Rebecca Wilcox

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Fall into Fiction 2025 In November, RevPit is hosting Fall into Fiction, a minievent to provide support, accountability, and a welcoming, inclusive community for f

Announcement!

RevPit's Fall into Fiction is back and it will all take place here on Bluesky!

We hope to provide support, accountability, and a welcoming, inclusive community for fiction writers who are drafting, editing, or querying a novel this fall (11/3-21)

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One of my WIPs was picked for the #RevPit #10Queries event today, but I’m stuck doing school stuff and can’t camp the feed. 😅

I sent a fantasy book this time. I guess I’ll see how it goes later?

A blue graphic with text on it with information about the Traveling SFF Festival. The text reads: 8 nights, 8 cities, 8 panel discussions Elaine Cho, JR Dawson, Emily Jane, Micaiah Johnson, Yume Kitasei, Mia Tsai, Julia Vee, with Amanda Foody, Matthew Kressel, Ray Nayler, Sarah Pinsker, Veronica Roth, Fran Wilde Week 1 Monday, Oct 13: PT Knitwear, New York, NY Wednesday, Oct 15: Greedy Reads Remington, Baltimore, MD Thursday, Oct 16: East City Bookshop, Washington, DC Friday, Oct 17: Mavey Books, Philadelphi, PA (Ardmore) Week 2 Tuesday, Oct 21: Possible Futures, New Haven, CT Wednesday, Oct 22: Smith College, Northampton, MA Thursday, Oct 23: Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT Friday, Oct 24: Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA

A blue graphic with the Traveling SFF Festival logo on the top left side. The header of the graphic reads, "Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Festival 2025." On the left side of the graphic is a photo of Mia Tsai, a Taiwanese American woman wearing a book-print dress; below is the cover of The Memory Hunters. On the right side is the text: Mia Tsai Mia Tsai is a Taiwanese American author of BITTER MEDICINE, a xianxia-inspired contemporary fantasy, and THE MEMORY HUNTERS. She is also an editor at Giganotosaurus, a 2024 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Semiprozine, and the creator of ConCurrent, a SFF convention. At the bottom of the graphic is the text: Traveling Festival Panels 10/21 - Possible Futures, New Haven 10/22 - Smith College, Northampton 10/23 - Norwich Bookstore, Norwich 10/24 - Brookline Booksmith, Boston

Friends in the Northeast! I and a whole bunch of authors are headed your way in the next two weeks for @yumewrites.bsky.social 's Traveling SFF Festival! Instead of having conversation partners, we'll be paneling with one another at each stop. More info at
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It's my turn for #RevPit #10Queries! As @jenichappelle.bsky.social explained, these were randomly assigned. You're welcome to ask questions, even if the letter isn't yours. I'm around pretty much all day so I'll field them as I can. Okay, here we go!

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It’s #RevPit day!

The world is on fire, but today the RevPit editors invite you to spend some time honing your craft with us.

Because stories matter. Your story matters.

So. I’m awake and caffeinated and full of querying advice.

And I’m up first with my #10Queries!

Who’s ready?

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70% UNLOCKED! Lesley and Rebecca will be reading CreepyPasta stories selected by our followers and doing a small affirmation critique of the story. This live event is sure to be hysterical!

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A family member in Portland Oregon died unexpectedly and left behind a 2 year old husky who is currently on a 5 day hold in a shelter while I try to figure out a way to get her to me here in Portland Maine so that I can adopt her...without it costing All the Money.

Anyone have any ideas?

Author Zoom (and an update!)

Happy...Wednesday? I know I usually post on Fridays, but I wanted to let you all know I'm doing an author zoom with Jan Fagan, the author of Signs In The Willows, this Saturday from 1-2pm PST (4-5pm EST). We plan to have a lot of fun, with games, a giveaway, readings,…

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Campaign started for @roguestarmag.bsky.social. If we meet our $1200 goal, we'll be able to pay authors SFWA pro rates for fiction (one previously unpublished story quarterly) starting January 2026. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... (re-posted w/corrected link) #signalboost #writers #authors

It's Asexual Awareness Week, so here's a reminder that we don't need permission to belong. You are right just the way you are, and communities are lucky to have you.

RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

a horror movie but you’re being chased through a cornfield by all the story ideas in your notes app you never wrote

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Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.

I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Did you miss the virtual #NoKings protest that was healthcare-themed?

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In the footsteps of Anthropic: a new class action (not yet certified) against Salesforce for using pirated books for AI training. There will be more of these

This should be a lot of fun! I’m sending my two pages as soon as I figure out which project to throw at them. 😅

“Resistance can be joyful” • Oregon ArtsWatch Portland protest artists on creativity, resilience, inflatable frogs, and protecting the soul of the city.

after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism

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Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Today’s a tutorial level protest for people who’ve never experienced one before, please don’t shit on beginners for not starting on expert level.

Hillary's La Lune | Peculiarity Shop The moon hangs in the sky, a companion to our midnight revels. Components: ceramics from ScorchedEarth, copper/zinc alloy Lead/nickel free

Thread of COOL STUFF ON THE SHOP AT 20% OFF.

LGBTQIA+ Staffed, artist named takes 70% of the sale. Flat $4 shipping in the States.

La Lune. Handmade moon ceramics from England with ornate boho blades, $16.

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Anyone know who the current reasonably-trustworthy and reasonably-priced print on demand T-shirt vendors are these days? The "upload a design, they print it and take a cut for each order" style?

Today, if you need permission, and not that you need permission, my brethren in Creative Christ, say that you are proud of the thing you did, the thing you are doing, and your nascent plans for things to come.

Sometimes you gotta release that joy.

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

The Apple-Tree Throne Buy The Apple-Tree Throne: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!

A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

Please preorder our book.

We have been unsupervised and made some HUGE plans for the sequel, but the first book HAS to make some good sales for it to happen!

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.