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 030
Reposted by Lilian ZenziCharlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Soooo we're prioritizing indie authors and books during the Trans Rights Readathon, right? Right?! 27827
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I'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 030
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026New 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 010
Reposted by Lilian ZenziStephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it? 7940971101
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025November'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-… 030
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025It'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. 010
Reposted by Lilian ZenziCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Hey 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.💜 3431447876
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Next 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 010
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 16/11/2025The 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 054
Reposted by Lilian ZenziAmy 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 093
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Next 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 010
Reposted by Lilian ZenziDusty Yote --> ASC... @dustyyote.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Let'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. 431364
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Spark 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. 000
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025October'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 010
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Get 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 032
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Healing 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 010
Reposted by Lilian ZenziDuchess of Doom @kilagreene.myatproto.social · 13/10/2025I 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. 1161
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025🌈📚 My Synchronists series is queer science fiction about interconnection and building better worlds. vist.ly/49xpp 062
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025In 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 042
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Worldbuilding facts from the Synchronists series. SYNCHRONISTS is queer sci fi about interconnection and relationships. Available directly from me or wherever you buy books. 051
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 01/10/2025The 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. 🌈📚 020
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Sundays 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.🌈📚 190
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The 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.) 030
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025The 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) 030
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I’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… 040
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025My 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. 120
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Love 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! 000
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025After 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. 020
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I 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 🌈📚 040
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Monday 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 040
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Marketing 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 031
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Sharing for the feeds 🌈📚#indieauthors #queeradultsff 010
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Writers 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 000
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025It'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. 060
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025It'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. 000
Reposted by Lilian ZenziGailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025And 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. 111022
Reposted by Lilian ZenziChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/08/2025A 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 14474106
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025guess what I'm doing today 🙄 (not videos, just scheduling posts like a grown up who has it together) 000
Lilian Zenzi @lilianzenzi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Occasional reminder that @josiahcdsweetnam 's narration of Spark and Tether is fantastic and available almost everywhere, including in libraries. #queerscifi #indieauthors #indiescifi #indieaudiobooks 🌈📚 💙📚 040
Reposted by Lilian ZenziBritt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Really 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.” 64116
Reposted by Lilian ZenziXueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 13/08/2025I'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...kickstarter.comHabitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy)The second issue of a brand-new optimistic science-fiction and fantasy magazine. Published by Habitats Press. 0178
Reposted by Lilian ZenziKara 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 6335
Reposted by Lilian ZenziErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025We 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. 74132384429
Reposted by Lilian ZenziJessica BOOOOlin: Preorder Getting Hairy, out October 31! @olinj.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Would 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! 12932
Reposted by Lilian ZenziMay Barros 🇧🇷🏳️⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 12/07/2025The 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... 15041
Reposted by Lilian ZenziDax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 10/07/2025You 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/ 🌈📚💙 0139