Tessa Gratton

By the great @annienocenti.bsky.social
Daredevil #283 (1990)

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

There is *no* ethical use of genAI. It is built on stolen art, through exploitative labour, and every day as they train new model and answer query, they burn immense amount of energy & water.

It has no place in our field, none.

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.

It's your birthday, Duane.

A Blue Jay giving a mid-flight glance over his/her shoulder while showing those beautiful blue feathers.

I’ll take Genre Organizations Trying to Destroy Their Awards Systems for a thousand, Alex.

probably not until it's warm outside!!! LOL

Based on her narrative I would wait until at least the third play thru 😂

Yesterday at a certain point with my tattoo artist, I was like "I can't participate in conversation anymore bc pain but please keep talking" and she talked me through her entire 6th play-thru of this game in which she finally tried "dark urge" and had regrets! but it was very relaxing for me.

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My copy editor has pointed out that in book one they’re called cloud whales!!! WHOOPS 😂

And the babes together!

those adorable skywhales!!!

Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira of the book 'The Shape of Monsters' by Tessa Gratton, featuring a reddish-brown skinned young man with dark short curled hair, dressed in a sleeveless dark robe. His left eye is glowing gold and he's pulling gold geometric threads apart with this hands. Below, there is the silhouette of a city, one small moon, and two tiny sky whales.

Here's the cover illustration I had the pleasure of painting for 'The Shape of Monsters' by @tessagratton.bsky.social , for Orbit Books!

It's Book 2 of The Moon Heresies trilogy and sequel to The Mercy Makers 🌔

Out June 2026!

oh, yes.

WOAH!!!!! that's so awesome.

😍

haha, I *should* do a newsletter before the end of the year...

cover of THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, book 2 in the Moon Heresies Trilogy, by Tessa Gratton against a dark teal background with stars and threads of magic. Cover depicts a brown skinned young man in a sleeveless red-brown robe pulling apart threads of magic with his bare hands. His left eye is golden and possibly connected to the magical threads. Beneath him is a magical bronze city-scape, and in the gray-brown sky a single bright blue star falls.

THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, Book 2 of THE MOON HERESIES TRILOGY, has a cover!

And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026

Design by Stephanie Hess⁣
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social

Thank you!!!

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

this article is SO GOOD

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Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!

For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.

Imagine what we could do with $$$

www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

yes! and I, too, am interested to find out if I manage to stick the landing, LMAO.

Thank you!

If you're an author of queer lit with copies burning a hole in your pocket (or tumbling off your shelves) and you want to contribute a few to the Bookish Holiday Drive, please email me at LGBTQReads@gmail.com to let me know!

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Thank you for letting me know too!

Just grabbed it for the same price on Apple Books, so heads-up to non-Kindle users about that option!