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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

random thought incoming but can we talk about the feel good endorphins that come every time someone uses he/him or masc terms to refer to me? 👉👈

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i'm just saying, it would be really cool if...(ethical) 🌽 production companies picked them up instead and created a hybrid of sorts (too much plot to be standard 🌽 , but...too much 🌽 to be anything else) 👀 😇

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unhinged idea of the day but you know how many of us write too many kinks and high heat for our books to ever be picked up for anything mainstream?

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Choosing violence again but…romance is only formulaic if you want it to be. Especially if your goal is to keep reproducing heteronormative and patriarchal and white supremacist values (or if you haven't examined them so, even if not your conscious intent, it's what you end up doing)

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

yeah sadly i noticed pretty quickly and by then i was already flooded 😭

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WIP. i probably would've waited if i knew this would be the post that reached more than 3 people on BlueSky 😂

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sure, feel free to send them my way

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

no references yet! this is very early stages, but i wanted to get an idea of what my options could look like as for the covers, i think more folklore/mythology, but i'm not opposed to character-focused if the vibe is right for the story (which...i will know once i've got everything more locked in)

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...you can clearly tell that i don't spend that much time on BlueSky because i hadn't realized my DMs were turned off until today. although that explains why i hadn't been getting any in a while. but they should be open now 😅

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

please send it! i hadn't realized my DM settings had changed (although that explains why i haven't been getting any in a while) 😅😅

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

just followed back! sorry, my posts here barely get any reach, so i wasn't expecting all the replies, and i might be drowning a bit trying to respond/follow everyone 😅😅 but feel free to DM/reach out 🩷

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i'd love to see your typography work for sure. you can DM me if that's easier, but i think i should've clarified, this is not something i'm ready to start commissioning/working on right this second

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not sure how much i can share about it at the moment, but feel free to ask! (just followed you back) 🥰

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing written yet, just some plotting so far, but i'll keep this in mind as i get deeper into the lore 🫶

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

hi! i'd need a full cover layout, yes 🩷

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i haven't fully made up my mind. personally i think i lean more toward painterly and/or typography/object covers? but i'm open to illustrated too if i connect with the style and it works with the overall vibe

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

yes, but for now that's on a need-to-know basis. it's going to be a long series, each book centered around 1 or 2 different mythological beings (some books are myth x human while others are myth x myth), with an overarching arc

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

yes!!! so long as you don't use AI, please share your portfolio/anything you have 🫶

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i love your book covers, thank you so much for sharing!! 🫶 i don't have specifics right now, but it would be a long series (11-12 books total), each centered around different folklore/mythological beings, with an overarching arc

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thank you so much for sharing!! i don't have specifics right now, but i'm also impatient, so i wanted to get some options/inspo before i start actually narrowing down the specific vibe i'm going for 🩷

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thank you so much for sharing!! to be honest, i'm not quite sure yet. i've got a rough idea for the series and i've been plotting some of the books already, but i have to figure out what the exact vibe is, and what the genre expectations for it will be i'm just impatient and like to have options 😅

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

...my brain completely forgot the fact that saving posts was an option here

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And that best-selling authors want to discuss craft with any author they come across. And that editors and literary agents working for the Big 5 don't have company email addresses.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm begging BlueSky to set up some kind of notification for DM requests because i always forget to check and by the time i remember, i've had shit sitting there for 11 months, or the accounts have been deleted 😭

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

* No AI whatsoever allowed * I'll be happy to set it up and mod, but only if there's enough interest (so, share this with friends and engage with it so i can reach out to you if i end up doing it!)

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In light of seeing another post, I’ve been toying for a while with the idea of setting up a Discord for bookish trades (because fuck capitalism), but would that be something enough people would be interested in?

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Right?? I’m so fucking done with the corporate world being so desperate because they need their investments into AI to go somewhere

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm mostly talking about (a) attitude and (b) the very very very obvious cases; because it really is on us to not coddle ourselves and to learn some basics about the industries we work in/with.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can we still be scammed and fall for bad actors? Absolutely, 100%. Are some of them really good and hard to spot? Yes, no doubt. I've had to double check more than once at times, and the feeling SUCKS.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This isn’t going to get me any friends, and I’m sorry, but fellow AUTHORS, this deep into the genAI fuckery, it really is on us to learn some accountability, AND AI literacy Because the majority of cases I see here? Spotting your “artist” was using AI was incredibly easy and obvious

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also D2D: AI narrators are the best thing ever and here’s an email with a Spotify offer because, as many of you clocked back then, our issue was never AI slop to begin with!! ✨

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

D2D: we’re adding yearly fees and more (annoying) internal shit that doesn’t even work right half of the time because we’re fighting AI slop flooding our systems 🙂‍↕️

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I first wrote it as a more specific issue (how a lot of the bookish space treats queer men) but i realized it fits more than that, so i'm leaving it vague

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

All i'm going to say is that it's extremely weird to write about a demographic you don't belong to, and be...proud (?) of your bad behavior toward that demographic, or the fact that they don't feel safe around you

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hi! I suspect my latest trial reel (which IG is showing to followers for some reason) is making me lose followers, and it might be because i mention writing for the commies So if you're a commie or vibe with us and you want a book about k/nky activists coming November, you should follow me

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But every voice speaking up about the genocide is a good thing, and I need you all to see the whole picture and realize this.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are there authors who only talk about it when there's a lot of discourse around it? Sure. Are there some I would never associate with because they've played both sides too many times for my personal comfort? Sure.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Am I louder about it when something happens (like this whole thing with Sheeran and Kraft)? Obviously. When a wave comes your way, you ride it to boost the message you want more eyes on. That doesn't mean I don't talk about all these issues the rest of the year.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The first protest I ever went to was a pro Palestine march in October 2015. I have always been politically active, loud about it, and I have always spoken up about Palestine. And many other issues.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are there people in activism and groups who are mostly there for clout? Yes, 100%, it's an issue discussed plenty in those spaces. Does that mean you can't utilize them? Nope. But, in this context, what makes you think that author is speaking up "for clout"?

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Specifically, ask yourself this: what's the end goal of such a statement? who does it benefit? The only thing that comes out of it is that people with a following/audience don't speak up. And who does it benefit? Surprise. The genocidal state, who THRIVES on people staying silent.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Authors just say Free Palestine for clout, it's cringe" I actually need you all to realize that this kind of messaging screams of psyop, and to use your critical thinking skills.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The energy against Ed Sheeran? Against Pink? It needs to be there for every creator (singer, author, actor) who sides with genocidal states. Because it makes a difference. Because, yes, they hold power. Because, at the very least, it sends a real message.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm tired that every time something happens, I end up stumbling upon another author or creator to check off my list. 80+ and counting Zionist authors of queer romance is depressing as fuck (but also why i keep shouting about it)

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Free Palestine. From the river to the sea. Everything is political. Silence only benefits the oppressor.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So why all this insistence from other authors on (among other things) always playing nice and never ever ever call out bad actors or treat everyone like a fucking transaction?

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This isn't going to win anyone over but sometimes i really hate how much of "corporate culture" queer self-publishing insists on. Sure, publishing is a business, but queerness is also about fighting the concept of said business and how it works.

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Emily Alter @emilyalter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm sorry but refusing to use polyam is a red flag 🚩 Also a red flag? If your only polyam books are closed triads, even more so if they behave exactly the same as monogamous couples. Also a red flag? If you only refer to them as throuples and not triads 🤷

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