Joel A. Nichols
@jaynick.bsky.social
Librarian, sff writer, queer dad, Vermonter in Philadelphia, author of OUT OF THIS WORLD LIBRARY PROGRAMS: USING SPECULATIVE FICTION TO PROMOTE READING & "Come Back Yesterday: Paradoxes of Library Progress" in LIBRARY 2035 (ed. Hirsh)
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If you're hoping to read a "cozy romantasy like House on Cerulean Sea or Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping", try Secret of the Moon Conch by @davidbowles.us. #AskALibrarian
Secret of the Moon Conch — Multnomah County Library
Secret of the Moon Conch — Bowles, David (David O.), — In modern Mexico, Sitlali is all alone after the death of her beloved abuela. Targeted by a dangerous gang member, she flees to the United States...
multcolib.bibliocommons.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you're hoping to read a "cozy romantasy like House on Cerulean Sea or Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping", try Secret of the Moon Conch by @davidbowles.us. #AskALibrarian
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In the third shift years, I wrote 85% of the unpublished novel on the clock.
Thats.... way more money than selling an actual book gets you. And that was in 2010 dollars.
Thats.... way more money than selling an actual book gets you. And that was in 2010 dollars.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In the third shift years, I wrote 85% of the unpublished novel on the clock.
Thats.... way more money than selling an actual book gets you. And that was in 2010 dollars.
Thats.... way more money than selling an actual book gets you. And that was in 2010 dollars.
position like you are trying to hang from a door frame and kinda drop out and down. L usually can get relief down where the shoulder bones meet the lung bones…
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
position like you are trying to hang from a door frame and kinda drop out and down. L usually can get relief down where the shoulder bones meet the lung bones…
This also and especially if there are co editors Otherwise ick.
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This also and especially if there are co editors Otherwise ick.
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I think it does depend on how stringent the entry criteria were. A lot of queer anthos have low pay or no pay and the editor is a peer who happened to take on the work of putting the antho together. That's a different animal than a big traditional or more established magazine antho
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I think it does depend on how stringent the entry criteria were. A lot of queer anthos have low pay or no pay and the editor is a peer who happened to take on the work of putting the antho together. That's a different animal than a big traditional or more established magazine antho