Eliot
@eliotedits.bsky.social
Editor, educator, word nerd with a specialty in inclusive language and storytelling and a big love for romance fiction. (Maybe I can help you with your writing! https://www.eliotwesteditorial.com/) Joy matters too 💖🌈
eeeeeee so much good stuff! If you are remotely interested in a writing event/conference/community, check out this post. wholeheartedwriters.beehiiv.com/p/programmin... (sign up at wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html)
What’s on offer: Programming details!
So many ways to learn and write together at Wholehearted Writers Week 2026!
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November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
eeeeeee so much good stuff! If you are remotely interested in a writing event/conference/community, check out this post. wholeheartedwriters.beehiiv.com/p/programmin... (sign up at wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html)
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Join me and @cloviseditorial.bsky.social on Tuesday for a talk on editing speculative fiction!
We'll have an intro to all things spec fic and worldbuilding, and guidance on how to apply it all to all levels of #editing —all this with an inclusive fiction lens.
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
We'll have an intro to all things spec fic and worldbuilding, and guidance on how to apply it all to all levels of #editing —all this with an inclusive fiction lens.
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Join me and @cloviseditorial.bsky.social on Tuesday for a talk on editing speculative fiction!
We'll have an intro to all things spec fic and worldbuilding, and guidance on how to apply it all to all levels of #editing —all this with an inclusive fiction lens.
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
We'll have an intro to all things spec fic and worldbuilding, and guidance on how to apply it all to all levels of #editing —all this with an inclusive fiction lens.
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
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(Also there are currently several signed copies at Tropes and Trifles in Minneapolis, for those in the neighborhood.)
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
(Also there are currently several signed copies at Tropes and Trifles in Minneapolis, for those in the neighborhood.)
Heyyyyy the excellent @pretensesoup.bsky.social's Lazarus, Home from the War is one of @fatedmates.net podcast's best 10 romance novels of 2025 list! Go read all the Wisconsin Gothic books and get ready for the next-in-the-series novella I'm currently line editing ;) 🌈💜
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Heyyyyy the excellent @pretensesoup.bsky.social's Lazarus, Home from the War is one of @fatedmates.net podcast's best 10 romance novels of 2025 list! Go read all the Wisconsin Gothic books and get ready for the next-in-the-series novella I'm currently line editing ;) 🌈💜
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watched this last night
it is: fabulous
it is: fabulous
Tonight at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and directed by Saheem Ali will be on PBS Great Performances.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
Twelfth Night ~ About | Great Performances | PBS
The Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Junior Nyong'o and more.
www.pbs.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
watched this last night
it is: fabulous
it is: fabulous
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It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
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I'm raising funds to support Scarleteen and y'all got me to my initial $1,000 goal so quickly that I want to push for $1,500! Thanks to a donor matching overall donations up to $10,000 if we GET to $10,000, your dollars will count twice if you help us reach our goal.
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
Our direct services are world-famous, award-winning, and provided by real people who care deeply for the young people visiting us to ask for help. Help us raise $40,000 to support the health care needs of the people doing this work. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'm raising funds to support Scarleteen and y'all got me to my initial $1,000 goal so quickly that I want to push for $1,500! Thanks to a donor matching overall donations up to $10,000 if we GET to $10,000, your dollars will count twice if you help us reach our goal.
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
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Packing up an order and I just love this chunky lil guy 🪓🎄
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Packing up an order and I just love this chunky lil guy 🪓🎄
We're so excited to kick off 2026 with a week of community, writing, and learning! There's still room for a few more writers; now accepting applications on a rolling basis at wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html. Come play!
#WritingCommunity #Writers #QueerWriters #NeurodivergentWriters
#WritingCommunity #Writers #QueerWriters #NeurodivergentWriters
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We're so excited to kick off 2026 with a week of community, writing, and learning! There's still room for a few more writers; now accepting applications on a rolling basis at wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html. Come play!
#WritingCommunity #Writers #QueerWriters #NeurodivergentWriters
#WritingCommunity #Writers #QueerWriters #NeurodivergentWriters
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All my indie titles are in Kobo Plus, that includes Handmade Holidays, In Memoriam, Rear Admiral, and Upon the Midnight Queer—and the audiobooks thereof.
Kobo is doing a 30 day free trial promotion for their Kindle Unlimited competitor service Kobo Plus for new subscribers (not sure if this is US only), if you like queer indie books, small press SFF, and backlist SFF from large publishers there's a lot to choose from on this service that's not on KU!
Rakuten Kobo
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November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
All my indie titles are in Kobo Plus, that includes Handmade Holidays, In Memoriam, Rear Admiral, and Upon the Midnight Queer—and the audiobooks thereof.
I feel so seen!!! xkcd.com/3166/
Big and Little Spoons
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November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I feel so seen!!! xkcd.com/3166/
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A friend and I were talking about awkward stock photos again and I realized it's never a bad time to reshare this list of sites with free stock images that are both less awkward AND more inclusive in terms of the people in them. (It includes a great one for your fall vaccine coverage!)
Free Sources for Inclusive and Stereotype-Busting Stock Images — Madeleine Vasaly
One problem you’ll run into in almost any stock library is that a lot of images are pretty stereotypical and don’t tend to feature a lot of diversity. That’s why whenever I find a new site with free-u...
www.madeleinevasaly.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A friend and I were talking about awkward stock photos again and I realized it's never a bad time to reshare this list of sites with free stock images that are both less awkward AND more inclusive in terms of the people in them. (It includes a great one for your fall vaccine coverage!)
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I keep thinking of @eliotedits.bsky.social's thoughts about the way some romance readers don’t like the little quiet at home chore/mundanity moments and how that might land differently for queer readers/queer characters.
It’s reminding me of when some evangelist types came to my door.
