Author T.G. Joye

I've already got two books in partial drafts, and here I am working on a third 😂😭

I just started working on something I've been kicking around a bit. Right now I'm calling it 'The Tyrant Protocol' and it's about two trans men; one a villain and one a superhero, working together to take down the corrupt superhero system that protects billionaires. #WIPLash

Hello humans and/or book hoarders of various creaturehood. Might I entice you to buy my books. They are:

- AI free
- Legible
- Not part of a balanced breakfast
- Very queer
- AI free
- Throwable (in physical format)
- Emotion causing
- A thing I'd like to do for a living
and
- AI free

I've only got two novels out so far, one's a high fantasy, the other is historical urban fantasy. All queer, all the time! bsky.app/profile/auth...

The most recent thing I released was a marketing zine, because none of the marketing advice being shared online for indie writers works well and I wanted to talk about it. it is free/pwyw:
ko-fi.com/s/63a3cb9a1e

Most of my work is only mildly spicy, maybe clocking in at spice level 2? I don't make a secret of people having sex, but I don't go in-depth in my current series. Standalones can get to a 3-4, but are always on the sweet & loving side.

Text: What? #WSPit. Author Hype Event. Industry Participation welcome. When? February 25, 2025, your time zone. Where? Bluesky only. Authors: Please do your due diligence to vet anyone who requests your materials before sending it. A cream background with transparent retro flowers

General Guidelines: Regular #WIPSnips participation not required. Pitch must fit in single post. All imagines use alt text. No Generative AI. Published works, thread any links or direct to link in bio. Limit three posts per work. Use appropriate hashtags. Be kind. Like, respot, comments Highly encouraged. A cream background with transparent retro flowers

Special Feeds and Hashtags: To make industry participation easier or to connect with other authors in a similar place in their journey or to help readers find published books, use the hashtags and feeds to note where you are in the process. WIPs: hashtag #W and feed #WSPit WIPs, Querying: Hashtag #Q and Feed: #WSPit Querying, Agented(but not on sub): Hashtag #AG and Feed: #WSPit Agented, On submission: Hashtag #OS and feed: #WSPit On Submission, Published: Hashtag #P and Feed: #WSPit Published A cream background with transparent retro flowers

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✨UPDATED✨ Guidelines for #WSPit

Please read them ALL.

This is an AUTHOR HYPE EVENT (but industry participation is welcome).

#WIPSnips has always been about growing community.

You show up and share glimpses into your works, but this gives the chance to go beyond snips and pitch your work!

#WSPit Follow the Feeds to look for authors who are at the same place as you are in your journey or to support Published Authors #WSPit WIPs, #WSPit Querying, #WSPit Agented #WSPit On Submission, #WSPit Published

There are FEEDS, which should make it easier to connect with people in the same part of their journey or if you want to find published books.

The feeds can be found by searching #WSPit in Feeds. They exist for WIPs, Querying, Agented, On Submission, & Published.

You can search the hashtag too.

A Note on Timezones #WSPit #WIPSnips is a very global community, so I didn't want to restrict the event time. However, from watching other pitch events, I think midnight easter to 2pm eastern is usually the best time to post.

#WSPit Time

#WIPSnips is global so I don't want people to fret, however, I think between midnight to 2pm EASTERN is usually the most active.

Use a converter like this to help you decide when might be best for you but if it's the 25th where you are, you can post: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c...

I am having to give into this plot bunny and write some stuff for a project I hadn't planned on starting until I'd worked out hosting/publishing first. Remember kids: I deas are a dime a dozen, but only you can write a t4t power couple destroying the billionaire cabal ruling the world.

AnotherIndieWriter - Twitch Co-working stream! I'm back. Maybe? | Writing Sprints | !kofi !books !stickers

Coworking stream time. I'm finally back working on my books. Come get things done with me.

twitch.tv/anotherindie...

I promised a monkey foot book promo so here you go: buy my book please!🐵 #authorsky #booksky

Reminder to not comply with Discord's age verification when it rolls out. It is not worth it and is a privacy nightmare.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

I ended up rage-quitting the platform over the de-indexing of my work. I didn't have my books on there, but I did have all my solo tabletop work and some short stories there. Some of it was NSFW, but all my games should have stayed listed.

had to go platonic with this b/c of where I'm at in my draft.

“you’re important to us. I’d like to think we’re friends.” Kanat, an ogre from the Khanate and one of the true foreigners among them, would not share such sentiments unless they were true.
Daumantas gathered his fellow ogre and felis companion into a big hug. “Thank you, thank you both!”

WHHYYYYYYY 😭

Thankfully no one can be summoned by name alone. Daumantas is the performing arts guy, he'd be the most likely to invent a dance move. I think it would be called the ogre shuffle. #ParodyBookChat

Laurentius the Mad Sorcerer King tried once, and he'd like to give it another go if my other characters would kindly step out of the way #ParodyBookChat

I have to admit that I am partial to a good ellipses. Always satisfying to use correctly #ParodyBookChat

I'm Cyril Valentin, and I'm embarassed enough that someone wrote a song about my teenage years, but then this T.G. person went and wrote a whole damn series about my life.

WELCOME BOOK BARISTAS to Mocha Memoirs Press

And mochamemoirspress.com?v=0b3b97fa66... Memoirs Press, which is poc owned-

I got two small presses for you:
Space Wizard Science Fantasy, which has a host of lgbtqia+ books-
www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com

I've not seen or heard of any writing competitions I can think of. I don't think I've come across any since I started writing seriously in 2020. I have been in at least one (spicy!) anthology, but the submission process wasn't run as a contest.

Repeated words/phrases. I tend to subconsciously repeat myself, and sometimes will re-write something and forget to delete the original.

I have two cats. Dr. Beverly Crusher (six pounds of pure void chaos) and Ensign Chekov (a typical orange chonk.)

SFWA Career Mentor Questionnaire Greetings, SFWA Mentorship Program Mentor Applicant! We're happy that you're interested in our program, and we're gratified to see you “paying it forward.” One of the Mentorship Program's goals is to…

MENTORS WANTED: Help newer writers in the SFWA Career Mentorship Program! Apply by February 21 to provide 3 months of professional development. No critiques required, just advice!

You do *not* need to be a SFWA member. Apply here: 👇️

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The thing that really bothers me about pushes to sanitize the Internet is how groups have found invoking protecting children so effective. They don't have to explain beyone 'protect the children', so they never have to voice how they want to erase queer people and women to a degree from public view.

Join us Feb 27 at 18:00 (Kyiv time) for a webinar on Romani histories and racial justice.

With Madeline Potter (The Roma: A Traveling History) and Margareta Matache (The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism), exploring new ways of understanding and challenging anti-Roma racism.