Let’s see … high school kids piloting giant frog-brained robots to defend Earth from aliens trying to destroy it because, well, who knows? What could possibly go wrong?

Wrapped up this dope book cover for @dalessio-dave.bsky.social 🔥🔥

Character Analysis: Haruki Takehaya We’re still poking at transsexual characters here for Pride month. Yeah, all month. Deal. I haven’t seen Heavenly Delusion because it’s exclusive to some service I don’t have, but I’ve been reading the manga all along. Hint: It’s pretty good. Now, again, the…

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 25: Celebrating posts from: • Confessions of an Overage Otaku • Kvasir369 • Okazu • Shallow Dives in Anime • thequotorium

Summer touring has begun - and while my Bandcamp Merch Shop is on break for physical orders, why not check out some of the albums, EPs & singles for download on my Music page? steveconte.bandcamp.com ****************** #SteveConte #BandCamp #Download #Music #RockAndSoul

Pride month is the perfect time to share the moment when Alma meets the Daughter of Night, the mysterious woman she'll soon fall for Like what you see? Get Woman of Sorrow & Blood to explore their tragic love story On Itch: diannagunn.itch.io/wosab Or elsewhere: books2read.com/u/m0p0kW #HorrorSky

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Character Analysis: Tanya Degurechaff Okay, for Pride month this year I wanted to dive into transgender characters, since there are more than a few of them out there. I mean, some writers want to explore ideas. Shuzo Oshimi deliberately and specifically wants to explore various forms of…

Last year I hosted two amazing Disability Pride Month bundles on Itch, and I'm doing it again this year! You can apply RIGHT NOW for a spot: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2024 Week 24: Celebrating posts from: • Arum Journal • Calxylian • Confessions of an Overage Otaku • Hexa Blog • Moonlit Media Room

A new Magical Girl Rom-Com is out and look at this gorgeous cover from @barbarasmith00.bsky.social Available now at the Brazilian river place

Character Analysis: Akito Sohma If we go back far enough, me as blogger and you as … what? Bloggee? Reader? … you might recall that every June, for Pride Month, I try to get into some element of LGBTQIA+ life as represented in manga and/or anime. Y’see, one of the reasons I’m interested in manga…

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 23: Celebrating posts from: • Arum Journal • Hexa Blog • Japan Powered • Lit Retreat • Why Should You Watch That?

Oh, So Trope-ical: She Picked HIM? If you sit down and look at them, high school romances tend to start out in a few different ways. I’m not going to be exhaustive about this. There’s only so much time in the world and no one needs to watch EVERY SINGLE high school romance anime just to be sure we…

Magical Girl Rom-Com out now, available at Amazon as ebook now

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 22: Celebrating posts from: • Hanime on Anime • Kvasir369 • Merlin's Musings • MIB's Instant Headache • Thorough Watch

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 21: Celebrating posts from: • Arum Journal • Confessions of an Overage Otaku • Kvasir369 • Merlin's Musings • Shallow Dives in Anime

Do you like vampires? Do you like SEXY vampires? Then you'll love the Dracula Anniversary Bundle, featuring my own Woman of Sorrow and Blood + 27 other vampire books for just $25!

Today is MURDER MONDAY! If you order a murder in the next three hours, you will receive it TODAY I'm happy to (fictionally) murder you, the goth in your life, or the (parody of a) billionaire of your choice!

Character Analysis: Wakana Kinme There’s something astonishingly cute about Wash It All Away, isn’t there? Well, not someTHING astonishingly cute. SomeONE astonishingly cute. Let me lead with this: The mangaka behind Wash It All Away, Mitsuru Hattori, draws REALLY cute characters. REALLY. You may…

Coming soon (like, you know, Sunday): A brand new Magical Girl rom-com (as if the world needed another)! Gold Dragongirl and Pizza Boy Available at the river of Brazil place (for reasons) Only four bucks!

A payment I expected today didn't go through, so now is a VERY good time to buy yourself a murder... or to give the gift of death to the goth in your life

Magical girl rom-com Gold Dragongirl and Pizza Boy Coming May 24!

Hey night people! There's a whole bunch of books about our fellow creatures of the night in this here bundle 😈😈

Magical Girl? Normal love? Can’t happen … or … Gold Dragongirl and Pizza Boy, coming May 24 on the Brazilian river place.

