It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me that I am AMPED (pun partly intended) for this rocking paranormal musical audio drama. Please back it if you can!

Food banks need extra support this month! We've got a bundle with the Re: Dracula audiobook & concept album & blooper reel, and the Re: Carmilla super cut & score. All for $20, which will be donated to Feeding America and will feed over 200 people! ko-fi.com/s/e6a726eeae

All my love to everyone out there doing creative work whose success depends on self-promotion in the middle of, uhh, all of this.

The final ever episode of my sci-fi audio drama The Strange Case of Starship Iris is here! (If you haven't listened yet, start from the beginning. Trust me.) Summary: the aftermath Transcript: www.procyonpodcastnetwork.com/post/starshi... Link: playlist.megaphone.fm?e=FAFO738312...

#NoKings is today! Absolutely not too late to find your local rally and show up! Have fun and stay safe! gregpak.net/2025/10/17/g...

SO many things are terrible right now so here are some things that rock: 1. The musical OPERATION MINCEMEAT. If you can't see it live on Broadway or in the West End, listen to the whole soundtrack in one go and try to keep in mind that the whole thing is performed by just five people.

The second-to-last ever ep of Starship Iris is out now! Summary: Doing the mission. Link: tinyurl.com/59u2h64d or wherever you get your podcasts! Transcript: www.procyonpodcastnetwork.com/post/starshi...

Wouldn't it be cool if someone adapted Frankenstein with an entire cast of trans actors? Oh hey, we're doing that! But we need your help to fund it! igg.me/at/refrank

Queer kidlit editor here! 🫡🌈 I edited a sapphic dystopian YA book titled You Pierce My Soul by audio drama writer @jesserbest.bsky.social and I just think everyone should preorder it and/or request it at their local library! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799767...

Tip: a lot of things in the world right now are very very bad, but if you live in the Northern hemisphere and you wanna really lean into Autumn, you could do worse than baking this smittenkitchen.com/2016/10/pump... while listening to Neko Case's FOX CONFESSOR BRINGS THE FLOOD.

Episode 3.06 of Starship Iris is out now! Summary: With one night to go before the culmination of the mission, some things need to be said. Listen: tinyurl.com/37ed6z6b (or wherever you get your pods) Transcript: www.procyonpodcastnetwork.com/post/starshi...

I'm so glad you've enjoyed Starship Iris, and if it's any consolation, I intend to keep making things (including sci-fi stories with queer characters and strong friendships) for a long long time!

New book coming in May! I invented a whole new genre of music for this one. It's called grotto rock and it is dear to my heart.

Hello and welcome to another edition of Get Me Through Thursday. Today what's getting me through is that my cousin is visiting! They are a professional trapeze artist who spends much of the year traveling the US with various circuses (and yes, they are as cool as that makes them sound).

Episode 3.05 of Starship Iris, "Reconnect", is now here! You can listen here tinyurl.com/4ndcs2j5 or wherever you get your podcasts. Summary: Another voice on the island. Content warning: This episode contains discussion of animal death. Transcript: www.procyonpodcastnetwork.com/post/starshi...

If you love heists, snarky POV characters, locked room mysteries in space, bantery sapphic romance, AND deals, then check out my debut novel, Stars Hide Your Fires, available for all of September as an ebook for just $1.99! tinyurl.com/3fbp8yu9

Help fund this so we can meet some of these lovely people and some of YOU lovely people!

Links from @amalelmohtar.com’s newsletter to help the people of Gaza. Gaza Soup Kitchen: www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-... *** The Butterfly Effect Project: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... *** And @mommunism.bsky.social’d whole timeline.

In honor of #SapphicSeptember, I present for your consideration: Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best, a sci-fi YA which I would pitch as "queer Knives Out in space" and is just delightful ✨🌈 Check it out here 🔗 bookshop.org/p/books/star...

Starship Iris 3.04.5 is available now! Summary: Nearly out of options, the crew reflects on the path ahead. Transcript (and content warnings) available here: www.procyonpodcastnetwork.com/blog/tags/th... You can listen here tinyurl.com/2jvxznjm or wherever you get your podcasts.

Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late

I filled this out, and hopefully other writer-folk will, too.

The right demonizes cities as cesspits of crime but I lived in Chicago for 7 years; the one time I've been mugged was in an affluent little Ohio suburb. (The first line of "Try That in a Small Town" is "Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk" which is literally what happened to me, in a small town.)

They keep asserting they're going to put AI in everything, including critical, dangerous systems. Meanwhile, AI is like, "sure, eat those yard mushrooms, the word strawberry has 88 Rs, I'm Mecha Hitler, here's Taylor Swift naked when you didn't even ask for it and she has eleven fingers lol"

I too have been wondering “what can I do to protest & dismantle ICE.” 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

A belated but extremely heartfelt thanks to the Greater Columbus Arts Council, for giving me funding in 2024 to hire a sensitivity reader for my upcoming audio drama Everyone Leaves Alive! #GCACGrants #ArtMakesCbus

Wrote a song about my favorite city, and also werewolves, which you can stream right here: creepingdoubts.bandcamp.com/track/werewo...

