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Hello, Space Unicorns!!! The next Stretch Goal in the Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN Kickstarter is a Flash Fiction Story in every issue! DON'T STOP US NOW, BECAUSE WE'RE HAVING A GOOD TIME! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

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I have openings (current and future) in my editing calendar. I do developmental edits of novels and novellas in multiple genres. More info here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing Happy to answer any questions!

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high-fiber diet (sorry bunxian!) 😫

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#HualianWeek2024 Day 3! My neighbor San Lang 🐼🌸 #hualian #TGCF

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Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968) is the winner of this year's Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award--have you ever read her work? For a discussion of the award and other forgotten or lesser-known SFF authors, we've got you covered: reactormag.com/take-a-minut...

Take a Minute to Celebrate the Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction - Reactorreactormag.com Time is nobody’s friend. Authors in particular can fall afoul of time—all it takes is a few years out of the limelight. Publishers will let their books fall out of print; readers will forget about the...

and this is why we stopped using Stickermule a couple years ago. and never used U-LINE. Have y'all seen the unhinged letters from the owners they put in their catalogs???

Sticker Mule is both A) A more expensive option and B) Run by a trophy-hunting, Trump-worshiping Qultist. You have other options! Check this spreadsheet! (And while we're at it: ditch U-LINE. Also unfathomably awful people.)

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New capybara just dropped

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🌈 Calling all fans of webcomics! We're looking into making special editions and we need your input to find the best queer webcomics. Drop your recommendations here!

wish I could be there... I can't, but Tris will be!

Buffalo NASFIC is coming up this weekend! Come see me and others and enjoy a fantastic lit-con. Can't get there? Some of the programming is available online! My schedule: schedule.buffalonasfic2024.org/people/1005 The participant list: schedule.buffalonasfic2024.org/people

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Hexagon’s Year Four Anthology has just been released to all subscribers! It features everything we published in our fourth year and brand new cover art courtesy of the wonderful @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social! 🧡 Get it here: Patreon.com/hexagonmagazine

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Goodnight

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Oh hey, especially given the ‘This is a trigger for a while’ experience of this present time: Mute and or block anything you need to. A N Y T H I N G Your mental and emotional health is an unassailable fortress. Defend it with everything you have.

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Only 14 backers needed to reach 300 total and unlock an exclusive story by @mdanielmcdowell.bsky.social based on this wonderful art by @morlevart.bsky.social! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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Duck Prints Press is thrilled to announce we've opened recruitment for our next anthology, SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES! Check out all the details, rules, requirements, and more on our website now. duckprintspress.com/scholarly-pu...

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I'm thrilled to be able to share that I'll have a story in this upcoming anthology of spicy stories across the spectrum of genres and content with Inkd Publishing! It looks like it's going to be a great collection.

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From the archives: Fave Five: Queer Appalachian Fiction lgbtqreads.com/2021/04/08/f... 🌈📚

Fave Five: Queer Appalachian Fictionlgbtqreads.com Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo (MG Fantasy) Cub by Jeff Mann (Contemporary Coming of Age) Sugar Run by Mesha Maren (Adult Contemporary) Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine (Adult Dystopian) The Fal…

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The Spacefunk! anthology kickstarter just hit 64%. But there’s only 7 days left! This is a once in a lifetime anthology—50 black science fiction writers and poets writing the Black Fantastic. It’s an incredible opportunity to support black writers and publishers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

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I am begging people to block and report transphobes and racists instead of screenshotting them and showing them off to everyone like a weird bug they found by the roadside.

I was just thinking this earlier. The blocklists are all gone, and people have stopped blocking the bigots themselves, and just gone back to replying to them instead, putting them onto their followers’ skylines.

There’s only four days left until the crowdfunding campaign for our debut explicit anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica ends on July 20th, which makes it the perfect time to share our last three teasers! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

Update 9: Learn More About the "Many Hands" Stories: The Last Three Teasers! · Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Eroticawww.kickstarter.com There's only four days left until this campaign ends on July 20th, which makes it the perfect time to share our last three teasers! Our final teaser post includes teasers from the three authors we hav...

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Come write with us!

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🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Happy Nonbinary Peoples’ Day! We have 20 nonbinary books to celebrate! To all the nonbinary readers out there, we are wishing you a very happy day! We love books starring nonbinary MCs and hope to see even more books with nonbinary characters! 🧵

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Second attempt at His Imperial Majesty, the First Emperor of the cultivation world 🖤 #2ha #2hafanart #MoRan #AutodeskSketchbook #thegreymoondraws

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Queer Histfic Set in Paris, Part II lgbtqreads.com/2024/07/14/q... 🌈📚

Queer Histfic Set in Paris, Part IIlgbtqreads.com For part I, click here. The Disenchantment by Celia Bell (1670s-80s) Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak (1790s) Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis (1866) The Paris Affair by Maureen Marshall (1886)…

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There are only NINETEEN HOURS left to back this anthology of weird transhumanist cyberpunk stories by transfemm authors! See the thread below for all the weird and wonderful stories and poems included! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Three Queer Speculative Anthologies from Neon Hemlockwww.kickstarter.com We're Here 2023, Baffling Year Three & Embodied Exegesis

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Happy International Nonbinary Day 2024! lgbtqreads.com/2024/07/14/h... 🌈📚

Happy International Nonbinary Day 2024!lgbtqreads.com Early Reader Batcat by Meggie Ramm First in a full-color graphic novel series for emerging readers about accepting yourself and others from up-and-coming author-illustrator Meggie Ramm, creator of …

This was a joy to be a part of, and we had a great chat and some neat questions after!

Third #Readercon panel report, on Fanfic Writers Going Pro: the Most Recent Generation, with @ceciliatan.bsky.social @duckprintspress.bsky.social @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social @victoriajanssen.bsky.social Wendy Van Camp and moi.

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Today (July 14th) is International Non-Binary People's Day, and we're celebrating by sharing our favorite books by non-binary authors! duckprintspress.com/2024/07/14/c...

So far, it's been a great time and I've met a lot of awesome people! <3 You come next year, Dei. <3

This weekend, @duckprintspress.bsky.social is going to be at Readercon! I wish I could be down there too but timing was not my friend. Stop by, say hi, look at the ducks, buy things, ask questions! Support small queer indie presses!

I am so excited about this news.

Seven Seas have just announced three more #danmei novel licences: Legend of Exorcism, Dinghai Fusheng Records and Riverbay Road Men's Dormitory all by Fei Tian Ye Xiang. twitter.com/gomanga/stat...