IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD is a brilliant disabled romance and it is literally giving me life 😭 #booksky #reading

This essay is so, so incredibly important 💖 I hope Sabina's romance debut is the first of many more to come!!

Ellis's #CrippingDystopia story is very poignant and I am so eager for everyone to read and experience it!

Sapphic #writers of #writersky we want your sapphic stories please and thank you! 🔥

and it is such a great read!! 👀

If your book blurb mentions a cat but the cat doesn't show up for more than 60 words in the book, you're on my shit list for false catvertising 😡

I will not apologise for the way I will be acting about this

drew some o'briens #art #trek

lodged my boys at the airport and they were very well bahaved, had a short cuddle, and didnt understand a word I said about airplane travel 🥹 I hope they don't stress too much 😭

👀 Alexis wrote about WHAT!? You'll have to find out by reading the upcoming anthology 🤭

I can't wait for everyone to read Sally's story!! I WILL be bragging about every contributors stories in this because 🤩They are all so clever and amazing and I am so lucky to be trusted with them 💖

🤯WHAT in the #CrippingDystopia is this!? You're gonna see a few of these floating around very soon... 👀 Who's ready for an anthology of #dystopian stories told by disabled and chronically ill writers? I know I am! #booksky #books #shortstories

Julia Armfield was so right when she said "the ocean is a lesbian" and also "what is it with these lesbians and why are they all so wet?"

Two disabled autistic boys were murdered by their parents in Australia I’m begging everyone to pay close attention to how the media frames this. There’s a tendency to let the “better off dead” narrative creep in whenever disabled lives are lost. Eugenics is everywhere & we must always call it out

Well looking forward to some of our books make this list someday! But here’s to oversaturation of Sapphic books! theliterarygrind.substack.com/p/my-most-an... @theamericano.bsky.social

I am gobsmacked? Shook?? Thunderstruck a.k.a astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak??? (thank you for like my story this much 😭)

If you’re a disabled/chronically ill writer who wants to write about disabled characters in fiction, you can sign up for my six-week WRITING DISABLED CHARACTERS IN FICTION class in March! Will work with MG, YA, and Adult! #WriterSky #BookSky #Teaching www.wow-womenonwriting.com/classroom/La...

some submission ideas just off the top of my noggin (if anyone needs inspiration) - lesbian space noir - lesbian bean factory (in space) - lesbian witches....... in space - lesbian story told through the pov of a space object - space: the final lesbian frontier - what if space were a lesbian

30 days into 2026 and I've already met my quota of one cat bite per year

There's a lot going on in the world today, but art is still here. Just a reminder that subs are still open on our Sapphic Specfic anthology, and will close on Feb 28! Submit here: www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology-su...

"do it scared" this... "do it tired" that... no one ever talks about the absolutely insurmountable "do it even though you're disabled because you shouldn't let your disability stop you!! no don't stop trying to overcome it, you're so sexy ahaha"

Happy book birthday to this excellent fantasy anthology I recommend all the time for its rich exploration of stories by disabled authors!

Artifice & Access released on January 25th, 2025, and it has been such a wonderful time seeing all the love for this #anthology & the stories within 💖 I am immensely grateful for every person who has ever supported this project in any way, big or small 💖😭💖 #booksky #book

I think AI "artists" should just cutout the middleman and steal art from galleries if they wanna be thieves so bad. Step up! BE BOLD!!

🧵/ So, I dug into this list of most-anticipated Romantasy books releasing up to April, and it looks like: 1) Only 1 book has a protagonist with disability/chronic illness 2) There’s no reliable info that more than 1 author has disclosed a disability/chronic illness tinyurl.com/4tjrv5ye

Improve a movie title by adding "With Big Naturals". Hundreds of Beavers With Big Naturals

*mumbles* it's the narrative seeking reader permission to proceed with an imbalanced power dynamic by acknowledging it once and then never again, instead of actually interrogating the power dynamic and drawing dramatic tension from the imbalance, in this essay I will--

I can't describe how much I love when essay writers drop a "Hello?" to make a point. It feels so human, so rapt with meaning and emotion. I do this all the time, usually with 3x the question marks to emphasise my bafflement 😂

It's time! The @scyllapublishing.bsky.social team will be keeping an eager eye out for all the weird and wonderful sapphic specfic 👀

The #SmallPitch submission window is now OPEN for 48 hours! Reminders: - Underrep writers only - Finished manuscripts only - One pitch per manuscript - Up to 3 manuscripts per writer - No hashtags in your pitch - Comps & emojis are ok Once submitted, check your pitch here: database.smallpitch.org

We are starting a new blog series highlighting Sapphic Specfics of different genres that a) are kind of "comps" to the type of fiction and sapphic authors we'd kill to be involved with, and b) a heads up on some books we love you may not have seen! So watch out for our posts in the next few weeks.

I have had too many reasons to bring this video up lately and I think it needs more attention 😂 My essay on "Female Arousal, Patriarchy, and Fantasy Romance" is on YouTube. Watch here: youtu.be/kNHD1lW9uW8?... #romantasy #booksky #videoessay

legolas…what do your lived experiences tell you

The Art // The Muse

Reminder that Scylla will be in #smallpitch looking for Sapphic speculative fiction with strong, diverse characters, an "un-put-downable" narrative drive, and compelling conflict! @smallpitch.org

She was outlandishly beautiful, with knees that sounded like a bubble wrap run over by a XCMG XS83 Vibratory Road Roller...

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Depression and autism being able to mess with temperature regulation is so frustrating and overwhelming. For three days I've been both sweltering in 30+ degree heat, and shivering in the air from a cheap fan, and at all times so very hyper-aware of my skin 😭 HELL

‘Sh*t’ art is better than no art

Excited to say we have joined the publisher ranks for #smallpitch - the pitch event for small presses. I'm on the hunt for 4 sapphic authors/editors to launch novels/novellas/anthologies for in 2026/27 (previously pubbed or not) who want to work with a queer-focused small press. @smallpitch.org

Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.

Women and non-binary folks: thinking of submitting to Scylla Publishing's anthology "Who Am I"? Here's a thread with some tips. (These are Kate's opinions, not necessarily Scylla's.)

*wandering around a society that has aggressively pretended the disease that killed millions of people is gone and never happened* Ugh, how come so many stories are about grief?

Ffiona Maw, 36, considered learning Spanish or joining the gym next year, but decided instead to quit suppressing her authentic self in a bid to make people like her.

Heated Rivalry x The Bear crossover. Call that Eated Rivalry

Excuse me. Onion would like to know what you're doing. Thank you

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

I wrote a little bit about The Disposable Disability in Netflix’s Stranger Things. There are SPOILERS for the finale. open.substack.com/pub/ellahast... #disability #essay #StrangerThings

"Allow me to coin this “Chekhov’s Ableism”. Where a disabled character exists, eventually they will be killed, cured, or made invisible in some way or another—just as a loaded gun on the mantlepiece must eventually be fired."

I wrote a little bit about The Disposable Disability in Netflix’s Stranger Things. There are SPOILERS for the finale. open.substack.com/pub/ellahast... #disability #essay #StrangerThings