Sit with a cup of old gown (or breaky-leg) and unbetty the lexical rooters of Victorian street slang: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dictionary-of-modern-slang/

Hey, #Editors & #WritingCommunity! 👋🏻 I've topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again! There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups. They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked. TanyaGold.com #AmEditing #WriterSky 💙📚

Finally, we're OPENING FOR REPRINT AND NONFICTION SUBMISSIONS NOVEMBER 24TH✨ These submissions will be open year-round—so no rush. Reprints are ONLY for stories that can't be read for free online currently! More detailed information on our submissions guidelines page! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Meet a few of the amazing speakers joining us for Terror Camp V, December 5-7th! 👀💫

The children, ages 12 and 15, and their father were taken Monday morning by ICE agents who pulled them over near a mobile home park at the edge of town. coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/p...

Dozens protest outside ICE building in Durango after 2 children, father detained

The three were detained by federal agents in Durango while on their way to school Monday, according to Compañeros, Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center

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An anonymous officer was caught on video throwing a woman to the ground during a peaceful protest outside the ICE field office in Durango. Dozens of protesters remained Tuesday after demonstrating through the night over the detainment of two children and their father on the way to school.

If you're a queer Texas author of adult or YA fiction & you have one of your books on hand that you'd like to sign & donate to a silent auction bundle for Equality Texas, DM me? The event is Nov 15th so it would need to get in the mail ASAP, or in Austin area I can pick up. Reposts appreciated! 🏳️‍🌈

so the process of writing is a process of realizing how imperfect and incomplete that idea was, and actually working out all the rest of it. writing, in other words, is a process of thinking: a particularly disciplined one, that takes you from a warm feeling to a genuine reality.

the WHOLE THING about writing is realizing that you don't "already" have "the whole thing" in your head. when it's just an idea that warm feeling smooths over all the gaps. but you've got a germ. a seed. there are *so many choices* left to make--real, hard, meaningful, creative choices.

increasingly convinced that the red bull sporting events are just IG content farms with very real human injury “collateral damage.” the safety culture is like, nonexistent.

I don’t know why I thought Reddit would be a good place to find a thoughtful, considered book review 🤡

doing a thread of my spooky season* reads! * to extend through late winter or until the days lengthen and morale thus improves

today! top of the hour! free! come learn about editing :)

University Press of Florida@floridapress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium is this week! Don't forget to register for this free, virtual event open to anyone interested in learning more about book publishing. Register here: bit.ly/2025PublishingSymposium

someday we will be free of the "writing fanfiction makes you a bad writer" stigma

Our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium is this week! Don't forget to register for this free, virtual event open to anyone interested in learning more about book publishing. Register here: bit.ly/2025PublishingSymposium

Just inquired with a developmental editor about working on a novella I drafted, and I’m feeling Terrified! And! Mortified!

I had a great chat with @wordrake.bsky.social about something business leaders need to hear: AI can't replace editors, but can change what we need editors for. If you care about whether your writing actually works, you still need a human editor. Read the interview now: zurl.co/XI0xO. #BizTips

An Interview with Lead Editor Erin Brenner

Erin Brenner is the CEO and Lead Editor for editorial agency, Right Touch Editing. She shares her experience running the company and managing projects.

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just got the email about renewing my marketplace healthcare plan.......

souvenir du congress pears, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1912

I miss hard copy proofs so bad. Acrobat pencil tool is the hand killer

🥗 British sea-weeds. Drawn from Professor Harvey's "Phycologia britannica." London, Bell and Daldy, 1863. [Source]

great to see the school board and one of the county commissioners speaking at our little mountain town rally today! We lined up along Main Street through the entire northern half of town and a ton of people honked and waved as they drove by. small town solidarity!

#NoKings Durango

ICYMI 👻 Snag all my diverse romance eBooks (from More to Love to A Vicious Thirst) for 50% off this Halloween! Support a Black trans author and binge something steamy, spooky, and swoony. Use code at HALLOWEEN7376 at check out! payhip.com/TheMagnifice... #BlackBooksky #SpookyReads #Romance

In light of the political environment being what it is, I'm adding a select number of copyediting slots at a sliding scale rate for authors of LGBTQ+ fiction beginning in 2026. I love working with romance (all types!), historical fiction, and erotica, and especially self-publishing authors :)

Don't miss our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium on Thursday, Oct. 23, beginning at 1:00 pm! This free, virtual event is open to anyone who would like to learn more about book publishing. To register, click here: bit.ly/2025PublishingSymposium

Next week I’m participating in an editors panel to introduce the various levels of editing to first-time academic authors (because someone decided I’m qualified for that?) SO: question for academic authors—anything you wished you’d understood better about copyediting before you first published?

rensselaer apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1913

I only wish that American Primeval had not been so irredeemably hamfisted in every last respect