this is a fantastic thread and gets at the heart of why so much of the "want non traditional voices" pushes effectively end up as "want traditional stories by someone who looks non traditional"

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 4w ago

SFF, we need to talk. I'm not here to rag specifically on Bona, who did the right thing by going public. No, I'm looking at all of you. Or at least, 15 of you. Because this right here? This is buckwild.

#wrtingcommunity #amquerying #amwriting

Kyra Nelson@kyramnelson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If there's publishing journey discourse again, then I'm just going to softly throw this back into the universe. aimee-davis.com/2023/05/08/n...

For the evening crowd #questpit #a #f

Fil Cameron@flcr24.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#A SIX OF CROWS W GHOSTS 🌩️🌞Grumpy-sunshine cousins ❤️‍🔥Slowest of burns ☠️Serial Killer 🤫Heist 🥰Found family Jack’s sworn to protect the dead. When a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he'll stop at nothing to get it back. #QuestPit #Q #F

ADULT SIX OF CROWS WITH GHOSTS Jack’s sworn to protect the dead, so when a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he’ll stop at nothing to steal it back. His crew has a few more scruples. The masked serial killer offering to partner up? Less so. #QuestPit #F #A #Q

#A SIX OF CROWS W GHOSTS 🌩️🌞Grumpy-sunshine cousins ❤️‍🔥Slowest of burns ☠️Serial Killer 🤫Heist 🥰Found family Jack’s sworn to protect the dead. When a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he'll stop at nothing to get it back. #QuestPit #Q #F

as an early reader, I loved this book! #questpit

Madeline James@madelinejames.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#GhostPit #A #SP Iryana doesn't believe she can be fixed-not with what the beasts and their war have made of her. But with her family's post falling, she must infiltrate an enemy gang. The leader's brother might be her only ally... If she can stop seeing him as the enemy-and herself as past saving.

ADULT SIX OF CROWS WITH GHOSTS Jack’s sworn to protect the dead, so when a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, he’ll stop at nothing to steal it back. His crew has a few more scruples. The masked serial killer offering to partner up? Less so. #GhostPit #F #A #Q

Rae and his group of fake paranormal investigators meet a real witch and their encounters turn very real and very dangerous, now their friend is missing and he will stop at nothing to find them, even if it means going back to face the monsters that have left them all scarred #GhostPit #A #H #WIP

KNIVES OUT x GHOSTS When a curious 25yo secretary inherits an abandoned detective agency, she works with the private investigator’s ghost to fulfill a family promise and find her neighbor’s killer in a case that mirrors the PI’s own unsolved murder 60 years earlier. #GhostPit #A #Q #PN #MM #M

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS 🏟️ Summer & Winter princes compete to become the next Mother Nature 👨🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼 Grumpy x sunshine 👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends ➡️ rivals ➡️ lovers 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them 🫣 Love & betrayal 🪩 Winter ball shenanigans 🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart #GhostPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT #CLI

When Chess becomes the Midwest's newest reaper, she must learn to control her power or risk losing the veil between the living & the dead along with the soul of the only person she's ever loved. #GhostPit #YA #PN #DIS #Q

ADULT SIX OF CROWS WITH GHOSTS 🌩️🌞 Grumpy-sunshine cousins ❤️‍🔥 Slowest of burns ☠️ Serial killer 🤫 Heist ✨ Layered magic system Jack’s sworn to protect the dead. When a book on harvesting magic from ghosts falls into the wrong hands, how far will Jack go to get it back? #Ghostpit #A #F #Q

#A SIX OF CROWS W GHOSTS To steal a book that can 'kill' ghosts, will Jack: ‘borrow’ his parole officer’s files? 😏 Like it’s hard Work with the living? 🙄 With difficulty Infiltrate a dinner party? 😒 Reluctantly Partner with a serial killer? 🤔 Anything to protect the dead…right? #GhostPit #F #Q

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Alt: Kaz Brekker side eye "alleged"

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Scorpio season! Make someone who wronged you two decades ago into a nightmarish villain in a short story. Start writing an entire novel simply to spite an old English teacher. Kill some darlings that were just minding their own business. Your time is now. ♏️

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A comic about my beliefs.

In light of the political shitshow we're dealing with right now I've been thinking a lot about influence. What it is, how it's used, and how the people who don't have any power, or more accurately think they don't have any power, can change things.