Alexandra Raetz

I'm pretty sure I learned about Van Canto through one of your posts and that was basically my reaction 😆

As someone that has found catharsis in writing, I feel this, and hope you can find a schedule that lets you take care of life's tasks and get to cartooning. You and your work have been a big part of my life for a long time and I'm cheering you on. 🎉

Turns out a 12 hour flight where sleep is impossible is actually a great time to crank out a ton of words on the page, but sadly not a viable writing location on the regular.

I need to find a nice cafe nearby that I can try to replicate the effect in

The Lesson - Touched and the Untouchable Touched and the Untouchable - Chapter 15 | The country of Suleit has long been under a magus' curse, creating sudden expanses of elemental energy called Zones. Those caught inside of it are known as t...

Chapter 15:

Lirena is off on another job, but Yvonne is keeping busy figuring out this whole swordfighting business.

#lightnovel #honeyfeed #wlw #sapphic #webnovel

www.honeyfeed.fm/chapters/173...

I had actually been looking up literary magazines that might fit the things I like to write, so this came at a perfect time! Can't wait to see all of the work going into this!

Bona Books Presents A new queer literary magazine FANTABULOSA! Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices. Science fiction, fantasy and horror Short fiction & poetry Submissions open now

Follow us to hear all the news, and - if you know any queer writers - please share this FAR and WIDE.

We're ravenously seeking:

QUEER FICTION, up to 6,000 words, in science fiction, fantasy or speculative horror ($0.08 /word)

QUEER SPECULATIVE POETRY ($50 /poem)

No reprints. #writersky 🌈📚💙

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

Hopefully now that the busy season and overtime at work is over, I will have time to get back on a regular writing schedule 💀

The Recovery - Touched and the Untouchable Touched and the Untouchable - Chapter 14 | The country of Suleit has long been under a magus' curse, creating sudden expanses of elemental energy called Zones. Those caught inside of it are known as t...

Chapter 14 is finally up!

Lirena has offered to provide sword lessons to Yvonne, but before that can happen, the blacksmith has to be nursed back to health, whether she likes it or not.

#lightnovel #honeyfeed #wlw #sapphic #webnovel

www.honeyfeed.fm/chapters/164...

I was actually scrolling to see if this was brought up, because I was wondering how frequent such an option was taken. It certainly would be the choice that I would take in such a scenario, given the clear differences in writing structures

#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎

You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...

Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

Inside an Anthology: This is How We Roll ed. by Rosiee Thor Today on the site I'm delighted to give a peek inside This is How We Roll ed. by Rosiee Thor, a YA anthology out today that features queer stories about tabletop games! Here's the gist: The magic of tabletop RPGs lives in the creativity of the players. Given the chance to explore gender, relationships, and queer existence across vast worlds with completely different sets of rules, queer players throughout the years have found acceptance, camaraderie, and joy by rolling the dice and kicking ass.

Inside an Anthology: This is How We Roll ed. by Rosiee Thor

Today on the site I'm delighted to give a peek inside This is How We Roll ed. by Rosiee Thor, a YA anthology out today that features queer stories about tabletop games! Here's the gist: The magic of tabletop RPGs lives in the creativity…

Fave Five: Fiction with Sapphic Knights The Afterward by E.K. Johnston (YA) Where Shadows Bloom by Catherine Bakewell (YA) A Knight to Remember by Bridget Essex The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond Her Pretty Knight by Mariah Rae Birch …

Doing the #SapphicSeptember challenge and need some help finding books? No prob.

Sapphic Knights: lgbtqreads.com/2025/03/10/f...

Transfem MC: lgbtqreads.com/2023/05/10/f... and lgbtqreads.com/2024/12/10/f...

Text reads: 20 sapphic graphic novels to read during Sapphic September at Proud Geek www.proud-geek.co.uk

20 book covers for queer graphic novels with sapphic main characters: ▪️ S.I.R. by Fell Hound & Eleonora Bruni ▪️ Leap by Simina Popescu ▪️ Grand Slam Romance by Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous ▪️ Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell ▪️ Heavy Vinyl Complete Collection by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva & Irene Flores ▪️ The Girl From The Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag ▪️ Thieves by Lucie Bryon ▪️ The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All by Sumiko Arai ▪️ How Could You by Ren Strapp ▪️ The Strange Case OF Harleen And Harley by Melisa Marr & Jenn St-Onge ▪️ Galaxy The Prettiest Star by Jadiza Axelrod & Jess Taylor ▪️ Hollow by Shannon Watters & Branden Boyer-White ▪️ Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer ▪️ The Avant-Guards Complete Collection by Carly Usdin & Noah Hayes ▪️ Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky ▪️ Belle Of The Ball by Mari Costa ▪️ Waves by Ingrid Chabbert & Carole Maurel ▪️ Succulent edited by Niki Smith, Ollie Hicks & Tab Kimpton ▪️ Mooncakes by Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker ▪️ Specter Inspectors by Bowen McCurdy & Kaitlyn Musto

