Victoria Janssen

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I love cats, comics, and houseplants. She, her. SFWA Romance Steering Committee member. Writer of "A Place of Refuge" hopepunk space opera: https://books2read.com/rl/aplaceofrefuge

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Good Morning! Here Is All You NEED TO KNOW About The Updated COVID-19 Shots Planned For This Fall. Thank You For Reading! 🧪🧵⬇️

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#ReaderCon is still collecting #Covid reports and would like to hear from you if you've come up positive since Sunday, [email protected]

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if you have liked reading my #Readercon panels reports, and have ideas for future panels (followups, random tangents, totally unrelated things that seem vaguely in the same wheelhouse), drop them in our suggestion box! readercon.org/contribute

Contribute to Readercon's Program | Readercon Web Servicesreadercon.org

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Do you want feedback on your short story? The @uncannymagazine.bsky.social kickstarter offers manuscript critiques from a long list of amazing writers and editors, including me! First come first choice! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN!www.kickstarter.com Funding to support Year 11 of Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

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My Birdverse novella YOKE OF STARS is officially out today!! tachyonpublications.com/product/yoke... Please spread the word if you are so moved.

Yoke of Stars - Tachyon Publicationstachyonpublications.com “Haunting, nuanced, and hopeful, Yoke of Stars is essential reading.” —Izzy Wasserstein, author of These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart In the School of Assassins, Stone Orphan waits for a first ...

I forgot all about Humid Horror. It falls after Juicy and before Liquid. So far, imo the spectrum begins with Damp and proceeds to Moist and you can tell I'm not at the day job today.

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Want to support another year of great fiction AND get a 5x7 print of one of my photos? The @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Year 11 Kickstarter has a reward level for that! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

Tuesday, negative test. I don't think I had sustained unmasked contact with anyone at #Reafercon who's tested positive. This is for data. And just in case.

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I just signed up to write postcards to get out the vote in swing states. You can, too! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

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SPACEFUNK! FUNDED. Well, all right.

Parliament - Mothership Connectionyoutu.be

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We're delighted to announce — with help from Electric Literature — the shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to the authors! The recipient of this year's prize will be announced on Ursula's birthday, October 21st. electricliterature.com/announcing-t...

#Readercon panel notes - "The Persistence of Enchantment," a conversation between Greer Gilman and Sofia Samatar. @readercon.bsky.social

“The Persistence of Enchantment,” Readercon 2024 | Victoria Janssen victoriajanssen.com

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One-day-only sale of the e-book of my first novel, IN DRIFT. Details on my blog, along with an explanation of how that dreadful title came about. (URL in first comment below.)

Has a #cozy recs list!

Twelfth #Readercon report, Defining and Appreciating Cozy SFF, with @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social @wiswell.bsky.social Natalie Luhrs, Steven Popkes, @victoriajanssen.bsky.social . Lots of recommendations here for your cozy reading needs!

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When you hear them say (and you will hear them say) that there’s no need to worry about H5N1 in Colorado because those getting sick are all poultry workers and you are not a poultry worker remind them and remind yourself that poultry workers are people.

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This has been an ongoing labor of love for the local Philly bookstore scene, and I hope you’ll come on out. www.phillyvoice.com/philly-books...

Philly Bookstore Crawl offers free books, discounts and author eventswww.phillyvoice.com More than 30 independent book shops in the city and suburbs are participating on Saturday, Aug. 24.

I enjoyed the heck out of this book's genre-bending!

Hi Folks! Light from Uncommon Stars will be a Kindle Goldbox Deal July 16 as part of the "Booktok" Goldbox! $2.99 for the day across all retailer sites. AND The audiobook is part of Audible's Prime Day Sale July 15-21 to all Audible Premium Plus Members. THANK YOU! @torbooks.bsky.social

Live - protest in Milwaukee.

LIVE: Protest in Milwaukee ahead of Republican National Conventionwww.youtube.com The Coalition to March on the Republican National Convention are expected to hold a major march and rally on the first day of the Republican National Convent...

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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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Great suggestions for the #DoSomething list: help the US south fight back against gerrymandering!

Good post focused on the presidential election. If you want to help my beloved, beleaguered south fight back against gerrymandering and anti-democratic capture, here's a few orgs that can help:

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Have the feeling a few direct links would not go amiss! ~Food Bank of the Golden Crescent: www.tfbgc.org ~Houston Food Bank: www.houstonfoodbank.org ~Houston Area Women's Center: hawc.org ~To donate blood in the area: www.giveblood.org/donate/find-... To make activism searchable: #DoSomething

Food Bank of the Golden Crescentwww.tfbgc.org The Food Bank of the Golden Crescent provides food assistance to over 40,000 people each month in 11 counties. Get support with SNAP, Medicaid, and more.

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The last of the substantial articles in "Women Players in England" falls in one of the categories-of-interest for the Lesbian Historic Motif Project, not for its dramatic content, but for an interesting sidelight on women's cross-dressing. alpennia.com/blog/jokes-you

The Joke's On You | Alpenniaalpennia.com Did you know that books of jokes and amusing tales were a popular staple of early modern English literature? In addition to published collections, people put together their own, like the one discussed...

Please feel free to link me to #Readercon panel writeups! I missed some good ones by being scheduled opposite. (I already follow @katenepveu.bsky.social .)

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Whenever you say, "Bu-but BOTH SIDES!" what I hear is: "Cupcakes. Urinal cakes. They're both cakes. They're both the same." Go on take a big bite out of that pink one and let me know how that works out for you.

Finally home from #Readercon. Time to Introvert.

Sigh. Train is running late. And kid next to me keeps coughing. No mask, of course. (I am masked.)

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Back in 2016, I dealt with my stress over politics by writing my frothy feminist romantasy novella Snowspelled. From now until the end of tomorrow, in hopes that that kind of escape might help you, too, you can download Snowspelled for free at this link: bookhip.com/GHSMPAB

And now "I'm Like a Bird," Nelly Furtado has shuffled up. For @amalelmohtar.com and @rblemberg.bsky.social ?

On a train. Current shuffle tune in my ears is Kirk Franklin, "Stomp," which followed Patti Smith, "Gloria."