Zig Claybourne

Spec fic shaken, not stirred.

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2024-09-09 16:19:04

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Aye.

2024-08-20 13:39:39

We don't hear the long version of Little Red Corvette nearly often enough.

2024-08-18 17:05:34

It's OK to be unreasonably happy when 2 matching socks stay together through the wash and dry cycle. That's full "No matter what happens, you stay alive. I will find you!" action.

2024-08-16 17:41:52

Book love is good love. Here's to finding one you treasure today.

2024-08-15 19:35:40

In celebration of Octavia, of truth, and inexhaustible hope.
Verse 54 of Earthseed: The First Book of the Living, the in-world religious text created in "Parable of the Sower" by the novel's protagonist, Lauren Olamina.
#CelebrateOctavia
#parableofthesower2024
#octaviatried
#earthseed
https://youtu.be/tXZ2vHOcHhI?feature=shared

2024-08-09 15:17:40

Just found out that today is National Book Lovers Day.
I have written books. Very likely you know of others who have written books also.
The rest of your day should be spent regaling.

2024-08-06 15:34:47

For those who watched the Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction event, TODAY IS THE BOOK BIRTHDAY FOR ROB CAMERON'S DEBUT NOVEL "DAYDREAMER"!!!
So I gotta say today is a good day. This book soars, it twists, it hurts, it lifts.
Boy does it lift.
Please get some.
https://www.amazon.com/Daydreamer-Rob-Cameron/dp/0593572459/ref=mp_s_a_1_1

2024-08-06 13:18:17

Dear Creative Types: The fact that you're able to excite someone with your work in this hyper-commercialized, contentavized, blaring regurgitainment world needs to be up-played a lot more. Take that win.

2024-07-23 23:08:10

I am never not going to share this at random intervals.
https://youtu.be/XFKpo_XWDp4?feature=shared

2024-07-23 01:02:52

An ICYMI shared by Milton Davis earlier today. We talk the Black fantastic in general, a joyous creative life in specific.
When a brother throws out a quote about the Brothers Jetstream like "You can't consider yourself a fan of speculative fiction if you have not read this book," I mean damn.
https://youtu.be/pwDtbTxeI-o?feature=shared

2024-07-22 00:02:16

If you're seeing a fire dimming in a young one, let them read
Daydreamer by Rob Cameron; Peasprout Chen by Henry Lien; the Sal & Gabi seties by Carlos Hernandez; The Alchemists of Kush by Minister Faust; The Many Masks of Andy Zhou by Jack Cheng; Bones to the Wind by Tatiana Obey...

2024-07-19 15:22:41

45 minutes remain on the SPACEFUNK campaign.
"The first thing the AiCON saw was its leg floating away. It wasn’t in pain, which meant the suit’s fibers had meshed with the wound, the suit’s medical protocols still functioned, and a third of the ship..."
WHAT?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvmedia/spacefunk
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/813/837/848/774/083/original/5bbb40c4e23b6eea.jpg

2024-07-18 02:05:42

A friend's making blurb art for me. Incoming posts. Be warned.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/805/039/324/345/318/original/21732c620533b0e5.jpeg

2024-07-17 23:33:39

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2024-07-17 12:40:24

I'm not part of Prime Day, I just have a pretty cool book in their book section.
https://www.amazon.com/Breath-Warmth-Dream-Zig-Claybourne/dp/1732298033/ref=mp_s_a_1_1

2024-07-16 13:23:40

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2024-07-15 13:35:26

4 days to raise $2,269.00.
Work by Sheree Renee Thomas, S.A. Cosby, Maurice Broaddus, Linda Addison, Wole Talabi and way way more.
Enough said.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvmedia/spacefunk

2024-07-10 23:00:32

What a warm review of BREATH WARMTH AND DREAM. It makes me feel as if the time I ask from readers' lives isn't just a greedy hoarding of essence for my own sake, and I like that feeling. I will not take from you.
Book love is good love.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B0D4D3KSGF/R15RCBKFYDZ9M9?ref=pf_vv_at_pdctrvw_srp

2024-07-06 19:46:13

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I feel your pain. When the backup clippers die, the universe seems to constrict a bit.

2024-06-20 19:30:32

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@npub1yuj…4axc Lands in not-cool, because we tend to know our realities.