Are you taking part in the #SapphicSeptember readathon and looking to add some graphic novels to your TBR? Here’s a list of 20 queer graphic novels with sapphic main characters to add to your bookshelf:

(There's a list of book titles, authors in the alt text)

#booksky #sapphicbooks

And now by posting this, you have similarly interrupted countless others.

... what was I doing? 😳

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow"

We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

When I started on my current writing project, I set out a plan for biweekly chapter postings. It was manageable with my job, but started to slip as the busy season for work started.

I would desperately love for my job to not mentally burn me out so badly that I can't do the thing that I love.💀

If you write ‘unalive’ in prose or character dialogue, in your NOVEL - which I have seen TWICE NOW - I will immediately wince and full body cringe. The TikTokification of words has to stop. Your character almost DIED or was KILLED in your novel. They were not almost ‘unalived’.

Text reads: Could you work for TransActual? We're looking for two part time admin assistants to join our team. Apply by 15th August 2025, 5pm. More info: transactual.org.uk/jobs The image is a person with brown hair and glasses sat at a desk working on a laptop surrounded by books, a lam and a plant, on a blue and pink background.

We're looking for two part time admin assistants to join our team.

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from trans people, Black People and People of Colour, neurodivergent people and disabled people.

For more info go to transactual.org.uk/jobs

#hiring #LookingForWork #Queerjobs

Fave Five: Adult Sapphic Summer Romances Hot Summer by Elle Everhart That Summer Feeling by Bridget Morrissey In Her Court by Tamsen Parker Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun Whenever You’re Ready by Rachel Runya Katz

From the archives: Adult Sapphic Summer Romances lgbtqreads.com/2024/08/21/f... 🌈📚

The Mage - Touched and the Untouchable Touched and the Untouchable - Chapter 13 | The country of Suleit has long been under a magus' curse, creating sudden expanses of elemental energy called Zones. Those caught inside of it are known as t...

Chapter 13 is up!

Yvonne is sent in for medical treatment after the battle, where she meets a rather unusual visitor.

#lightnovel #honeyfeed #wlw #sapphic #webnovel

www.honeyfeed.fm/chapters/138...

By the way, the blood-pact you signed upon becoming a creative states that you don't need to create every day. The council of creative demons allow breaks. You're fine. You're not falling behind. You're no lesser a creative for needing rest. Shit happens sometimes, bro. You're doing great.

Photo of a sunny summer beach overlaid with the words "Good morning! Mondays are hard, but you know what makes them better? Pet pictures So share your favourite pet pics and let's get a thread going to cheer everyone up!"

Good morning! Mondays are hard, but you know what makes them better?

Pet pictures

So share your favourite pet pics and let's get a thread going to cheer everyone up!

A tuxedo cat stares into the camera, trying to find where the noise is coming from.

This is an old photo of her, but I love it to bits. She heard the slight whirr of the autofocus and stared right into the camera to figure out where it was coming from.

Sadly, she is wise to my photo nonsense these days. 😅

I'm glad I have a notepad to jot down story or character ideas that suddenly attack me in the middle of grocery shopping... but they do unfortunately add to an already unwieldy list I want to work through...

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

The Horned King from the animated movie "The Black Cauldron" standing in a stone staircase, pointing his green clawed hand, and the image is captioned "Be weird. Be strange. Be cringe. Be so esoteric that the townsfolk spread horrific legends about all the joy you're allowing yourself to experience."

Good morning✌️🍀

The Triumph - Touched and the Untouchable Touched and the Untouchable - Chapter 12 | The country of Suleit has long been under a magus' curse, creating sudden expanses of elemental energy called Zones. Those caught inside of it are known as t...

Chapter 12 is up!

The battle with the Wraith rages on, but Lirena is more preoccupied with that's become of Yvonne.

#lightnovel #honeyfeed #wlw #sapphic #webnovel

www.honeyfeed.fm/chapters/133...

I did see that I was late, so apologies, just trying to get myself into the habit of it since that will usually fall in my timezone and availability! 😁