Upcoming this week: my sole book signing this year! You are invited to join Ann Aguirre and me at Powells (Cedar Hills Crossing, not the downtown store) on Friday November 21, 2025 at 7 pm you can also order signed copies if you can't make it in person. #booktok allevents.in/beaverton/po...

Got a story edited and sent out on submission today, something I haven't been doing much of for the past year or so. Felt really good!

This surprises folks: A work's presence on the Recommended Reading List doesn't guarantee it makes the Preliminary Ballot. It means at least one HWA member recced it. It takes EIGHT recs to make the PB. Please read this thread and rec the 2025 horror you loved and DID NOT work on! (3/3) horror.org

There are a few time-sensitive things HWA members should know about the Bram Stoker Award Recommended Reading List. PLEASE forgive my shouty caps and read this entire short thread before reposting/quote-posting. (1/3) horror.org/awards/curre...

Good news: the million-vote #mamdate we got Zohran is getting Hochul to start reconsidering her stance against taxing the rich. It's time to turn up the volume. The #TaxTheRich campaign launches tomorrow (Sun, Nov 16) @ 12pm in Union Sq. Let's aim for 1,000 people. actionnetwork.org/events/tax-t...

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

Yesterday we watched a helicopter moving bundles of Christmas trees from the field to the road, where they shot through a baling machine and were stacked for pick-up by truck. It was kind of wild to watch, and once time the helicopter flew right over our car with a bunch of trees!

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

Friday night we went to see FRANKENSTEIN at one of my favorite local theaters. I felt like the movie was another solid installation of the GDT realm, covering much of the same material as CRIMSON PEAK & THE SHAPE OF WATER, with many echoes of the visual systems he's created across his career.

The nationwide strike coincides with the company’s popular holiday Red Cup Day, one of the coffee giant’s busiest days of the year.

I write 2 pep talks a month for my Patreon supporters, usually focused on creativity and positivity. Today's post is about the post-book launch blues, and I made it free for everyone, because I think it's common and very miserable. www.patreon.com/posts/143504...

"Our transgender, intersex, and nonbinary beloveds offer a singular gift. They invite us to witness our broken world through the knowledge that, when we lead in truth and love, nothing is beyond transformation."

I hope no actual book clubs are trying to reach me via email, because the AI scammers have pretty much rendered those water toxic.

There's almost nothing nicer than emailing one of your write buddies to tell them you loved their book. :)

I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops: Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there. If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you. thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com

fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, @lmanusos.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, & @angelaliu.bsky.social ⚡🦇 don't want to subscribe to my free tiny letter? weird choice! but you should still read these stories, so here's the link:

And it was hours after 12 major airports banned private jets that the Democrats caved.

If the arrival of November's eligibility posts, end-of-the-year wrap-ups, year's-best lists, & Goodreads awards voting has left you feeling like a lazy, unaccomplished writer with unmemorable work, know you are not alone. At least we can drown our sorrows in egg nog!

Wendy put together an amazing evening for a very important cause. I got to see @dangerslater.bsky.social explain the history of bananas and they let me talk about C.H.U.D.s. Lovely night. No notes.

Me: I spent 12 days rushing around organizing this big event. I can relax & be happy today, right? Brain: NO DOPAMINE UNTIL YOU START WORKING ON YOUR NEXT SHENANIGAN.

Last night's fundraiser for the Oregon Food Bank was awesome! Tons of local writers came out to read, contribute books & goodies for our raffle prizes, and to donate to the food bank. We raised $1495 for the food bank while having a lot of fun and exchanging a LOT of hugs. People are so very good.

Big thanks to Wendy Wagner @wnwagner.bsky.social for organizing last night's fun storytelling benefit at the Rose City Book Pub. We got to hear readings from Caitlin Starling, Danger Slater, Gretchen Newberry, and more--all while raising money for the Oregon Food Bank.

Come see some awesome readings and performances tonight at Rose City Book Pub! @dangerslater.bsky.social specifically told me you can throw things at him while he's reading; dunno what that's about but🤷‍♂️

The OR Democrats asked me to come volunteer to stuff envelopes to raise $$ for them, so I could "change the future of elections." I thought about quoting Zohran Mamdani about how most people think politics is something done TO us, but his campaign showed it's something done BY us.

Tonight's the night!!! If you're in Portland, stop by the Rose City Book Pub between 4 and 9 pm to hear nine amazing authors read and to share your own work! Let's gather to raise money for hungry people in Oregon -- and to have a really terrific time.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

You can search by zip code and a lot of places have wish lists set up on Chewy so you’ll be able to see exactly what they need and have it sent direct to them. Couldn’t be easier.

Trump tactics give everyone whiplash from the global economy to federal workers to SNAP recipients to... I wonder how much he thinks that this is art-of-the-deal genius, which maybe did work on the scale of scammy developer and does not work on this scale. Except as a cruelty-stupidity mashup.

As someone who has previously been a starving writer treated like a disposable tool, this is both hilarious and hitting very close to home.

“Delights in being mean” oh yeah he’s pained

I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy! We appreciate your kind consideration. undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?) Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

If you can't make it to our awesome OPEN MIC fundraiser for the Oregon Food Bank on Monday (4 pm - 9pm at the Rose City Book Pub), you can still donate at the link in my bio!

It seems like, at some point, LOSING this much money when investors are involved? Should maybe be a crime…

What a banger

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

Prices since Trump took office: -Groceries: ⬆️ 2.7% -Utilities: ⬆️ 11% -ACA premiums: ⬆️ 26% -Overall consumer prices: ⬆️ 3% Trump: “I don't want to hear about the affordability.”

The idea that transphobic ads decide elections is another piece of the manufactured controversy about us. There was never any evidence backing the claim, just “people are saying” repeated over and over. It’s just bullshit.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Billionaires should not exist.

I kept thinking there were weird typos in the document I'm editing, but it turns out my screen is just really dirty.

Trump Transportation Sec Sean Duffy said Wednesday the Federal Aviation Administration would restrict air travel in 40 “high-traffic” areas of the country to relieve pressure on air traffic controllers who have been working without a paycheck since Oct. 1. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

This is why when folks were fighting to get an X gender marker on government ID, I went so hard on the idea that government ID ~shouldn’t have any gender on it at all~ It serves absolutely no purpose other than discrimination.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

My husband went to the coast with some friends. They planned to stop at North Coast Pinball in Nehalem, but they couldn't get inside because the king tides had flooded the street in front of the building! (For reference, Nehalem is about 2.5 miles inland, but on a tidally affected river.)

The thing I want to stress to people: Authors (and other artists you admire) don't *expect* you to be scintillating when you meet us, so don't worry about being clever. What *is* appreciated is if you're nice. Just be nice! Nice is good!

happy #novellavember, maybe you'd like a little weird western

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc