And if you're in the mood for a totally creepy and wildly creative sci-fi/horror flash piece: smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/ #Booksy #Booksky #AmReading #AmReadingHorror #AmReadingSciFi #AmReadingFiction

And I'm back to my catch-up on 2025 short fiction reading. This one, by Lawrence M. Schoen is fun. A human librarian who shares Earth's literature with the universe's other sentient races and a pirate. A not-very-concealed comment on digital piracy. Recommended. www.amazon.com/Librarian-Pi...

Reminder: I'll be on B-Cubed Press's Facebook page at noon today as one of the guests on a show about why Americans are rejecting science and accepting nonsense. It should be a good discussion. If you can't make it, it gets archived. #Writersky #Booksy #Booksky #AmWritingFiction #AmWriting

"The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds" is finally on the new SFWA Recommended Reading List. Any SFWA members who'd like to read it in advance of the March 1 Nebula ballot deadline, here's a direct link to the .pdf (works only when you are logged in to the SFWA site). www.sfwa.org/wp-content/u...

Sunday, February 8, noon (EST), I'll be one of two guests on B Cubed Press's weekly Facebook-based show. Our topic: why people believe RFK instead of actual scientists and their studies. B-Cubed has published me twice. I hope to see some of you in the chat! www.facebook.com/bcubedpress

My theory: Trump viewed the invasion of Minneapolis as preparing his shock troops for cold weather combat to be anticipated in Greenland. We'll see what happens. If he can't defeat Tim Walz and Jacob Frey, I'm not sure how well he'll do against the French and German defenders now heading north.

Amazon Prime has a really good, twisted horror movie: Good Boy. Not the 2025 American movie--totally unrelated. A 2022 Norwegian movie with subtitles. The acting was wonderful. I anticipated the penultimate scenes. The last scene was a total shocker. For those who like horror, enjoy!

Dark Rapture by Robert Gillham in the March 2025 issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly: Structured like the transcript to a biopic on a post-punk band that got deeply into eldritch pursuits, it was dead-on in format. And the horror builds in the way you'd expect with a Manson-like cult.

Another great 2025 short story well worth reading. Effie Seiberg is terrific at funny stories that nonetheless have a message to them. This one is a superhero story that focuses on disability accommodations. Enjoy! #Writersky #AmReadingFiction #AmReading www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

More 2025 short fiction: this one reimagines the life of Alan Turing if he crossed into the fairy world and had a life long affair there. Gorgeous prose. Structured only by the events of Turing's life. Strongly recommended. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

A very cool flash piece by Ian Li: "The Memory Technician." Enjoy! #AmReading #AmReadingScienceFiction #AmReadingSciFi #AmReadingFiction #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Writing #Writers #ScienceFiction #ShortStory #FlashFiction smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-me...

Okay, I'm back to catching up on 2025 short fiction reading. Zach Shephard's "From Darkness, Awake" ran in this anthology about Circe and has her taking on a drug lord in present-day Miami. I thought the blending of myth with crime fiction was creative. www.amazon.com/Circe-Ancien...

Latest on my blog. #AmWriting #Booksy #Booksky #Bookstodon #ShortStory #ShortStories #AmWritingFiction #ScienceFiction #AmWritingSciFi #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #Writers #Writing #WritersLife #WritingLife #AmWritingHorror #AmWritingScienceFiction www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/awards-...

Exciting News! My #ShortStory "The Eliminator" sold to Water Dragon Publications. It will come out as a standalone both digitally and in paperback through all the usual outlets, likely in February. #TimeTravel #Booksy #Booksky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFiction #WritersLife #SciFi

As I do every hundred new followers I get, here's celebrating follower #1400 (actually 1404 as of today). Here's the gif from Three-Body Problem (not my sentiment, but sort of what the universe tells us some days):

Just watched #strangerthings latest episode. Vecna's defeated not only the Soviet army but now, the US army. Eventually he'll lose to Winona Ryder and a bunch of teenagers. No, no relation to typical #fantasy here. The '80s after the mall is destroyed, on the other hand... Very imaginative.

