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Last year, I set up a Patreon about Creating Optimism because I was struggling and I thought others might be, too. Today, I created my last post. I don't want "Quips" or having my posts blasted out to 80M people. If this is the only way to opt out, so be it.
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Mari Ness, writer of things
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....I did mention at some point on this site that I wasn't QUITE done with a certain fairy tale.... So here you go: the latest flash fiction from me, up at LIGHTSPEED today, free to read!
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John Wiswell
2 days ago
A STARRED REVIEW! My three-headed dragon book got a starred review in Booklist!
www.booklistonline.com/products/982...
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V. Astor Solomon
3 days ago
Since it's Pride month, I wanted to bring this up again. I'm a trans person trying to get the money to cover moving fees so I can get out of Florida and to a safer city. I've got some already, but any more help at all will be appreciated.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-vale-...
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Donate to Help Vale get glasses and a safe place to live, organized by Vale Solomon
Hi there, my name is Vale and I’m a disabled, trans, neurodivergent person… Vale Solomon needs your support for Help Vale get glasses and a safe place to live
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-vale-get-glasses-and-a-safe-place-to-live?attribution_id=sl%3Af2e0ad48-f532-4b83-b222-6ad4e82e175d&lang=en_US&ts=1779321380
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) - is a Nebula finalist! 🎉
3 days ago
If you listened to my Star Wars interview you may recall mention of my story “440 Broad Street, Apartment 4C.” Pleased to say it’s now out in audio at StarShipSofa.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) - is a Nebula finalist! 🎉
4 days ago
Out today wherever you get your podcasts - listen to me talking Star Wars with the good folks at
@starwarsmean2u.bsky.social
.
what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you.captivate.fm/episode/p-a-...
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P.A. Cornell, What Does Star Wars Mean To You? - What Does Star Wars Mean To You?
P.A.'s Website@cornellwriter on InstagramP.A. Cornell on ThreadsP.A. Corenell on BlueSkyP.A.'s Facebook grouphttps://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-st...
https://what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you.captivate.fm/episode/p-a-cornell-what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you
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J.R. Dawson
8 days ago
If you read LIGHTHOUSE and loved Gurty, the real-life Gurty needs help right now. Something is causing him to be very sick, and we need to figure out what it is so we can heal him. I know things are very tight rn, and anything you can spare is deeply deeply appreciated.
gofund.me/7ebc8c84d
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Donate to Help Gurty Get the Care He Needs, organized by Jennifer Dawson
Paddington has run into some scary health situations in the last couple of months, in… Jennifer Dawson needs your support for Help Gurty Get the Care He Needs
https://gofund.me/7ebc8c84d
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Effie Seiberg
5 days ago
Happy Pride Month. Protect trans kids (and protecting trans adults wouldn't hurt too)
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) - is a Nebula finalist! 🎉
5 days ago
There will be
#swag
! If you’re going to the Nebulas this week, I’ll have some SWAG with me to give away during my post-panel meet & greet and the finalist signing. My book will also be sold at the conference. First come, first served while quantities last.
@starsandsabers.bsky.social
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John Wiswell
5 days ago
UK readers, I've got a surprise for you! For Pride Month, Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just 99p on Kindle! Do you need a lovable flesh-eating monster in your life?
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
5 days ago
Happy
#PrideMonth
! 💙📚🌈 June is my birthday month! It is Triscuit and Crouton's gotcha month! And my found media anthology
#RECORDED
crowdfunding campaign is officially live!!! Come help make this an unforgettable (& super queer) anthology—you know you want it! 🎥👀
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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Michael Scott: Oh My God, It's Happening!
Alt: From The Office a clip of Michael Scott saying "Oh My God, it's happening!" as everyone runs around the room
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Ryan North
9 days ago
Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud
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Stephanie Burgis
9 days ago
I am so excited to share the beautiful North American cover of
#Melting
the Ice Queen! 😍 Cover Artist:
@wingbuffet.bsky.social
Designer:
@lesleyaworrell.bsky.social
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Mallory Moore
9 days ago
Fuck anyone saying "if this were happening to any other community" when it comes to anti rights backslides and threats to community events. We are all of us facing escalating hate crimes and all of us have been for a long time.
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Anita 🧜🏽♀️🏴☠️🪐
10 days ago
Been awhile since I promoted my book. I feel a bit goofy doing it since it's now over two years old (and I'm still toiling away at revising the sequel), but I'm just boosting this for people who haven't read it yet and who *might* be interested. 100% human made.
