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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 2d

Today is the day! My Gothic & sapphic historical fantasy novel is available everywhere ebooks are sold! #Fantasy #Booksky

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 2d

The old typewriter must be here somewhere…

Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone is interested in typewriter history, I will share more later.

Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote a little scene today. It includes a typewriter, so I researched which ones were popular in the US in 1900 and how they worked. Then I remembered I have my great grandmother’s typewriter. Solid possibility it is similar. Will dig it out tomorrow!

#HistoricalFiction
#Writing

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone is interested in typewriter history, I will share more later.

Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote a little scene today. It includes a typewriter, so I researched which ones were popular in the US in 1900 and how they worked. Then I remembered I have my great grandmother’s typewriter. Solid possibility it is similar. Will dig it out tomorrow!

#HistoricalFiction
#Writing

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote a little scene today. It includes a typewriter, so I researched which ones were popular in the US in 1900 and how they worked. Then I remembered I have my great grandmother’s typewriter. Solid possibility it is similar. Will dig it out tomorrow!

#HistoricalFiction
#Writing

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats!!

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 6d

Hmm. For starters, that math seems wrong…

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Fio Trethewey @fiotrethewey.bsky.social · 7d

This is SUPER COOL

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 8d

hey friends — if you haven't seen, The Verge is running a series on the future of being trans on the internet. it's got a bunch of very cool stories from talented writers! you should check it out www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

The future of being trans on the internet

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

www.theverge.com

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 7d

Linux it is.

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 8d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Sabne Raznik @sabneraznik.bsky.social · 14d

#100smallpress

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 8d

Wow.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 8d

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 8d

Looks like Streetlight Magazine is open for fiction. My favorite.

streetlightmag.com/submissions/

Submit to Streetlight | Streetlight Magazine

Streetlight Magazine is the non-profit home for unpublished fiction, poetry, essays, and art that inspires. Submit your work today!

streetlightmag.com

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 8d

You are close!

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Good Intentions Aren’t Enough in Publishing Deals: How Creators Can Protect Themselves

Good Intentions Aren’t Enough in Publishing Deals: How Creators Can Protect Themselves | Jane Friedman

What every creator should know before signing a contract—protect your work, your time, and your well-being.

janefriedman.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8d

If you're at SFO and you stop by Green Apple Books, you'll find signed copies of Redshirts, Kaiju and Moon. Go get them!

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 8d

My first draft writing process is like playing Tetris but I'm slamming the blocks down as fast as possible.

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · 11d

I shut off my DMs! Recommend.

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at the crossroads trying to flag a ride @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 17d

colleen j. mcelroy
PAINT ME VISIBLE
from her collection, Blood Memory

Paint Me Visible

in a family of beautiful intelligent and profoundly
crazy women one danced in the dark
to soothe her nerves another wove shawls
from her husband's hair and discarded both
when the work was done another read palms
tea leaves cards anything that left an imprint
on her inner eye neighbors said she saw
things nobody else could describe

Lord knows not every family has an oracle or two
women who could hoard love like pirates' treasures
wool gatherers omen givers ones who stir
the soup of memory always in their favor the oldest
daughter the most formidable commanding the others
but you child grew up believing they all held magic
eyes in the back of their heads that told them
what you planned to do before you did it and you
thinking any one of those women could be your mother
you the child half hidden in the folds of their skirts

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 22d

I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Jenny Bourke @jennyabourke.bsky.social · 22d

Writing #HistoricalFiction involves getting choked up over people who have been dead for six hundred years, risking life and limb in library compact stores to access obscure journal articles, and repeatedly asking yourself why close to 25% of your characters are technically named John. #amwriting

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at the crossroads trying to flag a ride @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · Sep 18

i love randall horton... AND @jdpaden.bsky.social - theyve each blurbed or shown early support for at least two of my four collections. i wasnt even aware of this new blurb from him for Fisherman's Wife... both he & jeremy are excellent writers (poets or essays) - please check for their works.

screenshot of crystal wilkinson's online post promoting my poetry collection, The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife, featuring a blurb from poet, essayist, and educator randall horton that reads "This is the poet as truth sayer--a long poetic interlude between a jazz break, steeped in fable,.allegory, and magical realism... If I were a judge on a panel, I, would fight for it to be awarded the prize every time."

-Randall Horton, author of the American Book Award- winning (#289-128): Poems

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social · Sep 15

“Scene surgery.” Perfect description of revision.

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 7

nothing like a really good opening line break to pull a reader into the poem

A tweet that reads:

one time a woman with a medical alert wiener
dog Sat next to me on a plane and her dog
kept alerting on me and she was like “no to
be weird but you should get your heart
checked out” and that’s how I found out I had
a mildly irregular heart beat

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