fiona IS revising

being a writer means most days are like pulling teeth, but some days are like staring at a perfect diamond that you've just pulled from stone and wondering at how you managed to create something you love so much. today, so far, is one of the latter days 🥲

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We're trapped in a hall of mirrors this evening. Our reflections leer back at us in contorted constellations. It's really quite unsettling. Much like today's short story.

"The Broken Specter" by @byfionahansen.bsky.social

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Readers, reviewers, authors, bookish creatives, & publishing professionals... watch this space. 👀

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Today, the South Carolina State Board of Education voted to ban four books from all state schools, despite passionate testimony and a packed room of people defending the books. The four books were Flamer, All Boys Aren’t Blue, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Push.

The State Department is blocking new passports for trans Americans The ACLU has warned that transgender people risk losing access to their passport and supporting documents if they apply to update their gender marker.

HUGE ALERT FOR TRANS PEOPLE TRYING TO GET THEIR PASSPORTS IN ORDER — the U.S. State Department has stopped issuing passports with the “X” gender marker and has suspended processing applications for ALL GENDER MARKER CHANGES. 🧵

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First Pages Contest #2, Young Adult: Judged by Agent Eric Smith of P.S. Literary Submit the opening of your unpublished YA novel to our First Pages Contest #2, Young Adult: judged by agent Eric Smith of P.S. Literary.

New FREE contest for writers of Young Adult Fiction — tinyurl.com/wdwcon1 — Judged by agent Eric Smith, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work. So excited to enter!!!

30 SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2025 - Reactor Here are 30 standouts to put on your TBR for the first half of this year!

It's here! Reactor's 30 Most Anticipated Books of 2025, read and compiled by books editor @cxorlando.bsky.social. If you're searching for your next fantasy, science fiction, or horror favorite, there's no better place to start 📖

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when you read back what you wrote yesterday and its not terrible??!!!! PRAISE THE LORD 🙏

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With a ceasefire coming tomorrow, families will be hoping to evacuate injured family members.

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As I dive back into Natural History WIP revisions, I'm thinking of some of my future WIPs that have been so patiently waiting for my attention. Namely:

🦇 Sapphic Carmilla-insp. Romantasy (perf for fans of Nosferatu)
🏚️🛶 Twin Peaks-insp. YA sapphic spec. horror/thriller

MS: I've noticed that all the way through this conversation David, you've referred to him in the present tense. DL: You have to keep Angelo alive. I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we'll all meet again, like the song says. It's sad but it's not devastating if you think like that. Otherwise I don't see how anybody could ever, once they see someone die, that they'd just disappear forever and that's what we're all bound to do. I'm sorry but it just doesn't make any sense, it's a continuum, and we're all going to be fine at the end of the story.

THE SACRED SPACE BETWEEN is coming to North America! So excited to announce it’ll be released this November with Little, Brown in the US alongside Harper Voyager in the UK. Truly a dream come true!! ✨

inject it into my veins pls & ty

It looks and sounds so so good!!!

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HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.

Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

Today is a day where I just feel so grateful to being working with books and authors! 🤍 I LOVE WHAT I DO, and I am so thankful to be able to say that.

omg yayyyy ✨ best of luck, emma!

Screenshot from publishers marketplace that reads: “Margaret Owen's ROOTBOUND, set a month after the events of Tangled, in which the rookie princess Rapunzel and her rogue-turned-suitor Eugene are pulled into a high-stakes diplomatic mission to a mysterious kingdom, where they must uncover the secrets of the royal family, Rapunzel's lost magic, and Eugene's past in order get back home, to Flannery Wiest at Disney-Hyperion, with Hali Baumstein editing, by Victoria Marini at High Line Literary Collective.” Has a fancy decorative border against a blue/purple background with faint gold celestial charts!

Surprise! You didn’t think I’d have just the one book coming out in 2025, did you? Disney asked me to write a follow-up to TANGLED—a horrible decision, really—and as I dearly love that movie, how could I say no?

(It may have also given me the chance to put “Give that horse a sword” in a book.)

Please share widely 🙏🏼

I am taking item donations (literally anything from the publishing community or readers) for the next #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraiser to run Jan 15th through 31st. I am at about 100 items, trying to get to at least 500.

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4 books similar to Natural History WIP ✨

an indie boy has moved into the apartment below me and now plays guitar and sings on his balcony with a tripod set up from morning to night

i don't know whether to enjoy it or be annoyed

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a first draft is supposed to be bad, a first draft is for discovery, a first draft will have plot holes and thats ok, a first draft will not be polished and thats ok, a first—

thank you so much, ezra 🥰

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After nearly five years as a writer, I just typed 'the end' for the first time. A draft of my adult queer historical fantasy exists! Now for the fun work — the revising & rewriting. But first... to celebrate with Thanksgiving food, a good book, and a few days off!

#amrevising

Sitting at wood table with blue jeans and sambas on, holding a mug of matcha with a matcha sweater sleeve visible, a MacBook on the table

so. um. about to write the epilogue of my first book. see you on the other side 🍵

5 days left in November. 3 chapters left in my WIP. Let's do this.

Me 🤚 because you were my marine bio professor and the absolute best professor I ever had!

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omg good luck!! it sounds amazing

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need this desperately