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@lilianzenzi.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🪐🦄🪴💖 Writes stories for queer nerds with big hearts and the people who love them. Now living in Ireland. Newsletter sign up: www.lilianzenzi.com

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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
🌈📚 Our Own Ghosts Among Us: Trauma, Vengeance, & Real Connection in R.M. Olson's The Dark Between Stars series. The latest in my Writers Chat Deep Craft interview series, where I get to talk about R.M. Olson's space ghosts, which are one of my favorite sci fi concepts ever. vist.ly/4zv5i
White title text, centered at top of image: Writers Chat Deep Craft Below it, in white text on left: R.M. Olson. Cover image for Inhuman, center right. Background is a bright blue and green gradient with pale imagery of hands and a pen nib.Background is a bright blue and green gradient with pale imagery of hands and a pen nib. White text, centered: I very deliberately wanted the ghosts to portray both the crushing unfairness of the societal consequences of abuse falling on the person who was abused rather than on the abuser, and also a way (albeit a desperate one) for the people who were victimized and made powerless to society to take back a little power and make the people who hurt them afraid.White title text, centered at top of image: Writers Chat Deep Craft. Our Own Ghosts Among Us: Trauma, Vengeance, and Real Connection in R.M. Olson's The Dark Between Stars series. Background is a bright blue and green gradient with pale imagery of hands and a pen nib.
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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Soooo we're prioritizing indie authors and books during the Trans Rights Readathon, right? Right?!
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I'm going to be thinking about stories as solar systems with their own gravitational forces for a long time. New Writers Chat Deep Craft with Leslie Allen, author of The Revenge of Captain Vessia. vist.ly/4vpki
White text, centered: "There's these big planets of story moments that define everything around them. Gravity pulling at the characters and story to the inevitable mass of a particular action, reaction..." Background is a bright blue and green gradient with pale imagery of hands and a pen nib.White title text, centered at top of image: Writers Chat Deep Craft Below it, in white text on left: Stories Like Solar Systems: Plot as Theme, the Cost of Vengeance, and the Moments We Live For in Leslie Allen's The Revenge of Captain Vessia. Background is a bright blue and green gradient with pale imagery of hands and a pen nib.White title text, centered at top of image: Writers Chat Deep Craft Below it, in white text on left: Leslie Allen. On the right, the book cover for The Revenge of Captain Vessel, featuring the main character seated at a desk in candlelight, sword hanging from her chair. Background is a bright blue and green gradient with pale imagery of hands and a pen nib.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
New Writers Chat Deep Craft is up! This month's chat is with Atlas Laika, author @mouseyatlas of Aurethia Rising. Post is on my website: vist.ly/4rev2
White title text, centered at top of image: Writers Chat Deep Craft
Below it, in white text, centered: "What is sci-fi if it isn't in conversation with who we are today, you know?" Background is a bright blue and green gradient with pale imagery of hands and a pen nib.White title text, centered at top of image: Writers Chat Deep Craft
Below it, in white text, centered: Examining the Past to Create Transcendent Futures: Worldbuilding, Vision, and Villainy in Atlas Laika's Aurethia Rising.
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Below it, in white text on left: Atlas Laika. On the right, the book cover for Aurethia Rising, featuring a painted image of two characters in an embrace.
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
Wall Street Journal headlines that says Companies Are Desperately Seeking ‘Storytellers’
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
November's Writers Chat Deep Craft: MJ James's Inside a Dark Space. "I want people to enjoy my books, but I write them because there is something that I need to say. I write them so people know they aren't alone." 🌈📚 www.lilianzenzi.com/dont-let-the-f-…
Background is light blue to light green gradient of abstract images with hands touching in the lower corner. White text in center says, "I want people to enjoy my books, but I write them because there is something that I need to say. I write them so that people know they aren't alone."White title text: Writers Chat Deep Craft. Center bottom: MJ James in white text. On lower right: book cover for Inside a Dark Space, which is black and white with a moonscape and vehicle. Background is light blue to light green gradient of abstract images with hands touching in the lower corner.Background is blue green wash over abstract collage. White text: Writers Chat Deep Craft
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's newsletter Friday! This month: a brief intro to Ghost, my newsletter and website provider, links to my free novellas, a snippet from the new Writers Chat Deep Craft with MJ James discussing INSIDE A DARK SPACE, and some monthly promos courtesy of Bookfunnel. vist.ly/4ffb9 to subscribe.
