Ruadán Books is open to novella submissions right now, if you have anything around 25k to sub.

Creative Play through Small Groups in the Music Classroom, a project from Ms. Carr Help me give my students the necessary tools in which to be musically successful. This is my first year teaching at this primary school, and I've been working hard to build a welcoming classroo...

One of my cousins in Texas teaches music. She’s just switched schools and needs some money for a group rug and some beginner keyboards. This school serves a historically underfunded group of kids.

Help out if you can! She’s just shy 250ish.

Title: Easter Egg Hunt techniques inspired by great detectives Panel 1: Sherlock Holmes. Deduce the exact location of every egg from seemingly unrelated details without leaving your room. Send your amazed sidekick to fetch them. Panel 2: Jack Reacher Hit the garden hard and fast. Take no prisoners Get back on the road. This approach results in a thrillingly intense hunt, but very few intact eggs. Panel 3: George Smiley Meticulously assess documents, people and motives. Then scrupulously collect the eggs and dejectedly wonder if any of it was worthwhile.

My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com

We are open to novella manuscripts! We're looking for dark thrillers, crime noir, & dark speculative fiction—if you've got a complete novella (25k-40k words) that fits, we want to hear from you.

Submission guidelines here:
links.ruadanbooks.com/Novellas26

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I've been thinking about this video all day.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid.

Murder Commissions are BAAAAACK! Dianna Gunn published a post on Ko-fi

Welp I paid rent and now I own $6.19 so that's fun

In related news, if you've been thinking about buying a murder, now is a really good time

I can write a custom death scene where YOU die in an outrageous way

Or a murder scene where you kill a (fictional) billionaire in an outrageous way!

Hey all, this happening in just lil over 90 minutes from now! Eldritch Winter in the midst of a blizzard 🌨️ Join hosts Claire Suzanne Elizabeth Cooney & Carlos Hernandez & readers Christa Carmen, Sarah Hans, Nicholas Kaufmann, Cassandra Khaw, Haralambi Markov, S.P. Miskowski, Jeffrey Thomas & me @ 2:30 pm EST for a cozy, spooky gathering. You can watch it at home and/or on your phone at https://www.twitch.tv/csecooney

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This book is fabulous, and you could maybe win a copy while learning more about another great writer.

I can't wait for y'all to read this.

ISO of an Owlcrate edition of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow. Anyone have a lead?

The #1 rule about paying someone to teach you how to make money writing books is don't pay them if they won't even tell you what books they wrote that are making all the money.

Each new interview reveals a new facet of my anger over this... "adaptation."

The Atrocities Check out The Atrocities - <p><b><i>Jeremy Shipp brings you THE ATROCITIES, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education</i></b><br><br>When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ens...

Also, I heard this writer @jeremycshipp.bsky.social maybe wrote a book called THE ATROCITIES about which I once wrote, "it's absolutely and atmospherically apropos for dipping into the macabre each October," so maybe y'all should check it out. Yes, in February.

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Anthology of Dreams (World of Darkness) Anthology of Dreams (World of Darkness) - Kindle edition by Onyx Path Publishing, Brannon, Deborah J., Corfman, Abigail, Dorey, Nathan, Handman, Wren, Inczauskis, Ja-son Ross, Kalis, Myranda, McIntyre, Katherine, McVey, Geoffrey, McFarland, Matthew. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Anthology of Dreams (World of Darkness).

I've got a selkie story called "Watercolors" I'm quite fond of in this Changeling anthology; it wasn't originally conceived as a Changeling: the Dreaming tale, but it fit well enough.

I don't earn royalties, but would love to hear what folks think of my story.

www.amazon.com/Anthology-Dr...

Today's a great day to support some creators.

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it.

Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

a man says it 's my birthday in a video Alt: Clip from the film THOR RAGNAROK showing Bruce Banner hitting a button in a stolen pleasure cruiser that activated "birthday mode" with party lights on the interior and fireworks outside the spaceship; text across the bottom says "It's my birthday!" in strobing multicolored letters.

Birthday so far: up too early, dad kindly dropped by with a card, mom sweetly made breakfast, kitty snuggles, weeping over @alixeharrow.bsky.social's THE EVERLASTING, so, you know. Solid.

If you're sleeping on THE EVERLASTING, you should stop doing that.

A photograph of two soft dolls, an anthropomorphic cat and rabbit wearing colorful clothing, sitting next to each other against soft fabrics. Text on the image reads "hello February." Photo by Antoni Shkraba Studio.

Rabbit rabbit rabbit, and welcome to February, my birth month! May we all find some joy and comfortable softness this month in the face of harsh reality.

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

If you see this, post a character that starts with a G

People are learning the power of Romancelandia, so here are 10 copies of Deal with the Devil by @kitrocha.com. @mostlybree.kitrocha.com posted about librarian super soldiers building a community and kicking ass, I was sold and the rest is history. Links in the next posts for US Kindle redemption.

Y'all should get on this.

If anyone would like to send us some funds to help out, I can take her to a vet to get tested for FIV and other problems, and maybe get her spayed if she isn't yet.

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/jeremycshipp
Venmo: venmo.com/u/2252430720...
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It is difficult when a warm churro feels just like love.

And the wink!

Just over ONE MONTH to FIVE FUNERALS from @jeffsomers.bsky.social!

Coming 2.22.26: The Class of ’95 threw a legendary grad party that ended in one death and twenty-five kids keeping a terrible secret. Twenty years later, only five survive... so far.

Order: links.ruadanbooks.com/FF

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