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Chris Zable Editor (she/her)

@amphipodgirl.bsky.social

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Copyeditor and proofreader of fiction—lqbtqia+, romance, mystery, historical fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy. She/her. https://www.czedits.com/

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · Jun 26

Take Dani’s word for it: I deliver careful, nuanced editing of smut for any and all species (even humans). I also edit non-smut fiction.

I do free sample edits, and I have openings for fall and winter. Check out czedits.com or direct message me here.

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · Jun 26

This level of nuance is why I’m proud to have you as my editor. You’re going to have fun with the cephalopod smut

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 2h

I’m waiting for transport to head home from the hospital! It all went pretty smoothly, and I’m leaving less than 72 hours after my surgery. Now it’s about resting, healing, and ramping back up to normal life.

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 1d

This book is interesting and different and I adore Kin (the small cephalopod in the cover art). He’s a little guy standing up (figuratively speaking) for himself, his partner, and his people, and he wants it to be clearly understood that he can take care of himself.

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Just completed FINAL EDITS for Disposable Magic & made my epub. Huge thanks to my editor & marine biology fact-checker @amphipodgirl.bsky.social

November is looking good for launch once I format the paperback.

Cephalopod-on-cephalopod romance with trans themes & ecoterrorism, coming your way soon!

Disposable Magic by Dani Finn, showing a large octopus and a tiny one looking at each other in an underwater bubble with black ooze dripping down on them from above.

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 1d

I hope the staying power of the pepper is a good thing!

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Do you and @gbralph.com know each other? You both write gay mysteries, and you’re even in the same island right now.

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Once I’m home and cooking again, I should do that

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so glad! I haven’t made it again since, which is kind of ridiculous.

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 2d

I’m guessing your editor didn’t feel great about it either

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Y. Marie Stout @stoutpotentials.bsky.social · 3d

Good editors do the opposite of watering down the author’s voice. They show it off. Like a house after decluttering, reorganizing and adding some spit and polish.

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 3d

This makes me feel fully justified about the time I spent checking every single song and artist mentioned in the drag show scenes in @gbralph.com’s Fright on Stage Right. He had them all correct, but if he’d slipped up on one, I would have caught it.

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Alex Larkspur 💛 Queer Fantasy @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 3d

@amphipodgirl.bsky.social is my hero for all the work she did with helping me with Sweet & Wild! 💛

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for the vibes!

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 3d

*big thanks to

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 3d

Big to [email protected] for releasing a new book the week I’m having surgery so I’ll have something to read while I recuperate. Now all I have to do is avoid starting it until after the procedure…

The cover of All of Us Murders by K.J. Charles.

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Tom (Anne) Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 3d

Writing friends, I need a venue that will consider a long short story (10k words), horror genre, trans and queer themes.

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 4d

It's very cool that you're getting them back into reading. <3

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Alex Larkspur 💛 Queer Fantasy @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 5d

It’s Anti-Prime day and my favorite online book retailer has free shipping on all orders! Bookshop.org does wonderful work supporting indie book stores!
If you’d like a sweet as honey, cozy adjacent, witchy MM Romance, you could buy Sweet & Wild in paperback!

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Sweet & Wild

Check out Sweet & Wild - <p>Micah Harlow has just moved to Roseyard, a small town on the edge of a mysterious forest. Filled with hope for a new start here, Micah ventures into the woods to forage and...

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! That must be very satisfying.

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Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Pepper and the place where blue and purple meet.

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel prize for SFF worldbuilding. Not the prose, not the plot, just the framework. Let’s go!

What Nobel would you love to see?

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 6d

Nobel Prize for Textile Art, can you imagine? I’d love to see it

Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 6d

Time for my annual reminder that, thanks to the precedent set by economists, ANY group can establish their own Nobel Prize for ANYTHING. Come on people, get creative.

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 8d

That sounds wonderfully autumnal!

I made a really good apple cake last week for Rosh Hashanah.

(The finger-swipe recognition on my phone thought I wanted to say “Rosh HaHaHaHa,” which would be pretty awesome, tbh.)

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 8d

At times.

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 8d

I know, right? Them and goats.

Chris Zable Editor (she/her) @amphipodgirl.bsky.social · 9d

PPS The lack of a comma before the title is intentional; Dani has more than one very cool forthcoming book, so the title is restrictive, grammatically speaking.