Anna Catalano 🌈
@thepaintedlion.bsky.social
Queer Author and Editor | BotN nominated | Founder and EiC of @nygelmag.bsky.social | Second half of @sylviabarry.bsky.social LESSONS IN TIMING (2024) | she/her
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Lessons in Timing
Sometimes opposites attract so hard they miss. Lucas Barclay—charismatic Californian and fastidious photographer—is impatiently waiting for his commitment-phobic boyfriend to . . . well, commit. In th...
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Hi, new followers! Me and @mayadrocha.bsky.social co-wrote a summery queer romcom that's The Flatshare but gay meets The Odd Couple but gayer 🏳️🌈
🥰Softie grump x bitchy sunshine
🤪Failed meet cutes
🌈Explorations of mental health and identity crises
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🥰Softie grump x bitchy sunshine
🤪Failed meet cutes
🌈Explorations of mental health and identity crises
riptidepublishing.com/products/les...
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
My friends and I trying to reverse engineer the writing sausage (ew): medium.com/@draftingthr...
5 Essential Strategies to Writing More
Fiction writing relies on the careful balance of taking your nonsense seriously, but not so seriously that its enormous effort kills you…
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My friends and I trying to reverse engineer the writing sausage (ew): medium.com/@draftingthr...
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
"Welcome to Alexandria," published by @nygelmag.bsky.social in their inaugural Issue. ADULT EYES ONLY!!
But if you've got adult eyes, you should check out this amazing collection, featuring my story about a bibliophile and a sentient library 🐙📚
Award Eligibility Thread 3/9
#booksky #indiebooks
But if you've got adult eyes, you should check out this amazing collection, featuring my story about a bibliophile and a sentient library 🐙📚
Award Eligibility Thread 3/9
#booksky #indiebooks
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Welcome to Alexandria," published by @nygelmag.bsky.social in their inaugural Issue. ADULT EYES ONLY!!
But if you've got adult eyes, you should check out this amazing collection, featuring my story about a bibliophile and a sentient library 🐙📚
Award Eligibility Thread 3/9
#booksky #indiebooks
But if you've got adult eyes, you should check out this amazing collection, featuring my story about a bibliophile and a sentient library 🐙📚
Award Eligibility Thread 3/9
#booksky #indiebooks
Hello, mon cher 💖
Happy Halloween from Lestat de Lioncourt 🎃
Happy Halloween from Lestat de Lioncourt 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Hello, mon cher 💖
Happy Halloween from Lestat de Lioncourt 🎃
Happy Halloween from Lestat de Lioncourt 🎃
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
Happy Halloween from Sylvia Barry... or is it Daniel Molloy and Lestat de Lioncourt? 💅
Check out LESSONS IN TIMING: a.co/d/8uEk479
@mayadrocha.bsky.social @riptidepublishing.bsky.social @thepaintedlion.bsky.social
Check out LESSONS IN TIMING: a.co/d/8uEk479
@mayadrocha.bsky.social @riptidepublishing.bsky.social @thepaintedlion.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Happy Halloween from Sylvia Barry... or is it Daniel Molloy and Lestat de Lioncourt? 💅
Check out LESSONS IN TIMING: a.co/d/8uEk479
@mayadrocha.bsky.social @riptidepublishing.bsky.social @thepaintedlion.bsky.social
Check out LESSONS IN TIMING: a.co/d/8uEk479
@mayadrocha.bsky.social @riptidepublishing.bsky.social @thepaintedlion.bsky.social
Monster Mash? More like Monster SMASH 👅💦🔥
Consider spending Halloween with issue 1 of NYGEL, featuring 8 erotic stories of creatures that go bump(ing uglies) in the night 🐙👾👽
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
Consider spending Halloween with issue 1 of NYGEL, featuring 8 erotic stories of creatures that go bump(ing uglies) in the night 🐙👾👽
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
NYGEL: ISSUE 1 EBOOK — NYGEL
Cum one, cum all! NYGEL Issue 1 is here! The monsterfucking lit mag of your dreams has finally arrived! The very first issue of NYGEL (Not Your Gran's Erotic Lit) is chock-full of unabashed devianc...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Monster Mash? More like Monster SMASH 👅💦🔥
Consider spending Halloween with issue 1 of NYGEL, featuring 8 erotic stories of creatures that go bump(ing uglies) in the night 🐙👾👽
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
Consider spending Halloween with issue 1 of NYGEL, featuring 8 erotic stories of creatures that go bump(ing uglies) in the night 🐙👾👽
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
why was The Long Walk legit the most romantic movie I've seen this year, those two walking boys shoulda kissed on the mouth
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
why was The Long Walk legit the most romantic movie I've seen this year, those two walking boys shoulda kissed on the mouth
why was The Long Walk legit the most romantic movie I've seen this year, those two walking boys shoulda kissed on the mouth
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
why was The Long Walk legit the most romantic movie I've seen this year, those two walking boys shoulda kissed on the mouth
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
Writing a blog post with @thepaintedlion.bsky.social about co-authoring as @sylviabarry.bsky.social and our main conclusion/advice is...
