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Zig Zag Claybourne
@zzclaybourne.bsky.social
Writer. Pie lover. Herald of Galactus but no worries. he/him zzclaybourne.com
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Reminder.
Fantasy title that best describes me? "A Song of Books and Pie: The Chilled Earth Saga"

Right now, re-reading sections of an arc that is giving me life. So many excellent books being added to the cosmic pot. I'm gonna try to focus more on them and less on the dross.

And bake at every opportunity.
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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My crew?
- Jack, from Majordomo, by @tbcart.bsky.social
- Jo, from Bad Grains, by @sharkiatwrites.bsky.social
- Will, from Pursuit of Shadows, by @jaandrews.bsky.social
- Moore and Nanette, from The Wandering Inn, by @thewanderinginn.bsky.social

...and we'd crew a magical library.

#AMoRaR
Daily Challenge 26: Gather the Crew - Build your own crew with fictional characters. What are you planning?

Do you recommend any indie books featuring a crew? #AMoRaR #BookSky
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I give thanks for every reader. Time is precious af.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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it's here! the final book in the fireborn series is available everywhere now! want to see three generations of powerful, firebending women (and friends) kicking a whole lot of ass? get it now!🌈📚 #CompleteSeries #QueerAdultSFF #booksky
books2read.com/u/mqxAa8
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I swore I'd maximize my potential today but all I did was eat an oatmeal cookie.

A bigass oatmeal cookie tho.

Achieved.
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Really missing getting on tiptoes to taste the spoon.
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Your new holiday favs. Not a waif or Marley in sight.
If you need 2 sweet holiday stories from a couple men of a certain age to remind you life isn't overwhelmingly (and solely) lemons fired from a cannon, I highly recommend these. Milton's is a novel, mine's a short.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It takes insomnia to make you realize Roadrunner could have phased through Coyote and killed him but chose not to.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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If you want dragons, kicking a regime, and trans characters:

blackwolfsings.itch.io/dragon-physi...
Dragon Physician by blackwolfsings
Can Jixin succeed in a world of dragon racing run by powerful women?
blackwolfsings.itch.io
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Authors as Home Shopping Network hosts:
TODAY ONLY, ABSOLUTELY FREE SIGNIPS DID I SAY NIPS OOPS STRIKE THAT BEEN IN THE CHARDY TOO MUCH SIGNUPS AT THE WEBSITE WHAT ARE YOU GETTING: A NEWSLETTER.
*full stop stares at camera*
*there is nothing else on the cue card*
*starts up again*
AND FREE SHIPPING
ZZ Claybourne
zzclaybourne.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Me at 10pm: falls asleep on sofa, mouth open, gnats cavorting up nostrils.

Me at 3am: "Is hypotenuse as sexy a word as I think it is?"
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Sometimes it's good to stop everything for a glory shot of the Enterprise.
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
MFing Thread.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

🖕
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Yeah, they got pretty much all of my stuff. And everybody else's. Some bullshit called Anna's Archive.
This is so fucked up. Stop stealing from authors!!
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

🖕
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Sincerely + Thankfully:
Y'all rock.
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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See a book recommended and are curious about it? Want to read it? You could go buy it! 🧵

Money tight at the moment or you're just frugal? See if it's available from the library & request it (if it's not, suggest that your library get it).

www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
Download the Libby App: ebooks & audiobooks FREE from your library
Bring the library to you! Free digital books, magazines and more! Available for iOS and Android devices.
www.overdrive.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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And I've got a review of Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce at Locus Mag. Loved this novella so much. locusmag.com/review/psych...
Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce: Review by Alex Brown
Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom 978-1-25033-096-3, $24.99, 176pp, hc) October 2025. Cover by Greg Ruth. Eden Royce’s latest work of literary bril­liance, Psychopomp & Circu…
locusmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Refilling your water counts as productivity. So does refilling your soul. 💧💫
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction 2023
YouTube video by MVmedia
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
There is no higher writing truth than this.
People always ask me, “how do I know my manuscript is done?”

There’s only one way, my friends.

If your file name looks something like this:

Manuscript - Final Draft 3.7 FINAL FINAL - FINAL (5).docx

Then, and only then, is it time.
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Disco gave a fantastic review of my first novel, Beneath Strange Lights, for TRR this year

books2read.com/AmeliaTemple...
Review of Beneath Strange Lights by @itsviviactually.bsky.social for #transrightsreadathon Day 5!

Trans femme 1950s sci fi! Perfect for fans of the X Files.
📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚🏳️‍⚧️
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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And followed up with a Hallowe'en review of the first installment in my Gothic horror serial, Shadows Over Ravenkirk

books2read.com/SOR1
Happy Halloween and happy Publication Day to Shadows Over Ravenkirk by @itsviviactually.bsky.social!

A trans woman is invited to a creepy seaside town to receive a mystery inheritance, dealing with weird bickering families & supernatural scares. So fun! Think Knives Out x The Addams Family 📚💙 📚🏳️‍⚧️
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Listen, if they're gonna relentlessly let you know the McRib is back, you can damn sure have a full Pride Rock moment with your work. Shame is the little death. Let it pass through you. All that remains is whee.
If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Still some good in this world, Mr Frodo.
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM