THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID is out today!!! Woohoo!!!!!!!!! 🎉

your annual reminder that, every year, bookstores make a third or more of their money between now & New Year’s ☺️ meanwhile, Amazon supports & abets ICE most bookstores ship nationwide. A lot of them also have stores on bookshop.org

Bodies of Magic: OUT NOW! Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.) Buy US: bit.ly/BoM-US Buy UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

The deluxe physical edition of GODBURNED is gorgeous! If you want to be sure to snag one, @barnesandnoble.com is currently having a preorder sale where B&N Rewards Members get 25% off (35% off for premium members!). Just use the promo code PREORDER25! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/godburned-...

After a few years of hard work, The Chosen One Con is out now on ebook with paperbacks to follow soon! Available on Kindle, Kobo, Itch and more to come. books2read.com/thechosenone... But of course, I couldn't publish this book without help, and I have a lot of people to thank! 👇

"Don't think for a minute you don't have power... don't think for a minute you can't make change." - Richard Denniss. Tickets for the 2026 Climate Integrity Summit are available now: https://events.humanitix.com/sydney-climate-integrity-summit-2026

SFF friends in Australia! (Sydney in particular) A small crew of us are running a writers con over 11-13 September at Old Government House in Parramatta Park. At the moment we're open for EOI for panels: forms.gle/a4oiRLjmpLcb...

ConSYDeration Panels

For appearances over the weekend of 12-13 September 2026. ConSYDeration 2026 is the inaugural speculative writers con programmed by Sydney Speculative Scribes in partnership with WestWords. Held at ...

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orbit US (hachette) failed to register copyright for 4 out of the 5 books i have as part of this case, despite their contractual obligation to do so. three they didn’t do at all, one they registered as being written by someone else (my agent) 🙃

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 4mo ago

Penguin Random failed to register copyright for three of my seven titles with them, despite their contractual obligation to do so, which has done me out of $4500. That is a tiny number compared to some. Publishers have seriously let down their authors. They should use this money to make it right.

Did you miss Melbourne writer hangs last month? Good news! It’s on again this month plus bonus mystery book swap

Artistic comrades do not outsource thinking to AI. You already own the means of production, do not give it away.

Let's be clear about something: any editor who runs an author's work through an "AI detector" is using the same technology they're supposedly trying to avoid. Furthermore, they're feeding that author's work -- w/o permission -- to the same companies that have probably already stolen earlier work.

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

I talk a lot about casting actors in my writing as a means of cheating through the process. It helps me visualize their facial expressions/hear their voice. So here's a little insight into THE PHOTONIC EFFECT's casting. This is spoiler-free if you haven't read it yet. THREAD...

One week left to apply as an artist for our upcoming trans joy zine: Moments of Euphoria! This is a paid opportunity, so be sure to share it and/or tag artists you'd love to see in the book. 💕 Links to apply are below. ⬇️ #Zines #ArtZines #QueerArt #TransArt #ArtistsWanted

And on to year 3! Presenting the Queersar not an award for excellence in queer SFF 2022. Ten more brilliant titles! Nothing from the Tor mothership! Majority indie pubs! Gay, bi, lesbian, trans, and ace characters galore! ...and the single best novel I've read in the past decade. Dive on in.

The Queersar not an award 2022

For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2022

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Anybody who claims these rules aren't a ban is, at best, arguing in bad faith. "Nobody's banning these books, we're just making them impossible to be discovered by the target audience, even in communities that want them, and financially disincentivizing their production. Totally different."

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

THE PHOTONIC EFFECT releases tomorrow! To tempt you into preordering, let's deep dive into the initial pitch of "Voyager x DS9 x Mass Effect" and how its influences all shake out on the characters and world. THREAD (And the all-important preorder links!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ph...

The Photonic Effect

“What space opera is meant to be. A brilliantly complex novel about love, loss, and war.” —K.B. Wagers A starship captain and her crew face conspi...

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I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists. Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s. 2021 is here, and... 1/2

The Queersar Not An Award 2021

For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2021

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"We're all born naked and the rest is drag"

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

Apropos of absolutely nothing, we'd like to remind everyone that Kobo distributes to libraries via OverDrive, and it costs nothing to publish on Kobo. Come join us! #indieauthors #publishing

college in the US being prohibitively expensive when church costs nothing is the offline manifestation of the truth is paywalled but the lies are free

🎉🎉 perfectly timed book release for everyone missing the magic of the Artemis II days!

Cameron Johnston@cameronjohnston.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy Launch Day to me! First Mage On The Moon is out today.

Meet my fabric art creation: Bark the Ancient Statue. I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered him. No one is quite sure what kind of animal Bark is. When asked if he's a dog or a seal, he says yes. When asked if he's some other kind of creature, he also says yes. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

you don't actually hate what you're creating. if it was made by someone else, you'd like it. you'd say it's cool. you'd say it's inspiring. you can easily imagine another artist drawing this, and someone else liking it. you only doubt it because it's yours. stop. it's okay. you're allowed to be.

It's ace day! 🖤🤍💜 In case you didn't know, I'm a biromantic asexual, much like the main character of my Echo Archives series, the badass but tired new mom Kembral Thorne, who would love to have fun at this party but is stuck in a murder time loop with her cat burglar nemesis instead