Just realized I was depressed the last few weeks. Really, really depressed. Just thought it was stress until I started feeling better, but now that I am actually just stressed out, holy shit, the difference.

Was scarce this weekend as I was busy rediscovering which antibiotic gives me really terrible nausea and vomiting. Good times.

Can’t make it to a bookstore but still want to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day? You know we’ve got you covered with free shipping all weekend long 🥳📚

I feel like independent bookstore day should happen at least once a month.

Somehow, the tonsillitis returned.

I just want to feel better already 😭

I hate how so many conversations I've had about 'why this is a bad idea' in the last few years have had to start with, "As a queer with childhood-onset bipolar disorder who was raised by religious fundamentalists with heinous views on queerness & mental illness..." Once more unto the breach, ig.

There are a couple of new premades in the shop—the hope is to sell some over the next few months to set aside $$$ for commissioning more illustrations for the 10th anniversary edition of Solomon’s Seal. Shares are helpful! So are purchases, of course.

Do you like lesbians? Do you like books? Do you like lesbian books? Then you'll love the big lesbian bundle @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social put together for Lesbian Visibility Week, featuring Woman of Sorrow and Blood and 93 other sapphic books for just $40! itch.io/b/3635/lesbi...

I am not feeling spectacularly unwell, which is nice, but I have been feeling unwell-er than usual for several weeks in a row due to an ongoing parade of relatively minor issues that have hit me one after another, and I just want to state for the record that this is unnecessary.

Remembering, with fondness, the closest I've probably come to getting punched as an adult: that time I was tipsy and wearing white, ran into someone in a confederate flag tee, and did a very loud, "OMG! Twinsies!" These men are so small and fragile and awful, Idk how they can stand it.

I was bombarded by a series of unexpected expenses over the last couple of weeks, so I’ve decided to try something new and open up commissions! I love to draw quick pet portraits (especially cats, but I’m open to any kind of critter). LMK if you’re interested, and please share!

You can tell I have a work deadline today because of how I'm posting on here. XD

I can not say in public the things that I would like to say about these people.

tfw the ibuprofen kicks in, omg, morning much better now

Have they learned nothing from their diminishing returns?

First, they're selling your personal info. Second, the reason we value the good times we shared with family is because of their ephemeral nature. Third, you can convince people to look at photos and watch short video montages, but no one's going to sit around listening to 3 hrs of people eating.

I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID. Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name. No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

It's ridiculous, but my anxiety literally goes down if I"m somewhere with a nice stack or shelf of books.

Just figured out a problem on this day job assignment I'd been trying to get around all week, and suddenly another two days of work just scrunched themselves up into probably 2-3 hours. Which is great, but also, omgggg now that the stress is suddenly gone I'm wiped out.

If you're a person who doesn't have a favorite dinosaur, you could be one of today's lucky 10,000 and behold the archaeopteryx. Look at this glorious weirdo: www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Draft2Digital will now charge authors a $12 USD annual fee if they make less than $100 USD a year. People who make $100 or more will be exempt from this. New accounts will also be charged a $20 USD activation fee.

I have to ask for help again. I think royalties are coming on Thursday but I’m not sure. In the meantime, I’m in over draft again. Anything will help me pay for groceries until they come in. 🙏🏼 ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman/

Is there a weather/environmental bsky community that can help -- I'm looking for data on average monthly *high and low* temps for a specific county, but I've only managed to find overall average temps on NOAA and other sites -- could someone point me in the right direction?

So I ended up semi-stranded at a Subway for several hours yesterday with nothing but my copy of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me and ended up finishing it unexpectedly, which is great! (tho now I'm a little behind on work I was catching up on), but I NEED TO SCREAM AT SOMEONE ABOUT ALL THE THINGS.

there's nothing in the house, all of my wife's check is going to the new landlord and we're still going to be short on rent this month. we're sorry to have to beg but it's the difference between eating and not eating. I'm so sorry. bsky.app/profile/laur...

Psssst Have you checked out the Narratess #IndieApril sale yet? I've got a book in it & so do HUNDREDS of other amazing authors!

Aggressively adding friends' new books to storygraph challenges as I read them. That's right, storygraph people, look at that gorgeous cover, you know you want to read it too...

News used to be better (somehow I could not find an appropriate gif from the Granada Holmes, so Sidney Paget will have to do)

Pre-order book time!!!!!! So excited for this one :D

Have another throat infection that is more minor than my previous run-in with tonsillitis this year but has somehow knocked me sideways this week. I'm just completely wiped out.

This is the part I truly can't imagine: to have gone so far, seen and felt so much indescribable, empty immensity - to know truly how tiny & precious Earth is - and then see it slowly approaching once more, alive and glittering. How must that feel? #ArtemisII

Finally getting started on Woman of Sorrow & Blood tonight!! I've been really looking forward to this one 😃

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

MOON TIME MOON TIME MOON TIME

Okay, one last SPACE IS COOL!!! moment before I go.

Okay, going to work on my Secret Novel Project now.

Kiki's Delivery One Solo Dalmation The Truman Episode

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Some of my art is not sold, which seems wrong. Sharing this (etc) may lead to good things that Jesus would probably like. www.chloecumming.com

My forever example is that my parents, conservative fundamentalists, forbade, uh, a lot of things; so I checked books out at school, covered them in dust jackets of books I owned, and read my way through every single book I could find that they would have stopped me from.

Have the Artemis II stream on while I do stuff, and the crew is describing what they see of the moon's terrain right now, and it is so neat.

Five books to get to know me by... Well, coincidentally, I have exactly five books published 😉 Moonshadow's Guardian Moonshadow's Champion Killer Debt: An Anthology of Murder Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror Woman of Sorrow and Blood

Five books to get to know me by: 1. Going Postal 2. Daughter of the Forest 3. 100 Years of Solitude 4. The Woman in White 5. The Vanished Days I love that I've done this meme before, but it's always something different, because there are so many amazing books out there that have imprinted on me.

Have the day off. :D Have faffed around a lot today and enjoyed it (after spending 2.5 hours waiting for a telehealth appointment that it turns out was mis-scheduled for Monday), but now sitting to write so I can have the evening free to see friends. Posting to make myself feel guilty if I don't XD

Time for the annual repost. It's a Good Friday tradition

the moment Bucket realized my lap was open for hopping into.

Oh, before I get back to it, though -- does anyone have easy (and I mean *easy*, I am genuinely just not a good cook) recipes for, like, chicken that you can cook with sauces that are appropriate for a diabetic-friendly and gluten-free household? (please feel free to repost!)

Save the Bureau! Please help keep this queer and trans bookstore and event-space open and thriving. Anything helps. Please circulate to your fiends.