Emmalia H
@emmaliawrites.bsky.social
Codex and SFWA member, Voodoonaut's alumna, reader at FIYAH and Podcastle.
BIPOC, disabled, neurodivergent, and queer as a clockwork orange. She/?
Find me at https://emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrites
My book is out! https://books2read.com/u/mdapOW
BIPOC, disabled, neurodivergent, and queer as a clockwork orange. She/?
Find me at https://emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrites
My book is out! https://books2read.com/u/mdapOW
I have a friend's birthday celebration, so I only got tickets to the "go to bed early" act.
Anyone else get tickets to this show tonight?
December 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I have a friend's birthday celebration, so I only got tickets to the "go to bed early" act.
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
Your kitchen overflows with New Year's prep. Do you:
a) Open a pocket dimension to handle the overflow,
b) Throw it all out and just bring lunar moonshine to the cookout, or
c) Make a deal with Hoppin' John
Your kitchen overflows with New Year's prep. Do you:
a) Open a pocket dimension to handle the overflow,
b) Throw it all out and just bring lunar moonshine to the cookout, or
c) Make a deal with Hoppin' John
December 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
Your kitchen overflows with New Year's prep. Do you:
a) Open a pocket dimension to handle the overflow,
b) Throw it all out and just bring lunar moonshine to the cookout, or
c) Make a deal with Hoppin' John
Your kitchen overflows with New Year's prep. Do you:
a) Open a pocket dimension to handle the overflow,
b) Throw it all out and just bring lunar moonshine to the cookout, or
c) Make a deal with Hoppin' John
I thought I was dating goat milk this whole time... Then the platic horns fell off.
December 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I thought I was dating goat milk this whole time... Then the platic horns fell off.
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
December 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You overate at the cookout. Do you
a) Beg Granny Witch for her indigestion potion?
b) Swap your overstuffed stomach for your empty backup stomach?
c) Grab a fresh plate for thirds?
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
a) Beg Granny Witch for her indigestion potion?
b) Swap your overstuffed stomach for your empty backup stomach?
c) Grab a fresh plate for thirds?
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
You overate at the cookout. Do you
a) Beg Granny Witch for her indigestion potion?
b) Swap your overstuffed stomach for your empty backup stomach?
c) Grab a fresh plate for thirds?
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
a) Beg Granny Witch for her indigestion potion?
b) Swap your overstuffed stomach for your empty backup stomach?
c) Grab a fresh plate for thirds?
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
Tokyo Godfathers
Name your fav Christmas film
December 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Tokyo Godfathers
I have a whole blog post on it: emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrite...
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I have a whole blog post on it: emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrite...
Festive time is almost here! Is your kitchen the avatar of Chaos, or do you have house fairies or nanobots helping you? @tco-anthology.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Festive time is almost here! Is your kitchen the avatar of Chaos, or do you have house fairies or nanobots helping you? @tco-anthology.bsky.social
@tco-anthology.bsky.social, should we sneak these spices into the cookout? Think the aunties will take it well if we alter the flavors of their secret recipes?
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/try...
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/try...
Try These West African Spices in Your Holiday Baking
Have some fun with fusion.
www.atlasobscura.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
@tco-anthology.bsky.social, should we sneak these spices into the cookout? Think the aunties will take it well if we alter the flavors of their secret recipes?
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/try...
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/try...
This is what happened when an unsupporting jerkface tried to control a headstrong storyteller.
emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrite...
emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrite...
Why I Didn't Quit Writing
For two and a half years, I dated fellow writer Franca.* Though we'd both started manuscripts and short stories, we were still very much beginner authors. We knew little to nothing about SFFH writing ...
emmaliah.wixsite.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is what happened when an unsupporting jerkface tried to control a headstrong storyteller.
emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrite...
emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrite...
Reposted by Emmalia H
“I am Nicholas Scratch, Confiturier Extraordinaire. Visiting your fine fair at this meeting of local giants. I bring with me an unearthly collection of excellent jams, of which you have surely never seen their like. I also have my fiddle for some music, a challenge and a biscuit, if you're game...”
Your cookout is on a crossroads. The devil shows up, offering a deal for anyone who defeats him in a jam session. What happens?
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“I am Nicholas Scratch, Confiturier Extraordinaire. Visiting your fine fair at this meeting of local giants. I bring with me an unearthly collection of excellent jams, of which you have surely never seen their like. I also have my fiddle for some music, a challenge and a biscuit, if you're game...”
I want to stay consistent. Nothing will get done if I only write in fits and starts.
My 2026 writing goal is to finally finish this novel in the first half and then write weird shit for the second half. What's your writing goal?
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I want to stay consistent. Nothing will get done if I only write in fits and starts.
Your cookout is on a crossroads. The devil shows up, offering a deal for anyone who defeats him in a jam session. What happens?
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Your cookout is on a crossroads. The devil shows up, offering a deal for anyone who defeats him in a jam session. What happens?
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
One person's byproduct can be your delicious ingredient. It can be as humble as bacon grease, celestial as Milky Way buttermilk, filling as lembas croutons, or.... Whatever it is Yog Shoggoth makes.
What will be in your cookout? @tco-anthology.bsky.social
What will be in your cookout? @tco-anthology.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One person's byproduct can be your delicious ingredient. It can be as humble as bacon grease, celestial as Milky Way buttermilk, filling as lembas croutons, or.... Whatever it is Yog Shoggoth makes.
