Can we all stop pushing the button please?

A slight refinement I'd suggest, is intricacy without intention. When there us painstaking detail but that detail doesn't make any visual sense or add to the vibe/mood. that kind of detail would take a human artist a lot of time to implement so theyre not going to do it for no reason.

Today nominations open for a bright new award in the SFF industry that aims to fill a gap left by the larger awards.

Writing advice: commit wholeheartedly to the bit.

Wow I adored this. It yanked on all my emotions and had me tearing up at the end. So good!

Grimdark: Everything is fucked Dying Earth: the world is fucked New Weird: A city is fucked Folk horror: A village is fucked Gothic: A castle or mansion is fucked but so are families 'Elevated' A24 horror: families are fucked Body Horror: You are fucked Vampires: vampires

Happy Pride Month! Here's an LGBTQ+ artist starter pack I put together. Please go support these wonderful artists! 💖🏳️‍🌈 There's still space to join — repost and comment a bit about yourself to be added! go.bsky.app/Pr3CVHV #pridemonth #artshare

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

And this is why they are so desperately trying to entrench themselves in education and government. They’re hoping to create generations of captive users who have no other choice but to use their tech if they want to read, work, write or think

I sold my first short story! Did I cry a little because soon I can call myself a published author? Maaaybe. Thankful to @trollbreathmag.bsky.social for believing in my supervillain academics unpacking trauma as they plot each other's deaths over email. Out in the fall edition!

Hey team! I can't start the day without an earl grey followed by stovetop coffee. Fave author of all time is Virginia Woolf, but recently I've been obsessed with Natasha Pulley's gorgeous queer sff. My wip is a sapphic romantasy where ppl imitate bird courtship, so have some birbs #CRPSparkleSkunks

Free resources by #RevPit editors: a thread! PODCASTS • Literary Blend: buff.ly/R7mG7QS • Story Chat Radio: buff.ly/m5OUily • The Worldbuilder’s Tavern: buff.ly/dCXtcMH

Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st! If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈

Thanks to the editors who made the #revpit process so fun and helpful, regardless of the outcome. Thanks to the discord writing community I'm part of who are the best people in the world, no bias here these are just the facts! #RevPitWaiting

I know that feedback isn't very helpful, so I'll add this. General advice: Lean hard into what makes your marketable. Tough love: If you can't pinpoint what that is, how can you expect an agent to? #RevPit

We have started working on launching a new anthology with the amazing @faerywhimsy.bsky.social! Our newsletter subscribers got more info earlier this week, but we will release more details-including the real anthology title!-when we launch on April 14th!

We have decided the world needs short fiction clubs instead of just book clubs. All those people who don’t finish a book in time and fumble their way through the meet-up can switch over and live a shame free life. Selfishly I recommend picking your material from a plucky, small press magazine.

Hi #RevPit friends, I’m posting this for those of you who would like to read it. This is so well put and important, though hard to read. Remember, I’m an author just like you. Especially to my friends writing MG and YA, NEVER STOP. Love you guys. vickyweberbooks.substack.com/p/what-nobod... 💜

I write everywhere, but my true happy place is this little nook — yay for libraries! #RevPitWaiting

RL and fandom friends with happy flails and fb Discord writers' group with query + 5p fb @trutherford.bsky.social who gave great concrit on the full A course beta who clearly didn't like it but had great insight, taught me about med and read the original 150k behemoth THANK YOU 🥹 #RevPitWaiting

Louder for the people in the back. www.theverge.com/report/90181...

My wip is a sapphic NA romantasy: THE GIVING LIES OF IORY ☁️In a floating land founded on kindness 🐦‍⬛that prays to birds 🚲an ex-con bike mechanic 👗collides with an outrageously femme amnesiac 👑running from nobles who want her divine magic ⛓️and learns their kind kingdom is a lie #RevPitWaiting #revpit

If you missed some of the #AskEditor sessions or simply didn't have time to read them all, I made a roundup post full of helpful advice from #RevPit editors: www.aealexander.com/blog/askedit...

