Hard on the heels of Confluence‘s launch, it’s Queer for the New Year! My story “Hatsumōde,” which is a sort of postlude to Confluence, is one of the stories that are appearing within. Preorders open soon– meanwhile, here’s the Goodreads link.
Thanks for your support, and please spread the word!
It’s wild to think that the trans lesbian cyberpunk stories I started telling myself in April are now a book that people can read! With illustrations, and a bibliography, and an art section!
On a friend’s Twitch stream, I was asked to sum it up in a sentence, and I said “middle aged trans lesbian cyborg couple fights for justice against megacorps and lives happily ever after.”
So, where can you find Confluence?
International paperback orders via here .
Ebooks from the Jevv Baebos here
(US-only) paperbacks direct from the publisher here
Paperbacks from B&N here
Thank you all so very much for your support of this series from this its outset! North Star Forever!
More to come in the morning!
With the implosion of the birdsite, I’m doing some social media realignment. So, here’s where you can find my most active presences:
Thank you for your understanding– let’s rise to the challenge and make the most of this moment!
#DidYouKnow? Early in his career as daimyo of Sendai, with his sights still on a longshot bid to conquer Japan, Date Masamune set up an upper-upper-room (jōjōdan no ma) in Sendai Castle and a stable of oxen for the imperial carriage (hōren), all with the intention of receiving Emperor Goyōzei with appropriate pomp.
The room and oxen were on standby until 1868.
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On Heian-era bureaucracy, celestial and terrestrial paperwork, and an aggregator for shrines. The latest #FridayNightHistory is “Shrine Aggregator,” and you can listen at https://anchor.fm/fridaynighthistory/episodes/Episode-52-S2E19–Shrine-Aggregator-e1q39g8 or wherever you get your podcasts.
This coming week I get to sit down for a podcast interview with JP Der Boghossian of the Queer Armenian Library to talk all things Confluence! While you wait, you should take a look at his archive of episodes at https://thisqueerbook.com/
Seven centuries after it sank, a Mongol invasion vessel off Kyushu raises anchor. Read on in my latest for Unseen Japan!
So a rich manbaby took over Twitter, and is tearing it apart in realtime. Some of my most loyal followers, on that platform where I’d worked hard for years to build a following, are already gone. There’s nothing quite like Twitter out there.
So the obligatory question becomes…now what?
Honestly, I don’t know. I’m not leaving Twitter until they make me leave, and I am still not convinced that the guy isn’t going to try and sell off the company he himself admits he didn’t actually want to buy. Obviously, finding other platforms where people are going is a good idea, but that requires necessarily starting from scratch. This requires time and attention and in some cases money, all of which are in short supply for me, running a one-woman operation.
I am now on Cohost, at https://cohost.org/riversidewings , and you’re welcome to follow me there. It’s not the same as Twitter– it feels more like Tumblr and Livejournal were in their better days– but it’s a new platform being grown slowly and steadily, and I like that.
I’m on Mastodon, but in between instances at the moment, and Mastodon’s got a learning curve that means not everyone’s gonna be going there.
I’m on Patreon of course, at patreon.com/riversidewings, where I recently picked up again with #FridayNightHistory: https://www.patreon.com/posts/74051392
Beyond that, I’m in the same platforms I’ve always been on, trying to figure out how to pick up and keep going. But as I watch Twitter die, I can’t help but feel angry.
I was managing, and then the wealthiest man in the world decided to come in like a sledgehammer, rather than do anything constructive.
None of this had to happen.
And yet, here we are.
Coming at you in just about 2 weeks: my lecture on namahage at Anthrocon 2022! For more information including scheduling, follow the link: https://sched.co/11v0W
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"North Star Forever!" 