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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 12h

“What’s a magic school doing in Indiana? If my mother’s a faerie, what does that mean for me? What’s teaching combat look like? You’ve got to start there if you’re going to hook your audience without an in medias res inciting incident!”
“… you don’t have many friends, do you?” Perrenette asked.

Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 16h

It's Hump Day, folks, and our friend demands a sacrifice. Let's get a page from your wip. Maybe it's the middle for you? Give us a line from PAGE 120

Haven't gotten to page yet? How about just 12, then?

#Wednesday #HumpDay #indieauthors #WritingCommunity #booksky #writesky #writingq 🪐📚💙

Wednesday Hump Day

The judgey-est camel you have ever seen

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 1d

AND THIS IS THE SHORT ONE

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 7d

Friends and colleagues,

I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below

Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA

How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...

www.moma.org

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 1d

73k words in and I’m like. maybe 25% done with this book. I’m lucky it’s never getting a print release.

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 2d

there’s slow burn romance and then there’s “one of the MCs doesn’t know the other exists for two whole novels and they spend the third unable to physically touch due to living on separate planes of existence and communicating through astral projection”. why did I choose this? who knows

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Valiant 🏳️‍⚧️ | Follow BOOM Goes the Bride on Backerkit! @valwrites.ca · 3d

I continue to make ill-advised ads that i release late at night because this is my Brand and if you're up at midnight EST then you deserve quality late-night shitpost promos. Why see ads for injury claims lawyers when you can get quality infogayment like this?

A jokey ad for my book. On a bed of blood spattered roses white text asks: What does a lesbian bring to a first date?

A. A forty billion dollar dagger
B. A divine debt
C. Trillionaire daddy issues
D. 300,000 clones
E. An impending sense of doom
F. All of the above

If you guessed F, congrats!
You're now a fan of
BOOM GOES THE BRIDE.

Back it: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/165a08d0-a08a-46ef-93a2-4925033efcbc/landing

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 3d

idk it’s just very weird that instead of criticizing her for her greed or her soulless pivots toward maximum appeal or her politics what I’ve personally seen the most of is “but she doesn’t understand Shakespeare!” be serious. we have real problems here.

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 3d

we can maybe accuse her of being self-centered but we’d have to do that for everybody who went “he’s just like me fr” about Hamlet, not to mention the countless female artists who’ve similarly felt kinship with Ophelia and used her in their work. Shakespeare’s plays invite that kind of engagement.

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 3d

there are a lot of good criticisms of the latest Taylor Swift album but “she just doesn’t get Hamlet” isn’t one of them - not liking how the story ends isn’t not understanding it, and applying themes from Hamlet to her life is something people do all the time in their own art/writing/music

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 3d

at the risk of sounding like I’m going to bat for a billionaire (I’m not) I think that perhaps we should consider the misogyny in our criticisms of women’s interpretations of Shakespeare when they don’t sound suitably academic or intelligent but instead engage with his work like any other story

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 4d

I also think that if you read developmentally appropriate literature and devoured it in one-book-a-day gulps as a kid, transitioning to a harder book as a young adult can freak you out and make you freeze up.

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 4d

On Tumblr there’s been an influx of people reading classic lit bc the success of Dracula Daily inspired others to set up mailing lists - I’ve seen ones for Moby-Dick, Les Mis, Sherlock Holmes, and several Dickens books. IMO you’re right that it helps a long book feel approachable to nervous readers

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d

“Bluesky isn’t fun” problem and “Bluesky is the only social media platform where you will actually see the news” problem are the same problem

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 4d

GROCERY SHOPPING IS A DANGEROUS JOB, out now:
- queer urban fantasy
- established f/f and trans!m/f relationships
- Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school
- a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid
- $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop...
- $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 4d

SUCH A GOOD FEELING

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · Oct 3

Victor Frankenstein? Gay.
Milton's Satan? Gay.
Bram Stoker? Gay.
Quentin Compson? Trans.
Carrie White? Gay.

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 4d

it’s all William and Mary’s fault. it’s also all Henry VIII’s fault, but everyone gives him the blame he deserves already.

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, to both. Peri and Virgo are metaphorically haunted by the deaths of their best friends when they were 21, which shattered their partnership and forced an estrangement. Meg, on the other hand, is literally haunted by an exiled faerie king who’s been waiting for her to notice she’s not alone.

Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 5d

#QueerWritersChat

Question Two: Are your main characters haunted by anything, literally or metaphorically?

Next question at :15!

@amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #hauntings

#QueerWritersChat
Question Two: Are your main characters haunted by anything, literally or metaphorically?
Hosts: @amaralynn and @theodoresnapdragon Every Friday 8pm EST
All LGBTQIAP writers and allies welcome Background: gray wood with multicolor art supplies around the border.

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AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 5d

#QueerWritersChat 1:

I’m Amara, 1/2 of QueerWritersChat, and I’m drafting Night Moth, a cozycreepy moth(wo)man sapphic romance!

I’m just looking forward to the vibes of October and soaking those up for much needed dopamine lol

Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat!

To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on!

Feel free to mention what you’re looking forward to in October, too :)

Next question at :10!

@amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #writingq

#QueerWritersChat
Question One: Introduce yourself and your current project
Hosts: @amaralynn and @theodoresnapdragon Every Friday 8pm EST
All LGBTQIAP writers and allies welcome Background: gray wood with multicolor art supplies around the border.

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Emily Mulholland Merriman is querying Rootfall @emmywriting.bsky.social · 5d

Hiya #queerwriterschat, I'm Emily! I'm working on planning a YA fantasy superhero novel! (heck of a mouthful)

I'm looking forward to starting that. I'm also looking forward to a couple get-togethers I'm going to and a couple chances to fix some chronic health problems.

Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat!

To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on!

Feel free to mention what you’re looking forward to in October, too :)

Next question at :10!

@amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #writingq

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KB Diaz @kbdiaz.bsky.social · 5d

#QueerWritersChat

Hi everyone! I'm K, and I'm actually getting ready to send off a fantasy prequel short story/novelette to my editor and search for a cover artist!

Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat!

To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on!

Feel free to mention what you’re looking forward to in October, too :)

Next question at :10!

@amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #writingq

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 5d

Hi #QueerWritersChat! I’m Lucille or Lucy, I write fantasy, and I’m working on what I can only call an adventure/mystery urban f/f romantasy called Blood Ties and Brickways centering around a young woman named Meg as she navigates the faerie Midwest and falls in love with an undead lesbian god-king.

Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat!

To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on!

Feel free to mention what you’re looking forward to in October, too :)

Next question at :10!

@amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #writingq

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 6d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 5d

it might sound crazy but i actually really like bluesky and enjoy my time here and would like it to be a successful sustainable platform

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Lucy Black, Resident Ghost @lucillewalterblack.bsky.social · 5d

the series that this story started as a (pointed, frustrated) reply to features bigotry as a plot point but can’t decide what to do with it, and the consequence of being a marginalized person and wanting to write about systems of power = somebody has to talk about fantastic racism and it’s me

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