To anyone struggling to make their art:
THEY WANT YOU TO STOP WRITING/PAINTING/MAKING.
They fear our rich inner lives, beyond even their reach. They fear our revolutionary fantasies, our ungovernable and unprofitable thoughts.
Yes, the obstacles are greater than ever.
So is the need.
Y’all gotta go read books. There’s no way around it.
Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.
READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND
![This is Mike Guzman, Contract Specialist at Penguin Random House.
Penguin Random House is looking for new book titles to be published this year. We are the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Headquartered in New York, we have publishing operations in 17 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world.
At Penguin Random House, authors and their work are the center of everything we do. We are proud to provide authors with unprecedented editorial excellence, marketing reach, long-standing connections with booksellers, and industry-leading insight into reader and consumer behavior. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement, Penguin Random House also uses digital technology to create unique reading experiences and expand the reach of our authors.
I am reaching out to you to let you know that we received a preliminary endorsement of your book, [redacted] from a literary agent named Pamela Morrison, and we are pleased to accept the submission. Before we can proceed with the acquisition process, we kindly request your assistance in processing a Separation of Book Rights Order to ensure that the rights of your work are properly assigned.
As we move forward with the potential publication of your book, it is essential for both parties to have a clear understanding of the ownership and rights associated with the work. The Separation of Book Rights Order will formalize the transfer of rights to our publishing company, outlining the terms and conditions of the agreement in a legally binding document.
This step is necessary to protect the interests of both yourself as the author and our publishing company, ensuring that the rights to your creative work are secured and that all parties involved are in agreement regarding the terms of the acquisition.
Once the Separation of Book Rights Order has been processed, we can proceed with the acquisition process and work towards bringi…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uy6mloyr37qtcdml3bq6a6o4/bafkreigk4kljy2iahfpjxjurwzpnj2zbcopt73hqcrwzeqxrm2w4yxwle4)
This is Mike Guzman, Contract Specialist at Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House is looking for new book titles to be published this year. We are the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Headquartered in New York, we have publishing operations in 17 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world. At Penguin Random House, authors and their work are the center of everything we do. We are proud to provide authors with unprecedented editorial excellence, marketing reach, long-standing connections with booksellers, and industry-leading insight into reader and consumer behavior. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement, Penguin Random House also uses digital technology to create unique reading experiences and expand the reach of our authors. I am reaching out to you to let you know that we received a preliminary endorsement of your book, [redacted] from a literary agent named Pamela Morrison, and we are pleased to accept the submission. Before we can proceed with the acquisition process, we kindly request your assistance in processing a Separation of Book Rights Order to ensure that the rights of your work are properly assigned. As we move forward with the potential publication of your book, it is essential for both parties to have a clear understanding of the ownership and rights associated with the work. The Separation of Book Rights Order will formalize the transfer of rights to our publishing company, outlining the terms and conditions of the agreement in a legally binding document. This step is necessary to protect the interests of both yourself as the author and our publishing company, ensuring that the rights to your creative work are secured and that all parties involved are in agreement regarding the terms of the acquisition. Once the Separation of Book Rights Order has been processed, we can proceed with the acquisition process and work towards bringi…
Scam "literary agency" Envision Literary Agency is impersonating Penguin Random House with fake publishing offers, via the email below, using the fake email address acquisitions@penguinrandomhouse-prh.com 🧵1/8
The Financial Times. THE FINANCIAL TIMES. Just....holy CATS.
Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming
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Currently accepting any and all mutual aid.
We're being forced to move and can't afford both the moving company and food. And we have no choice but to spend our food money on the moving company.
Queer and disabled
Paypal:
BijhanValibeigi@gmail.com
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064) Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108) Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371) Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007) JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP 601 California Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, California 94108 Telephone: (415) 500-6800 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com cyoung@saverilawfirm.com kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953) 1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406 Los Angeles, CA 90027 Telephone: (323) 968-2632 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: mb@buttericklaw.com Counsel for Individual and Representative Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class"
A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION Richard Kadrey, an individual; Sarah Silverman, an individual; Christopher Golden, an individual; Individual and Representative Plaintiffs, v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Case No. Complaint Class Action Demand for Jury Trial Defendant."
IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION
Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member:
Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800
Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com
The USPS is an incredibly important service we tend to take for granted. Shipping one of my mugs through them is around $10. Shipping them with any private company is more than double that price. Small business need the USPS.
$300 left to go, due tomorrow
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Please read, donate and share if you can. There’s a lot of news in this fundraiser post about how ICE is treating people in detention now also.
gofund.me/9f5eefc6
You know what I need from virtual SFF cons? I need a panel where all the authors show off their set up. Give me advice on desks, chair recs, show me your cool monitor, how'd you get those bookshelves so perfectly in the background, what mic/headphones are you using. Help me and my chaos office out!
The bottom line is that if public health had stopped lying years ago and had been honest about the costs, and if public health had realized what the correct approach is, which is to slow evolution down, then we would have been in a situation today where public health was treating COVID as a disease that needs to be suppressed. The whole canard from day one was that we would never eliminate or eradicate it, so, let's let it spread as widely as possible. "Learn to live with it," for other diseases doesn't mean the same thing as we have applied to COVID. When we say we must learn to live with leprosy, we don't mean let's make sure everybody has leprosy. When we say we must learn to live with malaria, we don't mean let's make sure everyone gets malaria as often as possible, let's keep mosquitoes lurking in our tanks outside our house. No one says you must learn to live with tuberculosis. Let's let it spread as much as possible and see how that goes. No, we suppress those diseases every step along the way. We suppress dengue. We suppress tuberculosis. This whole idea that learning to live with the disease means permitting and encouraging its rampant spread and rapid evolution is just so many levels of stupidity that I don't have a word for it.
God damn GOD DAMN!! Man this interview is a breath of fresh air.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#S0Pol
I didn't publish my first novel until this year. I'm 43.
So the Talon Duology is complete!
🍃 Wild magic
🦅 Gay griffin dads
🗡️ Assassins
☠️ Evil alchemy
💚 Slow burn romance
⚔️ Warring queens
🏰 Warped ancient Britain
💀 That one talking skeleton guy in book 2
www.waterstones.com/book/titanch...
Not seeing anyone talking about it on here, but Titmouse's PANTHEON finally hit Netflix today! It's a one of a kind series, got completely buried on AMC+ and now the first season is on Netflix! If you're a fan of hard/speculative sci-fi and you haven't watched it you have to check it out! I adore it
VERY JEALOUS
If you want a paperback and you live in the US, you can order a signed one from my local indie bookshop! www.bookmoonbooks.com/item/MoeYuej...
On the hunt for an artist/illustrator that would be a good fit for some blasphemous iconography. Links to portfolios or DMs about it welcome.
It's more expensive to be disabled in a society that tries to get rid of you at every cost.
A book cover! The art is by Tyler Miles Lockett. A twinkling night sky and verdant set of hills part to reveal some unusual figures. Heracles, in the middle of a wardrobe malfunction, struggles to keep a giant lion aloft on his shoulders. The lion nuzzles and licks at him like a house cat, while Heracles looks befuddled. In the distance, night casts shadows over a giant statue of Hera, standing over her house of worship, almost like she is watching Heracles and the lion. Text on the cover reads: JOHN WISWELL. WEARING THE LION.
Unveiling my second novel: WEARING THE LION.
This himbo hero Heracles, Hera's biggest fan, collects a menagerie of monsters in pursuit of the god who destroyed his family.
The trouble? Hera is responsible, and she'll do anything to hide the truth.
Coming June, 2025!
alright lets do this — I'm the book content editor for Reactor and I'm looking for 2025 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and genre-bending speculative books!
If you're a writer or a publicist with a YA or adult SFFH book out next year, please share the link/info here! (or email me)
John, you can’t just announce something like that and expect me to be PATIENT!?!?
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
Um hey friends of the internet if you're BIPOC and/or Queer and/or of a marginalized gender and you are publishing a new book in 2025 can you tell me about your project? I'm building my reading list for the new year and half the things I'm seeing are not made by us as far as I can tell #authors
