C. M. Murray
@cmmurray.bsky.social
Fantasy writer. Cat mom and crazy aunt. World traveler. Garden lover. Fueled by coffee and red wine. Appropriately obsessed with dragons and witches. she/they 🌈
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Hello #writingcommunity!
Passing along this info from #janefriedman for a free seminar on 10/16 regarding the Anthropic settlement.
Hope you're having a productive #writing day today! 📝
#amwriting #amquerying
janefriedman.com/get-your-que...
Passing along this info from #janefriedman for a free seminar on 10/16 regarding the Anthropic settlement.
Hope you're having a productive #writing day today! 📝
#amwriting #amquerying
janefriedman.com/get-your-que...
Get your questions answered about the Anthropic settlement on Oct. 16 | Jane Friedman
The Authors Guild is holding a free webinar for all authors (you don’t have to be a member) on Thursday, October 16, at 6 p.m. ET.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hello #writingcommunity!
Passing along this info from #janefriedman for a free seminar on 10/16 regarding the Anthropic settlement.
Hope you're having a productive #writing day today! 📝
#amwriting #amquerying
janefriedman.com/get-your-que...
Passing along this info from #janefriedman for a free seminar on 10/16 regarding the Anthropic settlement.
Hope you're having a productive #writing day today! 📝
#amwriting #amquerying
janefriedman.com/get-your-que...
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages
🎉We're baaacckk!!!🎉
RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10!
#amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky
RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10!
#amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages
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THIS FRIDAY!!! Are you excited, #RevPit?! If you're gearing up to enter RevPit #10Queries, here's everything you need:
⭐Complete query letter
⭐First 5 pages of manuscript
The query and first 5 pages will need to be uploaded to the form in one document and should be a standard manuscript format
⭐Complete query letter
⭐First 5 pages of manuscript
The query and first 5 pages will need to be uploaded to the form in one document and should be a standard manuscript format
October 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
THIS FRIDAY!!! Are you excited, #RevPit?! If you're gearing up to enter RevPit #10Queries, here's everything you need:
⭐Complete query letter
⭐First 5 pages of manuscript
The query and first 5 pages will need to be uploaded to the form in one document and should be a standard manuscript format
⭐Complete query letter
⭐First 5 pages of manuscript
The query and first 5 pages will need to be uploaded to the form in one document and should be a standard manuscript format
When Trina is forced into the Empress’s academy, she must join a group of unlikely allies and master the magic of her cards if she wants to avoid being sacrificed to a dragon. #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT
💪Loner -> BAMF
💝Found family
🌈Queernormative
🤐Hidden secrets
⚖️Have vs. have-nots / anti-oppression
💪Loner -> BAMF
💝Found family
🌈Queernormative
🤐Hidden secrets
⚖️Have vs. have-nots / anti-oppression
October 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
17y/o Trina despises the immortal Empress and her cruel magicians. Trina grows up suppressing her magic rather than join them, but when she’s captured and enrolled in a school for magicians, she begins to question her family’s hatred for her new peers. Tarot-inspired magic #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Trina grew up on tales of the Empress and her evil magicians. When she’s forced to enroll in the magicians’ academy, Trina must learn to embrace her magic and trust the people she’s always feared if she wants to graduate; if she fails, she will be sacrificed to a dragon. #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
FIREBORNE x THE TEMPTATION OF MAGIC
When 17y/o Trina is forced into the Empress’s academy, she must master the magic of her cards or be sacrificed to the magicians’ dragon-god. The only way she’ll succeed is with some help from unlikely allies. Tarot-inspired magic #YA #F #DVpit #LGBT
When 17y/o Trina is forced into the Empress’s academy, she must master the magic of her cards or be sacrificed to the magicians’ dragon-god. The only way she’ll succeed is with some help from unlikely allies. Tarot-inspired magic #YA #F #DVpit #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Empire of Luxairn is divided into those who have both magic and wealth and those who have neither. Trina’s family is unique: they hide their magic and live in destitution rather than join the cruel Empress’s wars – until Trina is captured. Tarot-inspired magic, queernormative #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The Empire of Luxairn is divided into those who have both magic and wealth and those who have neither. Trina’s family is unique: they hide their magic and live in destitution rather than join the cruel Empress’s wars – until Trina is captured. Tarot-inspired magic, queernormative #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT
A loner makes friends and embraces her identity, going from underdog outcast to BAMF with a dash of romance. Tarot-inspired magic system, second world #YA #F, found family, coming of age, hidden secrets, morally gray antag, heroine’s journey, magical boarding school, queernormative. #DVpit #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A teenaged recluse who has suppressed her magic rather than accept the cruel Empress’s patronage is captured and forced into The Academy where she will need to embrace her magic and trust her enemies-turned-peers or she will be sacrificed to their dragon-god. Tarot-inspired magic #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A teenaged recluse who has suppressed her magic rather than accept the cruel Empress’s patronage is captured and forced into The Academy where she will need to embrace her magic and trust her enemies-turned-peers or she will be sacrificed to their dragon-god. Tarot-inspired magic #DVpit #YA #F #LGBT
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Are you readying your manuscript to query agents? Preparing for this year’s RevPit event?