It’s reminding me of when some evangelist types came to my door.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I keep thinking of @eliotedits.bsky.social's thoughts about the way some romance readers don’t like the little quiet at home chore/mundanity moments and how that might land differently for queer readers/queer characters.
It’s reminding me of when some evangelist types came to my door.
It’s reminding me of when some evangelist types came to my door.
Catching up on Fated Mates episodes & struck that neither Jen nor Sarah can stand chores and ordinary day-to-day in romance novels. I'm now curious if queer romance readers/writers have a different orientation toward the domestic & ordinary because the fantasy is a safe home where we can be boring.
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Catching up on Fated Mates episodes & struck that neither Jen nor Sarah can stand chores and ordinary day-to-day in romance novels. I'm now curious if queer romance readers/writers have a different orientation toward the domestic & ordinary because the fantasy is a safe home where we can be boring.
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Do you care about #InclusiveLanguage and storytelling? Want to explore ideas outside the gender binary? Sign up for our Nov. 12 webinar with Tanya Gold and Eliot West for tips to help you support authors in creating authentic non-binary gender representations: webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Do you care about #InclusiveLanguage and storytelling? Want to explore ideas outside the gender binary? Sign up for our Nov. 12 webinar with Tanya Gold and Eliot West for tips to help you support authors in creating authentic non-binary gender representations: webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
Wholehearted Writers Week applications close 1 week from today (11/12)! Write in good company Jan 12–16, supported by 4 kind, skillful editors/writing coaches + 8 writers across genres offering hour-long sessions on the process from idea through publication. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wholehearted Writers Week applications close 1 week from today (11/12)! Write in good company Jan 12–16, supported by 4 kind, skillful editors/writing coaches + 8 writers across genres offering hour-long sessions on the process from idea through publication. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html
Editors, join us for an informative chat on a very cool topic! We're excited to share context, strategies, and tips big & small for folks working at all levels of edit.
Want to learn more about editing fiction with nonbinary characters?
Join me and @eliotedits.bsky.social for our @editorscanada.bsky.social webinar on November 12!
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
#AmEditing #QueerEditors #Editors 🌈📚
Join me and @eliotedits.bsky.social for our @editorscanada.bsky.social webinar on November 12!
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
#AmEditing #QueerEditors #Editors 🌈📚
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Editors, join us for an informative chat on a very cool topic! We're excited to share context, strategies, and tips big & small for folks working at all levels of edit.
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This is genuinely heartbreaking.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is genuinely heartbreaking.
This whole series is so much fun!
Just a few more days to get my Thanksgiving romance novella for free!
He was never supposed to see his one-night stand again, so why is she at Thanksgiving dinner in his hometown?
The ebook of A Match Made for Thanksgiving is free until the end of October!
jackielaubooks.com/books/a-matc...
The ebook of A Match Made for Thanksgiving is free until the end of October!
jackielaubooks.com/books/a-matc...
October 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This whole series is so much fun!
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So many people who love to write, who want to learn more, who want to quietly share their excitements and frustrations - just don't.
They think they don't qualify as a #writer. But no one gets to determine that but you.
What 'rules' about #writing have you found to be... less than true?
They think they don't qualify as a #writer. But no one gets to determine that but you.
What 'rules' about #writing have you found to be... less than true?
October 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Here is my most damning indictment of romance as a genre: we are currently living in a time when stalkers, rapists, and murderers are romance MMCs, but I doubt I could name more than 10 books in the whole history of the genre where an FMC has an abortion.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Here is my most damning indictment of romance as a genre: we are currently living in a time when stalkers, rapists, and murderers are romance MMCs, but I doubt I could name more than 10 books in the whole history of the genre where an FMC has an abortion.
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A healthy and tasty muffin using whole wheat flour and flavored with citrus and full of dates and walnuts. With Demo Video
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October 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I hereby endorse these muffins, which are my new favorite muffins joyofbaking.com/muffins/Oran...
$50 off through tomorrow 10/12! Laugh & think & write in community, with guidance & information from 4 professional editors & 8 extremely smart, kind writers, for 5 days this January! Online, inclusive, full of heart. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
$50 off through tomorrow 10/12! Laugh & think & write in community, with guidance & information from 4 professional editors & 8 extremely smart, kind writers, for 5 days this January! Online, inclusive, full of heart. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
My rec for the soulful & practical book Living Revision for writers www.eliotwesteditorial.com/blog/read-th... (I wrote & scheduled this post ages ago, but now the author Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a speaker for Wholehearted Writers Week! Apply by Sunday 10/12 for a reduced rate...)
read this book about revision that’s also about your deep inner writing life
I recently spent six months teaching revision strategies (and strategies for emotionally navigating the revision process) to creative writers across genres through the Loft Literary Center in...
www.eliotwesteditorial.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My rec for the soulful & practical book Living Revision for writers www.eliotwesteditorial.com/blog/read-th... (I wrote & scheduled this post ages ago, but now the author Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a speaker for Wholehearted Writers Week! Apply by Sunday 10/12 for a reduced rate...)
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We will also be doing our online auction again, check out the shawl I made!!! (Photo was taken in our synagogue's beautiful historic sanctuary, which I wanted it to match)
Register for the auction by viewing its home page while logged in to your 32auctions account: www.32auctions.com/Bundled2025
Register for the auction by viewing its home page while logged in to your 32auctions account: www.32auctions.com/Bundled2025
October 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We will also be doing our online auction again, check out the shawl I made!!! (Photo was taken in our synagogue's beautiful historic sanctuary, which I wanted it to match)
Register for the auction by viewing its home page while logged in to your 32auctions account: www.32auctions.com/Bundled2025
Register for the auction by viewing its home page while logged in to your 32auctions account: www.32auctions.com/Bundled2025