On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT. The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

I'm visiting my hometown and just had a lovely time with a book club at the Cole Harbour Library talking about Adrift and climate change. I love book clubs so much, they have all been so thoughtful and kind in their discussions of Adrift. Love love love these conversations! (ALSO MY DAD CAME! )

Just a couple of seats left in my Saturday workshop at this Salt Spring Island festival. www.eventbrite.ca/e/paper-cove...?

Hey everyone!! I am starting a chapbook press!!! rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca! We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!

Are in planning to be in North Vancouver tomorrow night? So am I! I'll be giving a talk and showing off some photos from my new book Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck. It's at Lynn Valley Library on Lynn Valley Road at 6:30 pm evelazarus.com/book/beneath...

I'm old. Us old people write blog posts. Here's one I posted recently about creativity, learning, and art residencies: www.lisabrideau.com/post/writing...

Potluck has been a regular caterer of events in my life in Vancouver - if you can support this amazing social enterprise, please do! And a friendly reminder that if you organize catering for your org/event, find a social enterprise or Indigenous company to direct your $$ to.

Oof, this article, so much truth about publishing challenges that exist today. This is a must read. thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Got on stage last night and read the opening of the novel I'm currently working on. And realized mid-read that it's kind of gory. (By "kind of", I mean "very".) Fortunately, there is a lot of crossover between sci-fi and horror so the audience wasn't traumatized (I don't think).

I'll be in Halifax/Dartmouth in Oct for the first time since my debut novel came out! -> I'd love to meet folks & talk about climate fiction, climate reality, writing, amnesia, all the things! Oct 8: Library book club, Oct 9: Halifax Gals & Pals book club, Oct 11: book signing at Indigo Dartmouth!

I'll be in Halifax/Dartmouth in October - my first time home since my book was published! I have 1 day left where I could fit in a book club meeting if anyone is part of a club that wants to read Adrift & have me pop by. Send me a message/email by Sept 25th if this might be your book club!

I'm relatively new to writing short stories, having always gone in for big novel projects. So when I sent my first story out on submission, it was mostly because seeking rejection is a hobby for me & it costs nothing to take a shot & you never know what might hit. Still, imagine my surprise...(1/?)

I'm VERY VERY excited to share that the first short story I ever sold is now available to read on Diabolical Plots: "The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal" www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1... 🤖 Please read & enjoy! (Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)

I'm VERY VERY excited to share that the first short story I ever sold is now available to read on Diabolical Plots: "The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal" www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1... 🤖 Please read & enjoy! (Does Bluesky show posts with links? Comment with a robot emoji if you see this?)

I was at this event, it was awesome! You may have missed the event but the book is apparently an instant NYT bestseller, so I think you'll be seeing it around! A novella about leftover robots starting a noodle restaurant, but really about so much more. Thanks to Iron Dog Books for hosting!

I backed this project and if you know any people who knit, crochet, weave, or spin, you should too because they will LOVE this book! (I love all the books this Vancouver publisher is putting out.)

This is a perfect advertisment. Just perfect. No notes.

Knitters, crocheters, weavers, spinners - this book will interest you!

Someone's (awesome) writing at a recent workshop reminded me SO MUCH of the 2004 show Wonderfalls and now I desperately need to rewatch it. Anyone else remember it?? I think Fox only aired 4 episodes before cancelling but released all 13 episodes on DVD. Now to find a copy...

oh, great, Meta is not "currently" scraping our phone's camera rolls (of non-uploaded photos, note) to train AI. That's super comforting, currently. We have to get off these platforms and find gathering places with boundaries and basic ethics.

I'm so excited to see this book on the Globe & Mail's bestseller list - fibre nerds are really hungry to learn about the wool industry in Canada (I know I am!)! ♥️♥️

Um. I was so excited to post this yesterday I forgot to mention there's a 10% EARLYBIRD DISCOUNT on pre-orders through Monday, July 7!

🧵✨ "Thanks, it has pockets!" ✨🧵 THE MAGIC OF POCKETS, by Canadian author Jess Driscoll, is coming to Canada! (Sorry 🇺🇸 we don't make the rules. J/k you already have the book.) PRE-ORDER: shop.ninetenpublications.ca/products/the...

Putting it out in the world that I LOVE to do panels. Have an event and want an author of climate fiction & speculative suspense who is also a climate policy specialist? A traditionally published author who jumped into the industry cold? EMAIL ME!!! Lisa (at) lisabrideau dot com

I received the most amazing email last week. I'm still stunned... I was offered a spot in a literary science fiction writing residency at the famous Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Even better - my mentor for the residency will be Premee Mohamed - who wrote... 1/2

Obviously as someone who wrote a speculative suspense novel, I am super excited for this list (my already long to-read list is less excited)!

Need help writing a query letter, finding an agent, figuring out the whole *how to get published* thing? I wrote a book about it! Pre-order now!

If you want to escape reality by traveling to some awesome nerdy book destinations, here are a few I've been to and loved - let me know what I've missed! www.lisabrideau.com/post/travel-...

Writing the Breakout Novel remains my favourite book on writing craft. Can't wait to share it in this Zoom book club, May 15! ✍📚 Free for FBCW members; $10 for non-members. www.bcwriters.ca/event-5963546

To counter all my book promo (but for real, please buy my book, I'm a debut author, it's ha d to get noticed) - here is a photo from my walk yesterday. I'm so lucky to live in the West End, it's so lovely here. #vancouver

There is a BC book club that pairs a book with a wine each month and offers a discount on each. It's a genius idea (books + wine? Yes!). Adrift is their May selection and I can't wait to try the wine! Check it out: www.instagram.com/p/DJKUJGKyxb...

If you were born between 1970-1996 you may only have had one dose of measles vaccine and may want to get a booster. I got a second shot recently because I was planning a trip to the US. Ask your doctor! globalnews.ca/news/1105179...

The world is currently a dumpster fire so every bit of good news is VERY welcome and today it is that my novel Adrift has been shortlisted for Oxford Reads!!! I hope it resonates with readers and earns some votes! www.oxfordreads.ca

As a former aerospace engineer who was pretty obsessed with spaceflight this really bothers me. Passengers floating in space for 11 minutes for no reason at all is NOT "a crew" or "astronauts". These are space tourists. I 100% thought this was an April fool's joke. Desperately wish it was.

If new books are going to be expensive to print while we wait for all this tariff tax nonsense to end, maybe publishers & booksellers could promote the great backlist titles languishing in warehouses? Already printed, just unloved by publishing because they're more than 6 months old. Opportunity!

Here are three climate fiction stories from Black authors. Heirloom In a haven city defined by scientific progress, one woman hides a gift from her ancestors that contains a key to the future. By Joy Donnell grist.org/climate-fict... #ClimateFiction #Fiction #BlackSky A short thread...

Everything AI was built on is stolen and I hate that so few care. The irony of stealing from authors is that big publishers will 1 day produce books that are mostly AI generated. We already established that the name on a cover has nothing to do with who wrote the book (see celebrity "authors") 1/?

When I took media training, this is what they said - it's an auto-statement to buy time to think of your response. It's risky as you may compliment an antagonistic or problematic question. "Thanks for the question" is safer. It's also good to train yourself to be okay with a moment of silence.

Best of luck to all the #RevPit folks participating this year!! I was lucky enough to be chosen in 2019 and managed to get an agent and get published with that novel, so amazing things can happen, but the connections I made with other writers online during the lead up was a prize all on its own! ❤️

I need non-doom book content in my feed. Please! What's the book you just finished? Did you like it? For me: Erasure by Percival Everett, which was excellent (but reminded me that I really need to read The Invisible Man).

For folks looking to spend less time on their devices (doomscrolling, hello) - here's a great video on pocket notebooks and how they can be a great analog alternative that will keep you from falling down rabbit holes you never wanted to go down. youtu.be/LW_H19w812M?... @henrydidit.bsky.social

Americans, this is insane. Wtf.

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

When I wrote my debut speculative novel set in a future Canada, I imagined Canada had established stronger border security and introduced new visa regulations for Americans. I wasn't sure readers would buy it. Well, that believability problem is solved now.

Afternoon naps. I'm jealous.

There is a lot going on in the world and life right now so I'm trying to really celebrate the wins when they come. For me it's that I've been accepted to attend the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference in June! 🥳 I'd love to hear your good news or latest personal win.

I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.

Have you checked out the brand-new climate fiction collection from @gristnews.bsky.social yet? Get inspired. These 12 short stories envision what a better future could look like and how we get there. grist.org/imagine2200-... #Imagine2200 #climatefiction #fiction #sciencefiction #solarpunk

I feel strongly that this area of the internet needs more cat photos. Here is one. Please post more. Thanks.

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...