#SFFchat A1: aside from my usual plethora of short stories, my current project is De Terra Ad Infinitum, a dieselpunk alt-earth sci-fi novel about illegal plane racing, flying cities in an apocalyptic world, government conspiracies, and the unavoidably cyclical nature of human history!

Oh this is so cool! I’m totally going to do this—I’ll make a thread and then backdate the first few posts :) what a fun idea!

Also also, as a fun little extra, a friend of mine did fan art for Black Gold a while back—here’s her interpretation of the MC! (Also, please go support her art if you like what you see! You can find her on KoFi here: ko-fi.com/cat_psychic)

The Apex Magazine team is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter for 2026 begins OCTOBER 1ST!! 🎃🍁 We're keeping all the rewards you love, adding exciting new rewards for readers and writers alike, AND reopening submissions! Mark your calendars, and we'll see you at the graveyard smash! 👻🌙🐈‍⬛📅

Black Gold is out today!! I’m so excited for everyone to get to read it—thank you to Apex Magazine for making that possible!

Dear friends, writers, #agents, interstellar travelers, interdimensional aliens, and otherwise paradoxical time hoppers! We would like to invite you to set your favorite time-traveling device to October 21st, 2025, for the pitch event dedicated to Science Fiction, #SFPit! 🧵

Hi #weeknightwriters! I coach a HS sports team this time on Thursdays so alas I can only pop in right at the end—I have two upcoming short story publications! One is Black Gold, out with Apex Magazine on 9/2. My other, Lolo’s Last Run, is currently out in the Sept/Oct edition of Asimov’s!

hi y’all!! I’m absolutely blown away by all the amazing #PosterPit posters, and the love you’ve shown my projects #PlanesWIP and #PiratesWIP! I’ll introduce myself properly for all the new folks soon, but for now I just want to thank y’all 🥹 what a wonderful #WritingCommunity

#PosterPit #W #SF #SPF #A #NA #PlanesWIP Racing planes for a living, and newly accepted to the airforce academy, Terrah's living the dream when disaster strikes. Explosions on a flying city always mean trouble. Especially when you live under it.

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING DEADLY ARCHETYPES is a fast paced, grounded YA sci-fi that features: - a high-tech, high stakes VR competition game - an unlikely group of allies - the ticking clock of a mind control glitch - hero x villain archetypes #PosterPit #AG #SF #YA

#PosterPit #W #NA #F #R #PiratesWIP During her world tour, Captain Holloway is captured by pirates. After encountering an assassination plot, a magical curse, an unlikely romance, and an imminent war, she finally takes a side. The wrong side. It's all Captain Falcon's fault.

📖🐦‍⬛Mark of a Magpie🐦‍⬛📖 When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #PosterPit #PosterPitOS #PosterPitA #AG #OS #A #F #R #DIS #onsub #editors

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP How far would you go to make sure your loved ones survive? For a retired explorer, that burning question never ceases to exist. When he overhears a rumour about a mysterious forest, he ventures back into the wild, desperation overwhelming every other emotion. #PosterPit #Q #T #A

🌊OF GEMSTONES AND DIVINITY🌊 Kiana robs the wealthy to give to those in need. Emeralda left her noble life behind to be a seafaring vigilante. The unlikely duo must cooperate long enough to take down a bloodthirsty pirate. They get along better than they expected. ~96k #QueerPit #NA #F #FR #HF

Think: A forest that gives birth. The paper-thin layer of skin between life and death. The sacrifices we make to ensure our lineage. Pairs well with: sandalwood, cedar, bonfire, freshly laid mulch, and pinot noir. #HuntingSeason #PosterPit #PosterPitA #AG #H #LIT #SPF

🗡️Murdered in cold blood &resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes a legendary assassin. 🥷When her latest mission sparks the higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. 💀Failure will cost more than just her life.🪶 #PosterPit #P #F 🪐📚 📚💙 🌈📚

A CURSE SO DARK & LONELY X THE INHERITANCE GAMES When a ballerina is kidnapped by fantasy fugitives desperate to recover their leader’s magic trapped inside her, she unearths their secrets to facilitate freedom, but bonds w/ them & falls for 1 instead #PosterPit #Q #YA #F #M #R #FT

#PosterPit #W #SF #SPF #A #NA #PlanesWIP On the floating city she calls home, Terrah just wants to race planes and join the air force to make a better future for her family. Then things start exploding.

