I finally remembered how to log back into Bsky!
I also have a book coming out! Booklist and Publishers Weekly like it. Woo.

Congrats, Aiden!

Feeling ready to pass out working on edits for my next pass! Talk about a mental workout by @yourfriendmaya.bsky.social ! #writingishard

Also yes, I know I'm an award-nominated designer. These were done in 5 days for fun, NOT stage or screen, and two other costumes were made but not pictured. It's healing to remember how to have fun even when there are imperfections.

Starting to research next year already.

Figured if anyone got a kick out of it, @gailsimone.bsky.social might. My husband went as Catman to #Connecticon and mixed a few versions.

Unlike him, I'm not serious so I went as Booster Gold, Space Cabbie, and Sexx Luthor--yeah, like Robot Chicken DC Special 2.

Shameless or delirious from work?

The moment I read the pitch for this, I KNEW I had to read it immediately! 24 hours later, I offered rep! I cannot wait for next summer! This book is BEYOND AMAZING!

Rights Report: Week of June 30, 2025 New deals for Astrid Scholte, Amie Kaufman, Mia Siegert, and others.

Coming soon: new projects from @amiekaufman.bsky.social @miasiegert.bsky.social @cynthiacliff.bsky.social @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social + more buff.ly/ieHZH3Z

The news is out!

Thanks to my rockstar agent @writeloudly.bsky.social!

THE NAMES WE BURIED
Summer 2026, Scholastic
Edited by Mallory Kass & @yourfriendmaya.bsky.social

A trans boy takes a DNA test and discovers he’s a perfect match for a family searching for their kidnapped daughter.
#lgbtqYA

Announcement pending.

Hey folks,

I'm mostly posting on Instagram because of the costumes.
CATS at The Fulton and Casa Manana.

Also TIIIIGHT writing deadlines!

New independent press to focus on male writers Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’

Maybe if you got your head out of your ass and looked at the overwhelmingly high percentage of cismale authors who are published over any other demographic, you'd realized your work is getting passed because it sucks.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

I see Gail woke up and chose war.

The excuses... sharing that his friend (a mother of a trans child) sent him articles explaining the issues and he still's like, "yeah, I'm still doing it." True colors....

I'm not even sure. Which is the worst part!

It's just... meh. I don't enjoy it.

I keep trying to get on board with Bsky, and I just can't figure this darn site out. :(

I haven't talked about Val Kilmer because it's very sad for me. "Batman Forever" changed my life. I had it on VHS. I watched it all the time. It... honestly explains a LOT about me in general.

Some people were very cruel to him when he was grappling with health. So cruel.

This is sad.

Good.

Author milestone: earned out my advance. :)

NO.

I'm a huge mental health advocate, I love my husband and my cats, I'm a DC Comics nerd, especially anything Batfam and Green Lantern. "Justice League: War" is still my favorite animated DC movie because "Who the hell is Bruce Wayne?" and I like it when Superman's a jerk.

I'm pretty socially awkward and usually non-confrontational at all, but I am a petty Scorpio from NJ so I have a breaking point. People who defend piracy and laugh about it to my face when I explain real world repercussions go on that shit list immediately.

Hi new friends! You might have recently followed me because of my posts trying to educate about piracy and the royalties authors get from the library.

Please introduce yourself!

I'm a bigender, queer, ND writer and costume designer. I'm responsible for JERKBAIT and SOMEBODY TOLD ME. I love cats.

Also the pirate who claimed they had no ID... you need a SSN for SNAP/EBT as well as tax returns. You can get a library card easily with those. But if you did have "food stamps," you absolutely can have a library card...

Sorry, this is really upsetting because it's adding to the stigma.

I don't like the cosplaying poor from people defending piracy. It's easy to tell when the information is wildly incorrect, usually when people talk about food stamps since it's been SNAP for a long time with EBT cards. You... don't bring physical stamps from other states...

Finally found it. The average book thief makes between 60k and 99K USD.

The average author makes around 10k. Most pirates are stealing from people worse off than themselves. But they cosplay as poor or use poor people as a shield to justify their class warfare.

torrentfreak.com/wealthy-olde...

Most people say they have no clue that authors get paid royalties for library copies then tell everyone they know in an effort to stop piracy AND make sure we get paid.

I don't like sharing what it's done to me personally but I do to help people understand real world consequences. But laughter?

I'm not very active on Bsky.
I'm alarmed at how many people are supporting piracy right to authors' faces when we're sharing how it's affected us and we're providing ways to read our work for free while we get paid.
The lack of empathy coupled with entitlement is astounding. Usually people assist.

Why on earth would you laugh about this?

Author Complaints at Clear Fork Press - Writer Beware In early February, author Vanessa Keel published a long, cautionary blog post about her experience with one small publisher. It was not a happy tale: an absent editor, little marketing support, a non-...

New Writer Beware blog post: authors' complaints at Clear Fork Press include royalty payment & reporting problems, contractual breaches, distribution issues, and much more writerbeware.blog/2025/03/21/a...