Huge congrats to Ana Sun on her short fiction collection! Just out from NewCon Press (while we are at Milford SF Writer Workshop.) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 @singingtotigers.bsky.social @milfordsff.bsky.social #speculativefiction #solarpunk #climatefiction #newrelease www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

I’ve been Wombled!! Thank you for reading If the Stars Are Lit and for this lovely, thoughtful review!! 😻

An absolute pleasure to help out at this MK Lit-Fest-arranged event last night in Waterstones, Milton Keynes - a talk by Professor David Wilson, whose new book A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders sounds like a fascinating work of social history. Can't wait to read it! #booksky

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

Taking a brief break from Milford Critique Week (where I'm having a fab time at the wonderful Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social) to celebrate the #bookrelease of my #solarpunk short story collection "Futures to Live By" by Newcon Press 🌻 www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

It's time again for great deals on indie author / small press queer romances: today we have 17 books on sale: www.queeromanceink.com/sales/ Join the QueeRomance Ink newsletter list, get 4 free books: www.queeromanceink.com/join-our-ema... #salessaturday #gayromance #lesbianromance

It seems some of the pre-orders have begun trickling out to people today. (I'd expected it to be next week! 🙀 Eek!) If a particular story resonates with you, I'd love to hear about it 🌻

"it fits a tech industry playbook to grow a business first and later pay a relatively small fine...for breaking the rules...Anthropic (is valued) at $183 billion." It's what I suspected: Anthropic did the maths on how many authors have registered copyright (only 500k out of the 7M titles stolen)

Very few folks have entered this, so odds of nabbing a free copy are high 😅 👀

Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Reverse Centaurs – Locus Online share.google/OlyUg71wEsQs...

If you've been wondering how this turned out, I'm doing better. We do need a lot for my care going forward. But in a horrible twist of fate, we were victims of the sudden downpour-turned-flood in Quezon City yesterday—specifically, our house's first floor. Grateful for anything you can spare.

Hard at work signing sheets at Newcon Press HQ that will be bound into the exclusive hardback copies 😊

finally, the perfect weather for reposting my story about fighting the sun in @podcastle.org podcastle.org/2025/04/08/p...

The Story Seed Library, a library of #solarpunk art and story seeds, has just released a Ukranian version yesterday and is now available in six languages storyseedlibrary.org

Looking for #solarpunk artists from whom I could purchase prints of their work.

Incredibly excited (and still a bit stunned to be honest 🙀) to announce that the collection of my #solarpunk short stories "Futures to Live By" by NewCon Press is now available for pre-order in paperback or a signed limited edition hardback: www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Last month I released my #solarpunk ebook for some emergency hope. At last you can get your hands on the paperback. Discover Neon Riders on Barnes and Noble. #climateaction #scifi #sciencefiction #booklaunch www.barnesandnoble.com/w/neon-rider...

So thrilled the article @susankayequinn.bsky.social and I co-wrote is finally out in the world!

I've finally got my contributor copy of Bright Green Futures, which features my solarpunk piece The Doglady and the Rainstorm about a dog walker that just wants to leave the dogs under her care in their homes… and stay away from the inevitable rainstorms. 🐶🌧️☀️

12 days left to get us funded! 🚀 Help us continue printing optimistic sci-fi and fantasy: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam... #solarpunk #scifi #fantasy #scifibooks #fantasybooks

Just read the proof of an article I co-wrote with @singingtotigers.bsky.social about #solarpunk and changing our relationship with nature for The Ecological Citizen journal! Super excited for that to come out in August!

Andrew Dana Hudson asks if these Green New Deal posters are solarpunk? What do you think? #Solarpunk #SolarpunkArt @solarshades.club

Thrilled to share the news that THE UTOPIA OF US has been shortlisted for the The International Rubery Book Award! Many congratulations to all the authors who, collectively, made this such a fantastic anthology, and huge thanks to editor Teika Marija Smits for bringing them all together!

Fantastic time at @sfsfsocial.bsky.social this afternoon - lovely people, interesting discussion, wonderful reading by @annasmithspark.bsky.social & I had fun reading from my books too. Looking forward to the next one already.

📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢 Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues! Donate at the link ⬇️

Ok SCIENCE as to why I was smitten by these gorgeous botanical illustrations &had to use them for the cover of this #solarpunk collection! @renanbernardo.com @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social

National Climate League Report (Canada) The authors reviewed the climate plans and policies of 53 municipalities across Canada to gather information to answer a set of questions relating to 23 policy indicators.

