Julie Artz - Author, Editor, Book Coach, Dragon
@julieartz.bsky.social
I help status-quo busting writers like you slay their doubt demons and get their novels and memoirs reader-ready.
🐉 FREE Craft Your Query Workbook: https://pages.julieartz.com/queryaudit
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Since I’m dipping my toes back in here, I thought it was worth saying:
Climate change is real and no human is illegal. Love is love, women’s and trans rights are human rights, and Black Lives Matter. And all children deserve to see themselves in books. 💕
Climate change is real and no human is illegal. Love is love, women’s and trans rights are human rights, and Black Lives Matter. And all children deserve to see themselves in books. 💕
Post a picture of when your pet was little.
March 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Post a picture of when your pet was little.
In just a few hours, I’m picking up my writerly pals at the airport for a DIY writing retreat at my house. I can’t wait! I try to do something like this once a quarter to really carve out time for my personal writing. Day job calendar blocked, food prep done, now bring on the words!
February 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In just a few hours, I’m picking up my writerly pals at the airport for a DIY writing retreat at my house. I can’t wait! I try to do something like this once a quarter to really carve out time for my personal writing. Day job calendar blocked, food prep done, now bring on the words!
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Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds
Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds
Study counteracts claims by conservative lawmakers that books being removed from classrooms are sexually explicit
The majority of banned books in US public schools last year dealt with people of color, LGBTQ+ people and other demographics, according to a…
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds
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Cis allies! Please support transgender people and comment today. The reddit below contains links to the official comment pages for the new passport rules that we need to fight against.
bsky.app/profile/erin...
bsky.app/profile/erin...
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Cis allies! Please support transgender people and comment today. The reddit below contains links to the official comment pages for the new passport rules that we need to fight against.
bsky.app/profile/erin...
bsky.app/profile/erin...
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I don't enjoy banging this drum about the need for adding alt-text to images, but it's one of those cultural things I think it is really important to emphasize to all Bluesky users to distinguish it from other social media platforms; just like how quote-dunking and rage-baiting isn't tolerated.
February 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I don't enjoy banging this drum about the need for adding alt-text to images, but it's one of those cultural things I think it is really important to emphasize to all Bluesky users to distinguish it from other social media platforms; just like how quote-dunking and rage-baiting isn't tolerated.
post a gif from the last show you watched ✨
February 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
post a gif from the last show you watched ✨
It feels weird to talk about happy things given everything that’s going on. But…I’m hosting a retreat at Highlights in June with my pal @emilycolinbooks.bsky.social and it’s a major bucket list item for me. Talking revision. With my pal. At Highlights!
February 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It feels weird to talk about happy things given everything that’s going on. But…I’m hosting a retreat at Highlights in June with my pal @emilycolinbooks.bsky.social and it’s a major bucket list item for me. Talking revision. With my pal. At Highlights!
I hit the point in the mushy middle on this novel where I didn’t know what came next. How it ends, sure. But I needed a plan to get the characters there with everything that changed as I wrote the first half. Spent the week on my synopsis and now I have a plan! It’s such a great tool for plantsters.
February 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I hit the point in the mushy middle on this novel where I didn’t know what came next. How it ends, sure. But I needed a plan to get the characters there with everything that changed as I wrote the first half. Spent the week on my synopsis and now I have a plan! It’s such a great tool for plantsters.
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It’s extra important for your GOP senator to hear from you right now if you’re in one of these states.
Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or send an email to your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...
Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or send an email to your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...
February 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It’s extra important for your GOP senator to hear from you right now if you’re in one of these states.
Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or send an email to your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...
Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or send an email to your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...
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This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.
February 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.
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REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
February 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Hey, friends. Just checking back in. The weight of wickedness heaped upon our country and world feels almost too great to bear. I hope you're holding onto your own beauty. Breathe in and kindle your light. Breathe out and share your light. I love you so much. There is so much good in the world.
Hey, friends. I hope you're all doing okay. Or something approximating okay. May your breath be a blessing. May your work be a blessing. May your care for others and may your receiving of care be a blessing as well. I feel blessed just to know you. Hold on to something beautiful for me, will you?
February 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Hey, friends. Just checking back in. The weight of wickedness heaped upon our country and world feels almost too great to bear. I hope you're holding onto your own beauty. Breathe in and kindle your light. Breathe out and share your light. I love you so much. There is so much good in the world.
Hope you're staying warm out there. Today seemed like a good (chilly) day to share what tortellini soup taught me about writing... julieartz.substack.com/p/what-torte...
What Tortellini Soup Taught Me About Writing
When to follow the rules and when to break them, in the kitchen and in writing
julieartz.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hope you're staying warm out there. Today seemed like a good (chilly) day to share what tortellini soup taught me about writing... julieartz.substack.com/p/what-torte...
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Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features
This is "#MSWL Day 2025: Search Tips & Features" by The Manuscript Academy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
Am I in Whamageddon purgatory if I heard “Last Christmas,” but it was a cover?
December 15, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Am I in Whamageddon purgatory if I heard “Last Christmas,” but it was a cover?
