Just because you read dark romance does not mean that gives you an excuse not to read diversely. There are tons of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ and fat-positive dark romances out there.

throwing queer erotica authors under the bus when queer sex has been stigmatized for decades and continues to be stigmatized as another queer author is loser shit and you should stop doing that. "but payment processors-" are a problem i agree, blame them instead of your peers making legal material!

With the rise in AI-generated book covers, there's a certain comfort to be found in seeing the same models' faces over and over again. That one silver fox looking to the left. The dude with the giant sideburns and the red-headed woman he's often with. The dark-haired gal in the white bikini.

I wish people cared about the first amendment rights of authors and artists who are getting their works banned in schools and libraries across the USA as much as they care about the rights of white male comedians to be on national TV

Downloaded my full list, culled the inactives (easy), then culled everyone with a low open rate (harder). STRONGLY encourage anyone who wants to keep up with me to follow my Patreon for now! Free members can read my announcements, plus the Flos Magicae epilogues 🖤
www.patreon.com/ArdenPowell

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice.

Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

An abstract illustration of yellow flowers against a blue background. The white text reads: Need a mental health break? I have free cozy stories full of plants and cute robots

A cover of green leaves and pink and purple black eyed Susan flowers. The title says Extended Forecast, Al Hess

A tan cover with multicolored abstract fern fronds and tulips. The title reads: The Elopement of Atticus and NEON, Al Hess

How you doing? Need a little break? Maybe some cute and cozy stories would help. Totally free at alhessbooks.itch.io
and set in a soft and overgrown post-post-apocalyptic world inspired by the song (Nothing But) Flowers by the Talking Heads 🤖🪻

Just a reminder: Freydis Moon is not a Mexican author. They are a a white person pretending to be Latinx. Do not give them any money.

And yes they have a new book about to drop in the middle of Latinx heritage month.

Oh geeze. How unfortunate.

I had this same thought about The Sting

That Harry Chapin tape was _very_ popular on roadtrips for my family.

Two-day migraine. Thank goodness for audio books; I'd not handle the boredom otherwise. (Re-listens only, though. This time, mostly the first three books of Lori Ames' Willow Lake Supernaturals, narrated by Kirt Graves.)

who's gonna start the dumb appliances and small electronics company and make a killing? i do not want screens, bluetooth, internet, wifi, NOTHING.

is it shitposting if i say that Gothic literature is the same as Romantic literature except indoors

Round of applause to @srlpublishing.bsky.social for this: a web page listing each of their books stolen by Meta. More active shaming of techbro thieves from publishers, please!

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Fan art quote.

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

The case for letting people set their accounts to private on bsky has always been a big one, but especially lately with the witchhunts going on. We need to be able to lock down and moderate who is following us. We need to be able to stop people from following us and soft block or remove followers.

Different than fiction publishing? Sure. But if you want complete accuracy, you have to staff for it.

This. When I did line editing/proofreading for a legal publication in the 90s, each change had minimum three people's eyes on it (one lawyer, two of us) and usually more like six of us would touch it through the process. For a single, multi-volume publication, 18 of us total. Plus indexer.

DNF'd a book last night at about 20%. Not because of the crappy editing (so, so bad) but because of lack of story. Genre fiction is supposed to have a story! That's kind of the whole point.

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Five small, anti-doomscroll pleasures:

1. A mug of tea that isn't over-brewed after all
2. Fitting the last piece into a jigsaw puzzle
3. Every time Grazing In the Grass plays
4. That perfect stretch unexpectedly dissolving a random ache
5. Ginger snaps

Hispanic Heritage Month book recs. So Many Stars an Oral History of Trans Nonbinary Genderqueer and Two Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis. When the Wides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley. The Hills of Estrella Roja by Ashley Robin Franklin. Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova. The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez. Till the Last Beat of my Heart by Louangie Bou-Montes.

Hispanic Heritage Month book recs. Spellbound by Allie Therin. Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa. Witches by Brenda Lozano. Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez. Venom and Vow by Anna Marie Mclemore and Elliot Mclemore. Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua.

Hispanic Heritage Month book recs. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda. High Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez. Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa. Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins. Get real, Chloe Torres by Crystal Maldonado. A Curse of Scales and Flame by Max Walker.

Hispanic Heritage Month book recs. Blackouts by Justin Torres. Glowrot by Beatrice Lebrun. Dawn of the Obsidian Sun by RN Barbosa. The Forgotten Lyric by Carolina Cruz. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. They Came in the Night by Ravi Novais.

It is Hispanic Heritage Month, time for some queer reads to celebrate! (1/2)

Saturday Reading Rainbow Space Magic. October 4–5. RainbowSpaceMagic.org. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the rainbow-colored letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: A starry sky with a rainbow.

Sunday Reading Rainbow Space Magic. October 4–5. RainbowSpaceMagic.org. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the rainbow-colored letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: A starry sky with a rainbow.

Listen to authors read their work at this year's Rainbow Space Magic! October 4 & 5, free to attend.

Writing with resistance, Imagining a better future. Register on rainbowspacemagic.org.
#LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

There's a particular level of bummer that's reserved for getting really excited about a romance book and then learning that one of the MCs shares a name with one of your family members. Ew no.

If you have recs for INCLUSIVE fantasy (or scifi tbh) let me know #booksky

Big Queer Historical Giveaway. LIKE IN LOVE WITH YOU by Emma R. Alban A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS by TJ Alexander THE DUKE by Anna Cowan ONE NIGHT IN HEARTSWOOD by Emma Denny A TROPICAL REBEL GETS THE DUKE by Adriana Herrera LADY LIKE by Mackenzi Lee A RARE FIND by Joanna Lowell THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET by Lindz McLeod LADIES IN HATING by Alexandra Vasti

It's a big damn giveaway!! You could nab NINE new or upcoming historicals, which is pretty neat

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Lesbians in Space 2: The Sapphics Strike Back Enjoy the followup to our bestselling anthology, Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before! Can't get enough? This time we've got another 20 great stories for you in Lesbians in Space: The Sapph...

We're almost to our next stretch goal, and that means illustrations! Help us reach $8000 for Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back!
#sciencefiction #fantasy #sapphic #romance
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Ashlyn Drewek 20m • • •• As a conservative MM author, I already felt like I walked on egg shells with my community. I never posted anything political. I kept it to books and men's issues (because that's what MM means i.e. Male/ Male), but even that became problematic so l stopped posting at all. I eventually deleted all of my social media, except FB. Needless to say, I am SO happy to have finally found a safe space where people like me aren't vilified. Thank you for making this space.

This was posted in a MAGA author group so I wanted to bring it over here so you don’t accidentally pick up one of her books.