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Beth Cato
9 days ago
FINAL DAYS!
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The Doctor (Commissions open)
11 days ago
@horrificscribs.bsky.social
Indiegogo campaign page now has the TOC, and it has my name!
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
Help the campaign get crowdfunded! Share it so your followers can find out about it too!
#BookSky
#ReadSky
#WritingCommunity
#WritersLift
#NewBook
#Anthology
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Beth Cato
11 days ago
THIS SATURDAY: join me at the Red Wing Library as I discuss my community reads book, Cheddar Luck Next Time, & get personal about life as a cheese-loving autistic person! 🧀 10AM in the Foot Room. (The free books have already been given away! They went fast!)
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Michael LaFrance
12 days ago
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Today is the last day to comment on FCC Proceeding 19-41, about whether they should create new TV ratings (warnings) about gender identities. You can find more information here:
glaad.org/fcc
Or comment directly here:
www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
15 days ago
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Nora Shear
15 days ago
I'm thrilled to share the cover for my upcoming book, NO DREAM LIKE FOREVER. Can I tell you how deeply thrilled I am? Over the past week I kept opening the file and giggling at how much I love it. I mean, Frith's sake, it's so damn gorgeous.... 1/2
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
16 days ago
A poem and drawing for this evening
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Ada Hoffmann
15 days ago
From today to May 25, all Tachyon's books are on sale for 20% off - including IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS! If you've been waiting to get your copy, now is a perfect time.
tachyonpublications.com/product/memo...
#IgnoreThisBook
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Stephanie Burgis
16 days ago
I just posted a new blog entry, "A New Home for Griffins":
www.stephanieburgis.com/2026/05/a-ne...
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A New Home for Griffins - Stephanie Burgis
Hooray! My short story “Mail-Order Magic,” which was originally published online in The Sunday Morning Transport (and beautifully edited by Fran Wilde), has now been republished as an audio podcast, f...
https://www.stephanieburgis.com/2026/05/a-new-home-for-griffins/
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Ada Hoffmann
16 days ago
Heeeeyyyy it's new story day! And I've got a villain's enamored minion reconsidering his life choices here, in "Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord."
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ten-...
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Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord - Lightspeed Magazine
1. I’m sorry, my lord. 2. I miss the sound of your voice, deep enough to shake the mountain fortress’s stones. I miss feeling it rumble in the soles of my feet. I miss the glow of your eyes while you...
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ten-unsent-letters-to-the-dark-lord/
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V. Astor Solomon
17 days ago
With my glasses situation, and how I'm trying to move out of FL, I decided to start a GFM for both
gofund.me/fd04823c3
Short version: I'm a blind, trans person who can't afford to get glasses that will actually help, or fund a move to a safe city.
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Donate to Help Vale get glasses and a safe place to live, organized by Vale Solomon
Hi there, my name is Vale and I’m a disabled, trans, neurodivergent person… Vale Solomon needs your support for Help Vale get glasses and a safe place to live
https://gofund.me/fd04823c3
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Adventitious.
19 days ago
1492. Columbus has failed. A Valencian ship's master won't. But sailing through the Pillars of Hercules—the gateway to the fae realm—comes with a price higher than what's in the hold.
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John Wiswell
17 days ago
Thrilled that AUDIOBOOK preorders are open for The Dragon Has Some Complaints! A curmudgeonly three-headed dragon pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Written by a human (me!). With no GenAI. Narrated by award-winner Zura Johnson. With no GenAI.
#BookSky
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The Dragon Has Some Complaints
Check out this great listen on Audible.com.
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Dragon-Has-Some-Complaints-Audiobook/B0H1T6G4PY
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Marissa Lingen
17 days ago
Hey so remember how I have ARCs? Now you can too! Reshare this post telling me your favorite kind of fancy cake (or unfancy if that's how you roll), and I'll enter you in a drawing to win an ARC of A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, available here:
hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...
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John Wiswell
18 days ago
Storygraph users! This is my very professional post promoting the very professional giveaway for my real book for adults about a deranged dragon whose heads can’t stop arguing with each other. Damn it, I was almost normal for a whole sentence. Anyway! Here is a giveaway!
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Stephanie Burgis
18 days ago
Honestly, I'm still not over what happened yesterday, and quite possibly I never will be. But I wrote up a whole post about it on my website to let out some of the joy!
www.stephanieburgis.com/2026/05/big-...
