It’s been a busy few weeks 🌱 oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Super cool opportunity to have a one-on-one conversation about your work with an amazing editor!

AI this, LLM that, I'm amped for the counterculture to ignite against this banal mediocrity. Gimme handmade zines, let's write poems on the back of receipts, a watercolor using found pigments, book clubs on subway cars; let the revolution be not just analog but antiquated, baby. Bring back quills!

The audio version of "Bunny Ears" is now up for your listening pleasure/terror! @nightmare-magazine.com's podcast team knocked it outta the park, like always. Thanks to Roxanne Hernandez for the tremendous narration.

Had a marketing call with my publisher and told them all I wanna do is pass notes to you in class… Now till Sept. 18 on StoryGraph, enter for a chance at a signed copy of TELL ME YOURS + a personalized note from yours truly + a wicked tarot card inspired by one of the stories. 🔗 in my bio! 😘🔮💌

I had such a great time attending my first Worldcon in Seattle last weekend! At the awards ceremony itself tho there was a moment that made quite sad. Imagine how you would feel, getting nominated for this lovely honor, and then have this happen. With a little thoughtfulness we can do better

Just coming here to shout about @timchawaga.bsky.social’s fabulous debut! Noir in future Florida, diving in drowned cities, corporate shenanigans. Must Read!

Definitely brave, incredibly new, joyfully and interestingly weird! Checks out!!

I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because: 1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and 2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!

This should be amplified, so I'm posting to the #science, #astronomy, #physics, and #heliophysics feeds. ☀️🔭⚛️🧪🚀

My @uncannymagazine.bsky.social novelette formatted as a series of Goodreads reviews is here! It also features probably the longest title in history 😆 It's a story about friendship, queerness, books, fandom, and generally living life and finding ways forward even when things aren't looking great.

Hey all, this account is impersonating me, block and report them if you can and certainly don't give them any money or anything!

be the writer that your inner David Lynch... your inner David Lynch... your inner... he's inside you now and you have to let him out. he's hungry and you have to let him out.

The Altadena seed library needs all of the help it can get- if you have native plant seeds to share, please make sure they find their way to this group. Monetary donations are also hugely welcome via gofund.me/6643efc6

First writing desk cat of 2025:

Good writing gives the impression of having come straight from the writer's mind in one continuous burst, with no planning or editing. So does bad writing.

So excited to see this book out in the world! And this cover! Omg, perfection!

A wondrous collection from Ten of strange encounters with stranger creatures, hubris, temptations, and complicated consequences

Hey y'all! Here's my #AwardsEligibility thread. In this, my first novel-writing year (!), I'm proud of the four original stories I managed to get out. A bit more about them... 🧵

a gigantically beautiful story!

Doing a 2024 short story eligibility award post! It was a slower year; I had just one publication. "Here in the Glittering Black, There Is Hope" also took a long route to end up at GigaNotoSaurus, like it's protagonists, so I feel I owe it a post giganotosaurus.org/2024/09/01/h...

I did a presentation at my church for their adult continuing education series called “We Have Always Been Here” about how LGBTQ history gets erased and people were particularly shook to learn about this guy. even folks who are fine with the gays still think trans people were invented in like 2017

Another year of awesome stories from Triantafyllou!

This holiday season, why not give the gift of ultimate cosmic destruction?? 💥🌌 www.astrokatie.com/book Kirkus Reviews calls it “a delightfully unsettling narrative”! @leebillings.bsky.social raves about my “infectious enthusiasm for communicating the finer points of cosmological doom”!

Love this thread, both because it’s an interesting sub genre vibe that I had subconsciously sought, but never thought about as a grouping before, And because I’m having waves of nostalgia/joy, remembering these fun conversations from the old blue bird/happy to participate in this experience again!

