We are pleased to announce that @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social and @epbirdsall.bsky.social have joined our spy thriller anthology, OF INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE, out May 2027! More details here: www.starsandsabers.com/2025/03/13/s...

Cat is out of the bag! Tor declined my suggestion to include in the blurb "sapphic Winter Soldier, but wizards"; however this is in fact the only accurate way to describe this book torpublishinggroup.com/call-me-trai...

novel: u gotta accept that sometimes u need to kill people me: for the purposes of the fiction, sure novel: sometimes, actually, murder? Good! me: you seem very invested in this novel: there's Good People and Bad People, u gotta kill the Bad People, for the Good People, me: novel: & that's Feminism.

Short fiction submissions for the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast open up tomorrow! (Or already, if you're on the other side of the International Date Line.) Here's hoping you all make it very difficult for me to pick just four stories to publish! mail.alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...

doing some end of year giving as I have my coffee and I recommend @queerliblib.bsky.social, which gives free access to a Libby library of LGBT+ literature to anyone with a U.S. address. 💜 givebutter.com/ss1FZb

all right, it's the 31st and I'm alone in the office, so give me a number between 1 and 132 and I'll tell you something about a book I read this year

I think Lady Eve generally has been pretty one-sentence-pitched but for the bit: a Small Time Criminal posing as a Space Debutante attempts a Revenge Con but does a Profoundly Mediocre Job due to being Very Distracted by the mark's Hot Suspicious Sister who is In Trouble with the Interstellar Mob

I'll be joining in this afternoon's panel on The Female Man -- come deep dive with us if you've got the time!

there is a very particular charm to spec-fic about relatively obscure historical figures. someone walks onto the page, and I'm like, ah yes, here they are. the puppet master that cursed your library card

This week we're talking about Diana Wynne Jones' most classically horror book yet, in which she tackles her ultimate fear: nice little old ladies. MUCH to unpack in this one zencastr.com/z/BitLmcRH

you: have you seen the show where the hockey men are gay me: no! but have YOU seen the show where the heroine's beloved grandma, de-aged into a hot twentysomething via a magical wish from a genie, is a lesbian???

the 30th December is a very betwixt and between date. Enliven it with a discussion of The Female Man, with four passionate enthusiasts for Joanna Russ's strange little book. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... Link goes out on the day.

THIS ONE IS SO SO GOOD

the common housevoid

We are so excited to reveal the cover of our special edition of The Incandescent by @emilytesh.net! 🐦‍🔥 The cover artwork is by the extremely talented Riotbones, and our very own Jamie did the typeset, the sprayed edges, and the art direction!

TIME FOR EVERYONE TO MEET MY WIFE'S MURDER SHARK

ah, Castle in the Air, a book that makes me chuckle fondly and squint judgmentally in approximately equal measure

From Hasini (ssmiggle85 on Instagram) who's been funnelling Venmo donations from the US to on-the-ground relief efforts in Sri Lanka. If you'd like to help out and Wise/direct bank transfers have been giving you trouble, please Venmo @sinjaya!

Alright, I’ve got THRALL ARCs burning a hole in my living room floor. Who’s ready for a giveaway? 🩸RT to enter 🩸USA only (I’m so sorry! Tariffs ruin everything) 🩸I’ll pull 3 winners next Monday: one from Twitter, one from Bluesky, and one from Threads

WE'RE BACK (with bonus @singlecrow.bsky.social to dazzle us with wit and insight)

🚨Readers of #booksky ROLL UP ROLL UP!🚨 Wherever you are in the world, you can snap up @emmanewman.bsky.social#booksky's THE VENGEANCE, the first book in THE VAMPIRES OF DUMAS series, alongside 35 other titles in our bumper #stillspooky eBook sale! Website exclusive, DRM FREE. https://geni.us/Solarissale

This Brutal Moon is almost here (December 2nd!). Join me at Red Otter Coffee on Dec 5th at 6:00 for a book launch and reading! Address is 3147 Delaware Ave Unit A, Buffalo, NY 14217. @orbitbooks.bsky.social @awfulagent.bsky.social #thekindomtrilogy #thisbrutalmoon #booklaunch #buffalony #buffalove

John, Alison, and stunt Liz @emilytesh.net are live from Novacon 54! We discuss the convention, what it’s like to be a Guest of Honour, parenting at cons and also whether or not John should read the Silmarillion. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/148-i-m-wi...

