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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈@spacevalkyries.bsky.social |
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📝SFF writer V.M. Ayala 🎮 streamer ✨ anxiety/ADHD + chronic pain/fatigue 🏳️🌈 queer biracial Mexican American (she/they)
🌈Website: www.spacevalkyries.com/
📰Newsletter: buttondown.email/spacevalkyries
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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I am trying to do a reverse outline and leave myself notes for continuity shifts, note descriptions of characters and whatnot—and I realized I never, not once, describe my protagonist's appearance. In a like 82k draft. Oops 😂
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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Want to come write or work with me? I'll be coworking for around 2-3 hours and planning out novel revisions 📖
Come hang out!
✨ www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries ✨
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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pro tip from me to anyone writing a novel for the first time: write all character descriptions someplace searchable and skimmable. I did not do this and I know pain. worst part? I have a whole novel wiki and STILL forgot to put info in because it was shifting a lot! I'm a fool!
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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feel that on the constant videos part at least. deeply demoralizing and it sucks
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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starting revisions by making a doc of revision plans and as silly as that sounds, it's helping me not feel super overwhelmed by everything I have to change. it's happening! I'm starting 💜
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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been a bit quiet lately because I was hyperfocusing on FFXIV (got through Dawntrail) and trying to rest/stay off socials, which helped energy levels a lot! but starting Monday it's time to get back to it—and to officially begin my novel revisions 👀
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FIYAH Literary Magazine
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Our FIYAH authors spit in the face of these stereotypes. In this issue, you will find stories and poetry featuring disabled characters from all walks of life. Along with their differences, every single one of them has agency. - @emmaliawrites.bsky.social
for $3.99:
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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congrats!
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ttrpgcrab
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Sudan is going through a humanitarian crisis. Millions of people have been displaced and thousands of people are going hungry. We put together 41 TTRPGs, Supplements, Zines and adventures from incredible game designers and writers raising money for Sudan Emergency Appeal.
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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voice is coming back after giving out, still not sick. masking works! wish more people would mask, especially at conventions (though Lavender Con had a good amount of folks that masked, which was nice). still going to rest this week—then next week the novel revisions begin 💜
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸
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For Disability Pride Month, one thing I'd love abled bodied people to figure out is how to speak to someone with chronic health issues without implying that if they themselves had the disabled person's health conditions, they would end it all. I promise you life goes on- even with health issues.
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E. Catherine Tobler
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13 days to go—let's get 3 queer anthos from @neonhemlock.bsky.social funded!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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I have reached the stage of the writing break where I begin to wonder if my writing is, in fact, any good. this happens during writing too, but the writing-break-time version is a unique vibe from the during-novel-drafting version 😂
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Stephanie Burgis
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My new novella is out now on Patreon! A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience is a spooky-cozy gothic fantasy rom-com. Subscribe to my Patreon at any level from $5/month to scoop it up now: patreon.com/stephanieburgis
Or preorder it from any online store: books2read.com/UndeadInconvenience
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John Wiswell
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New story day! "This Mentor Lives" is about a wizard working himself to death raising chosen ones--but his kids are worried for him. It's time for an intervention.
You can read it free at @havenspec.bsky.social right here: www.havenspec.com/this-mentor-...
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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like I REGRET NOTHING Lavender Con was amazing, getting to meet and talk with so many folks on Saturday was wonderful—and brunch with @urbanbohemian.com was really refreshing and needed on Sunday!
but this is definitely why I need big breaks between convention-sized events 😅
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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me yesterday: oh hey I managed to do two days of convention stuffs, I feel alright. maybe I'm just making a big deal out of my pain levels and it's actually not as bad as— me today: standing hurts, brain fog is bad, and my spine is UPSETTI SPAGHETTI. the chronic pain cycle 😅
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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so sleepy after Lavender Con, but it was a really nice weekend. the next con for me is all the way in December right after my birthday—Pax Unplugged 💜 (Next year though, probably Seattle Worldcon and maybe Readercon).
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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And that’s it for Lavender Con! Did I buy many books? And see a surprising number of folks? And have a lot of fun? Yes, yes I did 💜 (Shh yes that’s my bed I’m but a simple, sleepy introvert and didn’t have the energy to find a better background 😂)
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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I am at Lavender Con today and a bit tomorrow later in the afternoon/evening so if anyone is in the DC area come say hi 👀
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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We are fundraising for Rainbow Railroad and getting up to shenanigans if you want to come hang out 💜
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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hi yes if you need me today, I'll be playing Dawntrail.
