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We’re on the up and up again!

Details on our anthology here: https://voxetliber.com/gv-submission-guidelines

We’re small/independent, queer owned, and looking to change the publishing world for the better.

VOX ET LIBER PUBLISHING was founded in 2019 outside of Boston with the goal of producing quality stories while taking care of our authors. We aim to produce a variety of quarterly titles by voices that aren’t usually showcased in traditional publishing.

Our goal is to publish as many diverse voices telling quality diverse stories as possible.

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So here’s the thing...

I’m really freaking hard to scare. Unlike my cat that just booked it into another room when our UPS guy dropped a package off at the door. Perfect timing, Percy. Perfect timing…

Anyways! I have NOT had a good scare in probably two decades. No matter what fiction I pick up that promises to chill and thrill me, neither happens.

Now keep this in mind.

As of right now I am launching a business and yes, this will tie into the weird opener. Be patient, please.

I am launching Vox et Liber, a publishing house for ALL kinds of stories and ALL kinds of voices. I started working on this in November 2019, what do you mean that was only 8 months ago?! I originally thought the publishing house up after learning a bunch of facts about the publishing world over the summer.

VeL publishing will be a new kind of publishing and I can say that with 100% confidence because I am building this beast from the ground up, with the help of @hazandlouwho​, my fiance, and a few other amazing people!

Because this business is getting started independently, which means no investors, we are working with a VERY small amount of cash reserved for start up. Initially all works will be published digitally. We do plan on launching a Kickstarter in September/October to get enough funds to keep this going and to do it right which means getting stories published physically and sold to both indie bookstores and Barnes and Noble. Please be on the look out for that.

If any awesome people want to donate to help us not break my own personal bank, which will be easy to do since Covid-19 forced me to quit my job working with the public because I’m high risk and unemployment has kept me in limbo for going on 3 weeks, you can tip us on Ko-Fi by clicking here. ALL donations and funds raised go towards launching VeL and all projects under the VeL umbrella.

Bringing it around to the scares. VeL is launching our first project and we need all you awesome writers’ help. As of today we are opening submissions for our first ever anthology, Graveyard Visits. It’s horror with the theme of marginalized voices written as Own Voice fiction. Meaning stories written by marginalized groups with their marginalized groups as main characters.

Submissions are going to be open from July 1st until August 12th 11:59pm EST. Stories are expected to be between 2.5k-5k words in length. We will be paying $.02 per word as well as giving you a digital copy of the anthology. Submission Guidelines can be found here.

Now the whole me being hard to scare; I want to be scared. Submit your best, your scariest, and most bone-chilling stories.

Also, not so subtly gonna add a nudge to @thebibliosphere​ because I feel like she might have something up her sleeve. If not for this anthology then definitely our erotica one that will be announced later this summer.

We also have a podcast series in the works but I will do another post on that once I or my awesome soon to be brother in law (that’s STILL weird) have a moment to do up some graphics.

Click below for my rant on why traditional publishing right now is a soul sucking leech on EVERYONE.

Keep reading

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If you ever do find it to a poor goth a favor and post the link? Please and thank you!

I’m going to end up getting all my old dresses out of storage aren’t I lol.

I honestly can’t wear most of them anymore because of my sunlight allergy so maybe I should just take the plunge and purge them all so I can go full velvet goth.

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IS IT 2021 YET?!?!

If April ends up worse I swear to God

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Getting the lists together as we speak. I’m aiming to have everything together and launched over on our twitter tonight at 10pm EST

So I’ve Started a Publishing Company and We Want to Help

I’ve started a publishing company that I hope can help the publishing industry change even just a little bit; publish and amplify a variety of voices as well as treat authors like humans and not content mills. Meaning giving them a bigger cut of the book/project they spent hundreds of hours on creating. You can check out our website here for more information

We don’t have a lot of money or reach as a start up but I still want us to help somehow.

