Barbara J. Webb
@bjwebb.bsky.social
Writer of SFF and romance. Violinist. Maker of cookies. Player of video games. Master of dungeons. Keeper of cats. Queer. Autistic. ADHD. She/her/hers.
https://barbarajwebb.com
https://barbarajwebb.com
Winter is Coming | Barbara J Webb
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December 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Plants are all tucked in under the snow. It's so very cold out. I want to check on how all my lettuces and roots are doing under their covers, but I don't want to expose them to the cold.
No one told me gardening would be so much about patience.
No one told me gardening would be so much about patience.
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Plants are all tucked in under the snow. It's so very cold out. I want to check on how all my lettuces and roots are doing under their covers, but I don't want to expose them to the cold.
No one told me gardening would be so much about patience.
No one told me gardening would be so much about patience.
First day of breaking open the Bonne Maman jam advent calendar!! Going through it with @luketolvaj.bsky.social and @svranderson.bsky.social . We started on December 1st, but will be taking it at our own pace.
Also: day six of Friday Tea's Tea-vent calendar. (Can you tell I love advent calendars??)
Also: day six of Friday Tea's Tea-vent calendar. (Can you tell I love advent calendars??)
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
First day of breaking open the Bonne Maman jam advent calendar!! Going through it with @luketolvaj.bsky.social and @svranderson.bsky.social . We started on December 1st, but will be taking it at our own pace.
Also: day six of Friday Tea's Tea-vent calendar. (Can you tell I love advent calendars??)
Also: day six of Friday Tea's Tea-vent calendar. (Can you tell I love advent calendars??)
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objective quality is fake and most people are really just judging how much they enjoyed something instead of how well it accomplished the thing it was setting out to do, because answering that question requires being curious about what it was trying to do
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
objective quality is fake and most people are really just judging how much they enjoyed something instead of how well it accomplished the thing it was setting out to do, because answering that question requires being curious about what it was trying to do
This is going to be so awesome!
coming soon: the Nightjar Arts Collective
July 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is going to be so awesome!
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This thread is an infinitely better explanation of Kobo's AI policy than the (really not very helpful) post the other day. The specificity is absolutely necessary.
Lots of questions about Kobo, #kobowritinglife and how, when and why we are using AI. Putting "AI" in the same sentence as "authors", "books" or "publishers" makes a lot of alarm bells go off, and for good reason. 1/
June 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This thread is an infinitely better explanation of Kobo's AI policy than the (really not very helpful) post the other day. The specificity is absolutely necessary.
Ooh, great question! The St. Pete cast are my only current our-world characters, so:
Ian is definitely going to the parades. Getting invited onto floats. Making so many new friends and partying till dawn.
Rose would love to go, but that many people having that many emotions is too overwhelming.
Ian is definitely going to the parades. Getting invited onto floats. Making so many new friends and partying till dawn.
Rose would love to go, but that many people having that many emotions is too overwhelming.
Authors! What are your characters doing for Pride? Are they doing the parade thing, are they having a private party? Let me know!
June 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Ooh, great question! The St. Pete cast are my only current our-world characters, so:
Ian is definitely going to the parades. Getting invited onto floats. Making so many new friends and partying till dawn.
Rose would love to go, but that many people having that many emotions is too overwhelming.
Ian is definitely going to the parades. Getting invited onto floats. Making so many new friends and partying till dawn.
Rose would love to go, but that many people having that many emotions is too overwhelming.
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RiverBank is over 100K! Please join us! We have specialty RiverBank tea... I am writing materials for stretch goals right now, and I would love to see them publishing. AND, if we do well enough, I may be able to do the campaign book that is in my mind.
RiverBank: A cozy RPG of elegant animals, chaos, & whimsy
Tea, Poetry and Total Disaster!
Cozy up with Riverbank RPG, where elegant animals embark on whimsical adventures, celebrating friendship and folly while surviving dire visits from relatives.
www.backerkit.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
RiverBank is over 100K! Please join us! We have specialty RiverBank tea... I am writing materials for stretch goals right now, and I would love to see them publishing. AND, if we do well enough, I may be able to do the campaign book that is in my mind.
Are you looking for a cozy TTRPG? Do you love adorable animals? Have you been needing more tea in your life? Do you wish you could live a comedy of manners? THIS IS YOUR GAME!!! Live now on Backerkit!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
RiverBank: A cozy RPG of elegant animals, chaos, & whimsy
Tea, Poetry and Total Disaster!
Cozy up with Riverbank RPG, where elegant animals embark on whimsical adventures, celebrating friendship and folly while surviving dire visits from relatives.
www.backerkit.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Are you looking for a cozy TTRPG? Do you love adorable animals? Have you been needing more tea in your life? Do you wish you could live a comedy of manners? THIS IS YOUR GAME!!! Live now on Backerkit!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
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Just finished reading @izzyxen.bsky.social’s queer cyberpunk novella.
This is the kind of trans (and transhuman) story that’s been sorely missing from cyberpunk for so long.
Just like its narrator, it’s bold, brave, messy, and brilliant. More like this please!
This is the kind of trans (and transhuman) story that’s been sorely missing from cyberpunk for so long.
Just like its narrator, it’s bold, brave, messy, and brilliant. More like this please!
January 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Just finished reading @izzyxen.bsky.social’s queer cyberpunk novella.
