​To celebrate International Science Fiction Day (January 2) and the second anniversary of Woodpusher's release, have a flash sale where you can get Kotov Syndrome and Woodpusher individually for 50% off or together for just $4. The sale is for 24 hours only. #sff itch.io/s/178023/int...

sharing again for evening folks

#QueerWritersChat #QueerWriters #writesky #writers I'm DD Ward (they/them) I write romantasy and smut mostly, often traumatic smut. I'm currently working on a dark fantasy series called Plight of the Last Paladin.

From my rabbit hole efforts last weekend. #TPDox #FaveLineFriday

"The ice tugs on my wrists like puppet strings." I just wrote this today, very pleased. #FavLineFriday

#QueerWritersChat I could advertise my newsletter (although that too), but for now, have my YouTube channel, where I do writing streams (with word sprints!) nearly every Wednesday. We're back at it this coming Wednesday, in fact! www.youtube.com/@jaxwolffwri...

#QueerWritersChat You can pre-order Inarora's Excursion today! 🥰 Inarora's Excursion re-releases January 31! FFXIV meets Naruto in an adorable YA Urban Fantasy that's very anti-bureaucracy and anti-cop, with gay grandpas added for flair~! books2read.com/InarorasExcu... #QueerWriters #WriteSKy

#QueerWritersChat 5: There's a bundle of awesome stories from 2025 up on itch right now that includes my West Virginia mothman book, Moth Woods! itch.io/b/3455/the-b...

Between You, Me, and the Moonlit Sea is currently available for preorder and will be releasing this year! platinumsoulpress.itch.io/moonlit-sea platinumsoul.shop You can also follow it on Backerkit! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... 💜 🌙 ✨️ 💜 #QueerWritersChat #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

The first two chapters are up now! Nell gets her hands on a much-anticipated debut novel that might not be as advertised. Is this an author’s tender tribute to his lost love, or a serial killer’s plot to crowdsource tracking down the one that got away? rebeccafrostwrites.com/2026/01/01/p...

#QueerWritersChat A5: In an alternate version of ancient Rome, a trio of sisters and an ambitious senator use wit, charm, and magic to realize their dreams for the city they love. “Liberty is fragile, and it must be rigorously defended.” Available in ebook, print, and audio: linktr.ee/cassrmorris

Hi #QueerWritersChat! I have a very personal book of queer Deep Time poetry that I’m really proud of: Time Travel Is Easy. I’ll be releasing it wide soon, but for now, it’s available on the Evil River Site: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7

#QueerWritersChat On Saturdays, I share updates to my story The Witch of Eden Hollow. It has two older transmasc leads (a witch that guards an ancient forest and the hunter that was hired to kill him) and a closeted gay man with strange magical abilities. #⚔️🌿🌼 archiveofourown.org/works/75724341

#QueerWritersChat A5 Self-Promo I have a short story coming out on Tuesday. Butch/Femme lesbian twins Weird West setting A giant snake books2read.com/u/bplda6

#QueerWritersChat A5: I don’t have any publication dates to vaguely allude to, but you can wishlist my upcoming 1990s-themed escape room/break-into-your-coworkers’-desks video game After Work on Itch: cornonthecob.games

#QueerWritersChat Q5 Check out my website! There's blogs and stories, and if you need an editor this year, let me know. ottersediting.com

#QueerWritersChat Q4 To future self: Don't give up. All your hard, unpaid work will eventually work out. It will be okay 🫂💜

#QueerWritersChat Q3 Growth.

#QueerWritersChat Q2 I have a lot to work on. I always start out ambitious 😅 I want to finish the draft of AnimalsWIP, plot the new dark fantasy I just started planning, and replot an MG novel draft sitting in archives.

Hi #QueerWritersChat I'm Steph and this week I'm working on AnimalsWIP and also plotting a new WIP, both are fantasy.

Boost if you can!! 💕💸

#AwesomeCharacters The main faction in AnimalsWIP is the Orlands National Touranimal Officials There are subgroups: Recruiters, Volunteers, Coaches, and Referees. And an elected group known as the Council. Raquel one day wants to be a Coach. Sam is a Recruiter.

My friend Clara has a sequel novella coming up for their novel Be the Sea!

I’m really trying to keep myself from overdrafting again this month, but I’m already short on bills. Anything helps!! ko-fi.com/beverlyannem... #helpsky 💕💸

Today is the last day to enter this giveaway! 💛🐝

This’ll be open until next Friday! Enter while you can!

