The October edition of the SFWA monthly Market Report is here!

Get the latest updates on markets and opportunities at www.sfwa.org/2025/10/06/s...

#HowToTouchGrass is a comics anthology about our relationship with grass and, by extension, each other! Get notified when we relaunch on Kickstarter: buff.ly/316i351

Over 70+ Black vendors 🎉🔥 This Black-Owned Fall Flea Market is packed with goods from the best Black artisans, creators, & visionaries.

By the vancouverblacktherapyfoundation.com

Oct 11 @ 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Afro-Caribbean food, flash tats, and more. Tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

I (@akemiart) will be at Word Vancouver on Sept 20th under my company Mythic Texture. I'll be selling my art and books. Join me!

#HowToTouchGrass is now live on Kickstarter! DAY ONE, LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!! 🥳🌿🔥
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...

Oops it's already July! Um, please have an event summary graphic thing. As usual all of this info is on our event calendar online at outsidercomics.com/events-calen...

Ever since I became an independent publisher of my work, I've been surprised by book stores who have spoken to me & ordered my books into their store on the spot. Check out:

kinderbooks.ca, New Westminster
outsidercomics.com, Seattle
transrealbooks.com, Edinburgh
bakkaphoenixbooks.com, Toronto

Hello everyone! We're Outsider Comics (and Geek Boutique), a queer-, trans-, woman-, and Asian-American-owned comic, game, and other fun geeky stuff store located in Seattle!

We focus on indie comics from small press to Image, art from local artists, and work by marginalized creators. 🧵

thanks to Outsider Comics for getting my art book in stock! The store is located in Seattle, U.SA.

outsidercomics.com

Check out the Vancouver and BC-based exhibitors at the Vancouver Art Book Fair 2025! This year's fair will showcase an incredible range of local talent, including artists, galleries, and independent publishers.

🔗 Full exhibitor list and program details at www.vabf.ca

If you liked VanCaf in Vancouver, BC. Raincity Comic Con will be replacing it this year at the same location.

Come on out next week, May 24th, for this one day event. It looks like most of the same artists will be there.

raincitycomicon.com

Mythic Texture, my Black Fantasy Art book, is an imaginative visual story about mythic beings - world creators & destroyers. Travellers & tricksters.

Order from any bookstore - Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Waterstones, Indigo, your local seller.

Order it to your local library! ISBN 1738840638

Pretty art
@mythictexture.bsky.social @akemiart.bsky.social
#art #artbook #pretty

Ryan Coogler’s ‘SINNERS’ is outperforming almost every single horror movie from the past decade, earning $71M domestically already.

Projected to pass $100M domestic by Sunday.

Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF

let’s help a young entrepreneur with an incredible hair design invention.

she’s got about 18 days left and is about half way to her goal for her hair puffs and jewelry! (link is in the first response) #fashionsky #hairsky

Vancouver's Comic Festival

www.vancaf.org

Mythic Texture, my Black Fantasy Art book, is an imaginative visual story about mythic beings - world creators & destroyers. Travellers & tricksters.

Order from any bookstore - Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Waterstones, Indigo, your local seller.

Order it to your local library! ISBN 1738840638

'Ne Zha 2' opens today in the U.S. and is looking at a strong 5th place launch. Early projections have it at $6.5 million over the four-day President's Day weekend.

Stay tuned to Cartoon Brew for ongoing updates on the record-setting film:

The Lovers are the avatars of embrace, communal care, and pleasure as resistance. Sculpted from the land and rising from the waters, The Lovers ask us when is it time to offer support and when is it time to surrender to care.

↑ Devotion, Reciprocation
❂ Oshun, Ala, Idemmili
↓ Individualism, Neglect

Thanks 🙏 to those folks that have bought my book so far.

Please don’t forget to leave a review on Amazon, etc or post here if you have!

Follow me @mythictexture.bsky.social too as that’s a dedicated space for my books.

SFWA is taking applications for the next round of our three-month-long Career Mentorship Program! Mentorships help writers tackle the tough questions of growing their career. We seek both mentors and mentees. Non-members welcome! Learn more here: www.sfwa.org/other-resour...

I have overhauled my cornerstone article/handout on key book publishing paths. For the last 10 years, it's been 1 page. Now it's 2 pages. It better covers the finer distinctions writers now encounter in the market. Free to use/share/distribute, no permission required. Link below.

Gallery Nucleus will be closed to the public for A Night with Louie and Friends Concert from 4pm-7:30pm!

One thing I like about Witch Hat Atelier, is that it connects to the experience of being a creative.

Here I am, churning out bits of this and that, that doesn't work with the vision I want for my books & being frustrated.

From another person's perspective though...