Nicole Evans | Editor and Author
@thoughtsstained.bsky.social
vas Normandy | She/Her | Author of BLOOD PRICE | Freelance Editor | Bi AuDHD Disabled | Believes in: dragons, the power of books and you. 🖤
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It's time to start making your plans!
Romancing the Vote returns July 1st - July 5th, 2026!
* authors, start annotating those books
* artists, start making that art
* experts, start plotting your consultations
Stay updated: updates.romancingthevote.com
Romancing the Vote returns July 1st - July 5th, 2026!
* authors, start annotating those books
* artists, start making that art
* experts, start plotting your consultations
Stay updated: updates.romancingthevote.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:43 PM
It's time to start making your plans!
Romancing the Vote returns July 1st - July 5th, 2026!
* authors, start annotating those books
* artists, start making that art
* experts, start plotting your consultations
Stay updated: updates.romancingthevote.com
Romancing the Vote returns July 1st - July 5th, 2026!
* authors, start annotating those books
* artists, start making that art
* experts, start plotting your consultations
Stay updated: updates.romancingthevote.com
2nd bingo card of the year: a personal one! If you have any tips for smoothie making (especially strawberry), different hair styles to try, recipes for those who are picky eaters, I'd be VERY game to hear about them. And let's hope I can afford some of the more fun ones, on top of my creative hopes!
January 21, 2026 at 4:33 PM
2nd bingo card of the year: a personal one! If you have any tips for smoothie making (especially strawberry), different hair styles to try, recipes for those who are picky eaters, I'd be VERY game to hear about them. And let's hope I can afford some of the more fun ones, on top of my creative hopes!
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Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
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One wrong step and the monster in Otar's veins kills.
🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
📚🌈📚🪐📚💙
📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
📚🌈📚🪐📚💙
📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
January 21, 2026 at 1:25 PM
One wrong step and the monster in Otar's veins kills.
🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
📚🌈📚🪐📚💙
📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
📚🌈📚🪐📚💙
📚 GR tinyurl.com/mrxf83ck
📚 TSG tinyurl.com/3p3n33jp
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I know it's the hour when a question like this can lead you down some...roads...but...
Want to see sumn pretty? 👀
Say hi to Yemi and Nova, as illustrated by wizzylee
And then preorder the book, natch. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-th...
Want to see sumn pretty? 👀
Say hi to Yemi and Nova, as illustrated by wizzylee
And then preorder the book, natch. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-th...
January 21, 2026 at 6:57 AM
I know it's the hour when a question like this can lead you down some...roads...but...
Want to see sumn pretty? 👀
Say hi to Yemi and Nova, as illustrated by wizzylee
And then preorder the book, natch. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-th...
Want to see sumn pretty? 👀
Say hi to Yemi and Nova, as illustrated by wizzylee
And then preorder the book, natch. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-th...
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ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
naomikritzer.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:13 AM
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
ICYMI: latest Patreon post is up, all about writing goals and intentions for the year!
As always, it'd mean so much if you gave it a read and maybe even a little love! 🖤
#WriteSky #QueerSky 🌈📚💙📚
www.patreon.com/posts/147428...
As always, it'd mean so much if you gave it a read and maybe even a little love! 🖤
#WriteSky #QueerSky 🌈📚💙📚
www.patreon.com/posts/147428...
2026 Writing + Pub Goals and Intentions | Nicole Evans
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January 21, 2026 at 2:02 AM
ICYMI: latest Patreon post is up, all about writing goals and intentions for the year!
As always, it'd mean so much if you gave it a read and maybe even a little love! 🖤
#WriteSky #QueerSky 🌈📚💙📚
www.patreon.com/posts/147428...
As always, it'd mean so much if you gave it a read and maybe even a little love! 🖤
#WriteSky #QueerSky 🌈📚💙📚
www.patreon.com/posts/147428...
Please, keep talking dirty to me 🫦
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Please, keep talking dirty to me 🫦
This post might be coming toward the end of January, but time is just a construct and I still wanted to sit down and think about these goals and intentions, plus what I want to do with them, so that's what we're gonna do, feat. thoughts from Dovah the dog
#WriteSky #BookSky #QueerAdultSFF 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐🌎📚
#WriteSky #BookSky #QueerAdultSFF 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐🌎📚
January 20, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This post might be coming toward the end of January, but time is just a construct and I still wanted to sit down and think about these goals and intentions, plus what I want to do with them, so that's what we're gonna do, feat. thoughts from Dovah the dog
#WriteSky #BookSky #QueerAdultSFF 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐🌎📚
#WriteSky #BookSky #QueerAdultSFF 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐🌎📚
ICYMI, I announced my upcoming fantasy romance yesterday! Feat:
🥀 Bi4Bi
🥀 P&P hand flex scene on steriods
🥀 Saint of Steel series x DAO
🥀 Y E A R N I N G
🥀 Queernorm world with normalized neopronouns
🥀 Over 100 instances of the word f*ck
Coming this fall! Watch this space.
