Lucy Black, Resident Ghost

AND THIS IS THE SHORT ONE

Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...

Friends and colleagues,

I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below

Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

73k words in and I’m like. maybe 25% done with this book. I’m lucky it’s never getting a print release.

there’s slow burn romance and then there’s “one of the MCs doesn’t know the other exists for two whole novels and they spend the third unable to physically touch due to living on separate planes of existence and communicating through astral projection”. why did I choose this? who knows

A jokey ad for my book. On a bed of blood spattered roses white text asks: What does a lesbian bring to a first date? A. A forty billion dollar dagger B. A divine debt C. Trillionaire daddy issues D. 300,000 clones E. An impending sense of doom F. All of the above If you guessed F, congrats! You're now a fan of BOOM GOES THE BRIDE. Back it: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/165a08d0-a08a-46ef-93a2-4925033efcbc/landing

I continue to make ill-advised ads that i release late at night because this is my Brand and if you're up at midnight EST then you deserve quality late-night shitpost promos. Why see ads for injury claims lawyers when you can get quality infogayment like this?

idk it’s just very weird that instead of criticizing her for her greed or her soulless pivots toward maximum appeal or her politics what I’ve personally seen the most of is “but she doesn’t understand Shakespeare!” be serious. we have real problems here.

we can maybe accuse her of being self-centered but we’d have to do that for everybody who went “he’s just like me fr” about Hamlet, not to mention the countless female artists who’ve similarly felt kinship with Ophelia and used her in their work. Shakespeare’s plays invite that kind of engagement.

there are a lot of good criticisms of the latest Taylor Swift album but “she just doesn’t get Hamlet” isn’t one of them - not liking how the story ends isn’t not understanding it, and applying themes from Hamlet to her life is something people do all the time in their own art/writing/music

at the risk of sounding like I’m going to bat for a billionaire (I’m not) I think that perhaps we should consider the misogyny in our criticisms of women’s interpretations of Shakespeare when they don’t sound suitably academic or intelligent but instead engage with his work like any other story

I also think that if you read developmentally appropriate literature and devoured it in one-book-a-day gulps as a kid, transitioning to a harder book as a young adult can freak you out and make you freeze up.

On Tumblr there’s been an influx of people reading classic lit bc the success of Dracula Daily inspired others to set up mailing lists - I’ve seen ones for Moby-Dick, Les Mis, Sherlock Holmes, and several Dickens books. IMO you’re right that it helps a long book feel approachable to nervous readers

“Bluesky isn’t fun” problem and “Bluesky is the only social media platform where you will actually see the news” problem are the same problem

GROCERY SHOPPING IS A DANGEROUS JOB, out now:
- queer urban fantasy
- established f/f and trans!m/f relationships
- Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school
- a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid
- $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop...
- $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl

SUCH A GOOD FEELING

Victor Frankenstein? Gay.
Milton's Satan? Gay.
Bram Stoker? Gay.
Quentin Compson? Trans.
Carrie White? Gay.

it’s all William and Mary’s fault. it’s also all Henry VIII’s fault, but everyone gives him the blame he deserves already.

Yes, to both. Peri and Virgo are metaphorically haunted by the deaths of their best friends when they were 21, which shattered their partnership and forced an estrangement. Meg, on the other hand, is literally haunted by an exiled faerie king who’s been waiting for her to notice she’s not alone.

#QueerWritersChat 1:

I’m Amara, 1/2 of QueerWritersChat, and I’m drafting Night Moth, a cozycreepy moth(wo)man sapphic romance!

I’m just looking forward to the vibes of October and soaking those up for much needed dopamine lol

Hiya #queerwriterschat, I'm Emily! I'm working on planning a YA fantasy superhero novel! (heck of a mouthful)

I'm looking forward to starting that. I'm also looking forward to a couple get-togethers I'm going to and a couple chances to fix some chronic health problems.

#QueerWritersChat

Hi everyone! I'm K, and I'm actually getting ready to send off a fantasy prequel short story/novelette to my editor and search for a cover artist!

Hi #QueerWritersChat! I’m Lucille or Lucy, I write fantasy, and I’m working on what I can only call an adventure/mystery urban f/f romantasy called Blood Ties and Brickways centering around a young woman named Meg as she navigates the faerie Midwest and falls in love with an undead lesbian god-king.

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

it might sound crazy but i actually really like bluesky and enjoy my time here and would like it to be a successful sustainable platform

the series that this story started as a (pointed, frustrated) reply to features bigotry as a plot point but can’t decide what to do with it, and the consequence of being a marginalized person and wanting to write about systems of power = somebody has to talk about fantastic racism and it’s me

somehow I wound up doing The Big Faerie Racism Infodump before I planned but I think it works. unfortunately talking about The Big Faerie Racism Infodump makes me sound unhinged.

GROCERY SHOPPING IS A DANGEROUS JOB, out now:
- queer teen cozy fantasy
- Animorphs meets early Buffy meets boarding school story
- want to read about a werewolf and faeries and a human jock fighting a giant squid?
- free: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop...
- $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl

The original concept stemmed from wanting to write a frustrated response to a certain massively popular children’s fantasy series, but in addition to English school stories I also took inspiration from Buffy, Charmed, Animorphs, Gemma Doyle, Yu+Me: Dream, yuri anime, and the Elemental Logic series

it’s some kind of law of nature since 2020 that Taylor Swift will come out with a song that is eerily similar to the subject of my current writing project after I’ve begun working on it. I don’t know what I’ve done to make this happen but I don’t think it’s going to stop any time soon.

It’s literary fiction if cishet neurotypical white men either like it or can no longer successfully argue against it being objectively good. All else is genre.

oh this is definitely a “good for her” situation, don’t worry! Meg’s trouble will be finding a way to get this currently-intangible sort-of-love-interest back into this plane of existence and into a body again, but her presence is a net positive