The sheer number of students using generative AI on their *CREATIVE WRITING* assignments was one of my main motivations for leaving academia 👋

Sharing details here for my SALTCROP tour!!! Writing is painful but meeting people is fun! Please come / tell your friends! ALSO to celebrate my new book, I slipped and accidentally planned a whole "Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Festival" - 8 cities, 8 nights, 8 con-style panels.

one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up

Update on my accelerating journey into elderhood: Just signed us up for Sunday newspaper delivery.

🥀OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN🥀 I'm so excited to announce my pre-order campaign for my debut adult gothic romantasy WE BECOME DARKNESS coming March 10th, 2026! I've also partnered with some INCREDIBLE indies to bring you exclusive goodies! 🥀links in bio🥀 #writingcommunity #preorder

I love the idea of this list---books with small audiences but big imagination! Trying to create SFF commmunity over here! Books by @ellybangs.bsky.social , @julieczerneda.bsky.social , @saadzhossain.bsky.social , @voidcricket.bsky.social, & @theptessadactyl.bsky.social bookriot.com/best-sci-fi-...

This so perfectly captures my experience with Goodreads, which has always managed to feel weirdly wholesome despite its toxic trappings

I did it, y'all. I switched to the light phone. No emails, no social media, no apps. She is dumb and she is beautiful.

Hey, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER by @charliejane.bsky.social is available! It's a dazzlingly layered story that's part queer family portrait, part exploration of modern-day witchcraft, and part literary criticism. You will love it if you love any of those things! bookshop.org/p/books/less...

Really good to see some good news on this front (especially after reading about that KY church telling its members to literally steal gay books from the library). Progress is possible

Spoiler alert: No.

Today marks 7 years with my writing muse 😍 Happy adoptaversary, Ripley!

Ah, First Draft Paradox: where I am simultaneously incredibly proud of, and thoroughly mortified by, this big weird baby I've produced.

Every time I read an article like this, I think, if male novelists are so endangered, how do I know so fucking many of them? Apparently the answer is, because we're all in "genre," which is the One Simple Trick for still getting published when you're a dude. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Doing a masterclass in Philly in August at Bluestoop, cosponsored by Asian Arts Initiative, a fundraiser for both of them. Advice writers often give to new writers is to write the stories they've never seen before. I will present some approaches. www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/ma...

"A.I. writing is inherently a propaganda machine for the status quo—in source and style, but thereby in politics and beyond." This is one of the best takes on generative AI I've read.

For the @smokelong.bsky.social Flash Archive Challenge, I'll be doing @wigleaf.bsky.social, the litmag that doesn't make it easy to get a direct link to a story in the archives but it's SO WORTH IT Starting off with this one from 2018 by @theptessadactyl.bsky.social wigleaf.com/201809preser...

My latest #bookhaul has been arriving in dribs and drabs. These came today: The Runaway Restaurant, a collection by @theptessadactyl.bsky.social Bad Fire, a memoir (that will make you trans) by @tuckerlieberman.bsky.social Can’t wait to read them.

New year, new me, new social media account to forget about