mere rain
@mererain.bsky.social
Author of speculative fiction of all genres
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I've never had one of these #1 orange banners before!
(and I'm sure it isn't because of me personally, but it's still exciting).
Thanks for supporting SantaCan!
(and I'm sure it isn't because of me personally, but it's still exciting).
Thanks for supporting SantaCan!
Fairly substantial wait list for this at the library!
Today at Good Comics for Kids, @jcaleb.bsky.social reviews Angelica and the Bear Prince by @trungles.com: goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2025/11/13/a...
Angelica and the Bear Prince | Review
Cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen's sophomore effort is another graphic novel with fairy tale inspiration, but it's a lighter, less personal tale...albeit a deceptively deep one.
goodcomicsforkids.slj.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fairly substantial wait list for this at the library!
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Snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook boxed set now as part of this amazing StoryBundle curated by Charlotte English, with books by @tillywallace.bsky.social , @tansyrr.bsky.social , @victoriagoddard.bsky.social, R.J. Blain, @kristadb1.bsky.social & more:
storybundle.com/fantasy
#romancelandia
storybundle.com/fantasy
#romancelandia
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook boxed set now as part of this amazing StoryBundle curated by Charlotte English, with books by @tillywallace.bsky.social , @tansyrr.bsky.social , @victoriagoddard.bsky.social, R.J. Blain, @kristadb1.bsky.social & more:
storybundle.com/fantasy
#romancelandia
storybundle.com/fantasy
#romancelandia
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Buy everyone (our) books this holiday season: the shopping's done & you fight hunger!
We will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23 to the @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy direct at ruadanbooks.com.
#BookSky #foodbank
We will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23 to the @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy direct at ruadanbooks.com.
#BookSky #foodbank
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Buy everyone (our) books this holiday season: the shopping's done & you fight hunger!
We will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23 to the @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy direct at ruadanbooks.com.
#BookSky #foodbank
We will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23 to the @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy direct at ruadanbooks.com.
#BookSky #foodbank
I like the story implied by the cover!
Winter Cover Reveal!!!! Issue 6 drops on December 1st, 2025
Subscribe now at magazine.trollbreath.com
Subscribe now at magazine.trollbreath.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I like the story implied by the cover!
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
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CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction
Love Is Magic mm paranormal romance in support of charity SantaCan, releasing Nov 27. My story features an archaeologist and a demon-hunter and is set in the same world as gothic In The Dark Heart of Winter, but contemporary (also more 🌶️).
Preorder link readerlinks.com/L/4995814
Preorder link readerlinks.com/L/4995814
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Love Is Magic mm paranormal romance in support of charity SantaCan, releasing Nov 27. My story features an archaeologist and a demon-hunter and is set in the same world as gothic In The Dark Heart of Winter, but contemporary (also more 🌶️).
Preorder link readerlinks.com/L/4995814
Preorder link readerlinks.com/L/4995814
today
NEW PIN? NEW PIN! Nov 12th, join me during @the-book-bazaar.com as I raise funds for physical copies of my cozy sci-fi friendship novella The Lucky Machine. Come join us as we make questionable fashion choices, build a robot, draw a butt, and more! 🤖
#TLM #Scifi 💙📚 #Robots #IndieAuthor
#TLM #Scifi 💙📚 #Robots #IndieAuthor
Here comes The Lucky Machine, launching Nov 2025
From Aimee Cozza Illustration - Here comes The Lucky Machine, launching Nov 2025
TheLuckyMachine.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Excuse me, it is the release day for DEAR STUPID PENPAL by @rascalhartley.bsky.social, put forth by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, & I really think y'all should all know that.
Esp. since you can buy the ebook directly from them for $3.99. It is that easy to have this queer sci-horror in your life.
Esp. since you can buy the ebook directly from them for $3.99. It is that easy to have this queer sci-horror in your life.
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Excuse me, it is the release day for DEAR STUPID PENPAL by @rascalhartley.bsky.social, put forth by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, & I really think y'all should all know that.
Esp. since you can buy the ebook directly from them for $3.99. It is that easy to have this queer sci-horror in your life.
Esp. since you can buy the ebook directly from them for $3.99. It is that easy to have this queer sci-horror in your life.
"Renew forced one eye open. Spots of red floated in her vision.
No, those were blood droplets, suspended on the interior of her visor."
astral-af.org/issues/02/in...
No, those were blood droplets, suspended on the interior of her visor."
astral-af.org/issues/02/in...
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Renew forced one eye open. Spots of red floated in her vision.
No, those were blood droplets, suspended on the interior of her visor."
astral-af.org/issues/02/in...
No, those were blood droplets, suspended on the interior of her visor."
astral-af.org/issues/02/in...
