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Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF Under New Ownership locusmag.com/2025/02...

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Who could I be thinking of, @weemallard.bsky.social and @cynthiaward.bsky.social ?

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hey Canadian authors! If you haven't already, you should sign up to the Public Lending Right program, which pays you when folks borrow your books from libraries!! Big win-win. Registration is open until May 1st. publiclendingright.ca

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THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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THREAD: House GOP wants to ram through a budget package tomorrow, gutting Medicaid to cut taxes for billionaires. Seniors in hospice, disabled children, and workers without employee insurance all get screwed. These 15 RED districts will suffer the most:

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At 300 unique shares a second bonus poem will be unlocked for our new issues - one that will be chosen through open submissions. The last poem was unlocked at 250, so at 275 unique reposts you're already halfway there! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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The heroes who saved class pets from the Eaton Fire. laist.com/news/educati...

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We are launching a GoFundMe for our lovely @zzclaybourne.bsky.social. Those of you who attended the Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction 2 know that he was too sick even to read that night—after all the love & work he poured into organizing it! This is to help him as he recovers! gofund.me/8e2a5252

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Rosarium Publishing is open to submissions for their PLANET BLACK JOY anthology. We’re looking for spec-fic stories between 3-7k words about joy and pleasure by women and nonbinary folk who identify as Black, African, or Afro-descendent. Deadline is July 1. rosariumpublishing.com/planet-black...

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They could probably use a few bucks, too, if you have some to spare.

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Happy 100th birthday to the great Edward Gorey.

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All it took was a single week of the new regime to provoke me into committing a particular kind of publishing act. Aqueduct will be releasing my new collection, Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air, in June 2025. Two of its stories were on their year's Otherwise Award Honor List.

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I would also add HIRE A SENSITIVITY READER. Because damn.

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105% funded and working toward our first stretch goal, DOUBLE ART: literally doubling the amount of interior illustrations by our 27 artists! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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URGENT: The folks at Americans for Financial Reform are looking for stories from people who’ve been helped by CFPB. Please read this call to action and share far and wide! 🚨 Let’s save CFPB 🚨 Pass it on.

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Buy direct where possible by all means. Be aware that managing online commerce comes with costs in time and money for authors. Depending on the location of seller and reader, taxation rules can make cross border sales impossible/unworkably costly and complicated. Look for non AMZ ebook retailers.

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I've wanted to make a stretch goal progress image like this, with a little guy moving through a dungeon or say a retro-futuristic airship flying left to right, FOREVER.

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Hi #booksky! If you like queer fantasy romance, please check out my fantasy trilogy, The Sacred Dark. Shifters, witches, and ghosts explore what death, rebirth, and love mean to them in an alt-historical magical world. Amazon: tinyurl.com/4ps2armr Book page: tinyurl.com/32bm6pv5

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Hey disabled writers on Bluesky! Reply to this post with either: 1. The publication you're proudest of, something that's cool about it, and a link to read it. ~OR~ 2. Something you love writing about. Can be the minutia of motorcycle repair, or as simple as "Dragons."

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Think of it as The League of Extraordinary Women and that will give you some idea.

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This book series is so much fun!

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Scottsdale Unified schools remove books from libraries. Below: screenshot of books removed, link to news article. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

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I enjoyed it!

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In the last month did you see one of these covers being shared and think "Oh man, that's awesome!" Well hey hey chum, the crowdfund for the magazine with those covers is LIVE NOW: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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"It was always called the Gulf of America."

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I have breaking news! We're headed to the Weird West in 2027! @kcgrifant.bsky.social and I are going to put together the wildest, weirdest Weird West anthology of short stories you can imagine! Stay tuned...

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I love Mad Magazine

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Typically you don't ascribe malice to someone when their behavior can be ascribed to stupidity, but might I suggest that if someone has malicious intentions toward a drought-stricken and highly flammable area, and then they flush the area's w@ter supply out to sea....

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Meanwhile, I've been mulling the pitching of a reviewing of older SFF titles, so you can see I'm always au courant! But you may benefit from this call for essay pitches:

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Your daughter has died serving her country, and now you have to hide her identity because the President and his supporters will predictably scapegoat her for the accident.

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Highly rec Heather Rose Jones' books! One of my favorite authors :D

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