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Lilian Zenzi
@lilianzenzi.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🪐🦄🪴💖 Writes stories for queer nerds with big hearts and the people who love them. Now living in Ireland. Newsletter sign up: www.lilianzenzi.com
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It's been ages and all kinds of things have changed, so let me re-introduce myself. 📚🌈 💙📚 #queerscifi #indiescifi
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Spark and Tether, first line: Sacheri woke with a shiver in his nerves trying his limbs like a lit fuse.

Audiobook narrated by Josiah Sweetnam and available everywhere, including libraries and direct from the author on payhip.
October's Writers Chat Deep Craft with Tamara Jerée on The Flowers I Deserve. WCDC is a monthly series of chat-style interviews where I talk with authors and artists about their work. Newsletter subscribers get the link first–sign up on my website. vist.ly/4c4ag
Get a free ebook of SPARK AND TETHER (Synchronists 1) when you sign up for the Queer Sci Fi email list this October! along with three other titles. 🌈📚 #queeradultscifi
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Healing on Instinct, Leaning into Whimsy: Embodying Themes Through Poetic Tension and Turns. October's Writers Chat Deep Craft is live on my website. I talk with @tamarajeree about their latest release: The Flowers I Deserve.

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I dislike sweeping statements about what kind of writing has or doesn’t have real artistic merit. I once read an amazing short story written in future tense with a 2nd-person POV. “Trashy” romance can be deeply insightful about life in specific times and places. YA helped me survive as a queer teen.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
🌈📚 My Synchronists series is queer science fiction about interconnection and building better worlds. vist.ly/49xpp
In the next Writers Chat Deep Craft, I talk with Tamara Jerée about their newest release The Flowers I Deserve. Interview posts on my website on October 17; subscribe to my newsletter to get the link first. 🌈📚 vist.ly/49pf7
Worldbuilding facts from the Synchronists series. SYNCHRONISTS is queer sci fi about interconnection and relationships. Available directly from me or wherever you buy books.
The first WCDC post is live on my website; the second features Tamara Jerée and posts October 17. Sign up for my newsletter if you'd like the link first. 🌈📚
Sundays are for long walks and beach time. I started & art class last week so I took my sketchbook along. The sound of the stones underfoot is one of my new favorite things. I’m not writing much yet. Still adjusting. The words all sound different in my head now. Need more time to settle.🌈📚
The fungi and (friendly) artificial intelligence are the good guys. People take care of each other. How we show up in the world matters. No weapons or war. Wrongs are meant to be righted. Can you imagine? 🌈📚

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The first Writers Chat Deep Craft is up on my website. Thanks so much to Dawn Chen for joining me. The Witch Who Chases the Sun is out September 30 and preorders are open everywhere. 🌈📚https://www.lilianzenzi.com/wcdc-dawnchen/

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Just caught that these images are missing alt text. I don’t know why the alt text was lost in this post when it’s worked before. will pull and repost when I can get to my laptop.
I’ve been making books more than I’ve been writing the last few weeks. And since I gave all of my autumn decor to a beloved neighbor when we moved, I found a new friend and a tiny purple glass gourd for my desk for the season. I think my new gnome friend needs a name…
Oops! Not sure what happened there—my social media scheduler should have caught that. Thanks for the heads up!
My September newsletter is out today. You can still subscribe on my website and read it there: vist.ly/47e4r 🌈📚

This month's update includes the link to my chat with Dawn Chen @dawn.writesstuff about her upcoming novel The Witch Who Chases the Sun, book promos, and a mutual aid request.
Love Can't Save You: Spiral Structure and the Lasting Wounds of Colonialism - my first Writers Chat Deep Craft post goes live Friday when my newsletter sends.

Dawn and I chat about structure, symbols, and anticolonialism. The Witch Who Chases the Sun is out September 30–preorders are open!
After a lovely Saturday in Ballinasloe for the Indie Authors Ireland gathering, I spent Sunday back at the shore in a coffeeshop with some poetry and a nice lapsang souchong. The first Writers Chat Deep Craft interview (with @dawnwritesstuff!) posts this week and my newsletter releases on Friday.
I chat with Dawn Chen about her upcoming release The Witch Who Chases the Sun for the first Writers Chat Deep Craft interview. On my website in mid-September–my newsletter subscribers get the link first. Subscribe on my website. vist.ly/469d8 🌈📚
Monday mornings are for planning and organizing the week. I seem to have developed a terrific Barry’s habit in the last month. If I get some things done, this afternoon may hold a trip to the bookstore and the beach with some poetry. The card is from my favorite MoLI exhibit. 🌈📚#queeradultscifi
My goodness that cover is stunning
Marketing bestie says I should re-use content, and it's been ages since I posted this one for Spark and Tether. Should I make one for Flare and Bind, too? 🌈📚 #queerscifi #indiescifi
Sharing for the feeds 🌈📚#indieauthors #queeradultsff
Writers Chat Deep Craft is a monthly interview series launching in Sept. I chat with authors about hidden symbols, fave techniques, where cultural narratives about stories help or hinder us. Big ideas. Deep craft. Curious? Subscribe to my newsletter. vist.ly/45huw