Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

COLLAB ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🪐👽🌈 We have an exclusive interview with the editors of @othersidespec.bsky.social OUT NOW on Kickstarter! 🗣️💬 We love the Otherside team and are so excited to see their project succeed! If you want to see us chat about queer SFF, short fiction and more, check it out here! ⬇️

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 worldshift.manyworldswriting.com

Join me today at #StrongWomenStrangeWorlds! 8 minute readings #horror #scifi #fiction @swsworlds.bsky.social on Fri Aug 1, Noon EDT (free, zoom) tinyurl.com/swswa1 with: @authorterribruce.bsky.social @mlensheffer.bsky.social @marromasco.bsky.social @nvhaskell.bsky.social

Tomorrow!! Please join us by registering at StrongWomenStrangeWorlds.weebly.com . 8 minute readings with giveaways and you might discover your next favorite author? What’s not to like? @marromasco.bsky.social @mlensheffer.bsky.social #authorreading #strongwomenstrangeworlds #writerscommunity

Virtual reading next week with @swsworlds.bsky.social - Fri Aug 1, Noon EDT. Sign up to attend for free: tinyurl.com/swswa1 with: @authorterribruce.bsky.social @marromasco.bsky.social @nvhaskell.bsky.social @tabithapotts.bsky.social

Excited to read with badass authors (8 mins each!) for @swsworlds.bsky.social on Fri Aug 1, Noon EDT (free, zoom) tinyurl.com/swswa1 with: @authorterribruce.bsky.social @marromasco.bsky.social @nvhaskell.bsky.social @chelseaconradt.bsky.social @tabithapotts.bsky.social #horror #scifi #fiction

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

I know this is just the first step, but the validation, the gratification that comes from sticking it out all these years to get to this moment - it's huge. HUGE. Thank you to @jenazantian.bsky.social for believing in this book of my heart - I can't wait to see what comes next.

I am thrilled to say that me and Thomas Dowson will be hosting a session at TAG 2025 titled '25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?'. We seek submissions that engage with queer archaeology in its broadest sense. More details here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Things I bought at the con...AND GOT SIGNATURES FOR. @nvhaskell.bsky.social SQUEEE

Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. Support a #cincinnati bookstore and 6 local authors! ❤️📚 #indieauthor #indiebookstore #writer

This auction includes a personalized copy of the gorgeous limited-edition Owl Crate version of Wooing the Witch Queen (with beautiful illustrations AND a bonus chapter at the end)! www.32auctions.com/organization... Open internationally, & I'll cover the shipping expense. ❤️

New fantasy Kickstarter launches the day the video for last winter's BLACK MEN READING SPECULATIVE FICTION TWO goes up. Auspicious & well-received. Readings from Maurice Broaddus, Rob Cameron, Milton Davis, Gerald L Coleman, Errick Nunnally & Justin Key. Kickstarter link threaded next.

I have a potentially huge meeting this afternoon. Wish me luck please. 🙏

Sixteen days have passed and despite filing complaints, Google continues to serve up this slop description that claims we've published "AI-generated stories." We've done nothing of the sort. In fact, we've been extremely vocal about our stance on "AI." NEVER IN OUR PAGES.

Ight are there any publications hiring that can provide insurance and stable income in need of someone who does long form journalism? This day job corporate shit is for the birds I can't do it no more.

This week: 1.birthday 2a. Neurologist with mom. Things aren’t going to get better 2b. Cory Booker brought hope 2c. Debut novel release and book launch 3. Orthopedist injected a cyst between the bones of my foot. It hurts 3b. Preparing for potential tornadoes this evening.  Y’all I’m tired.

Want to know the difference between writing a character hiding the truth from the reader and one hiding the truth from themselves? Wondering how to let your readers know what's true when your narrator can't stop lying? Let's get into it this Monday with a deep dive on writing unreliable narrators!

Today is the last day for early voting, with Election Day coming up on the 29th. So here’s the deal: Any unbiased observer of the current climate will tell you our federal government has fallen into the hands of the most extreme administration in this nation’s history.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

My first thought this morning was class action lawsuit, and it looks like that's happening. GOOD.

After working on the second book of this series for nearly two years while simultaneously working through edits on book one, I’m finally writing the climactic chapters. Y’all, it’s so damn good!

Some great sounding books on this list! Every single one is going on my TBR.

In THE EARTHLY BLAZE, we follow Tang Sai'er's perilous journey in her cause as rebel leader. The themes of seeking justice and fighting tyranny cannot be more relevant in the current turbulent world climate. Read this explosive sequel to find out how Sai'er and her allies tackle the villains.

Germany did destroy itself almost a century ago. It wasn’t because it took in too many migrants. It was because it fell for arguments uncomfortably close to Vance’s.

Starting a new book tonight! This one is an arc, for The Malice of Moons & Mages. This one is special because it's by book friend @nvhaskell.bsky.social! One of my favorite follows on BookTok, and I'm excited to read some of her work! It's out April 1. #BookSky #RomanticFantasy #Fantasy

My book went up on NetGalley last week and I tend to not read reviews. However, my editor reached out last night and made me look. The response has been astounding. 4 1/2 stars. I had tears in my eyes. 🥹 Now we’ll see what happens when The Malice of Moons and Mages releases April 1 . 🤞🏼

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

House Democrats held strong against the Musk-Takeover Spending Bill Yesterday. We need your help to ensure that the Senate Democrats do the same. Follow the link and script below to make calls. This vote happens TODAY! indivisible.org/resource/cal...

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

men will literally hire an acting troupe to stage a reenactment of their father’s murder in order to catch the conscience of the king instead of go to therapy

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

Next Supreme Court race that the media will be late to: The Pennsylvania "retention" election. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/02...

There's still one more prize up for grabs in our Map of Lost Places scavenger hunt! Test your sleuthing skills and see if you have what it takes to locate all of the hidden treasures 🔎👁️

There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now. The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.

In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free.

Democrats who walked out during Trump's speech following Rep Al Green (Per X), include, Congresswomen Maxine Dexter, Nikema Williams, Jasmine Crockett, Yassamin Ansari. Per The Hill, other Democrats included Maxwell Frost, Melanie Stansbury, LaMonica McIver, Lateefah Simon, and Bernie Sanders.

With less than a month until publication, it’s up on netgalley 🥳🥳🥳 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

🚨BREAKING: Trump halts all military aid to Ukraine [BLOOMBERG] The move will also include stopping all aid currently in transit to help Ukraine At this point, Trump might as well arm the Russians. An historic betrayal.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that