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My loins are so girded!

It's book launching time! On February 25, join us at Powells Books on Burnside at 7pm to celebrate our first title The Rain Artist with Felicity and C.R. Foster. The event is free! powells.com/events-update

Stylized devil performs cunnilngus.

Read # 4 for the year will be Kayli Scholtz’s St. Grit from @ghoulish.bsky.social in eBook form. I was fortunate to read an early draft of this one and I have a story alongside one of Kayli’s in the Nightmare Diaries anthology coming later this year from @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social, so here we go.

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The Scientist Who Saved the World Dr. Katalin Karikó devoted her career to understanding—and evangelizing—the possibilities of mRNA. When the pandemic struck, her unheralded work became the basis for the world’s most effective ...

If you need inspiration as you toil, this account of mRNA scientist Katalin Karikó is wonderful. #STS www.glamour.com/story/katali...

snufkin walking at night

I don’t think of myself as a “snowbird” just because I leave town in winter - I prefer to think of it as being Snufkin-coded.

Screenshot of Scrivener's Auto-Correction options, highlighting the auto-complete section. Uncheck for a less annoying creative writing experience.

If you are a creative writer you likely don't want stock suggestions for your prose / verse coming from a computer's operating system. If you use Scrivener, uncheck this box (as well as others) for a less invasive writing experience.

Scrivener 3.3.6 here on MacOS Sonoma 14.1.

Stack of books

What’s in your bedside book-stack?

And if the earth no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I’m flowing.
To the flashing water say: I am.

XXIX the finale of The Orpheus Sonnets Rilke tr Mitchell

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Ooh, thank you! Checking it out!

Fall in the Pacific Northwest

HBD Womble! 🍰

Once they add a robust “mute words” function, I will be happy as a clam in chowder.

The Sonnets of Orpheus XXVII Rilke tr Mitchell

Are we really as fate keeps trying to convince us, weak and brittle in an alien world?

I don’t mind a nudge!

5 steps to collaboration — Moonstruck Books Publishing horror shouldn’t be hair-raising.

What happens after we read your submission? Here are the 5 steps from review to acquisition 🌈📚 www.moonstruck-books.com/blog/5-steps...

Born for camp!

BlueSky Invites Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, and members of related communities or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and w...

In an effort to keep Bluesky more intelligent and humane than certain other platforms, we’ve been donating invite codes to scientists and academics. If you’ve got an extra, consider giving it to someone in the field! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Currently reading Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai—super creative, gender bent, multicultural-lingual, epistolary interpretation of Frankenstein! They’ve got it at my library.

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One of my favorite books of 2023 is Meet Us By The Roaring Sea, by Akil Kumarasamy 😍

Towards the Afropastoral: What Nope Says About the Black Western Jordan Peele's 'Nope' refashions the Western as a genre that tells a story of American erasure by its survivors.

New today on the site:

Celia Mattison’s “Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western”

Pattern of medieval beasts in blue and white on a dark ground

Art for the (printable) November calendar

Where is a sea star's head? Maybe just about everywhere A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the riddle of sea star (commonly called starfish) body plans, and how sea stars start life with bilateral body symmetry -- just l...

"The research revealed that sea stars have a headlike territory in the center of each "arm" and a tail-like region along the perimeter. In an unexpected twist, no part of the sea star ectoderm expresses a "trunk" genetic patterning program, suggesting that sea stars are mostly headlike."

it's November and so I feel justified in asking this question: what are some of the best gifts characters in SFF have given to others, or been given themselves?

Co-sign. This is one of many reasons we made our open call for anthology submissions so long! Quality takes time.

It’s a sign that you’re about to have a creative breakthrough, in this editor’s opinion 💫

1995 Martin Scorsese A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese — "A Common Memory"

"It's as if movies answer an ancient quest for the common unconscious. They fulfill a spiritual need that people have to share a common memory."

- Martin Scorsese

A male ginkgo tree with golden leaves

Hello, November 🍂