🗳️Today’s the day, friends! If you haven’t voted YES yet, vote at your polling place. And remember, Virginia has same-day voter registration!!🗳️

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

It does mean I leave myself interesting notes in the story ideas folder on my phone at 2 am.

Me: *trying to sleep*
A Ghost: *tries to possess me*
My brain: AY YI YI I’M YOUR LITTLE BUTTERFLY
A Ghost: WTF?!
Me: Yeah, it’ll do that constantly for another week or so before it switches to something else.
My brain: GREEN BLACK AND BLUE
A Ghost: *flees*
Me: *still can’t sleep*

Join me and four other incredible authors tomorrow, April 18, at 11:00amEST for a fabulous panel on Language in SFFH!

Hosted by the wonderful @britfantasysoc.bsky.social, it's a full day event of multiple panels, some of them including bestselling authors!

Hope to see you there!

#CampRevPit doesn't just happen—it's powered by an incredible team! Behind the scenes, a stellar group of #RevPit alums and runner-ups is keeping the campfires burning and the energy high. Say hi to the wonderful crew! ⬇️

Camp RevPit Sign Up Camp RevPit offers peer feedback and group chats. Sign up form is open 4/14/2026 - 4/16/2026. To get all the details, visit https://reviseresub.com/mini-events/camp-revpit-spring-2026

Last day to sign up for #CampRevpit! 🏕️
Join us for any combination (or why not ALL) Camp activities via the sign-up form:

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Camp RevPit Sign Up Camp RevPit offers peer feedback and group chats. Sign up form is open 4/14/2026 - 4/16/2026. To get all the details, visit https://reviseresub.com/mini-events/camp-revpit-spring-2026

#CampRevPit: SIGN UP!
Hello, campers! Claim your cabin spot and select the activities you'd like to join using the form below!
The registration will remain open April 14 to April 16.

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I did it a few times then, too, but even that type of move would cost a whole lot more now. The increase just in the cost of living without even factoring in moving everything is nightmare-inducing.

Moving to a new state is so expensive. 😭 All of those “just move” folks are out of their GD minds.

It’s time to get signed up for Camp RevPit! We’re going to have a lot of fun this year, so get yourself signed up before the form closes on April 16!

😂😂😂 Glad to help stir the brain noodles!

Hopefully, someone can figure it out! Science fiction writers and illustrators need this information! (Or at least, I do.)

Yeah! Mine are usually gray, but they shift based on what they’re reflecting from around them. So it seems like they’d shift with the atmospheric content and color of the sun, too, right? I just don’t know, and it’s driving me up the wall. 🤣

The reposts will continue until we find the answer.

Reminder: Anyone can use the a hashtag.

If you're not sure if someone is a #RevPit editor, you can check our website www.reviseresub.com/editors or contact a board member, listed here www.reviseresub.com#:~:text=Revi...

It's finally here! Time to announce our 2026 #RevPit Annual Contest winners and runners-up!

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Marshmallow illustrations by yours truly. 😂 Sometimes I miss those lil guys.

WELCOME TO PREVIEW WEEK!

While we're waiting for our winners, let's go over what you need for camp.
1st- What is #CampRevPit?

#CampRevPit came out of the 2020 Annual Contest when mental health was suffering and was an idea for how to help writers cope with rejection after winners were announced.

The End of a Blogging Era

That's right, Aledan Merfolk, this is the very last post on the Mermaids and Margaritas blog (which started as the Sticky Note Stories blog waaaay back in 2006 or so). The website and blog have gotten too big, too complicated, and too slow for their own good. I've been…

christina koch talking on stage with a mic

Christina Koch: So several years ago, I was giving a speech about crew and crewmates and teamwork. And someone asked, what makes a crew? What is different about a crew than a team?

And I was like, I got this - open my mouth confidently to tell them everything I knew about being a crewmate

Tfw you manage to stop yourself before accidentally pouring cinnamon creamer instead of water into the coffee maker…

Seeing this makes me so sad. Dragons are one of my absolute most favorite things to paint, and this thing is a huge mess. The joints, the extra nostrils or eye holes, the weird artifacts along the throat and belly, the way the wing bones don’t connect properly, I just… There’s so much wrong with it.

There is nothing wrong with celebrating something good. It’s necessary for survival.

If you need a distraction from the current horrors, Camp RevPit is a great way to do it! Writing games, events, and community!

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

More myth in the thread! Here is Persephone descending to the Underworld

these were a modern take on ancient black-figure pottery, so mixing that black and warm yellow with bright cmyks

We may or may not have an announcement coming soon.

Watch this space ⛺

#RevPit #RevPitWaiting

Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.