Shea Sullivan

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A year ago, I proposed making a web ring for independent presses! And - tada! The Indie Press Webring connects independent publishing houses. We're small, and we need your help spreading the word so we can grow.

Readers and Press folks alike, check it out: indiepresswebring.com

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That’s a frustrating conundrum. But it’s good you were able to be there!

Storygraph year summary of my reading. First book: The Firekeeper’s Daughter; Last book: A Deadly Education; Longest: Shadow of Night; shortest: ghost stories by Taylor Lear. Top genres in order: Fantasy, LGBTQIA+, Young Adult, mystery, romance 5 star reads: The Firekeeper’s Daughter, A Taste of Gold and Iron, Yelen & Yelena by C M Rosens.

Cover collage of books I read this year: The Firekeeper’s Daughter, A Taste of Gold and Iron, Yelen & Yelena by C.M, Rosens, The Onion Girl, Spear, Blood Sisters, Sand Talk, Wild, Tranny, Dead Collections, Four Winds, All the Crooked Saints, Dead Girls Walking, Rust in the Root, Zen in the Art of Writing, Shadow of Night, Carving Hawk, The Persuaders, You are the One You’re looking for, dare to lead, a Misfortune of Lake Monsters, The Truth About Ember, ghost stories, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilt go Free, Magodiz, Mutual Aid, The Tainted Cup, A Master of Djinn, Bad Cree, The War of Art, Looking for Smoke, A Dark and Drowning Tide, A Deadly Education

2025 reading:

Graphic 4 of 6. A book cover and its title, and a stack of three book covers with text on glittery blue background. The book is: The Agony of Authenticity by Lyn Weaver. The top book cover of the stack is Evidence #2—Do Not Discard by Rascal Hartley. The text reads: over 40 short stories.

Graphic 5 of 6. Two banners of merch collections and text on glittery blue background. The merch collections are: Fannish Safety Signs by Xianyu Zhou; Pride Flag Dragons by Florilège. The text reads: ...and Two Merch Collections!

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40+ short stories, 12 art pieces, and 12 panel recordings for our Patreon backers: www.patreon.com/c/duckprints...

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As I dip a toe back into creative endeavors, I find myself in the, ‘wow, I used to make some pretty good stuff. Not sure I’ll be able to do that again,’ stage of return. Been here before, it’s worrisome every time, but less so.

YouTube video by struthless I truly hope I'm just being paranoid about this

I’m basically off social media atm for mental health reasons, but I have to recommend this to everyone I know (and everyone I don’t): youtu.be/CCXnZIjSj1Q?...

The Chair with Sandra Oh (my beloved) is worth the watch.

Kink your tober with DPP! I haven’t written in… whoo boy. A while. But I might manage some fic this month with some of these spicy prompts. ;)

I read one book in September, A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft, a sapphic, academia, enemies-to-lovers.

Does anyone else go in ‘seasons’? I’m moving from reading into work & hibernation mode. Some of this might be due to needing my next dose of Ocrevus, but this is also just how I work.

Have you actually kissed/been kissed where there was anyone’s tongue tracing the seam of anyone’s lips? I don’t think that’s ever happened to me, ever. It’s generally a two mouths open situation.

I mean, same, for a good long time!!

I’d recommend Hermann Hesse. My favorites are: Demian, Gertrude, and Steppenwolf.

Note to self: live music is an INTENSE power-up! Do more of that!!

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Congrats, Dei! I’ll keep my eyes peeled for it!

Oh, hey! It me! I’ve been much more in a visual art mode of late (as opposed to the writing sort), and this piece was so fun to work on. I’m very proud of these lovely ladies!

We're currently $29/month in backing from my being able to give our authors and artists a raise on pieces they make for Patreon.

That's only 10 people backing at the $3/month level, or 6 at the $5, or 3 at the $10. That's like. hardly any people at all!

