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This thread will include my original #shortstories published in various online venues, including audiobooks & booktube. I will add links to two books feat my #flashfiction. Please note, some acceptances have not yet been released so I still count them but the releases will be later this month.

@genl.bsky.social For you.

To your keybords! The longest lasting unofficial Fast Fiction contest is in full swing. The prompt is "Laughing Matters," and this time, there are no faction restriction. 1000 words, 1 theme, 1 winner. The deadline is July 31st! Link in the original post #Warhammer40k

As of today, I am an author without a cat. Can't believe Thor left us this afternoon. Who am I going to talk to all day while the kids are at school? Who will I bounce my ideas off of. Who is going to sit at my side and purr and wink at me? Who will I pet? Idk Picture taken this morning.

@remleiz.bsky.social looks like GW came out on facebook to say it was an artist mistake.

Small publishers! Our next #SmallPitch event takes place next month, the week of July 13th. If you want to participate, don't forget to fill out this form 👇

Hey small press author friends, join us! 👇

He reads a big book He reads a little book He reads an old book He reads a new book He reads a book that reminds him of the good times He reads a book that reminds him of the better times

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Maya smiled today when she won thumb war with her dad. A real smile. Today is a good day.

So this happened. My story, Kesia's Musical Garden, is featured in this anthology. Kaleidoscopic Quill: An Inspiring Butterfly Anthology got a positive Kirkus review. Check it out! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

🚨 SEVEN New stories have launched from our Original Worlds imprint! Now available at www.coldopenstories.com they're going to live rent-free in my head for months! Check out all the releases, and leave a comment on which story you'll be checking out first.

Did you miss entering the competition? Well never fear, the NEW Fast Fiction XXVI is NOW OPEN: 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...

🧿 Open your third eye - the winners of the longest-running Warhammer 40,000 writing contest are here! 40k.coldopenstories.com/fast-fiction... Thank you to everyone who entered!!

Thank you for your patience! Wishbone Words Issue 16 is now available to download on our website! Please visit www.wishbonewords.com/magazine/issue-16 to get your copy! Contributors, we have a code for you! Please reach out on our socials to receive it :) #disabilityvisibility #disabilityawareness

Submitted a trio of poems to the @storytellingco.bsky.social as part of the April Daily Poem challenge. I`m not overly confident about the quality, but I tried.

And a new AGENT ANTICS has dropped #WritingCommunity agentantics.substack.com/p/im-a-teens...

A5: If you’re in Canada, it would be lovely if you could request my short story collection at your local library! (And also lovely if you did it from elsewhere in the world too!) Here’s a page with info you might need to fill out a form. Thank you! wp.me/PcJR4y-Th #WeeknightWriters

I have a story, Kesia's Musical Garden, in the Kaleidoscopic Quill: An Inspiring Butterfly Anthology by Wild Ink Publication. It came in as number 4 of the top 10 Indie Bestsellers for March #shortstories

My cat, Thor God of Thunder Potector of Asgard, has been sick this week vomiting bile and a UTI. He's on the mend now. We knew it was bad when he let us bathe him. He's 9.5 years old. When we first got him, he was 3 and had somehealth issues the SPCA did not disclose. He's a good boy #cats

Tomorrow, I have three new projects drop: One poem One short story called "The Suns Rise in the West." (It's a mythological humour piece and lastly, A book Review for "The Switch," by April McCloud. I'm excited to finally see them out in the wild.

To your keyboards! The deadline is fast approaching!

Remember the children Protect the Children. Keep Maya in your thoughts and prayers. One of the heroes of Tubmer Ridges lays in a coma in Vancouver. She locked the door to the library and was shot in the head and neck. 12 years old. Remember those who do not have a chance to grow up.

Check on your hyper-empathic friends We are not okay.

Are you on @thestorygraph.com and looking for a nice book challenge for the year? Look no further than this Reading Rick Riordan and the Percy Jackson Universe challenge: app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal... #BookSky #AmReading #PercyJackson #PJO #HOO #RickRiordan #MarkOshiro #Fantasy #MG #YA

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

The longest-running WH40k FF contest is in full swing. Submit your story themed "The Mind's Eye" by March 31 for a chance to be published in our anthology. Keep your story to 1k words or less and respect the faction restrictions. Details here: 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ... #Warhammer40k

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

MURDERER! ARREST, CONVICT, & PROSECUTE! We all saw what you did Jonathan Ross...GUILTY of cold blooded murder Say her name! RENE NICOLE GOOD! A MOTHER!

I saw a post that says the world is laughing at us (meaning the US) Please note: No one is laughing at the US. We're all in shock and are mostly angry at the regime and those who enable it, but we're not laughing.

About nothing...or about everything My family has been in Canada since before it was Canada. A Frenchman arrived here on a ship from France and kidnapped and married an Algonquin girl in 1536, and I'm pissed off at him and sad for her. That's my origine. I also had a Mik Ma'q great-grandmother.

I just passed by a few TD Banks, and those parking lots are absolutely full. Canada is going #ElbowsUP against the CEO of ScotiaBank. Canadians want Canada-owned AND morally/ethically sound business.

Gander says it's best to hang out here. Bluesky isn't censoring as much as Meta. French expressions translated into English: J'ai une crotte su'l coeur. Literal translation: I have a turd on my heart. lol Meaning: Something has been bothering me for a while now and I'm about to share.

The digital boxed set is out now! Check out the trilogy on Amazon! www.amazon.com/dp/B0G8MGZ5B4

Chapter 2 almost done. Wow. Who knew that letting a novel breathe for a year would speed up revisions?!

I got 1040 words in today in the final revision of The Road to Salvation. I really did just need to let it rest to tighten the writing. Things are moving well. More writing tomorrow.

I spoke with María Corina Machado today. I affirmed Canada’s support for a peaceful, Venezuelan-led transition of power — one that respects the democratic will of the Venezuelan people.

Oh gosh friends. If you go to Google Chrome and write 67, then press Enter, the Google page does the 67 meme. I kid you not. You just have to wait something like 3 seconds. You're welcome.

Tomorrow the kids go back to school, so I go back to writing. What shall it be? Either The Road to Salvation draft 8 (this is the last one, I promise myself) or Dragon Tears draft 2. This one will still need to go through revisions after the draft is over. Excited to get back to novel writing.

Watercolour painting of Bourton-On-The-Water in the snow. #art #snow #watercolour #painting