The scammers will have to up their game. I got an email that seemed to draw from blurbs and/or social media posts either I or my publisher wrote about my book. It was written to sound like someone who enjoyed the book. I guess my book appeals to bots, as a detector judged the message 100% AI-written

One last #ShortStory to write about before I call it a weekend: this one is not my usual cup of tea, but it's oddness and strangeness appealed to me. It's beautiful. @bethgoder.bsky.social #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #Booksky #WritingCommunity #WritersLife strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I loved the format on this short story: I could see where it was going the whole time, but the step-by-step gave it an emotional punch it wouldn't have otherwise had. Recommended reading. @jrdawson.bsky.social #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AmReadingSciFi www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

An interview with me about "The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds" that came out today on several different Facebook groups. It also has a short excerpt from the book. #Eco-Fiction #EcoFiction #EnvironmentalRacism #Booksy #Booksky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity www.facebook.com/groups/22086...

A story with a very cool format that imagines co-working as augmented by neural sharing. Definitely worth your time to check this out. Free click. @renanbernardo.com #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #Dystopic #ShortStory #WriterSky #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity www.phano.co/articles/we-...

This deceptively simple-seeming short story packs a strong emotional punch. It does so by implying the emotion and never showing it, making a truly strong story. Recommended reading. @thomasha.bsky.social #AmReading #AmReadingScienceFiction #Dystopia clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/

So, why am I getting four emails a day purportedly from Slavic girls looking for men over 40? Slavic girls looking for a Jewish guy? Do they want to apologize for the Chmielnicki Massacres?

And this is out, with my story, "Become the New You." The launch was at a horror convention in Utah this weekend. I look forward to reading the other 34 stories. @whisperhousepress.bsky.social‬ #WhisperHousePress #Horror #CostsOfLiving #DreadMondays #booksky #horrorsky www.amazon.com/Dread-Monday...

New blog post. Important #MiddleEast stuff many of you likely missed. Consequential for #ScienceFiction authors setting stories there. #Booksy #Booksky #Israel #Palestine #Peace #E1 #WestBank #AmWriting www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/the-new...

For those wondering why my posts have been apolitical, a McCarthyite witch hunt is underway in Florida that's nabbed many for social media posts. I'm still hitting anti-fascist/anti-racist themes in my fiction. The witch hunters are generally too dumb to read fiction. #Booksky #AmWriting #Writesky

Solved my Codex contest story no-plot problem: It's a mystery. I don't know what's going to happen yet, so neither does my protagonist. But my hardboiled attorney has met the femme fatale and she's dispensed him to deal with the big bad. Who's a bird. I'm stealing lines from Poe. Horror comedy.

I got my story seed for the Codex Halloween/horror contest and liked it so much that I've coasted a while, writing on just a vibe. Humorous noir with a sentient animal protagonist. I really should figure out what the story's about soon. Readers tend to like a plot.

ICE foolishly arrested hundreds of South Korean immigrants at a Hyundai plant in Georgia. Don't they know that the men are actually demons? When they start harmonizing and dancing, the ICE terror forces will be in serious trouble. Honmoon over homeland! #Huntrix will defeat Noem! #KpopDemonHunters

Friends at #WorldCon, especially those I haven't yet crossed paths with, I have a table talk from 3-4 today in room 427. Anyone who liked (or didn't like) what I said on any of my panels this weekend, feel free to come by and chat, too. Or anyone else. #Worldcon83 #seattleworldcon2025

New flash fiction humor piece out today. Enjoy! #aliens #alienconquest #satire #humor #sciencefiction #anticapitalist #scifi #Booksy #WritingCommunity #oligarchy #writers #writing #amwriting #amwritingfiction #amwritingscifi #amwritingsciencefiction stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2025/08/glos...

