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Happy Friday! Let's love on our creators today. Who is a Black SFF author you wish more people were screaming about? Bonus if they have new work coming out this year 🔥🔥🔥

The Immortal Connections Kickstarter is in full swing!

We've already hit the funding goal and are well on our way to hitting more stretch goals. If you wanna support the campaign, you can check it out in my bio!

New poly goal unlocked! Now I need another UK convention to go to in order to start my evil plan...(Which I just copied from y'all.)

Why is Duolingo coming after me like this? 😆😭

Embrace Your Inner Intuitive Writer to Fuel Your Writing - Highlights Foundation Learn approaches to honing your inner intuitive writer in this short-form novel plotting workshop. Explore how to use intuitive writing techniques in your work.

Heyo! I am co-teaching a two-night course on intuitive writing. This one goes out to all my fellow writers for whom plotting doesn’t work/kills your story/makes you want to scream. Plotters have every craft book on the planet. This one’s for you.

www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/emb...

Yes! And I loved it! Chaotic bisexuals all over the place with their intense personal arcs and amazing world building.

Oh dear! Well, hmmm... Be the peril you wish to see in the world?

Potatoes are delicious and nutritious!

Covers of books by Patrick Samphire. The Mennik Thorn series (Epic fantasy mystery). The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb series (Middle Grade adventures). The Casebook of Harriet George series (Murder mysteries on Mars). And my short story collection, At the Gates and Other Stories.

New year, new pinned post!

Here are all my published books so far. Check them out.

patricksamphire.com/books

I'll take it!

Anyway here is the most successful promo I've ever done for a book.

YOU DO NOT NEED AI.

Ebook out now! A mockup of Tales of Lunis Aquaria Volume 2 by Tessa Hastjarjanto as ebook and paperback.

✨Happy book birthday to me! ✨

Tales of Lunis Aquaria Volume II ebook is out now wherever you can buy or borrow (Kobo Plus, Everand, Overdrive, Hoopla) ebooks!

Retailers: books2read.com/talesv2
Itch: narratess.itch.io/tales-of-lun...

#booksky 💙📚

It feels unfair of you to mention "yet another skeleton" and not link back to the original skeleton story. (I'm making quite a few assumptions here, but still...)

You're doing great!

😂 nice save, Connor!

.... is that friend me? 😂

Everything bagel, toasted, with jalapeño cheddar cream cheese

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

Thinking about today. Feeling the weight of it. The lives needlessly cut short. Knowing that I could have been among them. It's a lot, and it's easy to get numb to it. While we ought to honor the siblings we lost, we should also remember... #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance

My ex and I adopted our cats from here, they do wonderful work- please share, or even donate if you can!

It's very recognizable, in part because the scams don't change much--I suspect it's really only one or two people generating all of them--but how weirdly specific and yet bizarrely generic they manage to be when talking about my book.

It's like eating ice cream with no flavor.

Aaaaaaaand how STUNNING is this cover design? 🔥🔥🔥 Stoked to finally reveal what Labyrinth is actually going to look like! I said let's aim for 1000 people on the kickstarter early—and we have SCREAMED past in just a couple of days to ✨🎉 1200 ✨🎉Let's go for 1500! 2000! Sign up at link following.

We have a LOT of cool art coming in @hellofutureme.bsky.social's LABYRINTH, including this incredible piece by the amazing @hookieduke.bsky.social! Erica has also been kind enough to offer a breakdown of her process for educational purposes, also be included in the book!

Link in our bio and below!

The above post is the opening line to my short story in Labyrinth Vol. 0, in case anyone is wondering… So yeah, check out that Kickstarter if you want to grab a copy of a fabulous collection of short stories from M.L. Wang, Christopher Paolini, Ai Jang, Rogba Payne, Davis Ashura, and more!

“I really, truly, am grateful for every day that I still get to be here, especially knowing how many folks aren’t with us after the Seal cracked, but sometimes it’s hard to be grateful when you’re elbow deep in a vampire’s chest cavity trying to grab their heart while they’re still fighting you.”

LABYRINTH, Vol. 0 A new fantasy/sci-fi collection helmed by HelloFutureMe!

Hey y’all! Excited to finally be able to announce that I’ve got a story in Labyrinth Volume 0 (the dragon vs angel fight that shows up in the trailer is inspired by a scene from my story)! So delighted to have been invited alongside so many amazing authors!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...

Unrelated, but this cat has no shadow and is clearly a Fae. Glad they're getting out to vote though.

Ah well, no cookies for you then! Time for your nap, sir.

You might have a mention on the SPFBO entry though... I think we all might.

and don't forget to yell at the govt about AI. they're probably getting a bunch of normies responding who think this shit is fine. and while you're at it, contact your MP and let them know what you think too #CanPoli www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...