White text: November 2025 Newsletter. Welcome & Freebies, Writers Chat Deep Craft #3: MJ James's INSIDE A DARK SPACE, Monthly Promotions. www.lilianzenzi.com

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives. If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Next up on Writers Chat Deep Craft: Don't Let the F*ckers Win: Portraying Resilience and Resistance through Identity, Connection, and Community. MJ James talks with me about resistance and communty in Inside a Dark Space. (Check out their Kickstarter to fund the sequel!) @mjjames
Background is light blue to light green gradient of abstract images with hands touching in the lower corner. MJ James in larger white text at top left with black and white book cover for Inside a Dark Space on the right. White text on bottom says "Don't Let the Fuckers Win: Portraying Resilience and Resistance through Identity, Connection, and Community."
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The first lines from each of the Synchronists titles so far. The Stars Provide is a prequel novella available for free to newsletter subscribers. Spark and Tether and Flare and Bind are available most places online. 🌈📚 #queeradultsff
Gold title text: First Lines. Cover for The Stars Provide on center left. White text on right reads, "That one was going to need someone to look after him, Paradis thought. He was too open, too inviting; everyone who passed by him was met with a genuine smile and gentle greeting. The others seemed to avoid him, but whether it was the Bolisian beads on his arms or the too-friendly bearing or something else, she couldn't tell from across the the room. She hoped, for his sake, that he would learn restraint." Background is 4up collage of abstract images with electric bright colors on dark backgrounds.Gold text on top: First Lines. The cover for Spark and Tether is on the center left. Background is black with electric purple spark and lightning across center. White text reads: 
Sacheri woke with a shiver in his nerves tracing his limbs like a lit fuse.
His synplants drew his awareness out into the station, into the whisper of leaves and the low hum of the machines, endlessly seeking. He had no solace to offer them, so he tried to sleep through it. Maybe inebriant would douse the burn; he’d have to find one, which meant leaving bed… but then, a walk might also help. The drink could keep him company on the return.
There was a certain maudlin poetry to wandering with the ghosts of memory, anyway.Gold text on top says First Lines. Cover for Flare and Bind on center left over a dark background with electric blue and silver hexagon reflections. White text says, "There were a multitude of wrongdoers in the universe, and Meri was related to many of them. 
The ping on their schedule could have been nothing more than coincidence, but they knew as soon as they saw the name—even before they saw the independent transport identification attached—that it was family, coming for them at long last."Gold text top: SYNCHRONISTS and bottom: queer science fiction about interconnection and building better worlds. In center: ebook covers for The Stars Provide, Spark and Tether, and Flare and Bind. Background is 4up collage of abstract images with electric bright colors on dark backgrounds.
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Amy Stauffer PA @amystaufferpa.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🐉🌈📚 New LGBTQ+ book releases: November 14, 2025. 🔗 Find them here: bit.ly/m/QBR Happy reading, y'all! 🖤✌🏼 #queerbookreviews #sapphicromance #queerromance #mmromance #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #sapphicbooksky #queerbooksky #readqueerallyear #booksky #romancelandia
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Next week's Writers Chat Deep Craft features MJ James's newest release Inside a Dark Space. Subscribe to my newsletter to get the link first, and check out MJ's kickstarter to fund the sequel. vist.ly/4dxim
White title text: Writers Chat Deep Craft. Center bottom: MJ James in white text. On lower right: book cover for Inside a Dark Space, which is black and white with a moonscape and vehicle. Background is light blue to light green gradient of abstract images with hands touching in the lower corner.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
My books are on kobo plus.
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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Harvard Gazette:
Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?”
Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”
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Dusty Yote --> ASC... @dustyyote.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Let's put it this way: Newsom is California's Cuomo: started better than what else we had at the time, ending terrible and aligned with far-right people, now we don't f*cking want him anymore either. And, based on Cuomo's results for NYC, I'M THINKIN NEWSOM AIN'T GONNA CUT IT EITHER.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Spark and Tether, first line: Sacheri woke with a shiver in his nerves trying his limbs like a lit fuse. Audiobook narrated by Josiah Sweetnam and available everywhere, including libraries and direct from the author on payhip.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
October's Writers Chat Deep Craft with Tamara Jerée on The Flowers I Deserve. WCDC is a monthly series of chat-style interviews where I talk with authors and artists about their work. Newsletter subscribers get the link first–sign up on my website. vist.ly/4c4ag
Light tan text: Feathers, snakes, spirit-imbued stones, mysterious flowers–they've all appeared in my previous poems and short stories with similar themes attached. For this novel, it really felt like returning to a language I'd been unconsciously building for five years.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Get a free ebook of SPARK AND TETHER (Synchronists 1) when you sign up for the Queer Sci Fi email list this October! along with three other titles. 🌈📚 #queeradultscifi www.queerscifi.com/join-our-maillist
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Healing on Instinct, Leaning into Whimsy: Embodying Themes Through Poetic Tension and Turns. October's Writers Chat Deep Craft is live on my website. I talk with @tamarajeree about their latest release: The Flowers I Deserve. vist.ly/4bkh3
Tamara Jerée in red script beside the book cover image for The Flowers I Deserve. Post Title in light tan text: Healing on Instinct, Leaning into Whimsy: Embodying Themes Through Poetic Tension and Turns. Background is light blue to light green gradient of abstract images with hands touching in the lower corner.
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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.myatproto.social · 13/10/2025
I dislike sweeping statements about what kind of writing has or doesn’t have real artistic merit. I once read an amazing short story written in future tense with a 2nd-person POV. “Trashy” romance can be deeply insightful about life in specific times and places. YA helped me survive as a queer teen.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🌈📚 My Synchronists series is queer science fiction about interconnection and building better worlds. vist.ly/49xpp
Title text in white: if you like...
Smaller text: Queer political science fiction with a love story at its core. Philosophical science fiction about interconnection and relationships. Optimistic science fiction because we can build what we imagine.
Covers for Winter's Orbit, The Telling, and A Psalm for the Wild Built under text.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In the next Writers Chat Deep Craft, I talk with Tamara Jerée about their newest release The Flowers I Deserve. Interview posts on my website on October 17; subscribe to my newsletter to get the link first. 🌈📚 vist.ly/49pf7
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Worldbuilding facts from the Synchronists series. SYNCHRONISTS is queer sci fi about interconnection and relationships. Available directly from me or wherever you buy books.
Gold text: 1. The universe contains hundreds of worlds. I wanted it to be large enough that I could tell any story I wanted. I regret this when I'm trying to remember how to get from Planet A to Station Z.
Background: Black with violet and gold lighting abstract swirls.Gold text: 2. The series is set ~1000 years from now and assumes humans manage to escape extinction. I think of it as optimistic science fiction.

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Gold text: 3. There are clusters of inhabited worlds, loosely connected by gates. Humans don't understand how gates work, but use them anyway.4. There are no military or carceral systems in Spark and Tether. In fact, there's almost no physical violence. (I am easily bored by fight and battle scenes. I want different stories.)
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The first WCDC post is live on my website; the second features Tamara Jerée and posts October 17. Sign up for my newsletter if you'd like the link first. 🌈📚
Top, White text: Writers Chat Deep Craft. Centered, Pale gold text: Dawn Chen, Tamara Jerée. Small purple text at bottom: monthly interview series at www.lilianzenzi.com
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Sundays are for long walks and beach time. I started & art class last week so I took my sketchbook along. The sound of the stones underfoot is one of my new favorite things. I’m not writing much yet. Still adjusting. The words all sound different in my head now. Need more time to settle.🌈📚
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The fungi and (friendly) artificial intelligence are the good guys. People take care of each other. How we show up in the world matters. No weapons or war. Wrongs are meant to be righted. Can you imagine? 🌈📚 (Available direct from me on my Payhip shop, you know where to click.)
