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Devin Madson | Rebecca Ide
@devinmadson.bsky.social
Author. Drinker of tea. Killer of plants. Pan/trans 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (He/him) Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Australia

Rebecca Ide: THE GENTLEMAN AND HIS VOWSMITH (queer fantasy murder romance)

Devin Madson: BETWEEN DRAGONS AND THEIR WRATH (queer fantasy)
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Hello, my name is Izzy, but I am better known by my two pen names—award-winning fantasy author Devin Madson (We Ride the Storm, and Between Dragons and Their Wrath) and upcoming author of queer murder romance, Rebecca Ide (The Gentleman and His Vowmsith—April 2025)… 1/2
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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procrastinating getting started on work this morning so let’s have story time!

last week i had my first personal experience with the general lowkey dismissal, minimisation and invisibiling of trans men in progressive spaces, and in a way i really wasn’t expecting—through my daughter’s art class!

🧵
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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80 backers and 250% funded with 8 days to go!

Be part of the magic:

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The Chosen One Con
The Chosen One Con is the first book in the Lost in the Aether duology—a queer gaslamp fantasy of industrial magic in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions from the author of ...
www.backerkit.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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It really is that fucking simple, friends.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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WHY ARE YOU PUTTING YOUR FEET IN HIS KIRBUSSY
Nintendo Kirby Face Fuzzy Slipper Socks $8.94 via Box Lunch. https://ow.ly/TwOz50XwRzb
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
1. money
2. ass

so far so good!

3. crabs

oh
the first 3 words you see will define your 2026 😭

Money
New car
Pussy
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I am already starting to book up for spring 2026. What is life?! 😭

Authors, if you want to work with a queer, neurospicy editor with over half a decade of experience, tons of testimonials and lower-than-average rates, apparently the time is NOW to hit me up for 2026. 👀

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You have to mark up your manuscript. You don't have to do it alone.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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How’s your “hormonal chaos” today, ladies?
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
procrastinating getting started on work this morning so let’s have story time!

last week i had my first personal experience with the general lowkey dismissal, minimisation and invisibiling of trans men in progressive spaces, and in a way i really wasn’t expecting—through my daughter’s art class!

🧵
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”

Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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the vast majority of authors are not rich y’all, we often work multiple jobs or rely on other people’s incomes because this industry pays us shit. i have three different contracts with three different big five publishers and i don’t make anything NEAR a living wage. but i do work seven days a week!🫠
I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
the vast majority of authors are not rich y’all, we often work multiple jobs or rely on other people’s incomes because this industry pays us shit. i have three different contracts with three different big five publishers and i don’t make anything NEAR a living wage. but i do work seven days a week!🫠
I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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"Fuck Amazon, it's not like they aren't screwing over authors!!"

Amazon pays me 70% royalties on ebooks. You downloading my shit from Anna's pays me *nothing* you dumbass little shit.

"I'm so poor" - And? A bunch of you are steal from my poor friends who are struggling to buy groceries, too.
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
am i the dad in our household, @chrismagilton.bsky.social ? 😂

MAXIMUM STACKING EFFICIENCY!
somewhere there is a dad so zen he does not get involved in scraping and rinsing the dishes before they go in the dishwasher, nor in stacking the machine for optimum washing ability, but I don't know him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
i wish i was more of a movie buff to stress test this thought… are there any big hollywood movies set in Australia that don’t use us as an inhospitable backdrop (like Fury Road) or romanticise The Hardships Of The Land (a la Baz Luhrmann’s Australia)?
if i was feeling uncharitable i might wonder if big movies are only set here when the idea of australia can conform neatly with stereotypes of the land as inhospitable
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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And it's even harder find something set in regional Australia (and not just "generic desert and/or bush"). Possibly closest for me is this one, at least set in regional Qld, even if I wasn't quite in cane country...
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
a movie that takes place where you’re from

… this is way harder when you’re Australian. lots of things are filmed here, few bother to be set here
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014).
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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"the writer's barely-disguised fetish" WRONG, all my fetishes are out in the open and actively make what i write even better
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM