YES. @mariadongwrites.bsky.social

Heads up that my publisher is running a kindle giveaway for this one on goodreads RIGHT NOW: Aviary by Maria Dong www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

So, uh, guess who’s a Stoker Award finalist… And to be nominated alongside some of my favorite authors/horror people… Y’all!

Come for the weird fish-person sex, stay for the capital F FEELINGS instead

My first "By the Numbers" was in the Mar/Apr 2021 F&SF! Each entry examines an aspect of genre publishing - magazines, awards, publishers, etc. This one asks: What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry? (Not counting my experiences LOL) arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

I wrote a review for @mariadongwrites.bsky.social banger of a horror novel. Big thanks to @netgalley.bsky.social for the ARC.

Thank you @gabino.bsky.social! Taking advantage of the opportunity to boost my forthcoming queer, feminist, korean-american psychedelic body horror: Aviary - Severn House share.google/9ZdL9A2ZNBkW...

Just a quick note that I have an unhinged, feminist, Korean(-American), queer, genre-bending, literary psychedelic body horror coming out April 7th, 2026: severnhouse.com/books/aviary/

Hong Jin Young's Boogeyman

And thank you for the lovely stories and conversation, @katdenza.bsky.social!

What a gorgeous and affecting book. Thank you @wenyilee.bsky.social!

Y'all, I am going on a little tour. #IgnoreThisBook

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

Proud to be the person who, when someone sends out a pro-AI email on the school librarian listserv, makes all the other pro-AI school librarians groan when they see my response. I got sources bookmarked and I'm ready to rant.

Just purchased! Come on, people!

people get mad about everything being mogging this or that-maxxxing, when full ass adults are out here writing "journalism is better when it's backed by live markets"

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness. no forgiveness.

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧 The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement. May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

unfortunately, we found a fair number of best of sf anthos were just authors turned editor publishing their friends in a circle jerk of white male writers propping each other up and then by dint of that creating "classics" that did not hold up

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

All the Epstein dudes should just be sent to his island, but with no amenities, Survivor style.

Sooo... I know I just released a new book 30 days ago. But... check out what's coming from Neon Hemlock at the end of April. I just posted a sample chapter at my patreon if you want a taste: www.patreon.com/post...

🌬️🍃🌊A RIVER FROM THE SKY🌊🍃🌬️ now on @netgalley.bsky.social 👀✨🤍 forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫 🔗 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

I have been getting a ton of these for AVIARY and I KNOW they're lying because the book isn't even out yet

New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out. vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020

I can't speak to comics distribution, but readership percentages as measured by the percentage of people that read at least one book last month, tend to be very similar in both the US and Japan depending on the source. 😅 Portraying Japan as a magical place where everyone reads, vs the US where

Everyone's struggling & the world's on fire so I'm sorry to ask, but I need your help again. If you could donate and/or share my Go Fund Me campaign, it would go a long way to helping me pay for increased costs for my breast cancer treatment. Details in my update. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

I didn’t make an eligibility post this year, because I am out of spoons and all kitchen utensils, but Hugo noms are open, and if you consider anything from me, I’d love it if you considered my @fantasymagazine.bsky.social story “Ichthyosis," that involves the sea, a queer throuple, and a fish.

Hugo Noms have opened and I want to get in quick with this: there is a fabulous and vibrant contemporary SFF novella scene and the quality is *not* disproportionately located at tordotcom, which puts out brilliant work but does not have a monopoly on it. 5 titles for your consideration follow:

Well, I'm just blown away by this review of Best Weird Fiction of the Year by the inimitable @arleysorg.bsky.social over @lightspeedmagazine.com www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/b...

I am, no lie, still in disbelief AND it took me almost a full 12 hours to tell my husband and friends this happened. I'm on a list with giants of romance. WHAT.

Hugo noms are open so it's time for me to rattle off a list of some of my fave stories from last year! These are in no particular order so let's start with a December story, "Ichythosis" by the wonderful @emelkrishnan.bsky.social:

2025 was a year of trying again. I wrote a novel that might not be sold. I rewrote my old literary stories speculative, just to learn. I waited on news on SFF novel subs📘📉🔥 I wrote my first contemporary weird novella🕷️🤞and dreamed of a completely different Thing for 26. Anyway, here're my 2025 pubs 🏆

OMG. Look at this amazing blurb from @johnjosephadams.com: "Ignore All Previous Instructions is a revelation. It hooked me from page one and never loosened its hold on me, building and building toward an emotional catharsis that will simultaneously destroy you and give you life...

Feeling good. "As always, Claybourne weaves a narrative that’s engaging, thought-provoking, ridiculously imaginative, and takes the reader places—sometimes with their heart in their throat—that they didn’t know they needed to go." - new Goodreads review

For the love of everything THIS

Shoulda put this here myself, but here you go!

One of my kids asked if the stars we see are still there, because they know light takes time to travel so we are seeing the past, and so what if the stars are all gone and we are already alone in the universe

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

The Dogmen Fudge Incident out tomorrow (2/10)!!! Find out why Chocolate Kills Dogmen in this crazy action cryptid siege story! www.amazon.com/Dogmen-Fudge... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Couldn't stop thinking about this review from #LosAngelesReviewofBooks -- it does more than just review Silk & Sinew, it digs into the heart of the book and its works. Thank you Jered Mabaquiao and #LARB. Truly, what an honor. lareviewofbooks.org/article/silk... substack.com/home/post/p-...

Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad

Why stop at 200 books a year? 500? 7000-- *The year is 2046. Empire have risen and fallen on the backs of the AI Slop Book Volume War. Trillions of pages, crapped out, fed back, until the machine's stacked hallucinations warped beyond human understanding, summoning the King in Yellow--*

There is no way to express the relief and joy of seeing the sun peek through some MI winter

I didn't wake up to the scent of pancakes cooking or a melody hummed sweetly but damn if the sun doesn't feel good coming through even though it's half-warm from these arctic temperatures. Do your thing, sun. You're the right one to let in. There's room on my couch. We'll have cereal and chill.

what are you doing!

The real tragedy, to me, of the people trying to AI shortcut their way through art is that it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what art represents to the artist. They see a finished