I heard about MRM’s terrible contract and I have heard that individuals have negotiated a more reasonable contract. But MRM didn’t change their boilerplate. SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.

Okay, so since I bungled this part of the announcement yesterday, here's a proper announcement: Pre-orders for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS are OPEN!! And if you're in the US, then the best place to get them is direct from the publisher: tachyonpublications.com/product/igno... #IgnoreThisBook

WAIT I just realized Tachyon's website has an excerpt AND A PRE-ORDER LINK??? YOU CAN PRE-ORDER! PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE!! AAAAAAA #IgnoreThisBook

BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER

Oh hey, TIL that @reckoningmag.bsky.social is having a special neurodivergent issue: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...

guess what's happening monday cover reveal for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is happening monday 👀 (This cover is SO CUTE, y'all, I can't wait to share!) #IgnoreThisBook

Hoffmann, 37, lives in a space station in the heart of the Virgo Supercluster where robots crawl in their kitchen and "The Saint of Bright Doors" and Jung's "Man And His Symbols" - two books they were reading while teaching critical AI literacy to undergrads - sit under their sparkly viewport.

Employers are always handwringing about autism accommodations in the workplace and I gotta tell you: ear defenders and quiet workstations are the least of your problems. What autistic people really need is *whispers* for other people to do their actual jobs.

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. "The day that Kelli Reynolds got drawn into her ex’s life of crime had started out as a good day." #IgnoreThisBook

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

Told my students that I didn't wear a costume today, because professors are already terrifying. 🧙

🔖 I finished @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social’s “The Outside” today, which was a fabulous read from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social. So much so that I’ll be progressing into book two in November 🤗 There’s some great rep. that’s really involving. Also, Akavi’s a massive knob! 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

It's Lucifur. This semester has been a lot...

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education: 1) Hire manye facultye 2) Small class syzes 3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte 4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

Have you ever noticed that you can tell where the midpoint is in a lot of books because it's where the main character literally gets knocked out for a bit so that the narrative can pause

I often have one character who cusses and another character who gently chides them for cussing :P

Thread, up and down. I don't know how many times in my life someone has become ready to talk openly or think about who they are because they saw me being open about it first. And that's mostly when I wasn't especially trying. Imagine what can happen if you try.

One of the items I bought from the Ottawa Cat Rescue booth last week was the Considerate Cat Tarot, Volume II - and now that I've got a moment to breathe, I'm getting to know the deck. Reply with a question and I will tell your fortune with kitties* (*for entertainment purposes only)

The news story about Rowan would be a crime story - local shady trans man gets busted for smuggling or for a heist he was trying to do. The news story about Kelli would be, "Beloved television writer turns out to be secretly Problembatic" #IgnoreThisBook

Might have gone a little overboard in the Can*Con vendors room this year...

📖 I’ve only just started reading “The Outside” by @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social in 🛌 but opening chapter is giving me “Event Horizon”/“Torment Nexus” vibes 😆 Definitely into this. This was a @theshadesoforange.bsky.social #BookTube rec. nudged up by @kitvaria.bsky.social 👇 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

In 50 minutes I am going to go moderate the Can*Con panel "He's Babygirl: Reclaiming the Queercoded Villain" which I think everyone is THE MOST hype for out of everything I have ever done at a convention, ever :D (I am also hype!!)

Getting to actually sit in on a panel this morning at @canconsffh.bsky.social, listening to the insightful @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social @suyidavies.com Luke R.J. Maynard and Sienna Tristen talk the intricacies of Slow Fiction. #CanCon2025

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I don't usually repost these things, but Vale is a dear friend, and I'm already on their Patreon at the highest tier.

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS would smell like caffeinated sugar beans.

THE OUTSIDE would smell like burnt steak and gunpowder and then I would have to explain to everyone that this is the actual smell of outer space, as verified by astronauts

TIL, in therapy, that sometimes when I feel close to burnout it's not exhaustion in the usual sense - it's anger. It's too many unfairnesses & conflicts of types I am still learning to handle, until some part of me digs in its heels and goes "this is BS and I'm not dealing with it anymore."

Zhaleh is DMing. She has a whole intricate plot worked out already. Rowan is the murder hobo, Leroy Jenkinsing his way into every encounter. Kelli anxiously tries to method act her way through the RP and has an intense experience but barely says anything. Ting is joking around and eating the snacks.

I always have said I am a "plantser" - I need a plan, but I also need the plan to be flexible. For a few years I started to lean toward the pantser side and it helped me take interesting chances, but it caused problems with the books not having plots, so now I'm more serious about planning again.

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One thing I am determined to do before IGNORE comes out is get used to making those cute promo graphics in Canva that everyone's making now. This is my first attempt 😅 Also hi! In just 10 days you can meet me at @canconsffh.bsky.social !

Yo, writers - it's not too late to look up your works on this page about the Anthropic settlement, and to submit a claim form if your works are eligible. Claim forms will be accepted until March 26. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Just had my publicity meeting today with @tachyonpub.bsky.social and I am SO excited for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS. Can't wait to be able to share more about it with you in the new year - plus a cover reveal, and a couple of other goodies soon? #IgnoreThisBook

I think one of the other things about the call for "hopeful fiction" - and the question of whether hopeful fiction is what we need now - is that it's paradoxically not specific enough. Like, what kind of hope? What kind of future is hopeful? What does the author imagine about how we can get there?

I have been so busy at work this month, it has been hard to notice the news - but just to be clear, I second everything in ASAN's statement here. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/09/asan... Nobody is going to "end" me or the way that my brain works, thanks.

I have decided that "polarization" is a useless word. If people sharply disagree about something, why? "Because some mechanism rewards/encourages sharp disagreements" could be part of the answer, but is rarely the whole one, and can obscure what is actually at stake in the disagreement.

Write what you want. Embrace who you are. Forget everything else. Get lost in the art.

Okay, the word I cannot spell correctly is "milieu."

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. When I sit down to do yoga and the cat immediately sits beside me and purrs 2. Bath salts that smell good 3. Going to the farmer's market 4. Making a playlist and getting it JUST right 5. Fancy chocolate

Honestly I want to tell writers, especially if you’re young or starting out and especially if you get a lot of initial success for your first couple stories: don’t pigeonhole yourself. and try being selfish, explorative & experimental in your work. figure out what gives you catharsis, write *that*

Ooh - this sounds like it'd appeal to a lot of THE OUTSIDE's fans. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

A while ago I got a review copy of PSYCHOPOMP by @mariadongwrites.bsky.social and then I didn't manage to actually review it because I am terrible - but I just want to second everything in @bogiperson.bsky.social 's glowing review here: www.patreon.com/posts/book-r...

if you want to hear me talk about how i stay motivated to write when the world would have me do ANYTHING else? here's a thread on how to sign up!!! it's this month!!!

I keep being like "I should read more interactive fiction / play more narrative games, that'd be my jam" and then I try it and find it weirdly stressful. Like, what, I have to make a *choice*? About an actual (fictional) *person*? Nooooooo

Note: I was just told that if you live outside the US, but have an American literary agent, YOU CAN ALSO fill out the form using your agency's office address! (Which, ofc, is very relevant to me. I don't personally care about getting the money, but I *do* want to help the lawsuit happen.)

*does the dance of good news that I can't talk about yet*

Yo. American authors - if you enter some quick details (ISBNs, for instance) into this form, it'll help with the upcoming class action lawsuit against Anthropic: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

This, so much. Also the whole thread.

it me, i'm omen :D