Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

#Febchantment Day 9 Let's talk magical tools! What does someone need to do magic in your system? An arcane focus (e.g. wand, staff, orb)? A book of spells? A musical instrument? A bunch of obscure ingredients? If you have magical companions, they would count here 😁 #writingcommunity #writesky

What's in the Cleave? Twelve years ago Brandon created a concept video. This year the truth will be revealed in the Ki Khanga RPG 2.0. May Eda protect you, and Daarila ignore you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp36...

#Febchantment Day 8 This week we're digging more into the nuts & bolts of your magic system! So let's start with the source. Where exactly does magic "come from" in your world? Where/when does it originate? Does anyone know for sure, or are there only theories? #writingcommunity #writesky

#Febchantment Magic comes from elementrons, the subatomic particles, which in turn are created by the 17 cores. These are the same things that turn a person into a God. After being created, an elementron will either hang out in its God's blood for a while (if it has a God) or fly off and become

‘We gotta kick at the darkness TIL it bleeds daylight.” #BookSky #bishopriderlives

Help a mechwarrior out! Mike has stories (probably not Battletech, he writes lots of stuff). You could own them… :)

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters What is your character's favorite place in their world? A place they find peace, or excitement, or joy? Is it a type of place (forest, mall, etc) or somewhere specific? Is it somewhere they go frequently? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Enjoyed ep5 of Starfleet Academy. I liked Sam from first ep, and am glad she got a showcase episose. Also great story.

Today i get to play d&d. Tomorrow, rebuild the pantry shelves from the great can leakage of ‘26 and spray the yard for fleas. How’s your weekend gonna go?

MVmedia ebooks are now available from Bookshop.org! bookshop.org

I noticed a lot of shoppers at the store while i was getting snacks for the d&d game. Must be a lot of d&d games going on this weekend

#AwesomeCharacters Virgil’s a notorious eavesdropper and is very good at noticing changes in tone and energy in people’s voices. Alexithymia makes natural empathy hard, so he deduces. Touch short circuits his brain. Lucifer always touches his hands. It just melts him. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Got a wonderfully insightful review over on Gingernuts of Horror! “If the idea of a psychological, structurally ambitious, genre-blending story intrigues you, if you’re the type who craves a why behind the ghost that’s smarter than a murderer, this house is waiting.”

A couple moves into a new house, but there's a definite problem with that moss in the barn. One for the latest book I read was Inhospitable by Ali Seay and it was fun ride, very 80s in style: www.amazon.com/Inhospitable...

100% of my royalties this month are going to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

Thanks Gabino! Have a great weekend! 😎🤙🏻 Another #FridayReads shout out for reposts for my dark #thriller, Badlands. Surf, sand, smugglers and murder, all set against the stunning backdrop of North Cornwall, UK. Check it out here: mybook.to/Badlands2025 #Booksky 📚⚡️📚💙📚📢 Thanks all! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thanks Gabino! My debut crime thriller, Welcome to Cemetery, is based in a fictional town with a simple idea: what happens to an investigation and ideas like ‘The First 48’ if the murders continue to happen? On sale now and on KU books2read.com/u/b5Kn0l

Thanks, Gabino for your continued #FridayReads posts! With pitchers and catchers about to report for another season, I want to highlight my two creative nonfiction baseball books, MAKESHIFT FIELDS (2025) and 100 MILES OF BASEBALL co-authored with Heidi Jacobs, 2021).

Happy Friday!! I got hit with an unexpected expense and it would really help if people got physical copies directly from me <3

Love to get some eyes on my award-winning erotic gothic novella! bsky.app/profile/tdcl...

Happy #FridayReads, hermano! Here's my essay published yesterday on my noirish horror/thriller manuscript which is a follow-up to my 2024 novel, Chicano Frankenstein: "On Transformation and Addiction in My Novel-in-Progress, Chicana Werewolf" www.horrorhomeroom.com/on-transform... #horror

I usually push my horror & crime fiction but I do lots of stuff and whattaya know I had a new book come out this week, debuted at #1 in exercise & fitness. It's that time of year... www.amazon.com/Push-Science...

Thank you, Gabino! I am Idris Elba is the chronicle of a man who may or may not be Idris Elba, living in Baltimore with his dog Tolstoy. Things get increasingly strange. Available: $12.50 includes shipping anywhere in the continental US. forms.gle/gDfQreKvu8ra...

fans of MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW or horror poetry, get into IS MY CHAINSAW A HEART: 13 CENTOS, 1300 lines of found poetry from that book with foreword by @sgj.bsky.social , recommended by @csecooney.bsky.social and @jordanshiveley.bsky.social from @kithbooks.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/pope...

