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Lizzie Blackwood

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SFFH/Romance writer, occasional artsy craftsy person, and certified bog witch. Queerer every year. She/her. Website: lizzieblackwood.com Mastodon: https://wandering.shop/@lizzie_blackwood Profile pic by @roricomics.bsky.social Banner photo by me

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · Dec 5

For any new folks:

Hello! I'm Lizzie Blackwood, writer of queer romantic speculative fiction, mother of cats, cultivator of native plants. I support trans rights. AI users get blocked.

Current WIP in edits is a slow burn alien/human romance. Fellow demisexual monsterlovers, I've got you covered! 💕

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 5m

Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 13th - 19th

Please remember Alt Text on graphics & Trigger/Content warnings when necessary.

Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine.

As always, no unsolicited line editing on posts. This is a place for supportive convo (which y'all are awesome at)!

The #WIPSnips words for October 13th through October 19th

October 13 - push; October 14 - ultimate; October 15 - care; October 16 - might; October 17 - loaf; October 18 - dodge; October 19 - trial

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A.M. Weald - buy Fimbulvinter's Fires ❤️‍🔥 @amweald.com · 15m

✨ contemporary fantasy
☃️ mythological beings
🔥 elemental magic
📚 family-linked stories
📼 80s, 90s, and today
🧡 established sapphics
🙄 grumpy-sunshine to lovers
📗 closed door

info: amweald.com/magic
buy: promo.amweald.com/h5dzfatgwi
GR tinyurl.com/MAGICGR1
SG tinyurl.com/MAGICSG1

🌈📚💙📚🪐📚⚔️📚🌈🚀💫

hunt monsters do magic and fall in love by a m weald
AMWeald.com/magic

Queer contemporary Romantasy

80s 90s and today
holiday vibes
elemental magic
Secrets and lies (and someone dies)
daggers and swords
established sapphics & grumpy-sunshine strangers to lovers
myths & demons & ghosts (oh my)

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A.M. Weald - buy Fimbulvinter's Fires ❤️‍🔥 @amweald.com · 15m

☕ over-40 millennials
💞 colleagues to lovers
🌼 slow burn romance
⚱️ archaeology
🏕️ camping
💙 mental health
⚡ chronic pain
🧸 fat rep
🗣️ own voice
💗 bisexual FMC
🌈 diverse cast
🥹 all the feels

ℹ️ amweald.com/broken
💸 promo.amweald.com/broken
GR tinyurl.com/BROKENGR
SG tinyurl.com/BROKENSG

🌈💜♿♾️📚💙🌈📚

even if we're broken
Contemporary Dramatic Romance
AMWeald.com/broken

tropes and themes include
he falls first (and hard)
H E A
mental health & chronic pain rep
over-40 colleagues to lovers
single dad
hurt/comfort
fat MCs
there’s only one bed
realistic archaeology (and archaeology puns)

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M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 15m

It’s our first zero-backer day… BUT we’re only thirteen backers away from our final backer goal! (And $604 away from unlocking nonfiction.) If you 1. can’t stand me and 2. love queer art, there’s never been a better time to support @othersidespec.bsky.social!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Info for our Backer Goals! 50, 100, 150, 200, AND 250 Backers are unlocked! All backer goals are in rainbow with an open lock over a blurred version of OTHERSIDE banner art in purple, with a blurred floating fantastical head on the right. Now at the bottom there is a FINAL GOAL: 300 backers - MR plays Alien: Isolation. Instead of a lock there is a face hugger from the Alien franchise.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 8h

Hope you are enjoying your Sunday, or if not at least working on a final polish of a speculative fiction story (5000 words or under) to submit to Translunar Travelers Lounge before the submissions portal closes on the 15th. Details at the link! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

the huntress

fanart of Artemis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit - dark jeans, bra with some sort of laces around the belly -, moon and arrows tattoos on the arms and chest, dark green hair, and a tiny owl standing on her head
she's adjusting her outfit, head slightly tilted down, eyes closed, smiling
she also wears an arrow earring and a moon necklace

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Isaac X Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon

What is making me happy and hopeful today is @conjured.ink's efforts to support decentralized online shops for creatives, as a defense against platform-based discrimination and censorship.

They are taking contributions now if you wish to fund them!
opencollective.com/conjured-ink

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JD Cadmon @jdcadmon.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon #QueerWriters Promo

Going to do things differently and promo a short story I've loved since I first read it. By Pain of Death by Suzanne Clay.

A queer and disabled retelling of Hades and Persephone with a trans Seph. It's beautiful storytelling.

www.amazon.com/Pain-Death-S...

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon 10:

It's been a hard week and a bad morning, so I'm just going to share a thing that makes me happy, this photo of my little goober of a cat, Nona.