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M H Ayinde
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It’s here! 🥹 The cover of my debut novel A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST, the first in an epic fantasy trilogy coming next April from Orbit Books UK! Gorgeous cover art by Richard Anderson!
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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I haaate it like ultimately in the moment it won't be so bad, it's always the stress beforehand that's worse so like ugh brain please 😭
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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I hate getting pre-nervous for things! I'm going to a convention on Saturday in DC (if you're at Lavender Con this weekend, say hi!) and my brain is anxious because I haven't been around many people in a while so it's just dissociating all of today and tomorrow 😅
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Psychopomp
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we usually do our cover reveals in the morning
but why?
we're Psychopomp--we are creatures of the NIGHT
so here it is: the cover reveal for
Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories 2023
curated by @vajra.me
also available for PREORDER (do it. preorder it)
+click through for the full cover+
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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this is not counting the two novellas I want to work on next year... 😅
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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until Monday, I have no writing projects to work on—on purpose, by design. I allocated half a week of rest and recharge. my brain is like ??? where writing? and is just coming up with novel ideas. I've brainstormed two fantasy book ideas and unearthed an older cyberpunk idea, oh no.
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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yesss I think that's a perfect explanation (and I love that genre of music so much haha), it just encapsulates sapphic angst (and spite and frustration) so well
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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I really love this song toooo something about it really hits so hard and good
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Bogi Takács / POWER TO YIELD & OTHER STORIES now out!
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Oh yay I just saw that Tessa Fisher's novelette from Rosalind's Siblings (which I had the wonderful chance of editing) is going to be reprinted in We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2023!
www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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(yes I'm already planning that far ahead because next step with current book is revisions—then agent querying will be hell and I'll be in college at the same time, so I want a fun project to work on when I get to that point later this year haha)
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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I think I know what my next book will be 👀
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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did I just submit a short story with like a couple hours to spare in the submission window? yes, yes I did. and I'm proud of the piece, it was a bit out of my comfort zone in genre (didn't really have speculative elements)💜
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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I THINK I know how I want the framework of this book to function? love that for me, let's see if it ends up staying through the entirety of revisions 😂
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Charles (Cy) Payseur
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Let it be known! The Table of Contents and Cover have been revealed for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2023, edited by Darcie Little Badger (with me, the series editor), with cover art by Dan Rossi (it's so pretty!!!). Check out the full reveal: www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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I curled up with my partner for a small cuddle because I felt tired from heat and oops we both took a nap for two hours.
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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congrats!
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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CONGRAAAATS!
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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today has been very zone out and read and I’m not mad at it.
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Back from my release week tour to say, belatedly: my second novel RAKESFALL is out now! Here are some early responses that do a pretty great job, collectively, of describing the book. Buy it if you are intrigued and wish to support the weirding of genre! vajra.me/2024/06/22/r...
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Gay Breakfast
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🏳️🌈Pride has no time for bigots
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John Wiswell
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Me after I write two bad sentences in a row:
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Lisa M. Bradley
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The Strange Horizons Kickstarter is more than half funded, and this awesome poem by @angelvleal.bsky.social has been unlocked! strangehorizons.com/poetry/wildl...
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John Wiswell
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My novel is not part of an "asexual trend." If asexuality appears more frequently in recent books, it's a market correction as forces of erasure lose a little of their hegemony, and people who needed these stories finally get them. Our existence isn't a trend.
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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thank you! I'm honestly really emotional about it because I've never let myself finish a draft of a novel before—perfectionism and that like former gifted kid bullshit combo of "it must be brilliant" when that's not how the process works haha. so I feel really good about it, and sleepy! 💜
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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me waking up like ?? I've been hyperfocused on this for weeks. it's done?! revisions are a huge next step but it's a different focus and pace. IT'S NEAT but also that feeling after speedreading a book—silence and "now what." now I keep going! after a tiny three-day break to finish a short story 😂
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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The amount of people yelling about Dragon Age brings me joy haha I’m so excited for the new game sooooon
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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thank you 🥺 💜
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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈
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thank youuu! and it was so great to hang out yesterday!
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