I am once again asking indie authors to drop the links to their Itchio storefronts. I avoided the site during my book buying ban and now I'm *way* behind on following people. #booksky

Want to support some amazing indie authors here on BlueSky? Check out this starter pack I made with just a few you should definitely check out 😎 #booksky #indieauthors

Loving the implication of this thumbnail that Violet Beauregarde is a woman in horror (Also loving this list, y’all should check it out)

You have two weeks left to nominate books for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Nominations close March 31st. Which books will join those shortlisted the last three years? (Yes, we fit them all in this picture.) www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

Would really love to see some romance with strong hooks in my inbox 👀🩷 #MSWL

Editing. A 170k word novel. If you know what that's like, you know.

Not to sound cheesy but community is so, so important in the writing world. It may feel like a lonely art, but I wouldn't be where I am today without the support of my writing friends. So find your people!! #writingcommunity #writersky #

I'm convinced Wordpress is a trickster demon.

Current mood

"When you grow up, you realize art is more about conversation than originality. What lived experiences move you? What bits of stories have stuck to your heart? Those become living, beating organs in our work. Only the delusional believe their art springs exclusively from their own minds." ❤️👇

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:

Would you choose immortality? Of course you would. But let me tell you: It’s a lie. A cruel, promise. Because the hunger you live with—No, the hunger that you are—is worse. House of Valentine, complete at 98k words a thrilling gothic fantasy. #WSPit #A #F #P #R #WSPitQ

The Last Of Us x 1984 x Firefly If Isaac had known saving that mute girl at auction would land him on a forced road trip with the family and crew he abandoned a decade ago, while half the galaxy seems to be shooting at him... ah, hell, he'd still have done it. #WSPit #A #SF #Q #WSPitQ

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN Behind-the-scenes reality TV drama & behind-the-screens social media commentary build the tension between what we think we know and what we rarely understand about the people we share a planet with. We’re messy. You love it. #WSpit #WSpitQ #amquerying

NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets For fans of: ❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning ❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity ❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs ❤️‍🔥 Female rage ❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN (98k, speculative lit fic) #WSPitQ #LGBTQ #A #writingcommunity #WSPit #amquerying

Editor with #histfic here 🙋‍♀️ But reposting for reach to agents!

It feels weird to talk about happy things given everything that’s going on. But…I’m hosting a retreat at Highlights in June with my pal @emilycolinbooks.bsky.social and it’s a major bucket list item for me. Talking revision. With my pal. At Highlights!

For years, I was using a Nook and got most of my indie ebooks from Barnes and Noble. Bookshop . org has their new ebook shop, indie books included. Itchio is en route to become *the* platform for trans indie authors. The authors on those platforms have bills to pay too.

"I stay awake until the witching hour/ under curfew and occupation by the national guard, who wield rifles/ longer than my legs." Jessica Abughattas writes an ode to her home in her poem, "Beautiful Altadena." lareviewofbooks.org/article/jess...

Now reading Lou Willingham @louwrites.bsky.social: Remains Lou's poetry is SO good. 🥰 If modern poetry is your thing, you really should check their stuff out. I'm so glad Matt @onechaoticauthor.bsky.social hooked me on to it. 💜 -- #AmReading 👀📚 #Poetry 💙📚 #IndieBook #KindleUnlimited 📢📚

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

Soon... 👀 Keep an eye on this space in the next couple weeks to meet the editors featured in our annual contest opening March 13th! #writingcommunity #RevPit #writersofbluesky

When Zeus + Aphrodite compete in a game of, 'Who's your worst patron deity?', Helen must follow and marry a man far from her homeland of Sparta Her single goal becomes to break free from their divine influence and return to her true husband, and beloved king, Menelaus. #CuPit #Q #A #HF

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉 This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share! Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106 Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

Happy #MSWL day 🎉 I’d LOVE to receive more manuscripts in: 🧚 Fantasy 💞 Romance 📚 Literary Fiction 🎬 Screenplays AND/OR 🕰️ Historical Fiction genres. I’m fully stocked in: 🚫 YA 🚫 Nonfiction 🚫 Sci-fi Reach me on amandaeditsbooks.com!