What better way to know if your query and first 5 pages have what it takes to stand out in the slush pile than to get an editor’s eye on it?
We are hosting a #10Queries event, October 10th - October 24th!
What better way to know if your query and first 5 pages have what it takes to stand out in the slush pile than to get an editor’s eye on it?
We are hosting a #10Queries event, October 10th - October 24th!
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Are you readying your manuscript to query agents? Preparing for this year’s RevPit event?
What better way to know if your query and first 5 pages have what it takes to stand out in the slush pile than to get an editor’s eye on it?
We are hosting a #10Queries event, October 10th - October 24th!
What better way to know if your query and first 5 pages have what it takes to stand out in the slush pile than to get an editor’s eye on it?
We are hosting a #10Queries event, October 10th - October 24th!
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me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”
September 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”
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Come for the locked boat dark academia murder mystery, stay for a strange and drowning Oracle?
We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac
We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac
🌊 🐚 @rainewilson.bsky.social 's Salt Oracle speaks in riddles and fragments, cantating the digital ghosts that are scattered across the world in the wake of the digital collapse.
But is she a monster to be feared, or a child to be protected?
November 2025. Preorder: geni.us/saltorac
But is she a monster to be feared, or a child to be protected?
November 2025. Preorder: geni.us/saltorac
September 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Come for the locked boat dark academia murder mystery, stay for a strange and drowning Oracle?
We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac
We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac
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#DVPit, a pitch event for diverse voices, is coming up, and their pre-events are starting in September!
Follow @dvpit.bsky.social for more information!
Follow @dvpit.bsky.social for more information!
📣Announcing #PreDV and #DVParty!📣
Excited to bring back #PreDV & #DVParty leading up to #DVPit!
Practice your pitches during #PreDV on Mon, Sept 29, 2025!
Get to know your fellow participants during #DVParty from Oct 2-Oct 7!
Follow this account or dvpit.carrd.co for all official announcements!
Excited to bring back #PreDV & #DVParty leading up to #DVPit!
Practice your pitches during #PreDV on Mon, Sept 29, 2025!
Get to know your fellow participants during #DVParty from Oct 2-Oct 7!
Follow this account or dvpit.carrd.co for all official announcements!
September 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
#DVPit, a pitch event for diverse voices, is coming up, and their pre-events are starting in September!
Follow @dvpit.bsky.social for more information!
Follow @dvpit.bsky.social for more information!
I’m still not over this duology. What I love most about @eliotschrefer.bsky.social’s writing is the emotional punch he brings to every story. I don’t think I’ve ever finished one of his books without crying (in the best way possible) at least once. If you haven’t already, be sure to check them out!
Get 'em while they're fresh! Newly signed stock of The Darkness Outside Us and The Brightness Between Us available for order at Books of Wonder!
September 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I’m still not over this duology. What I love most about @eliotschrefer.bsky.social’s writing is the emotional punch he brings to every story. I don’t think I’ve ever finished one of his books without crying (in the best way possible) at least once. If you haven’t already, be sure to check them out!
I participated in @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social’s summer query and first pages webinar and it was fantastic! Eric was so helpful and supportive. If you’re working on a nonfiction book proposal, I 💯% recommend!
Since my summer query one went so well, I’m doing another workshop in the winter.
