Final countdown for The Saintly Hollows kickstarter. We've secured EU- and UK-friendly shipping, and all stretch goals are unlocked. Come for the stolen moon, stay for the cursed swords and behemoth knight machine. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...

It's so absurd how this administration is ostensibly looking for ways to encourage people to have more children. Have they tried, oh, I don't know, not taking away our health insurance? Or not making everything even more expensive?? blarg.

He IS a predator! You don't need the quotes! He's a big old obligate carnivore boy!

So excited to share the Kickstarter for Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows, my ongoing tabletop RPG collaboration with @andrewmcalpine.bsky.social. We have so much fun writing these, and people seem to like playing them too. #osr #ttrpg www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...

KILL ALL WIZARDS Tordotcom Publishing, 6/16/26 YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED thirdarchive.net#killallwizards

So happy to report that The Naming Song has won the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction. Grateful to the judges for including my work in such excellent company, to the booksellers and librarians for their support, and to the woods and weird corners of Massachusetts for always being close.

The Valley Bookstore Crawl ends in 3 days. Pick up a passport at one of these 7 bookstores (or download at link), get it stamped at each store, have a ton of fun, and one lucky reader wins $350 in gift cards — $50 at each store! highfivebooks.org/pages/pvbc25 Next year: even more bookstores.

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Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is a famous mythological creature who can’t believe you got his coffee order wrong

You know who could read out the identities of every ICE agent and put that paperwork in the public record? Literally any Congressperson

For those with ME/CFS/LC: I have personal experience of post-viral syndromes (plural). While they're all different there are commonalities. Here are some things that help me. They might help you, they might not, but it seemed worth sharing. Do consult your medical professional. And much luck 💕

"Thanks" to Am*zon, we've added a "new" "feature"! In addition to never using DRM to ensure you don't own the ebooks you buy AND never selling AI-generated chum disguised as literature, NOW Weightless will never, ever use AI to "summarize" aka ruin the 100% human-made art you came here to enjoy!

On a walk through the hills this morning... "Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other." - Rebecca Solnit (from Wanderlust: A History of Walking)

Update! UMass-Amherst's faculty senate is now on board!! Last night they passed their own resolution calling for two compacts: 1) of all public and land-grant higher ed in the country 2) of all public and private higher ed in Massachusetts Read and spread widely!! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ikin7...

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

if you're out of state, worth contacting to say you won't be visiting / spending tourist $$ in nyc if you can't safely take public transportation

Musk is not popular, and arresting him for vote-buying isn’t going to make him more popular, it forces the issue into the public eye in a way that makes him look bad

This is good news. It's a wonderful book.

At a packed town hall Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern proposed a general strike to combat the Trump administration's assault on the federal government.

Part of what's so frustrating about this is that it's been really challenging to get the word out about this book. I spent over a decade writing it, so to come upon a weirdly positive review of a COMPLETELY IMAGINARY NOVEL I DID NOT WRITE is just kind of upsetting.

A positive review...of a book that doesn't actually exist. Anyone who glanced at the first pages of the Naming Song would know that this review is completely unrelated to the actual book. I guess it's a review of what a chatbot thinks a book called The Naming Song would be about. WTF is right.

If anyone on here works at Politics & Prose or other bookstores that are scheduled to host Chuck Schumer, I have a proposal—if you cancel his event, I would pledge to buy a book of equal value or make a donation to make sure you didn’t lose revenue—and I bet a lot of others would too.

UGH, please go make public comments about this

CFP: Always Here | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents memorients.com/events/cfp-a...

this is a long shot, but science/ecology people: if you know of a Catskills-centered research project that is threatened or stalled out by the federal clampdown on science and grant funding, I am very interested to know thinking ecology research but community health? anything place based

After a hard week for American democracy, it seems a good time to revisit this online Folklore and Resistance Roundtable - looking at the ways #folklore "can help us find meaning, resist helplessness, and take action." Recorded in 2022, it is, alas, still relevant today. youtu.be/jzQUpv12TJI?...

You can tell I’m old because I still think of 6 panel comics

In case anyone is wondering why we've been up to so far this year.

I'd like to handsell each & every one of y'all a copy of Jedediah Berry's The Naming Song. Top recommendation for anyone in the mood for queer, hopeful, character-driven, magic-imbued post-apocalyptic mysteries about language & remaking the world for the better. Reading it will improve your year.

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This is one of the best and strangest and most moving fantasies I’ve read in a while. Our whole household agrees.

My novel The Naming Song is out in one month! Inside it you'll find: 🚂 A young woman tasked with delivering new words 🎭 A traveling show of misfits and monsters ⚙️ Flying machines, typing machines, war machines 🧩 A patchwork ghost whose memories are a threat to the powerful

Haven’t received a shiny little star for my work since grade school. Thanks, Library Journal! www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-n...

You know that scene in Pitch Black where Vin Diesel pops his arms out of their sockets to get his handcuffs off? That was just me, trying to get the sun shade up over the baby after she fell asleep in a carrier on my back.

Made a thing.

Petition to replace the inaccurate "AI" for "artificial intelligence" with "OT" for "obfuscated theft"

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The first our 2024 books is making its way down the pipe! It's @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social's THE JAGUAR MASK. If you're a reviewer looking for surrealist literary fantasy critiquing neo-colonial resource extraction in the global south, our reviewer list is open! forms.gle/JAPqG7L89t5b...

Thanks to a recent post by @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social, I learned that my new novel The Naming Song is officially available for pre-order! Also thanks to Erin, I have these very good words about the book. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...