For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button.

See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
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If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.

I'm happy to say my story "Chasing the Sky Whale" is in this issue! I wrote the story when I was grieving for my grandma, so it is full of grief. I'm glad it found such good company here

“Birds of Fortune” by @KelHuttonAuthor from @zooscape_zine, “Diary of a High School Necromancer” by @spencerorey (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5e2sf7uxzgobiani5spnsaee" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@spencerorey.bsky.social) from Worlds of Possibility, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social -

wow wow check it out! my "Diary of a High School Necromancer" story got an incredible review by @cypayseur.bsky.social in @locusmag.bsky.social

this is so wonderful! thank you!

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The second Worlds of Possibility Anthology is alllllll poetry, and you can get the ebook free through August 20th! www.juliarios.com/worlds-of-po...

I'm glad the museum isn't too badly damaged! It's such a treasure of a place

–BUT I have also vowed to resist the devaluation of art with every fiber of my being. So. Please support your favorite human creators, and support nonprofits that support the arts, including @reckoningmag.bsky.social, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and @strangehorizons.bsky.social

It came to my attention that a very prestigious magazine posted my collection, Different Kinds of Defiance, as an example of having used AI for its cover art. First of all, any tools that point this are not foolproof and have a lot of false positives, as any illustrator can check with their own art.

Got a novella under 30,000 words? I'll offer detailed developmental edits on it for a flat $300 if you book with me today.

Where are my #zine freaks at? We now have the ZINE FREAK BUNDLE in our store. It's $3 cheaper than buying all of our bundles separately, and you get all 15 of our horror and Weird fiction zines shipped to you. Tons of great stuff in here. Check it out!
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Here's a link to the podcast:

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My evil mermaid story "A Poison of Bodies Beneath the Water" is back! It's in the latest episode of the Flame Tree Myth and Fiction podcast "Strange Stories of the Sea"

It was my first published story! Now it's also my first story in audio. It's really cool to hear something of mine narrated. wow

BCS is dropping opening lines to their stories in a thread (and links to the stories) if you wanna see some top tier openers and read some cool tales

And when i say "if" i mean get in there and read!!

my "Diary of a High School Necromancer" story is part of this amazing double issue! I'm so excited
for all these stories and poems. And the covers are gorgeous

I love all my stories, but THIS one is my favorite of the stories I've written so far. If you read any of my stories, I hope it's this one. And I hope you love it . Thank you to everyone who's critiqued it or read it or just listened to me joke about necromancers before

a version of this story helped me get into the life-changing Odyssey Writing Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social

I revised it over and over since then as I improved my craft. but I remember how talking about the story was the first time I felt I might actually be able to do this writing thing

here's the link! I'm grateful to have the story appear in such a dream magazine and among such incredible company

www.juliarios.com/introducing-...

my story "Diary of a High School Necromancer" is out today in Worlds of Possibility! this is a story ripped from my heart, a voicey epistolary YA heartbroken necromancer story with many bones and jokes and goo and heartbreak and also many more bones! link below, followed by more grateful gushing

Found your book in Copenhagen @mhayinde.bsky.social! Yay!

Yes, awesome earrings! Happy release day!!

my latest story "When You Lose the Race, Death Takes Your Bones" is out in the April issue of Sally Port Magazine! It's about skeletons who drive cars made out of their own bones in high stakes downhill races against Death. It is ridiculous and emotional and one of my favorite stories. Link below

Curious what our previous zine bundles have looked like? Want to nail down my editorial preferences before you write something? Or just want to read some damn good stories?

Snag a free digital copy of our second zine bundle here and see what it's all about: dl.bookfunnel.com/mk8nnv897b