What was come up with was a fundraiser/raffle. Everyone who donates more than $5 to BLM specific charities or anyone that gives money/buys from black owned independent businesses are entered to win from a list of books. This list will comprise 100% of black authors.* Every $5 spent either will get an entry. NO LIMITS on entries.

We want to amplify those voices while helping the fight on the ground and businesses that are still fighting to be seen. We have the funds NOW to pick 6 winners which equal 6 books bought by black authors then shipped to the winners.

If you want to get a name on one of the lists please @ us on Twitter. They will be added. When I have time I’ll break down the list by genres so people don’t do what I do and pick based off covers or cool titles.

I plan on posting it all once it’s live tonight, no later than 10pm EST. Winners will be picked on the 20th. Check here or our Twitter https://twitter.com/VoxetLiber

SIDE NOTE: We’ll be opening up for submissions soon. We’re planning on getting a Horror/Halloween theme anthology out and published October 1st. As well as starting our first original serial podcast at the end of the summer. 

- L / Owner of Vox et Liber

*if the winner has a black author they want a book from we’ll get it if it’s available. We are providing a list of books for people who don’t know where to start. Same goes for the charities and the black owned small businesses. 

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DO NOT SHARE FOOTAGE OR PHOTOS WITHOUT BLOCKING OUT FACES AND EVEN TATTOOS

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THE PEOPLE PROTESTING AINT SAFE AND THIS COULD BE NEXT

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So I’ve Started a Publishing Company and We Want to Help

I’ve started a publishing company that I hope can help the publishing industry change even just a little bit; publish and amplify a variety of voices as well as treat authors like humans and not content mills. Meaning giving them a bigger cut of the book/project they spent hundreds of hours on creating. You can check out our website here for more information

We don’t have a lot of money or reach as a start up but I still want us to help somehow.

What was come up with was a fundraiser/raffle. Everyone who donates more than $5 to BLM specific charities or anyone that gives money/buys from black owned independent businesses are entered to win from a list of books. This list will comprise 100% of black authors.* Every $5 spent either will get an entry. NO LIMITS on entries.

We want to amplify those voices while helping the fight on the ground and businesses that are still fighting to be seen. We have the funds NOW to pick 6 winners which equal 6 books bought by black authors then shipped to the winners.

If you want to get a name on one of the lists please @ us on Twitter. They will be added. When I have time I’ll break down the list by genres so people don’t do what I do and pick based off covers or cool titles.

I plan on posting it all once it’s live tonight, no later than 10pm EST. Winners will be picked on the 20th. Check here or our Twitter https://twitter.com/VoxetLiber

SIDE NOTE: We’ll be opening up for submissions soon. We’re planning on getting a Horror/Halloween theme anthology out and published October 1st. As well as starting our first original serial podcast at the end of the summer. 

- L / Owner of Vox et Liber

*if the winner has a black author they want a book from we’ll get it if it’s available. We are providing a list of books for people who don’t know where to start. Same goes for the charities and the black owned small businesses. 

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what was yalls first internet community you were in? mine was toontown in 2008

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I felt this in my bones

it’s not about that i know how to do laundry. it’s that when i was four i knew how to fold clothes; small hands working alongside my mother, while my older brother sat and played with his toys. it’s that i know what kind of detergent works but my father guesses. it’s that in my freshman year of college i had a line of boys who needed me to show them how to use the machine. it’s that the first door they knocked on belonged to me. it’s that they expected me to know.

it’s not that i know how to cook. it’s that the biggest christmas present i got was a little plastic kitchenette i never used except to climb on. it’s that my brother used it more, his hands ghosting over pink buttons and yellow dials. it’s that when my work needs cake for a birthday, they turn to me. i get it from costco. i don’t even like cooking. a boy burns popcorn in the dorm microwave and laughs. a week later, i do the same thing, and he snorts at me, “just crossed you off my wife list.” it’s that i had heard something like this so many times before that i laughed, too.

