Every day is #caturday with Fitzwilliam Darcy. “It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single hand in possession of a free moment, must be in want of a cat.”

You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?

Books I'm looking forward to in 2026 or have already pre-ordered! - Platform Decay by Martha Wells - Daggerbound by T Kingfisher - Queen Demon by Martha Wells - The Halls of the Dead by @smhallow.bsky.social

Books! I didn't read many this year, but these are my favourites The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett What Stalks the Deep - T Kingfisher To Be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky How to Survive this Fairytale - @smhallow.bsky.social Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green

Today is Jane Austen's 250th birthday! If you wish there'd been queer characters in the originals, check out my Austentatious series, beginning with THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET. I murdered Mr Collins off in the first line so that Charlotte Lucas can have a 2nd chance at happiness. (thread)

My one award-eligible work this year is my novella, HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE, a queer exploration of healing & trauma that consistently makes readers cry. When voting, I hope you'll consider it. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

My one award-eligible work this year is my novella, HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE, a queer exploration of healing & trauma that consistently makes readers cry. When voting, I hope you'll consider it. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.

🌐 #art

Bird break! A shot from the archives, because today has been *a day* Swans, taking off. #photography #BirdOfTheDay #swans #FlyDay #BirdSky #PNW #nature #wildlife #birds

I'm still grieving the loss of my mom with no end in sight and I have no words for the anger this instills in me. I hope every single person involved in this burns in hell.

Announcing the cover for THE HALLS OF THE DEAD, releasing Summer 2026 with @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social! HALLS is a romance, a dark fantasy, a Christmas horror story, a righteous fury revenge quest. It's dark and bloody, full of rage and love. I can't wait to share it with you.

It’s that time of the year again! If you’re voting for the Hugos, the Nebulas or any other SFF awards, I hope you will consider my two very Greek, very angry offerings. Both free to read! Short story: translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/1... Non-fiction essay: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

Sketches from around New York City

🦢✨ The two editions look beautiful together!! So glad you loved the book!

For a standalone, I recommend How to Survive This Fairytale by @smhallow.bsky.social - A book I loved so much that I simply had to get the RainbowCrate edition of it as well!

The email that just dropped in my inbox… y’all are NOT ready

The @rainbowcrate.bsky.social special edition of HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE is here, and it’s beautiful!!!

As we come to the end of the year, I’m looking to create a team who can help me promote How to Survive This Fairytale for the holidays and its 1 year anniversary of release on 1/16/26! If you like gay shit & crying, the sign up form is below! forms.gle/JmqpRct4Zftz...

I’m consistently blown away by the response to HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE. This year has been pretty terrible for me, and it’s been a blessing to see readers connect with this story of triumphant gay love, trauma, second chances, and rewriting your story.

hello here is a drawing of martin short as oliver putnam driving a john deere and yelling “get away from my friends you sons of b&$@%es!!!” #drawingfromtheTV

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Me, falling in love with weird things since the 80s. I get normies giving me looks. All I think is, wow, must be boring to be like that. I do not care if they think I'm cringe. tbh I think some are envious of us cringy ppl. I've been oft told by ppl that I seem free. And I am in this way.

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

It's SAPPHIC SEPTEMBER and I've got three queer-ass books ready for you! 1. Wow, I wonder if the endless staring and pinkie brushing means anything? 2. If I don't seduce the pirate queen, I'm doomed. Fortunately she's hot. Unfortunately she's unhinged. 3. V hungry, v horny, prone to bad decisions.

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Great advice on fighting the fight against burnout.

So excited to reveal A Bat Taste will be launching with Hedone next year!!! 🥰

Update to my cancer treatment, or, The One Where the Doctors Scare Me Half to Death (but we're 95% sure I'll be OK now). Please boost and share. I'm less than $3000 from my goal now, and getting there would tremendous. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

YAAAALLLLL i just put my name into Libby and THE HALLS OF THE DEAD popped right up with a "notify me" button!!!! 😭😍

Shortly after my mother died, I got the email that Rainbow Crate was interested in a special edition of FAIRYTALE. The response to this little indie book has been one of the brightest lights in an otherwise extremely bleak year. I can’t wait for you dear readers to hold it in your hands. 🦢✨💖

I have office hours TONIGHT at 6 CST! Come hang out and get all your book and publishing questions answered! Free and open to all!

[ butchfemme carmilla ] “Let us look again for a moment; it is the last time, perhaps, I shall see the moonlight with you.”

Lindz is so good at query letters, btw. I am in awe of this super power.

i am SO EXCITED that i can finally talk about this! the team at RC has put together a BEAUTIFUL special edition of this novella, and it is such an honor to be in this box with @wiswell.bsky.social !

when people feel the need to confess to me, a hater, how and when they use chatgpt?? as if i might grant papal dispensation for their little emails??? honey that's between you, god, and the melting ice caps good luck

Friends, there are a BUNCH of tickets available still, but registration closes tonight! We won't just talk about what comps to pick, but how the right ones will make the rest of your query stronger and more effective. Join us! It'll be fun!

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

So hype for @thesuiway and THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT! If you haven’t read it yet, use code NEBULAS2025 to pick it up for $1.99 until the end of the month. www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/drago...

A fairytale in Tuscany. Fun fact: Taken with my smartphone

I don't want to 'utilize' AI. I don't want to become 'more efficient'. I don't want to outsource the process of actual thought to a machine. I want to struggle with my words and chip away at my own soul until something shining and glorious and mundane and fucking human emerges. That's being alive.

A little bird just told me that the paperback of SUNBATHERS, my eco-horror sun-vampire book, is on sale RIGHT NOW for less than $7. It would be a CRIME not to buy it, and certainly it would be a worse crime than any of the ones my queer protagonist commits. Probably. *cough*

writing the acknowledgments for THE HALLS OF THE DEAD and crying in the club. i'm just so grateful to everyone who helped me get here

forget hot girl summer embrace prone piglet summer

Happy release day to @lindzmcleod.bsky.social! This book is an utter joy—and not only because Mr. Collins dies in the first line!

it’s a beautiful day to read HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE 🦢✨ #booksky💙📚

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