From Samhain to the winter solstice: let darkness come. #CelticFireFestivals #Samhain #harvest #BlessedBe

Are You There God? It's Me, Melanie. #amquerying #booksky #writersky #romancelandia #writinglife

That one time I wrote a really unserious book that started as a complete joke to pitch to my agent, and then everyone loved it and said it was my best yet and I had a whole identity crisis..... You can read it #writingcommunity : open.substack.com/pub/kellylbe...

Magic 8 Ball: Goth Edition Q: Will a literary agent love my ragetastic paranormal romance? A: "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." -Mary Shelley Fin. #amquerying #writesky #writersky #romancelandia #writingcommunity

It's almost Samhain! Do you know what paranormal romance shares with monster literature and media? An appreciation of the well made brute. The world is burning and you can stop pretending not to love paranormal romance, or if you're some kinda green fool newb: lucky, lucky you. 🦇 #romancelandia

The resistance finding a home is big, but finding each other has been life-affirming. Join us in the Library of Babel, friends. Check out what we're about at the link. #NoSurveillance #Humanity #AIRefusal #AIinEdu #EduSky #AIResistance #Luddites #WriterSky www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

That first incredulous "what?" made me cheer. Meanwhile, the disconnect between creatives and AI hypers grows to a chasm. #writersky #AI #edusky #writesky #AIresistance #AIrefusal

Need an autumn-themed, swoony distraction? Grab a copy of my 5-minute romance in WW. On newsstands this week! 🍁❤️ @womansworldmag.bsky.social #romancelandia #writesky #freelance #writersky #romance #writingcommunity

AWP members, this webinar is free for members: October 21 1:00PM ETS. Registration required. #WriteSky #WriterSky #AWP #AI awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Maga...

Check out two stabby new poems in @villaineralit.bsky.social, a literary magazine of revenge. 🔪 #poetry #writesky #publishing

Need a swoony distraction? My flash fic, "A Season for Love" will appear in WW mag, on sale Oct 10. It's a dual POV set in an apple orchard after a 5K. ✍️💙📚🍁 #freelance #publishing #romancelandia #amquerying #writerlife #writingcommunity #booksky #amwriting #writesky #romancelit #author #lovestory

Joyful aspects of querying: ✍️ Researching agents. I love their personal, bookish stories. The manuscript wish lists that light you on fire. ✍️The little thrill of hope when you hit send. ✍️ Putting off grading to examine QT stats just long enough to conclude you might be a "maybe." #amquerying

Book Broker: an interview with literary agent Kerry D'Agostino "It is very clear when we receive a manuscript that is an early stage of drafting." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/b... #amquerying #mswl

"These violent delights have violent ends." #AI #ActorsGuild #HumanRights #Shakespeare #Westworld

I wish Query Tracker had an after hours lounge where insomniac writers in different time zones could meet to laugh and cry together. 💙📚 #AmQuerying #Authors #TradPub #WritingCommunity #WriterLife #WriteSky #SpecFic #WriterSky #ParanormalRomance #RomanceWriter #BookSky #Gingers #WritingProf #Romance

It is a joy, privilege, and responsibility to create reading lists for my students. It's also more important than ever to stand against censorship and in solidarity with academic freedom in education. #EduSky #RightToRead #PenAmerica #anticensorship #readbannedbooks pen.org/report/the-n...

My Weird Tales lit class is tearing through several novellas, and they are the perfect length to capture the reading attentions of college students. If you haven't read Becky Chambers, you ought to. Next up: book 1 of Murderbot by Martha Wells. *Squeals in Sci Fi* #novellas #writingprof #readmore

Exactly what I have been telling my creative writing students. I am glad to see this kind of messaging on more and more literary agents' submission guidelines. #EduSky #creativewriting #amquerying #humancreativity #AIResistance @ecniumata.bsky.social erinniumata.substack.com/p/why-i-cann...

I feel this way about socialslop, too. Imagine that? Automation is not only unethical; it deskills with a vengeance. #AIResistance #AIRefusal #HumansDoItBetter hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Pssst: wanna read banned books with me in a red state? Knock twice. Bring booze. Password: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. #ALA #ReadHumanAuthoredBooks #CelebrateYourRightToRead #EduSky #writingprof #amquerying ✍️🚫🤖 bannedbooksweek.org

America, when will you be angelic?* When will you take off your clothes? *Ginsberg doesn't use a comma in a direct address, but I do. 😀🇺🇸🚫🤖 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/...

Hard working writers. Creatives toiling in education, our craft hacked by unethical tech. Writers who hustle for every reader. Nobody poets. Debut novelists. Bestsellers. Indie authors. Syntax wizards in nonfiction. Cover artists. I see you. I stand with you. #Human apnews.com/article/anth...

Excellent piece in the Chronicle by Kevin Gannon about AI resistance in higher ed. #EduSky #AIResistance www.chronicle.com/article/some...

