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Sarah Shotts (they/them)

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Artist. Author. Zinester. ✂️ Erstwhile Academic. 📖 Nonbinary. Autistic. Bi-romantic Ace. 🏳️‍🌈 sarahshotts.com are.na/sarah-shotts

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Jul 20

I digitized my zine about neurodivergence so anyone can read it. 🌈 sarahshotts.com/2025/06/spec... #Autism #Neurodivergence #Zines

Spectrum: a zine about neurodivergence on a wooden table. The title is made of letters cut from a magazine. The center is a color wheel made of watercolor washes bleeding into each other.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 11d

This was such a cool zine project to be a part of! abigailschleifer.substack.com/p/free-zines... #ZineSky #Zinester

Digital collage zine cover: Wayward, Wonky & Wandering: a zine by two librarians for any and all researchers. Title is handwritten and letter cut outs on a circle being held by a photocopied hand.

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Mariah Friend @mariahfriend.bsky.social · 11d

A friend asked me what THE PATTERN SHOP (coming soon!) was about and I totally botched it. 😬

Here's my redo:

It's about a nurse who can't save her family or her patients, so she quits and backpacks around the world—but keeps making the same mistakes. 🦋

#writersky #literaryfiction #indieauthor

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 11d

Thanks so much for sharing Mariah!

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Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jan 8

"Instead of the dull morality tale I’d expected, I read about the pain of social ostracization, struggling with bone-deep loneliness and emotional dysregulation, and coping with childhood trauma by escaping into idealized fantasies."
My piece for Electric Lit->
electricliterature.com/sapphic-unde...

Sapphic Undertones Littered L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction, as Well as Her Female Friendships - Electric Literature

The renowned author waged a constant battle between doing what was socially acceptable and being true to herself

electricliterature.com

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · 23d

Thank you for your service. 🫡

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Sep 21

So stoked to be featured on the Writing Excuses podcast today!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

20.38: An Interview with Charlie Jane Anders

Podcast Episode · Writing Excuses · 09/21/2025 · 35m

podcasts.apple.com

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Sep 20

Will there be a recording if you cannot attend live?

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Sep 19

DONE!

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · Sep 19

nobody told me my debut was on the BOGO list at libro FM - that's two books for one credit! - until I saw it shopping THE LAST DAY OF THE SALE HURRY GO GO GO

(I earned out on that audiobook - every cent of royalties goes straight to meeeee!)

Buy one, get one

Start your Libro.fm membership in support of local bookstores to shop this member-exclusive BOGO sale!

libro.fm

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · Aug 31

My son came out with ‘magic-can’ the other day (instead of magician) and I wiped away a proud tear. The tradition continues.

Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Aug 31

former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Aug 31

Added to my TBR pile! 📚

Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Aug 31

Very Dragonmount. 🏔️

Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Aug 31

If you’re into Queer Pirates with Magic you should join us! Visit livingstans.com to join the Discord. #BookSky 🌊✨

Livingstans @livingstans.com · Aug 23

Livingstans, assemble! for a full book spoilers discussion of Seaborn on Zoom with Distinguished Professor @michaellivingston.com on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 1:00p Eastern for there be much talk of pirates 🏴‍☠️ *the link will be posted to Discord closer to the zoom*

Hot Mike posing with a photoshopped giant cover of Seaborn over his travel suitcase. He is wearing khaki clothing and looking dapper. He has glasses and a mustache.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Aug 20

I have a penchant for UK covers after living in London for a year. I may have to order their edition of this.

Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Aug 20

Indeed.

Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Aug 20

I rewatched Battlestar Galactica recently and some of the episodes (especially the anti vaccine one) were troublingly relevant.

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Aug 19

Is this the UK cover? 🤩 I’ve been seeing another one.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · Aug 19

Why we call genAI Plagiarism Machine

Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · Aug 19

I thought this sounded familiar and it turns out it literally just found an old George RR Martin quote and wrote a short story out of it:

George R.R. Martin > Quotes > Quotable Quote

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George R.R. Martin
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.”

― George R.R. Martin

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Aug 19

I am such a weirdo. 🍄 Just ordered and can’t wait to use these. 🥰

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Val Lucas - Bowerbox Press @bowerbox.com · Aug 18

Just looking at some type in the nice light today (it's finally not a thousand degrees and feels like two thousand) This is my Amanita type and you can buy it if you want to print your own little weirdos #letterpress