MayaDRocha

Author website up ✌🏽

Omg they were roommates

God, I wish praying worked 🧿

"Below" on Netflix had the perfect opportunity to do sea monster/kraken mpreg and they didn't take it, 0/10 for sheer cowardice

It's a #Supernatural Sylvia Barry Halloween, Charlie Brown! What's everyone's costume this year? 👻

✨️NYGEL's next submission period is December 1 2026 through January 31 2027! ✨️ That's right, a full 2 month sub window so you have plenty of time during the holiday season to cook up a diabolically horny monster erotica story! 😈 We want weird, unique, explicit smut involving anything non-human 👽

Do you need context? Nope.

🔥😍Can't wait for my copies to arrive! Amazing antho. And not just b/c @mayadrocha.bsky.social and I have stories in it. 😜Also it has GAMES and ILLUSTRATIONS!

Stand by my claim that Widows' Bay is Lost fic

I think this is my very favourite story in the collection. Deliciously strange!

Comphet but for people bringing theor dogs to work Comppet

Have had that horrible experience of being asked to change the briefest paragraph in one of my books so a particular foreign publisher could avoid arrest in that country’s massive LGBTQ+ crackdown. I had to decline and therefore not be published - you don’t negotiate with tyrants - but what a world.

Our "Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose" anthology releases on Oct 30! Do you love an unreliable narrator, exciting duels, vampires, and a hunt through the Paris sewers? More info on our book! www.scyllapublishing.com/whoami #sapphicbooks @shannonxl.bsky.social

Our "Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose" anthology releases on Oct 30! Do you love mechs, dystopia, action, and characters who (literally) tear your beating heart from your chest? @dyanisabin.bsky.social has something for you. #sapphicbooks #smallpress

Can’t wait for the 30th!

I WANT TO TOUCH.

Unboxing the first ever delivery of Scylla books! Yes, I was very excited! Dreams coming true.

My first anthology as an editor! I learned a lot. I’m so proud of what these authors and artists brought to this book. And I have a story in here! All the feels.

This is happening! “Who Am I?” officially releases on October 30 in ebook and paperback on our website and from online retailers globally. #sapphicbooks #smallpress

Happy 1 Year Anniversary 🥳 medium.com/@draftingwri... #writingtips

We’re open for general submissions as of today. This opportunity will close when we reach 400 submissions, & I expect we’ll meet that number within the first week. So submit early! ✅ 500-1,000 words ✅ anonymous subs ❌ No AI / LLM #writingcommunity #flashfiction ffo.submittable.com/submit

We are now OPEN to submissions of speculative fiction + poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors! Submissions are limited to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors from October 1-7. If that's you, send us your work! This issue's theme is exploration. We'll be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from October 8-21!

Pub day! I'm so glad that Nameless Saviors is now available to read at @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social What if you could save a country that would rather kill you than admit its problems? It has government corruption, drunk shenanigans, and final year stress 😌. www.tractorbeam.earth/story/namele...

*to the tune of jingle bells* SHINGLES FLARE, SHINGLES FLARE, WANT TO K*[[ MYSELF

Release day is here!!! Help us celebrate all of the incredible authors who contributed to the Forged in FIYAH anthology! Snatch a copy or five for yourself wherever books are sold. Shout out to Matt and the @tordotcompub.bsky.social team for seeing this project through.

White people who bring their dogs to work should be forced to pay for their coworkers' childcare.

Check it out, this is where my color coded witches found a home!

Check it out, this is where my color coded witches found a home!

The palette on this is perfection Gorgeous art Great design And you may spot my Goatskin. Thrilled to see this so soon out!!

COVER REVEAL! The amazing @annalisejensen.bsky.social worked on this, along with @ellatholmes.bsky.social, and the result is astounding. It truly captures the essence of the book we and all the contributors created. Here is 'Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose! So proud. 📚🪐

Who's calling? That would be us saying the "Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose" cover DROPS on Friday!

There's so much LABOR happening behind the scenes of FIYAH that goes unrecognized. It's an honor to make space for and share work from the staff who've allowed us to publish Black SFF over these past ten years. Thank you, @emmaliawrites.bsky.social!

Sometimes it feels like a lot of writers have moved away from describing what their characters are wearing, and I hate that.

We're tabling at the 13th Market Book Fair in downtown Eugene OR selling our gay books! 🌈🌈🌈 #indiebooks #author #queerbooks #bookfair @mayadrocha.bsky.social

"Like Water" by @emlinden.bsky.social in Issue 25 of @havenspec.bsky.social This tale of language and sacrifice reads like a newly discovered folktale, one you might expect to hear around a campfire on a late summer evening. I'm off to read everything else by Linden. havenspec.com/fiction/like...

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

This looks amazing! For anyone unable to afford this right now, OR who are attending and would like to see how other writer's have tackled writing with disabilities, check out some of @thesansan.bsky.social's work on the DTL blog: medium.com/@draftingwri...

We're vending at the 13th Market Book Fair in Eugene OR this Friday! If you're near campus, we'll be selling our gay romcom books LESSONS IN TIMING and its sequel LESSONS IN BALANCE 🌈 We'll also be sharing a table with fellow author LL Mason so you'll have ✨️plenty✨️ of queer lit to choose from! 🥰

We're vending at the 13th Market Book Fair in Eugene, OR this Friday! If you're near campus, we'll be selling our gay romcom books LESSONS IN TIMING and its sequel LESSONS IN BALANCE 🌈 We'll also be sharing a table with fellow author LL Mason so you'll have ✨️plenty✨️ of queer lit to choose from! 🥰

Reminder: we are open for #submissions for the rest of the month ✍️. We are 👀 for fantasy/historical-fiction #writing about caregiving, family, romance, nature, friendship. Let's wander in the woods together 🌳🌲🍃 Simsubs, 1¢/word, gentle/cozy stories Guidelines: hearthstories.org/submissions....

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A note on FREE SUB months: They often close early when our cap w/ Submittable maxes out or we AMAZINGLY get more subs than our small team can read in a timely fashion. So get them in early & thank you for your understanding!

Will be hanging out with @thepaintedlion.bsky.social and L.L. Mason next week

My story 'Like Water' is free to read now! "In exchange for two large cod, the wise-woman extracts Minke’s first language and wraps it in a piece of sailcloth...." Thank you to the @havenspec.bsky.social team for giving this one a home!

We are about to embark on an extremely small, closed ARC process (with eARCs only!). ARC expressions of interest will be offered exclusively to mailing list subscribers later this week. If you’re interested, sign up to the newsletter at scyllapublishing.com/newsletter

People say typos are good cuz they prove you're not AI. Hope they're right cuz I just submitted something with: Content warning: body hory

Have you ever read this piece? It's a close look at Kirk's history whose thesis is that he wasn't as randy a womanizer as the legend would have it. It's worth a skim at least. It's a bit long, but it convinced me years ago. (I don't get why that's the thumbnail.)

[Exit Queen.]

I hope she's going somewhere nice. The rest of us just gotta pick up the slack...