M. Verant has finished Dragons of the Great Wyves

Just read Hungerstone by @katalicedunn.bsky.social Flat-out fabulous❤️Great writing filled with gothic stylings like "a pall of rain slakes across the dirt, churning it into mud; the weather has turned wild and violent"

Cartoon Wile Coyote has run off the cliff end and just realized he is suspended in mid-air, about to plummet. Courtesy of Paul Krugman's latest article on bitcoin

(Krugman)

Opinion | The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle

If you have NYT access, this piece on baby laughter is both fabulously cheerful (so many laughing babys!!) and psychologically fascinating on social interaction and early intelligence www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

You know you're critiquing work by an experienced author when the intro to the work includes notes like this:

I take exception to the “no adverbs” advice and use adverbs freely. You can mark them if it makes you feel better.

Now that Facebook is killing their metaverse, the company name seems rather Meta

Photo of Sharks goalie. The fine print: They may be a bunch of dastardly rule-breakers, but the Sharks are also playing genuinely well.

It's all about the fine print 🎉 🦈

Shut Up, This Is Serious Amazon.com: Shut Up, This Is Serious eBook : Ixta, Carolina: Kindle Store

I'm warming up for my next writing project by reading books with similar age protagonists. I just finished Shut Up, This Is Serious, a YA book (not speculative) by Oakland author Carolina Ixta. I started just curious about the voice, but I read the whole thing! Great book 🎉 amzn.to/4pGHgF6

I loved that show. Wish there was more

Plane settings are bad news in pandemic fiction. I remember a thriller about an ebola patient getting on a plane and basically melting mid-flight. Also a book about a plastic-eating bacteria that got loose on a plane and ate the plane, so they crashed... huh, maybe read this after you land

This is the first big promo on book 1 with the trilogy complete, so I'm very curious to see readthrough stats

Ad image showing woman in Regency dress holding a swan-sized bronze firedrake. Book title "Miss Bennet's Dragon" with a large $0.99 display and Amazon button

Two days left in the Miss Bennet's Dragon 0.99 sale (US/UK) geni.us/MBD-bsky Wish I had scored the coveted BookBub US Featured Deal promo, but running this new ad which is performing well, so it's all good 😀

I am finally reading Cloud Atlas

Hello! Fun to meet fantasy authors with Regency ballroom gifs (and now I have Ballroom Blitz looping in my head)

Rex Morgan MD comic strip. The male character's debut book is in a bidding war between publishers. Red markup has changed his dialogue "first novel from an unknown writer" to "...from a comics character"

Author, are your queries summarily rejected? I have discovered the cause! Agents are busy signing characters from the comics. This is the third one this year

The Seaglass Blade: Queer High Fantasy Exclusive Hardcover Dragons, phoenixes, and a found family in danger: an epic sapphic fantasy of lovers defending a home at the end of the world.

Check out this very cool kickstarter by @jcsnow.bsky.social queer high fantasy and great art! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Another on-point marketing/web team.

Kindle showing book cover for Dragons of the Great Wyves. Background is a Regency lady in white beside a huge scarlet dragon

New #ARC for interested #booksky readers:

o Releasing November 6
o Multi POV fantasy + romance, straight & queer
o Noblebright (intense but not dark)
o Gaslamp + Dragons
o Completes a trilogy

ARCs via #NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Blue denim decorated with pink and white lace, black rickrack, and silver buttons.

Time to reuse some buttons and lace, and of course denim #embroidery #handembroidery #broderie #upcycling

I MEAN, this company - !!! 😍🦇

Cover art for Haunting Netherfield by Cassandra B. Leigh. A young woman dressed in a flowing blue cloak looks over her shoulder in the dark woods.

#BookRelease #BookLaunch #NewBook

Haunting Netherfield

Star-crossed lovers whisper in the halls of Netherfield, seeking a path to the other side.

#Ghosts #MrDarcy #PrideAndPrejudice #Regency #Romance #Romancelandia #KindleUnlimited #Books 📚💙

mybook.to/HauntNether

I just texted: "I moved the dragon out of the toilet delivery zone for safety"

Might be the first time that sentence has ever been written #dragon #toilet

Dragons of the Great Wyves: Fire and Song (Jane Austen Fantasy Book 3) Amazon.com: Dragons of the Great Wyves: Fire and Song (Jane Austen Fantasy Book 3) eBook : Verant, M.: Kindle Store

Book 3 is on it's way! DRAGONS OF THE GREAT WYVES launch day is November 6 🎉The ebook is up for preorder already geni.us/DGW-kindle

Those covers are awesome!

Gorgeous ❤️ A full box o' arcs is fun

Woman holding a dragon

Congratulations to Miss Bennet's Dragon by @mverant.com

You are through to the #BBNYA2025 final!!!

Nice :) The book 3 cover is gorgeous!

The Only Constant is Change Have you heard the phrase "The only constant is change?" It's true, especially in publishing. Trends change, and you have to go with it. And that's why the entire Blood of the Raven series is getting new covers to celebrate the release of book three! Wait, what? Didn't book 2 just come out a few months ago? Yes, yes it did. And yes, I do love that cover. But it appears that the cover art trend is shifting, and that shiny new cover is already dated. So... shiny new covers! AND...

The Only Constant is Change

Have you heard the phrase "The only constant is change?" It's true, especially in publishing. Trends change, and you have to go with it. And that's why the entire Blood of the Raven series is getting new covers to celebrate the release of book three! Wait, what? Didn't…

There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say — from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with humanity New research has created the first comprehensive effort to categorize all the ways AI can go wrong, with many of those behaviors resembling human psychiatric disorders.

Need your AI to go stark raving bonkers in your next story? Let us count the ways... www.livescience.com/technology/a...

I'm out of ISBN numbers. Time to pay tribute $$$ to the Bowker shakedown of US publishing. Hmm
- $295 for 10. That'll last 6 years.
- $595 for 100 so I never, ever have to fork out these ridiculous prices again.
(Peers longingly north at Canada: free ISBNs + health care + a non-fascist government🍁)