Shveta Thakrar

Hi, friends! I'm here! I missed having writer community, so here I am while I cheer you on and write more magical stories. Wishing everyone love and kindness and, for crying out loud, universal basic rights. ❤️🪷✨

I’m not reposting that racist garbage but I WILL repost this. I’m an “Arab” and I create really great literature. In fact, here’s my very first published piece about another “Arab” who eats mean men 🥰

Sign this petition to require med schools to teach ME/CFS and POTS diagnostics and care. These are incredibly common conditions that somehow docs have never heard of, and sub-standard care makes people's quality of life go permanently down. That's what happened to me. c.org/pnyF4Grgxt

Tomorrow night! Join us for Outspoken: Metabolizing Rage & Resisting Rape Culture in YA Fiction. All tickets are donation based, with donations going to the GoFundMe for Cornell 7’s Jane Doe and LSU’s Kendall Francis. tinyurl.com/outspoken3

Hello it is SPOOKY SEASON, if you want to read a book that will yank your guts out may I humbly recommend GRIEF EATER: www.amazon.com/Grief-Eater-...

Day 13 of the Spooky Season Calendar is up at KatSimonsBooks.com New little spooky season treat! #BookSky

Happy asexual awareness week! It’s once again time for you to become aware of me and my books. Next week you can go back to forgetting, but this week you legally have to pay attention to me sorry I don’t make the rules 💜🤍🩶🖤

I loved this book — grab a copy if you can!!!

honored & delighted to be interviewed for the inaugural issue of Pacific Northwest Gothic magazine about Possession Island & its Influences ! plus lots of new fiction/nonfiction from fine regional goths 🧛 🖤 u can get a copy here pnwgothic.com/volumeone/

My #solarpunk noir novellete "Ice Like Honey" in which YOU take revenge for your brother's murder and control of a geothermal energy company is live on @lightspeedmagazine.com www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ice-...

⭐️ FREE GIVEAWAY ⭐️ Join my reader list (🔗 in comments) and follow me on social media for the chance to win a #FREE gift pack of Sea and Stars art by Holly Dunn, Alison Weber, and Katherine Macdonald 🎨 kellyjarviswriter.com #SeaAndStars #art #Contest #blog

Pretty Little Lion, my second tradpub romantic suspense, turns 5 today. American desi apsara Meghna + Black and British lion shifter Elijah. Politics. Explicit sex. Action. MMF secondary romance. It had no marketing, got good trade reviews, and is one of my worst sellers. 😂 books2read.com/u/mgMn00

Join @acwise.bsky.social and me tomorrow at Main Point Books to kick off Halloween week, and THE NIGHT PARADE!

Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Issue 73 Table of Contents and cover by Alyssa Winans! buff.ly/rmqKkVi

Looking for queer historical romance with sinister supernatural shenanigans? Of course you are. THE SECRET CASEBOOK OF SIMON FEXIMAL and SPECTRED ISLE are both 99p everywhere this week! (If sale isn't showing where you are give it time, includes Amazon and all the usual suspects, e only)

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 3609: If ever you feel discouraged, know this. Every day you get up to write is an act of courage. Every word you manage to write is a light against the darkness. You may not see it from where you are now, but it's there. It's shining.

More essay wonderfulness at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk: "What Floats Between: On Writing Fiction, Nonfiction and Back Again" by @leannareneehieber.bsky.social - ruadanbooks.com/what-floats-...

My forever mood 🖤 (Huge thanks to @alternatehistories.bsky.social for making their awesome new graphic free for everyone to use!)

The process of reading and re-reading someone else's imperfect work and devoting mental energy to figuring out what's not working in it and how to fix it is how you develop the creative instincts that allow you to automatically, unconsciously avoid pitfalls and make breakthroughs in your own work.

I only ever received two death threats online. One was from JDA. But that's a fraction of what he did to Paul and many other good people in our community. That's why I'm extremely disappointed that File 770 chose to give him a platform.

I loved every minute of this!

I totally forgot this is out in less than two weeks www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdr3...

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this absolute fuckery. I will NEVER outsource my creative output to gen AI. If you ask me to write you a poem, or I've said I'd write you a poem, you'll get a poem from/by me. Whether it appears in print or on social media (#TinyPoem), it'll be me.+

Seconded! Whatever I write, it will be all mine, from my brain and heart and fingers.

While I'm here, a small reminder that I have a new novella at Clarkesworld this month, one I'm very proud of. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

16 hours left to submit to Diabolical Rot for @diabolicalplots.com! Send me your rot! (We’ve gotten a LOT of fungi stories, so huge bonus points for other interpretations!) submissions.diabolicalplots.com

In which I have an Opinion: (free to read) www.patreon.com/matociquala/...

Sign this Authors Guild petition against the Australian government allowing AI to legally scrape books — any books, your books, even if they’re not Australian authorsguild.org/news/austral...

New term: Occam's wallet, when the simplest explanation is "money" and it's probably right

For the evening crowd...

A Tiny™ Concert for the No-Name King by Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social "I didn’t know if this was transformation gone too far, or the usual way magic blotted out identity in a monarch so they could truly stand in for their people." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

@bethanypowell.bsky.social You found me! Hi, hi, hi! 💖

I lived in a small town through high school, and no one outside my family even knew what Indian food was. People got suspicious when a Chinese restaurant finally opened.

I wrote a MMF romantasy novella last year despite having little background in fantasy beyond some GoT Tyrion/Sansa fics on AO3. I'm fairly certain I put in more effort than James Patterson. Queen/bodyguards, South Asian-ish world, weirdly inspired by The X-Files S8. books2read.com/u/47aYWq

The Australian government is introducing legislation to allow AI companies to use authors’ work to build their models. This would apply to authors from anywhere in the world. Authors: To sign the US Author's Guild petition against (you don't need to be a member): authorsguild.org/news/austral...