Today I got 'big mad' at a post on kids not being able to read books like The Hobbit, because they are too hard to read "even as an adult"! Nope. We aren't doing that nonsense. Kids can read big books. And here are my thoughts on the subject. - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/kids-ca... #booksky 💙📚🐉

Today author @angelaboord.bsky.social gives us a short list of books "to celebrate the condition of being human with heart, grace, and depth," with her article: Human Writer Seeks Inspiration in an Age of Machines! -JI🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/human-w... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #NoAI #authorsky #fantasybooks

Today Stuart Cripps-Schnoor reviews three of the late, great David Gemmell's works: Waylander, Legend, and Sword in the Storm! - JI 🐉 "There is the deep moral core that runs through his work...courage, sacrifice, loyalty, redemption, and love." fantasy-faction.com/2026/david-g... #booksky 💙📚🪐

Today @kitvaria.bsky.social reviews @fantasticphil.bsky.social's The Worst Survive, out July 28th! - JI 🐉 "A frenetic, foul-mouthed ride through a world that won’t let you get comfortable, and Scully’s the kind of bastard you end up rooting for." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-wor... #booksky 💙🪐📚

Today Christopher Keene reviews Rob M. Lastrel's The Bystander! - JI 🐉 "The tropes...come out of a cinephile’s lexicon, and...I got a kick out of the hundreds of abilities named from lines in classic horror, science fiction, and fantasy movies." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-bys... #booksky 💙🪐📚

So sad to see you go. :( I always felt like The Fantasy Hive was our little sister site since a bunch of Hive staff started out at FF. We will miss you all and wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors! - JI 🐉

Okay here's my Disability Pride Month Story Recommendation Thread! I'll update it across the month with books and short stories that I love. (It won't be daily because I am quite disabled and life is about to avalanche on me.) So! Here are things that ruled and that you should read.

Tues (7/14) is our event with local author Jason M. Hough! 🔑 We'll celebrate the release of his new thriller THROW AWAY THE KEY with conversation partner @djangowexler.bsky.social, author of HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD AND DIE TRYING. Event begins at 6:30, no registration/tickets required. #booksky

So here is a blanket request for publishing folks: Please give digital ARCs the name of the book-- and maybe add the blurb deadline date. I blew past the blurb deadline on a book I really enjoyed in part because, on my Kindle app, the file just looks like any series of numbers, and it got lost.

with a little help from his older brother, @hankgreen.bsky.social has invented an absurdly enjoyable word-spelling game called smush. www.hankgreen.com/smush/

For the evening crowd: do you like dragons?

To all the humans out there... I wrote a little essay. 💙🪐📚 #BookSky #authorsky #indieauthor

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender with one image.

3. But not enough of either imho.

Martha Wells @marthawells.com H. G. Wells Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Andy Weir Hugh Howey @hughhowey.com Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Ray Bradbury Madeleine L'Engle My Question: Who's _your_ fav SciFi author(s)? - JI 🐉🚀 (2/2)

Stolen from Threads: Who's your favorite SciFi author? My Answer: No!! You can't make me choose!! D: So I won't. :D Mine (@jennieivins.bsky.social) in no particular order: Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social G. R. Matthews @grmatthews.bsky.social A. A. Freeman @aughtpunk.bsky.social (1/2)

Tom Joyce reviews @ryancahill.bsky.social's prequel to The Bound and the Broken series, The Fall! - JI 🐉 "Its ambitions are more controlled and precise. It sets a tone, establishes an emotional foundation, and invites the reader into the aftermath." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-fal... #booksky 💙🪐📚

"The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries." -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country Happy Independence Day from an American who has hope and loves libraries! Support literacy! Support kids reading! Support your local library! - JI 🐉📖❤️ #booksky 💙🪐📚

This morning, before it got dangerously hot, hubby made pancakes with fresh peach topping. It was sooo goood! 🍑🥞❤️

'An intriguing tangle, dense, dark, ingenious, ironic, complex, often funny, and always smart' @locusmag.bsky.social #TyrantPhilosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social#TyrantPhilosophers, series finale #TheGraveOfPerfection coming soon Shop the series: amzn.to/4rdC0tK

The heat index for the next 3 to 4 days in New Jersey is going to range from 100°F to 110°F (38°C to 44°C) with humidity fluctuating between unpleasant & swampy. Below is a pre-AI infographic on the difference between heat exhaustion & heat stroke. Know the signs. Heat can kill. Be safe.

The Broken Binding Publishing has acquired Anna Stephens’ “compelling and twisty fantasy” in a two-book deal. An Honesty of Thieves will be published in March 2027 👇

And so it begins... everyone who is about to be offered a job should ask for DOUBLE, then join a union. 🙂

Today Colleen McMillan reviews the manga/anime Witch Hat Atelier! -JI🐉 "The show and manga are slow burns ... @shirahamakamome.bsky.social focuses on quiet character moments, allowing the reader to fall in love with Coco and those around her." fantasy-faction.com/2026/witch-h... 💙 🪐📚 #anime #manga

Cool story ahead of #EVO2026 today: Unico, the company behind the Neo-Geo MVSX arcade cabinets, are crowdfunding a 10-inch retro monitor with five outputs and 4:3 display. Play those old games as intended! www.gamespot.com/articles/thi...