Sci-fi detective comedy novels narrated by a coffee machine robot who uses too many footnotes. The Great American Deception: Publishers Weekly (starred review) The Great American Betrayal: Vulture, “The Best Comedy Books of 2022” www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319 scottsteinonline.com

Thanks Gabino. Was just sharing a wintery excerpt from my eco-horror novella a while earlier. Available on this link: payhip.com/b/58paC #FridayReads bsky.app/profile/anna...

Thanks Gabino!! The Unkillable Frank Lightning was named one of the Best Horror Books of 2025 by @bloody-disgusting.com! I’d love more folks to check it out! tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...

Thanks Gabino - and have a lovely weekend Tradwife is on sale right now - $2.99/£2.99 - at the Bad Place: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DM... And we've price-matched it at the Nefarious Bat web store: payhip.com/b/TDowG

Talia: Heir to the Fairy Realm What if Aurora was Maleficent's daughter? 🌙 Sleeping Beauty retelling ☀️ Epic fantasy adventure with strong dialogue 🌙 Powerful female characters ☀️ Bi/Pan women 🌙 Tele-pathy, - kinesis, & - portation ☀️ Found families www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D

Thanks, Gabino! COMING SOON from A Midnight Kind of Place www.amidnightkindofplace.com a.co/d/1FN2itN a.co/d/hutoMgi @bookpeople.bsky.social

Happy Friday, everyone! If you're somewhere snowy and it's getting to you, why not take an excursion to a warm cave on a distant planet with plenty of hot coffee and floral art to make you think of spring? Nothing will go wrong. Probably. linktr.ee/authorlevai

Con artists Serling and Price have found a strange device that allows them to create haunted houses. Unfortunately, they realize too late that the machine can do so much more… Only 99 cents: shorturl.at/fCEZ9

Honored to have Future Skinny included with these other bangers in @xraylitmag.bsky.social this week. Check the whole list out here: xraylitmag.com/honest-blurb... thnx @gabino.bsky.social 🙌🖤🙌

Firebird Book Award and Independent Press Award winner. THE MONSTERS AMONG US is cinematic dark fantasy novel brimming with twists, tension, and high stakes. Unapologetically neurodivergent. Ruthlessly anti-authoritarian. Fully unique and thought provoking. books2read.com/u/m27rzr

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share some books. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s the kind of bilingual, multicultural stuff full of BIPOC and queer representation that angers fascists. Much love. (45% off!) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

It is Jaheira’s birthday today because we did math based on her medical records which included a WAG. Here she is in a longdog snuggle, her second ever.

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters How does your character handle boredom/idleness? Do they enjoy a lazy day doing nothing? Do they need it, sometimes? Or do they always want to be doing someone, and idleness makes them restless and unsettled? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

Cruelty and complicity are baked into the design of Empire. When every one of them is guilty, not a one can consider surrender, defection, or defeat lest the consequences for their wrongs catch up with them. Nor can they be trusted, allowed among us when Empire finally falls. Such is the bind.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

3077 words. I could write a bit more but I'd like to contemplate the next part of the fight. Frieda Locke is in danger. Yalm-Gunnar is excavating the planet now. Hilda needs to kill them. She wants to save Frieda. But her gut tells her Oneyga might have intended a different outcome.

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Silly hypothetical! How would your character handle a scam call? Trustingly give up their credit card number? Just hang up? Keep them talking and waste their time? Lure them into an elaborate trap for daring? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

@zprospero.bsky.social got me thinking about reading the eddas What english translation would y’all recommend? I’ve read various versions of the stories bundled up, but not a proper translation of the poetic and prose eddas s’pose that’s unexpected considering what I write but i got this far… :)

#FebruaryWorldbuilders, let's talk some specific geographical features for a few days now. Is there a mountain in your world? What is it like? What sort of minerals or gemstones can be found there? Anything interesting going on there?

Help a viking out. Search is stumping me Thor kills a Jotunn king*. The king's daughter is pissed and seeks compensation from Odin. Is married off to a aesir god. *or was it the one Loki lured into a fire What was her name? I swear to smurf I need to make a list of all these people's names.

Wife is off getting ink. Jaheira is presently napping. I think the Hilda part is gelling into a love story of sorts. I've never done one of those, and as a space western, it'll have to be tight. But if Marshall Dillan can topple into a woman's yard with amnesia, fall in love, save the day, in 1 ep

#Febchantment Day 3 What is the central concept of your magic system? E.g. Elemental magic? Music magic? Name-based magic? Something else? (Note: this isn't the "source" of magic - that's Day 8!) If you already answered this previously, feel free to go into more detail! #writingcommunity #writesky

2466 words. representatives from Hjalm Mining and Agnar Extraction are met, and I cannot remember the dang name of an old othername for Angrboda. On the tip of my tongue. I think i've got a plan for how that corporate mediation will go with Hilda the Valkyrie... anywho, time to pause and ponder