Sarah Avery
@sarahavery.bsky.social
Mythopoeic Award winning fantasy writer 🪐📚, escaped academic, beginner permaculture gardener, Gen X Army brat, DC area local, she/her, https://SarahAvery.com, https://www.patreon.com/SarahAvery
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Sarah Avery
@sarahavery.bsky.social
· Sep 10
Announcing – Tales from Rugosa Coven
Candlemark & Gleam is delighted to announce that we’re bringing Sarah Avery’s 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner Tales from Rugosa Coven back into print in a new and revised edition. This volume of ...
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I just cut 12,000 words of scaffolding, and my manuscript loves its new haircut.
#AmWriting #AmRevising #SFF
#AmWriting #AmRevising #SFF
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I just cut 12,000 words of scaffolding, and my manuscript loves its new haircut.
#AmWriting #AmRevising #SFF
#AmWriting #AmRevising #SFF
How things went at the World Fantasy Convention — well, but strangely well.
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You're Aware of My Work? | Sarah Avery
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November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
How things went at the World Fantasy Convention — well, but strangely well.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
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I don't know enough about polling and statistics to assess the blog post this comes from, but I hope it's right. If so, Trump's gains among younger and Hispanic voters in 2024 have not carried over to this year.
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I don't know enough about polling and statistics to assess the blog post this comes from, but I hope it's right. If so, Trump's gains among younger and Hispanic voters in 2024 have not carried over to this year.
I will be surprised if there isn’t at least one headline putting it in exactly those words.
I can’t wait for the articles—“Democrats won big Tuesday night. Here’s why that’s bad for Democrats.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I will be surprised if there isn’t at least one headline putting it in exactly those words.
Home from the UK. Had a great time at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social , where most people I met insisted they’d heard of my work, though they couldn’t remember what or where. And I got to see the British Museum Reading Room, where the poet I wrote my dissertation on liked to do some of her writing.
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Home from the UK. Had a great time at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social , where most people I met insisted they’d heard of my work, though they couldn’t remember what or where. And I got to see the British Museum Reading Room, where the poet I wrote my dissertation on liked to do some of her writing.
Initially processed this as Marjorie Taylor Greene Avatar Set, and now I'm taking comfort in imagining Greene trapped in a room with Toph to get her comeuppance. #ATLA
I would love to get a box of the MTG Avatar set, but I'll be pissed if I cracked those ugly ass screenshot bonus sheet cards. It's some of the laziest "bonuses" I've seen from WOTC. I already thought the Final Fantasy ones looked like unrelated random screengrabs. Like a lazy intern's submission.
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Initially processed this as Marjorie Taylor Greene Avatar Set, and now I'm taking comfort in imagining Greene trapped in a room with Toph to get her comeuppance. #ATLA
Embodying the Non-Human with @davewatkins.bsky.social @donnaparlby.bsky.social @kitwhitfield.bsky.social @sarahavery.bsky.social and @keithrosson.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Next up: Embodying the non-human. How do we write believable characters who are something other than like us? Here’s mod @davewatkins.bsky.social with @keithrosson.bsky.social @sarahavery.bsky.social @kitwhitfield.bsky.social and @donnaparlby.bsky.social.
November 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Found a pub near the Tower Bridge in London that has a #D&D night every Sunday, starting at 6:30. I’m not here to play, but I knew right away where I wanted to take my business. Tower Bridge Arms, on Tower Bridge Road.
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Found a pub near the Tower Bridge in London that has a #D&D night every Sunday, starting at 6:30. I’m not here to play, but I knew right away where I wanted to take my business. Tower Bridge Arms, on Tower Bridge Road.
Court Sculptors of Nimrud:
Behold the mighty King of Assyria, conquering the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, so full of life! Behold his armies, presenting the heads of his enemies to the Royal Clerk to be counted!
Me, a Marylander:
Ooh look, a crab!
#Art #Sculpture #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum
Behold the mighty King of Assyria, conquering the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, so full of life! Behold his armies, presenting the heads of his enemies to the Royal Clerk to be counted!
Me, a Marylander:
Ooh look, a crab!
#Art #Sculpture #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Court Sculptors of Nimrud:
Behold the mighty King of Assyria, conquering the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, so full of life! Behold his armies, presenting the heads of his enemies to the Royal Clerk to be counted!
Me, a Marylander:
Ooh look, a crab!
#Art #Sculpture #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum
Behold the mighty King of Assyria, conquering the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, so full of life! Behold his armies, presenting the heads of his enemies to the Royal Clerk to be counted!
Me, a Marylander:
Ooh look, a crab!
#Art #Sculpture #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum
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This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.
“Accidentally”
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
October 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“Accidentally”
A deleted scene, posted for Patreon subscribers. These two characters' relationship develops much faster in the current version of the book than when I wrote this scene. I still like it, but it no longer fits.
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Deleted Scene: You Care About Plastic Surgery? | Sarah Avery
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October 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A deleted scene, posted for Patreon subscribers. These two characters' relationship develops much faster in the current version of the book than when I wrote this scene. I still like it, but it no longer fits.
#AmWriting #SFF #Fiction #DeletedScenes
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#AmWriting #SFF #Fiction #DeletedScenes
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In praise of my alpha reader, the friend who has read every draft of every scene of every novel I've started since 2003 — and how his advice is changing my approach to the trip I'm about to take for the @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social in the UK.
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What Alpha Readers Are For | Sarah Avery
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October 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In praise of my alpha reader, the friend who has read every draft of every scene of every novel I've started since 2003 — and how his advice is changing my approach to the trip I'm about to take for the @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social in the UK.
#AmWriting #SFF
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#AmWriting #SFF
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Sprinting to the end of this manuscript before I travel for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. A blog post about my current process and product.
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42,000 Words in the Past 30 Days | Sarah Avery
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October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sprinting to the end of this manuscript before I travel for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. A blog post about my current process and product.
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These companies are paying for the Epstein Ballroom…
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
These companies are paying for the Epstein Ballroom…
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Here’s the thing. We still have the power (probably) to say that this image must not be what America is. We still have the power to say “fuck no, we refuse to allow this to be what the streets of America look like.” Attend a “No Kings” rally this Saturday. And then vote in 2026.
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Here’s the thing. We still have the power (probably) to say that this image must not be what America is. We still have the power to say “fuck no, we refuse to allow this to be what the streets of America look like.” Attend a “No Kings” rally this Saturday. And then vote in 2026.
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learned a new word and got some good advice
Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them:
MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING.
This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.
MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING.
This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.
October 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
learned a new word and got some good advice
Excellent thread about how images work in motivating or demotivating mass movements for change.
This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.
October 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Excellent thread about how images work in motivating or demotivating mass movements for change.
What's the short road to atrocities on the level of the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study and Dr. Josef Mengele's experiments on children? Dismantling the Institutional Review Board.
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
October 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What's the short road to atrocities on the level of the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study and Dr. Josef Mengele's experiments on children? Dismantling the Institutional Review Board.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
And to the republic for which it stands!
Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
October 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
And to the republic for which it stands!