#publishing deal

[maybemockingbird]

Lots of Cool Writing Announcements

Hi everyone! I have a whole slew of cool announcements to share with you all in the writing journey! First off, I sold a book!

My queer cosmic eco-horror romance novel "The Scientist, The Spaceman, And The Stars Between Them" will be arriving from Timber Ghost Press in May of 2024! It is a harrowing, creepy, botanical-body horror-filled story of romance, betrayal, and things that go bump in the night. I cannot wait to share more with you all soon!

Next up, TWO of my web novels are up on Tapas for your reading pleasure! Lonely Planet Hotel and The Night Farm are both cozy genre-blending stories with queer casts, chill vibes, and tons of available chapters! I also have stickers available for The Night Farm that are arriving tomorrow! PLUS The Night Farm is eligible for several categories in the Queer Indie Awards so I'd love for you to read it and consider voting in the awards!

For those of you wanting MORE of those cozy horror and slice-of-sci-fi vibes, my Patreon is on sale until the 15th of December and has some GREAT deals available for anyone looking for cozy reads that update multiple times a month! PLUS anyone who joins during that sale (with a $3/mo or higher tier) is eligible for a free sticker pack!

My debut novella, When The Rain Begins To Burn, is out now in paperback AND digital formats on my website and has also been nominated for TWO categories in the Indie Ink Awards this year - Best Cover (done by @chrisshehanart) and Best Setting - so if you want a sweet, sensual, scary short read for yourself or a loved one, consider grabbing a copy on my site - Disturbances!

R-PNZL - A Futuristic Fairytale is back on Kickstarter for one more week! If you're interested in a short story series that has queer sci-fi retellings of classic fairytales, please consider checking it out! The cover art was done by (@jackarais) and there are even a few cameo tiers still available!

I hope you come check out some of these projects! More info on all of these in separate posts coming soon!

[rozmorris]

Mindgames for a weekend away: the keysafe murder. Last chance to WIN A PUBLISHING DEAL (memoir, poetry collections, personal essays). She did not turn - appreciating David Inshaw. A little horse. All in my newsletter https://mailchi.mp/5e8442d28b87/mindgames-for-a-weekend-away-the-guest-baffler-the-keysafe-murder-she-did-not-turn-a-little-horse

[inkskinned]

my father told me he read it, but he hasn't read it. that's okay. my friends keep picking the words out of my throat.

someone once told me that the more trigger warnings that go on a book, the better it is. i didn't mean to write something with so many conditional phrases - i was writing about what i felt while being a human. sometimes you are a person and sometimes you are a statistic. sometimes it is falling upwards and sometimes it's sliding back down again.

my father tells me that it will be difficult to get people to read it. i didn't like the idea of a singular genre. i'm not going to lie to you - it is actually a difficult book to get through. i change the rules in it. it's not poetry or prose explicitly. it's neither false nor reality. i give you the tools to "solve" the book, but i let you do the thinking. my father says people don't care to think. i don't know about that - i think we just, like, enjoy reading.

the thing is - i was tired of stories about survival where someone with depression goes to therapy and wakes up okay. i didn't live like that. i was tired of books about violence, where the gore of what i experience was splashed in glitter to lick off the page. like, i was a person, you know? i had a life and a job and a family. and in books, i watched my story get ripped up so people could explore the viscera of my body. so they could feel good. my brother once called it inspiration pornography. we had walked out of a suicide-prevention seminar, both of us disgusted while the increasingly-elated presenter kept listing methods-of. i remember the look on my brother's face. like i would tear that man apart given the right time and place.

my father says that kids these days. he warns me against writing about things that are too-serious. he says that they don't want it. i don't listen. he does make me take out a scene from the book where i go to church after having sex with a woman. it used to be the 7th scene in the book. i don't think he's read further than that, it rocked him too hard to continue.

it's a book about being queer. it's a book about being raised catholic. it doesn't have monsterfucking, i'm sorry. it's just about, like.

at some point you have to choose to stay here. and then you do have to stay here, which takes practice. this is about forming the habit. this is about what happens after you've already started doing the work. because, like. you keep going. you have to. and it's like. very imperfect.

i should make a post on instagram. i should make this announcement less bittersweet. but like -- i'm giving it you, specifically, because i think you know why i had to write it. you and me. this little community.

body's a bad monster. here's the link if you're interested in ordering.

[reasonsforhope]

"The world's coral reefs are close to 25 percent larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, we found an extra 64,000 square kilometers (24,700 square miles) of coral reefs – an area the size of Ireland.

That brings the total size of the planet's shallow reefs (meaning 0-20 meters deep) to 348,000 square kilometers – the size of Germany. This figure represents whole coral reef ecosystems, ranging from sandy-bottomed lagoons with a little coral, to coral rubble flats, to living walls of coral.

Within this 348,000 km² of coral is 80,000 km² where there's a hard bottom – rocks rather than sand. These areas are likely to be home to significant amounts of coral – the places snorkelers and scuba divers most like to visit.

You might wonder why we're finding this out now. Didn't we already know where the world's reefs are?

Previously, we've had to pull data from many different sources, which made it harder to pin down the extent of coral reefs with certainty. But now we have high resolution satellite data covering the entire world – and are able to see reefs as deep as 30 meters down.

Pictured: Geomorphic mapping (left) compared to new reef extent (red shading, right image) in the northern Great Barrier Reef.

