Naomi Libicki

a bread board with two challot next to a glass dish with a honey jar, dates, a pomegranate, and an apple

three grilled fish and lime slices on a ceramic dish

crescent-shaped pastries in a blue and white ceramic dish

And the lucky foods are finished! But preparations continue.

(The challot are from a bakery, everything else that needed to be cooked was cooked by me.)

Have a great year, everyone!

a metal bowl of black-eyed peas and spinach

a dish of sliced beets

a jar of quinces in syrup

a carrot salad with raisins in a ceramic bowl

a bundt-shaped honey cake on a blue and white ceramic plate

It* begins

*making lucky foods for Rosh Hashana

What poster did you have hanging on the wall as a child?

Lesbians in Space 2: The Sapphics Strike Back Enjoy the followup to our bestselling anthology, Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before! Can't get enough? This time we've got another 20 great stories for you in Lesbians in Space: The Sapph...

Lesbians in Space 2 is ALREADY FUNDED?? Let's keep going unlock stretch goals get authors paid more get cool art!! I'm in it btw! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... delighted and intrigued that there's enough heist stories to have a whole section ...

Check out my short story 'Hound of Annwn' in Plott Hound Issue 2! plotthoundmag.com/issues/ 🐕 it's about the Wild Hunt (my beloved)

A crowd of protesters with drums and flags. In the center, a woman dressed in pink holds up a pink sign that reads "STOP THE WAR!"

Last night in Jerusalem

one of the things I like best in fiction is simply when characters the readers like are allowed to dislike each other and do not ever have to learn better about it. all of my fictional friends do not have to be friends. in fact sometimes it is better when they are enemies, for petty reasons

Oh, it's the 1957 Soviet animated version, except we didn't actually have the movie (or anything to watch it on, for that matter) but a record+book combo (also it was in English. Probably excerpted from the English dub).

Everybody's Perfect Everybody's Perfect - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Everybody's Perfect.

Hey hey hey! My new novel Everybody's Perfect is available to preorder with a release date of June 30th 2026! (I'm linking to Amazon but you can preorder it from anywhere good books are sold) www.amazon.com/Everybodys-P...

Orders I am not a good delivery robot. 11% of my past 500 deliveries have taken longer than projected. 3% have been undeliverable due to: route impassable.

@graceseybold.bsky.social ‘s new manages to be both heart breaking and heart building: augursociety.org/orders/

New story (and incidentally, new pen name) just dropped!

Liba Kivi is me and my buddy K, and this is the first thing we've published together. \o/

swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/little-laytis-labyrinth/

One day more! One more day! One…day…more!!!!!!!!!!!

Four books for just $9.99!

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Hmmm I guess C

Stone Rael’s father, Drase of the line of Peor, is the best stonecutter Taraf the City has ever seen. Stonecutting isn’t usually women’s work, but Rael—a head taller than her brothers, and as broad across i...

(Bonus, by Alter and not by me, but I think it's pretty good (also I edited it))
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In Sunlight and in Shadow Bet is sworn to the service of the Last Court, a secret magical society that exists in the shadows of modern New York City—and her heart belongs to the Grand Sorceress. But her attempts to court Vivie...

(This one is free! You can literally just get it!)
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Schemes of the Wayfarer Seventeen years ago, Keth Caider's parents were killed in a mysterious attack. To escape the ensuing court scandal, Keth enlisted in the army, while her school rival Theraine Carfan disappeared into t...

(Drew Sarkis is me and Alter in a trenchcoat)
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The Firstborn of Death Science fiction and fantasy, mythology and encounters with the alien. From a Neolithic world of drowning islands to an Israeli desert town in the 1960s, from the realm of the gods beneath the Earth to...

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The King Is Dead The king is dead, and any plans that Nirithu, the insignificant youngest son of a warrior clan, had for his future are over. Instead, he has to look after his cousin Risokh, just freed after years spe...

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If you would like to buy my books in particular, this is a great time to do it because they are all 75%-100% off.

Oh hey! Do you like cheap ebooks? Do you like supporting indie authors? Do you like it when companies are inclusive of the Southern Hemisphere in their advertising?

Then I've got great news, because the Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale is on!

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Hear ye, hear ye! The annual Aster Glenn Gray birthday sale has begun! My birthday is not until July 2nd, and the books will remain on sale through July 4th.

Which books, you ask? This year I was feeling indecisive, so it's ALL of my books. I plan to raise prices after the sale, so buy now!

"Men are incapable of restraining their sexual urges" / "Women are incapable of restraining their sexual urges"

These are both stereotypes that exist under patriarchy, and somehow the solution to both of them is less freedom for women, and never less freedom for men.

There are stereotypes about men being incapable, though, like "men are incapable of running a household" (so women have to do it for them). There are also cases where the same negative stereotypes exist about men and women in different cultures or even somehow in the same culture... (continued)

Sunrise on Black Lake with the mist hanging in the cool air of the morning

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Naomi Libicki Naomi Libicki is an immigrant and sometimes she feels like an alien. They live in Jerusalem with their husband Alter and son. You can read her work in Apex Magazine, Terraform, and elsewhere. They mak...

I meant to mention this earlier, but anyway, it's Read an Ebook Week and all my and Alter's books are discounted on Smashwords www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Ahh thank you I hope you like it!

The King Is Dead Fantasy | LGBT | Romance | High Fantasy | Epic

It's cool that you're doing this! Here's my gay, Jew-ish (secondary world so not actually Jewish but that's the inspiration) sorcerer and his traumatized cousin negotiating court politics, religious conflict, family drama, and forbidden magic: storyoriginapp.com/universalboo...