Today our judges reveal the scores for our semi-finalists AND our finalist pick for this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO)! Congrats to our winner and good luck in Round Two! fantasy-faction.com/2026/self-pu... #booksky 💙🪐📚 #spfbo (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

Been a while since I've mentioned it, but I'm very much looking for more work. If you need: - Game design - Game editing - Podcast production - etc. Please send me an email or DM me. Email is in the bio! 💪

Send us all the questions you've ever had about volcanoes!

Today our judges review our fourth & final semi-finalist, in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO), @ericlewis.bsky.social's The Artificer’s Knot! Finalist reveal: Friday the 26th! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-art... #booksky 💙🪐📚 #spfbo (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

Today our judges review our third semi-finalist, in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO), @wctracy.bsky.social's Physical Magic! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/physica... #booksky 💙🪐📚 #spfbo (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social) Background image by Marc Szeglat.

Today our judges review our second semi-finalist, in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO), Rel Carroll's Of Mages and Makers! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/of-mage... #booksky 💙🪐📚 #spfbo (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

Today our judges review our first semi-finalist, in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO), K. T. Holder's City of Stone! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/city-of... #booksky 💙🪐📚 #spfbo (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

Who's got two thumbs and knows she shouldn't watch horror movies before bed but keeps doing it anyway? It me! XD Also Iron Lung was really good! If you don't mind creeping underwater horrors and literal gallons of blood. XD

yes indeed, this is the US we fight for

I'm open to queries from June 16-19th, 2026! I'm looking for projects for the adult market in the following genres: fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery and thriller. As well as self published stories in those same genres for audio rights exploration. querytracker.net/query/Michel...

Today our judges say goodbye to final group of books before our semi-finals, in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO)! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-1... Background image by Sinziana Susa. #booksky 💙🪐📚 #spfbo (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

Today @alyalyoops.bsky.social shares books to fill the “magical orphan who goes to school and defeats the evil villain with help from their found family, as the prophecy foretold” shaped hole in reading lists that some of us may have! - JI🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/childre... #booksky 💙 🪐📚 🏳️‍⚧️

ICYMI: @powjay.bsky.social reviews Daria Lavelle's Aftertaste! - JI 🐉 "I loved how the food was the link between the spirit and their special person and the detail Lavelle put into it that had my mouth watering." fantasy-faction.com/2025/afterta... #booksky 💙🪐📚 🌶️📚 #foodsky

Today our judges say goodbye to our sixth group of books in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO)! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-1... Background image by congerdesign. #booksky 💙🪐📚 #spfbo (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

The Berlin Zoo named their baby Hippo Brötchen. :) (Bread roll 🥖)

Reminder that this is coming up in just over two weeks! Come and see @johnfrench.bsky.social interview me about my new fantasy novel THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS at Nottingham Waterstones! www.waterstones.com/events/mike-...

A look at my six favourite #scifi and #fantasy books that focus on #language and linguistics, and how each one uses the magic of communication itself as a core part of its storytelling. #linguistics #embassytown #lexicon #arrival #projecthailmary #babel thoughtsonfantasy.com/2026/06/12/t...

Well, that's a milestone. Just submitted my 100th copyedit for some version of Tor (Tor proper, Tordotcom and Reactor). Feels pretty significant to *me*! (HUGE hat-tip to @leeharris.net for opening that door to @tordotcompub.bsky.social, @torbooks.bsky.social and @reactorsff.bsky.social.)

I'm positive the parks department can think of a million things more worthwhile to spend this money on. We don't need a giant arch regardless of where it goes or who wants to put it up. In fact if they made a public poll of projects they're considering, I bet the arch wouldn't crack the top 100.

Oh hey peeps any cozy/weird mysteries to recommend? Not super interested in physical jeopardy but more in the unraveling of the mystery or crunchy worldbuilding I've liked the Three Dahlia series by Katy Watson, Gabriel Ward by Sally Smith, Sarah Cauldwell's Hilary Tamar mysteries.

Today, TO Munro reviews David Green's self-published cosy fantasy MAGIC, MAPS AND MISCHIEF: "Green’s prose is a great strength of the book" Read more:

Today @summerhanford.bsky.social reviews Shannon Lee and @fondalee.bsky.social's Breath of the Dragon! - JI 🐉 "The writing is crisp, clean, and beautifully to the point...A classic tale of youthful rebellion." fantasy-faction.com/2026/breath-... #booksky 💙 🪐📚 #fantasybooks #bookrec

Today our judges say goodbye to our fifth group of books in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO)! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-1... Background image by Taylor Wright. #booksky 💙🪐📚 #spfbo (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)