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🌆 urban fantasy 🔮 witches & shifters & vampires (oh my!) 🩸 original lore 🪞 parallel world ⚔️ enemy of my enemy 🌈 everyone is queer (and a disaster) 📖 universal link: buy.bookfunnel.com/ypxhg00vsn #BookSky #WriteSky

woke up to the news that @draft2digital.bsky.social will be charging a fee to authors who make less money 🤡

There’s really no way to describe how much self-publishing is a gauntlet. I haven’t advertised my books in a year because I’m making new covers for the series so they match. And I have a hybrid publisher who takes care of at least some of the back-end work. We are out here writing, revising,

Updating for Authors; Free StreetLib plan is ebook only & excludes most US retailers 🤪 staging-web.streetlib.com/pricing Kobo Direct includes Overdrive/ libraries Bookvault distribute paperbacks in US, UK & EU. Pod-only CAN & AU. To avoid D2D's fee, you have to delete account, by contacting them

woke up to the news that @draft2digital.bsky.social will be charging a fee to authors who make less money 🤡

a little over 24 hours left to grab this bundle! and we are so close to our goal!!!

One week left on this SFF+ bundle for #AutismMonth! ♾️ itch.io/b/3598/autis...

One week left on this SFF+ bundle for #AutismMonth! ♾️ itch.io/b/3598/autis...

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Autistic Authors, As next month is Autism Awareness Month (yeah, I know acceptance is more important!), I'll be hosting an Autistic Fiction book bundle on Itchio (yes your book must be on Itch to enter.) Let me know if you'd like me to DM you a sign up form! And feel free to comment questions.

Stop. Right now. Now before you scroll more? Go make something physical, even if it's just folding up a paper airplane or something. You've been sticking to the screen that gives you anxiety and horrors so much that we're enforcing creation breaks, just to give you some air.

Post a meme you made:

don’t forget to grab this bundle while you still can! #Aro #AroWeek #Aromantic #QueerSFF

5 things I like, and leaving it untagged for anyone who wants to participate 😛 1. my dog 2. my cat 3. writing 4. my fuzzy blanket 5. learning and teaching about dog behavior

don’t forget to grab this bundle while you still can! #Aro #AroWeek #Aromantic #QueerSFF

Porn performer Siri Dahl’s personal information, including her full legal name and birthday, was publicly exposed earlier this month by Grok. Dahl told 404 Media she wanted to reclaim the situation, and her name, and asked that it be published in this piece. www.404media.co/grok-doxing-...

I had this idea a while back, and the only way to see if it works is to try it. The idea is monthly mini-sales on a theme, like a book bundle, except that readers can browse and pick what interests them. The biggest obstacle is my small reach, so share this around! sheilajenne.com/2026/02/11/i...

Happy discount candy day (Feb edition)! If you're looking for something to enjoy with your discount candy, check out the aro-spec itch bundle -- with 23 different aro-highlighed stories, there's sure to be something for you 👀 🔗 itch.io/b/3517/aroma... #BookSky #QueerSFF #QueerAdultSFF

Happy Aro day. Today's aro mood is: sleepy. 💚🩶🤍🖤🤍🩶💚

In honor of Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, we’ve organized an itch.io bundle featuring 23 books, graphic novels, visual novels, and audiobooks starring aromantic characters! List of included works: duckprintspress.com/2026/02/15/a... itch link! itch.io/b/3517/aroma... 🌈📚

DO YOU LOVE RELATIONSHIPS?? Because there are two bundles on itchio right now for you! One for romance: itch.io/b/3515/valen... One for friendship (SFF): itch.io/b/3486/frien... I just think it's neat :3 (I'm in the friendship one obviously)

That's the insidious chilling effect of these book bans. The defenders have to pick their battles. This seems to be especially true of comics. Hard to believe this whole thing began as an old-fashioned Comic Book Witvch Hunt! Dr. Wertham is cackling from the grave!

In the 1880s, Vampires seek to rule Washington Territory. A small group of queer superheroes stand in their way: informed by the future, armed with alien tech, and bound by queer joy and solidarity. The comic is on Kickstarter March 1st! Join us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

Blocking the construction of ICE detention centers is much easier than closing them once they're built! If you're in this county, follow the OP for some ways to support; if you're not, keep an ear out for proposed detention facilities in your zone

In a positive development, I’m hearing that Hanover County Board of Supervisors are planning to vote NO on the I.C.E. request to build or lease a detention facility in the county near Bass Pro. And, that they are consulting with the county attorney on legal options for fighting it!

Have some new followers so sharing this list. If you consider yourself queer and neurodiverse and are a writer at any stage from beginner to published writer, comment on this post and I'll add you. If you're not, show some support for marginalised authors by following ; ) go.bsky.app/9mmijHX

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

when a question is also a poem

2025 may be over, but these twenty seven books, published in the last year, represents the best of the year, and offers hope in a world that seems to get harder to live in every day. itch.io/b/3455/the-b...

They're not even gonna acknowledge her wife in death, Renee Nicole Good was murdered and people are pretending like she wasn't married to a woman when an ICE terrorist murdered her, that her wife didn't hold her in her arms as she died, and on fucking camera... I'm so sick of it all

What is her name?

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

I think I’m most upset about the realization that no one will be held accountable. She’ll be lied about and dishonored, just like Melissa Hortman. And new horrors will replace this one by next week, requiring our attention, burying this story, demanding more dissociation. Everything is so fucked.

We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.”

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.