Only 80 more followers until 5,000. Care to help a bookstore out?

This monster mini-anthology from Blaft in India just funded with less than two days to go, but it's close, you might want to chip in more because some payments inevitably don't go through (if you are in the US, they will have a US print run!) - www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

How's this affect us folks not signed up to the rapture and the affiliated marketing material? I'm not locked into a long distance subscriber policy, am I immune to the rapture?

For your consideration, thinkers of the Internet. Apply as necessary to things applicable to. :wanders off:

We've got another adoptable puppy, Bessie! A Blue Heeler/Shepherd mix girl who is all ears and ready to play. rpanimalshelter.org/adopt/dogs/

I truly love how everyone keeps showing me pictures of the mantises they've encountered out in the world. I love these little guys so much.

Playing Subnautica for the first time every, thinking I'm doing well, surviving, no issues, spanking the nasties underwater until: "Alert: Picking up multiple (plural!!!) leviathan (WHAT THE??) class creatures in the vicinity (WAIT WHERE??), are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it?" Me. o.0

Ty, Elias.

nobody told me my debut was on the BOGO list at libro FM - that's two books for one credit! - until I saw it shopping THE LAST DAY OF THE SALE HURRY GO GO GO (I earned out on that audiobook - every cent of royalties goes straight to meeeee!)

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know. It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda. 1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

It's really weird the kinds of threats you can get from nerds...in this industry. I get it for...well I mean i don't but i have gotten them for other reasons...:gestures at face: but...like, from book nerds it's weird now that i think about it. like...ive gotten actual threats and have depression-

It's starting to happen again as we careen into the fall: the scourge of poor quality POD paperbacks from Ingram! Just got in a copy of MOONFLOW that looks like it was printed for 15¢ at Kinkos. It's truly inexcusable and shoppers notice and now is the wrong fucking time to cut these corners!!

These are really good people - Loyalty bookstores is amazing and the staff are angels. They are SO SO supportive of all authors and their community. <3 They have and do go above and beyond for everyone. They treat people so amazingly. <3 Read this.

REMINDER! THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES is the final book in the ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS trilogy -- following Henryk as he wanders dangerously north into bandit and wildfire (also bears, sorry) territory. Out Sep 30 from @ecwpress.bsky.social ! ecwpress.com/products/fir...

Asia has so much of the global population it's wild. Just India alone has more people than every continent other than the one it's on

I remember this. I picked it up from a yardsale for the ps1 and loved it. It had such 90s classic high fantasy vibes - hella pulpy in retrospect but very fun for it.

8.375/10 Would eat again

Novellavember is coming up! Read novellas in November 🍂 🍂🍂🍂 I've been trying to make this a thing for like 4 years now. 🫠 #Novellavember

Hey folks - if you had one last meal, and it could be anything, what would it be, and why? Would it be a dream dish you've always craved, or the most familiar comfort food?

The Doors of Midnight by @rrvirdi.bsky.social Some stories are hidden for a reason. All tales have a price. And every debt must be paid. #Fantasy #Romancelandia #BookSky Buy: Kindle: www.amazon.com/Doors-Midnig...

:) First tie in story and it's for a game story I wrote... Meta lol I wrote the story for the story I wrote for another medium. This was really nice for me.

Suyi Davies Okungbowa's How to Finish Your Novel workshop has new dates! Now you can join us on Nov 29 & 30 for some personalised advice to help you tackle your writing projects. Price: 50 - 125 USD (Scholarships avail!) To learn more or register: events.humanitix.com/how-to-finis...

My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤

Idk what episode of black mirror we're all in anymore. I never finished the show, seen glimpses, which is probably indicative of something it's made a point about too, but yeah...

This is more for myself, but if you have or had a favorite drive, a route that put you at peace (or one you dream of driving), what is it? Bonus points for pics. But what's the road/s you love to drive can you enjoy: tearing up, or ambling, cruising, rambling on/down, whatever!?

You're allowed to care about things in this timeline Loudly Passionately Your hobbies or survival mode fixations or escapes aren't silly. If you're worried about your hobby, escapism safety net, or something you wanna pursue, I ain't gonna judge. Share it if you want or need a space to just talk-

Hey, Ronnie, what's the housing market near you like? Uh, like 900k for a falling apart studio people make jokes about existing in LA but really they're here...or this Somewhere around there for perspective in betweensies? So...you're starting an onlyfans, right? me:...I'm buying a hat--

We've crossed 70%! Pledge now for a very-limited-edition hardcover copy! Or a T-shirt! Or a manuscript critique by Kuzhali Manickavel! Or a madcap reel by Jugal Mody! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

May you live in boring as fuck uninteresting times... Starting now. ...now. Now... anytime now... Like now... now would be great. :taps earth: ....now? :shakes it:

We've been super saturated in so much -- so much -- I think it's fucked our brains.

That's a lotta books.

You know, for one fuckin' day, just one, could everyone stop being assholes and trying to hurt/harm/kill/wish ill on anyone different than them? Nvm that all those differences are artificial and made up by our fucked up society... That's too much sense, just fucking chill. IM ABOUT TO START --

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

There are days when I believe art and artists can save the world, make a huge difference, heal. Then there are other days I struggle so hard with that, to believe it, hold to it, keep that idea burning at all. Then I reread think of the Vonnegut quote:

This should be illegal.

Something to keep in mind as the verdict in the Bolsonaro trial approaches.

Yeah, alright, no. No don't this. I'll do you a few fucking better and teach you right here and now how to do this: You game? Blurb and lesson time. Got you. First up, a SPOOC. This is one technique that can be expanded (gonna give you examples too). WRITING LESSONS AHOY: 🧵

You know, my first time in Cali, San Jose, I wigged out by how perfectly warm and same the skies and days were every day. Like it was literally the exact 76 with three clouds in the air every fucking day. Creepy. Until It started getting dreary near DC, and I started walking more in the mornings-

Former exec of some crap company is now chief slopper lazily slopping sloppily over actual content creation as she sloppily spews sloppy slop calling actual creators luddites and lazy while she slops regurgitated and yoinked slop in her slop-filled content slop machines of sloppy crap slop.

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

www.instagram.com/p/DOHqF3PgYu... That's one helluva rec. <3

HOLY CRAP YALL. LOOK WHAT YALL DID AT DRAGONCON. <3 FUCKIN A! Awesome, special thanks again to Jeremy for buying into the dnd charity game seat, and people who bought into all the books and other gift auctions, everything. YALL RAISE MORE EVERY YEAR!

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

NEW MASTERCLASS INCOMING! Ep. 171 airs on Tuesday, with guest @davewragg.com and co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social & Greta Kelly dishing on the realities of SURVIVING THE MIDLIST (OR NOT?). Available Sept. 9 in audio/video: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtube.com/@FanFiAddict

Low brow meets high Maple spam fried rice with duck eggs teriyaki seasoning, furikake and mushroom for some umami. It's rich, clean (used refined coconut oil to fry so clean taste), light soy and teriyaki, maple spam goes amazing with the rich duck eggs. Is good.

Some of you know about this, but my dear friend LJ, who her and her wife were like older sisters to me, spearheaded the Instinct Animal anthology years ago - we called in favors and got superstars to headline it - it raised 60k around launch for rescuing animals from kill shelters - since then--

Hold up there, pardner, this timelines running me all outta yee haws, leavin me only with em hell naws, ya hear?

I've developed a little addiction to greek yogurt fruit cups. I'm old now, right?