Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills: Review by Gary K. Wolfe locusmag.com/review/...

“Rare Tip Eat a tarot card to gain its powers”

Cover of Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Today's book rec: "takes elements of familiar story lines -- a deal with the Devil, aliens living among us, and the all-too-real struggles of a young trans woman -- and combines them into something completely new, jarring, unexpected and beautiful." My full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

edits to the first four pages of chapter 2

Why thank you! I'm very pleased with it—I found it at a thrift store after months of searching for a secretary desk that actually has enough surface space to hold all the notebooks etc. that I need to see all at once

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In DC for @awesomecon.bsky.social and if you are too, say hi! I have panels, signings, and a podcast recording, so I’m around all weekend—check the app for details

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Revision plans still chugging along, chapter by chapter. Working on 10 and 12 today!

Photo of an outdoor café table with a binder of lined loose leaf paper, a notebook, a pen, and an iced chai latte.

editing in the unseasonably warm weather. the sun is out, spring is approaching & life is beautiful

Photo of a stack of library books sitting on a desk. Bottom to top, they are: On Morrison by Namwali Serpell, Underland by Robert Macfarlane, The Genuis of Trees by Harriet Rix, Hild by Nicola Griffith, and The Hounding by Xenobia Purvis.

Library haul! I'm excited for these.

my hot writing take is that playing with POV is neat and you can do what you want. present tense first! close third! first-person-direct-address with bits of omniscient third! anything is legal if you look good doing it!!

why do i have so many characters. the number of important characters is 33. that is TOO MANY.

A digital illustration in the style of a vintage children’s book. It depicts two humanoid figures whose heads are a flattened organic shape with an opening in the center. Leaning forward, their faces are chained together. Their body language conveys that, while slightly surprised, are ultimately cool with this event.

Girl Moment

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Photo of the same cat, now sitting across two piles of manuscript.

not... not the most helpful place to be, didi, thank you...

Screenshot of a word count box in google docs. Text reads: Pages 237; Words 79,891; Characters 428,465; Characters excluding spaces 349,267

so, completed first draft!!!!

now i have several months of editing ahead of me...

Screenshot of a Google Doc showing the last paragraph of a novel and the word FIN at the bottom. The paragraph reads: and from the cracks of the poisoned wood We began to see that inevitable grey creep, the branching arms of soft rot, which held the wood and caressed it from within, and began the work of eating away its sharp edges and solid insides, and then there came the green cast on the surface of the path, the shallow wrinkles of algae, which bloomed larger and larger across the treads, which were caught in the pads of paws and the soles and scuffed away, but which grew back again regardless.

it is done.

mostly on glow, secondarily on saw

and also. baby powder is your friend

jordan i LOVE this for you

An ‘astonishingly’ large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara | BBC Science Focus Magazine This school-bus-sized predator was so unusual that scientists didn't recognise it at first

WAKE UP EVERYONE UNICORN SPINOSAURUS JUST SPAWNED
www.sciencefocus.com/news/new-din...

i feel like i'm finally getting the hang of the tree voice for my novel which is an amazing feeling but also why is this happening on chapter 37. of 40.

much rewriting to come....

broke 70k words! only 5 chapters left to write! we are in the final stretch folks

my condolences!

it's 4 am. i have to get up for work at 7. two hours ago a query letter—FOR THE BOOK I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED WRITING—dropped fully formed into my brain, and apparently i can't sleep until i write it all down. thanks, brain. terrible timing.

let's bring back this kenning for sword please

Photo of a desk with a writing tablet with keyboard, a pair of glasses, and an open book with marked-up poems, sticky notes, and a pencil lying on it.

chanukah and christmas are over so we're back at it with chapter 32!

goals today: finish the bark bread scene in chapter 30, write the unfinished red deer scene from chapter 29
goals tomorrow: finish chapter 30
somehow later this week: write chapter 31

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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

Text of a Publishers Marketplace announcement: Fiction: Debut Erik Grove's THE LONG RED TOMORROW, a science-fiction noir that follows an investigator searching for a missing person through the lowest bars to the highest penthouses in a dust-choked martian colony on the verge of revolution, to Julie Constantine at Podium Publishing, by Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky Literary Agency.

I have news! My debut novel is coming soon!

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Photo of the same cat lying beside a small pillow on a wooden desk chair. Because of how fluffy she is, she takes up all of the space on the chair.

the beast does not want me to finish this chapter

Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025 Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.

Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤

We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️

#tdor