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Picture of Erica next to a copy of the book, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga

Amazing news: Yuri scholar extraordinaire, @okazu.yuricon.com, has been invited to be a guest at Y/Con... in PARIS, FRANCE! Congratulations, Erica!

y-con-france.com/y-con-11/inv...

Humor and bathos Bathos: the sudden drop from the sublime to the ridiculous, creating an anticlimax.

If you've ever complained about the quippiness of Marvel movies, it's usually a question of bathos. Not that humor was used, not even that it was used at a tense moment, but that it was used in a way that undermines the scene itself.

sheilajenne.com/2025/09/07/h...

Just sold my first poem in two years! The drought (98 failed submissions) is ended!
(NB: I am a snob who only submits to paying poetry markets)

Look for "God and the Aquifer" to come out soon in The Pink Hydra.

A bespectacled woman holds up a book entitled "At First Contact"

A bespectacled woman sits in front of a table with three books: "The Eighth Key", "Mirror of my Heart", and "At First Contact"

Hugo Finalist and Rainbow winner @janicelnewman.bsky.social (and @lauraweyr.bsky.social) reading and signing autographs at @seattlein2025.org!

#queer #fantasy #ScienceFiction

Lorelei shading a picture in pen, using a light table.

Cover for Majera, by Hugo Award Finalist Gideon Marcus, featuring Fareedh, Peter, and the ship. It looks pretty cool. :)

@loreleiesther.bsky.social working on the latest illustration for #TheKitraSaga — #Majera comes out at the end of the year!

I JUST DREW ON THE WRONG LAYER IN REAL LIFE. 😭
#artistproblems

Today is the last day to vote for #Hugo nominees! Don't forget! #ScienceFiction

I'm smiling and holding up one of my books a red rectangle has the words Confluence Shcedule Sat Noon The New Space Opera Sat 2pm Reading Sat 4pm History & Research in SFF Sun Noon Kaffeeklatsch

My Schedule for ConFluence in Pittsburgh this coming weekend: Sat Noon: The New Space Opera, Sat 2pm: Reading, Sat 4pm: History & Research in SFF, Sun Noon: Kaffeeklatsch

Statistically, no one gets published (or in this case, seen amongst the flood). But you can't succeed if you don't try...

Important question for #TheKitraSaga fans: How many of the books have you read?

1️⃣ Just Kitra (so far).
2️⃣ Two of them.
3️⃣ All three!

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screen cap of webpage black banner reads Mary Robinette Kowal under it the title white on black reads My Favorite Bit: Marie Vibbert talks about Andrei and the Hellcats

Andrei Blog Tour continues with Mary Robinette Kowal! 

https://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit/my-favorite-bit-marie-vibbert-talks-about-andrei-and-the-hellcats/

The Big Idea: Marie Vibbert Author Marie Vibbert is back on the blog today with a fresh new novel that’s bigger and badder than ever. Dive into her Hellcats universe once more and see the world from an all new perspecti…

@reasie.bsky.social has been featured on Scalzi's "Whatever" blog for hew new book, "Andrei and the Hellcats!"

#queer #BikersInSpace

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/07/14/t...

Book Cover Galactic Hellcats with three badass space babes and a man falling against a red background with planets

The ebook of Galactic Hellcats is half off in honor of the sequel's launch! 
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1649038

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Happy Non-Binary People's Day! Explicitly Non-Binary characters feature prominently in several of our books (Sirena and The Eighth Key, off the top of our heads).

A seated woman avidly reads Sirena in her backyard gazebo.

Young adults come in all ages!

#amreading #thekitrasaga #sirena

Display of queer manga/anime-related books at Kinokuniya—By Your Side is right next to "It Rhymes with Takei"

Erica Friedman was at the the Kinokuniya in Egdewater, NJ to sign their #Pride display copies of By Your Side!

Get one while you can!

It's Tuesday. Thank goodness for small favors...

Photos of Renan, James, and Marie, all looking very attractive, as befits their status as stellar authors. But Marie is our favorite.

Tune in tonight for our very own Marie Vibbert, as well as the cool Renan Bernardo and James Machell, for a flash fiction reading put on by our friends at Space Cowboy! (seriously— @reasie.bsky.social is always spectacular):

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By Your Side: The First Hundred Years of Yuri Anime and Manga By Erica L. Friedman The Untold Story of Lesbian Love in Japanese Anime and Comics “The first in-depth study of Yuri in English.” James Welker, Professor of Cross-Cultural andJapanese Studies, Kana…

It's #YuriDay! Have you read the definitive English-language history of Yuri #Anime and #Manga by the definitive expert on the field, Erica Friedman ( @okazu.yuricon.com )?

If you haven't, today's the day! (and if you have, turn your friends onto it...)

journeypress.com/by-your-side...

Oh no! Rats. Thanks for letting us know.

Tentacles holding matsuri treats and prizes against a firework background.

@okazu.yuricon.com is doing a panel for CitruCon tomorrow on Yuri Fandom history and demographics.

Free 18+ online event, you need to register: www.citruscon.com

She hopes to see some friendly faces there. ^_^

The Intersex Inclusive Pride Progress Flag made with gaming dice for each color stripe. It combines the six colors of the rainbow flag with a chevron made from black and brown stripes, baby blue, pink and white stripes, and a yellow section with purple circle.

This is amazing. Dice goblins, new #Pride Flag challenge? Do you have enough in your horde to make your flag? #TTRPG 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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1/2 🧵

Black and white ink drawing of a person in a space suit riding a bicycle on a track in a rough, Martian landscape

Beyond floored by the exquisite, dynamic art K. A. Teryna (@k-a-teryna.bsky.social) has created for my latest story in Analog!

A ridiculous-looking, but "irresistibly middle-aged", bespectacled Jew in a blue dress shirt, green tie, and khaki slacks proudly holds an American flag on a pole in one hand and the California flag on a pole in the other. He is in a yard with a fetching yellow cottage behind him.

Dual wielding for tomorrow's rally.

Don't fuck with the Bear.

#California #ICE #NoKings

With just two weeks until the launch party for its sequel, The Galactic Hellcats audiobook is on sale! 50% off!
Catch up with the Hellcats in time to meet Andrei! https://www.audiobooks.com/promotions/promotedBook/885534/galactic-hellcats?refId=197841

The issue of Analog has just come out, and you can bet Marie's story will be one of the highlights! Be sure to read it!

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Cover for The Eighth Key, by Laura Weyr, featuring Lucian and Corwin exchanging Light and Shadow magic.

If you're wondering why Laura Weyr's brilliant, Rainbow-winning "The Eighth Key" isn't yet out on audiobook, it's because we're still working on the best platform to get it into your hands at the best price!

And also, our illustrator, Lorelei Esther is getting married next week...

Stay tuned!

Cover for Kitra featuring a woman in profile wearing a space suit helmet, against a background of stars and a planet from orbit.

People are still loving #Kitra, first book in #thekitrasaga

journeypress.com/titles/kitra/

"If you enjoy space peril shenanigans with distinct characters and their own character growth this is the book for you! Also the #POC #queer representations Represents!"

#Pride #ScienceFIction

Congratulations, @corabuhlert.bsky.social ! She has contributed pieces for all of the Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women volumes, and she's just terrific.