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mererain.bsky.social
Author of speculative fiction of all genres
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Friends have started sending me their kids' AI "art". It's so sad and fake. Give me a child's colorful mess or neckless portrait over a plagiarized cartoon character any day.

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This looks really cool. Today! June 21st!

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💚 COMMON BONDS 2 is open for submissions! 💚 We are very excited to read what all of you wonderful writers have for us! We want short stories and poetry that: - are SFF - have an aromantic MC - focus on a non-romantic relationship Details here: claudiearseneault.com/call-for-sub... 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫

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Support queer creators this Pride Month with the Swords & Sapphics bundle! 🏳️‍🌈 $17 for 14 books & games 🏳️‍🌈 worth $53 🏳️‍🌈 SFF & romance 🏳️‍🌈representation includes sapphic, achillean, trans, aroace, & more! tinyurl.com/ss-pride-bun...

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It was when JK Rowling said that the Cass Review was a peer review itself and that's why it didn't need to be peer reviewed I realised she's an idiot. Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass. Guess what it finds?

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

It's Stuff Your Kindle Day! June 20 www.romancebookworms.com

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My characters are usually either -completely harmless or -bloodthirsty and not sorry. Actual crime? Um...I guess Trajan technically commits cyber-crimes against people who steal from charities, but they can't report him without revealing their financial frauds .

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A bunch of Unbound authors DID reach out in March to the Society of Authors when Unbound went into administration. SoA said they didn’t help non-members—then after those authors paid to join said, “oh we can’t help with Unbound.” So they are not in fact here to help, they just want attention

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Tucson folks, if passed as now written, this draft Senate reconciliation bill will sell off parts of Sabino Canyon, Madera Canyon, and areas around the Catalinas-among other sites in AZ. Let’s ask @gallego.senate.gov and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social what they’re doing to stop it.

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Whaaaaaat the fuck

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#SFFChat June 17 The two rivals in my WIP are already engaged (for political reasons) so a dating reality show would be either a huge mess or really simple.

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Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.

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