I don't know if I'm just getting old or if I've spoken with trans women a lot, but I learned recently that "cracked egg" means something very different among Gen Z.

urple wip #oc #art #doodle

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy (and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness

Congratulations to historical fantasy writer @shonak.bsky.social - who also happens to be BFS Chair! - on the release of her latest witchy novel, Daughters of Nicnevin. It's out today through Flame Tree Publishing. Here's the blurb ⬇️

With apologies, for today’s feast.

sometimes a 0-0 football game is a pitched battle fought to a stalemate, a test of wills. sometimes a 0-0 football game is this

Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021)

Tradepub picking up breakout self-published books (typically hetslop) has the knock-on effect of there being literally fewer slots for books published the 'normal' way. Sort of interesting but suggests publishers are more risk-averse than ever: they prefer to invest in books with built-in audiences.

Having said that, I'm pretty sure romantasy is oversaturated to fuck now, cozy fantasy is probably right behind it.

"Oh so does LeBlanc need the power of the Ascended to destroy Raum?" well the powers of the Ascended come from the sun... and if you've read the Ambessa novel... you know the Rose has already had a taste of 'sun' magic...

Leblanc Clone in "Twilight’s End | 2025 Season 3 Cinematic - League of Legends"

As part of our Celebrating Horror birthday event, @preparetodai.bsky.social takes us back in time to 1940s Welsh horror The Halfway House divinationhollow.com/reviews-and-...

I know I’ll get some help here: a tree hit our house last night in a terrible storm & destroyed our deck, an integral part of the structure. we couldn’t do much last night but for insurance agents out there: what should we be doing this AM to give us the best chance for help?

Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor' www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...

He really is That Girl

Casrius ☀️ commission for Sialuk. #art

November submissions are OPEN! The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS! We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Alright y'all. This is finally happening.

Japanese cover of Death's Master by Tanith Lee. Artwork by Toshiaki Kato. That's Simmu and Zhirem in the center. My babies 🥲 Apologies for low quality, could not find a better image.

This was… required reading, I think :) @ericlarocca.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social #BookSky

5 out of 5 stars to Death's Master by Tanith Lee Hands down not only one of the best sequels ever, but one of the best fantasy books ever. Equals parts tragic and beautiful, it is a reminder that death is unavoidable but sometimes love, unfortunately, isn't. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Welp. At the least the lesbian queen in Death's Master had a, mostly, happy ending.

I just finished Death's Master by Tanith Lee AND I AM COMPLETELY BROKEN. Tanith, why would you hurt me like this!?

Just got the best email from my author contact form. The complete message? "Books." Books, indeed!

Link's Awakening Pt.1

OH MY GOD! I won't spoil, but I just nearly threw my copy of Death's Master across the room! TANITH LEE WHY WOULD YOU HURT ME LIKE THIS!?!?!

How do you explain what happened to your past self once you transitioned? Are they dead? Alive within you? Never alive in the first place? Or something else entirely?

I don't know why, but every time I see the cover of Buffalo Hunter Hunter, I think the buffalo is wearing headphones at first.

No, no! Please, no! Not like this, please! ;____; Marked sensitive for spoilers.

Please help starving Palestinian families still struggling to survive under Israel's continuing genocidal siege by sharing & donating:

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow. A time looping fantasy of ferocious lady knights & the nervy chain-smoking scholars who love them: folklore amid fascism. Fierce, clever, & impassioned. Our drink is Valiance, beneath the yew tree.

#NewRelease! January 1536 The King is dead... but who will live long now? A fateful accident on the jousting field leaves Henry VIII dead and his country trembling on the edge of chaos... All the King's Bastards $2.99 #Free #KU! #Histfic #SpeculativeFic #Booksky 📚💙📚 www.amazon.com/All-Kings-Ba...

For the next time someone asks, "When has Joanne ever been transphobic?" Because they will.

USERS: we love Bluesky but it has problems BLUESKY: great we'll fix them USERS: do you want to know what they are BLUESKY: absolutely not

Is anyone else having a problem with YouTube where you got back to a video you were watching but it doesn't take it back to where you left off? It takes you back to the beginning? It's been like this for 3 days with me. What's up?

Facebook memories for Carmichael's Bookstore showed Alix E. Harrow's throwback for when she did her first book signing for the Ten Thousand Doors of January. It makes me wish she'd come back for The Everlasting, especially now that I have a phone that works. 😭

@eliaseells.bsky.social I did not know you were also in the NESS Discord. We've been the same Discord for, like, months? Years? And I didn't even notice. 😭

"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us." northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

This book will challenge you like few others, and I think it’d be a rare reader who wouldn’t enjoy the experience.

i get using transexual as an uncouth fuck you to the modern liberal conception of being transgender, i do that too, but then reverse engineering it into "some people are transgender and some are transexual" is bizzare and wrong. every transexual is transgender and vice versa, they are the same thing

these transgenders are distributing propaganda through some sort of information service called “zines”

Question: How did you score that @clarkesworldmagazine.com gig? Did you contact the editor? Did your agent do it? I'm going to answer this in public, since 3 separate people have asked me. I went through the submission pathway just like anybody else. No agent involvement. You can do the same.

#SFFChat Q1: Even though I wrote this, it is actually making me reflect on these things in my work, and how much of a huge part of my writing is focused on the ways the past reverberates in the present. TWoA opens with the past. Not super unusual in epic fantasy (yes, it has one of those--the dread

"[An] oppressive, dread-inducing tale full of eerie imagery and tension." Big thanks to @booksbonesbuffy.bsky.social for this terrific review. #horrorfiction #horrorbooks #thesoundofthedark #thehollows #theravening @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social booksbonesbuffy.com/2025/11/06/t...

Curious about The World Within? Here are a few early review quotes: “Really great transfeminine representation that we need to see more of in sapphic fiction.” “The horniness & spice…this a Carolina Reaper book!” “Compelling characters, a sweet romance, & a lavish world”

💛you are loved💛 💙you are not too much💙 ❤️you are important to someone❤️ 🧡it is okay to not be okay🧡 🩷you deserve good things🩷 💚it is okay to be scared💚 💜you are always worth it💜 🩵it is okay to not have the answers🩵