written in the ambulance between 911 calls - The grounded exchanges + emotions also come from my experiences working w/ a broad range of people #QueerPit prep

🚑 I almost forgot this one

🚑 The Pug Who Tasted Blood 🚑 Dodging Breast Milk Projectiles 🚑 The Firefighter Gave Kujo an Axe 🚑 Pam's Little Gun 🚑 Chased With a Sandwich 🚑 Upper East Side Nosy Parrots

Perhaps the biggest sign I grew up in a ND household is how quickly "it feels bad on my fur" was adopted as a catch-all for "something about that I don't like" when a particular cat started showing a strong aversion to a particular blanket of a unique texture Felt bad on his fur.

Odussy

probably something like this

Moby Dick as paranormal erotica, I guess

We are getting ready to go watch an acclaimed staging of a Dracula ballet Our uncouth minds do not know dance, but our gothy hearts know Dracula so it's gonna be a great time

A Goldilocks situation unfolding at my friend's place

I've seen some really bad takes over the years from Both Sides of the Aisle on this and I think we can acknowledge there simply isn't enough room in trad pub for everyone without putting down the work of self pub authors OR publishing industry professionals #SummerOfStories

You can't just post lines from my WIP without my consent

so, I'm really mad a bot on twitter coined the term "lasagna test"

Governments using AI They've literally reinvented the court astrologer

I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.

I came up with a joke about Narcissus, and, upon reflection, it's my best work yet.

My partner is also an author and we sometimes get asked, as we did recently, if we've ever collaborated, or if we will We always make faces and say no, no, no cause we like and write such different things But chatting animatedly after coming out of The Odyssey we stopped and said "scriptwriting!"

I don't want to be ahead of my time I want to be behind of my time I want to write for a time before the internet, before social media, before brain- and environment-killing AI, a time before 24/7 streaming, and video apps, and days that feel like there aren't enough hours in them

human infants while suckling will calmly and fixedly gaze away from the breast, as if leading two different lives at the time

SFF by women, especially when it is not hard or in a literary voice, often gets categorized as YA There is nothing wrong with YA, but knowing Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel was also always a romance, I intentionally put in lots of explicit sex because I write for adults #SummerOfStories

Me and my entire family fell asleep once during the climax of one of his Batman films, so I'm not a particular fan of Nolan's I also grew up listening to the fabulous adaptation of The Odyssey by bard and storyteller Odds Bodkin, so I am a big fan of the story I liked the film (mild spoilers): 1/

When the story starts, the wife of the ship's human engineer, an alien digital life form, has recently had her chassis damaged beyond repair and was wired irreversibly into the ship to save her life The crew is having to adapt to this new normal where a beloved member of the crew... 1/ #SFFChat

Fain am I to stagger to this emprise under the weightiest words of the dictionary.

I went to a party tonight where I only knew my partner and was coerced into explaining "what my book is about" and gave the pitch for Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel and just PUBLISHERS!!! LITERALLY EVERYONE IS FERAL FOR THIS BOOK!!! PLEASE, PLEASE PUBLISH IT!!! 🙏🚀🥵🙏

I read somewhere once that dreaming of moving through architectural spaces is the soul examining itself I used to dream of sprawling old houses and manors Since moving to New York City ten years ago, I've started dreaming of high rises and skyscrapers My soul has become vertical

Is it a truth universally acknowledged that authors hate comps? 😆 That query-specific thing of having to comp titles that aren't too old and also aren't too big is a killer I do have tips, as someone who successfully queried a title for which there arent a lot of other examples #SummerOfStories 1/

Attention SFFH Writers & Critics who are queer people of color: This is a reminder that @anathemamagazine.bsky.social will be open to submissions until July 20th! I’d love to see more nonfiction submissions before this window closes — (1/2)

I got done describing the rough plot outline of the Untitled Sapphic Thriller I'm working on and my partner gets really quiet and goes "...damn, I didnt know you had that darkness in you" My love, we've been together for a over a decade but also, I must be on the right track! 😆

#SummerOfStories: I was chatting a little about this exact topic the other day because I attended a talk this weekend where Nnedi Okorafor talked about her writing process and I felt very validated when she said "writer's block doesn't exist for me" 1/

it’s worth a fellow’s while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep

the concrete and tile flooring in SE Asia hurts my body so much (hip dysplasia) but while visiting my partner's family this time I have realized the office chair rolls really smoothly almost everywhere in the house and now we're busting into rooms like those babies from the BBC interview

This is a fun one for me: Work! I'm an EMT in NYC - I work in an ambulance & respond to 911 calls I don't know about direct inspiration but going into homes & seeing the range of the way people live, and seeing a range of precipitous emotion has no doubt textured my writing! #SummerOfStories

"Verify your age" Ask the average under 25 coworker what they think "dial up" is, receive a blank stare, and crumble into dust

Hey, #BluePit romance authors! If you wanna hang out and chat with the Bluesky romance community, I'm running a prompt game in Aug where I'll post a prompt every day and people writing any romance at any stage of completion can respond as feels good! Make connections, think about your projects 😁 #R

(sharks included)

Heists, spice, and space! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You must get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #BluePit #SF #R #A #📖 (Manuscript is #OS looking for an editor)

GIRL ON THE TRAIN X HUNTING WIVES Maureen knows there's more to the story as the struggling mommy blog of the former It Girl at her small town highschool goes viral when beautiful, troubled Lacey starts posting about her teenage son's disappearance This thriller is still a WIP #BluePit #T #W #A #📖

I'm sorry for causing a disturbance in the fancy restaurant earlier but you see my partner ordered a "tocochoflate" instead of a chocolate truffle and it did Send Me

I have settled on the hashtag #SumLuv for an August "Summer of Love" prompt game for romance writers. Here is a tentative prompt schedule to get hype about 😁 plenty of snippet shares, genre questions, and prompts designed to be interactive with the hashtag Excited to chat to you all next month!!

GIRL ON THE TRAIN X HUNTING WIVES Maureen knows there's more to the story as the struggling mommy blog of the former It Girl at her small town highschool goes viral when beautiful, troubled Lacey starts posting about her teenage son's disappearance This thriller is still a WIP #BluePit #T #W #A #📖

Heists, spice, and space! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your illegal hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You must get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #BluePit #SF #R #A #📖 (Manuscript is #OS looking for an editor)

We had a fabulous time at the Asia Creative Writing Program Practitioner's Day! It was very validating to hear Nnedi Okorafor talk about her writing process during her Worldbuilding Masterclass as similar to mine (Non-linear; "writer's block doesn't exist for me") And the swag was next level!

I was looking through old photos and found this Accidental Renaissance Painting of the cats

Me and my several manuscript backups in various locations and multiple formats acting like there's a zombie virus eating books and my manuscript is the last healthy one in existence 😂

When I ask my partner what's taking them so long in the shower

Sell your book in 5 words Banging on a spaceship.

a man at this party doesn't believe "cozy scifi" is a book genre plz send yr fav cozy scifi books

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