Hello and welcome to Get Me Through Thursday! Today what's getting me through is having a lot of creative projects going at once. I couldn't live like this year-round, but right now it is helping to keep my mind away from the yawning mouth of the void. What's getting you through?

Episode 3.04 of Starship Iris is live! Listen: tinyurl.com/3k8kfu7v (or on your podcatcher of choice) Transcript: www.procyonpodcastnetwork.com/post/starshi... Credits and content warnings in the episode notes.

Do yourself a favor and listen to this, all in one go, with headphones on. A journey in the best possible way.

open.spotify.com/album/7G8iQ3... #ska #punk #folk

When I was 5, I was allergic to milk; a classmate thought he could make me pass out by waving some cheese at me. As an asexual, this is (part of) how I feel abt people justifying anti-smut stances by claiming they're protecting the aces. Like, you fundamentally do not understand how I function.

Starship Iris episode 3.03 is live! Link: tinyurl.com/4wjcmkvn Summary: What's unlikely, really? Content warnings in episode description Transcript: www.procyonpodcastnetwork.com/post/starshi... Feat. "Going to Fall" by @jonnyswagger.bsky.social tail-light-rebellion.bandcamp.com/track/going-...

Also, yes, it's Anti-Prime day over at @bookshop.org so, you can preorder FLIP and not have to pay for shipping and support local bookstores? It saved me $9 on a single order???? ✨📚 🔗: bookshop.org/p/books/flip-ngozi-ukazu/21977290

Just a quick reminder to any procrastinators that the application/audition window closes tomorrow night (7/9) at midnight ET!

Just curious: Do you think when you start a diner in Midwestern America, the National Restaurant Association sends you several framed pictures of Marilyn Monroe, or are those municipally issued?

My first was Jackson Browne's 1986 song "Lives in the Balance," which I mainlined in (Bush Jr-era) middle school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_8U... (The album is often dated but the track is unfortunately evergreen.) On what America should be, Sifu Hotman's "Matches" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5goB...

Years ago now, I asked Swagger of Tail Light Rebellion if they had any songs appropriate for [REDACTED] and if I could use (with permission & payment) such a song in Starship Iris. Instead they wrote a brand-new tune and it ROCKS. Check it out next week on Starship Iris, or right here right now!

Re-upping because I haven't gotten many applicants yet! If you know someone who would be perfect for a job or a role, pls pass it on. Thanks! 🎸

Several of my books have been banned and challenged. I've never seen them on banned books displays. Being banned has, if anything, decreased my sales. Worse, it sends a message to the queer kids I wrote the books for that their stories are shameful and something to be hidden away.

it's true, WE ARE CASTING!! "can I audition for an atypical show" is probably the, like, 2nd most common email I get after "how do I make a podcast" and I so rarely get to say "yes you can!" but yes you can!!!

Folks, if you're not listening to The Strange Case of Starship Iris, now is the time to remedy that. Gorgeous queer audio drama. You've got two seasons to catch up on and now the second ep of Season 3...

Episode 3.02 of Starship Iris is live! Listen here: tinyurl.com/3k55suhh Brian reminisces, McCabe looks within, and some uninvited guests make a scene. Transcript at www.procyonpodcastnetwork.com/post/starshi.... Contains discussion of violence, discussion of poisoning, violence, and gunshots.

The pilot for Everyone Leaves Alive, my queer musical audio drama about a rock band secretly solving monster-related problems, is hiring! tinyurl.com/4zp4kn74 – Crew roles: director, music director, producer, and sound designer tinyurl.com/487k6yh7 - The cast, incl. singing and non-singing roles!

Happy Juneteenth! Every Black voice actor drop your demo or website. Everyone else, gas them up and hire them!

Today is a particularly good day to support trans mutual aid as a concrete way to fight back against the fuckers trying to take their healthcare and other rights away. 🧵 of a few groups, campaigns, and individuals you can donate to:

HERE IS A THING that EVERY American can do: 1. Call your Senator. 2. Say the following: "I am requesting that you place a hold on the nomination of Bill Essayli as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of CA for directing federal agents to assault a U.S. Senator." 3. Call other Senator, repeat

The first full-length episode of the 3rd and final season of Starship Iris is here: tinyurl.com/5recmwj9. Transcripts are here: www.procyonpodcastnetwork.com/post/starshi... Content warnings in the show notes, and please listen to 3.00.5 (tinyurl.com/efn67ef3) first. Next ep June 26th! Enjoy!

Check this out, and hear me show up again as Madge! I'm so happy for people to listen, and now is the perfect time to either be introduced or re-acquaint yourself with Starship Iris before the final season starts in earnest.

Always fun when I get to announce projects that I worked on years ago! Huge thanks to the team behind Starship Iris for having me and you can check it out on Spotify now 💕 open.spotify.com/episode/0nI7...