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The first Writers Chat Deep Craft is up on my website. Thanks so much to Dawn Chen for joining me. The Witch Who Chases the Sun is out September 30 and preorders are open everywhere. 🌈📚https://www.lilianzenzi.com/wcdc-dawnchen/ (reposted with alt text)
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I’ve been making books more than I’ve been writing the last few weeks. And since I gave all of my autumn decor to a beloved neighbor when we moved, I found a new friend and a tiny purple glass gourd for my desk for the season. I think my new gnome friend needs a name…
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
My September newsletter is out today. You can still subscribe on my website and read it there: vist.ly/47e4r 🌈📚 This month's update includes the link to my chat with Dawn Chen @dawn.writesstuff about her upcoming novel The Witch Who Chases the Sun, book promos, and a mutual aid request.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Love Can't Save You: Spiral Structure and the Lasting Wounds of Colonialism - my first Writers Chat Deep Craft post goes live Friday when my newsletter sends. Dawn and I chat about structure, symbols, and anticolonialism. The Witch Who Chases the Sun is out September 30–preorders are open!
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
After a lovely Saturday in Ballinasloe for the Indie Authors Ireland gathering, I spent Sunday back at the shore in a coffeeshop with some poetry and a nice lapsang souchong. The first Writers Chat Deep Craft interview (with @dawnwritesstuff!) posts this week and my newsletter releases on Friday.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I chat with Dawn Chen about her upcoming release The Witch Who Chases the Sun for the first Writers Chat Deep Craft interview. On my website in mid-September–my newsletter subscribers get the link first. Subscribe on my website. vist.ly/469d8 🌈📚
Writers Chat Deep Craft in pale yellow text on top. Dawn Chen in red left center, beside the cover image for The Witch Who Chases the Sun.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Monday mornings are for planning and organizing the week. I seem to have developed a terrific Barry’s habit in the last month. If I get some things done, this afternoon may hold a trip to the bookstore and the beach with some poetry. The card is from my favorite MoLI exhibit. 🌈📚#queeradultscifi
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Marketing bestie says I should re-use content, and it's been ages since I posted this one for Spark and Tether. Should I make one for Flare and Bind, too? 🌈📚 #queerscifi #indiescifi
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Sharing for the feeds 🌈📚#indieauthors #queeradultsff
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Writers Chat Deep Craft is a monthly interview series launching in Sept. I chat with authors about hidden symbols, fave techniques, where cultural narratives about stories help or hinder us. Big ideas. Deep craft. Curious? Subscribe to my newsletter. vist.ly/45huw
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It's been ages and all kinds of things have changed, so let me re-introduce myself. 📚🌈 💙📚 #queerscifi #indiescifi vist.ly/45a58 for newsletter sign up.
Background is an ethereal collage of writing-related images in a color wash of violets, blues, and light greens. In pink text: Lilian Zenzi. In purple text: (she/her/hers) writes stories for queer news with big hearts and the people who love them.Background is an ethereal collage of writing-related images in a color wash of violets, blues, and light greens. In purple text: genre agnostic as a writer and reader, she makes space for comfort, hope, and joy alongside grief, conflict, and big ideas. Her stories are for readers who like when genre rules are a bit fuzzy, and most of her characters are LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse, lovable, and complicated. She creates intricate, immersive worlds that build on the idea that we are all connected and in this together, whether we like it or not.Background is an ethereal collage of writing-related images in a color wash of violets, blues, and light greens. In purple text: After decades on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, Lilian now lives in Dublin, Ireland with her family and dogs. She spends as much time as she can manage staring at the Irish Sea.
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It's been ages and all kinds of things have changed, so let me re-introduce myself. 📚🌈 💙📚 #queerscifi #indiescifi vist.ly/45a4i for newsletter sign up and books available.
Background is an ethereal collage of writing-related images in a color wash of violets, blues, and light greens. In pink text: Lilian Zenzi. In purple text: (she/her/hers) writes stories for queer news with big hearts and the people who love them.Background is an ethereal collage of writing-related images in a color wash of violets, blues, and light greens. In purple text: genre agnostic as a writer and reader, she makes space for comfort, hope, and joy alongside grief, conflict, and big ideas. Her stories are for readers who like when genre rules are a bit fuzzy, and most of her characters are LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse, lovable, and complicated. She creates intricate, immersive worlds that build on the idea that we are all connected and in this together, whether we like it or not.Background is an ethereal collage of writing-related images in a color wash of violets, blues, and light greens. In purple text: After decades on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, Lilian now lives in Dublin, Ireland with her family and dogs. She spends as much time as she can manage staring at the Irish Sea.
