I‘ve been off-the-grid for two days, and so I didn’t know how Dressmaker’s release had gone. I checked in with the team today, and…. 7th????? ON STEAM???? GLOBALLY??????
Kerstin Hall
@kerstinhall.bsky.social
Nebula and Locus Award nominated author of Asunder. Lead writer of Dressmaker. Repped by Jennifer Jackson at DMLA. Working on something weird and sequel-shaped. kerstinhall.com
Dressmaker is out tomorrow! My current guilty pleasure is watching streamers playing the opening quests, because I like it when they giggle at my jokes. 🥰 I think this guy is my current favourite, though.
Dressmaker | Worth Your Time and Money (Overview)
YouTube video by The Scarlet Seeker
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I’m back! I did not die, and I only wanted to throw up once!
Kerstin Hall@kerstinhall.bsky.social · 5d ago2 hour AMRAP challenge this mornings! wish me luck, it’s been an honour and a privilege, tell my family I love them, etc.
2 hour AMRAP challenge this mornings! wish me luck, it’s been an honour and a privilege, tell my family I love them, etc.
After being closed to queries for a year and a half (omg) I’m finally opening back up, writer friends! Wishlist here! www.ericsmithrocks.com/mswl
as a reader of historical romances i have to say the thing where she makes him give up his elaborate revenge plot to prove his love?? baffling. unrealistic. girl this is a group project now
[clears throat] I am, in fact, pretty damn good at what I do. Thanks for asking.
Dr. SkySkull@drskyskull.bsky.social · last wk.This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Hey. If a small press wants to give you a digital-only, royalty-based multibook deal for books that haven't yet been written, run. Lots of small presses use this royalty structure because they have no assets, and this allows them to offload nearly all risk to you.
For 24 hours, the ebook of WHAT WE ARE SEEKING is on sale for $2.99 everywhere Tor ebooks are sold, or at least everywhere I checked. I expect there'll be an official promo post later, but I wanted to get the word out as early as possible. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
What We Are Seeking ebook by Cameron Reed - Rakuten Kobo
Read "What We Are Seeking" by Cameron Reed available from Rakuten Kobo. A New Yorker Best Book of 2026 From Cameron Reed, the acclaimed author of The Fortunate Fall, comes a soaring novel of q...
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The review/streaming embargo thing for Dressmaker lifts on Monday, which means that some of my story stuff could finallllllllly become public, and I‘m very excited.
Dressmaker on Steam
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
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Something to cling to and promote the hell out of: leveraging POSITIVE TIPPING POINTS www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists
Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
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The type of person who makes these comments always seems to presume that everyone should be gravely sympathetic about their inability to write well—like they are battling a tragic chronic condition—and the thing is, I could not give less of a shit.
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2w ago"the raw data of a novel" 🙃 The way AI evangelists talk about art is truly alien to me. (From a comment left on an article of mine.)
Do any non-US writers know what to fill in on the Anthropic case page for SSN/TIN? (It automatically inserts a dash into my SA Tax ID when I fill that in, which suggests my correct, undashed tax number is not an accepted format.)
A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.
Nepal-Tibet flash flood: Two workers pulled alive from hydropower tunnel nine days after disaster: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Genuinely happy to see that the sequel to “A Rather Vengeful Accord” seems to be releasing next March. Now, if the publisher would just send me an ARC…
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"I have an idea for a novel, so I want an author to write it for me! / I need an AI to write it for me!"--bitch, ideas are ten a penny, yours is almost certainly derivative, it's all in the treatment anyway, you won't get rich, and there is no global novel shortage that makes yours important. ~fin~
I just remembered how when I put this on Twitter back in the day, someone told me you’re not supposed to clean a snake with soap, as if this was meant as a guide to the care and feeding of your serpent
Jared Pechaček@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 2mo agoMedusa but her hair is an anaconda
An Afternoon Tea, 2026 by Elena Wuest (Germany, b.1977). Oil, canvas | 110 × 110 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