HELLO THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR 2.5K (WHAT.????) I am literally so grateful words are failing me Okay to celebrate I'm bringing this back! It was the first event I ever did and the first time I ever met most of y'all! Drop your refs below and anyone can participate 💜💜 THANK YOU ‼️

Spots for 2026 are OPEN! If you want to punch your audience's hearts (in a good way) with your story, let's talk! Editing and other services at a good price! Do you have a limited budget? I have "Writers on a Budget" Packages on my Kofi shop #amediting #writingcommunity #gamedev #comics #translator

New year, new me! Reintroduction post time. #promosky I'm Steph, a nonbinary and neurodivergent freelance editor. I care about you & your writing! I edit Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Sci-Fi. I do line editing, copyediting & proofreading. Website: ottersediting.com

These are my books. So far. What if Maleficent was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil? www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D

🧙 wild witches 🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two) 🔮 portal fantasy 🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in 👨‍❤️‍👨 true love 🗡️ revenge 👑 evil faeries 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ 💙📚🪐 ]

This offer is still available and will be until January 10th. Editing is what pays my bills, and I'm behind on rent, so it's important that I book people ASAP. You'll get an amazing edit at a great rate ($0.01/word), and I'll get to live somewhere, which I think is a beautiful exchange. LOL!

One of the biggest business building hurdles for indie editors: getting past initial communication to actually securing clients. Lots of ghosting happens here but shouldnt. Let's make sure the initial email you're sending authors is doing everything you need it to! www.patreon.com/posts/144849...

To follow up, a rough sampling of books on my 2026 TBR by trans, nonbinary, Two Spirit, & gender divergent authors! There are some that are new releases without covers, so didn't include those, & I've definitely blanked and left others off, but in case anyone wanted their TBRs further destroyed! 🤣

✨ Friday Tip ✨ Trying to navigate and budget for your 2026 goals? If an editor (or cover designer, illustrator, book formatter, etc.) seems out of your price range, don't give up! Ask if they have another service that you could benefit from, or if they provide a "light" version of . . . ⬇️

I've always wanted to be a writer. But I'd consider the beginning to be when I finished the first draft of a trashed book. It was my first time writing an entire 75k novel from start to finish. It was an awful book so I trashed it, but it taught me a lot about how to write a book. #pretendpanel

Writing update! For the first day of 2026, I got 750 words. Off to a good start this year! #WritingCommunity

I just realized that today is my 1 year anniversary on Bluesky 😅 I joined in Jan 1st 2025. Cheers to 1 year 🥂🎉 and thank you all! I'm glad to have so many amazing creative moots 💜

This is my new pinned post. Hi, I’m Lilah! I write comics and I am transgender and sometimes those things intersect, as in my OGN Girl Haven, which is a trans coming-of-age story/portal fantasy! I love my wife and my daughters and also cats and capybaras.

Kranlian Alliance Winter Sale! Both revised versions of these #spicy #scifi #erotica novels available at 75% off at @itch.io Follow along with Captain Ariana of the Terran Scouts and her young pilot Neto as they investigate a distant planetary system. 💙📚🚀📦 itch.io/s/172279/kra...

🚀 spaceships 🌡️ dark conspiracies 🎭 brotherhood ❌ no romance 🐛 strange creatures 🤖 futuristic 🪐 other worlds 🐈 a rescue cat 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56... [ 🪐📚💙 ]

Hi! I'm Steph working on a YA fantasy book, placeholder title AnimalsWIP. I'm excited for this prompt game as animals are a huge part of this WIP, since people can turn into them. This power is granted by the Animal Gods. #Critterary #WritingPrompts

The winter issue of Belladonna's Garden Literary Magazine was published today. My short story, "Siren's Song," is included in it. @bdglit.bsky.social #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic 🪐📚 #SFF #SFFWriting/Writers 🔱 #writingcommunity #cozyfantasy www.belladonnasgardenlit.com/winter-2026-...

A goal for 2026 is to get #Dogwood1 ready for preorders but I'd also like to give my 2025 books more love.😊 THE CONSORT AND I is a court romance with a slash of treason!👑⚔️ WINGS IN THE VALLEY is an enemies-to-parents polyamory high fantasy with a cover by @ardenpowell.bsky.social . links & more👇

New Year, New Book - BLUDEYE BEACH by @eliwoodsgheist.com releases TODAY!!! Do you have your ticket to Bludeye Beach? 👁 Amazon: a.co/d/8rAbO4s Books2Read: books2read.com/u/4AVPAp Website: hookandquillpress.com/our-books/ #booksky #writingcommunity #indiewriter #writesky #hqpress

This is so surreal but BLUDEYE BEACH is now officially PUBLISHED!!!! 👁🎉🥹❤️ #indieauthor #booksky #writingcommunity

If you didn’t ready many or any independently published books in 2025, let 2026 be the year you change that. Drop your preferences below (be as specific as you can) and I’ll do my best to give you recs!

There are 242 working days in 2026. If you write just one page a day - just 250-300wds, roughly 5 Bsky posts - you will have two full scripts or a novel by New Years Eve. If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel. Just. Keep. Writing.

New 📌! Get ready for BOOM goes the Bride! A twice-dead elven thief, a princess of clones, & a lot of explosions both in and out of the bedroom. Mechs, magic, and everything spice. Preorder & save today! (release date ~early March) boom-goes-the-bride.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... #boombride

OTHERSIDE is officially OPEN for fiction and poetry submissions 🪐🗡️ If you’re part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, send us your speculative fiction and poetry: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and everything in between! 📚 Open window: Jan 1-14 📑 See guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines/