Phantasmagoria

@jamielnathan.bsky.social

435

Followers

402

Following

1186

Posts

Playwright, Set Designer, Storyteller
Loves the spooky stuff
She/Her

Posts Replies Media

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

Gentle weekend to you, my good gentlecreatures. Last weekend wasn't restful for a good many of us, so it's extra important that we make time to rest, if we at all can, this time around. Rest is a potent ingredient for building resilience.🌱

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

It’s Prime Day, so get out there and buy books from your local/ independent bookstores!! #books #amreading 💙📚

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

Also, if trolls are trying to pit different marginalized groups against each other on this platform, let’s work together to root those fuckers out. I have to believe that at the end of the day we all chose to use this app because we want better for ourselves and each other.

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

This looks very cool. Just a few days left on the Kickstarter. "Space is the place! A collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent." www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

Meanwhile, over on Instagram, I like one writerly post and suddenly my feed is full of “Submit your story ($50 fee) and win $20,000! Urghh!! #Booksky #WritingCommunity #writer #amwriting #author 💙📚 📝

2000 words writ this weekend. Didn’t finish my wip, but the end is in sight. Maybe 3,000 left and the rough ROUGH rough draft is done. Surprisingly, this story has a lot to say. How long is too long for a short story? #Booksky #WritingCommunity #writer #amwriting #author 💙📚 📝

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

So one of my corporate clients disappeared on me and the bills are not disappearing (though I did ask them to, nicely). If you were considering working with me on your book, short stories or query this summer or later this year, you can DM me or hit the 🔗in my bio. Thank you 💜

Getting ready to query, work on your novel, or self-pub? I have openings for July and August. DM me. Evergreen note: You don’t NEED to hire an editor if you’re pursuing trad pub. No agent requires you to. But it can help, if you need more eyes on your prose, plot and pitch.

Will this be the weekend I finally finish drafting my wip? Can’t wait to find out! #Booksky #WritingCommunity #writer #amwriting #author 💙📚 📝

You heard ‘em. Let’s go! 💙📚

That was a WEEK, wasn’t it? Go ahead and buy those books. You earned them.

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

My consulting firm specializes in training scientists how to talk to the public including writing op-Ed’s. I will waive my fee for any who can’t pay, and will happily review any draft op Ed’s or op Ed pitches about this.

Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

Why? 🥵

It’s gonna be hot this week. A good opportunity to hide inside and write. #Booksky #WritingCommunity #writer #amwriting #author 💙📚 📝

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

Fascists want you to roll over and not exercise your rights. And one of those rights is to vote. Use it, protect it, fight for it.

So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

Relevant to that NYT piece that's going around...if your vote didn't still matter, they wouldn't be trying everything to convince you it was worthless.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

Have you backed up your projects lately? Go. Do it now. We’ll wait. #amwriting #books 💙📚 📝 #WritingCommunity #author

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

Wrote a novel in four months? That’s fucking awesome! Wrote a novel in three years? That’s fucking awesome! Do you. A book takes as long as it takes. Just keep at it.

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

We've decided to close our summer subs period early, after July 3rd. We will reopen in September, but for now, you've got two more days if you've been holding onto something for us!

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

Lit mags open for submissions today! Cosmic Horror Monthly Inner Worlds Flash Fiction Online Small Wonders Hexagon Kaleidotrope

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

OTHER MINDS is a year old in September! Sales are so mid-mid-mid list it's in the oceanic trench, but I love my first book baby, so can we sell a few more before the year's up? Also, here's Paul McAuley's review for @interzone.press interzone.digital/a-review-of-...

A Review of OTHER MINDS, a pair of novellas by Eliane Boey // IZ Digitalinterzone.digital ‘The epigraph to Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren quotes poet George Stanley in conversation: “You have confused the true and the real.” It could stand at the head of the SFF fictions that form one of the ...

Vote. Vote down ticket. Vote informed. Vote fiercely. Democracy is not a spectator sport. Show up. Bring your friends. Be heard.

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

*cracks knuckles* Today clearly calls for kittens and epic landscapes, and I am the hero Gotham needs right now. #MyPhotos #Kittens #NaturePhotography 📷

I planted roses for the first time ever and managed not to kill it. Yet!

Give me the hard books. Give me me words I have to look up and sentences I have to reread to make sense of. Give me footnotes or annotations if you must. But above all, give me the author’s words how they wrote them. #amreading #books 💙📚

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

idk who needs to hear this, but you absolutely do not need to watch the debate.

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

Just saw some extremely bad writing advice, so: You're a writer if you're not writing right now. You're a writer if you write 1 short story a year. You're a writer if you take breaks. You're a writer if you're still working on *that* story or poem. There's no *one* way. This isn't Highlander.

Turn off your editing brain when writing a rough draft. Just get everything out. You can cut stuff later. Better to have too much story than not enough. #Booksky #WritingCommunity #writer #amwriting #author 💙📚 📝

if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)

Reposted by

Phantasmagoria

I like art. I love making art and experiencing art. It makes me feel like life's worth living and that we do have a purpose

Get to know me by 10 TV shows: Once Upon A Time Lost X-Files Star Trek: Next Generation Parks & Rec The Good Place Schitt’s Creek The Originals Doctor Who The Twilight Zone