Happy #MSWL Day! To celebrate, I will be opening to queries. I am opening to all authors until 2/19 and then I will only be open to marginalized authors from 2/19 - 3/5 and then I will be closing to catch up 💗 here is a link to my updated MSWL page: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/am...

Reminder to comment on that art post or fanfic, and drop a review of that book. Telling creatives what you think, even if it’s just a one line sentence, truly does make a difference! And I don’t just mean ‘engagement’. I mean it will make their day. Tell someone when you love their work 🤍

AWARDS time! Support your favorite authors, artists, publishers, and more...! SFWA members can vote in the Nebula Awards nebulas.sfwa.org/about-the-ne... Worldcon members can vote in the Hugo Awards seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw... Anyone can vote in the Locus Awards locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.

Exactly 1 year ago today, I got to publicly announce I’d joined @stormliterary.bsky.social as an Associate Literary Agent! 22 clients and 12 deals later, here we are. Cheers to my clients trusting a newbie agent with their freaking incredible books!!! 🍾🥂🎉 And let’s goooo 2025!

The job of a first draft is to make the work exist. The job of subsequent drafts (and your editor) is to make the work good.

For unpublished #Authors, unpublished #Writers and #IndieAuthors. WIN a Professional Marketing Package for your #Book. A chance for us to meet more of you, and to give back. Only on #LinkedIn, #Threads and #Bluesky. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Books

Wrote about some indie press SFF for @reactorsff.bsky.social! reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...

guys!! i got a library card today!!! did you know they have books for free over there?? 😭😭 (this is a joke) i immediately downloaded hoopla and libby!! now its time to cancel audible! 🙈 #readers #booksky #booktok #bookstagram

Buy a Blind Date w/ a Book! These are back on our website and can be ordered online (you don’t have to be local!). Choose a price point that works for you (between $10 and $150), tell us what genres you like, and we’ll find the perfect books for you. www.thebookburrowbookstore.com/product/blin...

Writers, you might be struggling rn. Math might help. No, seriously. If you write 300 (around a page) words a day, you will have an 80k book in 267 days. Less than a year. If it's 200 words, it will take a little more than a year. Doing it slowly is still doing it. 💪

📣 Attention indie publishers and ebook readers 📣 We’re all desperate to break Amazon’s monopoly on ebooks, so please check out @bookshop-org.bsky.social 📚 I know I will be!

Amid a sea of very grim news today, this is absolutely excellent. Selfpub authors, we should try to figure out if we can get your e-books into this system.

We’re open for submissions! If you’re spending your night editing that poem or short story, why not send it our way? We’d love to give your work a home. 📖

Listen, most authors genuinely love for people to get their books from the library. And it’s usually really easy to request the book!!

there are only two types of writers: writers who need commas added, and writers who need commas removed

Congratulations to @taracampbell.bsky.social, whose latest, CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES, is in @electriclit.bsky.social's "15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Winter"--one of two books from Santa Fe Writers Project on the list. Go, Tara & SFWP! electricliterature.com/15-small-pre...

All applications for gender marker change are on hold while the State Department changes this policy. Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.

I’ve only just begun, but I can already tell I may have a new author to latch onto. Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi #booksky #authorsky

Very excited about my debut collection of short stories, American Animism, out from Cornerstone Press on March 11 www3.uwsp.edu/english/corn...

Been a while since I updated this little fella. Are you a PNW writer who wants in? go.bsky.app/47jD5bw

Just finished #developmentalediting a SciFi novel, and I'm so very excited to work it up to querying. In the meantime, another project down means I am open for submissions! If you're looking for a highly customizable editor, DM me to schedule a free consultation. 💁‍♀️ #amediting #writersky #authorsky

Chapter 37 of the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, English version by @ursulakleguin.com She left us seven years ago today.