What will be in your cookout? @tco-anthology.bsky.social
What will be in your cookout? @tco-anthology.bsky.social
"A tea specialist-turned-assassin"
You already have my attention.
You already have my attention.
🌌 A tea specialist-turned-assassin embarks on a quest to rescue her sibling.
🪐 Scientists & soldiers try to colonize a planet, only to discover their new home can fight back.
There are a few signed copies of THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY and THIS WORLD IS NOT YOURS at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social in SFO!
🪐 Scientists & soldiers try to colonize a planet, only to discover their new home can fight back.
There are a few signed copies of THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY and THIS WORLD IS NOT YOURS at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social in SFO!
December 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"A tea specialist-turned-assassin"
You already have my attention.
You already have my attention.
Manhwa romantasy meets queer Black and brown leads.
Time to eat your vegetables again y'all! What's a one-sentence elevator pitch for your book? If you need help, [thing] meets [thing] is a great baseline. #WritingPrompt
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Manhwa romantasy meets queer Black and brown leads.
Anyone up for making seasonal soda for their year-end cookout? @tco-anthology.bsky.social
youtu.be/zF95IperemI?...
youtu.be/zF95IperemI?...
Pine Needle Soda 🥤🌲🫧
YouTube video by BlackForager
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Anyone up for making seasonal soda for their year-end cookout? @tco-anthology.bsky.social
youtu.be/zF95IperemI?...
youtu.be/zF95IperemI?...
Sunshine!
For those who don't know, it's a vampire novel by Robin McKinley that thrives on subverting vampire tropes without becoming an outright parody. Also contains graphic depictions of dessert and baked goods.
For those who don't know, it's a vampire novel by Robin McKinley that thrives on subverting vampire tropes without becoming an outright parody. Also contains graphic depictions of dessert and baked goods.
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Sunshine!
For those who don't know, it's a vampire novel by Robin McKinley that thrives on subverting vampire tropes without becoming an outright parody. Also contains graphic depictions of dessert and baked goods.
For those who don't know, it's a vampire novel by Robin McKinley that thrives on subverting vampire tropes without becoming an outright parody. Also contains graphic depictions of dessert and baked goods.
Colin, you're encouraging IP theft.
Activist and former quarterback Colin Kaepernick visited Largo High School to launch an AI tool designed to help students create their own graphic novels.
Colin Kaepernick launches AI storytelling tool at Prince George's County high school
Former quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick visited Largo High School to launch an AI tool designed to help students create their own graphic novels. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.
www.nbcwashington.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Colin, you're encouraging IP theft.
Reposted by Emmalia H
It's the holiday season and if you have a fantasy reader reader in your life you can't go wrong with the Royal Heretic series! The entire trilogy is available at mvmediaatl.com at a special, publisher only price!
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It's the holiday season and if you have a fantasy reader reader in your life you can't go wrong with the Royal Heretic series! The entire trilogy is available at mvmediaatl.com at a special, publisher only price!
Feeling a chill in the air? Warm up with a mystery brew. Will you sneak a cup from Auntie Witch's cauldron, gather ingredients from the Mad Scientist Garden, or drink essence from the eldritch thing at the back of you fridge?
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Feeling a chill in the air? Warm up with a mystery brew. Will you sneak a cup from Auntie Witch's cauldron, gather ingredients from the Mad Scientist Garden, or drink essence from the eldritch thing at the back of you fridge?
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
@tco-anthology.bsky.social
I once belonged to an SFFH writing group with rigid ideas of what makes a story. They gave be grief for writing character driven stories, slice of life, PoC centric, etc.
I still say f*ck you, I'm a write what I want, not follow other's arbitrary "rules."
I still say f*ck you, I'm a write what I want, not follow other's arbitrary "rules."
SUNDAY NIGHT FIGHTS
Let's stir up creative writers of speculative fiction and its many offshoots.
Do you subscribe to the school of writing ONE spec-lit sub-genre exclusively?
Have you written more than one? How many?
open.substack.com/chat/posts/5...
#amwriting #speclit #scifi #Blacksky
Let's stir up creative writers of speculative fiction and its many offshoots.
Do you subscribe to the school of writing ONE spec-lit sub-genre exclusively?
Have you written more than one? How many?
open.substack.com/chat/posts/5...
#amwriting #speclit #scifi #Blacksky
December 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I once belonged to an SFFH writing group with rigid ideas of what makes a story. They gave be grief for writing character driven stories, slice of life, PoC centric, etc.
I still say f*ck you, I'm a write what I want, not follow other's arbitrary "rules."
I still say f*ck you, I'm a write what I want, not follow other's arbitrary "rules."
@tco-anthology.bsky.social, what kind of cookout do you imagine for this gingerbread house?
youtube.com/shorts/qOmTP...
youtube.com/shorts/qOmTP...
1960’s holiday baking #christmas #vintage
YouTube video by SewRena
youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
@tco-anthology.bsky.social, what kind of cookout do you imagine for this gingerbread house?
youtube.com/shorts/qOmTP...
youtube.com/shorts/qOmTP...
FIGHT THE POWER!
📚 🦸🏻♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.”
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
FIGHT THE POWER!