If you dont have one yet, I am available for friendship applications as soon as I figure out if “I am” at all.

Dia VanGunten / Writer@pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 20h ago

It’s me. You know it’s me. 🪶

Aliens in New Florida came out today!! Part alien romance, part adventure, part existential refuckening, entirely set within a half-remembered dream of a distant land. Get it at CarmenLoup.com!

What happens when a struggling journalist and a cryptid search for the fabled Kingdom across post-apocalyptic landscape? Read Aliens in New Florida by Carmen Loup, released today! #sciencefiction #urbanfantasy #comedy www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/aliens-...

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Talking to a potential editorial client and they want to know how quickly we can get the book to agents so I will say it again so everyone can hear it in all four corners of the land: ONE OF THE BIGGEST MISTAKE WRITERS MAKE IS WANTING TO PUBLISH MORE THAN WANTING TO WRITE WELL.

This Must-Have Monday I have FIFTEEN new books to feature! Including 🛣️ sapphic alien roadtrips with @carmenloup.com! 🍷 an enby fairy sommelier from @mcburnellauthor.bsky.social! 🍃 queer post-WW2 historical fantasy by @celialake.bsky.social!

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Sapphic alien roadtrips, queer vampires, and F/F fairy-chess!

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it looks like you're writing a novel@gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 3d ago

did you know that creative writing is a purely optional hobby

Oh god I’ve become the person that yells at a customer service robot voice to get through to a real person 🫣 0 doesn’t work now

Soul was so good and so underrated. If you haven’t seen it yet, do yourself a favor.

What no one tells you about home ownership: there are SO MANY weird little filters and crevices and pipes that you should be cleaning regularly 🫠

The wasabi pea feel like a snack that’s in its own category of thing. It’s a dried legume with a crusting of pulverized root. Whoever invented these was thinking on a different level entirely.

It's the last day for the Smashwords book sale! Get a bunch of Space Wizard books for cheap before it ends! #fantasy #sciencefiction #salesalesale www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos

If you want to listen to the audiobook of The Audacity for free online, it’s being run on OutWorld Fleet radio now!!

OutWorld Fleet Radio@outworldfleetradio.online · 5d ago

🕒 COMING UP NEXT at 12:30pm Eastern: 🔊 The Audacity (audiobook) with @carmenloup.com ✨ A cosmic race to save reality, read by author Carmen Loup. 📡 Find out more at: /shows/the-audacity #TheAudacity #CarmenLoup

Just reading this article imagining what it must've been like to live in a time where no one knew what the entire globe looked like. Imagine you grew up being taught the world was flat and then, suddenly one day, got irrefutable proof that it was round. www.the-map-as-history.com/Age-of-Disco...

imagine billions of years of crashing planets and amoebas turnin into fish turnin into you and each choice your great great grandparents made then BANG theres GLORIOUS IMPOSSIBLY SPECIAL YOU. can you FATHOM that entities art being anything less then ten out of ten five stars? ridiculous. its perfect

Get to know your oomfs! Name: Carmen Age: 31 still I believe Zodiac sign: Aries Bday: April 4th Fav musical artists: ELO, Beatles, Jean-Michel Jarre, Supertramp, REO, Queen, The Killers Country: none. Dream Job: What I do! I own a spiritual shop w/ community groups Fav Color: 🧡 Fav Season: Spring

Just a girl and her books@thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · last wk.

Get to know your oomfs! Name: Kelly Age: 42 (?) Zodiac sign: Pisces Bday: March 9th Fav musical artists: The Hu, Linkin Park, BTS, Stray Kids, Creepy Nuts, SiM, Korn... Country: ‘Murica Dream Job: I dont wanna work Fav Color: Purple. All purple Fav Season: Fall

I just don't kill people 😂 But no, there's not really a classical afterlife in The Audacity universe. No ghosts, no gods, no devil (well...there are things that LOOK like or claim to be those things, but they're not. They don't have that kind of power. It's all very scientific.) #QueerPrompts

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · last wk.

#QueerPrompts July 28: Afterlife in your story?

Why does editing take so longggg? I've got 16k left to edit and I'm only averaging like 1k a day.

If you want to be friends with me, you've got accept that I technically know how to play human software, but I'm actually a boundless space entity and sometimes the software glitches.

Continuing series! For Draft 2, I like to highlight all the bits I love in a chapter. I try to make a chapter at least 70% love, but if it's a really important tent-pole chapter, I try to go as high as 90%. In this video, you can also see how I separate paragraphs to check chapter flow. #EditWithMe

Discussion time. Do you like to read political intrigue in a book? If so, what about it excites you? I'm finding it hard to fathom that anyone could be interested in fictional politics, and yet it comes up in a lot of books! Please enlighten me. (Genuinely, I want to know what the draw is!)

Today at Planet Fitness I heard a parody of "I Just Called to Say I Love You" that was "I Just Called to Say I Hate You" and my god. Are we that far gone into cruel cyncism? Have the edgelords won? I am so tired.

The Audacity follows aro/ace rocket racer, May and her devoted QPR with cinnamon roll alien sex worker Xan as they come to grips with the chaos of an unfeeling (or does it feel TOO much?) cosmos. Aliens in New Florida is a NB/NB spec-fic roadtrip romance set in the same universe! CarmenLoup.com

“If you take life absolutely seriously, you must realize there’s the counter-play to it, that the world of law is simply an optional world. When you do something you create a pattern that excludes other possibilities, and there comes a time for opening up to possibility and the creative act. 1/3

One of the things I do to get from 1st to 2nd draft is label the point of each paragraph (sometimes several paragraphs), so I can see how the chapter flows from a distance! I catch and fix a lot of wandering stream-of-consciousness writing this way. #EditWithMe

The Audacity is definitely Don't Stop Me Now by Queen. I can see it so clearly. Ugh. Someone give me an animation budget, please 😩 #TBBChat www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzG...

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The Book Bazaar: Coming October 29th, 2026@the-book-bazaar.com · 2w ago

TBB Chat Q2: Your work has been made into a TV show. What's the theme song? #TBBChat #BookBazaar26 #Writing #Writesky

God, I was so freaking excited about the new Avatar movie, but the writing was awful. There was no emotion! I was already hugely emotionally invested; it would've been so easy to write a compelling story but nope. Pretty colors, fast action, don't let you stop to think for a second. 😩

You never know what's around the corner. Some really incredibly amazing coincidence could be waiting for you right now!

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

The Audacity 5 is shaping up!! The ending's heartbreaking, and I'm so sorry but I will probably leave y'all on that cliffhanger for a year or two but it must be done 😩

I’ve got a weight lifting trainer now and I was feeling under the weather today and was going to skip burpees but in her notes she wrote “you got this!” and so I did them but the Zack told me I was just succumbing to lesbian propaganda 🤣

WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

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