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begging my brain to stop giving me even more story outlines. I have too many WIPs already 😳

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Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

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art gallery night in Ann Arbor 💖

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Not to get political or anything, but if the US is to make it out of this, every single right wing think tank like The Heritage Foundation and The Federalist Society needs to be dismantled in its entirety, its source of funding seized, and its existence criminalized so as never to take root again.

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Women couldn’t have their own credit until 1974. Marital rape became illegal nationwide in 1994. We are ONE generation into women having a CHANCE at life & it’s proved so intolerable America would rather end itself than allow such a thing to continue.

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Let's all take a moment to thank the @5calls.org team for making the single most useful tool for exercising our protest, on a daily basis. From my understanding it's a small company. The person I dealt w to create the book ban script is also the one emailing us all for alerts. Download it today!

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exciting news! 👀 I have a few words in Marissa Meyer's new book of writing advice, from an interview I did on her Happy Writer Podcast! It's doubly exciting being in this book with so many authors I admire, including Leigh Bardugo & VE Schwab! looking forward to reading it as I draft new things 🤩

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Today I joined a coalition of publishers including @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, authors @dashkaslater.bsky.social and David Levithan, @authorsguild.bsky.social, and Idaho librarians, parents, and students, in a lawsuit against Idaho's book banning law, HB 710. I'm proud to be part of the fight.

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jumping on a trend for serotonin 🖤⚔ hi, these are the vibes i (and my books) bring to the function!

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This past week has been one hell of a year. To all my trans friends: I'm so sorry. You are loved. 💕

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Right now, the U.S. is in a media crisis. Just in the nick of time, I'm starting a newsletter series about understanding media in the twenty-first century. I'll teach you how to challenge and change the messages that our media carries. Let's go. buttondown.com/thehypothesi...

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it's cold and dismal out, but nothing beats LARP parties 🖤⚔

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Today and in the coming days, remember

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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

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I'm glad to see so many people condemning Neil Gaiman for the horrific news that's come to light recently. But I'm still trying to wrap my head around why millions of people chose a U.S. presidential candidate whom we already knew was even worse.

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A little late to the party, but just finished S1 of Andor and 😳 it's Star Wars at its best. A harrowing, honest portrayal of the rebellion.

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IT'S PUBLICATION DAY!!! my debut novel HAMMAJANG LUCK is now out in the US! come for the cyberpunk space heist, stay for the butch/femme childhood friends to enemies to lovers, oops all lesbian cast, found family crew, and a setting that is my love letter to my homeland--Hawaiʻi links below!!!

submitted 51 days ago • 18 comments

This is your periodic reminder that: "AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent "hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors) "AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.

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One of my biggest creative projects of 2024 was my romantasy wedding, complete with a choregraphed rapier-duel during the first dance. ⚔️🦋 here's to future adventures!

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merry drizztmas 🎄 had a great weekend at PAX Unplugged, gaming with old friends and new ones!

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went over a year without posting here. time to change that! hi! i'm claire and i write weird, fast-paced SF/F (including my first YA cyberpunk duology!) this year, I finished the dark fantasy manuscript of my dreams, signed with a new agent, and started working on some new (and exciting) things. 🖤

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New sapphic book review! One Last Midnight (Requiem Dark #2.5) by Claire Winn judeinthestars.com/2023/10/30/o... 🌈📚 💙📚 🌏📚👀 🌈💜 #Sapphfic #BookRecommendations #BookReview #BookBlogger

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Two years ago, I officially became an author. Happy bday to the book that changed my life, opened new doors for me, & captured so many readers' hearts. As of last month, this series is now complete. (Also, to celebrate, BOTH ebooks of the duology are on sale!)

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237,476 words. With the novella releasing today, I have three separate works published and my first series (Requiem Dark) is complete! ✨ No matter where my career goes next, these books (and their characters) will always be special. They've opened so many doors for me and made my dreams real.

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anyway! it's Bi Visibility Week and this majority-bi disaster squad's story will be fully complete ✨tomorrow ✨ when the novella One Last Midnight releases! if you're ready to jump on board, the first book is City of Shattered Light!

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I've been juggling too many social media accounts lately (lol), but I do have a novella coming out tomorrow so I think I need to do a few promo posts this week 😅

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Oooh, book mail! Look what arrived: it's CITY OF VICIOUS NIGHT by @clairewinn.bsky.social . I really enjoyed this YA sci-fi and as you can see from what I said, I highly recommend it! #cityofviciousnight #bookrecs #bookrecommendations #bookreview #yafiction #scifi 💙📚💙

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my LARP guild is a bunch of weird bisexuals IRL so naturally we're all playing Baldur's Gate 3 and the battle lines are "problematic prettyboy vampire" vs "fiery tiefling muscle mommy"

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A week ago, something special happened at A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe Theater in London. The show was perfect. After the crowd cleared out, the BF asked the stage manager if he could bring me onto the stage. He read me a sonnet (which he wrote) & proposed. Anyway, I'm engaged now.

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I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2): Hawaiʻi People's Fund: https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund ʻĀina Momona: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui

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planning an overseas vacation for the week after Cosplay Beach Party AND the release of Baldur's Gate 3 was a mistake! but I will be headed to London tomorrow!

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mini cover reveal! Here's the cover to ONE LAST MIDNIGHT, the follow-up novella to my first duology! It's 100+ pages of cyberpunk shenanigans, vengeance road trips, group-chat banter, & more of the best chaos technomancer & bubblegum bounty hunter. Coming September!

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This is great advice for any creative project, not just game dev! Have achievable goals, cuz most likely the thing you make will NOT be a huge hit, but that should never take away from the success of FINISHING a thing!

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I'll be revealing the cover for my upcoming cyberpunk novella this week! ONE LAST MIDNIGHT is a spinoff (book 2.5) of my Requiem Dark duology, featuring two new stories. See it first in my author newsletter on Thursday the 3rd--and it'll be posted on Friday!

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come on Barbie, let's go party 🎶 Saw Barbie last night (in cosplay). Lives up to the hype! Would recommend. ✨

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Had a great time last night celebrating the launch of @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social's Thick as Thieves! If you're a fan of heists, snarky banter, and immersive fantasy worlds, you need this duology! Thanks to Sidetrack Bookshop for hosting (and they still have signed copies of all our books)!

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Hey Bluesky, I'm Claire! 💜 I'm a YA SF/F author, & my first cyberpunk duology just concluded with CITY OF VICIOUS NIGHT (with a spinoff novella coming this fall). I'm a hardcore nerd who LARPS & cosplays—and I infuse my story worlds with the fast pacing & electric color inspired by video games.

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oh, hello void where a social media feed could be

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