<p>On the rare occasions that I’m not taking pictures of my <a href="/tags/cats/" rel="tag">#cats</a> (see: almost all my other posts), I make a podcast called The Worst Writer in the World</p><p>My co-conspirator, Howard, has spent his life writing badly. Now we try to bring his stories to life, and maybe make them better</p><p>We laugh a lot. Our listeners do too (or so they tell us)</p><p>There’s over 250 episodes, all free, and - most importantly - they don’t have ads. We do it because we love it</p><p>Maybe you will too</p><p><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/comedy/" rel="tag">#comedy</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a></p>
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<p>Different models of story structure in creative writing:- Three-act Structure (most common in Western works)- Four-act Structure (me: best for live-action)- Five Elements Plot (me: best for novels)- KiShōTenKetsu (most common in CJK works)<a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>
<p>Different models of story structure in creative writing:</p><p>- Three-act Structure (most common in Western works)<br>- Four-act Structure (me: best for live-action)<br>- Five Elements Plot (me: best for novels)<br>- KiShōTenKetsu (most common in CJK works)</p><p><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>
<p>How I write – in conversation with Imtiaz Dharker<br>19 March, free online (optional donation)</p><p>Imtiaz Dharker will discuss her work, career, & creative routines with poet & Chair of the Society of Authors Poetry & Spoken Word Group, Dean Atta </p><p>@writingcommunity </p><p><a href="https://societyofauthors.org/event/how-i-write-in-conversation-with-imtiaz-dharker/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="societyofauthors.org/event/how-i-write-in-conversation-with-imtiaz-dharker/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">societyofauthors.org/event/how</span><span class="invisible">-i-write-in-conversation-with-imtiaz-dharker/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/imtiazdharker/" rel="tag">#ImtiazDharker</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingCommunity</a></p>
<p>Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/AshenBladesOpenWounds" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/AshenBladesOpenWounds"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/AshenBladesOpen</span><span class="invisible">Wounds</span></a></p><p>The arch-demon, Pride, leads demon-kind in an ancient plan to open a gate between worlds, so vast demon armies might march forth and conquer, but opening a portal requires both energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion and the cooperation of a half-demon, to stabilize it. However, the only half-demon available has made it her life mission to kill all demons.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>Ebook: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheMostPowerfulWords" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/TheMostPowerfulWords"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/TheMostPowerful</span><span class="invisible">Words</span></a><br>Audiobook: <a href="https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/short-of-tyme-the-most-powerful-words" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/short-of-tyme-the-most-powerful-words"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/sh</span><span class="invisible">ort-of-tyme-the-most-powerful-words</span></a></p><p>Hungry and hunting alone, a goblin boy meets a bouncing, blue slime and assumes it will be dinner. Naturally, the slime has other ideas, and the boy gets his hind-end handed to him by what’s supposed to be one of the weakest monsters of the forest.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/goblin/" rel="tag">#goblin</a> <a href="/tags/shortstory/" rel="tag">#shortstory</a> <a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/prejudice/" rel="tag">#prejudice</a></p>
<p>"The em-dash was not invented last November in a Silicon Valley server farm. It has been a staple of English prose since roughly the seventeenth century, and a darling of the literary canon for nearly as long. Laurence Sterne built Tristram Shandy on it. Lord Byron reached for it to grieve."</p><p>~ Chitown Kev</p><p><a href="/tags/emdash/" rel="tag">#EmDash</a> <a href="/tags/siliconvalley/" rel="tag">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/26/800028011/community/abbreviated-pundit-roundup/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/26/800028011/community/abbreviated-pundit-roundup/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/</span><span class="invisible">4/26/800028011/community/abbreviated-pundit-roundup/</span></a></p>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace</a></p><p>The Hunter seeks peace and quiet to mourn the loss of her best friend in a world that seems bound and determined to make that task impossible. Enemies attack when she’d rather be alone, allies can’t take a hint and the arch-demon Wrath seeks the Hunter’s hand in marriage, even though she’d sooner kill him.