M. Stevenson

Issue 26 Love Y'all recap, a survey, a cover reveal, and how I organize my ideas

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A graphic with a large yellow banner in the middle announcing "Live on Kickstarter! We've Always Been Here: A queer historical zine." The bottom text is in a rainbow gradient with little rainbows framing the box. Above this is a mockup of the book's cover alongside some page mockups, and the bottom half features three other illustration previews.

🎉 Live on Kickstarter! 🎉

We've Always Been Here: A multicultural art book celebrating queerness throughout history, with illustrations from over 50 incredible artists! 🌈

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#ZineSky #Zines #LGBTQ #LGBTQArt #QueerArt

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Really looking forward to chatting all things Shipwright and Shroudweaver with @dunfermlinereads.bsky.social this Thursday 26th at 7:30pm on Instagram live. Come say hello!

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Apparently the UK paperback of BEHOOVED is part of the Waterstones 25% off preorder sale! And if you click the link, you might get a preview of the new paperback look that has not been officially revealed yet 👀
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Behooved by M. Stevenson | Waterstones Buy Behooved by M. Stevenson from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Apparently the UK paperback of BEHOOVED is part of the Waterstones 25% off preorder sale! And if you click the link, you might get a preview of the new paperback look that has not been officially revealed yet 👀
www.waterstones.com/book/behoove...

two cute frog cherub gifting flowers illustration by chetom

adorable tiny frog valentine's cherub angel with bow and tiny wings adorable frog art by chetom

Valentine froggies ♥️🐸🥰 #frogart

My debut published in May and I have two more coming out in 2027, so pretty good, I'd say!

Tiny toad work

Oh, and that's only counting books with at least a completed first draft. I can't even begin to count the partial things--there are so many.

To add on to this: my first published book was my seventh manuscript. I'm currently at 16 completed manuscripts, of which 3 have sold to a publisher.

Not sure what the actual number will end up being since some of my unpublished stuff just hasn't had a chance on submission yet, or I might self publish it sometime down the road. But four that are forever trunked, and one post publication whose fate is TBD after my publisher rejected it.

so true 😭

my hand holding 5 small whistles in cool color combos: a sweet bisexual, a northern lights, a lemon & lime, a pastel rainbow, and a flame colored one.

Okay, it took me three days to finally do this, BUT!

You can buy whistles from us now!

I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK!

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ENTER HERE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PORTALS is eligible for a Nebula nomination! If you're an #SFWA member and would like a free review copy, get in touch with me and @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social via email and we'd be happy to send one along.

#SFF #horror #booksky

Cover of an anthology called Enter Here, edited by C.J. Subko and M. Stevenson.

Bookmail! So excited to read this @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social @cjsubko.bsky.social! Thanks for running the Kickstarter for this!

I hope you enjoy it!

It was the kind of audacious idea that can make a fortune. Combine a widely loved concept with a just as widely loved item. What could go wrong?

Pre-opening sign-ups filled up in minutes.

In practice, though, they couldn't make the cat library work.

"They won't stay on the shelves."

If you need whistles, or you want to contribute to our GoFundMe to help us get whistles across the US, visit our link tree: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

A lamp sits on a white and yellow doily and shines on a wall, illuminating a book titled ENTER HERE edited by C.J. Subko & M. Stevenson. The covet shows a door slightly ajar.

A lamp sits on a white and yellow doily. Light illuminates an open book. The page is turned to a story called SOMEWHERE IN THE NOWHERE by Michael Bettendorf. An image of a cracked lens is on the page.

Lots of things are horrendous right now, but I'm grateful for the book mail @cjsubko.bsky.social @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social
This anthology rules!

a graph showing that things were sort of slow int he beginning with few days over a couple thousand shipped, and then by mid month we were often close to 10,000, then last week we started being closer to 15,000 many days and almost 20,000 the day after a 3 day weekend. LOL

Time for the evening whistle update! Now with every nerd's favorite thing: GRAPHS!!!!!!

As you can see, the whistle crew is escalating. Can't stop won't stop! Tomorrow I expect we break 100,000 for January.

Request whistles, send filament, learn more: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

an excellent match for the cover!

White woman's hand holding a book titled "enter here: an anthology of portals" featuring an image of a golden glowing door opening in the middle of a snowy, foggy forest.

Got my copy of @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social and @cjsubko.bsky.social 's Enter Here anthology (cover art by me) just in time for a cozy snow date with a book!

#Art #Booksky

It looks great in the snow!

A digital painting of an ice cube, followed by several hands closed over each other with water pouring from them. Bold text on the art reads: "ICE MELTS".

so don't get too comfortable.

#art

Carrhart clothing tag reading "relaxed straight"

Do we think this pant size also comes in "anxious queer"

Fascinating. Also....what if the tiny people are real and all around us and the mushrooms just let us see them.

That would be a dream!

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

sorry not sorry