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett The Waves by Virginia Woolf Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb All have phenomenal characters and character-focus! Even The Waves (the literary outlier - but Woolf my beloved <33) #RevPitWaiting

this is also why I will never, ever be upset at somebody for checking my book out at the library vs buying it 1) people are more likely to buy if they've read + liked 2) recommendations from readers are everything 3) librarians can make displays and recs better than anybody 4) libraries do buy books

Was talking to an Aussie writer about how SFF writers here are a bit isolated, so I made a thread of groups and events to bring us together. It includes a comprehensive list of Aussie Writer Festivals -all genres/ types- a competition, SpecFic magazine & whatever you good folks add to it!

It has to be the opening line—also the first thing I ever wrote for this novel, way back in Jan 2024. #revpit #RevPitWaiting

My first piece of short-form creative writing is published! Loved being able to revisit a little moment of my life in the five minutes, 100 words format.

Hey Revelers! The meet the editor sessions for #RevPit are happening this week. Here’s the schedule. Mine is on Friday. You can ask me about anything from my editorial style to my wishlist and beyond. 💜💎💌

Loved this story so much. Epistolary + weird cozy horror is my jam, thanks @breewernicke.bsky.social!

This week it was uncovered that the Trump regime is trying to "cure" trans prisoners of being transgender, while doing everything they can - from labeling our mere existence as explicit to stripping us of our legal documents - to ensure we *all* end up imprisoned in their ever-growing camps.

MC: depressed pacifist vampire Antag: beloved bloodthirsty sister Bonus Villain: manipulate mansplain manslaughter

If you’re on the fence about #RevPit, I’m always tempted to say you have nothing to lose + everything to gain. Which is true. But I also want to acknowledge that there are genuine reasons not to enter. So, I present you: Reasons Not to Enter the RevPit Annual Contest 🧵

I feel like midlist SFF is both vitally important and uniquely threatened right now because the midlist is where you find most of the queer, PoC, and otherwise marginalized authors. As well as a lot of really exciting books trying new things! Stuff that's not a "safe bet" but often a great read

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

hey have you seen the Common Bonds 3 teaser page? Have you seen the colour scheme on our image? 👀 have you maybe hit the fancy yellow button to follow the project 👀👀 www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

13, Tamora Pierce, some geocities site...

If you like: - aromantic and asexual rep - paranormal stories - supporting queer indie authors You should go to our Kickstarter page and hit 'Notify Me On Launch' right now so you don't miss our launch day! 🌈📚💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/meg...

𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒙 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬 They're like family to her, but when a death begins looking like murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect them. They all have a motive. Especially the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband. #WSPitQ #WSPit #Q #A #R #M

The Cold War x Time Travel When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK's role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #WSPit #WSPitQuerying #Q #A #T #SF #Hi #revpit

Hey. Even if you didn't write a single word today, you're still a writer. Even if you dont write tomorrow. The whole week. Doesn't matter. Word counts don't make you a writer, my friends 💜

Discovered that the key to enjoying pitch events is to be VERY SILLY and write from the pov of my characters

Miss Nightingale, I do not even like myself. Why “pitch” myself? Fine. Regrettably a vampire, forced from long slumber by humans with sunlight weapons, now on a dubious quest with a rude thrall (yes: you) to save our kind by warning my, er, apparently genocidal sister. Happy? #WSPit #Q #F #LGBT #Own

Taking part in my first ever #revpit this year! Reading through the list, I love how many editors mention the importance of voice and character. Those who do, you may soon find a depressed pacifist vampire politely clawing your inbox

How to write a book with A.I. 1. Don’t

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

New pronoun labeler since the other one died.

New collaboration between The Submission Grinder and @dreamfoundry.bsky.social : The Dream Foundry Market Report, a monthly report of speculative fiction/poetry publication updates dreamfoundry.org/2026/01/26/j...