At Norwescon this weekend! You can spot me by the Lodestar Editing & Coaching logo medallion on my lanyard.

Fully understanding that increased gas prices are a legit hardship for many, I'm still continually annoyed by Murray's anesthetized messaging. Like I'm supposed to care more about the "price at the pump" than about the fact that they bombed a school full of girls the same age as my nieces.

Mom: It's so beautiful at the coast today. How is it up in Seattle? Me: *Watching a pack of enormous feral crows knock over a bin and drag the trash down the street like some kind of garbage omen* Me: Also beautiful.

Two of my dearest editing colleagues are offering a guided writing support group and are looking for one more signup to get the show on the road. Take a gander if you are the kind of writer who would benefit from excellent community and shared wisdom! www.eliotwesteditorial.com/writing-grou...

The way I will devour this.

Nominations are open! I would be honored if you considered my stories but especially my novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great" published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social written as a series of Goodreads reviews! 🙏

Our sign-up period will soon be coming to a close! If you want to join a warm, silly, welcoming and passionate group of publishing professionals and writers for a week of learning and community building, come join us! wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com

Oh why yes it IS true that the indomitable M. L. Krishnan will be spilling her secrets at the Wholehearted Writers Week. Do you want to hear her speak on staying true to yourself in the process of ideation and drafting? Early bird pricing closes October 12: wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html

Ok, so, not only are applications for our writers week now open, but I can now confirm that my dear friend @foxesandroses.bsky.social will be one of our brilliant speakers! I'm so excited to hear her speak on this topic--she's one of the most generous, community-minded writers I know.

The applications you've all sent us so far are SO GOOD! Keep 'em coming! You've got until this Friday to apply. #QueerSFF #QueerFiction 🌈📚🪐 #WriterSky #WritingCommunity 💙📚 #RSM2025

Man, if I went back in time and told tiny Alex they were going to grow up to be an editor, they'd have been like, "what's an editor." But a hundred questions later, damn, the excitement. Through the roof.

Three incredible colleagues and I have been working so hard on this idea for almost the entire year, and I cannot quite believe that applications for our brand new, fully online Wholehearted Writers Week are opening so soon. Come as yourself. Write from your heart.

Rainbow Space Magic is trying something new this year! We’ve lined up some kickass professional editors--myself included!--to give feedback on the opening pages of your queer SFF novel. Submit your opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session. forms.gle/vaqPkKYwM1ex... #RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #QueerSFF

This whole post, but especially the constructive critique: the entire issue is avoidable with the barest modicum of effort.

Check out my post for Editors' Weekly! Looking forward to hosting the @efafreelancers.bsky.social Academic Editing Book Club chat with @ebrenner.bsky.social later this fall. blog.editors.ca/why-academic...

Rabbits: disarmingly soft, known forms with whip-fast, preternatural horror at the center. Much like Kris's writing. I will be pre-ordering the shit out of this, and I think you should, too.

I know house centipedes are just doing their thing, but why do they have to have so many legs about it?

Delighted to be part of a Hugo-nominated editorial team, as if I needed a reason to eat ice cream at noon on a Sunday.

A dear friend added and alerted me to this post. Fellow fiction dev editors, consider adding yourselves?

Tim once spent like three hours of CW '19 reunion time combing the larger Boston metropolitan area to find me a small can of chipotles in adobo sauce so I could make a communal meal. That's follow through. That's love. That's landing an ending. Pre-order this book by the guy who can do it all.

My fellow trans/nonbinary writers--this is such a fantastic opportunity. Especially if you are looking for the space to breathe, write, and refocus after the (often tense and complicated) holidays, there's no better coach than Eliot.

Now open for registration! @karendewartmcewen.bsky.social and I are excited to launch Demystify & Plan Your Book, a 12-week program that pairs six carefully crafted modules with six 45-minute individual coaching sessions. (1/4) For registration and info: demystifyandplan.wordpress.com

Also, just logged in to a bunch of new followers, so, hello! I edit social justice-oriented, academic humanities as well as genre fiction of all kinds, and I also coach writers in all stages of their writing journeys. When I'm not here, I'm probably in the forest high-fiving tree friends.

Super excited to be starting as an associate editor for Escape Pod! Looking forward to your stories, which I will be reading from the spacecraft's greenhouse.

It's spooky season, so I hereby announce that if I pass through the veil during your developmental edit, I will return as a ghost to finish it or your money back.