This is the kind of trans (and transhuman) story that’s been sorely missing from cyberpunk for so long.
Just like its narrator, it’s bold, brave, messy, and brilliant. More like this please!
This is the kind of trans (and transhuman) story that’s been sorely missing from cyberpunk for so long.
Just like its narrator, it’s bold, brave, messy, and brilliant. More like this please!
The latest book on @ifbookspod.bsky.social just reminds me of www.youtube.com/watch?v=uowL...
The Kids in the Hall - Seminar
YouTube video by Paul Bellini
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January 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The latest book on @ifbookspod.bsky.social just reminds me of www.youtube.com/watch?v=uowL...
Pulling long strings of the edges off dot matrix printer paper.
what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?
January 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Pulling long strings of the edges off dot matrix printer paper.
This is the face of a kitty who does NOT understand I’m trying to finish a book!
December 11, 2024 at 5:05 PM
This is the face of a kitty who does NOT understand I’m trying to finish a book!
Happy release day to me!! Twisted Loyalties is now out in the wilds! Book 2 in my cozydark gay romance series.
Korin may have found a new home, but there are reasons Teriad never stayed in one place.
books2read.com/Twisted-Loya...
Korin may have found a new home, but there are reasons Teriad never stayed in one place.
books2read.com/Twisted-Loya...
December 10, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Happy release day to me!! Twisted Loyalties is now out in the wilds! Book 2 in my cozydark gay romance series.
Korin may have found a new home, but there are reasons Teriad never stayed in one place.
books2read.com/Twisted-Loya...
Korin may have found a new home, but there are reasons Teriad never stayed in one place.
books2read.com/Twisted-Loya...
Advent jam day 5: purple fig cinnamon. Very mellow. The cinnamon was just a hint. A perfect companion to some chai.
December 2, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Advent jam day 5: purple fig cinnamon. Very mellow. The cinnamon was just a hint. A perfect companion to some chai.
Door 4 of advent jam is orange-yuzu-grapefruit. Super excited about this one!
November 28, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Door 4 of advent jam is orange-yuzu-grapefruit. Super excited about this one!
No one slams the mystery genre because the mystery’s solved by the end every time. It’s the execution. It’s HOW the solution happens.
Same with romance. It’s the journey. It’s the how not the what that makes us care. Being 80 pages from the end and wondering “how will the author pull this off??”
Same with romance. It’s the journey. It’s the how not the what that makes us care. Being 80 pages from the end and wondering “how will the author pull this off??”
November 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM
No one slams the mystery genre because the mystery’s solved by the end every time. It’s the execution. It’s HOW the solution happens.
Same with romance. It’s the journey. It’s the how not the what that makes us care. Being 80 pages from the end and wondering “how will the author pull this off??”
Same with romance. It’s the journey. It’s the how not the what that makes us care. Being 80 pages from the end and wondering “how will the author pull this off??”
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The definition of a good relationship is ever evolving and changing. And romance authors need to change with it.
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
The definition of a good relationship is ever evolving and changing. And romance authors need to change with it.
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I honestly feel that Romance does not exist in a vaccum and as writers & the provider of romantic fantasies that we should be playing more attention to the conversations that society as a whole is having about love and relationships right now. Especially when it comes to emotional care and labor.
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
I honestly feel that Romance does not exist in a vaccum and as writers & the provider of romantic fantasies that we should be playing more attention to the conversations that society as a whole is having about love and relationships right now. Especially when it comes to emotional care and labor.
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Help me out, bluesky? I'm looking for recommendations for your favorite science fiction about climate disasters and/or people's responses to them.
Any length from short story to novel is great. I'd particularly love recommendations from marginalized authors.
Any length from short story to novel is great. I'd particularly love recommendations from marginalized authors.
November 20, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Help me out, bluesky? I'm looking for recommendations for your favorite science fiction about climate disasters and/or people's responses to them.
Any length from short story to novel is great. I'd particularly love recommendations from marginalized authors.
Any length from short story to novel is great. I'd particularly love recommendations from marginalized authors.
So I'm back to work today, after the disruption of the last couple weeks. Working my way through Twisted book 4, the final draft before I send it for copyediting. I come across this speech, which I wrote months ago, but I feel like it was a note written directly to myself for this moment.
November 18, 2024 at 4:39 PM
So I'm back to work today, after the disruption of the last couple weeks. Working my way through Twisted book 4, the final draft before I send it for copyediting. I come across this speech, which I wrote months ago, but I feel like it was a note written directly to myself for this moment.
Door 3 of jam calendar is Apple-Quince-Honey. After my discovery of quince, I am super excited for this one.
November 18, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Door 3 of jam calendar is Apple-Quince-Honey. After my discovery of quince, I am super excited for this one.
This is a haunting, sharp, powerful book with a romance fierce enough to leave you breathless. Read it! Then come
Back here and join me in screaming about it.
Back here and join me in screaming about it.
A BONE IN HIS TEETH is on sale on kndle for $1.99 for the rest of november 🦈🌊 it has a trans lead, lots of rage, escaping abuse, finding comfort in places you least expect, becoming your own person after years of trauma 🫱 (please also check the content warnings!) #transbooks #transauthors 🌈📚
November 9, 2024 at 5:44 PM
This is a haunting, sharp, powerful book with a romance fierce enough to leave you breathless. Read it! Then come
Back here and join me in screaming about it.
Back here and join me in screaming about it.