Reposted by Casey BanksJohn Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/ 451171524
Reposted by Casey BanksJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115982877
Reposted by Casey BanksCody Vrosh @codyvrosh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Hello my friends! I'll be at Crocker Con tomorrow hosted at the Crocker Art Museum. This is a fantastic show filled with local artists and creators at a lovely museum, and it's free to attend. Come out and say hi! www.crockerart.org/crockercon 084
Reposted by Casey BanksMark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @ajmacadam.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of the newest season of "In the Dark." Plus @alexanderchee.bsky.social on Annie Dillard, and @mdbell79.bsky.social on sequences in storytelling. niemanstoryboard.org/2026/09/18/h...niemanstoryboard.orgHow a magazine story becomes a podcast - Nieman StoryboardPlus: Remembering Annie Dillard, and the National Book Awards announces its longlist for nonfiction 2169
Reposted by Casey BanksMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If you genuinely believe that libraries negatively impact book sales, I don't even know what to say to you. 39811129
Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I finished reading the best book that I’ve read in a long time. Great writing, great characters, and plot but the more i think about the premise the more frustrated I’m getting. 101
Reposted by Casey BanksCat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Please share if you know someone who might be interested! New class this September on using theme in your descriptions. www.patreon.com/catrambo/pos...patreon.comUpcoming Class: Establishing, Underscoring, and Utilizing Theme in Descriptions | Cat RamboWhen: September 27, 1-3 PM Eastern time. What: One of the marks a writer must shoot for is description that works with a story’s theme, est 0114
Reposted by Casey BanksShapeless Ink (but spooky) @shapelessink.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Finally got to touching up probably the most popular doodle I've ever done, lmao. Wonder if this would work as a bookmark? 4427991131
Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I watched Predator (1987) for the first time (I’m thinking about using it as a comp to pitch a short scifi I’m writing - Predator x high school prom), and it holds up really well. There’s also a lot more explosions than I anticipated. Like the budget was 80% explosions. 230
Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026If I’m following you, it’s because I like your writing, I like your art, I like your humor, or all of the above. I’m not a social media person so I’m not online much, but I’ll do my best to occasionally post about interesting things! 0130
Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I’m reading Sense and Sensibility and I forgot how engaging Jane Austin’s prose are! 100
Reposted by Casey BanksApex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/... 210997
Reposted by Casey BanksEdmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026There are many ways to improve your life: - read books - be kind - read more books - rest - read so many books that an ancient power of undying fire ignites deep in your eyes - hydrate - read more books 8310112
Reposted by Casey BanksMartha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/06/2026I was interviewed about Sanctuary Moon and other fake TV shows on TubeTalk: www.tubetalk.media/p/murderbot-...tubetalk.mediaThe Show Within the ShowMurderbot's Sanctuary Moon is one of the best shows-in-a-show out there. I talked with Martha Wells about her creation. 1560787
Reposted by Casey BanksJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Write something that sets you free. 314951
Reposted by Casey BanksChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 16/05/2026good practical reflection for artists who feel like whatever theyre making just isnt working is the sit down and VERY HONESTLY ask yourself: what is the gift here? it can be a lot of things. what am i giving to myself? to the world? what feeling? what expression? art that resonates is art that GIVES 3436110
Reposted by Casey BanksJeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last. www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je... bookshop.org/p/books/bedf... 4110110
Reposted by Casey BanksT. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Updated. Pros and cons to making this by hand on the back of a recycled Stir flyer, but I’m nothing if not committed to making things stupidly difficult for myself for the sake of largely meaningless ideals 172
Reposted by Casey BanksAlexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 12/05/2026THE WISDOM OF EMPERORS kickstarter passed $70,000 yesterday, so as per the "Please Don't Do This To Me" stretch goal, I have filmed a Melodramatic Video Bemoaning My Fate. Why do good things happen to people who are just okay? 🥺 www.instagram.com/reel/DYP4E54... #queersff #queeradultSFF 🩵📚🪐instagram.comAlexandra Rowland ✨ Bookstagram on Instagram: "If you are mystified by this: the Kickstarter for my fantasy book, THE WISDOM OF EMPERORS, had a stretch goal called "Please Don't Do This" and the promi...97 likes, 17 comments - _alexrowland on May 12, 2026: "If you are mystified by this: the Kickstarter for my fantasy book, THE WISDOM OF EMPERORS, had a stretch goal called "Please Don't Do This" and t... 02810
Reposted by Casey BanksRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20/07/2024People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup 913586944
Reposted by Casey BanksT. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 08/05/2026So excited to share this story from my collection with you! This was published with permission from @stelliform.press as a promotion for my debut solarpunk collection, The Wildcraft Drones, which probably wouldn’t exist without @torystephens.bsky.social & @grist.org 💚 The book comes out May 21! 11711
Reposted by Casey BanksBrown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026We are open to submissions! Seeking short stories 1,000-3,000 words. We pay $25 per story. Full details at www.brownhoundpress.com/submit. 12314
Reposted by Casey BanksSL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com · 23/04/2026Did you know - your library hold can easily nudge a library to order more books! At my local library, THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS had 1 e-copy the morning of release day. 40 people in line. By end of day they'd ordered 5 more copies & the audiobook Libraries rule & your holds legit increase our sales 🥰 7343130
