Heya, popping in from Gen Con: Indianapolis to say THANK YOU for coming to my workshops and panels. I appreciate you! 🥰

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Monica Valentinelli @booksofm.com wrote a guest Genre Grapevine essay on "The Most Important Story You'll Ever Tell." "When I talk about the most important story you'll ever tell yourself, what I'm referring to is the one your conscious, unique narrator is saying." 1/

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Note from Jason: I hope you enjoy the following guest essay by Monica Valentinelli. You can catch Monica later this week at the Gen Con Writ

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FINALLY escaped airport hell and am now pivoting to Gen Con prep. Hope you all have a fabulous weekend wherever you are. Stay frosty.

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I used to be a pilot, but I set sail.

DeryckEleven@deryckeleven.bsky.social · 2w ago

I used to work in a cake shop, but I got baked

Neil Postman tried to argue this 40 years ago. It wasn’t true then, it’s not true now.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

Text is no longer the medium that we use to spread information or culture—a change that will have “really far-reaching effects,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social argues. She speaks with @hannarosin.bsky.social about what happens when a society becomes “postliterate”:

Since joining @uncannymagazine.bsky.social as interviewer in 2018, I've done a hundred interviews... want to hear about some things I've learned? Check out my guest post at @chuckwendig.bsky.social's Terribleminds! terribleminds.com/ramble/2026/...

Caroline M. Yoachim: Five Things I Learned Writing Interviews for Uncanny Magazine

Uncanny Magazine is an award-winning online science fiction and fantasy magazine, and every issue is packed with incredible stories, poems, essays, podcasts…and interviews. We need your help …

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#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward

I am in some sort of parallel dimension where words like “home” seem a million light-years away. Naturally, I caught up on my scrolling and I just gotta ask. Are y’all okay? Do you need a glass of water-slash-theme song-slash-heartwarming gif? Or a very, very large hammer?

This is why I go by the philosophy of "when burned out, engage locally and forget the national drama" It'll still be there when you're ready to return to it.

Joseph Brassey@josephbrassey.bsky.social · 2w ago

There’s a cottage industry of online grifters whose whole schtick is getting you to flagellate yourself for not investing yourself equally in every important thing happening in the world, when humans simply have limited time and capacity. You’ve gotta get your head above that stuff.

"...this means that there’s over 15 times more data centers being planned than the demand that actually exists, and 70% to 90% of that demand is from Anthropic and OpenAI’s unprofitable services."

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Thanks for reading this week’s free Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. Friday’s premium newsletter will ask the simple question: Is Oracle dying?  It’s been one year since I launched the premium newsletter, and I’ve decided to extend the discount on annual subscriptions. Between now and

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@alinapete.bsky.social Will you be at Gen Con this year?

Are you a BooksofM patron? New poll gauging your interest in mailed postcards is live for free and paid members. www.patreon.com/booksofm/pos...

[Reward Poll] Interest in Postcards | Monica Valentinelli

[Reward Poll] Interest in Postcards by Monica Valentinelli on Patreon. Join Monica Valentinelli's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Heya, if you're in SF&F and visit art shows, you've probably seen Nevenah Smith. She has a GoFundMe to help offset bills that accrued due to health issues. Can we help her reach her goal? Share if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ne...

Donate to Support Needed to Cover Urgent Bills and Expenses, organized by Nevenah Smith

The state of Wisconsin department of revenue has been garnishing my wa… Nevenah Smith needs your support for Support Needed to Cover Urgent Bills and Expenses

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Hey everybody! I’m giving a free public talk about sharks and shark conservation at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium! www.pittsburghzoo.org/event/why-sh...

Why Sharks Matter: How To Save Sharks and Why We Should - Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium

Sharks are some of the most misunderstood, most ecologically important, and most threatened animals in the world. Join Montgomery County resident and marine biologist Dr. David Shiffman to learn all about...

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What I find so F'ing infuriating, is that every website has a TOS. Even if a book or excerpt is NOT behind a paywall, that doesn't mean it's okay to feed your LLMs. Plenty of authors never gave permission and yet here we are.

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 3w ago

LAWSUIT alleging Google illegally copied books and stole books from behind paywalls. “The result is an AI system that competes directly with Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s works in the market,” the lawsuit claims. #AI #booksky 1/

I was busy thinking 'bout... 🦈✨️ Happy Shark and Ray Awareness Day! #sharkandrayawarenessday

I reviewed Patrick Valenza's gorgeous Deviant Moon Tarot for FlamesRising.com. www.flamesrising.com/deviant-moon...

Special Edition of my newsletter just dropped! Channeling genAI Dread to Revisit The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron booksofm.beehiiv.com/p/special-ed...

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Signing in from a cabin in the woods to ask you to help restore protections for our lands and wildlife. This reversal affects everyone regardless of political affiliation and will be deadly. Call your reps!

💯💯💯 And y'know what happens when there are fewer people in general? Nothing good for the ruling class or capitalism, for starters. I urge everyone to read up on the immediate aftermath of the Black Plague in Europe.

BlonicYouth@blonicyouth.bsky.social · 4w ago

I feel all of that but I'm also like, less people? great! cool! the fuck we need so many for?

All of this, but also please remember that Laura Ingalls Wilder was edited by her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who is regarded as one of the three mothers of libertarianism and Ayn Rand's besties, and the books have been shaped to reflect her ideology.

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 4w ago

Please don't hate me for this, but I am legitimately concerned about the upcoming Little House on the Prairie remake, especially in light of *gestures generally at all the fascism*. See, I don't think we should be glorifying manifest destiny. I'm not saying ban the books or anything like that.

PLEASE consider backing @khoreo.bsky.social if you have the means! They do such wonderful and important work, and the work they publish is absolutely stunning!

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Special Edition of my newsletter just dropped! Channeling genAI Dread to Revisit The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron booksofm.beehiiv.com/p/special-ed...

Special Edition: Channeling genAI Dread to Revisit The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

From Inspiration to In Progress

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Happy World Capybara Day!

Some games and Free RPG Day 2026 I picked up this year. www.flamesrising.com/free-rpgday-...

Communication is so weird these days. Before the guidance was "trust but verify." Now, it's "verify, respond, then verify again before you trust."

Unfortunately this is still happening, and the messages are getting slightly more human-sounding (still very fake tho). Please watch out, and know that I am NOT soliciting writers beyond just being open to queries like normal. My slush is robust and of very high quality and keeps me plenty busy!

Laura Zats@lzats.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s not the first time it’s happened, but apparently some scammer is going ham this week pretending to be me. They’re using the address laurazatsheadwaterliterary@gmail.com.

Heya, I reviewed HOKUM (2026) for FlamesRising.com. If you like Irish folk horror, check it out. www.flamesrising.com/hokum-movie-...

Just received the Vault of Many Things in the mail and, for the first time since I've rolled dice, I am overwhelmingly happy this particular box was made by someone who thinks exactly the same way I do. There's a map of what the layers are in the box! AND ALL OF THE PIECES FIT BACK INSIDE!

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Off to find some words.

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