Yolande Kleinn

Jack Benny wearing Shakespearean clothing and a wavy hair wig while looking distraught

New on Patreon: A look at comedian Jack Benny in To Be or Not to Be (1942), a bold anti-fascist satire that tends to be overlooked now in cinema history

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Small two-tone whistle by ACstudio MakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models Boost MeSe ho soddisfatto le tue aspettative donami un boost!ATTENZIONE!!!ESTREMAMENTE RUMOROSO!!!Micro fischietto bitonale. piccolo, ma molto potente e fastidioso!!!Il design di questo modello è conc...

For anyone who cares, my current favorite whistle to 3d print is: makerworld.com/en/models/11...

All of Rien Gray's novellas lined up in an image under the caption 'trans novellas across the spectrum'.

It's Trans Awareness Week AND Novella-ember, and I have trans novellas of all stripes available: noir, horror, paranormal, contemporary, fantasy...

You can get them from my direct shop or AMZ 💙 If you want a rec to match your tastes, let me know!

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Okay, I'll concede that sounds like an excellent consolation prize. Still salty on your behalf though.

Noooooooo!!!

oh my gosh, this is amazing

BookPages 'Best of 2025' flyer for ALL OF US MURDERERS

Eeep! ALL OF US MURDERERS is one of BookPage's Best Mystery and Suspense of 2025!

Chace Verity's Christmas Chsale by Chace Verity A bundle by Chace Verity, $17.00 for 17 games

Chace Verity's Christmas Chsale! 50% off books!

Spouse's car died unexpectedly. We need a new car and will be ok on the car front! But I look forward to buying Christmas gifts for the whole family every year, and I now won't have the funds for it.

Unless *you* can help!

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Sapphic Book Advent Calendar at jae-fiction.com Depicted are the branches of a Christmas tree with four rainbow/Pride-colored baubles and a ribbon with a tag that says "Coming soon"

It’s almost time for the Sapphic Book Advent Calendar!

I’ve teamed up with 110 authors to bring you daily freebies, giveaways & deals from Dec 1–25.

You can already enter a gift card giveaway today and sign up for reminder emails now: jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...

His love of bikes has also produced the first wrinkle in our book-reading sessions. If a particular book has a bike in it (Boats on the Bay, Baby Go Japan, Everywhere Babies) he will let me get three or four pages in before grabbing the text from me and turning to the correct page, pointing triumphantly at the bike in question, and announcing “Bike” over and over, at which point he is no longer interested in having the rest of the book read to him and would like me to put it away. It has even lead to, I am sorry to say, dubious claims. Only last night I was reading Strega Nona to him and he began to leaf through the pages, chanting “Bike” to himself with perfect earnestness. BABY [Leafing]: Bike. Bike. Bike. SELF: Where is there a bike in Strega Nona? BABY [Still confident]: Bike. SELF: Where in this early modern Calabrian village did you see a bike? Show me the bike you’re thinking of. Where is the evidence? BABY [Producing zero evidence of a bike, while admitting to precisely nothing] Bike.

one of my favorite genres of comedy is talking very seriously to or about babies like they're just extremely small adults, and no one is doing it right now like Danny Lavery

"where in this early modern Calabrian village do you see a bike?" laid me out

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all 6 covers of The Serrulata Saga books on a starry background text in image: 6 books for 6 bucks - aebennettwrites.itch.io.

6 BOOKS FOR 6 BUCKS

all books in The Serrulata Saga are just $1 each over on my itch

adventure! romance! zombies!

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

don’t miss out!!!

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I'm using November as a push to write rough drafts for a mountain of short stories I've been meaning to tackle, and it's going REALLY WELL, but I'm now in that zone where I can't tell if any of the words I'm writing are GOOD words. Y'know? (I'm sure many of them are—rough drafts are just weird, lol)

Shadebloom by Felicia Davin, a purple book with white flowers on the cover

Out of Nowhere by Felicia Davin, with an orange-ish image of space on the cover and a man's silhouette in blue

The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin. The cover shows a white hand holding a book, with the thumb inserted between pages

The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier by Felicia Davin, the cover shows a white hand holding a quill

Wanna read about a powerful villain meeting a violent end? Here are my books where that happens!

I’ll thread links and details below. Other authors feel free to quote with your books

YouTube video by Jo to the World Creations How to Crochet a Purse - Moss Stitch Purse Crochet Pattern | Easy Crochet Purse or Crossbody Bag

Here's the tutorial I followed, which was extremely good despite my personal struggles: youtu.be/P_GDt74UqE8

This was... not actually a fun experiment? Through no fault of the pattern. (I'll include a link to the tutorial I followed). I just really REALLY struggled to keep track of my stitches, which meant I kept ending up off-center and having to adjust. Turns out I struggle with working in the round.

Photo of a crocheted purse done in a moss stitch pattern. Most of the purse is pink, but there is dark purple yarn along the edge of the flap and through the entire strap. The purple looks very intentional and you would not guess at a glance that it's there because the bright pink yarn ran out too soon.

Continuing the hyperfixation, here's a small purse I made for my niece! I'm disproportionately proud of having planned ahead to wrangle a functional button-hole, which was not in the pattern.
Also I intended the whole purse to be pink, but I lost yarn-chicken. Hopefully the purple looks intentional.

@kindlycrow.bsky.social

Wow RUDE, are you gonna stand for that?

Flowerchild

A bust portrait of Euphoria, a purple tiefling OC.

Euphoria for jakestealssteaks on Artfight!

Shown is a paperback copy of Paper Love by Jae, two women, one holding an iPad, the other holding a fountain pen. Next to the book are three fountain pens (blue, copper, and yellow).

Since today is National Fountain Pen Day, I thought I would do a fun fountain pen & book giveaway:

I'm giving away 3 copies of my sapphic romance novel "Paper Love," which is set in a stationery store, plus 3 fountain pens.

Enter the drawing by filling out this form:
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I will never use AI for my covers, editing, translation, or anything else. It is not only useless to me as an author, it is actively hostile and harms every skill related to book production.

If you're an author against AI used to generate writing, you better back everyone else in the chain too.

We've now played this one too, and loved it even more than Strange Horticulture. Enthusiastically recommend.

We’re better at making games than social media. Can you help us out and share this far and wide? 🙏

Strange Antiquities is OUT NOW! 🛎️📚🐈

#indiegame #indiedev #cozygames #cozy

A.E. Bennett

SALE

6 BOOKS FOR $6!!!

grab all Serrulata Saga titles for $1 each over on my itchio page

cause why not?

aebennettwrites.itch.io

Shout-out to @wanderingchaos.bsky.social for putting "Strange Horticulture" in front of my eyeballs. What a delightfully weird game, I absolutely needed that in my life.

A reminder that Slippery Creatures is on sale everywhere just for the weekend!

Well THAT is definitely the most terrifying thing I've seen today.