This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥 booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...

sourcing recs on fiction and nonfiction books set in/on/around Paris

Franklin Park gets posters www.universalhub.com/2025/frankli... #Boston #Roxbury #JamaicaPlain #Dorchester #EmeraldNecklace

Cover Reveal for The Infinite Loop! Cover for The Infinite Loop: Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination by Lynne M. Thomas and Katy Rawdon. The title and author text are black text on a white background. Above and below the title block is a pattern of bright pink concentric circles.…

So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:

I do not need to be considered for this because I have already preordered 😌 but FOR THE RECORD favorite character status has ping-ponged relentlessly for me between Masar and Chono since book 1, and book 3 is not helping

three days left to nominate material for the Otherwise Award! hit us with your best shot 🙏

So excited for the fifth iteration of the @farbindungen.bsky.social conference! Accepting paper proposals from graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early career professionals!

do I think M.T. Anderson's 'Nicked' feels like a Decemberists song because of its actual qualities [good!] or because of free-associating from Anderson's previous extremely good nonfic about the Siege of Leningrad, which is unrelatedly the subject of an extremely good Decemberists song

Tonight I will be re-signing New Yorkers' extension on being insufferable. You've earned it. Tonight we are all walking here.

yesterday was the TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the rediscovery of these BEAUTIFUL TRASH WIZARDS that secretly haunted the Government Center T station for SIXTY YEARS. and I hope you all take a moment this week to reflect on this important occasion. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fou...

made the mistake of finishing Silvia Park's 'Luminous' on my lunch break and now I'm going to have an emotional hangover for the rest of the work day [laudatory]

You can pre-order a print edition of Jade Yeo with a glorious new cover now! Check out the link for details ⬇️

I believe I'm two chapters from the end of my wip .... very exciting ....... unfortunately all along my carrot has been 'I'm excited to get to the next big argument' and now I'm out of arguments. what do you mean they have to 'reconcile'

I have a new column up at ARB, looking at The Place of Shells and honestly this was one of my favourite reads so far this year. Absolute perfection of atmosphere and thematic journey. Hard to explain; great to experience.

happy October everyone please celebrate with some SPOOKY ARCHIVAL PUBLIC MEDIA americanarchive.org/special_coll...

I can't make this event @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on Friday, but it's a fantastic idea and I really hope it's not the last one they host: www.eventbrite.com/e/letter-wri...

You Are Here: Nine More Stories—my collection of SF/fantasy shorts, some prev pubbed at Strange Horizons, BCS, etc & also a new novella abt growing up & queer devotion—plus witches, spaceships, romcoms, all you need. KJ Charles called it "absolutely outstanding" www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

Transcript available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1HziN... And this time we're rolling right into recording S3, so expect us back sometime in November for Lives of Christopher Chant!

We're finally wrapping up S2 today with our last bonus episode for the season -- thank you all so much for the many thoughtful, interesting and insightful letters you sent in for our Q&A!

seeing @wiscon.bsky.social announcements for this year start to go out reminds me that while bouncing around in our archive I've found some really charming news reporting on early WisCons from Wisconsin Public Television americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-...

My soft sci-fi novella, THE LEGEND LIMINAL, is out today from @starsandsabers.bsky.social! 💫 Climb into the camper van for a surreal roadtrip that slides out of time & reality. TLL is a story about grief, hope, and the shining lifeline of human connection. 🔗: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-le...

75% off HARMONY until October 6th!!! 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/1966420/...

Honoured to be chairing the @otherwiseaward.org jury 2025, with fellow jurors Cheryl Ntumy, @andrewhook.bsky.social, Kiini Salaam and Rebecca Fraimow. Recognising #speculativefiction that explores and expands gender, #diversity. Online recommendations close in November. otherwiseaward.org/news

excited to share that I'm on the judging panel for this year's Otherwise awards! AND, RELATEDLY: please recommend things for the Otherwise awards! nominations close 11/14, my reading list for this is already long but I'm stoked for it to get longer otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...

10% of profits from this special edition will be donated to Mermaids, a charity that works to support trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse young people in the UK. I'm very happy and excited about this one!

My surreal roadtrip novella is out soon! Enormous thanks goes out to the brilliant SFF authors who read this weird little book & gave it such heartfelt blurbs. Please follow them & check out their books! (Tagging them below) 🧭 THE LEGEND LIMINAL is out Sep 30th from @starsandsabers.bsky.social 💫