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
And listen, follow the money means follow the money. Substack funds transphobes and nazis. Substack's VC money comes from Andreesen Horowitz, a firm that, among other things (incl border "security" and defense projects), committed to $400 million in equity investments toward Musk buying Twt.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/08/2025
A lot of the discourse about Newsom comes down to people finding ways to say “I just think trans people aren’t as important as my other concerns” but saying it in the most cowardly way because they know how dick they would sound it they said it directly But we all know what you are, transphobes
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
guess what I'm doing today 🙄 (not videos, just scheduling posts like a grown up who has it together)
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Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Occasional reminder that @josiahcdsweetnam 's narration of Spark and Tether is fantastic and available almost everywhere, including in libraries. #queerscifi #indieauthors #indiescifi #indieaudiobooks 🌈📚 💙📚
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Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Really appreciated how @sethf.bsky.social described using AI in the evolution class that we co- teach: “ it’s like paying for a gym membership and then using a forklift to raise and lower your weights.”
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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I've spoken often about how Chinese writers have reclaimed the concept of Sinofuturism in their writings. So I'm all for Optimistic #Scifi, or at least, stories that take more nuanced courses. Habitats is a fantastic project, you can support vol 2 here! #sff www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...
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Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The second issue of a brand-new optimistic science-fiction and fantasy magazine. Published by Habitats Press.
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 10/08/2025
#SummerOfStory I'm so glad you asked! On my mind lately has been an old favourite technique of Ursula Le Guin's: the Pathetic Fallacy. Here's her definition, followed by some examples of me trying it in Marcie 🧛‍♀️🥀🕊 a vampire romance novella, and A Prayer for the Pirate Queen ⚓️💜🏴‍☠️ a sapphic romantasy
Source: the glossary section of Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin

Pathetic fallacy
A phrase, too often used condescendingly, to describe a passage of writing in which the landscape, weather, and other things mirror or embody human emotions.I opened my eyes to Neith standing over me. The hands holding her spear shook, and she glared down at me, grey eyes burning. Her hair was wild with the ravages of the storm outside, which had cast the golden glow of the late afternoon clouds in blood-tinged relief.Fire blazed and great plumes of smoke rose into the air above the island of Erapetra. The horizon echoed the ruin, clouds red and glowering in the light of the setting sun.The crew of the Paxos cheered all of a sudden. For a moment, Kallista wanted to think they were cheering the two of them on, encouraging them to break past the rules she’d established. But when she looked out, she saw it was for the nereids, triumphant; and for their narrow escape between the other ships; and for Daphne’s powers drawing the next bolt of lightning onto the third heretofore untouched ship. Soon behind them, the three warships rescued their fleeing sailors from the waves, and battled the fires in their masts, each of them unable to pursue further for the time being.
The Paxos sailed full speed ahead to the wedge of blue sky breaking through the storm clouds.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
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Jessica BOOOOlin: Preorder Getting Hairy, out October 31! @olinj.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Would anyone who was impacted by the Itch delisting things be willing to/like to talk to someone at @authorsabb.bsky.social national? We're trying to gather information to formulate how we can assist the already in motion efforts. Thanks ahead of time!
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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 12/07/2025
The International Non-Binary Day bundle is over in just a little over 3 days and I'd love for us to hit our $500 dollar goal (and double it??? 👀👀) I have two short stories there: Golden Hue and Journey Home! itch.io/b/3124/inter...
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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 10/07/2025
You can get 51 books for $40 and really have a fine collection of non-binary books to get you through Non-Binary Awareness Week! itch.io/b/3124/ 🌈📚💙
Promotional graphic showing over 50 books spread across it. At the center is "Non-Binary People's Day. 40 books of different genres from either non binary authors or featuring non-binary characters for $30. And 54 books for $40. Itchio Bundle. Queer and Indie.
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