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>Chapter 27 of She Consumes Poison is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.royalroad.com/fiction/1538</span><span class="invisible">20/scarlet-eye</span></a></p><p>After a little explanation of Ella's innate powers, which are empathy-based, Verda uses a curse to invert them, to affect all those of like mind...</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/witches/" rel="tag">#witches</a> <a href="/tags/demons/" rel="tag">#demons</a> <a href="/tags/vampires/" rel="tag">#vampires</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a></p>
<p>Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheWizardsScion</a></p><p>Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no understanding what it would be like. Follow Levi’s journey from bumbling teen to a great hero, while the young wizard learns to master magical powers that are initially completely beyond him and barely under control.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>Chapter 4 of Rowley's Ride is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/102509/the-book-of-newts"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.royalroad.com/fiction/1025</span><span class="invisible">09/the-book-of-newts</span></a></p><p>Since The Order of Newts has been blocking their efforts to get access to a plasma furnace, the young witches get back to basics and the oldest method used to melt mythril: dragons.</p><p>To that end, they visit Edwina's cousin, a gnome that breeds dragons, hoping he might own a plasma-spitter...</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/witches/" rel="tag">#witches</a> <a href="/tags/demons/" rel="tag">#demons</a> <a href="/tags/vampires/" rel="tag">#vampires</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a></p>
<p>Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.</p><p>I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links</p><p><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/publishing/" rel="tag">#publishing</a> <a href="/tags/selfpublishing/" rel="tag">#selfpublishing</a></p>
<p>Chapter 32 of She Consumes Poison is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.royalroad.com/fiction/1538</span><span class="invisible">20/scarlet-eye</span></a></p><p>Mika, Artemis and Lara stealthily infiltrate Mita Holdings, Incorporated...</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/witches/" rel="tag">#witches</a> <a href="/tags/demons/" rel="tag">#demons</a> <a href="/tags/vampires/" rel="tag">#vampires</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a></p>
<p>Chapter 20 of She Consumes Poison is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.royalroad.com/fiction/1538</span><span class="invisible">20/scarlet-eye</span></a></p><p>Yasu Kenzo, the father of Shime Yasu, meets with Colonel Mack, Verda Bagley and Lara Simmons. They initially have trouble convincing him his daughter is not entirely dead and he grows angry, demanding proof...</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/witches/" rel="tag">#witches</a> <a href="/tags/demons/" rel="tag">#demons</a> <a href="/tags/vampires/" rel="tag">#vampires</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a></p>
<p>Shameless self-promotion:<br>My third book is now available to buy from Buy the Book:<br><a href="https://www.buythebook.ie/product/the-lorna-incident/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.buythebook.ie/product/the-lorna-incident/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.buythebook.ie/product/the-</span><span class="invisible">lorna-incident/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a></p>
<p>Finished - New York Trilogy, Paul Auster.</p><p>Sheesh, what a mind fuck.</p><p>I struggled for years with the idea of reading at more than a superficial level, more than the plot itself. I’m getting better at that now, I think mostly because I realise, with the help of my brother’s advice, that interpretation is up to the reader. This is true for any art.</p><p>It is impossible to read New York Trilogy at its most superficial level, the reader is forced into trying to understand what’s going on, and then into interpretations when that fails. You take away from it what you bring to it.</p><p>A superb work, it will stay with me for a long time. I am at the same time tempted to read more of his work and also reluctant to break any spell of his brilliance.</p><p>And what twists, jeeze. Bang. Bang.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/paulauster/" rel="tag">#paulauster</a></p>
