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Giveaway time! We're going to be doing a lot more of these over here (rather than Facebook and Insta). Follow us and share to enter to win this ARC of Unexpected Stories from Octavia E. Butler, which is now out of print: subterraneanpress.com/unexpected-s... Int'l/ends Feb. 2 at noon ET.

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

submitted 67 days ago • 85 comments

When I buy a book because it's on sale and then another book because it's such a deal, and then another... my husband says "Is this story going to end up with you trading the cow for magic beans?" But you really can buy the whole Small Change series ebooks for $7.97 www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

My Savonarola Groundhog Day novel Lent is $1.99 as an ebook today, if you're ever going to want to read it, grab it now www.amazon.com/dp/B07GV9K8X...

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

Today's my birthday! You ain't gotta get me anything but if you're so inclined to spare a like and a RT, I'd be thankful! Trying to build up again on a new social media platform is a pain. ✨Some of my work✨

submitted 89 days ago • 99 comments

When Animorphs ended, fans were vocal about how they didn't like the depressing ending. K.A. Applegate responded with amongst the most brutal letters I've read. It takes a generational talent to tell your fans "If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad."

submitted 90 days ago • 165 comments

I really, really do not talk about the RWA thing a lot, and unless you were there before people knew what the RWA thing was, you probably don’t know this part of the story. (Everyone in Romancelandia probably already knows this part of the story.)

submitted 100 days ago • 32 comments

Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.

submitted 118 days ago • 64 comments

IF YOU USE MICROSOFT WORD DON'T SCROLL! Microsoft is farming everything you type to train AI. Here's how to turn off the feature. Please repost far and wide! #writingcommunity #kidlit #writers #amwriting

submitted 110 days ago • 10 comments

Bee (?) and Rose of Sharon. #SomethingBeautiful @bluejo.bsky.social @adapalmer.bsky.social

submitted 203 days ago • 0 comments

Melting from the sweetness of this

submitted 216 days ago • 99 comments

Hi y'all, I've been extra absent for more than a week because I have been DOING BATTLE with an ANONYMOUS ASSAILANT who has been trying to steal my identity and my credit. The battle isn't over yet. But I wanted to share some lessons. I'll give a TL;DR first. 1/

submitted 307 days ago • 22 comments

Go to Google, search for "April 8 eclipse," your screen will dim, and you'll see a virtual total solar eclipse. 🧪🌑🌞🔭

submitted 331 days ago • 8 comments

Want a letter from any one of my characters? Savonarola? Apollo? Inspector Carmichael? Support Locus today!

submitted 338 days ago • 0 comments

In warm climates, even relatively dry air can hold a lot of water - and a recently developed solar-powered hydropanel can extract it. One panel costs ~$2,000, should last at least 15 years, and can provide 4-5 L of drinking water per day. #ShareGoodNewsToo t.co/TPhGJZiV1j

submitted 381 days ago • 2 comments

Wonderful news in advances in pain medication: a new non-opioid (thus hopefully non-addictive!) drug that works by blocking pain signals at source has completed two Phase 3 trials, successfully relieving moderate to severe acute pain. #ShareGoodNewsToo t.co/7SJDW9jNbK

submitted 380 days ago • 0 comments

Research on endometriosis is finally picking up speed, and a clinical trial of the first non-hormonal, non-surgical treatment for endometriosis, started in 2023 in Scotland, is showing promising results. #ShareGoodNewsToo web.archive.org/web/20240213...

submitted 374 days ago • 2 comments

Heart disease death rates in the US (where it’s a leading cause of death) have fallen by 70% since 1950, and stroke death rates have fallen by nearly a third since 1998. This translates to millions of lives having been saved in the past decades. #ShareGoodNewsToo buff.ly/3I5vYWZ

submitted 376 days ago • 3 comments

It's not enough that Etobicoke has a Pawnee-style coat of arms that they are finally removing. *Of course* there's a councillor who is fighting it torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2815...

submitted 480 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that the new COVID shot isn’t just a booster, it’s a new vaccine more effective against more variants. Important to get it and remind friends & family.

submitted 493 days ago • 48 comments

Another one of these, in honor of Halloween: BOOK GIVEAWAY An arc of my upcoming novella YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS and a copy of my out-of-print collection SINGING WITH ALL MY SKIN AND BONE, both signed. Plus couple other goodies Reskeet to enter, anywhere in the world. I’ll pick a winner on 11/1

submitted 496 days ago • 1 comment

@mariafarrell.bsky.social have you seen this?

submitted 533 days ago • 1 comment

A bee pollinating the Rose of Sharon in our garden #SomethingBeautiful @bluejo.bsky.social @adapalmer.bsky.social

submitted 548 days ago • 0 comments

incredible. anthropologists named the distant ancestor of all hominids "homi no idea"

submitted 562 days ago • 7 comments