[AKA: All the stuff in red on that map is coral reef we did not realize existed!! Coral reefs cover so much more territory than we thought! And that's just one example. (From northern Queensland)]

We coupled this with direct observations and records of coral reefs from over 400 individuals and organizations in countries with coral reefs from all regions, such as the Maldives, Cuba, and Australia.

To produce the maps, we used machine learning techniques to chew through 100 trillion pixels from the Sentinel-2 and Planet Dove CubeSat satellites to make accurate predictions about where coral is – and is not. The team worked with almost 500 researchers and collaborators to make the maps.

The result: the world's first comprehensive map of coral reefs extent, and their composition, produced through the Allen Coral Atlas. [You can see the interactive maps yourself at the link!]

The maps are already proving their worth. Reef management agencies around the world are using them to plan and assess conservation work and threats to reefs."

-via ScienceDirect, February 15, 2024

[erinwantstowrite]

personally i think the trope of "said something i wasn't supposed to while high on pain meds at the hospital" only works if it's smth actually incomprehensible. down with this trope. that and the whole "speaking out loud but the narrator doesn't know they are" trope. you should legally have to tag that i think. i know this usually happens for characters that would never admit something otherwise but actually there are a billion reasons someone would admit something they wouldn't otherwise. for example: someone else has a bomb-

[iohym]

judith, shakespeare's sister from a room of ones own by virginia woolf. Wolfie was right, but class is a bigger factor methinks.

anyways this ones for all the henry dargers and judith shakespeares of the world. No ones watching, but the show must go on. Just some ramblings from outside plato's cave.

recommended reading: a room of ones own (duh), I know why the caged bird sings, can the subaltern speak?, microhistory, outsider art, Octavia butler's wikipedia page

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[brother-emperors]

TRIPLE THREAT, BABY!

aka modern AU Cicero, Caelius, Crassus! I originally planned on doing this set in the Late Republic, but I forgot I had a stack of reading to do on Caelius and decided to set it in the modern day because I’m confident in my ability to draw a shirt collar but if I try reading anything Cicero wrote before I drink my morning coffee, I will simply turn to dust

(also the buttons for Cicero’s vest are on the wrong side, I’m aware, I flipped the canvas to ink it as one does and realized I liked it better this way & didn’t feel fixing it etc)

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

[solitaireships]

I feel like I should say since there's been a recent uptick in a lot of communities I'm in/see stuff from a lot of white people pretending to be Asian, but you are not welcome here if you are in anyway stealing from Asian cultures for clout or the aesthetics of it

This includes if you're white and you give your self inserts Asian names, I truly do not care if your f/o is from an anime, you should not be using an Asian name under any circumstances. I hate that whenever I see someone using an Asian name online, I feel like I have to start searching their account to see if they're actually Asian or just a white person who likes the aesthetic of it bcs far too many white people will use Asian names here just bcs it sounds cool, with no regard for the actual cultural meaning behind it. Meanwhile actual Asian people will be mocked for their names, or treated like their names are too hard to learn to pronounce, or discriminated against based on their names

Asian cultures are not a fun little costume for people to dress up with. They aren't just a nice aesthetic, they aren't just a thing you can borrow from bcs you think it sounds cool

[sweetbottletops]

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No new chapter this week, but here is the promised wallpaper (alt clock friendly version below) for winning + she says there is an announcement coming next week. Sounds very busy.

[cliveguy]

i don't think people outside the uk / people who don't keep up with the situation for trans people in the uk actually understand how dire it is or how much influence jk rowling actually has over here. trans hate crimes have noticeably and substantially increased since she "came out" as a terf and there isn't a single mainstream news source that doesn't favour transphobia in "the trans debate." even our most left wing political party has outspoken transphobes, and the party actually in power is even worse. so seeing people bring up how much of an ally they are for knowing how to use 123movies whenever someone brings up not wanting anything to do with harry potter is more than irritating atp.

[sarafangirlart]

We are getting Perseus x Medusa enemies to lovers retelling before GTA 6 a romantic retelling of Perseus x Andromeda

[dyinggirldied]

If Danny ever writes a biography detailing the craziness that is his half-life. Here, I toy with two different vibes.

The one on the left is more on the bad end AU where the Fenton parents cannot and are not willing to accept Danny's ghost side or that they ate biased. Here it's very vaguely implied they might have tried to dissect him, and this is where being half-ghost comes with more side effects than being intangible at the wrong time.

The right one is more in line to the cartoon/canon, with the addition trope of Danny being ghost king.

These covers comes from Canva, the ghost comes from flaticon. These are made with the intention of entertainment only.

[rozmorris]

Pictures or it didn't happen. Bring me your memoirs (and maybe win a publishing deal!). A reading from Not Quite Lost. A little horse. All in my newsletter https://mailchi.mp/7131e0d7570b/pictures-or-it-didnt-happen-a-reading-from-not-quite-lost-bring-me-your-memoirs-a-little-horse

[lemongogo]

just thought of stamps treatment of elendira again ..no .. NOO

[sexhaver]

They're literally having Passover celebrations at the Columbia "protests". They're holding a Passover celebration at a pro-Palestine protest. That's like singing Dixie at a civil rights rally. It's very obviously a bunch of rich bankers' kids looking for an excuse to cut class and make Daddy mad until he buys them a new Lambo, then it's right back to spring break in South Beach.

[schmoyoho]

christalbott450 cooked, give them a publishing deal 🗣️