And we are live on KS - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... - The “Mmeory” anthology is launched with a theme of memory manipulation - magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone wrong. Help us bring this book to life. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

Ahhh I'm a Shirley Jackson Award Nominee! Can't quite believe it, but such an honour to see The Girl with Barnacles for Eyes in amazing company - thank you @tenebrouspress.bsky.social & @alexebenstein.bsky.social for first believing in this weird tale! 🖤✨️ www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2025/06/09/t...

🌸💀✨️ Issue 7 is out now! ✨️💀🌸 12 stories ready to break your heart, make you wince, fill you with bittersweet longing, or just make you kind of uneasy. You will feel things. inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-seven-... #SFF #Horror #SpecFic #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #FlashFiction

Looking for some reading for the weekend? How about a high fantasy murder mystery courtesy of this here author & @northodoxpress.bsky.social. In a city where monsters go to die, an executioner seeks justice for the woman she killed in The Executioner's Blade. andrewknighton.com/the-executio...

We've been going for 17 months! And I know that because there are 17 essays that you can currently read for free! Time travel & trauma; Star Trek and "diversity" (or not); nationalist myths in Tolkien; Renaissance lady knights; magic as infrastructure... (1/2) www.speculativeinsight.com

A Bright Green Futures story, Coriander by @singingtotigers.bsky.social published as a free ebook for a short time. "A cultural historian travels around the world to her great-grandmother’s birthplace and discovers traces that transcend time." lnk.to/BGF24S6website #SolarpunkSunday #booksky

Went to Oxford to hear the Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature yesterday, this year delivered wonderfully by @zenaldehyde.bsky.social. Caught up with my pal Amy McKenzie (pictured) and with @julietemckenna.bsky.social & @cherylmorgan.bsky.social (not pictured), and soaked in the love of stories 💖

"Such a beautiful, colorful book with so much information! I was surprised at how many words I recognized as a beginning Welsh learner." Learn about garden birds with Adar yr Ardd, my illustrated ebook for Welsh learners, just £1.99 from seidrpress.com #DysguC#DysguCymraeg

My #solarpunk story "Coriander" about food, family and climate heritage is free to download for the next ten days 🌻

From one of my fave tales in the collection! A grandmother seeks revenge on the sea monster that took her family...To Gut a Fish, First Gather its Bones ✨️🌊🐟

Few things beat receiving an author copy! My climate adaptation story touches on heritage, food and family. Alongside fab tales by @renanbernardo.com @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social, edited by: @susankayequinn.bsky.social

Finally got to read the lovely story, "For tomorrow's moon" by @singingtotigers.bsky.social - a meditation on what love means to humans, machines, and those in between. I'll remember this story for a long time.

Now we need some adventurous players to try out the mini RPG

Online now! 😀

Check out this thread you all! Inaugural #solarpunk #book discussion: Bright Green Futures @renanbernardo.com @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social & me, editor: @susankayequinn.bsky.social #SFF #SpecLit #hope #climate #justice

I can finally mention this! I have a story coming out with Fission #5, edited by Gene Rowe and Eugen Bacon. It'll be coming this summer, and look at this beautiful cover! Find out more here: www.bsfa.co.uk/fission

It's Independent Press Day? Let me introduce you to Wizard's Tower Press, esteemed publisher of my Green Man series, and I heartily recommend their wealth of other titles available. #Booksky 📚💙 wizardstowerpress.com

My story "Ancestors, Descendants" is in this anthology alongside 5 other hopeful #climate stories. So much fun to be in community with authors @renanbernardo.com @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @susankayequinn.bsky.social ed.

Happy to see my novelette “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com in this awesome roundup✨

I'm a sucker for human-made #art, but an author who's also an artist? With ink drawings of her story? HECK YEAH Check out @tkrex.bsky.social 's alien centipede forest drawings & enter the giveaway celebrating the release of the Bright Green Futures anthology! lnk.to/BGFgiveaway #solarpunk #booksky

🌌🚀 BOOK BIRTHDAY! Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is finally out by Dark Matter Ink! It's available at the publishers website, Bookshop, Amazon, B&N, and more. It's a short novella set in a doomed spaceship returning to Earth. For fans of dark SF and fast-paced thrillers in space.

A week and a half before we welcome Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social to talk about one of Britain's newest indy publishers, Slab Press. Join us online for free at 7pm on Wed 8th Mar. #writingcommunity #amwritng www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1321672651...

So sad to hear about the tragedy at the Lapu Lapu festival tonight in Vancouver Some emergency response resources organized by the mabuhay house docs.google.com/document/d/e...