Ordered some Yule Cat cards for the upcoming holiday season. 🐱 www.etsy.com/listing/1819...

Finished knitting a new pair of socks and feeling pretty groovy about how they turned out.

Reskeet with a time you looked cool.

I once again collaborated with my very talented artist sister to write a brand new short story for #Drawtober. The completed story, plus her brilliant illustrations, is now up on my website. www.jcpillard-writes.com/journal/tag/...

My short story "Glass Slippers, Iron Shoes" came out today with Corvid Queen. This is for anyone who's ever tried to convince themselves they had fun at an objectively not-fun party.

and--idk quite how to articulate this--but the work of it is... critical to art-making. like you discover your intentions through the labor of expressing them. if I'd woken up at 17 with the technical ability to write a novel, i wouldn't have known what i was trying to say. the work IS the product.

Between writing big things For Publication, I spent the past couple weeks writing a little thing just for some friends in my D&D group, and I can't tell you how nice that has been. There's something delightful about writing a thing that no more than four people will ever see.

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’

Let's GOOO! Help @uncannymagazine.bsky.social continue to publish amazing work for another year. Please go back the Kickstarter if you haven't already.

Ah, late July, when my summertime depression peaks because it is too hot and bright outside for a bog creature like myself.

Stories by @cassmorriswrites.com @swantower.bsky.social @mikechenwriter.bsky.social @jcpillard.bsky.social @victormanibo.com @kateelliottsff.bsky.social @rowennam.bsky.social @utarcher.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @valerievaldes.bsky.social and @mikerunderwood.bsky.social!

Finished up knitting a shawl this past weekend, and I must say, I'm quite proud of it.

I just backed Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! on @kickstarter.com @uncannymagazine.bsky.social continues to have some of the best speculative fiction out there. Help them get funded for another year and continue to support amazing writing and art!

Happy Summer Solstice! My short story, "A Different Kind of Worship," was published today by @hearthstories.bsky.social. This remains one of my favorite pieces that I've ever written, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

And we are live on KS - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... - The “Mmeory” anthology is launched with a theme of memory manipulation - magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone wrong. Help us bring this book to life. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

I am saving this for future reference - it's got some very useful data!

A pile of debris, of wood and needles and bark; graves to fallen trees that we #slash and leave. These tombs increase fire danger, but sometimes things have to burn. #vss365

Finally got around to seeing Sinners, and it was just as amazing as everyone told me it was.

PROTECT THE CREATIVE PROFESSION. SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION. It's already been delivered to Congress, but we're keeping the pressure on them and need your help! Sign the petition: authorsguild.org/news/congres...

Please appreciate this line that I am very proud of having written. "Lisbet had never spent long in the Labyrinth. Her forays were always quick and vicious, brief skirmishes against an enemy that forever outnumbered and outgunned her."

Properly deactivated my Twitter account today. (Apparently you can't just delete them? You have to deactivate for 30 days first? Whatever.)

In British Columbia this week to get some writing done. It is beautiful and snowy up here on the Sunshine Coast, and whenever I get the urge to look at the news this week, I'm going to look at the sky instead.

New writing goal: write a book that is so offensive* it gets banned in numerous states. *offensive here means (apparently) showing empathy for anyone ever.

I watched Twin Peaks for the first time this winter, and I can honestly say it's some of the most original television I've ever seen. Thank you, David Lynch.

*clears throat* Hello, my name is Julia, and I have a crippling comma addiction while writing.

Getting sick right before my holiday break, woohoo! 🥲

Sometimes you get an idea for a meme, and you can't shake it no matter how hard you try. (Context: I've been knitting a lot recently.)

My sister made the most adorable Yule Cat holiday cards based on her cat, and she tapped me to write the little explanatory blurb on the back. Go check them out!

Writing fiction is fun! The biz of it isn't always fun but the writing, that shit should always be fun even when it's hard.

Hey, authors new to Bluesky: We've gathered a little starter pack of publishers, organizations, and publications to follow and help populate your feed with literary resources. go.bsky.app/bQfVJ6

My Fellow GMs and DMs - do you know about The Monsters Know What They're Doing? This website has saved my butt on many occasions when I need to create interesting combat encounters in D&D, and I love it so much.

Since I shared all my publications on the bird website (RIP) when they were first published, I thought it might be nice to share them here as well. First up is "Runa and the Dark Forest," my first ever short story about a girl with an axe and book of stories: www.cloakedpress.com/fif19/

I'm here, and I'm going to keep making stuff I love, and I hope you will too.

Excited that "Nobody's Hero" gets to join these other great stories in this anthology!

Realizing I should probably put up an introductory post for myself. Hello! I'm J.C., and I write speculative fiction about forests and memories. You can find my work on www.jcpillard-writes.com!