ICE and CBP agents are out of control and put everyone in danger. We're calling for ICE agents to withdraw from Minneapolis, and for Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses in our communities.

This section of the conference has been quietly replaced on their schedule but without acknowledgement or comment from the organizers. I remain concerned that WDW will continue to include pro-gen-AI content within their workshops given their silence.

Apparently Writing Day Workshops now has genAI-related programming for “writing with ChatGPT” and I have to say, I’m NOT impressed. GenAI has no place in creative spaces or education. I’d been thinking of attending a workshop but not if that’s on the lineup! 🙅‍♀️

Heads up #writers and #literaryagents, Writing Day Workshops is now actively promoting the use of AI in their programming.

I'm over on Threads more @ authortaylorleigh if you want to follow my daily shenanigans 🤣 (If you mention that you followed me from here I'll like...give you a cookie or something?)

Dear #literaryagents, for your consideration: To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good.

LET THEM *BE* CAKE 🍰 Under a fascist empire led by a queen whose touch can turn bodies into sugar, a grieving royal translator finds solace in outlawed books. But when caught, she must escape and lead the revolution inspired by her defiance, or face being turned into royal dessert. #roundtablementor

Hey y'all, I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. You can enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages over on their website! @reviseresub.bsky.social

the scammers are back on their bullshit. if we’ve emailed you from a random hotmail account? (literally) no we didn’t.

Locke Lamora X ODW To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN #CI

Hide her abilities. Escape the war. After her erratic magic leads to murder, conscripted mage Astraea is captured by an enigmatic enemy who understands her power better than she does. If she can’t escape, she’ll become a weapon of the queendom responsible for her father’s death. #DVpit #A #F #MH #CI

Conscripted spirit mage Astraea just wants to escape the battlefield that took her father’s life—but her magic could be the key to solving mysterious deaths on the warfront, and an enigmatic enemy is the only person who can help her understand her growing power. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #MH #LGBT #ND #CI

Locke Lamora X One Dark Window Nefeli's a thief who'd agree to anything to save her sick sister—even a treasure hunt in a dragon-riddled palace. Her sight declines with each use of magic, so she must con everyone (and avoid her ex) to find the relic before her world goes dark. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN

Locke Lamora X A Dance of Lies To save her sick sister, a visually-impaired thief agrees to a lucrative treasure-hunting con amidst magic, dragons and—even worse—politicians. If only her smooth-talking former fling wasn't around and able to blow her cover at any moment. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #MH #OWN

Captured, Astraea would rather die than ally with the country who killed her father. But when desiccated bodies burned with an ancient rune litter the warfront, her magic might be the key to finding out why. If only her enemy wasn’t the sole person who understood her magic. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #MH #ND

Locke Lamora X ODW To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN #CI

Hide a murder. Conceal her erratic magic. Escape the gods-damned war. Conscripted mage Astraea has things under control—until captured by an enemy who understands her power better than her. She’s nobody’s pawn, but if she doesn’t escape she might become her enemy’s newest weapon. #DVpit #A #F #DIS

Locke Lamora X One Dark Window Nefeli's a thief who'd agree to anything to save her sick sister—even a treasure hunt in a dragon-riddled palace. Her sight declines with each use of magic, so she must con everyone (and avoid her ex) to find the relic before her world goes dark. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN

ODW X Locke Lamora Con everyone. Find a lost relic. Save her sister. 💥 Disaster-Bi FMC 👁️ Sight Declines w/ Every Use of Her Magic 🐉 Dragons (who might eat you) 🕯️ Broken Magic 🔥 Burned Desert Palace 🤫 Everyone Has A Secret 🔮 Magic w/ Consequences 🥰 Found Family #DVpit #A #F #OWN #DIS #ND #MH #LGBT

Hide her abilities. Escape the war. After her erratic magic leads to murder, conscripted mage Astraea is captured by an enigmatic enemy who understands her power better than she does. If she can’t escape, she’ll become a weapon of the queendom responsible for her father’s death. #DVpit #A #F #MH #CI

Locke Lamora X ODW To save her sick sister, visually-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a treasure hunt for a lost relic. As her sight declines with each use of magic, she must outwit dragons, powerful magic, and—worst of all—politicians before her world goes dark for good. #DVpit #A #F #DIS #OWN #CI

With DVpit on the horizon, please remember: comment to share support but don’t like or repost! That’s for agents/editors to show their interest :)

#DVParty Astraea is angry. She's angry at her father for dying. She's angry at her mother for mentally crumbling after. She's angry at the crown for conscripting her. And she's *especially* angry that her magic won't fall into line and do what she says. Keeping others at a distance keeps her safe.

#DVParty Nefeli is a devoted sister and street-rat-turned-thief who has the ability to sense/find magical objects. It's made her an excellent thief...but at a cost. With every use of her power, her vision declines even more. And what use is a thief who can't see what she's trying to steal?