#BookSky #Romancelandia
🥀 Bi4Bi
🥀 P&P hand flex scene on steriods
🥀 Saint of Steel series x DAO
🥀 Y E A R N I N G
🥀 Queernorm world with normalized neopronouns
🥀 Over 100 instances of the word f*ck
Coming this fall! Watch this space.
#BookSky #Romancelandia
January 19, 2026 at 7:13 PM
ICYMI, I announced my upcoming fantasy romance yesterday! Feat:
🥀 Bi4Bi
🥀 P&P hand flex scene on steriods
🥀 Saint of Steel series x DAO
🥀 Y E A R N I N G
🥀 Queernorm world with normalized neopronouns
🥀 Over 100 instances of the word f*ck
Coming this fall! Watch this space.
#BookSky #Romancelandia
🥀 Bi4Bi
🥀 P&P hand flex scene on steriods
🥀 Saint of Steel series x DAO
🥀 Y E A R N I N G
🥀 Queernorm world with normalized neopronouns
🥀 Over 100 instances of the word f*ck
Coming this fall! Watch this space.
#BookSky #Romancelandia
I've seen others make bingo cards and this is too much fun, so I'm joining in with three different bingo cards this week. 1st up: bingo for my year as a freelancer! It's a nice mix of professional growth, personal MSWLs and goals—some of which are more ambitious than others!
#WriteSky #BookSky 📚🌈📚💙
#WriteSky #BookSky 📚🌈📚💙
January 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Read the whole thread. "If your art didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be working so hard to steal it."
One tiny comfort I experience as a creator right now:
Some of the richest people on the planet have poured billions into a plagiarism machine because they are so utterly desperate to be us
But no machine learning program can give them our skills, our vision, or our heart
And they hate that
Some of the richest people on the planet have poured billions into a plagiarism machine because they are so utterly desperate to be us
But no machine learning program can give them our skills, our vision, or our heart
And they hate that
January 18, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Read the whole thread. "If your art didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be working so hard to steal it."
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Today feels extra in terms of doomerism and I don't know if it's bot driven or reactionary. Probably a combo of both, but there are many, many things you can do, in both short term immediate assistance and long term. Thread below:
January 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Today feels extra in terms of doomerism and I don't know if it's bot driven or reactionary. Probably a combo of both, but there are many, many things you can do, in both short term immediate assistance and long term. Thread below:
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What are five things in your upcoming release? (The Distance Between Stars and Salt)
🌊 An adorable ferret dragon
🌊 Loving the chosen one
🌊 A married couple trying to reconnect
🌊 Community rebuilding after tragedy
🌊 Stories and cycles and finding your purpose
Coming this summer!
🌊 An adorable ferret dragon
🌊 Loving the chosen one
🌊 A married couple trying to reconnect
🌊 Community rebuilding after tragedy
🌊 Stories and cycles and finding your purpose
Coming this summer!
What are five things in your upcoming release?
(PRINCE OF ASH edition)
-- revolutions with high prices
-- fake relationships as a cover
-- Blood Magic but make it gory
-- manananggal on manananggal action (sexual)
-- a touch of romantic cannibalism
(PRINCE OF ASH edition)
-- revolutions with high prices
-- fake relationships as a cover
-- Blood Magic but make it gory
-- manananggal on manananggal action (sexual)
-- a touch of romantic cannibalism
What are five things in your upcoming release?
—a blind butch knight
—a paralyzed femme Fisher King
—disability aids and service animals integrated into fantasy
—lake-bursts, Lí Ban, and Parzival (c. 1300s)
—If your liege was God and never told you, what else is she lying about?
—a blind butch knight
—a paralyzed femme Fisher King
—disability aids and service animals integrated into fantasy
—lake-bursts, Lí Ban, and Parzival (c. 1300s)
—If your liege was God and never told you, what else is she lying about?
January 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
What are five things in your upcoming release? (The Distance Between Stars and Salt)
🌊 An adorable ferret dragon
🌊 Loving the chosen one
🌊 A married couple trying to reconnect
🌊 Community rebuilding after tragedy
🌊 Stories and cycles and finding your purpose
Coming this summer!
🌊 An adorable ferret dragon
🌊 Loving the chosen one
🌊 A married couple trying to reconnect
🌊 Community rebuilding after tragedy
🌊 Stories and cycles and finding your purpose
Coming this summer!