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Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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3LBE Issue 45 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Christi Nogle, Octavia Cade, A.C. Wise, Mari Ness, E. Catherine Tobler, and Avra Margariti. Read 3 stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/
July 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
3LBE Issue 45 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by Christi Nogle, Octavia Cade, A.C. Wise, Mari Ness, E. Catherine Tobler, and Avra Margariti. Read 3 stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/
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these paypros are only gonna continue to clamp down unless we call them and make their lives hell!
call some paypros, give em a piece of your mind! And advocate against banking/paypro discrimination to your representatives!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
call some paypros, give em a piece of your mind! And advocate against banking/paypro discrimination to your representatives!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
these paypros are only gonna continue to clamp down unless we call them and make their lives hell!
call some paypros, give em a piece of your mind! And advocate against banking/paypro discrimination to your representatives!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
call some paypros, give em a piece of your mind! And advocate against banking/paypro discrimination to your representatives!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Each month, we do this cool thing on QueerSciFi.com to support indie writers. We share 4 books with our readers for free, and add those readers (with permission) to the author lists.
Grab 'em here (sent out around the 3rd of next month):
queerscifi.com/join-our-mai...
#giveaway #freebooks
Grab 'em here (sent out around the 3rd of next month):
queerscifi.com/join-our-mai...
#giveaway #freebooks
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Each month, we do this cool thing on QueerSciFi.com to support indie writers. We share 4 books with our readers for free, and add those readers (with permission) to the author lists.
Grab 'em here (sent out around the 3rd of next month):
queerscifi.com/join-our-mai...
#giveaway #freebooks
Grab 'em here (sent out around the 3rd of next month):
queerscifi.com/join-our-mai...
#giveaway #freebooks
"Love Is Magic" MM paranormal romance anthology will be releasing on US Thanksgiving, November 27! All profits are going to SantaCan, which gives holiday gifts to foster kids.
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Love Is Magic" MM paranormal romance anthology will be releasing on US Thanksgiving, November 27! All profits are going to SantaCan, which gives holiday gifts to foster kids.
Buy books as holiday gifts (you can give yourself gifts, why not?) and help people eat this winter
Let's go, readers: buy books, fight hunger!
Ruadán Books will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1-12/23/25 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy our books direct:
🔗 ruadanbooks.com
📚 or wherever books are sold!
#BookSky
Ruadán Books will donate 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1-12/23/25 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well.
Buy our books direct:
🔗 ruadanbooks.com
📚 or wherever books are sold!
#BookSky
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Buy books as holiday gifts (you can give yourself gifts, why not?) and help people eat this winter
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BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
Jury Awards $112 Million to 674 Immigrants Unlawfully Held by Suffolk County for ICE Handover | LatinoJusticePRLDEF
FOR IMMEDIATE
www.latinojustice.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
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YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
I passed a shop the other day that advertised barber and tattoos.
The Barbershop (a painting from the archives)
Limited edition prints available.
Limited edition prints available.
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I passed a shop the other day that advertised barber and tattoos.
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Very excited about this...
Want to learn more about semiotic analysis and cultural research - and how to apply them to your writing projects and practice?
Come join me and @alexdavis1981.bsky.social, and we can make it so!
Want to learn more about semiotic analysis and cultural research - and how to apply them to your writing projects and practice?
Come join me and @alexdavis1981.bsky.social, and we can make it so!
Semiotics for Storytelling with Dr Nat Edwards
A three-week course exploring the world of semiotics and the impact it can have on your storytelling.
www.eventbrite.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Very excited about this...
Want to learn more about semiotic analysis and cultural research - and how to apply them to your writing projects and practice?
Come join me and @alexdavis1981.bsky.social, and we can make it so!
Want to learn more about semiotic analysis and cultural research - and how to apply them to your writing projects and practice?
Come join me and @alexdavis1981.bsky.social, and we can make it so!
Changing other peoples' settings is itself RUDE.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Changing other peoples' settings is itself RUDE.
I got an AI ad screaming "Say GOODBYE to your keyboard"
babes I am not your audience
babes I am not your audience
YOU HAVE TO LEARN AI NOW IF YOU DON'T PICK IT UP IN THE NEXT 18 MONTHS YOUR BUSINESS WILL GET LEFT BEHIND the YouTube ad shrieks at me.
Yeah, what I'm hearing is that you have 18 months to make all these massively over-leveraged products turn a profit. And that's not a me problem.
Yeah, what I'm hearing is that you have 18 months to make all these massively over-leveraged products turn a profit. And that's not a me problem.
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I got an AI ad screaming "Say GOODBYE to your keyboard"
babes I am not your audience
babes I am not your audience
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This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Sapphic Lit showcase next February! Authors, sign up to offer your book at .00 or .99c
My Gothic "In the Dark Heart of Winter" will be included.
www.cognitoforms.com/YearOfQueerL...
My Gothic "In the Dark Heart of Winter" will be included.
www.cognitoforms.com/YearOfQueerL...
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sapphic Lit showcase next February! Authors, sign up to offer your book at .00 or .99c
My Gothic "In the Dark Heart of Winter" will be included.
www.cognitoforms.com/YearOfQueerL...
My Gothic "In the Dark Heart of Winter" will be included.
www.cognitoforms.com/YearOfQueerL...