sometimes what's outlined doesn't work in practice, and it's exactly like finding a shirt that looks nice on the hanger but terrible when you try it on

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Is it wise to do a book cover reveal the week of a holiday? No. Am I doing it anyway? Yes. Here's the gorgeous cover for my upcoming scifi, THE CHAMOS PROJECT! All credit goes to my wonderful cover designer: creativeparamita.com. Add TCP here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24.... #WritingCommunity

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

“Rage in Retail” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Thank you so much, @paranoidxtree.bsky.social, and congratulations to all of my fellow nominees! ⚡️💚

Oh hey, it's me. Talking about balancing creativity while caring for a dying parent. 🖤

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

New CNF (my first!) is out now at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 🛍️ I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞

New CNF (my first!) is out now at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 🛍️ I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞

Dashed out to Yew Tree Tarn this afternoon to capture the autumn display. I was about half an hour too late for the best light but was happy with these two snatched from the roadside with the treetops illuminated.

I'm on the hunt for ARC readers! Sign up here if you'd like to receive a free digital copy of THE CHAMOS PROJECT a month before publication: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

Only 8 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter and we're $6,304 away from our initial funding goal. If you love and appreciate Apex. If you want more dark, weird stories. If you want a market to submit to. Then please consider helping us hit our goal. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

*banging pots and pans together* QUEER SCIFI WITH LIKE ROBOTS AND SHIT. I've read it, it's very good. And sad. But good. My marketing is at about the same level as Alexis', clearly

Free yourself from the Canva mines ⛏️🖼️ We're offering a totally new product only on our Kickstarter through the month of October: an author graphics bundle of fully customizable Canva templates for speculative fiction authors! 🎨 check below for details! ⬇️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Hey y'all, OTHERSIDE is smashing their Kickstarter goals. Help them get fully funded for their second year! And if you've ever wanted me to critique your poetry, that's one of the add-ons, alongside tons of great reward options.

I ADORE Kanopy!! My library's catalog is especially incredible for world cinema and documentaries A small sampling of my watchlist and what you may be able to find:

If you can read Spanish, I hope you like Sofón, Issue 1. It includes 17 SFF short stories and poems in Spanish, which I really enjoyed reading, editing, and putting together. Sofón is the third speculative fiction magazine from Mexico that pays its authors. I also did the cover art ^u^

Absolute must-read, whether you're aiming for trad or to self-publish. So much great advice RE red flags, self-worth, and the importance of communicating with your peers

tried spaghetti squash for the first time last night. a new world has opened up!

Saros #5 is open for submissions! Send us your 500-2,500 word fiction themed around sound(s), silence(s), and the spectrum in between: Music, speech, singing, unbearable (enticing?) noise(s), and/or auditory nothingness.

My tiny chapbook, “The Moon, My Heart,” is finally available now! So so grateful to @tinywrenlit.bsky.social and Dana Knott for making this dream come true! www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...

Back Issue Summer Sale!!! We're tired of hoarding all these oldies, but goodies all to ourselves. Become a Paranoid Tree completist! Volumes 1-30 are only $3 apiece! Sale ends Mon, Aug 11. Check it out at the link in our bio. Happy reading!

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

We are delighted to reveal the cover for @victormanibo.com's The Villa, Once Beloved, a haunting gothic about folklore, family, and postcolonial vengeance in the Philippines... reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

THE MEMORY HUNTERS is out today. With my debut, I didn't understand what kind of change a release would mean. Now I do. This book is no longer mine or my team's. I've released it, and all that's in it and all I left unsaid belongs to you. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

for the people on the Sky at this timezone, i have some PROMOTION for you (oh boy). if you would like to read a hopeful story of climate change from the perspective of a mountain that does not want to die? did i write the BOOK FOR YOU!!!! "The Death of Mountains" it's been called 'good as hell'

Super important for anyone encountering a moral rights waiver in contracts lately, as I have. Don’t skip reading this. Thanks @victoriastrauss.com for making this so easy to understand.

For all my fellow well-digging and dwelling writers: reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo...

i signed this! thank you to the organizers 🫧 writers with published books & people who work in publishing, including agents, librarians, booksellers, illustrators, & more, y’all can also sign the letter here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...

Shocked and thrilled to have made it onto the longlist!! Thank you so much and congratulations to everyone!! 🤯💗😭

My contributor’s copy of @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social arrived last night! TYSM to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social and everyone at BMF for making this happen! ❤️❤️❤️ I promise this collection is worth spending time with and that the font size is just right! www.pelekinesis.com/catalog/best...

Contract signed! @paranoidxtree.bsky.social is the best! 💖🌳 Please look out for my first ever CNF, "Rage in Retail," later this year. Paranoid Tree pairs their stories with incredible artists (check out their gorgeous print zines!), and I am so excited to see what mine will come up with!

hi friends! a reminder that the Iron Garden Sutra ARC sign-up form is still open! tell your reviewer friends! tell your influencer friends! tell your friends who like "dark and disturbing" spaceships! link: forms.gle/PFBzQuL3WShw...

Apex needs the help of this community. Please chip in if you can, and share the post to get more eyes on it.

They owe me about £75,000 and never made a single one of their scheduled repayments. My US books are all a sublicense of my Unbound deal, so all US royalties went to them, for them to take a cut and then deliver the rest to me. They collected 18 months from Penguin Random House and gave me $0.

Unbound/Boundless owes me $15k+ on a book that in its first royalty reporting cycle had sold around 3k copies of its 5k copy print run of which I have not seen a single penny. They also haven’t even reimbursed me for postage costs I incurred mailing out the arcs in the US at their request

I don’t want to “streamline” my writing. I don’t want to “increase my output.” I don’t want to “write a novel with one click.” I want to write stuff only I can write. I want to read and write novels with soul and heart and a unique voice. Fuck AI. Long live real writers.

I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀 LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

Best Microfiction 2025 releases on July 7 and is available for PREORDER now! 🫶📖✨ Please consider picking up a copy from the publisher or an indie bookshop listed here: www.pelekinesis.com/catalog/best... ❤️ Thank you to @megpokrass.bsky.social, Gary Fincke, Dawn Raffel, & @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 💞

show us your writing process in a gif:

Remember that "secret sauce" I discovered a while ago? The one that has me writing so much it is an ORGY OF WRITING? Well, here it is. A simple thing you too can do! Featuring @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @alyssaharad.bsky.social @jsavrankelly.bsky.social www.maureenlangloss.com/in-the-bee-l...

So looking forward to this conversation about writing, editing & publishing hosted by Kaya Press—I'll be sharing marked-up pages from an early draft of my first book and chatting about working as an editor while writing my own books. Wednesday, 5/14, 12pm PT/3pm ET over Zoom. RSVP: bit.ly/firstpass4

made cloud dough (cornstarch and hair conditioner) to amuse myself. two drops of kroger neon blue food coloring made it almost tiffany blue. my hands may permanently smell of aloe haircare

Happy ANHPI Heritage Month! I’m so excited to share DEMON SONG, my novella abt a girl on the run w/ her mom who seeks refuge in a Beijing opera house, gets tangled in a mystery involving ancient myths, & must uncover her new home’s horrifying secrets b4 it casts its hungry gaze on her 👀☠️🎭🕯️🎶 🖤 Kels

I’ve been on a bluesky break but seeing this cover again makes me so excited! ❤️❤️

I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches. If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.

wouldn't it be more fun if Dove soaps and Dove chocolates were in fact the same brand? at least 0.1% more fun