Where can you find me at #awp26? I'll be haunting the Fairy Tale Review booth (840), celebrating The Silver Issue. Come meet contributors @lwcoates.bsky.social and Danika Paige Meyers on Friday at 10:30 and 11:30, respectively, and Temperance Aghamohammadi on Saturday 1-3 pm. It's a gorgeous issue!
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Where can you find me at #awp26? I'll be haunting the Fairy Tale Review booth (840), celebrating The Silver Issue. Come meet contributors @lwcoates.bsky.social and Danika Paige Meyers on Friday at 10:30 and 11:30, respectively, and Temperance Aghamohammadi on Saturday 1-3 pm. It's a gorgeous issue!
Can't wait to pick up this anthology of fairy tales from @lfpbooks.bsky.social at #awp26!
At AWP especially, it helps presses not have to ship a bunch of books back home (an additional cost). And there are usually sweet sales.
Authors, link to your PRESS website for sales, not Amazon. I see the numbers and it truly makes a difference. 👏
I assume it's like this for all indies?
As y'all head off to #awp26, I am calculating our author royalties. I cannot stress this enough - buy small press books directly from publishers. It's the way everyone makes the most money and art can continue to happen!
A friend asked for advice on teaching writing from art. She found my @pshares.bsky.social post about abstract art (from ye olde 2014) helpful, so I'm sharing it in case it helps anyone else. Gosh, 2014 feels ancient in internet time. pshares.org/blog/writing...
Happy #RareDiseaseDay to all who contemplate.
A few have asked, soperhaps more have the same question: after you set up the account (which takes just a moment), you'll need to read about 20% of the sample (that's about 2,000 words) before it will let you "like" or comment on it. Thanks so much for your support. I am proud of this novel! ❤
This is so sad!
Yeah, even though I don't know what the end-game is, I get the feeling I shouldn't let them stay, so i always delete. But it's endless!
If I can figure out where the sign up link that is drawing all the bots is, I would happily delete it. At least it is always clear which ones the bots are.
This is actually Mailchimp. But I'm not sure any platform is immune.
I have lots of bots signing up for my email newsletter and it feels related somehow but I don't understand how.
"Elena Ferrante" included an author photo in her email to me...and followed up when I didn't respond!
😀 ::dusts off hands::
Ooh. I'd seen the cover image and was vaguely aware of this one, but what you highlight of the blurb is even more intriguing. Thank you.
That's what I'm feeling! Fucking going for it. John Waters, crab cakes, continuing to put my writing out there. What else is there? Cake, I suppose!
*Correction! This is my expectation of 44. Advice from people who have been 44?
Moving on with my silly palindrome ramble, tomorrow I'm 44 & I'm hoping to be screen-free so I'm doing this now. 44! So much more interesting than 33. My only solid plan for #AWP26 next week is to wait patiently for John Waters's keynote. I will line up as early as they'll let me. This is 44.
Oh yeah...the "for later" function is kinda doing that for me too, for some books, anyway.
I have...when it came out. I'm enjoying keeping an analogue list of books I finish. And I don't wish to do that for to-read lists. I don't know why Storygraph doesn't stick for me.
Ooh! I need a way to bookmark her new book now that I don't use Goodreads...
What were you like when you were 33?
Who was the curator that year?
Same!
Oh yeah! Disease names...my condition was called something like childhood fatal disease when I was diagnosed. It's...not called that anymore.
My @writingco-lab.bsky.social class Triangular Relationships as Engines of Tension and Conflict meets in two weeks! Join us online 7-9pm ET/6-8pm CT/4-6pm PT. www.writingco-lab.com/classes/tria...
I wonder why whoever came up with zodiac names decided on that...
