Where are people finding freelance sensitivity readers these days? Question came up in my writer support group this afternoon.
Neil Cochrane
@itsneilcochrane.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ author of THE STORY OF THE HUNDRED PROMISES, author/illustrator of the webcomic THEN COME KISS ME
I've officially placed my first orders as an independent bookseller 🤯
Home from WorldCon, exhausted and energized all at the same time, I love my job 🥰
Happy book birthday to OUR CRIMSON CAGE!!
Ladz ❄️🖤🩸@ladzwriting.bsky.social · 2mo agoMY FOURTH BOOK IS OUT TODAY 🩸🖤 OUR CRIMSON CAGE is great if you like sapphic books that forgot about the men, stories structured around fuck/marry/kill, and toxic dykes (and you don't have to take my word for it) Get your copy today <3 links in next post (I ran out of space)
The daughters of Asimov's editor Sheila Williams are asking for help funding care for their parents: www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...?
Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce
Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care
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I got too engrossed to record a video 😅 but today I got to play around with my dip pens for some of the bonus content in the THEN COME KISS ME paperback! The fun faux quill was a gag gift but it has awakened something in me!!! I’m dying to get a nice artist’s calligraphy set.
Now that the newsletter people got to see it first, presenting the official OUR CRIMSON CAGE art that will come with every signed pre-order of the book I'm fucking obsessed with the everything Artist: @exaltxix.bsky.social Pre-order link: ladz-merch.square.site/product/-pre...
Happy launch day to TIDES OF TIME!!
Andi@andiwrites.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's release day! Like sea magic? Ghostly ships? A queer protag with ADHD? Tides of Time has all this and more. It's available on all the usual platforms at: books2read.com/b/tides3 Or start the series at books2read.com/b/tides1
TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN JUNE 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's May's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...
Some Queer Short SFF - May 2026 | Charles Payseur
Pride Month might be wrapping up for many people, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop paying attention to awesome queer short SFF. Now,
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In honor of today's Cozy Up with Fantasy sale, this week's Friday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which you can snap up today for just 99c/99p: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave And check out all the other fabulous books on offer, too! cozyupwithfantasy.com #romancelandia
Hi all! I've updated my ko-fi with some good news! Also, we're still crowdfunding for my mom's cancer treatment. This week's goal is $750 for meds and utilities, so if you can help by sharing/contributing it'd be awesome! ♥️ #mutualaid #helpsky #trans #queer #cancer ko-fi.com/post/Some-go...
Some good news!
Hailey Kaas published a post on Ko-fi
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catching up on my correspondence (answering text messages I’ve ignored for weeks)
Sometimes when I’m working on my comic, my brain supplies commentary, like for sports games. “Oof, did you see that, Chuck? Cochrane is clearly flagging if he missed blending THAT.” “Well, he’s been at it for three hours, Tom. Besides, it’s the line work that will make or break this thing.”
Many thanks to @camestrosf.bsky.social profiling all the finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer, including myself. I'm really proud of my work last year on being a neurodiverse writer, along with my regular journalism and reports. 1/
Camestros Felapton@camestrosf.bsky.social · 3mo agoFan Writer 26✍️: Jason Sanford ➻ Name: Jason Sanford➻ Pronouns: He/his➻ Blog: Bluesky: Mastodon: Patreon: So far in this series of profiles, each of the fan writers has been primarily a reviewer, but fan writing has other modes. Jason Sanford's fan writing has an emphasis on news and journalistic…
#horrorbooks on sale !! Summerween Midnight Scream sale is live - and it's a Ladz vampire double feature This will be the only time you can pre-order OUR CRIMSON CAGE for less than $1 Check out the 18+ section of the sale: www.authordonnataylor.com/18horror Book links down below 🔽
The second issue of Blanket Gravity Magazine is out, with a story from yours truly about being able to reset your own memories, and how different types of pain can compete when you have limited spoons to deal with them: www.blanketgravitymag.com/past-perfect
Past-Perfect — Blanket Gravity Magazine
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happy zine-drop Sunday to all who celebrate (it's me, I made a new zine and am finally posting about it). Get a paper copy here: ko-fi.com/s/51fd5e82d4 Or a digital one: ko-fi.com/s/9efbbdc548
Okay we have 3 hours to go and we're literally one (1) paperback pledge away from DOUBLE the original funding goal! 😱
Neil Cochrane@itsneilcochrane.bsky.social · 3mo agoHome stretch!! THEN COME KISS ME: ACT ONE delivers: 💔 gay pining 🌹 Shakespearen innuendo 🫢 🎶 bardic wooing 😚 platonic smooching And of course, the 🏳️⚧️trans-a-genda🤌🏻 on every page! Pledge now: kickstarter.com/projects/itsneilcochrane/then-come-kiss-me-webcomic-print-edition?ref=6hq67h
New story day @metastellar.bsky.social ! (First one in a while...) This disco light 🪩 is entering middle age 🧑🦳 and it's starting to show. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
The Night the Light Went Out at Georgia’s
A disco light in a gay bar enters middle age and grapples with changes to her physical body
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Home stretch!! THEN COME KISS ME: ACT ONE delivers: 💔 gay pining 🌹 Shakespearen innuendo 🫢 🎶 bardic wooing 😚 platonic smooching And of course, the 🏳️⚧️trans-a-genda🤌🏻 on every page! Pledge now: kickstarter.com/projects/itsneilcochrane/then-come-kiss-me-webcomic-print-edition?ref=6hq67h
It’s Non-binary Day, so hello from your friendly neighbourhood agender void who writes fantasy books full of folk like me We’ve got YA Gaelic fantasy romance! We’ve got urban fantasy! We’ve got epic fantasy! We’ve got spicy epic fantasy romance! We’ve got gothic why-choose dystopian fantasy!
Happy nonbinary day? I am nonbinary! Here are things about me!
If I pick up the phone when you call me, you're one of my soulmates. I don't make the rules, I just live by them.
One week to go! We're Kickstarting for a print edition of Act One of Then Come Kiss Me, my queer Shakespearean webcomic. Check out the Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/its... Read the comic for free on my website: neilcochranebooks.com/then-come-ki...
Then Come Kiss Me: Queering Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Act One of the queer historical romance retelling of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, updated and expanded for its print debut!
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👀👀👀👀 If this were a fairy trap in the woods, I would be gone forever
unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press@duckprintspress.com · 3mo agoThe Kickstarter for our next anthology, Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, launched yesterday, and we’re already almost 50% funded and a “Project We Love”! Check out the campaign and see what all the fuss is about: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...
i am really proud of this short story i wrote (published in @apexmag.bsky.social). pitch: Beau's been living on a giant jackalope for the better part of a decade. And then the murders began. It's hell living on the back of prey.
Unsettled Nature
Once were a time on a jackalope when folks kept their thinking to themselves. People lived, and people died, natural-like, in this un-natural place. That was, ‘til the first un-natural death, when nob...
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I have developed severe seasonal allergies for the first time in my 37 years of life and I am Not. A. Fan.