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@nervousorangutan.bsky.social

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Navigating publishing journey with my wife, partner and best friend at my side. 💃 WLW fiction. Unpublished, unproven writer 💛 Reading 💛 StoryCraft 🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS

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ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Dec 24

Favorite Genres
💙 Literary Fiction
💙 Short Story Collections
💙 World History
💙 Cozy Mystery
💙 WLW Fiction
#promosky #booksky
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Darryl Morris @darrylmorris.bsky.social · Nov 13

ICYMI: you can still listen to my documentary about the man who claims to be God, and the group he has built around him.

Who are they? What lead them to believe in this man? Is this just modern spirituality… or a cult?

God Next Door // BBC Radio 4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - God Next Door

Meet the Manchester man who believes he is God - and the people who share his belief.

www.bbc.co.uk

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ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Jan 9

Good to catch those early.

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ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Jan 8

Gilead. I want to see what all the hubub is about. Yourself?

ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thank you!

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Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social · Jan 6

I am so tired of living through historical events, good fucking god

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ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Jan 8

Meta official content policy using the dehumanizing term "transgenderism" is a shock and a woeful regression of the state of things. I can only hope history will look back at instances like these and know it is well in the past.

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The Life of Sharks 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelifeofsharks.com · Jan 8

The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · Jan 7

A perfect comic panel.

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ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Jan 7

Any tradpub authors in the DMV area? I'd love to follow!

#author #authorsky #booksky 💙📚

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jan 7

Republicans thought they were voting for cheaper eggs and what they’re going to get is war with Denmark and Panama.

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · Jan 7

The latest unhinged notes from the planning doc:

A screenshot of text. The first line reads 'Need an 'A' plot'. The second line reads 'Do we??' in italics.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jan 6

Today is January 6th and no one is watching the Capitol be plundered, feces being smeared on the walls, and police officers being stabbed with American flags.

Why? Because one side believes in democracy no matter what, and the other side only believes in it only when they win.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Jan 6

For my newsletter, I wrote about who is and isn't allowed to be a vigilante and how our tolerance for violence is incredibly subjective: audacity.substack.com/p/the-least-...

The Least Amount of Harm

On vigilantes, who venerates them, and why

audacity.substack.com

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Jan 5

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation

The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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M. Stevenson @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social · Jan 4

Okay I haven’t done a querying advice thread in awhile but here is one short tip that should be obvious but maybe isn’t:

When you get a full or partial request, don’t name it something like TOTSv5.docx!
Use your name and the title so it’s easy to ID the file.

Ex: MStevenson_Behooved_fullMS.docx

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jan 1

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

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GabrielConstans @gabrielconstans.bsky.social · Dec 27

I was followed by Sarah Waters (author of Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, etc. & winner of the Booker Prize), & am blushing with joy. She's one of my favorite writers of historical sapphic fiction, and someone I've always admired. If it's not really her, I'll keep telling myself that it is anyway!

Photo of Sarah Waters (blond hair, white skin and wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, and holding a pencil in her right hand and one of her books in her left hand. The book cover has "Sarah Waters" and the top and the title "Night Watch at the bottom. A tall street lamp is on cobblestones in the background.

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ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Dec 28

This novel's premise is superb and wonderful to explore. But the mystery-driven throughline that drives the narrative is woefully mediocre. If only its premise was blanketed by an equally engaging story.

ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Dec 27

Or fantasy / dystopia authors who write "wars" that consists of one singular skirmish

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (Very scary) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · Dec 27

I love it when science fiction writers have no sense of what "a lot" is so you end up getting a huge assault on earth being carried out by 30 ships. That's like if the entire Napoleonic army was 5 guys on horses.

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ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Dec 26

Thanks! And these 10k sprints are usually within what timespan, out of curiosity?

ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Dec 26

What's your writing routine? Im no discovery writer so writing without a plan means I have days of nothing to paper. Frustrating!

ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Dec 24

Oh, that one's on my bookshelf! I'll check it out. Many thanks!

ここり🏳️‍🌈 @nervousorangutan.bsky.social · Dec 24

Lesbian Gothic? Thank you 🙌

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · Dec 23

The Needfire, a sapphic Gothic horror that explores the exploitation of the land in Scottish history and what happens when it decides to fight back, is out in July 2025 with @solarisbooks.bsky.social!

geni.us/needfire

A picture of a book cover for The Needfire, by MK Hardy. The cover has a black background and an ornate red and gold border reminiscent of old book embellishments. Alongside the border are dark red branches and roots which stretch to the top and bottom of the cover. There are red, orange, and yellow stylised flames curling off of the branches and roots.

In the lower middle section of the cover is the main focal point; the silhouettes of two women. The main figure is stylised in a sketchy manner in red tones and shows a woman in a Victorian-era dress facing to the right while holding a storm lantern. The second woman’s silhouette is plain black and inset into the skirt of the first woman; the black silhouette is facing to the left.

To the left of the figures in the background is the sketch of a house on a cliff; this is also done in red. The house is precariously placed at the very edge.

Above the figures is the title of the book: THE NEEDFIRE, in gold serif text. Above that is the author’s name: MK Hardy, in the same font but slightly smaller and in red.

The designer of the cover is Holly Macdonald. The publisher is Solaris/Rebellion.

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