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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Coming in VERY late for Pride Month since I haven't been on BlueSky since mid-May but I am, after all, lesbian all year round! And here's a fantastic selection of queer books in every color of the rainbow if you're planning to read queer all year.

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

hello world, today my laptop updated Windows to put in a ton of new AI garbage stuff and I learned from google how to un-update Windows.

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

If you're interested in postcolonial Christianity that is queer-embracing, critiques settler colonialism, and challenges patriarchal hegemony, did you know that Kwok Pui Lan has a weekly Substack? open.substack.com/pub/kwokpuil...

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A Year Writing Substack

What I have learned after publishing 52 newsletters

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Things I did because I was so tired this morning (so far) Open the car trunk instead of gas cap Drive away with the gas tank open Put my shirt on inside out and go out in public thus attired Daylight savings I hate youuuuu

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Look what is waiting for me in the library 🤗

Title of the book I requested thru ILL, Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It appears I may have accidentally written a cozy-adjacent book, so I had to investigate! 📚🏳️‍🌈 snowjc.substack.com/p/what-even-...

Three books on a green blanket, with the banner Cozy!: The keeper of magical things, can't spell treason without tea, and legends & lattes

One book on a green blanket, with the banner ...cozy?: The Seaglass Blade

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

My derpy friend Pacific lumpsucker says hi (and also my January newsletter is out)! open.substack.com/pub/snowjc/p...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

One year ago today, brutal and racist Border Patrol raids began in Kern County, CA. They hunted down farm workers, violently detaining our union members and terrorizing our communities. This began a year of deadly force across the US that continues today. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Farm workers remember anniversary of racist Border Patrol raid in Kern County

Kern County, CA — A year ago today, beginning in the early morning hours of January 7th, 2025, a 4-day raid by Border Patrol agents from the El Centro Sector unfolded across Kern County. Without warra...

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I am so sad that my Mandarin class was cancelled for lack of registration (other than me) and now my afternoon is taking down the Christmas decorations 😭

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The Seaglass Blade is now up for requests on Netgalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Book cover for The Seaglass Blade, with text A queer epic fantasy: sapphic lovers defending their home at the end of the world. On netgalley for a limited time!

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Arrived in RDU from SFO last night thru roughest turbulence i've experienced 😭 if there are any airplane experts here, what is going on when it feels like the plane is being tossed around, and there is a loud roaring noise? Are the pilots gunning engines or is that the wind?

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

2025, don't let the door hit you on the way out (but it wasn't ALL bad...) snowjc.substack.com/p/2025-farew...

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2025, Farewell! Writing Year in Review

It was the worst of times, and a few best of times too

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Bookmail! The paperback print proof of The Seaglass Blade arrived and it is _gorgeous_ 🥰

Cover of The Seaglass Blade by JC Snow: print proof ready to order for Kickstarter backers!

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Finished the last full edit round of the sapphic epic fantasy book I'm planning to query, and good god I love my musician and mathematician who fight through every kind of betrayal to stand against the world.

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Did you know that Baskin Robbins makes aice cream cake shaped like a turkey and it is delicious but also kind of weird 😅

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Obviously I would use magic and my girlfriend would have a sword, the most practical and problem solving option 🙂‍↕️

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Old style proofreading: the final frontier 🙃 It is really worth doing this even though I've gone over this mss so many times already. A few punctuation things, a few typos, and occasional unnecessary sentences or unclear dialogue tags add up!

A page of The Seaglass Blade, with a typo circled in red ink.

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Okay, okay, I give in, it’s 2025 awards eligibility time! I still have December stories coming, which means I cannot yet bring myself to make an extra-fancy graphic or a full long thread, but… until then, I hope you’ll consider reading some of my stories! Will link a couple favorites in the 🧵 (1/4)

Over a blurry background in shades of pink and purple and blue, white text reads:

Awards Eligibility
M.R. Robinson

Lucinda Espinosa's Twenty-Seventh Death
Fusion Fragment, February 2025 (sci-fi, 4900 words)

Handsomest Gentlest
Haven Speculative, March 2025 (fantasy, 2100 words)

Erysichthon's Daughter
Small Wonders, March 2025 (fantasy, 1000 words)

A Recipe for the Day Alban Kills the King
Orion's Belt, June 2025 (fantasy, 790 words)

Even smaller text at the very bottom reads: "There's no way it is November, you guys are stressing me out."

Over a blurry background in shades of pink and purple and blue, white text reads:

Awards Eligibility
M.R. Robinson

The Hag of Beinn Nibheis
Flash Fiction Online, January 2025 (fantasy, 970 words)

Hound, Hart, Crow, Queen
Flame Tree Press, March 2025 (fantasy, 3900 words)

A Runaway Android's Guide to the Oro-Ti Night Market
Small Wonders, June 2025 (sci-fi, 1000 words)

Astounding Award for Best New Writer
Year Two of Eligibility

Even smaller text at the very bottom reads: "And a couple more in December... I'm gonna have to redo this, huh."

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This is literally my book 😅

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I am so eager to get out there and ruin some workplaces!

