❊ Foxes & Foxgloves ❊

Here’s some excellent writing advice from Kelly Link:

Bluesky is still small enough that there’s a part of the day when there are zero updates and everyone is asleep so I feel more comfortable rambling

Re: last repost, I worry often about whether my stories are “thematic” or “important” enough, and then get stuck in a spiral of never finishing things. Recently I’ve been thinking that the kind of stories I’m interested in writing are always more a set of unusual images than anything else.

My advice--don't worry too much about being "original." Worry about whether the thing you're doing is interesting and fun to you. There will always be someone to say your work isn't sufficiently new. They are obviously not your audience. 5/5

let’s goooo

EEEE IT'S HERE! My Demeter and Persephone retelling "Always Be Returning" is now FREE to read in Sunday Morning Transport!! This is my first Greek retelling and that makes me 100x times more nervous and excited!

https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/always-be-returning

Today I read two stories I loved.

The first is @sloanesloane.bsky.social’s “The Blade and the Bloodwright”, which I first got to read at Clarion West last year. It was just as beautiful, brutal and powerful on reread as it was the first time!

New Fantasy Story at LIGHTSPEED: “The Blade and the Bloodwright” by Sloane Leong with a podcast narrated by Stefan Rudnicki: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-blade-and-the-bloodwright/

DEATH IN THE MOUTH: Original Horror from the Margins Volume 2 is NOW LIVE and funding on Backerkit! 20 illustrated horror stories showcasing BIPOC authors and artist around the world!

https://www.backerkit.com/c/sloane-leong/death-in-the-mouth-original-horror-from-the-margins-volume-2

VENBA LAUNCHED!!

When I started on this project, my goal was to make you feel as though you're entering a South Asian kitchen.

The silverware, stainless steel, the bangles, all of it. If you can't smell it, you will HEAR it!

Hope you enjoy our little game <3

https://youtu.be/HRVt3213z6s

I just know there’s a branding or content person in that team who sits through meetings with him grinding their teeth to nubs. I just hope that, like me, they at least get to play video games on mute while doing what the megalomaniac wants.

I sea again

WHO WILL COME INTO MY KITCHEN AND BE HUNGRY FOR ME!!!!!

these days I actually write 🫣 I feel like if I say that then some terrible luck will befall me and I will stop writing again but honestly fuck superstition I wrote 3000 words yesterday perhaps I no longer have to promise the home
-deity a cucumber sacrifice 🥳

since there’s less people here I feel more comfortable sharing my latest hobby: collecting South Indian recipes with the most inspired names

“may you find the social media home you deserve” is a modern Yiddish curse

I guess I’m here also. *sigh*