Elaine Burnes 🏳️🌈
@elaineburnes
I (she/her) write stories about women who are bold, flawed, and love other women. SF: Endurance, Tenacity, and Resolution (Captain Randall series), Wishbone, and A Perfect Life and Other Stories. SFWA member. No AI. More at
Theme: Dance #lesficfri #SciFi #sapphic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts 🪐📚🌈💃
Well this happened... turned into baby bunny chased by weasel chased by mockingbird! When birds alarm, it pays to stop and look. No one harmed here, just a hungry weasel. I didn't film. Got out of the way. Let nature be nature. #urbanmagic #readercon
Nice walk this morning through empty office parks. Found a pocket wetland with cattails and birds. Eastern warbling video, new to me. Mom and tiny baby bunny, chipmunk. #Readercon #birdingbymerlin
Read any good books lately? My newest just arrived. And I'll have them at Readercon July 10-12. When an invisible particle can open the universe to exploration and aliens turn out to be distant cousins, what else is possible? Captain Lyn Randall is about to find out. 🪐📚🏳️🌈
"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make." --Lord Farquaad
Tenacity is part of IHS’s Reading Challenge this week for Nevada! What does Nevada have to do with a space adventure? Ruby Valley. Las Vegas. The future. If you crave speculative fiction in the not-so-distant future. Look no further! (Farther? Easy with a wormhole.) 📚🪐🌈💙 @bedazzledink.bsky.social
I write stories I want to read, that I wish I had been able to find as a queer young adult. I read, I write, and I support sapphic and women-loving-women stories. #bannedbooksweek #SapphicsWithTheBanned 🏳️🌈📚🪐🏳️⚧️
Stories silenced are lessons not learned, truths denied, human beings ignored. Remember, minds are like parachutes. They only function when open. #BannedBooksWeek 🏳️🌈📚🏳️⚧️
Once again, this time with the alt text! #Ineedcoffee #BannedBooksWeek
My sapphic sci fi adventure book Endurance is part of the IHS Great Pride Giveaway today! You have till July 7 to enter for a chance to win 58 ebooks. shorturl.at/oyHr1 🏳️🌈🪐📚 #SapphicReads #sapphicbooks #SapphicFiction #bookgiveaway
I loved Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. Beautiful writing and she ends the book before the hare dies. I did skip most of the chapter Blood Harvest. You can guess what that’s about. Beautiful illustrations by Denise Nestor. 📚 #booksky
Takeaways from a No Kings protest yesterday: 1. Even small, red towns turn out big numbers. With a population of about 7,000, the town next to mine, saw some 600 show up to line Main Street. 2. It’s rained every Saturday for the past three months here. Still people come.
My latest sapphic sci fi adventure, Tenacity, is included in today’s I Heart SapphFIC Great Pride Giveaway of 53 ebooks! Wow! One winner chosen June 17 will get all 53 ebooks! So enter now! 🪐📚🏳️🌈 iheartsapphfic.com/2025/06/15/g... #booksky #SapphicReads #sapphicbooks #SapphicFiction #bookgiveaway
Got my copy today! And since I have covid during peak migration and it's raining for Noah, this will keep me happy!
The River Has Roots is magical! Loved it! And I read to the end of the acknowledgements, as should everyone. Now I'll go back to the sneak peek story.
That alternate reality where, once again, I agree with Liz Cheney.
A very rich man, with a case before a state court, is spending a lot of money to elect a state supreme court judge who might rule favorably in his case once it reaches that level. Do you see a problem with this? Welcome to Wisconsin. Don’t let Musk get away with this.
I finished draft 2 of my WIP. Now I’ll take a break before the read aloud. That’s where I’ll hear all the shit I thought I’d fixed before. Am/Not looking forward to it. #writersky In the meantime, watch a cat sleep.
Gotta love the Wayback Machine. Images are DOJ webpage for January 26, the last time a report on policing was saved by archive.org vs today.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Can't promise all 20 or each day. 😀 ) #booksky 📚🪐
A lot of good advice here. Such a loss. What are you reading for inspiration?