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Stretch goal 4 unlocked: all Kickstarter backers get all the digital art! One week left to back The Seaglass Blade www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Supermoon over soccer practice

Moon through trees in an urban night sky, shining on metal bleachers.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I made a video to promote this In Defense of Romance panel I'm moderating on 11/22, 2pm, @ B&N Perimeter in ATL w/ @runwithskizzers.bsky.social @julianwinters.bsky.social @delilahsdawson.bsky.social @vanessariley.com We will have free stuff! We'll have a REC LIST & you can buy all the books!

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Job hunting with a doctorate in the humanities and excitement about human connection, creativity, and community 🙃

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I'm going with one of my recent favorite reads and calling out Haera from The Woman from the Waves, @writingroslyn.bsky.social ! Haera's an each-uisge, a sea-horse, who takes human forms for reasons...

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I am so honored that @blog.readindiefantasy.com featured a review of The Seaglass Blade to kick off their November reading event, A Month of Rain and Reads! #AMoRaR

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Yes on 50, Californians! Get those ballots in!

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Late as usual: oh there was a baseball game?

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The derpiest of pumpkins wishes you a happy halloween (courtesy of the cutest kid and his artistic vision)

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The Seaglass Blade was just chosen as a Project We Love on Kickstarter! Thanks KS! And we are at 299% funded and one more backer will get us to the second stretch goal! Thanks to all of you 💕 www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I don't have any scary stories to share for Halloween, but I do have a ghost story! "Handsomest Gentlest" is about the flaming-eyed fiend who stalks the forest of the dead. It's also a story about a boy and his dog. I have been told that it might make you sad. 🖤 www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...

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Handsomest Gentlest by M. R. Robinson, Haven Spec Magazine

Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Pradyutita is at $0.99 for a limited time! #queerwriters 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 Low fantasy novel, 1st in a complete series 💙Retelling of Hindu epic 💙Dark and gritty 💙Morally grey characters 💙SPFBO 6 semi finalist 💙Indie Ink Awards 2024 finalist 💙Political intrigue

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He was meant to die, but he survived, but how will it impact the world?

In Hastinapura, Atiratha and Radha find a baby floating in the river. In the palace, the impotent King Pandu is forced to abdicate the throne while his bastard half brother Vidura conspires with his queen...

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Check out this beautiful Yisue and Majen character art, by @monafinden.bsky.social ! This scene remained through so many revisions of The Seaglass Blade, and all Kickstarter backers will receive a digital copy as the next stretch goal ($1800 or 45 backers)! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

Two young men sit on a beach after a storm. Majen (with dark hair) offers a small white flower to Yisue (with long white hair). Art by Mona Finden.

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Seaglass Blade queer epic fantasy kickstarter launched this morning and hit its initial funding goal in 10 minutes! 🥰 We have unlocked the first stretch goal and I hope we'll reach stretch goal 2 soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

Book Cover for The Seaglass Blade, by JC Snow

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Think I will launch a kickstarter tomorrow

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

On Intersex Awareness Day, a shout out and gratitude to Small Luk, intersex human rights activist from Hong Kong. I was lucky enough to have time with her and to hear her story a couple of years ago, and I'll never forget it.

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Public service announcement from CA Attorney General

The following resources are not intended as legal advice.
If you see Official Federal Immigration Officers, you may call Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership (ACILEP) at (510) 241-
4011.

State agencies and trusted organizations have provided the following guidance:
• RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT - You do not have to answer questions about your status or birthplace.
• DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR - Unless they present an arrest warrant naming someone at the residence or a search warrant describing the area to be searched, and the warrant is signed by a judge.
• DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING - Never sign documents without consulting an attorney. It may affect your rights.
• DO NOT PROVIDE FALSE INFORMATION - Never falsify documents or misrepresent your citizenship status.
• SEEK LEGAL HELP - Contact an attorney or a trusted organization more assistance.

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This is all, this is the post

A handwritten sign saying "protect democracy"

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Line edits done! Four colored pens gave it their all for this moment.

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Happy National Coming Out Day from a lesbian and her Scorpio and some incredibly cute Icelandic sheep 🏳️‍🌈

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Hi, it’s me, the big baby who had to hide in the movie theatre bathroom for twenty minutes during the last Alien movie, I guarantee this will be the funniest day of your life and arguably one of the worst days of mine. Tell a friend about OTHERSIDE! Tell two friends, if you really hate me.

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

It takes a lot to set up a kickstarter and I spent all day today working on rewards and shipping estimates but look! I have a new banner! Ten minutes collapsed on couch before picking up kid now 🎉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

Kickstarter banner for The Seaglass Blade

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

If you are looking for the shyest and most earnest sword lesbian ever, I give you Aili Fallon :) And if you want to see her in action, the first chapters of The Seaglass Blade are now available on my website! jcsnow.com/writing/the-... thanks to @rebiesque.bsky.social for the art! 🏳️‍🌈📚

Character art of Aili Fallon (The Seaglass Blade): a white woman with short blonde hair, wearing blue and black cultivation robes, holding a sword angled across her shoulders in a martial arts pose.

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Vineya's a mathematical genius, designing the spellmap that binds the magical defensive border of her nation into a human body. And somehow, she must help the condemned woman she can’t risk loving carve the spell into her own skin - even as the map spawns monsters. #DVpit #f #a #LGBT

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