#SFFchat I love all things bones! Wet earth, mist rising, and anything spirit-y also has my heart

#SFFchat The creep factor is something I love incorporating to build tension. What might happen next? What's around the corner? Who is watching from the shadows (or even worse, broad daylight and yet nobody is around)

I am absolutely phobic of c*ckroaches following an experience where I was required to be in a location where hundreds upon thousands of them poured from the cracks in the walls, light fixtures, up from the floors, then started dying and dropping like demonic rain. So yeah. I'm, ah, phobic.

#DVparty here's my contribution to the moodboard! The first two are for one project, the third for another.

Today is DAY 1 of #DVparty, a community event to talk up projects that Diverse Creators plan to pitch during #DVpit! Since it's our inaugural year on Bluesky, we'd like to invite any diverse creator to participate! Share about your beautiful work & let's build a #writercommunity here! #writersky

Genuinely wondering if she's summoning something...

The Fall 2025 #NovelGauntlet season is HERE! If you're looking for a writing challenge to kick your butt in gear and start that novel, finish that draft, get moving on edits, or whatever your goals may be, the Gauntlet might be for you. novelgauntlet.com #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Being put in the position to have to kill a c*ckroach (if I don’t sensor it the emoji pops up) (and I am so phobic I cannot see the emoji without intense discomfort) while the Covid and flu vaccines make me feel like shit is just adding insult to injury. Trusty chancla & Albuterol to the rescue.

Brandy and Caleb were your typical angsty teen and werewolf couple. But now they're all grown up, and local residents are going missing. Is Caleb's bloodlust out of control, or is something more sinister happening in their tiny town? #A #MY #T #QuestPit

HOT FUZZ x FIFTH ELEMENT w Eleanor Shellstrop (GOOD PLACE) 💖 disaster bi MC 👽 hot alien LI 🔗 forced proximity 🛏️ there’s only one (sofa) bed 🕺 disco-dancing assassins 🚀 space shenanigans 👑 secret royalty? 🎉 saving the galaxy, probably #Q #A #SF #R #BluePit 📖 #LGBT

One Dark Window X A Dance of Lies To save her sick sister, a visually-impaired thief agrees to a lucrative treasure-hunting con. If only her smooth-talking former fling wasn't in attendance—and totally able to blow her cover at any moment. #Q #A #F #questpit

Gt9 x THE UNBROKEN To earn her freedom, Calliope — a bodyguard with shadow magic — agrees to find out who is trying to kill her childhood nemesis, Prince Valentina Aurelia. Now the two have to rebuild their trust after the tragedy that drove them apart or lose their lives. #QuestPit #W #F #A #LGBT

One Dark Window X Locke Lamora To earn money for her sister's medical treatment, vision-impaired thief Nefeli agrees to a dangerous con. She must outwit powerful magic, dragons, and—worst of all—politicians, with the help of her former fling who could blow her cover at any moment. #Q #A #F #questpit

One Dark Window X Locke Lamora Con everyone. Dodge dragons. Save her sister at any cost. 💥 Disaster-Bi Visually Impaired FMC 👀 Betrayal & Thievery 🐉 Dragons (who might eat you) 🕯️ Broken Magic 🔥 Burned Desert Palace 🤫 Everyone Has A Secret 🔮 Magic w/ Consequences 🥰 Found Family #Q #A #F #questpit

Literary agents, I beg you: don’t advise writers that they need to pay $$$$ to make it in traditional publishing. A dev edit is valuable for self pub, but should not be a barrier of entry for a querying writer who may not have the means. CP/beta feedback (which is free) can go a long way!

Hi friends, I still need your help getting this to reach who it needs to ❤️ we aren’t asking for money, just resources.

Please everyone read this entire thread, it's important. We need to reach as many people as possible.

Please help🙏: 1. If you care about a teen who's been in the US since she was a baby & is now under ICE custody, all for complaining about domestic abuse 2. If you're in Arizona & can contact your senators for her 3. If you are or know immigration lawyers to help pro bono Please help 🙏 Details in🧵👇

Lovely friends, I need your help. If you can, please like and share this so it may reach the people it needs to. Last night my dear friend's loved one, Lupe, called 911 after being hit by her drunk boyfriend. This is not the first time this has happened. What followed landed her in ICE custody. 1/?

I am so burned out it’s not even funny. I can’t focus on anything, have zero interest in anything that requires my brain, and feel incredibly brain-fog-y. The dopamine is *so* low.

Fake agency alert: Dan Baror International Literary Agency, obviously trying to trick writers into believing they're being contacted by Baror International Inc. (a real agency). The About Us page has been "borrowed", in re-worded form, from the real Baror website danbaror-intliteraryagency.com

Not me at midnight overthinking every SINGLE thing that came out of my mouth during a live pitch 🫠🫠🫠

In which Esther realizes she is the reason god stays in heaven 👻🍆 #unhingedpit #A #R

THE CITY OF DRAGON GLASS is... 4 parts bisexual panic 2 parts dragons 1 part desperate con 2 parts treasure hunt 3 parts mystery #unhingedpit #F #Q