AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

Just felt like this piece should be in red ❤️

But frankly, if your business is entirely run on Stealing Things That Don't Belong To You And Selling Them, I'm fine with you not having a business anymore.

this is a lot of people to be deeply disappointed in (and a lot of nonsense casting, not that that matters anywhere near as much)

Mandatory Water Conservation Measures in effect for customers serviced by Lake Major Halifax Water is implementing mandatory Stage 1 water restrictions for Lake Major effective immediately. To learn more and see if you are impacted visit - halifaxwater.ca/alert/mandat...

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

A great weekend of support, and only 70 hours left to reach our goal! Let’s visit together the stories of garden planets, sorrow caverns, carnivorous malls, jungle cathedrals, endless basements, whispering tundras, fungus skyscrapers. kck.st/4mIkEm1

I’m a fan of everything in this post. Also a great read if you’re interested in the contract situation with MRM and those magazines now under that umbrella. Thank you for holding your ground to set precedent for the rest of us. @cornellwriter.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

My collection UNCERTAIN SONS comes out soon, and early copies are already going out to folks who pre-ordered (racing the de minimis change in tariffs!). Now's a great time to pre-order if you're thinking about it. Here's what @wiswell.bsky.social said (art by @cdsart.bsky.social). Thanks, John!

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

Oh hey it turns out another thing Covid cautious people have been saying nonstop for several years is true: lockdowns did not cause “immunity debt,” and Covid infections DO cause immune disruptions that make you more vulnerable to other illnesses.

We are on scene at an uncontrolled wildfire in the Susie Lake area of Bayers Lake. Residents are advised to stay clear of Bayer’s Lake area. Multiple road closures are in effect. Please follow @hfxgov.bsky.social as further updates will be sent from the city's main account.

Sitting pride of place on my desk is my new print by Kate Leth. A recent acquisition from DCAF! I had a blast. #DartmouthComicArtsFestival #DCAF

It's almost July, friends, which means: PodCastle will soon be OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS! General subs call, so: fantasy stories <6k, originals or reprints. You can send one of each at a time, and submit as soon as you're rejected, so get sending! escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...

Oh my God!? We've been added to the Library of Congress. A literary magazine that I make for fun in my basement as my midlife crisis has been added to the historical record, called the uh, ahem, Taco Bell Quarterly. We are the most prestigious literary magazine of all time.

@swanriverpress.bsky.social @badhandbooks.bsky.social @stelliform.press @lfpbooks.bsky.social @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @heartlines-spec.com @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social @dorothyproject.bsky.social And lots more! Let me know who I should check out.

Happening now:

Question. Maybe it’s dumb idk. What are other countries doing in response to the concentration camps being used and built in El Salvador? Can’t they tax imports from El Salvador? Would pressure from Europe, Canada and countries around the world on El Salvador make a difference here?

The cover is OUT!!! So stoked! Pre-orders now open at Undertow/Amazon/B&N. The Gillan foreword and @kellylink.bsky.social's kind words blew me away. Also you can see more of Ove Tøpfer's wild surreal oil paintings at his IG below. Can't wait until Sept!! 🥳 www.instagram.com/p/CeBHuBKoGtI/

Everyone raised on the AP Style Guide is having a moment with this one, thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social

A world without Trans people has never existed, and it never will. More than visibility, we need safety 🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! You are seen. You are heard. You are loved. Everyone should continue to fight for the freedom to be who we are. 🏳️‍⚧️💙🏳️‍🌈

They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.

don't do it it will hurt your ability to create. i went too fast. i thought i was going normal speed! but i went too fast writing books and it is taking a long time--years--to re-hydrate my brain (btw how is your beverage status)

📣 COMING SOON APRIL 1st!! We’ll be looking for Wilderness Horror, the theme of our Oct 2025 issue, guest edited by @crlangille.bsky.social 📣 Check out our main Submittable page for info: ffo.submittable.com/submit #writingcommunity #horror #flashfiction #wilderness

why is this not a gigantic fucking scandal that we're talking about 24/7. an unelected billionaire is fueling threats against federal judges and he just keeps on with his wanton destruction of the federal government

More of this, please. (And especially from white men, not just people of color!)

What a great group of writers - I'm honored to be included! And Alan is so great to work with! #WiHM

Well, Georgia friends, here's someone to yell at first thing tomorrow

If you subbed to this and didn't hear back yet, I had an enormous amount of submissions in the 5 days. I still have over 100 subs to read. Thank you all for your interest.

This is so horrifying & absurd

Wow, that sounds amazing!

Myna’s February roundup features some beautiful stories including two published my Flash Fiction Online. Check them out!

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

WATCH: “Not even an hour!” KANSAS Rep. Roger Marshall leaves his own town hall after voters on both sides of the aisle express concern about veterans being fired from their federal worker jobs.

Don't buy shit, write your book

The feds have set up enddei.ed.gov so anybody can report "DEI" in schools and try to get them segregated. But anybody can submit anything to this portal. You know what to do.

WHOA, so grateful to see FROM THESE DARK ABODES receive a lovely shoutout with the rest of the @psychopomp.com fam! Thank you so much @acwise.bsky.social!

On Spec Magazine issue 130 is officially in store. You can find it @strangeadventures.bsky.social in Halifax or the Atlantic news. I’m so pleased to see my story in print and it looks great! @onspecmag.bsky.social

!!!!! NEW EUGENIA FICTION Y'ALL!!!!

Honored to have Someone You Can Build A Nest In longlisted for Best First Novel. I'm so proud of my monster!

Reposting this, because I have books coming out:

I was so glad I got a chance to chat with @lmanusos.bsky.social about this story as well as her book These Dark Abodes. With themes of bodily autonomy woven in and a very intriguing set up, I loved it all. Thanks for sharing your time and experience with us!

You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

"Sorry to have to mansplain this to you, but from what I’ve seen the [women] writers themselves are too tired and appalled at having to continually wage the battle of the sexes to take up arms once more. Dragons are easier to defeat, it seems." Amen.

AWARDS time! Support your favorite authors, artists, publishers, and more...! SFWA members can vote in the Nebula Awards nebulas.sfwa.org/about-the-ne... Worldcon members can vote in the Hugo Awards seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw... Anyone can vote in the Locus Awards locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...