What are five things in your upcoming release (TBATB, fall 2026)
🥀 forearm appreciation
🥀 guilt
🥀 only one bed
🥀 unhinged side quests
🥀 hand-flex-scene on steroids
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
🥀 forearm appreciation
🥀 guilt
🥀 only one bed
🥀 unhinged side quests
🥀 hand-flex-scene on steroids
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
What are five things in your upcoming release?
(PRINCE OF ASH edition)
-- revolutions with high prices
-- fake relationships as a cover
-- Blood Magic but make it gory
-- manananggal on manananggal action (sexual)
-- a touch of romantic cannibalism
(PRINCE OF ASH edition)
-- revolutions with high prices
-- fake relationships as a cover
-- Blood Magic but make it gory
-- manananggal on manananggal action (sexual)
-- a touch of romantic cannibalism
What are five things in your upcoming release?
—a blind butch knight
—a paralyzed femme Fisher King
—disability aids and service animals integrated into fantasy
—lake-bursts, Lí Ban, and Parzival (c. 1300s)
—If your liege was God and never told you, what else is she lying about?
—a blind butch knight
—a paralyzed femme Fisher King
—disability aids and service animals integrated into fantasy
—lake-bursts, Lí Ban, and Parzival (c. 1300s)
—If your liege was God and never told you, what else is she lying about?
January 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
What are five things in your upcoming release (TBATB, fall 2026)
🥀 forearm appreciation
🥀 guilt
🥀 only one bed
🥀 unhinged side quests
🥀 hand-flex-scene on steroids
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
🥀 forearm appreciation
🥀 guilt
🥀 only one bed
🥀 unhinged side quests
🥀 hand-flex-scene on steroids
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
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Can't wait for this!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Let this be the OFFICIAL introduction to my next book: my debut fantasy romance, coming to your bookshelves and ereaders this fall. 🥀
Patrons get first looks! Now is the *perfect* time to join! Especially since artwork for the cover begins next month...
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
Patrons get first looks! Now is the *perfect* time to join! Especially since artwork for the cover begins next month...
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
January 18, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Can't wait for this!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Let this be the OFFICIAL introduction to my next book: my debut fantasy romance, coming to your bookshelves and ereaders this fall. 🥀
Patrons get first looks! Now is the *perfect* time to join! Especially since artwork for the cover begins next month...
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
Patrons get first looks! Now is the *perfect* time to join! Especially since artwork for the cover begins next month...
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
January 18, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Let this be the OFFICIAL introduction to my next book: my debut fantasy romance, coming to your bookshelves and ereaders this fall. 🥀
Patrons get first looks! Now is the *perfect* time to join! Especially since artwork for the cover begins next month...
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
Patrons get first looks! Now is the *perfect* time to join! Especially since artwork for the cover begins next month...
#WriteSky #BookSky #Romancelandia
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I would write the HECK out of a Bloomburrow book. Just saying. 🐭🗡️
OKAY...?
And sequels to this book can spawn other books, on other planes, in other places! Help me convince the people in charge that I should be allowed to write my Duskmourn horror stories! Give @valerievaldes.bsky.social her Bloomburrow Redwall! This key opens all doors...or none of them.
And sequels to this book can spawn other books, on other planes, in other places! Help me convince the people in charge that I should be allowed to write my Duskmourn horror stories! Give @valerievaldes.bsky.social her Bloomburrow Redwall! This key opens all doors...or none of them.
January 18, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I would write the HECK out of a Bloomburrow book. Just saying. 🐭🗡️
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40something white dudes, your time to shine is now
ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.
January 17, 2026 at 8:05 PM
40something white dudes, your time to shine is now
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If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
January 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
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If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
Symbols of reverence, wolves and ravens are protected by the gods, a rarity in the wild. It's argued whether seeing one in the wild is a good or a bad omen.
Ashilde has just discovered both.
Watching her.
And she will not escape until she finds out what the want.
#BookSky 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐🌎📚
Ashilde has just discovered both.
Watching her.
And she will not escape until she finds out what the want.
#BookSky 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐🌎📚
January 17, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Symbols of reverence, wolves and ravens are protected by the gods, a rarity in the wild. It's argued whether seeing one in the wild is a good or a bad omen.
Ashilde has just discovered both.
Watching her.
And she will not escape until she finds out what the want.
#BookSky 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐🌎📚
Ashilde has just discovered both.
Watching her.
And she will not escape until she finds out what the want.
#BookSky 📚🌈📚💙📚🪐🌎📚
Being able to write full-time and support myself *and* my partner while doing so.
It's that simple, and that hard.
It's that simple, and that hard.
what is the biggest writerly goal you are willing to cop to publicly? I would like to be nominated for a Lammy
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Being able to write full-time and support myself *and* my partner while doing so.
It's that simple, and that hard.
It's that simple, and that hard.