Reposted by Casey BanksVanessa Armstrong @vanessa-armstrong.com · 20/04/2026Woohoo! Someone just became a Tube Talker! Want weird history, offbeat TV, and/or other fun stuff delivered weekly to your inbox? Join us! www.tubetalk.media/subscribe 011
Reposted by Casey BanksTess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/04/2026I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue. 3745141764
Reposted by Casey BanksThomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 02/04/2026People keep asking me if I use AI to make writing easier. And I keep telling them: I do not want it to be easier. Whenever I have done any good work, it's because I either thought about it a LOT or I have inadvertently spent ten years thinking about it so it comes easy. The thinking is the point. 827371
Reposted by Casey BanksT. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Once again if you are not currently following @shingai-be-like.bsky.social , do so now 078
Reposted by Casey BanksMolly White @molly.wiki · 30/01/2026I’ve launched a Citation Needed membership drive to celebrate publishing my 100th recap issue! Citation Needed critically covers cryptocurrency, the crypto industry, and its influence on policy. Paid subscriptions support much more than just the newsletter — here’s what goes into this work:citationneeded.newsCitation Needed membership driveCelebrating 100 recap issues and sustaining critical independent coverage. 19411130
Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026(Walk into mail room. Notice the name tag on mailbox cubby is gone) Normal, well adjusted person: oh yeah, we’ve got a couple new hires coming in. I probably got assigned a new cubby to make room. Yep, there it is two rows down. 230
Reposted by Casey BanksLocus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Preorder THE WILDCRAFT DRONES, where T.K. Rex imagines the co-evolution of AI, climate collapse and rewilding in fourteen bold stories www.stellifor... 02310
Reposted by Casey Banks✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 17/01/2026The #WIPSnips word for January 17th is "gold" #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity 2210914
Reposted by Casey BanksAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Bay Area! Next Thursday I'll be reading at Stir, at Cafe Suspiro in San Francisco! 6pm! With fabulous writers! Join us for a great night of community and books. cafesuspiro.com/pages/stir-a... 03512
Reposted by Casey BanksT. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Ok one thing I really love about this book cover is how profoundly bisexual it is 2163
Reposted by Casey BanksT. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Eligibility post in case you missed it! More on each in my newsletter: buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv... 051
Reposted by Casey BanksValerie Sirenko @valeriesirenko.bsky.social · 10/01/2026For anyone writing short fiction and hoping to get published, if you're not already using SUBMISSION GRINDER, it's pretty much going to change your life. share.google/6mKznpItVubP... 084
Reposted by Casey Bankssaba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 10/01/2026i made a guide on how to write, draw, and print a doujinshi/fanzine/whatever you want to call it. this is a crash course on literally everything i know about making doujinshi. it's over 40 pages long. i hope you like it. docs.google.com/document/d/1... 6736241733
Reposted by Casey BanksPyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 08/01/2026What a great piece by Cory Doctorow on writing and education and AI use among students. This struck a clear bell: 0105
Reposted by Casey BanksJ.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026If I for some reason ever pass And they try to make my wife a roommate Or a shadow in my life Let it be known she was my heart. She was my everything. Not a shadow But the whole sun. 018142
Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Thinking about the time I spite read Gone With the Wind when I was 12 because my 7th grade English teacher said I probably wouldn’t be able to. The absolute glee that woman kept to herself knowing she successfully tricked me into knowledge. 010
Reposted by Casey BanksAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/12/2025This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot. 291606409
Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Poets are incredible. No other person on earth can say ‘I woke up this morning and fell in love with a dead mouse’ without looking like a manic. A poet writes it and its the most beautiful thing I’ve read all day. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...poetryfoundation.orgThe Poetry FoundationPoems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. 111
Reposted by Casey BanksChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.terribleminds.comMy Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And PublishingThe tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a… 651269422
Reposted by Casey BanksNew Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Hell yeah @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social coediting! 1148
Reposted by Casey BanksRae Loverde @raeloverde.bsky.social · 31/10/2024STOP open a blank doc/notebook write down every single indulgent, melodramatic, cliché, "I will buy a book with this thing every time" trope that you're a sucker for guess what if you can do it well you can do it WRITE what YOU want to READ, friends eat your damn dessert 21996165
Casey Banks @caseybanks.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Hooray! This collection has so many stories that I love. It’s impossible to have only one favorite. 131
Reposted by Casey BanksT. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The pre-order page for my debut solarpunk collection, The Wildcraft Drones, is now live @stelliform.press !! www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...stelliform.pressThe Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex ⋆ Stelliform PressRead about short story collection THE WILDCRAFT DRONES by T. K. Rex, linked stories about the evolution of sentient drones and a transformed humanity. 35130
Reposted by Casey BanksN. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I'll be doing an online workshop on character creation and development for Blue Stoop on December 7th! Interested? Register and pay here: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...bluestoop.orgFinding the Heart of Your Story, a masterclass with N.K. Jemisin — Blue StoopBuilding a character is building a world of one; defining them, shaping them, and changing them is what a story is for. In this craft-first virtual masterclass, award winning author N. K. Jemisin will... 226286