My WorldCon Panels: Wed 6:00pm: Interesting Energy for Future and Fiction Thu 9:00am: Why you wearing riot gear? Politics in Horror Fri 9:00am-10:00am: Plagues and Pestilences Sat 10:30am: What if everyone had a roof and two meals? Sat 4:30pm: You Ask, We Build Sun 3:00pm: Table Talk

An interview with me done on the podcast 2 Black Critics Minus One where I talk about The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds. www.podchaser.com/podcasts/2bc... #Booksy #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #ScienceFiction #ReadMoreBooks #BookLover #EnvironmentalRacism #EcoFiction #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook

I just submitted a short story I've been trying to sell since early 2020 to yet another market. My world had a pandemic, climate-related population displacement, and refugees placed in a concentration camp to die. But my camp was in Georgia rather than Florida. So, I guess it's still near-future SF?

For those of you going to WorldCon, my book will be on sale at the Liminal Fiction table. If you'd like me to sign a copy, I'll be at the table Thursday 2-3, Friday 12-1, and Friday 3-4. www.limfic.com/book/the-day... #Booksy #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #ScienceFiction #ReadMoreBooks #BookLover

The scammers are going to need to up their game a bit. I just got a friend request on Facebook from Cormac McCarthy. Not only did the scammer not know McCarthy was deceased, the scammer didn't realize he was male.

And guess whose book is featured in the #SFWA New Release Newsletter this month? #Booksky #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #HardSF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books #Writer #Writing #AmWriting #ReadEveryDay #read #Reading #AlwaysReading #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook #BookLover drive.google.com/file/d/17DR2...

First #ReaderCon selfie, with ‪ @karchwrites.bsky.social. Awesome time catching up before programming began. Other members of Aurora Street critique group are also here (@bethanypowell.bsky.social and @larkmorganlu.bsky.social). Former member ‪ @willmcmahon36.bsky.social is here too.

#ReaderCon attendees, I will be in the Dealers Room, at one of the Authors Alley tables, from 3 - 7 pm on Friday. If you'd like me to sign a copy of The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds, that would be the best place to find me. #Booksky #WritingCommunity #Hopepunk #HardSF #SciFi #ScienceFiction

A scene in which two Ph.D.s talk to each other required me to to Google to establish that a drug released in your eye could reach your leg muscles. Retinal vein to cavernous sinus to jugular vein to heart to arteries. If I'd made the characters mail carriers, "This shit works!" would have sufficed.

Random fact of the day. Obtained via Googling as a double-check on the plausibility of a line in the story I'm working on. China is the world's largest producer of apples, with an output of ten times that of the US. So, it appears fine to have my Chinese character in Shanghai eat an apple.

When I resubmit a previously rejected story to a new market, I don't always reread it first, but when I do, especially one I haven't read in a while, it can put me in a good mood. The feeling that it is awesome and deserves acceptance is worth the time. #WritingCommunity #Writersky #Writesky

You'd think physicians would realize it might undermine confidence in their skill when the auto-confirm message for an appointment asks you to bring your advanced care directive paperwork with you to the doctors office.

No, Grammarly, I really did mean to have my character say she "didn't give a shit." Correcting it to "she didn't care" doesn't cut it. I'd specified "informal" rather than "formal" or "neutral." Maybe they need a setting for "vulgar"? Or "real people talking"?

My schedule for ReaderCon. Totally looking forward to it.

Quick comment on the news that the centrifuges at Fordo are no longer operational: I used ultracentrifuges a lot in grad school. Another grad student once ran one slightly unbalanced, and the rotor went through two concrete walls. It doesn't take much to destroy a centrifuge. A hammer would suffice.

And for anyone who would prefer to buy my book from a different billionaire (not Jeff Bezos), this link takes you to where you can buy the digital copy from Nook, Apple, Kobo, Smashwords, and other places. books2read.com/The-Day-We-S...

A good thing about revising science fiction: when the real world interferes with a plot point, you have time to ret-con a kluge. WIP has a Chinese character who is adopted internationally. These were banned in 2024. Solution: the Chinese birthrate rose in the 2040s, leading to relaxation of the law.

Latest blog post: an attempt to contextualize today's news about the Middle East. www.allandyenshapiro.com/post/warning...

Europeans, please ignore the NYT article on cooking oils. It claims that what North Americans call canola oil is called rapeseed oil in Europe. No, Canadian scientists in the 1970s bred low erucic acid rapeseed. "Rapeseed oil" is used in the automotive and chemical industries and will poison you.