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rachaelkjones.bsky.social
Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, Locus, & World Fantasy nominated SFF author. Eugie Foster Award winner. SECRET LEVEL author. Podcaster, editor, SFWA & Codex. She/her
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To my amazing creative colleagues and friends today: Remember, there are far more incompetent people doing what you want to do, with confidence. Just do the thing. Signed, The Tentacles

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All rise for the greatest flash story ever written

Whatcha doing Thursday evening? Want to come hang out on YouTube with @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social and I as we talk about mushroom horror? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY84...

Woooot - after so many months of waiting, Wooing the Witch Queen is out in North America today!!!!! Please tag me in all your photos - I looooove seeing it in the wild. ❤️ And you can find all of the buy-links here: www.stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen #romancelandia

If you are a full SFWA member, this petition to amend the bylaws only needs 26 more signatures to go to a full vote. It would take away one of the excuses the SFWA board members are hiding behind to not support Palestinian writers. Deadline is February 20th. forms.gle/ASZMWd8psoyR...

If you've been enjoying my newsletter, please consider subscribing (it's free!) & sharing. This one is for all my writer friends. Together we'll see it through.

If you're working on a novel and want a great workshop to help you grow your craft, I cannot recommend @novelarchitects.bsky.social enough. It's an absolutely terrific workshop taught by incredibly smart instructors

I’m seeing a lot of people frame the threat to the 504 only in terms of affecting education and kids with IEPs. It affects EVERYONE. From curb cuts to access to government buildings to sign language interpreters in disasters to accessible medical facilities, it is a civil rights threat to ALL.

Sometimes it's really difficult being a BodyGuard to a former gunrunner. 😅 "Majesty, I will follow you anywhere. But I feel like I am required to point out, as your Ekam, that you want to leave the galaxy and start a war." #booksky #spaceopera #sciencefiction 📚🌈 www.amazon.com/dp/B0883DS2Q...

Golly this is a great story. Thanks to @electricsheepsf.bsky.social for enlightening me. In this world, you can enhance your child if they're underperforming. But what does that mean once they're returned? magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2018/m...

Heeey, it's Hugo noms time again! I'd love it if you'd consider "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus" for your ballot, which some have described as "total devastation in under 600 words." www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...

Heeey, it's Hugo noms time again! I'd love it if you'd consider "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus" for your ballot, which some have described as "total devastation in under 600 words." www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...

FYI wired digital sub marked down from 30/yr to 10 if you appreciated their recent reporting, just got one

Speaking of recommendations, my 2024 eligibility and recommendations video is finally up! 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nlu...

So happy to wake up to my BSFA long-listed novel THE NIGHTWARD on the Locus Recommended Reading List as well! And 4 anthologies I'm in too! So many friends & colleagues on here! Congratulations to you all esp. @sillysyntax.bsky.social & @rachaelkjones.bsky.social! locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

I'm taking a little Bluesky break for a few days or weeks, friends! Gotta kick the doomscrolling and focus on the here and now. Be excellent, you amazing humans!

Happily surprised to see "Loneliness Universe" in the BSFA longlist among amazing writers like @avramargariti.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @premeemohamed.com @wiswell.bsky.social @rachaelkjones.bsky.social @rickandwrite.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social @dracopoullos.bsky.social & many more!

If you are upset/angry ask yourself 'Will I be angry about this in 12 months time?' If the answer is no, move on - it's not important.

Don't send it to the principal. Send it to your school board and superintendent, as they have actual policy-making power!

In his weekly newsletter, @johnarchibald.bsky.social passes along a poem, "August 1944," that his friend Tom Gordon wrote about his father disarming mines in southern France after D-Day. The good one does today lives long after us.

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Ted Chiang vs the machines: lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...

Our Customers Demand Terrible AI Systems www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

One thing I’m clear on right now is that I have to block with ease these days because I do not have time or emotional space to get repeatedly annoyed by anonymous chodes who angrily nitpick rather than adding to the conversation