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some things never change

I wrote a novel.

And hey, I need your help to get it published. The Scottish Boy, my violent, sexy medieval thriller (knights! jousting! angst! murder!) just went up on Unbound, a British crowdfunding publisher. It’s got a beautiful cover by Joey Hi-Fi and will have six gorgeous illustrations throughout its hefty 12 chapters by @trungles.

I’m really, really proud of this book, even though everyone in publishing tells me medieval books don’t sell, and neither do books where the main pairing is queer. Please check out the book’s funding page here, and if it sounds like something you’d enjoy, please consider pre-ordering it. All I need is 500 pre-orders and then this book becomes an actual thing that will be in bookstores.

The funding page has a dorky video and one of Trung’s illustrations and a circa 1200-word excerpt from the novel. I’ll be posting more excerpts and illos and my maps that I’m drawing for the book. There’s lots to look at, and cool rewards up to and including samizdat drunk history notes and me writing you custom short stories set in this ‘verse. The novel is huge: 135k, corrected and expanded beyond the beta version some of you may have read.

Why Unbound, and not Kickstarter? I want to produce the most professional book possible and get it into bookstores. Unbound can do that for me – I have a real editor who is even now sharpening his red pencil; there’s a real production team; and marketing that will help this book live in stores beyond its brief fundraising campaign. Also, I don’t have to stick books in envelopes and cart them to the post office. I feel you get a better book, through the professional infrastructure of Unbound, than you would if I did it all myself. This also means if you can’t afford it right now or just want to wait and think about getting it later, you’ll be able to do that via your local bookseller or library. (<3 libraries <3)

Anyway. Please take a look. Also the sooner this is funded the sooner I will shut up about it.

thebrightestbird

What better first mission than bringing in an ex-Super Hero?

blackqueerblog

I hope this is everyone else too!

wishfulwannabe

Gabi pulling through with a MOOD

thatwetshirt

Mad Men

You’re born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts.

mscottwrites

What poetic drivel. Literally no one is born alone. You can not be born alone because the very act of birth requires at least one other person. What you are born as is helpless. You are born and die helplessly, completely at the mercy of another person or outside force you have no control over. Society’s rules are not made to make you feel less alone, they are designed to give you the illusion of control. Ironically it is the pursuit of control which most often leads to our loneliness.

anisetheapothecary

We are multiple generations now with no experience with strikes, and I see a lot of confused, well meaning people who want to help but don’t know strike etiquette.

1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.

2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company who’s workers are striking

3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.

4. Join strikers on the picket line even if it’s not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.

5. Say “that’s great, the strike is working, the company should negotiate with their workers” whenever someone complains about profits lost, inconveniences or other worker-phobic rhetoric. Always turn it back on the company, who has all the power and money.

giveashit-aboutearth

Last days you can register to vote for the 2018 midterms in all 50 states:

Alabama: OCT.22rd

Alaska: OCT. 7th

Arizona: OCT. 9th

Arkansas: OCT. 9th

California: OCT. 22rd

Colorado: Election day.

Connecticut: OCT. 30th

Delaware: OCT. 13th

D.C: OCT. 16th

Florida: OCT. 9th

Georgia: OCT. 9th

Hawaii: OCT. 9th

Idaho: OCT. 12th

Illinois: OCT. 9th

Indiana: OCT. 9th

Iowa: OCT. 27th

Kansas: OCT. 16th

Kentucky: OCT. 9th

Louisiana: NOV. 17th

Maine: OCT. 16th

Maryland: OCT. 16th

Massachusetts: OCT. 17th

Michigan: OCT. 9th

Minnesota: OCT. 16th

Mississippi: OCT. 9th

Missouri: OCT. 10th

Montana: OCT. 9th

Nebraska: OCT. 19th

Nevada: OCT. 9th

New Hampshire: NOV. 6th

New Jersey: OCT. 16th

New Mexico: OCT. 9th

New York: OCT. 12th

North Carolina: OCT. 12th

North Dakota: Election Day.

Ohio: OCT. 9th

Oklahoma: OCT. 12th

Oregon: OCT. 16th

Pennsylvania: OCT. 9th

Rhode Island: OCT. 7th

South Carolina: OCT. 9th

South Dakota: OCT. 22rd

Tennessee: OCT. 9th

Texas: OCT. 9th

Utah: OCT. 7th

Vermont: Election Day.

Virginia: OCT. 15th

Washington: OCT. 8th

West Virginia: OCT. 16th

Wisconsin: OCT. 17th

Wyoming: OCT. 22rd

Please register online if you aren’t already. Check your registration and your friends. Lots of people don’t have much time left to register! Don’t wait until the last minute!

Register to vote ONLINE NOW!