Fyi it can be a challenge finding copies of My Kind of Trouble in the US but the ebook will be a daily deal this Tuesday (I think like $1-2?) if you’re wanting to check it out💗
Courtney Floyd
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SFFH author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC out now. Rhysling finalist. She/they. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com https://courtney-floyd.com 🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com ✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink 🚫a👁️
yall (writers, researchers, etc) are using zotero, right. open-source bibliography software that saves all your sources & notes? i realize i sound like an insta influencer but it's the only thing in my life that is even slightly organized. i still have my notes from grad school!!
*Squints at that Wired article. Wearily taps the sign.*
Courtney Floyd@courtney-floyd.com · 3w agoApropos of too many things lately, here's a spite poem I wrote a few weeks ago **makes unflinching eye contact while jamming more em dashes in** full disrespect to anyone writing with AI and also to the idea that we should change our voices and styles because the plagiarism machine is copying us
I didn't notice this until the very end of the month, but @libraryjournal.bsky.social's Disability Pride roundup includes Higher Magic alongside a bunch of other cool books! Adding a bunch to my TBR. 💚
Disability Pride Month 2026 | A Reading List
Disability Pride Month commemorates the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which President George H. W. Bush signed into law on July 26, 1990. In recognition of this month-long observance...
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Every time someone subscribes to a SFF magazine, a wonder gets its wings. And also, authors and artists get paid. It's pretty neat. Subscribe to Small Wonders today! store.smallwondersma...
And we now have an OFFICIAL HUGO AWARD FOR BEST POEM! (until at least 2029, heh) (when we get to do all of this ratification stuff AGAIN)
ahhh! AHHHH!
Lynne Sargent@lynnesargent.bsky.social · last wk.And the vote passes! We now have a #specpo Hugo through 2029 at least, at which point it will go through a re-ratification process. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this effort & to my dear community of poets. Here's hoping translation is next.
Experimenting with scraps. No idea what I’m doing with this but it’s fun!
Who wants to see something cool? 😎 🐕 ✨ Releasing March 2, 2027. Preorders coming soon. thelongredtomorrow.com for updates!
Some of us had life get in the way Some of us had breakdowns Some of us were focusing on just keeping our head above water Some of us wrote books that simply went nowhere... several times And some of us had all of the above
Richy Craven@richycraven.bsky.social · 3w agoJust because an author hasn't released a book in years doesn't mean that they're lazy or not working hard on their next one. There's so many reasons for a big gap between novels. Granted, in my case, it's because I'm lazy and not working particularly hard but I mean for others.
Summer hangs at the river near the willows hit just a little different with my current audiobook selection 😅
Logan's raising money to be able to attend @viableparadise.bsky.social. This workshop changed my life, I'm not even joking, so I know what kind of impact it can have on a spec fic writer's confidence and career. Let's support them a/o signal boost! 🚀 gofund.me/c6ded66a9
Donate to Help Send Logan to Viable Paradise!, organized by Logan Hoffman-Smith
Hello!! I’m Logan (they/them) a queer Hong Kong-born adoptee SF/F writer from … Logan Hoffman-Smith needs your support for Help Send Logan to Viable Paradise!
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Apropos of too many things lately, here's a spite poem I wrote a few weeks ago **makes unflinching eye contact while jamming more em dashes in** full disrespect to anyone writing with AI and also to the idea that we should change our voices and styles because the plagiarism machine is copying us
HAPPY BOOK DAY @mkhardywrites.com! pool reading party anyone?🌊
MK Hardy@mkhardywrites.com · 3w agoIt's here! The haunted swimming pool book is ALIVE, and available wherever books are sold! Check it out if you like: spooks, mysterious things beneath the surface, plucky true crime girlies, and hardcore 2006 nostalgia*. *sorry not sorry for the earworms
Kids these days might not believe it but we didn't always have days where everything is yellow and the air tastes like ash
ICYMI, we are OPEN to original fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors through July 21st! We're having the best time reading your wonderful work. Still deciding what to send us? We asked our reading team what they'd like to see more of, and they answered! Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines
Day 8: I read "The Cleave" by Peter M. Ball. It's a fascinating take on a multiverse story that feels really resonant. And it taught me a new word. "Rort." #StoryADay
The Cleave - Small Wonders
My father abandoned us after my eighth birthday, driving his Mercedes into a winter storm after using Cleave in the study.
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INCOMING! We're going to be at @readercon.bsky.social and perhaps doing some pod recording. Find Courtney or Mona for info and swag!
Join @authorlevai.bsky.social and others for their ReaderCon panel “Fighting for the Freedom to Read“ schedule.readercon.org/id/2a57472c-...
Readercon 35 Program Guide
Readercon 35 Program Guide
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff"@authorlevai.bsky.social · last mo.I'm doing a panel about this sort of thing at ReaderCon.
I think I might have auto approval for Tanya Huff's new work on netgalley? What a world. 🤩 The comps, y'all The tongue-in-cheek tip of the title to Saved By the Bell The fact that it's focused on the teachers ahhh it's gonna be fun I can tell
Saved by the Spell by Tanya Huff: 9780756420611 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Abbott Elementary, but make it magical: from the beloved Tanya Huff comes a new cozy fantasy novel perfect for fans of The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association At the High School for M...
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Day 7: I read "Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive" by Nadia Radovich and godfuckingdamn those last lines, y'all. 💔 #StoryADay
Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive - OTHERSIDE
I. Animal Husbandry The day your moms become infected, you’re in your animal husbandry class, taught in the tack room of the barn. Sarah’s mom is holding up a chicken egg, saying, “Eggs are valuable, ...
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Day 5: I picked "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead" because it had my name in the title 😅 LOVED the podcast transcript format and the drag queen medium and the queer rage #StoryADay
Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine
Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...
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I missed yesterday, so I'm reading two today. Day 4 part 1: "NoMouth" by Marianne Kirby. It's micro and it's fairytale o'henry BUG!HORROR #StoryADay
NoMouth - Nightmare Magazine
The videos show people kissing. They press their mouths together and open their lips. Their tongues move, wet and intrusive, less like they are tasting each other than like they want to lay eggs in th...
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Day 2: another friend story day! I read "Vitrification" by @callmeishmael.bsky.social, and I'll let my reading notes speak for themselves: Damn. It’s kind of like that Patrick Swayze pottery scene but make it gay necromancy dammmmmmn. #StoryADay
Vitrification - OTHERSIDE
By the time you come to your senses, his parents have already arranged for him to be burned. Your rage can’t save his body, but you rescue him from them one last time. You spin and spin the cold metal...
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OKAY! Inspired by @bzelkovich.bsky.social and my oft muttered resolution to read more short fic, I am embarking on a quest to read and post about 1 short story every day this month. #StoryADay I shall thread all of them here.
B. Zelkovich is peering out of their cave@bzelkovich.bsky.social · last mo.Okay. I've decided. July will be my first attempt at #StoryADay since... The pandemic? Basically, I will try to read a short story each day in July, and share a little about it to boost authors and markets! There will be an official thread, so feel free to mute if it becomes tiresome.
It's been a minute since I've posted about HIGHER MAGIC, my debut fantasy novel. So, hey! It's disability pride and if you like magic academia, disability justice, stories with collective action, and/or snarky narration skulls have I got the book for you!