Come hang! The goal is to help get a nonfiction book proposal wrangled up and polished.
These workshops will help fund my free events in the New Year. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/9/...
Come hang! The goal is to help get a nonfiction book proposal wrangled up and polished.
These workshops will help fund my free events in the New Year. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/9/...
Winter Workshop: Building the Nonfiction Book Proposal — ERIC SMITH
Hey friends. So my first attempt at a self-run workshop this summer was a really wonderful success. A few dozen folks signed up, we worked on query letters and opening pages, and at the end of the si...
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September 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I participated in @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social’s summer query and first pages webinar and it was fantastic! Eric was so helpful and supportive. If you’re working on a nonfiction book proposal, I 💯% recommend!
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Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.
Oh my.
Oh my.
September 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.
Oh my.
Oh my.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of my favorite classics, and I am so excited to see Guillermo del Toro’s rendition. But also, I’m excited for fans who’ve never read the book to come to a new understanding of Frankenstein and his creature
once again tapping the sign
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of my favorite classics, and I am so excited to see Guillermo del Toro’s rendition. But also, I’m excited for fans who’ve never read the book to come to a new understanding of Frankenstein and his creature
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Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Holy crap! My story "Marginalia" just won the Eugie Foster award at Dragoncon
August 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Holy crap! My story "Marginalia" just won the Eugie Foster award at Dragoncon
“The idea that you would want to co-write with AI is abhorrent to me because it is the worst writer. Why would you want to co-write with the worst writer I’ve ever seen? Find a five-year old, at least they have an imagination.” -Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld
My new GenAI Grapevine column providing analysis and coverage related to generative AI is out. Includes a deep dive into the Anthropic settlement along with publishers failing to register copyright. Plus info on tension at Worldcon over writers using AI and a book people must read. 1/2
GenAI Grapevine for July/August 2025 | Jason Sanford
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August 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“The idea that you would want to co-write with AI is abhorrent to me because it is the worst writer. Why would you want to co-write with the worst writer I’ve ever seen? Find a five-year old, at least they have an imagination.” -Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld
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I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
August 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
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In 2087, a message from deep space warns Earth a harbinger of doom is hurtling towards our planet. It also outlines a plan to save us, but at what cost? Is it a hoax, or a trap, or will we indeed soon face extinction—unless we agree to the ‘Alliance’s terms? #BookSky #SFF amazon.com/dp/B0F82Y9S7X
July 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
In 2087, a message from deep space warns Earth a harbinger of doom is hurtling towards our planet. It also outlines a plan to save us, but at what cost? Is it a hoax, or a trap, or will we indeed soon face extinction—unless we agree to the ‘Alliance’s terms? #BookSky #SFF amazon.com/dp/B0F82Y9S7X
James Clear’s 3-2-1 weekly newsletter is probably the best thing in my inbox. It isn’t always specific to writing, but definitely always relevant. Check out this week’s here! jamesclear.com/3-2-1/may-29...
3-2-1: On making the most of shortcuts, how to reduce worry, and the kindness of mastery
3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “Shortcuts tend to accelerate effort, not replace it. Supplements and cutting edge recovery methods might speed up your progress in the gym, but they don’t replace the need to do th...
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May 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
James Clear’s 3-2-1 weekly newsletter is probably the best thing in my inbox. It isn’t always specific to writing, but definitely always relevant. Check out this week’s here! jamesclear.com/3-2-1/may-29...
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Here’s what I’m wishing for you.
Not only that you find the perfect home for your work, and soon, but that you feel understood artistically in a way you never have before.
You feel inspired, excited with renewed energy, and delighted by the effects your new agent’s edits have on your work.
Not only that you find the perfect home for your work, and soon, but that you feel understood artistically in a way you never have before.
You feel inspired, excited with renewed energy, and delighted by the effects your new agent’s edits have on your work.
April 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here’s what I’m wishing for you.
Not only that you find the perfect home for your work, and soon, but that you feel understood artistically in a way you never have before.
You feel inspired, excited with renewed energy, and delighted by the effects your new agent’s edits have on your work.
Not only that you find the perfect home for your work, and soon, but that you feel understood artistically in a way you never have before.
You feel inspired, excited with renewed energy, and delighted by the effects your new agent’s edits have on your work.