I must not dunk. Dunks are the time-killer Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation I will ignore bad takes I will allow them to pass, or block them And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter And where the takes have gone there will be nothing Only I will remain

Hey everyone, in two weeks I'll be teaching an online seminar though the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, on realist fiction with unreality at its center. Details below and at the sign-up link: lighthousewriters.org/workshop/gri.... Anyone can register. I cannot wait to dive into these stories together!

I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

hi hello did you want to read a story about a very toxic friendship? where one friend is compelled to keep resurrecting her dead friend into the body of a stranger?? and also it was written by @foxesandroses.bsky.social ??? because I have some very good news, you can read this novelette 👇

This is not just bots. We are seeing more and more submissions by writers with publication records who are almost certainly using AI to create initial drafts and then are trying and failing to edit things into shape.

With the Vatican’s willingness to bless same-sex unions and a green(ish) light for transgender baptism, has the Catholic Church mellowed on LGBTQ doctrine? Or is it the Inquisition in drag? @theodoremccombs.bsky.social investigates.

Netflix I'm begging you, has ANYONE on your PR team, any human person at all, watched Grave of the Fireflies? This cheerful promo pic is so wildly misleading, it feels almost reckless.

The BEST SHORT FICTION - and the pipe band are super excited for this category! - is: APPROVED METHODS OF LOVE DIVINATION IN THE FIRST-RATE CITY OF DUSHAGOROD by Kristina Ten (@kristinaten.bsky.social)

Kaleidotrope will re-open to fiction and poetry submissions in July and October of 2024. The zine will re-open to artwork submissions for all of 2024, beginning January 1. I’ve updated the submission guidelines accordingly.

Just read this lovely short from Heartlines alum @filiphdz.bsky.social -- perfectly captures longing

Today, consider time in @filiphdz.bsky.social’s Waiting With the Milk. "Whenever you’re away, I’ll go shopping and be struck that the use-by on the carton of milk I’m buying post-dates your return. Hell, I’ll think, if the milk can wait to see you, why can’t I?" smallwondersmag.com/pieces/waiti...

SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - OCTOBER 2023 I round up over 50 works of queer speculative fiction by @azlouise.bsky.social @jaesteinbacher.bsky.social @ravenbelasco.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @filiphdz.bsky.social @remedy.bsky.social @benfrancisco.bsky.social & MANY MORE www.patreon.com/posts/93646933

15 of my books were used to help train AI. Fifteen of them. Fif. Teen. Publishing is basically a time-consuming hobby for me these days, I earn so little money from it - but hey. F.I.F.T.E.E.N. of my books were used w/o permission to train an algorithm to imitate me.

Thanks to @cypayseur.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of “Approved Methods of Love Divination in the First-Rate City of Dushagorod” in @locusmag.bsky.social. Extra nice to be here with @clarionwest.bsky.social fam Isha Karki and @celesterita.bsky.social, whose stories blew me away.

need to know more about this bird woman who's spinning wool and drinking wine. what's her story. is she single

Canadian friends! I will be editing and publishing "Northern Nights," an anthology of dark fiction from Canadian writers. My dream passion project! Opening to submissions on Oct. 1. All the details are below. Please help spread the word. https://undertowpublications.com/northern-nights-anthology

If I’m ever anywhere nearby Lafayette NJ I’m definitely heading here!

Mood

The dream

Hey, folks, Flame Tree Publishing is looking for African ghost stories, sweet spot 2,000-4,000 words paying SFWA rates Deadline: Aug 27 https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/african-ghost-submissions-0

I am anxious and gratefuly to @lmanusos.bsky.social and BookRiot for giving space to Greek writers and artists like myself, @cotronis.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social and @avramargariti.bsky.social to voice our thoughts on Greek mythology, retellings and how it all started.

Yes! yes! Lullaby for the Unseen!

What a treasure, this contributor’s copy of Las Escritoras de Urras, featuring the Spanish translation of my story “Tend to Me.” May all short fiction get a holographic sticker. May all cactus spirits be free of their wretched girl forms.

Hi! Lots of artists trying to find community again so here I am with my space pottery. Everything is hand-painted with glaze 💫