Be best friends.
This is either very helpful or completely unhelpful. 🤷🏽♀️
Be best friends.
This is either very helpful or completely unhelpful. 🤷🏽♀️
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Writing a blog post with @thepaintedlion.bsky.social about co-authoring as @sylviabarry.bsky.social and our main conclusion/advice is...
Be best friends.
This is either very helpful or completely unhelpful. 🤷🏽♀️
Be best friends.
This is either very helpful or completely unhelpful. 🤷🏽♀️
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
Sign up for the newsletter for a reintoduction to "Best of the Wrong Reasons", my first novel ! Visit Sandersantiago.com
#newsletter #novel #lgbtqiabooks #books
#newsletter #novel #lgbtqiabooks #books
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Sign up for the newsletter for a reintoduction to "Best of the Wrong Reasons", my first novel ! Visit Sandersantiago.com
#newsletter #novel #lgbtqiabooks #books
#newsletter #novel #lgbtqiabooks #books
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
May 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
As a lifelong Dr. Pepper purple-truther, I don't appreciate being Perceived in this way thank yoooouuuu
Just saw someone say "Dr Pepper fans are the soda equivalent of people whose favourite colour is purple"
So now I have to ask:
Are you a Dr Pepper fan?
And if so, is your favourite colour purple?
(For the record, my answers are YES and YES)
So now I have to ask:
Are you a Dr Pepper fan?
And if so, is your favourite colour purple?
(For the record, my answers are YES and YES)
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
As a lifelong Dr. Pepper purple-truther, I don't appreciate being Perceived in this way thank yoooouuuu
I'm part of an awesome writing workshop with fellow authors doing amazing work, and we have a collaborative blog where we share our creative processes, struggles, failures, and successes 😎
Meet our drafters!
medium.com/@draftingthr...
Meet our drafters!
medium.com/@draftingthr...
Draft Through Life With Us
There is a myth about writing as a lonesome endeavor. Let’s talk about how that’s BS.
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October 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I'm part of an awesome writing workshop with fellow authors doing amazing work, and we have a collaborative blog where we share our creative processes, struggles, failures, and successes 😎
Meet our drafters!
medium.com/@draftingthr...
Meet our drafters!
medium.com/@draftingthr...
TERRIBLE NEWS IF TRUE
Hate to say it guys but I think I need to submit my work to publications in order for it to be published in any of them
October 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
TERRIBLE NEWS IF TRUE
Not me seriously considering buying a whole other laptop just so I can download Baldur's Gate 3 because I don't have enough storage space 😭😭😭
October 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Not me seriously considering buying a whole other laptop just so I can download Baldur's Gate 3 because I don't have enough storage space 😭😭😭
Couldn't tell you why, but I find it so charming when Doordash drivers take a photo of my food in a bag, sitting daintly on the passenger car seat, their personal belongings clearly in frame 🥰 Two humans, digitally going on a drive together, connected in this moment by a delivery of butter chicken
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Couldn't tell you why, but I find it so charming when Doordash drivers take a photo of my food in a bag, sitting daintly on the passenger car seat, their personal belongings clearly in frame 🥰 Two humans, digitally going on a drive together, connected in this moment by a delivery of butter chicken
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
You know what hits the spot? Getting dommed by a hot dino mommy 😍🥵💦👅🦖 Have a snippet of "Sapient Species Special Sexual Services" by @pinkest-nekomata.bsky.social and be sure to pick up NYGEL's 1st issue to read the whole thing (and more!)
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
You know what hits the spot? Getting dommed by a hot dino mommy 😍🥵💦👅🦖 Have a snippet of "Sapient Species Special Sexual Services" by @pinkest-nekomata.bsky.social and be sure to pick up NYGEL's 1st issue to read the whole thing (and more!)
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
Hey, an interview I did is up now! Thanks to the Bold Journey team for chatting with me about my work and the Beautiful Beasts imprint
boldjourney.com/meet-joachim...
boldjourney.com/meet-joachim...
Meet Joachim Heijndermans - Bold Journey Magazine
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Joachim Heijndermans a few weeks ago and
boldjourney.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Hey, an interview I did is up now! Thanks to the Bold Journey team for chatting with me about my work and the Beautiful Beasts imprint
boldjourney.com/meet-joachim...
boldjourney.com/meet-joachim...
