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Betsy Miller & the lived and shared experience

📣 I was a guest on the Straight from the Hip podcast, hosted by Dr. Pablo Casteñeda!

We talked about what it’s like to live with a serious hip problem and why I’m writing a new book Hip Replacement at Any Age. 📚 #BookSky

Check out our conversation here: open.spotify.com/episode/7B6g...

The Neurodiversiverse: Bridging Worlds - Call For Submissions | Thinking Ink Press Thinking Ink Press wants to publish your short stories, poetry, and art exploring encounters between neurodivergent people and neurodivergent aliens.

The #CallForSubmissions for THE NEURODIVERSIVERSE: BRIDGING WORLDS 🛸 is open!

This sequel to our award-winning anthology NDV: ALIEN ENCOUNTERS 👽 explores neurodivergent folk building bridges between communities.

Details at neurodiversiverse.com. Send us your stories, poetry, and art!

#scifi

Self Help ARCs You'll Love

Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth is in an advanced reader copy (ARC) bundle at Book Sirens!
#BookSky #WriterSky
booksirens.com/bundle/self-...

Hip, Hop, Hooray for Brooklynn! Check out Hip, Hop, Hooray for Brooklynn! - <p>This upbeat story is about Brooklynn, a little bunny who loves to hop. Brooklynn wears a brace at night, but she is determined to learn how to hop rope i...

Hip, Hop, Hooray for Brooklynn!
Brooklynn is a little bunny who loves to hop in the daytime and wears a brace at night. Perfect for families with a toddler or young child who wears a clubfoot brace. bookshop.org/p/books/hip-...

It’s so beautiful! I love the way you captured the light.

Today! 💙❤️

Related: I’m looking for an illustrator with a textured, painterly, elevated, serious, realistic, literary style to illustrate a lovely sports themed jacketed, hardcover picture book.

Feel free to respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs.

💙❤️ #artcommissions

Book Giveaway for Writing Memoir in Flashes: Creative Ways to Tell Your True Stories, One Memory at a Time by Lita Kurth Enter to win one of 30 free copies available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

Enter for a chance to win Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth at @librarything.com! The Early Reviewers giveaway is live now through April 26. #BookSky #WriterSky
www.librarything.com/ner/detail/5...

Yes, so true! I was a tech writer for many years. We wrote in the specified voice for target readers: consumer, superuser, and to match sub-brands (more like vibes). Some products were co-branded with other companies & had to “sound” like AT&T, Comcast, etc. & docs had to be accurate...

#Booksky It’s award-winning publisher/editor/author Catherine Lundoff’s birthday today! Her works include the Wolves of Wolf’s Point books (menopausal werewolves!), multiple short story collections, 3 anthologies, articles, media tie-ins for World of Darkness and more!
catherinelundoff.net

Two books on a wooden deck: Dream the Deep by Clara Ward (Cover image is illustration of octopus-like arms closing around a small mechanical rover.) Us by Sara Soler (cover image is illustration of two women in pink with flowers, eyes closed with their foreheads together.)

I finished two more books for the #TransRightsReadathon yesterday!

One Piece www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

I have had a lot of fun co-hosting and being a guest on Skiffy and Fanty.

Authors: file your Anthropic Settlement claims! Really!

1. They should have paid you!
2. Even if you would not ever have licensed your material to these people, this is a chance to take /real cash/ out of their pockets -- not speculative valuation on some invented multiple, /currency/

I was lucky enough to read early drafts of these novellas. They’re wonderful, and I’m sure the audiobooks will be too!

Cover of The Subtle Art of Folding Space A tier of bamboo steamers run down the cover. The further down we get, the weirder the contents of the steam. It starts with bao on top to stars and planets on the bottom.

(This time with the cover)
The Subtle Art of Folding Space comes out April 7th. Preorder now! From today to Thursday @barnesandnoble.com members get 25% off with the code PREORDER25
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-subtle...

That is a gorgeous cover! 💖

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨

@sfgate.com, the West Coast's largest news site, is looking for a new tech reporter.

🧵 below on what we're looking for, or if you want a shortcut, here's the job listing: sfgate.com/careers

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Ask Me Anything: Masters of Fiction. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join three career authors and editors for a discussion about crafting masterful fiction: — Steven James, author of more than 20 novels — Tiffany Yates Martin (pen name: Phoebe Fox) who has edited be...

Next month, free to all: Join me and three career novelists & editors for an "ask me anything" lunchtime session on fiction writing.

Featuring: @tiffanyyatesmartin.bsky.social, @jessicastrawser.bsky.social & Steven James.

There's just TWO DAYS left to apply for a panelist spot at our upcoming virtual conference! If you're a disabled author & have something to say about disabled characters or writing while disabled, we'd love to hear from you! And we'd especially love to hear from more BIPOC authors :)

Reading for the Hugos? In Best Short Fiction, we recommend "The Garden of Feelings," by Aotearoa New Zealand writer Tehnuka. It's one of the most yearningly abstruse, exotic, strange and beautiful stories about the trials of parenting you'll ever read. fabulistmagazine.com/a-garden-of-...

does this article list whose identities they stole?

😮

The wearing of the green...

A picture of two bookmarks: Your Writing Matters by Keiko O’Leary and Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth. Each bookmark shows a photo of the author and the cover of their book.

Bookmarks arrived for Your Writing Matters by Keiko O’Leary and our forthcoming book Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth. 🎉
We’ll send these with the Kickstarter rewards when Writing Memoir in Flashes is printed. 💖📚
ARCs are coming soon for reviewers! 📝

I love it so much! 💖💖💖🦄

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Next Tuesday, March 10th, is the release of BUTTERFLY EFFECTS, the fifteenth (!!) book in my InCryptid series of urban fantasy chaos adventures!

Aww, I want to pet it!

HELLO I AM IN THE SKY and for the next hour or so will be taking questions. ASK ANYTHING I WILL ANSWER just remember that if you ask for money or, like, a kidney, the answer will be no. Everything else is fair game. SO QUERY ME YOU FABULOUS HUMANS