#romancelandia
#ronas26
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) - is a Nebula finalist! 🎉
18 days ago
Brand new story from me today. Check it out!
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Caitlin Rozakis
18 days ago
Happy birthday to my second book in the Everyday Enchantments universe, STARTUP HELL!
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Stephanie Burgis
18 days ago
Oh hey, check out @podcastle.org ’s latest episode, out today!
podcastle.org/2026/05/19/p...
🎉🥳 “Mail Order Magic” is the most personal story I’ve ever written, so it means a lot to have this audio version narrated by a friend, the amazing
@tinaconnolly.bsky.social
. ❤️
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https://podcastle.org/2026/05/19/podcastle-944-mail-order-magic/
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V. Astor Solomon
22 days ago
Let's make today a Tiny Story day! Leave me a prompt of any kind (but if it's an image, please include a description) and recieve a tiny story just for you! Optional prompt: Transformations
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Beth Cato
21 days ago
I am not on TikTok. I will never be on TikTok. This bethcato2 account is impersonating me and direct messaging writers in an effort to sell marketing services. Any account pretending to be me on TikTok is fraudulent.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
22 days ago
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
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intelligentwat 🇹🇹 BRING BACK ŁINK
25 days ago
hey, y'all, hey! we really need a new-to-us vehicle but need help getting the down payment together. please share and/or donate!
gofund.me/a2e427b01
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Donate to Help Teri and Family Get a Reliable Vehicle, organized by Teri Clarke
Hello, All! My name is Teri Clarke and I am in need of your help. In A… Teri Clarke needs your support for Help Teri and Family Get a Reliable Vehicle
https://gofund.me/a2e427b01
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Olivia Waite
23 days ago
Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
24 days ago
HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE SOME
#RECORDED
STICKER DESIGNS 👀 Follow on BackerKit—you will not wanna miss this found media anthology I'm editing! And
#writers
? Check out the guidelines (open June 15-30th):
mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho
FOLLOW ⬇️
tiny.cc/recordedantho
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John Wiswell
23 days ago
UK readers! Bookshop is giving 20% off preorders of THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS with the code PREORDER20. The deal is good through the 17th. My dragon can't wait to meet you!
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The Dragon Has Some Complaints: A Cozy Novel Of Friendship, Found Family and Dragons By The Award-Winning Author
A Cozy Novel Of Friendship, Found Family and Dragons By The Award-Winning Author
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-dragon-has-some-complaints-a-cozy-novel-of-friendship-found-family-and-dragons-by-the-award-winning-author-john-wiswell/31a5eb79d9e77e0d?ean=9781529450699&next=t
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J.R. Dawson
23 days ago
I was so honored that THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD won Best Adult Fiction for The Society of Midland Authors. Here is my speech and a very cool view of the lake with the award.
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(En)Joy* 🏴☠️🇵🇷🗽🐈⬛️
24 days ago
LAKE TAHOE?!?!?!??! Oh, it's starting.
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Gabino Iglesias
24 days ago
What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for
@therumpus.net
. A huge thank you to the great
@roxanegay.bsky.social
. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror.
therumpus.submittable.com/submit
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The Rumpus Submission Manager
The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...
https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit
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Victor Ray
24 days ago
Students calling a speaker a jerk is not a crisis of free speech; it is an expression of free speech. A university shutting down student protest at the request of an authoritarian state *is* a violation of free speech. A free press worthy of the name would report accordingly.
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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway]
24 days ago
new chapter drop for both free and paid subscribers!
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Patreon
Patreon is empowering a new generation of creators. Support and engage with artists and creators as they live out their passions!
https://www.patreon.com/cw/space_scandal
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J.R. Dawson
24 days ago
Today is the day! My
@reactorsff.bsky.social
story is out in the world! A queer couple escapes persecution by buying a home in an almost identical dimension.
reactormag.com/this-is-not-...
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This Is Not My Timeline - Reactor
A queer couple escapes persecution by buying a home in an almost identical dimension.
https://reactormag.com/this-is-not-my-timeline-j-r-dawson/
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This truly sums it up. I'm reading the ebook right now, but tgen I plan to listen to the audiobook. Soooo good!
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Jordan Kurella
25 days ago
hello!!!! on Wednesday, i am reading my 2024
@3lobedmag.com
story "All Her Rows of Teeth" at
@storyhour.bsky.social
come see how i turn this low quality fact into horror!!!! Mike Allen is also reading!
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