Much love to all my queer creative friends out there making at and surviving and finding joy as best they can in these times! 💜

A gray and white tuxedo cat lies belly-up on a figure-8 scratching bed in dramatic morning lighting, all limbs splayed out and toes spread to show pink and gray speckled toe beans.

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 2d

These are gorgeous! I'm thankful it's getting cooler near me, finally. Autumn is my favorite time to enjoy nature. 🧡🪾🍂

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arlen ren ✨ @arlenrenwrites.bsky.social · 2d

for me, "something that makes you happy" can be one of only two things: dogs, or nature. I don't have a dog at the moment (🫠) so here are some photos that I've taken lately (and one my sister took of my new friend 🐸)

I hope everyone gets to enjoy nature where they are 🍂🍃✨

#LGBTQWriteAThon

a moodboard of photos from nature: a ladybird on an autumn leaf, crocuses growing from leaf litter, a crochet froggy peeking out of a black bag, a bee landing on some blue flowers, green leaves turning golden behind a tree, willow trees framing a pond, a muntjac deer on a path

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Jax Wolff Writes @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon The penultimate chapter of The Infinite Sadness goes out today, containing the kiss and a magic fight set to "Come On Eileen," for FREE.
jaxwolffwrites.beehiiv.com

Happy Bonus: My writing partner, who's modeling the first knitting project I've ever completed (and stealing my tea).

Beenjamin, OP's plush bee (and writing partner/rubber duck for rubber duck plot debugging), hovers over a red cup full of tea. He's wearing a red, gold, and gray scarf. Behind him is a computer; on the screen, Scrivener sits open to a document (for The Nameless Song), still on chapter 7.

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon I talked about Lemon Balm last time (which is still on pre-order and comes out on Halloween!)

This time, let me talk about my art. I do commissions for bookish art, graphics, and formatting, and I keep my prices low in order to be more accessible to indies.

Check me out here!

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Amber Hathaway, Little White Flowers author @amber-hathaway.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that you can find print copies of Little White Flowers ina number of libraries in northern New England and Minnesota makes me happy!

#LGBTQWriteAThon

(Pictures from the Brewer Public Library in Brewer, Maine.)

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Bramble ~ Sci-fi and Fantasy Author @thebrambler13.bsky.social · 2d

I'm throwing a curveball here that has nothing to do with writing. I'm pals with an artist, @floofnsweet.io, who makes awesome stuff. Always brightens my day to see what they're working on. I highly recommend them, especially if you want to commission something!

#writesky #LGBTQWriteAThon #artists

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Sass Everett @sasseverett.bsky.social · 2d

My novella The Hand That Feeds still makes me very happy! I loved writing these characters so much
books2read.com/u/4APvDq
sasseverett.itch.io/the-hand-tha...
#lgbtqwriteathon

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! I'm so, so sorry, Matt, that's so scary and stressful. Much love and strength to you and your family. 🫂💜

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Roz 🏳️‍⚧️ @rosenkranz.bsky.social · 3d

Old Gods of Appalachia art for the spooky season

two panels drawn with a black fountain pen with some orange accents. the first one depicts a girl with red braided hair. behind her, there's a forest. in the foreground, there's a dark silhouette of a big stag. the girl says "hail, spirit". in the second panel, the girl and the stag stand face to face, the stag's antlers are amber. he says: hail, witch

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Adam Holcombe @adamholcombe.bountyink.com · 3d

In just one week, Bounty Inc. will be released to the world, and you can preorder it right now so you have it in time!

Do you like the found family/ensemble of Guardians of the Galaxy? The universe of Mass Effect? The absurd humor of One Piece? This is soup of all that and more!

Links below 👇

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 3d

So cute! 😍🧣🐝

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 4d

get a COIN

get some PRINT MAGS

JOIN THE DEAD

okay not that last but you get a COIN 😇

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 4d

things you can do to help a skeleton crew out:

support our fundraiser: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

join our patreon: www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

spread the word 🖤💀🙏🙏🙏

Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground

psychopomp.com

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 4d

This sounds DELIGHTFUL, best of luck! 🤞💜

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 4d

We’ve yelled about our Kickstarter a lot, so we wanted to take a breath and say thank you.

You funded Year 1 in 4 hours, Year 2 in 4 days. The emotions our team is feeling are SO strong. We’ve cried several times—and it’s only week 2! Thank you 💜

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 4d

THIS STORY IS SO HECKIN' COOL, it NEEDS to get repped and published! 🤩

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 4d

Oh hey, it's #WorldOctopusDay? 😉 🐙

This is what I call my nearly-hard desi SF meets cephalopod-love short story. It got an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois's last Year's Best anthology.

CW for somewhat spicy and norty scenes; bigotry and prejudice.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/harris_08_17

Reversion by Nin Harris

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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