Little pep talk after hitting send on new queries.😬❤️ #amquerying #writingcommunity #romanceauthor #poetwritingprose #publishing #perseverance #writingprof #hopeful Cool news: I'm leading the Ireland & Scotland study abroad trip at my uni again in 2026! Travelling research, here I come. #inspired 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Trying to temper the bruising rejection of the querying process with bright spots. Proposal to AWP accepted. New poetry forthcoming in Villain Era; flash romance sold to Woman's World. This should be a balm, but I still feel shattered. Why are y'all such sadists, fiction writers? #amquerying

Sycophant bots don't know the law. LLMs are not research partners, oracles, or editors gifted in rhetorical analyses. They can't generate passably unbiased text. Let's not call it writing, mkay? Lawyers: if college students have to disclose their AI use, so should you. www.ijpr.org/law-and-just...

A bright spot in the bruising process of querying is noting how many literary agencies have AI disclosures and outright bans in their submission guidelines. A legion of writing profs, writers, & artists in academia stand with the publishing community in resistance. #amquerying #AIRefusal #EduSky

I've washed and reassembled the duvet cover, and I intend to submit this as the sole artifact for my mid-tenure dossier. My mom supervised and I did it wrong. What do you want from me, academia? Another heartbreaking paranormal romance? More poems written in the blood of gingers? #writingprof

My manuscript is the one in the delicious, genre-bending powder blue jumpsuit on the end. 🤩🇮🇪🩵 #amquerying #MSWL #publishing #writinglife #romance #debut #poetwritingfiction #GrumpyIrishWerelion #mountaincore #Celtic #paranormal #fantasy #WitchesFightingPatriarchy #analogresearch #folklore

QueryTracker: the manuscript. Genre: cosmic horror Vibes: obsession; darkcore meets hopepunk Wish list: commercial but make it cross-over, literary, book club, with genre flair. No vampires. If you need me, I'm overthinking if my query might be a life-affirming maybe. #amquerying #MSWL #romance

#HumanAuthor #ResistRobots #touchgrass #RedheadsDoItBetter

Wuthering Heights is the original grumpy/brain fever trope. Why is everyone dissing this adaptation? So. Many. Cheekbones. Come with me on Valentine's Day? You know you want to. And if you don't: I'll haunt you, brute. ❤️ #romance #windswept #tropey #notguilty #bronte #takemymoney

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Thank you, @iankrietzberg.bsky.social for giving space to voices of AI resistance and refusal in higher ed. I was happy to be a part of this vital conversation. #EduSky #AIinEdu #AIResistance 🚫🤖 puck.news/why-teachers...

Also, hug a librarian (but not in a stalker-y way).❤️📚 #EduSky #BannedBooksWeek #ALA #RightToRead #ReadForYourRights #LibrariansAreSuperHeroes

I've never been to therapy because I prefer exploring the feelings of imaginary people. And I have delusions that my therapist will fall in love with me. Like the world's most insecure narcissist, I'll tell them about my novel. They'll pause, pen hovering, and I'll see it. They love me! #amquerying

Thrilled to see our accepted pedagogy panel on the schedule for AWP Baltimore. How delicious to see the romance genre get some much earned love from *literary* organizations. ❤️ #AWP26 #GenreFiction #Romance #WritersWhoTeach #EduSky #CreativeWritingPedagogy conference.awpwriter.org

Did an English teacher get engaged to a cute bearded dude? That's so 2016. ❤️🎉

Writing organizations, big or small, please stop marketing with AI generated images. Writers, big name or no name please stop using AI covers. The piracy that happened to writers, like the lawsuit against Anthropic, happened to artists, too. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

My Gen-X, zine-loving heart swooned to be featured in the first, print-only issue of LOOMING. Follow @loomingzine on IG! All your favorite lovable luds and AI critics all in one little zine. @kconrad.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social #MakeStuff #AIResistance #PhysicalMedia #NewSchoolAnalog

Thrilled that our panel was accepted for AWP Baltimore! @jpullen19.bsky.social @dave-essinger.bsky.social @joybaglio.bsky.social #AWP26 #EduSky

I declare Fall semester: villain era Medusa vibes. Fight me in single combat! Or just write some poems, essays, and love stories unassisted by robots. It was a weird summer. Querying has left me a little bruised. #amquerying #writinglife #writingprof

Not to be outdone in creepy villainy, the new version of Claude tries a different look. Asked for comment on ChatGPT-5, Claude calls his botbro "a total psychopath." *Voice in ear* I'm sorry. The new version is actually "a PhD in your pocket." No offense to bowl haircuts. Or PhDs. #EduSky #AI

Do you like tomato sandwiches? Altman: one sec. I've got a PhD in my pocket I need to consult first. *prompt movie montage (ChatGPT-5 is played by Timothee Chalamet)* Altman: wow, I think I do! This version is way smarter. Fin #AIinEdu #EduSky #AIResistance