Listen all I'm saying is that if Sean Evans and Keke Palmer don't date each other then either of them are more than welcome to date ME 🥰
a man in a black turtleneck is holding a spoon and smiling while asking how you doin 't .
ALT: a man in a black turtleneck is holding a spoon and smiling while asking how you doin 't .
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September 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Listen all I'm saying is that if Sean Evans and Keke Palmer don't date each other then either of them are more than welcome to date ME 🥰
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
Who doesn't love some hot alien-on-alien action? 👁👄👁 We interviewed @ekdarnellbooks.bsky.social who is a master of monsterfuckery, and whose tentacley erotica story "The Dalgur's Secret" appears in NYGEL ISSUE 1, available now! 🐙👽🔥💦
www.nygelmag.com/squid-blast-...
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
www.nygelmag.com/squid-blast-...
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
ISSUE 1 AUTHOR INTERVIEW: EK DATURA — NYGEL
Who doesn’t love some hot alien-on-alien action? We chatted with EK Datura, seasoned monsterfucking expert, about the art of making the monsters smooch (and then some). “The Dalgur’s Secret” can be re...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Who doesn't love some hot alien-on-alien action? 👁👄👁 We interviewed @ekdarnellbooks.bsky.social who is a master of monsterfuckery, and whose tentacley erotica story "The Dalgur's Secret" appears in NYGEL ISSUE 1, available now! 🐙👽🔥💦
www.nygelmag.com/squid-blast-...
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
www.nygelmag.com/squid-blast-...
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
Enjoy a hot, tentacley sneak peek of "The Dalgur's Secret," an alien-on-alien high spice erotica story from the incomparable master of monsterfuckery, @ekdarnellbooks 🐙👽🔥💦
Read the full story in NYGEL ISSUE 1: www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
Read the full story in NYGEL ISSUE 1: www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Enjoy a hot, tentacley sneak peek of "The Dalgur's Secret," an alien-on-alien high spice erotica story from the incomparable master of monsterfuckery, @ekdarnellbooks 🐙👽🔥💦
Read the full story in NYGEL ISSUE 1: www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
Read the full story in NYGEL ISSUE 1: www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
How long have your characters been rattling around your brain? Are they strangers or old friends? WE WANNA KNOW! 🥰
Our characters in LESSONS IN TIMING have been around for different lengths of time 🤪https://a.co/d/0sMrxPd
@riptidepublishing.bsky.social @mayadrocha.bsky.social
Our characters in LESSONS IN TIMING have been around for different lengths of time 🤪https://a.co/d/0sMrxPd
@riptidepublishing.bsky.social @mayadrocha.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
How long have your characters been rattling around your brain? Are they strangers or old friends? WE WANNA KNOW! 🥰
Our characters in LESSONS IN TIMING have been around for different lengths of time 🤪https://a.co/d/0sMrxPd
@riptidepublishing.bsky.social @mayadrocha.bsky.social
Our characters in LESSONS IN TIMING have been around for different lengths of time 🤪https://a.co/d/0sMrxPd
@riptidepublishing.bsky.social @mayadrocha.bsky.social
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
Sneak peek of "Please Show Me Stars," a sapphic, tentacley erotica from @jheijndermans.bsky.social, only in issue 1 of NYGEL, available NOW! 💦
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
September 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Sneak peek of "Please Show Me Stars," a sapphic, tentacley erotica from @jheijndermans.bsky.social, only in issue 1 of NYGEL, available NOW! 💦
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
NYGEL issue one is out!!! Go pick it up. My short "Please Show Me Stars" is in it. Hope you like sapphic spacefaring ladies and their alien wives.
August 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
NYGEL issue one is out!!! Go pick it up. My short "Please Show Me Stars" is in it. Hope you like sapphic spacefaring ladies and their alien wives.
Reposted by Anna Catalano 🌈
The first issue is here! If you're in the mood for an interplanetary worker visiting an alien brothel during her shore leave, I got you covered (in slime).
NYGEL ISSUE 1 HAS ARRIVED!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Want a spicy treat for the long weekend? How about 8 super queer, super weird, super HOT monster erotica stories from some of the best authors in the business? 👀 💦
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
#releaseday #bookrelease #spicybooks #litmag #indiepress #erotica
Want a spicy treat for the long weekend? How about 8 super queer, super weird, super HOT monster erotica stories from some of the best authors in the business? 👀 💦
www.nygelmag.com/store-1/p/ny...
#releaseday #bookrelease #spicybooks #litmag #indiepress #erotica
August 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The first issue is here! If you're in the mood for an interplanetary worker visiting an alien brothel during her shore leave, I got you covered (in slime).