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My first book launch, and it was the best evening (once I got over the panic of talking in front of around 50 folks 😱!) A big thanks to Argonaut Books Isn’t On This Platform Anymore for being the best hosts, and Katalina Watt for chairing! 💙 Night complete with Limelight cupcakes and space dress! ✨️🥂🚀

Writers! Aside from a few stories I still need to make a decision on, we cleared out the submissions pile today. So if you write the kind of dark off-kilter shit we like and want a quick turnaround -- send it in. 3 pence GBP per word. seizethepress.com/submissions/

DreamForge Anvil 17 is Out! "Unseen Ties and Invisible Reflections" Free Online at: go.dfstory.com/dfanvil17 Individual ebooks available for purchase at: bit.ly/DFA-17-eBooks 5 New stories, a poem, two articles on writing and an article on "Detecting Aliens in Our Lifetime."

Okay. My writing desk is calling to me. Time to work on some stories. ✨✍️✨ #amwriting #WritingCommunity

✨Writing time! ✨ If you’re also #writing today, may the characters keep no secrets from you. ✍️✍️✍️

The sun was out today! A perfect excuse for a short walk at lunch. 😎 Enjoy the views of the #Edinburgh Castle from the Princess Street Gardens, the Scott Monument, and the Waverley Bridge. (Pardon the poor photo quality. My phone is old.) #writer #writerslife

I woke up early with a new story idea. I must have dreamed it. It felt like a memory. I made coffee and rushed to my #writing desk. Wrote about 2800 words in 3 hours. I love when that happens. ✨✍️✨ #WritingCommunity

From my work trip to Wales: when you find your perfect match. 😁

From my work trip to Wales: we walked from Swansea to Mumbles. Enjoy the views of the Swansea Bay and of the Atlantic at sunset! 🌅 #writer

The deadline for First Reader applications is October 14! First readers should be available for a few hours a week, three times a year to read through submissions. If you like what we do and want to be part of it, apply now! More details: khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

We just published our 40th issue! You can read it here for free: factorfourmag.com/category/issue…

The October issue of Clarkesworld is now online: clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_217 and features original fiction by Abby Nicole Yee, Nigel Brown, Fiona Moore, Arula Ratnakar, Louis Inglis Hall, Mike Robinson, and Damián Neri. Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

I love #planning. Planning stories to write, trips to take, new things to on learn. Even if the plans are not very realistic (although who’s to say?). It’s like I live halfway in the #future. Anyway. Here’s my 2025 daily planner. My biggest yet. 😎 #writer

I supported Augur Kickstarter! If you can, join me? They are doing close to funding and have terrific plans for the future!! ❤️ #writing #WritingCommunity Augur Society | Fund our SFF press on Kickstarter! #fantasy #sciencefiction kickstarter.com/projects/augur…

Apex Magazine is currently open to submissions from all authors. We will remain open through November. After that we will remained closed until I can get caught up on submissions and see if we need more stories for 2025. Submission details here: apex-magazine.com/submissions/

Writers: Jane Friedman is offering a free, email-based course on what it means to earn a living from your #writing career, based on lessons and exercises in her book (new edition coming in April 2025). I signed up! You can too. jane-friedman.ck.page/5094461697

Snatched a copy of Sandra Newman’s JULIA at the airport bookstore in Amsterdam. Retelling of 1984 from Julia’s (the love interest) perspective. When Cory Doctorow recommends a #book, I listen. pluralistic.net/2024/09/28/nov… #newrelease #newbook #1984 #Julia #dystopian #reading

The interior and cover wrap for A PALACE NEAR THE WIND proofs just came in and shall be going to print 👀✨‼️ Y’all will get a peek at the title of the second book as well 🫣🌊🌌

All our UK comrades, this one is for you! Beyond excited to work with Seditionist to bring the print version to England and Wales. Also look for copies in the upcoming Bristol and Manchester anarchist bookfairs in the coming weeks

I’m going through a phase where #reading is enough. So many excellent stories out there! My own #writing can wait. I need to witness & absorb other writers’ brilliance first.