Victoria | How to Survive Debut Author Stress, out free!

Victoria | How to Survive Debut Author Stress, out free!

@shiwritesprose.bsky.social

Author (rep: Ernie Chiara at Fuse) 🇭🇰🇺🇸 Clarion West '25, published in Analog SF&F and Fission

335 Followers 208 Following 151 Posts Joined Jun 2023
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my MONKEY KING story is forthcoming in @khoreo.bsky.social September 2026 issue, Revolutions! it's

🙈 inspired by John Wick's the Continental hotel—
🙉 but an exploration of 'third place's under capitalistic fascism and the sacrifices needed to protect them
🙊 DIM SUM and DEFIANCE in space 🥟🛰️🚀

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Spoiler: Corporation hopes to keep exploiting writers until writers forget they're being exploited.

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2 weeks ago

the diagram checks out, we are go for BOOK

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My heart leapt into my throat when I saw this. This is the first real piece of reader art I’ve ever seen. I’m struggling to express how much this means to me. Thank you.

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you're a sweetie pea!

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Thank you so much darling

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thanks, girl!

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"For your consideration" poster featuring 2 pieces of Photoshop composite art. One shows a giant octopus grabbing a man, for the short story Patient was the Doctor. The other is a red mermaid curled up in the sea, for the story titled milt.

Both stories are stated to be free to read/listen to. QR code for milt, reprinted in audio/podcast format on Escape Pod QR code for Patient was the Doctor, in PDF form, on the Analog Magazine website

I have 2 short stories awards eligible this year!

1. Patient was the Doctor (PDF 📝) analogsf.com/for-your-con... with @analogsf.bsky.social (Locus & SFWA recommended)

2. milt (podcast reprint 🔉) escapepod.org/2026/02/12/e... with @bsfa.bsky.social and @escapepod.org (mild nsfw 🔥)

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✅ WEIRD ✅ QUEER ✅ HORNY ✅ HOPEFUL LET'S GO

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Mamdani Tells NYC Residents to Stay Home and Read ‘Heated Rivalry’ Amid Snow Storm The New York Public Library is offering residents with a library card the chance to download Rachel Reid’s queer hockey romance series without a wait.

amazing

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2 months ago
Screenshots from Andor when the Gorman councilman told Mon Mothma, “They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”
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2 months ago

Woah, this is news to me!

Hey, peeps! My very first book is currently on sale for just 2 bucks! Both the eBook AND the hardcover, apparently? It's about a tea specialist-turned-assassin who embarks on an epic quest to rescue her kidnapped sibling... in SPACE.

Also HAPPY NEW YEAR!

amzn.to/3N13YcS

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A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025) A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022) A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017) A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

Heading into 2026, I'm still looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season! There’s only one week left in the year—which means we are ONE WEEK away from opening to fiction and poetry submissions on January 1st!

Get your original fiction and poetry ready ✨

othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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2 months ago

exact same problem down in the peninsula. I'm so tired why is this

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contract is signed! my sci-fi story, milt, from the bsfa's Fission #5 anthology, will be "reprinted" by @escapepod.org in audio 🎧 in January 2026.

it is, incidentally, the horniest story I've ever published. gender essentialism comes here to die. ✌️

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Okay, after several hours spent agonizing over the details… edits are done and I am happy to say: yeah, this story is good 🙂‍↕️ Cannot wait to share it with you soon. Hope you love prehistoric myth and ritual murder and religious trauma and cults and sad women who are pathetic levels of in love.

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repost if trans people should have dr pepper
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Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.

Read on, and vote well!

We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.

www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...

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3 months ago

Sabrina Carpenter to donate portion of Short n’ Sweet tour profit to Transgender Law Center
www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/20/s...

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Keeping our Humanity Through A Science-Fiction Apocalypse by David Ebenbach For David Ebenbach, the key to retaining our humanity under threat of AI is to embrace the unique traits that make us human to begin with—our critical thinking, empathy, and creat…

Worried about an AI apocalypse? Find out why author David Ebenbach believes we can stave one off by leaning into our own humanity
theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2025/11/25/k...

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Finding the Heart of Your Story, a masterclass with N.K. Jemisin — Blue Stoop Building a character is building a world of one; defining them, shaping them, and changing them is what a story is for. In this craft-first virtual masterclass, award winning author N. K. Jemisin will...

I'll be doing an online workshop on character creation and development for Blue Stoop on December 7th! Interested? Register and pay here: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...

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4 months ago

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

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Frowning girl: "the facial expression I've had on for the whole year"

True story

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2025 awards eligibility post - take two!

I have two short stories out this year, and I would be so grateful if you kept them (and me) in mind during awards season! Links threaded below - thanks for reading!

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Contact I’m currently open to sensitivity/authenticity reading. Please see the full list of what I cover and rates. In your email below, please include a description of the work, the estimated word c…

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged.
bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

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10 months ago
A tiny little floofy white dog that looks like it weighs five pounds sopping wet sits very polite looking slightly nervous in a little clear raincoat with blue pipping. Next to a foot ignore the foot

Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass

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CRY, VOIDBRINGER is out everywhere! Thank you all for your support, it's been a wonderful ride 🥰

Order the book here: artofelaineho.com/books/

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Palestine - 1 - Stories from the eve of the Nakba | Comma Press £11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh, Ahmad Jaber, Anwar Hamed, Mahmoud Shukair and others

Cover reveal day for Palestine -1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba by Comma Press! I have a story in this one. It launches November 13th. Pre-orders are open at the link below:

commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

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4 months ago

required listening tbh

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