Cressida Roe

Congrats, Thomas!! Such fantastic news!

if your “gothic” novel isn't at least a little freaky and subversive, the ghosts of mary shelley and emily bronte should get to rise up from their graves and hit you with a cardboard tube

I’m so awed by how beautifully you interpreted my story for this cover! 🫶

FF#26 cover. A woman's face, surrounded by broken shards of mirror and a few fragments of Noh masks. Each mirror contains a different eye. Above, two evil looking eyes peer down on the scene. Everything's rendered in light and dark blues.

The beautiful FF#26 cover by @evelynepark.bsky.social is here! In a few months, you'll get to read stories by @thesuiway.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @straith.ca, @leokaaolive.bsky.social, @eggandcressida.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social, Emma Russell-Trione, and Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta!

Your daily reminder that every time you ask ChatGPT a question, you're using up huge amounts of water and irreplaceable natural resources.

Calling all LGBTQ+ SFF authors! I started a new starter pack for us. Happy to add folks, please just share the link when you get a moment!

go.bsky.app/URHc5QB

thanks so much for reading, azure! :)

Such an apt story choice for our current existence. Y'all see the talent exuding from these 100 words? Whoa. @eggandcressida.bsky.social

A graphic featuring the text: "The Fifth Hourseman (Drabble Fiction) by Cressida Roe" next to the illustration on Apex's Issue 149 cover, a queen in a black dress standing beside a black wolf in a field at dusk.

"A young woman, dressed in rugged clothes, huddles in the rubble." 🐎🏚️

New drabble fiction today by @eggandcressida.bsky.social: "The Fifth Horseman"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

tysm!!

would love to be added if there’s space!

i know it's to cheer people up, but the thing about the whole "people still laughed while the roman empire fell" argument is that the citizens of the roman empire were probably largely not aware it was happening. whereas we must endure the News Cycles

Really enjoyed this lovely story by Christie Yant about intimacy and the performance of the self, @diabolicalplots.com's throwback feature for this week. Very much a recommended read!

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-3...

This one sounds incredible, Vanessa (and I appreciate the Xiao Zhan fancast hehe), I can't wait to read it!

It's the weekend! As well as PRIDE! Writers - hopefully you can find time to get some words down. Remember:

Rejection DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer!

Tell the stories you are moved to tell. You got this. Keep going!

EXTREMELY LONG AND EXTREMELY DONE!!! I'm so proud of you!!!!!

Ahhh congrats MR!!!!

don’t touch that it’s my emotional support nameless first person present tense unreliable narrator

4 types of characters I write:

1. Girl who thinks there’s something wrong with her
2. Guy who definitely has something wrong with him
3. Shapeshifters (gay)
4. Harassed lesbians with desk jobs

Currently writing iteration #3 of this!! Metamorphosis as a symbol of queerness is everything to meeeeee

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow. a book with teal sprayed edges and a floral cover. there's also, critically, a sword.

the everlasting, out october 28th 🗡️💖

4 types of characters I write:

1. Girl who thinks there’s something wrong with her
2. Guy who definitely has something wrong with him
3. Shapeshifters (gay)
4. Harassed lesbians with desk jobs

hey psst tomorrow i get to post the cover of my next book! annnd i'm sending out a lil newsletter essay about lady knighthood and gendered power, to celebrate. subscribe here: buttondown.com/alixeharrow

So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim!

Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

This article is a disgrace to LIS and the author should be ashamed of themself. Humiliating work here. Just a stream of whitewashing and obfuscating.

“i am half agony, half hope” but it’s about watching the red wave going past your little black dot on the submission grinder

An illustration set against a bright red background. At the bottom half of the illustration is a rabbit, mid run. It's head is pointed down and the iris of it's eye is the same red as the background. Text overlaying the image says 'If they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.' Which is from Watership Down by Richard Adams.

bunny

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This Will Change the Rhythm of Your Writing Forever Lesson 1 of "Take It from Shakespeare" with Jo Gatford

Lesson 1 explores the power of a line, the fun you can have fucking with iambic pentameter, and how to find the music in your words.

Featuring stories by @cressidaroe.bsky.social & @appleshapedwriter.bsky.social (and, y'know, Shakespeare)