Lightspeed is an amazing SFF magazine paying pro rates with great editors! They've published me twice with my new story coming out next week, and I really want them to keep going forever. They need less than $10k now 🚀✨

making me nervous. 3 days left and last stretch. in an age of slop conmen and seedy rights grabbers, feels all the more important to focus on the reliable mags we can trust. if you enjoy their work and are able, this is a good time to chip in. the best time even, some might say.

My batteries start to tap out around a week after leaving my routines at home and Well We've been gone longer than a week. :')

We have reached the part of the jam-packed vacation where we no longer have Sis's toddlers tempering the pace... Father is intent on jamming several more corners of the country into our remaining few days... Heedless of his neurodiverse adult children who would like perhaps to read a book? Chill?

Hobbiton was amAzing.

Nearly time for Hobbiton~ I am wearing a casually closet-cosplay hobbity vest. I made quiet plans to wear a simple gold ring. *digging through my luggage this morning* "Where is it...where is it? MY PRECIOUSS" (I found it.)

Inconceivable that Lightspeed could fall short of funding. To me it's an institution. Kick in a bit if you can.

I even bought some very New Zealand fat quarters and some yarn from the cultural center today but I have no CROCHET HOOKS, no NEEDLE. Not even an unlined sketchbook. W o e.

*a full day of travel away from home with a backpack full of notebooks and books to read* all I wanna dO is CRAAAAFT

And then for a little break, we went to California.* *Jk there's redwoods here.

Saw haka! Saw geothermal park and geysers! Saw Maori crafts workshop! Had a feast / ate a pav! Saw kiwis! (No pictures because cellphones may stress them out so bad they run themselves to death, which--mood)

apropos of previous thread by John Wiswell: writers have a lot of solidarity when it comes to contracts. if you are a new writer and you think something might be hinky about your contract, it is completely fine to ask other professional writers even (especially) if you don't know us.

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

Today, a long drive, the Three Sisters, and glow worm caves (which were sooooo cool) No pictures permitted inside the glow worm caves, but can I interest you in another eel?

Thank you!! I could probably offer some tips for getting eel-bitten xD But no, definitely a wonderful experience so far. Helps to have family here, I think, but we're really seeing a lot!

*flops onto guest mattress and instantly recreates The Princess and the Pea, but it's my knee driving into a small, plastic pressure gauge that made its way between the blankets*

Sis: Did you wanna try my mince pie? Me: I got a mince pie! Sis: I thought Dad sneered that you probably wouldn't like it, so you got something else. Me: No, he sneered I wouldn't like it, and I ordered it anyway. And it's great. Me and Sis: 😎