it’s not that i don’t love being feminine. it’s that i came home with bruises from trying to be a trick rider on my bike and heard the word “tomboy,” felt my little mouth say, “but i’m not a boy, i’m a girl”. it’s that they laughed. it’s that until i was sitting in my pretty dress and smiling with a big pretty smile and blinking my big pretty eyes, i wasn’t given back the title “girl”. it’s that until i wore makeup and styled my hair i was bullied; it’s that when i don’t wear makeup i’m a slob, that my mental health diagnosis hangs on the hook of being dressed up. it’s that my therapist sees me returning to bright red lipstick and tells me i am looking happier and i have to explain that i am more sad than i have ever been. it’s that i dress myself in as many layers as i can every time i ride a train because it’s better to be laughed at than harassed. 

it’s not that i know how to clean, it’s that my brother’s chores were outside where i wanted to be, and mine were inside. it’s that i would have weeded the garden better than he did if they had just let me. it’s that i am put in charge of fixing other’s messes, expected to comply without complaint.

it’s not that i can’t open the jar. it’s that you ask my brother first every time. it’s that i am pushed into docile positions, trained to believe that my body when it’s strong and healthy is ugly, trained into being less, weaker. it’s that the jar is also science, is also engineering, is also every job, every opportunity. it’s that you laugh faster when he tells a joke, that you take him seriously but wave off me, that when he raises his voice he’s assertive but when i do i’m hysterical. the jar is getting into a car with a stranger as a driver and wondering if this is our last ride. the jar is knowing that if something happens to us, it’s our fault. 

it’s that i’m weak and i don’t know if it’s because i just am or i was trained to be. it’s that we need to sit pretty with our pretty smiles and our pretty words trapped pretty and silent in our throats, our hands restless but pretty when idle, our bodies vessels for nothing but a future white dress. it’s that we are taught someone else needs to open the jar for us.

here’s the secret: run metal lids under hot water, they’ll expand faster than the glass they’re around. here’s the secret: when you keep us under hot water, we do more than boil. we expand over our edges. and we learn how to open our mouths, our claws, our screams hanging in kites over cities. just give me a chance. give me a chance when i am four when i am seven when i am twenty-three. i promise i can be amazing. give me the jar. i’ll show you something.

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“Capitalism? Choose Life / Landlords are a threat to public health"

Seen in Glasgow, Scotland

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hello everyone, today we are Funding a Rat!

the situation: Pangur hasn’t eaten unassisted since May 16th, and has been hospitalized since May 18th. my vet isn’t sure what’s wrong yet (the two main contenders are Gastrointestinal Inflammation due to a bacterial/viral infection, or Pancreatitis) but she IS stable & will hopefully be able to come home this week.

the situation pt 2: this is all rather pricey ($5,250.25 so far, and that’s excluding Uber rides) so if y’all want to purchase pins? I won’t stop you?

the skull, wizard, and carousel have been retired for over a year now, but I’m bringing them back for a limited run on greerstothers.storenvy.com

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No Joke my loves. I came back to Tumblr after almost 2 years to see this post had been flagged for nudity.

Um.... Tumblr, are you okay?

Great find at my #localcomicshop also got the new #hulk and issued 1,3, and 4 of #marvelsamerica 🤓😁

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Forgot to post these. Didn’t take many pictures at #bostonfanexpo2018 but I got a few of the ever dashing @caryelwes during his panel. Amazingly nice guy! Got to talk to him a few minutes while he signed our books. It was the boyfriend’s birthday so it definitely made his day to be wished a happy birthday by one of his favorites. 💙 (at Boston Convention & Exhibition Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm0tRd9gS0y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jtmi6boaojbr

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Taking my boy to a metal show 🤘🏻 Fuck yeah @sabatonofficial So fucking excited!! (at House of Blues Boston)

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This is what I get greeted with most mornings while staying at my boyfriends house. Cat: food?! #catsofinstagram #feedmehuman