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Little bockwursts from the big kielbasa.

Great keynote at @wilwrite.bsky.social Willamette Writers Conference 2025 by Charlie Jane Anders @charliejane.bsky.social offered 17 tips for writer resilience (read a lot, be weird). Good stuff. Favorite quote:

You're one of your favorite authors; you should treat yourself nice.

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Labels are the box others put you in. (Not every black poet writes about racism and civil rights. Not all women in scifi write chicks in space.) Jesse Kwak suggests brand is the sign you put on your door (how you present yourself). Your house (life) can have many rooms (experience) to engage people.

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Day one of @wilwrite.bsky.social Willamette Writers Conference 2025. Had a great conversation with slam poetry champion Marcus Lattimore. What a fascinating guy. What a great start to the conference. Now in the panel session on branding as an author. First takeaway, don't confuse brand with labels.

Or a hoarder story.

I feel you, buddy.

Tom Lehrer, RIP: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html

A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

This is the way.

Some would suggest you quit while he's a head.

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Forget the fish, where's that steak?

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That's a horse of a different drummer.

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Publishers Marketplace Deal Report - Category: Digital: Fiction: Sci-fi/Fantasy July 7, 2025 MIDWESTERN CHROME By Michael Bettendorf Imprint: Tenebrous Press Author of TRVE CVLT Michael Bettendorf's MIDWESTERN CHROME, set in a capitalistic hellscape near-future Midwest, in which a detective is presented with a bag containing the severed head of an android that begs for help in his dead wife's voice; alongside several connected character-driven short stories exploring the human condition one spent cigarette at a time, and what it's like to bite back when the universe kicks you in the teeth, to Matt Blairstone at Tenebrous Press, with Alex Woodroe editing, for publication summer 2026 (world English).

The cat isn't the only thing out of the bag with this one...
I'm so excited for this and am incredibly grateful to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for having a second dance with me. Mark your calendars in your neural implants, friends. Things are gonna get a little weird n mysterious next summer.

PM deal for HER WICKED ROOTS and Polish rights.

The Girls are going to Poland. 🇵🇱

Colorfully rendered lines from songs: They're selling shares of me again, I'm not buying it The things that you earned are given, not won I can't stand the thought of losing everything I ever thought that I knew Didn't have a dime but I always had a vision Come rule the world with me Flash, bam, alakazam! Out of an orange-colored sky The best things happen while you’re dancing “Ah, ah, ah, I was born to be a rockstar” Ooh, I feel like I'm running You're always holding on to stars; I think they're better from afar Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face Said no more counting dollars; we'll be counting stars What we do when the power's out? Who'll be around when the limelight's faded? Some people say this town don't look good in snow Trouble, troublemaker, yeah, that's your middle name But none of these sound bites are coming in clear Am I ready to be loved, to be loved? Why don't you like me, why don't you like me, without making me try? 'Cause when I’m with you, you're the crescendo to that melody, that melody I love You can kiss a hundred boys in bars But a symphony played when you told me your name and I took that as a sign And the moon's never seen me before, but I'm reflecting light And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket She’s got a ticket to ride, and she don’t care 8..7..6..5..4..3…I’m comin’ I’m comin’ I’m comin’ for you Night of stars, and night of love Tell me what I gotta say to get outta this room alive I brought a lemon to a knife fight I hope you like the show ‘cause it's on a budget We're back in business; you're such a big mess, and I love you

One line from each song on the Stars, Sparkling Like Snow soundtrack.

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AITA for ditching my parents’ production co. (& creds) so I can make my show truly mine? Look, I’ll give Hale 1/2 the creds we make. That might be 0, but it’s better than my parents exploiting his gratitude so he works for free. He’s been poor…I’m sure he’ll help me budget

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Rejection says, “Katie, This is a bit dark for my tastes. Best,”

My favorite rejection for my ghost hunting book in all of its glory—because, really, that’s a badge of honor.

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photo of a girl getting a heart to her face. text on girl reads "socially maladjusted hacker girl who's grossed out by androids" and the heart says "one disgustingly endearing android boy"

curse that android and his stupidly beautiful eyes and horrible taste in comedy

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