Guess who's opening to Original Flash Fiction on September 1st?! This magazine! We'll be open for the month of September, and once the portals to slushlandia have opened, you'll be able to submit here: smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders

Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.

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A friend of mine is struggling to get books for her classroom. She teaches kids from primarily low-income households, who only have access to books at school. If you can throw $5 at helping out those kids, I would really, really appreciate it. 💕 RTs welcome! www.donorschoose.org/project/expa...

Expanding Access In Our Classroom Library, a project from Ms. Delbourgo

Help me give my students a classroom library that makes them feel seen! It's no secret that there is a literacy crisis in this nation, and that will only continue if students don't have acc...

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I am once again delighted to be paneling and moderating at Flights of Foundry this year!

Flights of Foundry schedule and LACon change

I am once again delighted to be paneling and moderating at Flights of Foundry this year! If you want to catch my Chill-n-Chat, be sure to sign up for the lottery now since it's a limited-seating session. My schedule: Saturday, September 19th, 2026 12:00pm ET: Chill-n-Chat 9:00pm ET: You’re here! Now what? – Making the Most of Conferences Sunday, September 20th, 2026…

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Looks like we are about $1.5k away from meeting our second stretch goal, and the crowdfund ends tomorrow! If you would like for us to publish two novelettes instead of just one, consider backing now 💸

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 6d ago

Submissions are now open for speculative novelettes and/or tiny short story collection chapbooks. Word limit: 7,500 to 12,000 words. Limited print run. Will pay $100 and 25 copies. Deadline: October 15th. More info here: neonhemlock.submittable.com/submit/36598...

I've got valerievaldes.com functioning for now, more or less, but my efforts to fix my main site are still a failure. I can't stop Wordpress from updating instantly when I revert to a backup, so it crashes again right away.

Every time Wordpress updates, it breaks my website. I am ready to go back to basic HTML at this point.

✨✨✨COVER REVEAL✨✨✨ I'm delighted with my cover design and art by Caroline Teagle Johnson, who nailed the retro, campy vibes I requested for my debut, THE UPPER TENTACLE! TUT publishes 02 09 27 from Union Square &. Co, but preorders are available now! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amand...

Heyo! I’m doing a giveaway for both BEING ARO and my sci-fi horror novella! I’ll send my full zine collection to 3 people and a signed hardcover copy of BEING ARO to 1. To enter: ✨ add both THIS WORLD IS NOT YOURS and BEING ARO to GR/Storygraph ✨ repost this Winners will be chosen on 8/28!

Just finished the first post-prologue Veilguard mission, and so far I am very enjoying this game. The combat feels more like Horizon: Forbidden West than any of the previous games, and so far I'm tanking decently. Drop kicking dudes or jump-stabbing them after a block absolutely rules.

I do not want to get kicked... I have a new fantasy romcom coming out next year, featuring a smol gremlin and a big librarian. They're roommates! and former academic rivals! trying to win a dating bet! Contains possibly the world's first peacock-block? candleinsunshine.com/books/witch-...

Witch Is Mine

Witch Is Mine (written as Lia Amador) Preorder now! Release date TBD In an enchanted Miami, former academic rivals turned roommates get a second chance at romance when they challenge each other to …

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · last wk.

post more about your books or I'll kick you in the ankles

Veilguard episode two! In which we run through Minrathous headbutting things, I hope? twitch.tv/thekidsareas...

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Valerie and Eric play video games! Currently streaming: Dragon Age The Veilguard | Streaming dragon age: the veilguard.

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PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

Baby: Where is your butt? Son: In my pants? Baby: Okay, just asking... so I can KICK IT!

Oh hey, look what is up for pre-order: it’s a Prohibition-set romance in a monster speakeasy in 1931 Seattle! #Romancelandia

Moonshine Becomes You

The Golem and the Jinni meets A Discovery of Witches in this historical romantasy set in Prohibition Era Seattle where monsters live alongside humans.It’s ...

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My husband in the other room just said "vrepit sa" and my whole body lurched into a state of alertness like someone handed me a sword.

Finally watched Thunderbolts and I support every movie whose premise is basically "friendhip is magic"!

FINAL 5 MINUTES!!! WE CAN DO THIS!!!

Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

PLEASE SHARE!! ONLY 70 MINUTES REMAIN in the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter! We are just $1604 away from funding a cover by Grace P. Fong! WE CAN DO THIS! MORE HUMAN ART, PLEASE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

A thing I learned during character creation for Veilguard is that the joining chalice chest design looks wildly inappropriate if your Rook has a particular body shape and is wearing the strapless underwear top. 🍆💦

Starting now!!

Valerie Valdes@valerievaldes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tonight at 9pm ET! We are finally starting Dragon Age: The Veilguard! After replaying the other games, I am so incredibly hyped to play this, you don't even know. Come hang out with us! We'll do a series debrief while I fiddle with the character generator for two hours? twitch.tv/thekidsareas...

Tonight at 9pm ET! We are finally starting Dragon Age: The Veilguard! After replaying the other games, I am so incredibly hyped to play this, you don't even know. Come hang out with us! We'll do a series debrief while I fiddle with the character generator for two hours? twitch.tv/thekidsareas...

thekidsareasleep - Twitch

Valerie and Eric Valdes live in an elaborate meme palace with their kids, and they stream when those kids are asleep. Mostly. Valerie writes, edits and moonlights as a muse. Eric acts, engineers sound...

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Some people wake up and choose violence. My husband wakes up and chooses to wander the house shouting Smash Bros character names in the voice of the announcer.

There are two kinds of people in this house. Husband: hits son on the butt with a cardboard tube Son: Hey, you can't just hit people on the butt! Me: Stop hitting him! Baby: runs through the door hollering a battle cry and hits her dad on the head with a different cardboard tube

You should vote for Escape Pod for best semiprozine! We will not use the trophy to fill the suspiciously rocket-shaped hole someone made in Engineering. Not even if it's the exact right size and shape.

Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 3w ago

Don’t forget to cast your vote for the 2026 Hugo Awards! Did you know that voting on the entire Hugo Awards ballot is NOT required? Do you know films and video games, but not novels? Do you love art and graphic stories, but haven't read the novellas?

Who wants to watch me play Alan Wake II by myself in a dark house? twitch.tv/thekidsareas...

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Valerie plays video games! Currently streaming: Alan Wake II | Streaming alan wake ii.

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One of my favorite things about publishing scam emails is when they want to reprint a book that isn't out of print. Like sure, let me just ask HarperCollins to give me back the rights to my novels so you can put them out instead. I am calling the publisher with both phones!

Hi folks! I am a 3-time Gold ENNIE award-winning game designer mostly known for my work on/for Daggerheart. Also, I'm a SF/F author with 12+ titles in print (writing as Michael R. Underwood). Find my videos at youtube.com/@mikeunderwood and my other work at patreon.com/michaelrunderwood

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Get more from Michael R. Underwood on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $2/month. Hello! I'm Michael R. Underwood - I go by Mike…

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Voting for the Ignytes closes August 16! We hope you've done your homework (reading and otherwise supporting these creators in the meantime; we love an informed voting body). Do the thing here and for free: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

Vote - The Ignyte Awards

CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR'S FINALISTS! Public voting for the 2026 awards is now open thru August 16. Links are included wherever available in the hope that you will engage with the listed works to ...

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We finished Alan Wake! Tomorrow night we start Alan Wake 2: The Sequeling. More darkness! More screaming! More jump scaring me every time the autosave noise plays!

Clarissa C. S. Ryan@wintersweet.bsky.social · 3w ago

ok friends who like games, music, and silliness: my dear friends @valerievaldes.bsky.social and @intenselyeric.bsky.social have 699 followers on Twitch and I would LOVE for them to cross 700! Tonight is Alan Wake which tbh I lurk in bc SCARY but they do many things www.twitch.tv/thekidsareas...

"Much of science as we conceptualize it now was built on top of the framings of Verne’s era. Revisiting the exuberance, obliviousness, chauvinism, and optimism of Verne’s science-related worldview offers a useful reminder of where some of our own narratives come from." @mitpress.bsky.social

Jules Verne’s Empty Dream of Spaceflight

In “From the Earth to the Moon,” scientific advancement is treated as destiny — but no one quite asks why.

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I assembled an Ikea dresser today so if you need me I'll be in bed swilling laudanum until I can't feel my back