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Here are the anti-library & pro-censorship bills already prefiled for the 2025 legislative session across the US. It's your job to keep tabs on these, write your representatives, & speak up about the dismantling of public institutions of access + democracy.
wellsourced.substack.com/p/the-pro-ce...
wellsourced.substack.com/p/the-pro-ce...
The Pro-Censorship and Anti-Library & Bills Already Filed for 2025
Killing the Department of Education is one we already saw coming.
wellsourced.substack.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Here are the anti-library & pro-censorship bills already prefiled for the 2025 legislative session across the US. It's your job to keep tabs on these, write your representatives, & speak up about the dismantling of public institutions of access + democracy.
wellsourced.substack.com/p/the-pro-ce...
wellsourced.substack.com/p/the-pro-ce...
Efforts to block gender affirming care will harm our most vulnerable children.
Several studies have assessed the potential benefits of puberty blockers.
Puberty blockers reduce suicidal thoughts and actions in transgender adolescents compared
to those who have not accessed the treatment.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32273193/
Puberty blockers reduce suicidal thoughts and actions in transgender adolescents compared
to those who have not accessed the treatment.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32273193/
Psychological Functioning in Transgender Adolescents Before and After Gender-Affirmative Care Compared With Cisgender General Population Peers - PubMed
Transgender adolescents show poorer psychological well-being before treatment but show similar or better psychological functioning compared with cisgender peers from the general population after the s...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 13, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Efforts to block gender affirming care will harm our most vulnerable children.
My youngest kiddo is on the ground safe and sound in Denver! Home for five weeks. SQUEE!!!
a group of people are jumping in the air with the words yippee in the corner .
Alt: a group of people are jumping in the air with the words yippee in the corner .
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:51 AM
My youngest kiddo is on the ground safe and sound in Denver! Home for five weeks. SQUEE!!!
Loading a client book I’m particularly excited about onto the ereader. Who needs sleep?
a woman with pink and blue hair is reading a book and drinking from a cup
Alt: a woman with pink and blue hair is reading a book and drinking from a cup
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Loading a client book I’m particularly excited about onto the ereader. Who needs sleep?
StoryGraph folx: Share your link and what you like to read and let’s follow each other on StoryGraph! I love a good spicy romance, poetry/NIV/memoir, all things character driven in the speculative space, and the odd upmarket: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/juli... #amreading #booksky
Sign In | The StoryGraphClose paneAccept and close
app.thestorygraph.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:55 PM
StoryGraph folx: Share your link and what you like to read and let’s follow each other on StoryGraph! I love a good spicy romance, poetry/NIV/memoir, all things character driven in the speculative space, and the odd upmarket: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/juli... #amreading #booksky
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I’m proud to participate in today’s #LGBTQnotgoingback day of action. I hope you’ll join me in reaching out to your reps to protect our LGBTQ+ siblings ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜 open.substack.com/pub/julieart...
LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
And now, more than ever, they need allies to join the fight
open.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I’m proud to participate in today’s #LGBTQnotgoingback day of action. I hope you’ll join me in reaching out to your reps to protect our LGBTQ+ siblings ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜 open.substack.com/pub/julieart...
I love StoryGraph. It would be great to see more folks over there!
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
December 5, 2024 at 2:19 AM
I love StoryGraph. It would be great to see more folks over there!
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“Our children are not going to stop being transgender just because you strip them of their care. Stripping them of their care is cruel, but they will continue to be who they are and parents like myself will continue to do what we need to do to protect them and keep them safe and alive.”
US v. Skrmetti: Teen at Heart of the Supreme Court's Trans Health Care Case Calls It "Body Horror"
What trans teens fear about US v. Skrmetti, reported from the steps of the Supreme Court.
www.teenvogue.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:06 PM
“Our children are not going to stop being transgender just because you strip them of their care. Stripping them of their care is cruel, but they will continue to be who they are and parents like myself will continue to do what we need to do to protect them and keep them safe and alive.”
Stuck in the airport and found this story a really moving distraction while I wait…
New story! "Ancestor Heart" by Naomi Day! @thenaomiday.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/ance...
December 4, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Stuck in the airport and found this story a really moving distraction while I wait…
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Here is my #LGBTQNotGoingBack post, which includes a MASTER LIST of everyone else's posts! plus instructions for how to be added to this lists & how to call your representatives today!
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/lgbtq-peop...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/lgbtq-people... #LGBTQ
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/lgbtq-peop...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/lgbtq-people... #LGBTQ
LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
Last week, I proposed a mass action for today (Tuesday, December 3, 2024), in which LGBTQ+ people and allies who have platforms of any kind would publish individual creations (writings, videos, podcas...
juliaserano.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Here is my #LGBTQNotGoingBack post, which includes a MASTER LIST of everyone else's posts! plus instructions for how to be added to this lists & how to call your representatives today!
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/lgbtq-peop...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/lgbtq-people... #LGBTQ
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/lgbtq-peop...
or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/lgbtq-people... #LGBTQ