I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Jenny M. Liu
@jennymliu.bsky.social
sffh + lit writer | best microfiction 2025 + wigleaf top 50 longlist jennymliu.carrd.co
Today is a wonderful day to stock up on FIYAH's backlog of issues. It's a fantastic magazine, and financial support now may help them get back on their feet in the future. fiyahlitmag.com
FIYAH
LITERARY MAGAZINE OF BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION
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FIYAH is going on hiatus. More here:
It’s my pub day!! I appreciate the support of this literary community. Get your copy today! Thank you to AV @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social!
Shout (or howl) it out! COYOTE GIRL, the new collection from the supremely talented @sabrinahicks.bsky.social is out today from Cowboy Jamboree Press: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/coyote-girl....
Today is the day! Pick up your copy of THE CHAMOS PROJECT from the retailer of your choice! books2read.com/u/mdBDo5. #WritingCommunity #SFF
I did not have a good experience with this press, fwiw. I'd be very wary of submitting there.
Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*. And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology. Don't submit to this one, folks.
Please preorder my book...it's $13.27, and it's got the taste plants crave: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 3/25/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
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With 2 weeks to go until the launch of THE CHAMOS PROJECT, I'm delighted to be able to share my next blurb, from @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social ! AJ was so kind to read this book and provide this wonderful blurb. Add TCP on Goodreads today: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24....
It's always heartbreaking when a lit mag goes away, but it's also a reminder about how much human care and effort goes into making a space for art. Transience doesn't make something less beautiful.
Hey all, @beansbaker5.bsky.social here. After much deliberation, and many missed deadlines, we've decided to end submissions to JAKE indefinitely on Feb. 15th (two weeks from today). All open submissions will receive a response, and all announced/scheduled work will release, but we're winding down.
Hi friends, just checking in from Minneapolis. Can we put out a couple asks for your support? 💕 Turns out, it's really hard to run a lit mag in your free time when the federal government has besieged your beloved city.
sometimes what's outlined doesn't work in practice, and it's exactly like finding a shirt that looks nice on the hanger but terrible when you try it on
Is it wise to do a book cover reveal the week of a holiday? No. Am I doing it anyway? Yes. Here's the gorgeous cover for my upcoming scifi, THE CHAMOS PROJECT! All credit goes to my wonderful cover designer: creativeparamita.com. Add TCP here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24.... #WritingCommunity
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
“Rage in Retail” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Thank you so much, @paranoidxtree.bsky.social, and congratulations to all of my fellow nominees! ⚡️💚
Announcing our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees. ⚡ 💚 Congrats & thanks to you all for sharing your talents with us at Paranoid Tree!
Oh hey, it's me. Talking about balancing creativity while caring for a dying parent. 🖤
From @ecatherine.com - "Do Good Work" "Sometimes I just want to step into the dark garage and scream until I can’t scream any more. So that’s what I do. But how does that help the writing process, you wonder. It doesn’t. It helps the writer." ruadanbooks.com/do-good-work/
New CNF (my first!) is out now at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 🛍️ I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞
"I spend too much on supportive shoes. There is a mound of black on the back of my door, hanging ghouls perfumed with company-gifted By Kilian—it is a wardrobe for a funeral, the mourning of." New CNF by Jenny M. Liu. Sending solidarity to retail workers this season! paranoidtree.com/read/vol-59
New CNF (my first!) is out now at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 🛍️ I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞
"I spend too much on supportive shoes. There is a mound of black on the back of my door, hanging ghouls perfumed with company-gifted By Kilian—it is a wardrobe for a funeral, the mourning of." New CNF by Jenny M. Liu. Sending solidarity to retail workers this season! paranoidtree.com/read/vol-59
Dashed out to Yew Tree Tarn this afternoon to capture the autumn display. I was about half an hour too late for the best light but was happy with these two snatched from the roadside with the treetops illuminated.
I'm on the hunt for ARC readers! Sign up here if you'd like to receive a free digital copy of THE CHAMOS PROJECT a month before publication: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....
Only 8 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter and we're $6,304 away from our initial funding goal. If you love and appreciate Apex. If you want more dark, weird stories. If you want a market to submit to. Then please consider helping us hit our goal. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
*banging pots and pans together* QUEER SCIFI WITH LIKE ROBOTS AND SHIT. I've read it, it's very good. And sad. But good. My marketing is at about the same level as Alexis', clearly
I've been sitting on this blog post since August, but I finally posted yesterday about my plan to publish my gay sci-fi book: alexisamesbooks.com/2025/10/10/a.... I'd like to say that my marketing in the coming months will be better than this but tbh that's probably a lie. #WritingCommunity #SFF
Free yourself from the Canva mines ⛏️🖼️ We're offering a totally new product only on our Kickstarter through the month of October: an author graphics bundle of fully customizable Canva templates for speculative fiction authors! 🎨 check below for details! ⬇️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Hey y'all, OTHERSIDE is smashing their Kickstarter goals. Help them get fully funded for their second year! And if you've ever wanted me to critique your poetry, that's one of the add-ons, alongside tons of great reward options.
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
I ADORE Kanopy!! My library's catalog is especially incredible for world cinema and documentaries A small sampling of my watchlist and what you may be able to find:
Once again, I want to mention that many libraries will give you free access to Kanopy, a streaming service jam-packed with amazing films and TV shows.