So please help by sharing this. <3

Just want to say thank you to Bluesky for recognizing that sometimes adults want to see or read things that are not for kids, and we’re allowed to do that, actually. (This brought to you by a link from tumblr, where they don’t feel this way, despite being the freaksxfreaks site.)

#Booksky So we were going to do a book announcement today but the cool award news took precedence, so we’ll announce tomorrow. In the meantime, it’s #SapphicSeptember and you can find our sapphic titles everywhere from our website to Bookshop to Kobo and Bella! queenofswordspress.com

Apparently I’ve finished 0 books in August. It’s been a black hole month - lots of in, no out. But there is fermenting happening. Some kind of caterpillar thing. See you next month, maybe.

A mosaic of twelve art pieces, each in a different style and palette. They are in three rows of four across. Top left corner: two women, one spectral, surrounded by a ring of flames. Top left-center: A person with blue hair wearing an orange draws touches noses with a cat dragon; the whole thing is in the colors of the aroace flag. Top center-right: A lineart piece of a person lounging in a forest, reaching toward a pond before them. Top right: Two women standing side by side, both white, one in a leather jacket the other in a t-shirt; both are blushing, and they look with nervous affection toward each other. Middle left: two mermaids, one pink the other turquoise, sing in a dark sea, one reaching for a rainbow seahorse. Middle center-left: Two men, one black and one white, shown from the back. Both wear cowboy outfits, and they have their arms around each other. Middle center-right: Two older men sit together on the deck of a boat floating in a lake. Middle right: Two men in button-up shirts and cowboy hats stand shoulder to shoulder before a fence. Bottom left: a woman in the colors of the bi pride flag holds a flame-like fairy in her raised hands. Bottom center-left: Two epople, gender ambiguous, dressed in leaf-crowns and robes conduct a handfasting before gourds and candles. Bottom center-right: an elderly woman and a sphinx touch noses in a stony landscape. Bottom right: Two people, one black, one white, in fantasy winter garb hold hands, Magic sparks rise from where they hold hands.

Get your 2026 calendar of queer art, featuring 12 gorgeous now through Sept 15. We're also offering art prints of each individual piece. Forget Christmas - the holidays on this holiday are queer, such as Bi Day of Visibility. Learn more and get yours: duckprintspress.com/2026-queer-a...

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Text and black silhouettes of a flying dragon and a biplane on the background of a Rainbow Flag. The text reads: 12 Queer Books for Aviation Day.

12 book covers on the background of a Rainbow Flag. The books are: Brooms by Jasmine Walls; The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui; Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard; Stars of Chaos by priest; The Flying Ship by Jem Milton; The Dragon by Tai Yangjun; Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone; Dragon Falls by Davis Lavender; The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox; On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden; All Systems Red by Martha Wells; Temeraire by Naomi Novik; Havemercy by Danielle Bennett & Jaida Jones.

Today is National Aviation Day in the US! We asked our contributors to recommend their favorite queer books that prominently feature aviation, expanded to include all sorts of piloting. Yes, we did get a lot of dragons. This list as a blog post: duckprintspress.com/2025/08/19/f...

I mean, I’m not 100% sure (though I’ve been stung before, just don’t know by what), but I will always be cautious with stings. I’m really hoping to never find out either way.

Today I learned that I’m not deathly allergic to Yellowjacket stings, and that they sometimes have nests in the ground. Yay, knowledge. 🫠

I did not paint today, but I did go buy art supplies, so that kinda counts, right?

Importing and exporting is a cut/paste situation to my knowledge. They’re great in that they’re actively making improvements, and very responsive, and very clearly anti-genAI. But it’s early days, and mainly focused on online writing and sharing rather than prep for export/print/submission.

Just signed this - keep reposting, everyone!

I GOT MY BAT STICKERS!!! 🙏🙌🏻❤️ go get this awesome, very popular anthology of cozy academia. You have…13 minutes! 😂

Stretch goal time, bb!!