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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚

@sparkseditorial.bsky.social
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queer fiction editor working with self-published writers and indie press. specializing in LGBTQ+ fantasy, science fiction, horror, and dark romance genres. DMs are always open! www.sparkseditorial.com

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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
it's so sad to see, because audio text generation has come a long way and that's great for accessibility, but what's not great for accessibility is garbage captions that are unreadable. nothing can ever really replace careful work by people who understand and apply human context.
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
it was a short stop for me long ago and idk anything more, but the people i knew who used to do these were insanely smart former court reporter ladies with impeccable reference sheets of athlete names from every country. they would be so sad about this.
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
briefly during covid, i worked for the company who is contracted by NBC to do Olympic captions. used to be done by a curated team of 10 employees with full benefits. since bought by a shady VC company who has aggressively sold the dream of cutting costs through AI and firing everyone all the time.
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
thank you so much! they're beautiful
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
oh my god, where did you get those? the "Christmas present for wife" part of my brain is lighting up
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
all i know is that they shouldn't have given me anti-venom in arena i can't be trusted with anti-venom
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
me reading through my fingers, trying to avoid reading a post where someone's boyfriend makes them give away their lifelong pet 🫣
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
die mad about it as a lifestyle!
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
whenever i get too mad about grammar, i remember Arabic scholar Sībawayhi, who lost a grammatical debate about wasps in 796 AD and got so mad about it that he went home and died
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
hamiltonnolan.com
The Subway Is Not Scary
Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
clear up some mental hard drive space, get an editor
me telling an author not to worry about knowing dangling participles and focus on DRAGONS
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
flecks in their eyes? shit is about to go down
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
i can tell quickly in a draft if a character is about to get important to a story, because the author starts describing their eyes real sexy
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
and they should THANK YOU
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
the greatest editorial feeling in the world is when your suggestions cause an author to add the word "chittering" to a line that didn't have "chittering" in it before
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Hakim @hakimkasir.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I simply think beyond all the environmental and moral factors AI is just for losers
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
your darlings went to a farm upstate and they really like it there there is sunshine and so much room for them to run around
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
trust? no. want to read their book? absolutely.
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
more if they split their forms and become multiples! like cell division
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
perhaps will o' the wisps or other follow traps?
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
they must go TO the swamp to find you
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
why so many posts about how to find a good editor and never posts about how to find a dark and arcane editor, barely contained to the human form?
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
take this on your travels today
labeled diagram of a suit of armor
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
think of the PLOT CONSEQUENCES
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
if you imply that something might happen in your book, why not let it happen? should your characters almost get in a bar fight, or should they get in a bar fight?
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
So easy to share kind words about such a beautiful, dynamic collection!
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
eSign and Dropbox both have options where you can create signing fields for clients, both free (eSign free up to 3 a month) Adobe Sign will let you do it for free but it will hassle you about it and pretend like it won't
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
try not to take critique to heart from author groups, betas, or early readers that are not your target audience or natural readers of your genre. any opinions can be valuable through the right lens, but you do not want to tailor your book to the tastes of people who do not want it or understand it.
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
depends on the story! also sometimes dragons are animals
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
the names of spaceships are always italicized pirate ships are italicized  dragon mounts are not italicized, because dragons are people
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
very passionate about creating tracked changes that do not leave a stray space or doubled punctuation it is my life's mission
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
happy birthday to my partner, who is a genius many times over and who loves me in a way that i think she invented.
incredible babe picking up fold from a charcoal grill with tongs
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
hannah and kelley of the wonderful Graveside Press put their energy into our community and invest their talents in writers all day, every day. if you can do anything to help them create a peaceful life, it would be so appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-hanna...
gofundme.com
Donate to Help Hannah & Kelley Escape Crushing Debt, organized by Remy Graves
Um. Hi. My name is Hannah. I am a queer, disabled nonbinary person. I suffer fro… Remy Graves needs your support for Help Hannah & Kelley Escape Crushing Debt
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
a little wave passing in the night
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
i do a lot of work as a sort of "early editor" preparing work for submission, and i think about this all the time 😂 hope they like an oxford comma
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
hannah and kelley of the wonderful Graveside Press put their energy into our community and invest their talents in writers all day, every day. if you can do anything to help them create a peaceful life, it would be so appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-hanna...
gofundme.com
Donate to Help Hannah & Kelley Escape Crushing Debt, organized by Remy Graves
Um. Hi. My name is Hannah. I am a queer, disabled nonbinary person. I suffer fro… Remy Graves needs your support for Help Hannah & Kelley Escape Crushing Debt
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
two ENTIRE revolutions of the earth around the sun
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
this is great information! at least that it's possible and works, even if the wheels of trad pub are slooooow
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
was encouraged by the way they spoke about diverse manuscripts here and how to specifically flag them! sounds they they want to make an effort at least
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
harlequin HERSELF is open for unagented submission 👀 they're specifically calling for submissions from underrepresented communities here as well harlequin.submittable.com/submit
harlequin.submittable.com
Harlequin Submission Manager
Write for HarlequinHarlequin is always on the lookout for talented writers—from established authors to those just starting their writing careers. We publish a wide range of stories and welcome writers...
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
manuscript feelings that i can help with: • pains • agonies • struggles • trials • troubles
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
perhaps a labor riot?
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
getting very booked out for edits through the summer and fall here but still weirdly available in may. are you all going to something in may that you didn't invite me to?
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
have you written "the fact was" into your manuscript lately? try taking it out of that sentence and read the sentence again, i think you will like it so much.
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
and why won't the hiring managers for those jobs get out of my inbox
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
if AI editing is so great then why are there entire fields of work dedicated to removing errors introduced by AI editing
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
sleep, you black-eyed pig
fall into a deep pit full of ghosts.
icelandic lullaby, early 19th century
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
this is your sign to write that thing into your book that you think only you like either you will find out that you're wrong or you will convert people
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Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
i am your partner in perfecting your novel. i am your ally. i am on your side. i am standing very still behind the tree in your front yard so that you cannot see me. i am making bird calls.
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