⚔️OF GEMSTONES AND DIVINITY⚔️ An honorable thief and a noblewoman vigilante must work together to end a pirate’s reign of terror. 🌊 ~96k 🌊 Slow burn rivals to lovers 🌊 Second world historical fantasy 🌊 Pirates and sea adventures 🌊 Rebellion and self discovery #Queerpit #NA #F #FR #HF

IRON WIDOW x THE CLONE WARS When her squadmate is murdered, Ahrin will risk anything for revenge, even her chance at knighthood. But this murder is the key to a tangle of secrets spanning star systems and centuries: ‘anything’ is a much higher price than she could imagine. #QueerPit #SF #YA

THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST❌UNDEAD FOLK What is an aging witch to do when two newcomers upend the age-old agreements between her world and the Other People? Well, there's magic to turn to, the forest, your community ...and your dead wife, of course. #A #F #H #MYTH #N #QueerPit

When an accident turns Chess into a reaper, she must learn to control her power, manage a ghost dog with boundary issues, help her ex-friend's spirit, try not to fall for her annoying Grim, & save the thin veil between the living & the dead all before her chem test on Friday. #QueerPit #YA #SN #F

Alas I will not be doing #Queerpit this year (I do not have a finished manuscript, oops) but if you are drop a like so I can support your pitches!! And best of luck to all of you! #WritingCommmunity

Alright team, I am all geared up and mostly ready to go for #PosterPit this weekend! If you’re also participating, drop a like or comment and I’ll be sure to check out your posts!! #WritingCommmunity

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

A2: My LDP flew out to see me this week! We’ve been planning this trip all summer and it’s been great spending time together. I feel bad all of my social media marketing events are happening while he’s here, but he doesn’t mind (I bought him a copy of murderbot vol. 1 as an apology; he loves it!)

Current status: footsore from trekking around Chicago all week and really, really tired of the Canadian wildfire smoke. Us midwesterners barely get any summer heat as it is, and I want to be outside writing!! A minor complaint in the grand scheme of things but still.

Hello #WeeknightWriters! This week I’ve finished organizing all of my short fiction in a spreadsheet to help prioritize my revisions, and hacked out a few more words of Planes WIP, my new adult (ish) dieselpunk sci-fi novel about airplane racing, conspiracy theories, and disastrous bisexuals ✌️

Thank you all so much for the support on both of my Questpit projects (normally known as Planes WIP and Pirates WIP)! No agent likes for me this time around (afaik; if I missed yours, let me know) BUT I did make a bunch of new author friends and find a load of projects to follow along with, so, win!

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THOROUGHFARE ₊ ⊹ ˑ 𓂃 a religious apostle & western outlaw must work together to stop an eldritch horror spreading across the desert - novella (26k) - a sunshine MMC and grumpy FMC ☀️ - eldritch monsters but the true horror is humanity #questpit #Q #A #H #S #amquerying

Introducing the #agentsguide for my very soon to be #Q novel, THE BOG PRINCE! 💀 A necromancer, doomed by her own dark power. 👑 A lost prince, lying murdered in the ruins of his crumbling kingdom. 🖤 Maybe some secrets are better left buried... #Questpit #YA #RF #agentguide

#questpit #F #YA #NA #RF #HF SAIL BY DAWN Andrew has a curse to break. Lior has everything to prove. When pushed together by the whims of the sea, the problems from their pasts become all too present. Mutiny, magic, and a sixth-month deadline. What could go wrong? Everything, it seems.

#questpit #SF #SFF #A #NA #W #agentguide DE TERRA AD INFINITUM 💫 ~90k 🌟 Adult/New Adult dieselpunk sci-fantasy 💫 currently standalone, open to sequel 🌟 contains romance, but not romance-centric 💫 knock off pod racing from Star Wars in unique dystopian setting 🌟 bisexual FMC (who gets the girl)

#questpit #SF #A #W AIRBORN X MORTAL ENGINES Terrah always knew she would fly. She never expected to fall. 🌟dieselpunk floating cities 🌟man-made apocalypse 🌟political intrigue plot 🌟flight school setting 🌟queer love triangle 🌟messy relationships 🌟new-adult characters

Y’all know what time of year it is—renaissance faire season! New year, new profile photo, as always. Costume hasn’t changed much since last time, but I did dye my hair. On to another year of writing silly pirate books :)

Here’s my writing buddy Hazel! She’s in her teenage years where she’s basically just teeth with legs, so she’s not *that* helpful, but she is cute. #weeknightwriters

This is awesome news! I’ve backed them already, but if you haven’t, you totally should!!

Hi #weeknightwriters! I’m E.M. Kerkman and my current WIP is about airplane racing, dismantling government conspiracies, and turning friends into family along the way—all while living on a dieselpunk city flying in the sky. I’m 30/~90k words through, as of today. It’s nice to meet all of you!

Hi everyone! Since it seems all the cool people have moved over here, so have I! Took me a little while though, haha. Where are my people? #writing #writingcommunity #author