2024-06-20 18:58:50

If you have made the thing and the thing is cool PLEASE tell the world about the thing or else we have to keep hearing about bullshit in the name of fuckery, and the day that's all we hear is when we might as well societally flick the lights 'n quietly shut the door.
Delight someone.

2024-06-06 18:02:34

Lo, I have foretold on @npub13n4…3h2h s part that this campaign o' de-shittification will reach $62,700.
Tech gawds, will ye see me?!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

2024-05-26 16:57:56

How appalling it is that after all these loud years of Hollywood and tech companies screaming about piracy they're willing to use your voice, your work, your entire *life*, and tell you you're standing in their way.

2024-05-24 10:25:11

There are times when morning sunlight feels like love. Woke up feeling like today is one of them. Not sure why.

2024-05-23 12:13:37

Obvious Things Said Cheap: Becoming a productive member of society shouldn't be a suicide pact.

2024-04-15 18:19:24

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I won't be there, but please pie in my honor!

2024-04-15 18:15:26

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Y'know...today all of the above and more. Today there is no Zuul, only pie.

2024-04-15 18:11:47

Being hit with strong pie thoughts today. Mighty mighty need

2024-02-11 13:39:17

To know in your bones that there are kind, creative, curious & loving people everywhere is a good way of finding meaning in life.

2024-02-05 13:34:39

Life is hard a lot. Watch Miyazaki movies.

2024-02-04 15:40:27

If you're looking for reading suggestions this particular February.
https://bookriot.com/black-indie-sff-writers/

2023-12-30 13:52:51

2024 energy: May at least one of your friends reveal themselves to be 12 loving weasels in a trench coat and you still wildly hang with them.

2023-12-24 01:33:56

In the Grinch's defense, he never said he hated Christmas, he hated his noisy ass neighbors partying like there was no one else around. Relatable.

2023-11-20 14:54:12

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Marketing and advertising will kill us all.

2023-11-20 14:53:40

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Things pivot on the smallest things

2023-11-20 14:18:27

Obvious Things Said Cheap: No, they don't need cookies nor use them to enhance your web experience.

2023-11-01 00:47:39

My annual 2-line Halloween story:
When John stressed he ate; nothing unusual about that. It was what he ate that gave the jury so many problems.
The End

2023-10-12 16:12:12

There's a point when eating soup that you pick up the bowl to get the last low bits. In feeling the weight of the bowl, the residual heat of nourishment that had been quite hot, part of your brain sends the silent message 'perfect' through the entire body.
Perfect.

2023-09-03 12:21:45

This applies across the arts: I don't think ppl understand how much labor we put into something that'll be loved by 3 people, hated by a very vocal 17, & otherwise be regarded with howling indifference by millions unless & until a celebrity endorses it. Artists WORK. Support some laborious butts.

2023-08-25 23:11:54

I don't know that there was anything cooler to me as a young school kid than getting to make a diorama. This might need to be a diorama weekend.

2023-08-25 02:02:33

Power against the fuckery.
Create for you.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/110/947/789/134/136/803/original/15818ee8f8fd75ec.jpeg

2023-08-02 17:44:40

Between last year and this one I gave Tor, Random Penguin, The New Yorker, and other echelon-y types the honor of saying no to me, which they did quite fetchingly!
So if you're out here submitting work, one thought for you:
If you're gonna fire an arrow, go ahead and shoot it over the shields. Be gigantic.

2023-07-12 00:23:07

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@npub1psd…9sr7 The future is wet and grunky.

2023-07-11 12:02:42

A decided lack of clear bubble domes in this future

2023-07-10 15:47:32

The ebook special continues. $1.99 across all platforms.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/110/690/558/829/023/096/original/55c6a68e3345e482.jpg

2023-07-06 16:36:03

I deeply miss the intimate concerts musicians & singers gave during the onset of the pandemic. Beauty coming out of living rooms & bedrooms & even kitchens when the acoustics were right. Drove home the solid truth that art ain't rarefied, it's common as air & just as needed.

2023-06-04 03:01:50

If there's anything we should have learned by now from science fiction it's that rich guys who think they're visionaries are more trouble than they're worth.

2023-06-02 10:14:06

AARP (American Association for Retired Persons) running happy cheery ads about retraining yourself at retirement age so you can continue to work is a perfect example of the acceptable disconnects we've learned to live with.