Today’s a travel day, which involves driving 1.5 hours just to get to the parking lot that will then take me to the place where the aluminum tubes can fly.
Someone else’s riches for useful passenger rail.
CODE AND CODEX by Yoon Ha Lee, ARCs
US-only giveaway [1]: I have two ARCs of my forthcoming linguistics space opera CODE AND CODEX! Reply with your funniest/most terrifying mathy limerick [2] and I'll pick two recipients.
[1] Apologies to int'l folks; I'm US-based and shipping costs are prohibitive. /o\
[2] Yes, it has math in. :)
Brigitte from Overwatch in a black crop top with the Overwatch Logo and orange jogging pants holding her phone up and taking a mirror selfie. Her other arm is raised, hand behind her neck to lift the shirt up and show her abdominal muscles
Anran is staring at her phone (possibly panic) with a blush across her face. Here pupils have become little hearts and there is a pink "jolt" on the side of her head
Brigitte's mirror selfie may or may not be doing things to Anran ☺️ #overwatch #fanart #wlw
One of the hardest + most important things to learn as a creative. Stop waiting to make your “opus” — keep going, get better
Glad for all the romantasy readers who're living in their golden age but when will fiction drenched in unsentimental cynicism starring women who give no fucks be on trend again (asking for myself and my career)
Dykes to Watch Out For
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat
Heathen
And while I have not gotten to it yet I know enough dykes who adore it to death:
How Do We Relationship
RIGHTS REPORT Andrew Karre at Dutton Books has acquired, in an exclusive submission, The Pink Book, a collection of intertwined weird stories that resist the patriarchy and each in some way involve a pink book, edited by A.S. King, editor of the Printz-winning anthology The Collectors. The anthology includes contributions from Charlie Jane Anders, Martha Brockenbrough, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Shannon Gibney, Laura Ruby, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Mariko Tamaki, Padma Venkatraman, and Jacqueline Woodson, with interstitial pieces by A.S. King. Publication is set for summer 2027; Michael Bourret at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret brokered the deal for world rights.
Unbelievably chuffed to be part of this incredible project 😻😻😻😻😻
Please do your part.
Incredibly proud of James, for winning this award and even moreso for his relentless reporting AND volunteering at the border, helping to tell the stories of and provide aid too the most desperate people on earth
🚨 Mean lesbians! 🚨
Michael B Jordan all ripped and oily holding a sculpt of his own chest as if he burst out of it and in his left hand and on the left side of his body he has a cool trench coat on but the right side is just bare body with deltoids and pecs and triceps and obliques and forearms and then he has on these green pants made out of Rich Person Material, probably some kind of rare animal leather and the lighting accentuates all the creases pointing to his schmeat oh yeah by the way even his nipple is shiny Rolling Stone did this
Have we discussed this yet?
👋✨ Long time no see, everyone! I've been hiding away, spending the past year working on the illustrations for "The Fires of December!" In the meantime, I wanted to mention that the "Chimera" jackets are being restocked soon and pre-orders can be made at mynameistran.com/store/chimera-jacket.
I already backed, you can too!!
Okay, let me change things to be more upbeat. Indie authors, would you mind sharing which indie bookstores have been great to work with? Have they let you do signings or host launch events? #WriteSky
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You’re welcome!
Happy birthday!!🎉
A person with purple glasses and blue hair standing in front of the window and some trees
It's my 25th birthday! 🥳🎉
Despite being a queer, neurodivergent Gen Z in such a rough time, I'm still alive 💜
My only ask is that you support my freelance editing business so I can build a life & career for myself.
Hire me as your editor, repost, share my website, read my blogs! Anything helps!
Over a blue background, the text says, "Grounding the Reader: How description, setting, and sensory details create a vivid sense of place and person. An On-Demand Class for Writers by Mary Robinette Kowal. members.maryrobinettekowal.com/shop." Underneath is a photo of a person wearing boots standing on a rock in a forest, shown from just the shins down.
Even in speculative fiction, the reader needs to feel grounded in the world and the character. Learn how to use description, setting, and sensory details to do just that in my on-demand Grounding the Reader class: members.maryrobinettekowal.com/posts/video-... No subscription necessary.
Over a background of books, photos of the participating authors and their titles, plus location/time info (Books on the Bosque, Albuquerque, April 23 at 5:30 PM)
Quick reminder: Albuquerque friends, I'll be at @booksonthebosque.bsky.social along with @davering.bsky.social @marieparks.bsky.social @tangentgeoff.bsky.social on Thursday, April 23 at 5:30 PM for a reading and signing. The event is free, and no registration or purchase is required. See you there!
A pink background decorated with rainbows and dashed lines in the colors of the lesbian pride flag. The text reads, “Lesbian Visibility Week Bundle; 94 sapphic & lesbian books for $40 USD; 4/20 - 4/26; exclusively on Itch.io”
70% of our goal already! 🥳🙌🏽 Thank you to everyone who already contributed to the bundle, and let's keep spreading the word—the more lesbians in the world, the merrier! 😁🤩
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#Books #BookSky #QueerWriters #LesFic
This is an absolutely wonderful book! One of the best novellas I've read in recent memory. Hoping to post my review shortly :)
Thank you!! I’m sure I will!
Riff on a Perfect Blue poster featuring Char Aznable. Char, as Quattro Bajeena, stares wild-eyed as he rears up to stab an unseen figure. Superimposed over him is an image of Char Deikun as he addresses the people of Neo Zeon.
rewatched perfect blue recently
[ #arttag #mobilesuitgundam ]
Meme with a photo of a fountain drink machine with a cup sitting under two nozzles (red and blue), a hand pushing both buttons at once and liquid coming from both nozzles. The blue (left) drink is labelled "grateful for the insight I have gained from all my experiences" and the red (right) drink is labelled "still thinks some of that sh*t should not have happened". The hand is labelled "me".
If you wish you were a girl, but believe you aren’t one, I have such great news
this happened to a friend of mine yesterday
Excited to do a reading of THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS at @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social on May 19th!
Come taste ginger beer while I listening to me go on about saucy superheroes & reverse-colonialism!
Special thanks to @randeedawn.com for organizing!
randeedawn.com/bonus/brookl...
(Free event!)
An audiobook graphic for Machines of Consent
Just a friendly reminder that this transbian cyberpunk thriller is now available in audiobook.
transistance.itch.io/machines-of-...
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.