The Antagonist: One’s Own Self For whatever reason I started talking about Antagonists and then stopped. I’m not sure why. Probably ran out of anything to say for the moment. You out there in the blogosphere know how that goes. Most of the time when I was thinking about antagonists I was thinking…

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 20: Celebrating posts from: • Arum Journal • Confessions of an Overage Otaku • Hanime on Anime • Shallow Dives in Anime • The Traditional Catholic Weeb

Magical Girl Romantic Comedy launches May 24 Win one of ten Advance Reader Copies! Just DM

Coming May 24 … Magical Girl Rom-Com Gold Dragongirl and Pizza Boy Mercy Jefferson is crushing on Milo, the mysterious new transfer student to Seabeach High. But how can she possibly tell Milo she's not just a student but also a Magical Girl who fights heavily-armored intelligent tigers in a…

Coming May 24 - Magical Girl Rom-Com Gold Dragongirl and Pizza Boy Mercy is crushing on the mysterious new transfer student, but how can she say she’s a Magical Girl who fights for the Earth in a parallel universe? Not that Milo doesn’t have secrets, too! ARCs to the first ten to DM me

Character Analysis: Wakana Gojo If you watch My Dress-up Darling carefully, one of the things you should notice pretty quickly is that while Marin Kitagawa is enormously likable, apart from dressing up and dressing down and getting frustrated because Wakana Gojo isn’t picking up what she’s putting…

Stories without Stories: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Okay, when we talk about Stories without Stories, we’re talking about stories that lack a meta-plot and therefore a direction. That doesn’t mean they can’t have action and it doesn’t mean they are boring; it just means that they have get and keep…

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 18: Celebrating posts from: • AngryAnimeBitches Anime Blog • Anime Feminist • Arum Journal • Confessions of an Overage Otaku • Thorough Watch

April writing challenge: First draft complete at 75761 words as of midnight. Hit it right on the head!

I was so busy promoting the Lesbian Visibility Week Bundle that I forgot to share a wonderful podcast interview that went live last week! I had a wonderful time on Miles Beyond the Page chatting about all things books & @weeknightwriters.bsky.social - check it out below:

GNU Terry Pratchett

Oh, So Trope-ical: The Brainiac A long long time ago … I mean “looooooooong looooooooong time ago,” right? … we talked about the Admiral Baby trope, the character who possess far too much authority/leadership power that a person their age could reasonably be expected to have. My personal favorites…

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 17: Celebrating posts from: • Arum Journal • Merlin’s Musings • MIB’s Instant Headache • Shallow Dives in Anime • thequotorium

How to Build a Series: Wash it All Away Our two favorite writers, Salviati and Simplicio, have returned to their seats in a Tokyo coffeehouse. Simplicio, of course, is barred from the coffeehouses which employ Minami Kushieda, Mikuru Asahina, and Hotori Arayashima, they being legal minors and he…

Just finished a podcast interview where I got to talk all things horror and it was so fun 🥰 And I'm gonna put it out into the world that I would love to do way, way more podcasts & YouTube things Really anything where I get to talk about books

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 16: Celebrating posts from: • Anime Evo • Arum Journal • Jonah's Books & Rants • Sakura Sunrise • Takuto's Anime Cafe

The first four Doctors if Dr.Who had been made in America.

The Weakness of Three: Takopi’s Original Sin We’ve talked a zillion times about the Power of Three, where there are three main characters who share a protagonist’s role, and in particular the Mind-Body-Soul trio, where one of the trio is smart, one is strong, and one is emotional. Sure. You’ve…

It’s Yuri’s Night! This is a global event, honoring Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space!

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 15: Celebrating posts from: • The Anime Herald • Arum Journal • The Magic Planet • Shallow Dives in Anime • Thorough Watch www.crowsworldofanime.com/posts/5-favo...

Or maybe you don't want to die... but I bet you want to kill a billionaire! Tell me the billionaire you want dead and I'll create a parody version of them to kill in a ridiculous way! For $40, I choose their death For $60, you choose their death ko-fi.com/diannagunn/c... 4/4

Character Analysis: Rei Ayanami (Rerun! 0% new content!) The old Overage Otaku is a smidge extra overage this week ... fever, body aches, hmm. Someone may have a cold. Aspirin, fluids, already feeling better. But not good enough to mess with a new post. So here's a blast from the archives. Hope it…

5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 14: Celebrating posts from: • Anime Hanabi • Annieme • Beneath the Tangles • The Infinite Zenith • The Magic Planet

From the WIP, Pirates of H-space III (cooler title to follow): Lin Talis left the organizing of the boarding party to Veronica. She was young in years but had been born and raised among pirates; anyone who believed in Lysenkoism would say brigandry was in her genes.

My new story “Funny Thing About The Hands…” just dropped on Uncharted Magazine! I’m so excited to be part of this publication! @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/funn...