<p>Chapter 43 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.royalroad.com/fiction/1082</span><span class="invisible">34/jigsaw-city</span></a></p><p>Kazic's surprise is revealed: he intends to dance the Pas De Deux with Nicole and she's completely overwhelmed with emotion.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/fairies/" rel="tag">#fairies</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a></p>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TymeStarwitch</a><br>Audiobook: <a href="https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/th</span><span class="invisible">e-book-of-newts-starwitch</span></a></p><p>The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#audiobook</a></p>
<p>Cover Reveal! Here is our next book, which opens for pre-orders soon, and it is a reprint of what some scholars say is a landmark publication, the first single-author collection of speculative stories from an African author (based on the continent and in contemporary times, we believe). First published in 2014, it went out of print when the original publisher folded. We are proud to bring it back to life!</p><p><a href="https://www.ododopress.com/blog/cover-reveal-a-killing-in-the-sun/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ododopress.com/blog/cover-reveal-a-killing-in-the-sun/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ododopress.com/blog/cover-</span><span class="invisible">reveal-a-killing-in-the-sun/</span></a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#sciFi</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a></p>
<p>Chapter 32 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.royalroad.com/fiction/1082</span><span class="invisible">34/jigsaw-city</span></a></p><p>Kazic speaks first with Umak, Eden's first officer, then her husband, Max, seeking advice on how to ask Nicole to marry him...</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/fairies/" rel="tag">#fairies</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a></p>
<p>Chapter 17 of She Consumes Poison is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.royalroad.com/fiction/1538</span><span class="invisible">20/scarlet-eye</span></a></p><p>Knox breaks free of the spikes holding him and races against time to kill Igok, in the hope of reaching Yasu before she expires from blood loss...</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/witches/" rel="tag">#witches</a> <a href="/tags/demons/" rel="tag">#demons</a> <a href="/tags/vampires/" rel="tag">#vampires</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a></p>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TrollSong" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TrollSong</a></p><p>Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>Black and Indigenous women poets, DM me links to your work. I’m on a poetry selection committee and I want to lift you!</p><p>Esp. Queer and disabled Black and Indigenous women. Esp. esp. trans Black and Indigenous women.</p><p>I don’t care about your resume or publication history or where you are in the world. I just want to read your words.</p><p>This is also like a year out, so don’t wait for a contact. I’ll just be adding your name/info to a proposed reading list.</p><p><a href="/tags/boostthis/" rel="tag">#BoostThis</a></p><p><a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/blackfedi/" rel="tag">#BlackFedi</a> <a href="/tags/blackwriter/" rel="tag">#BlackWriter</a> <a href="/tags/ndn/" rel="tag">#NDN</a> <a href="/tags/ndnlit/" rel="tag">#NDNlit</a> <a href="/tags/ndnmastodon/" rel="tag">#NDNMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/chicanawriters/" rel="tag">#chicanaWriters</a> <a href="/tags/chicanaliterature/" rel="tag">#chicanaLiterature</a></p>
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<p>What a wonderful surprise this afternoon to see that my <a href="/tags/haiku/" rel="tag">#haiku</a> received an honorable mention in<br>The Solitary Daisy's 2026 Annual Haiku Contest 💛✨ </p><p>Congratulations to all! 👏👏 </p><p><a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/poetrycommunity/" rel="tag">#PoetryCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a></p><p><a href="https://thesolitarydaisy.ca/haiku-contest/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thesolitarydaisy.ca/haiku-contest/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thesolitarydaisy.ca/haiku-cont</span><span class="invisible">est/</span></a></p>
<p>Brag: I have been bumped up to staff writer at the Squeaky Wheel! It’s a satire publication by disabled writers. I’m quite proud of this little archive of posts I’m building up there. If you haven’t seen these as I’ve posted them individually, I hope you like them! <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/comedy/" rel="tag">#Comedy</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#Satire</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="https://thesqueakywheel.org/author/syhoekstra/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thesqueakywheel.org/author/syhoekstra/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thesqueakywheel.org/author/syh</span><span class="invisible">oekstra/</span></a></p>
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