This is how I feel when I brush my cat and the shedding keeps piling up.
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This is how I feel when I brush my cat and the shedding keeps piling up.
For can be justified in the sight of Audre Lorde?
A book cover with the title “Children of Owl” and a girl looking up at a mountain with an owl boy prominent in the background.
CHILDREN OF OWL HAS A COVER!!!! With art by Abigail Rajunov, who also illustrated 25 pages of comics in the book. It was an honor to work with her; I couldn’t be happier!! 🥹💕
Submissions are open for The Cosmic Background's next issue: THROWBACK TECH. Edited by Jacob Baugher. Submissions are open through March 31.
Call for Submissions: Throwback Tech Guest Editor Jacob Baugher Haunted Super Nintendos, Tube TVs that show alternate realities, radios that receive broadcasts from the future or other worlds, GameBoy Colors that receive cosmic messages through Pokemon Yellow. We are looking for flash fiction about our technological pasts that affect our emotional presents and physical futures. Due March 31
Submissions are OPEN for our special issue theme:
THROWBACK TECH 🎥📺📻🎮📀📼🕹️👾
Edited by @prof-bogs.bsky.social
Let's do this. You have until March 31. It's a new year, let's celebrate with old tech.
➡️ thecosmicbackground.moksha.io/publication/...
I do appreciate if they include the title, because sometimes they take so long the next submission period has come and I have two things outstanding and don't know which they're rejecting.
Probably both.
Image is text listing many people involved in print so small I can barely read it. Address is www.32auctions.com/romance4transrights
'There's an auction afoot!!! Starting March 16th to the 25th the Come Together for Trans Rights auction begins! Over 150 authors and bookish donors. and nearly 300 donations. Awesome items for an incredibly important cause.'
Monochrome cover shows a man in a doublet drinking from a tankard. The Spice of Life Elizabethan romance by Ellie Thomas
Shout-out to @elliethomas.bsky.social for including the link to the actual sale in her email!
Queer Indie Book Promo March 10th-12th, 2026 ALL e-books listed will be .99 on Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, or multiple retailers.
Until We Sort This Out by Mere Rain. MM fake fiances. Low angst, low heat. Cover shoe a dark-haired guy giving a pink-haired guy a reassuring side hug.
Booksale. Books!
writers need coffee
www.mnbennet.com/pride-promo
Swirly text on a sparkly background reads: Rose Cielsa Award Eligibility: NECROMANCY IS AN MLM: A THREAD, Archive of the Odd Issue #5, March 2025, Horror/Comedy
Ahem
One of my short stories was published this year--a thread by the worst person in your high school. I am exceedingly proud of this. You can buy/read it here, in the fifth issue of Archive of the Odd, with a bunch of other amazing found fiction: archiveoftheodd.bigcartel.com/product/preo...
We urge the government in the strongest possible terms to rule out legalising this large-scale theft.
And to AI companies we say: stop stealing our books!
buff.ly/cYnU2Mw
#DontStealThisBook
woo
I write gay romance about people eating grilled cheese.
Was "Tonight and Every Night" specifically referring to the grilled cheese? Maybe not, but it's still funny (to me).
I'm glad when people ask so I can be cleared of any suspicions!
Autistic Fiction Bundle (April 1st -14th) Itchio Text: This form is for authors to sign up to the Autistic Fiction Bundle, organised by Elise Carlson, to run on Itchio during the first two weeks of Autism Awareness Month (April 1st-14th). Limit of one book per author. Eligibility & Genre: You, the author are autistic At least one character is autistic (AuDHD is fine, as is autistic coded/ presenting, as opposed to explicitly stated to be autistic) All genres welcome. Preorders: Pre-orders are welcome, if your book releases within 5 weeks of the bundle's end date. Please state the release date in your Itch book description, so readers know when they can download your book. Categories: YA and Adult Fiction, novellas and full length novels.
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.
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
There was just a few months ago a Matter of Britain conference in Spain...I wonder if anyone involved could be talked into reviewing your Arthurian issue?
ias-sia-iag.org/2025/07/31/e...
We're big in Germany, apparently! Just saw this lovely review of our Dark Souls-inspired novella, Contra Amatores Mundi, written by a German reader. It's the first non-English review of our work we've seen. Tremendously pleased to see people across the world enjoying our words :)
"it's complicated"
Mine would make me a nice roast of characters they've already offed.
No, they use AI.
(I'm a freelance editor and can by tell how much work has decreased, as well as the quality of recent publications.)
My aunt insisted on buying me things like A Child's Guide to Yoga. Such a waste of money.
Also things can be difficult as in "intellectually challenging" and still be fun. Being anti-enjoyment is just puritanism.
I did have someone dm about only reading 1st person, but it was in a polite, "please let me know if you write a 1st person story and I'll buy it" way.
(oops, I forgot to let them know. oh well)
“…about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members.
ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.”
The cover of Noctopolis: An Apocalypse Keys Mystery from Calenmir's RPGs, which is formatted as a comic book newspaper cover. The central image is a group shot of seven superheroes. They include a dark-cloaked figure with a red mask, a Nightcrawler lookalike boosting up a fellow hero using water, a Black woman in powered armor giving the cloaked hero bunny ears, a tan woman with glowing spear & shield wearing hoplite armor, a St. Bernard waving at the camera, a heavyset white guy in street clothes and dazzle paint, and a pink-skinned person in a blue jay onesie. The caption names them as Chiropter, Water Weaver, Hex Wrench, Light Skirmisher, Anymorph, Captain Facepuncher, and Blue Jay, respectively. The snippet of the "article" begins: Noctopolis, NERZ - After robots swarmed the business district, six Project Paragon heroes and one vigilante arrived on scene
The No ICE in Minnesota bundle is available for 1 more week! For $10, get over 1400 #TTRPGs / supplements (including a PDF of Noctopolis, my horror superhero module for Apocalypse Keys), and support immigrants in Minnesota!
The bundle: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
New LGBTQ ebooks drop Wednesday from JMS Books!
Check out this week's authors:
❤️ Anne Russo
🧡 Adam Carpenter
💛 K.L. Noone
💚 Drew Hunt
💙 Jerry Moreno
www.jms-books.com
#queerbooks #mmromance #ffromance #jmsbooks
If I encountered this word in a void I would assume it was a religious movement founded by John Bosco. So like the Salesian schools or something.
A century old fairytale-ish collection called "The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said" by Padraic Colum. It's available from Project Gutenberg.
Cat does not permit such behavior.
@dielaughingmag.bsky.social fans will be unsurprised to learn that Lena Ng also does evil clowns. Listen or read to horror new and old at
www.youtube.com/@AMidnightKi...