Frances Pauli

@francestypes.bsky.social

140

Posts

Author of the Serpentia and Sunrunner series. Typewriter nut, tea addict, mother, furry, snake wrangler, and sometimes artist. francespauli.com

Posts Replies Media

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

Apex Magazine's kickstarter is at $12846 out of their INITIAL $15000 goal 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 LET'S GET THAT BREAD they're going to have a sub period for UNPUBLISHED AUTHORS who have you seen do THAT?? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - 🦊🐷🐹🐰🐶🐻 Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Day at the Republican National Convention - Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member GGaminn and new member Janet L. - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

Also going to gently say that we should all get paid fairly for our work and that includes writers and artists and cover designers etc etc

Talked to several designers for book projects and they've all been hit super hard by AI Anyway if you have a cover project consider a cover artist

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

Stars and planets, THIS. This FOREVER. And also the missing art of folks who were passed over and shut out because such men didn't want to fuck them in the first place and therefore just utterly ignored them

Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

I don't even go there, and this is still the funniest shit

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

Commissions are open

Cthulhu con anthology (featuring my Rats of Understory B) is doing well, but a little more donations will up the pay for all authors to pro level. :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/est...

Cthulhu FhCon: Short Stories Starring Cthulhu, Fans & Frenzywww.kickstarter.com An insanely fun horror & dark humor short-story anthology featuring encounters between old gods and fans at a scifi-fantasy convention

Sunrunner is FREE on kindle for today only: amazon.com/Sun-Runner-I... Step into a brand new, all equine fantasy world.

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

Reply to

Dav Sionnach

The short story format is going strong, it just doesn't pay as well as it once did. The same market forces that gutted newspaper profits have impacted short fiction markets. If you're interested in reading more speculative short fiction, look here: www.trollbreath.com/sff-magazine...

Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscriptions - Jeff Reynoldswww.trollbreath.com Listing of Genre Magazines with links to Subscription pages

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

Please consider subscribing to @aimod.social, a service which labels AI images on Bluesky. Even for people who are not opposed to the use of AI images, being able to identify them is very important for this reason.

It's not harmless. It's not "just an innocent thing" to be fooled by AI. You NEED to be able to discern and differentiate reality. You NEED to know how the world works on a basic level. Because fooling you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse.

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

This extremely wonderful article running down all the typography in ALIEN will help you start your week off right

Alientypesetinthefuture.com My third post about typography in sci-fi has been gestating for a while now. Indeed, it's been slowly taking shape – you might say it's been forming itself inside of me – for really quite some time. I...

My son has graduated. I have no idea how this happened despite being his learning coach for 13 years. I'm very proud, and very old. :D

This actually killed me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOTJ... I am here for more of these!!

Life of a Clodsire | Pokearthwww.youtube.com The first episode of the new Pokearth series. Here we explore the life of the beloved Clodsire A pokémon fan animation with AI David Attenborough narration. Future episodes will instead be voiced by a real voice actor #pokemon #pokemongo #pokemontcg #pokemoncards #animation #animationvideo #nationalgeographic #natgeo #bbcearth #blender3d

Reposted by

Frances Pauli

I have a specific anecdote about this. I had a dog in a series that was extremely intelligent. Could talk via Scrabble tiles. My editor made me explain it. I did; there were reasons. Then she had me take the explanation out. Because the mystery / wondering was more magical than the actual why.

Not everything in a story needs to be explained. Many times a reader's answer to a question posed by the characters or narrative is much more informative than the author's. Learning to leave that space--and protect it against all comers--is a question of artistic choice and just plain experience.

Finally, book #20 of the twenty books that inspired me list. Trust me, I had to trim a ton. Honorable mentions to Dune, Christopher Moore and Terry Pratchett.

#19

Influential book #18

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW3LQX16 New series of horsey fantasy. Magic, adventure, romance and a lot of equine characters.

Amazon.com: Sun Runner : An Imbrium Novella eBook : Pauli, Frances: Kindle Storewww.amazon.com Sun Runner : An Imbrium Novella - Kindle edition by Pauli, Frances. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sun Runner : An Imbrium Novella.

#21

These 20 days are going on thirty. My bad. Influential book # 16.

#15 of 20 books which influenced me.

Nonfiction for day 14

#13. Norton again.

I will be at #Furlandia this weekend celebrating Furs in Space :) Will also have a table full of books to buy and read featuring fuzzy animal characters. We're on the right wall as you walk into the dealer's den. Close to the front. Pics to come.

#12 ... a HUGE influence. No one said there was an age limit.

Books that influenced me... #11

#10 days of books which influenced me:

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚Day 9

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