People keep asking me what I am working on "creatively" and, man, I am running two businesses, a conference, and single parenting two teenagers while wrestling with relentless neurospice. I'm a failure with no clear creative vision, okay

Happy to see Editors Canada publishing this free handbook. editors.ca/publications...

The quirky bookstore owner's single-dad, hardware-store-owning neighbour put a hand on her wrist "commandingly" and I threw the book across the room and screamed at the internet for two hours.

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

I'm led to believe that the Prime Minister has actually issued a statement about last night's pogroms. But in order to read it you have to have an account on the combination far right propaganda/child abuse image website run by the US billionaire who has called for a fascist coup in Britain.

I now have five months to figure out how to convince @tkingfisher.com to visit @tridenthalifax.bsky.social during Hal-Con this fall. >.> Network, hook me the fuck up....

Please buy more art. Commission artists. Support your local indies. Artists do deserve to be paid for their work. Poetry matters enough for poets to be paid properly.

I think my self-improvement goal this summer is gonna be to learn to speak exclusively in letterkenny memes

"Died of sadness" is terrible. I am going to need to sit with this one.

Eyyyyy, my story "A Fine Balance" (thanks/sorry, Mr Mistry) has been fished out of the vaults at @podcastle.org today! 😁 Look at me, I could write, once upon a time! podcastle.org/2026/06/02/p...

Robbed

My latest literary pet peeve: tension created by stupidity. If your character is the most brilliant person in the room because you've made everyone else utterly dense. If your people are the first in generations to question something that would have been called out in 35 seconds on social media.

Be sure to join us at a special UNIONS IN PUBLISHING AMA co-hosted by our friends at the university of Chicago Press Workers Guild and featuring employees from HarperCollins, Verso, Abrams, and other unionized publishing houses!

Me: Why the heck did we sell so many books today?? Kid: idk, people are just very book-pilled Me: ...book-pilled Kid: or whatever the word is! Me: ...literate??

youtu.be/DfsPNZlRA_Y?... This added 10 years to my lifespan #chickens #dinosaurs

Reskeet (repost) with a favorite photo of yourself. This isn't a favorite (maybe), but my most recent one that may turn into my favorite since it has two very good people in it: @charlotteashley.bsky.social and @noumenon.bsky.social 🤗

3/3 - and in November, my Mum and I are visiting my sister so I am going to do a few events in Alberta, with this the only one nailed down so far. List & RSVP links are at joannemerriam.com/events/ 💙📚 #BookSky #PrideAndPrejudice #bookish 🪐📚 @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social

2/3 - Here's October! I'm going to Ontario for @canconsffh.bsky.social (won't know my events there, if any, til July) and staying on for a week to poke around and do a few more events. List & RSVP links are at joannemerriam.com/events/ 💙📚 #BookSky #PrideAndPrejudice #bookish 🪐📚

1/3 - I'm still in the process of setting up my autumn book events, but people have been asking, so here's what's finalized so far! List & RSVP links are at joannemerriam.com/events/ 💙📚 #BookSky #PrideAndPrejudice #bookish 🪐📚 @tridenthalifax.bsky.social @julianmortsmith.bsky.social

Is it any surprise that I'm completely taken-aback, made-up, bowled-over, and even things that AREN'T needlessly-hyphenated phrasal verbs about making this shortlist? Thanks to our contributors for making Mythaxis what it is ❤️ Obviously... I want it 😂 but also, best of luck to all the candidates!

just got the scans of my pictures from Halifax and @tricon-hfx.bsky.social back and there's definitely a story here, I just wish I knew what it was

I also spent a lot of my week outside trying to be a good host to @noumenon.bsky.social (🙏🙏🙏 saving me from my instinct to hyperfocus and work for 18h a day)

Lit mags are like trees, the best time to support them was a year ago. The second best time is now.

Okay, I just finished putting away, returning, and closing most of my TriCon "take down." That only took......... 4 whole days........ 💀

Yep

Huge fire ALL OF A SUDDEN on the harbour north of Young St in Halifax

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Conference lynch pin @charlotteashley.bsky.social with the most easterly and westerly long-distance attendees, 5k+km for me and @nilaewhite.com! @tricon-hfx.bsky.social was a great success – thanks and congratulations to all the attendees, volunteers, and organisers ❤️❤️❤️ @tridenthalifax.bsky.social

I’m trying to muster the proper enthusiasm to gush about my weekend coming out of TriCon Halifax for the most fantastic speculative fiction con. I had an amazing time and am officially exhausted. Hats off to the many organizers, especially @charlotteashley.bsky.social for bringing this all together.

This is a brand new convention, started by @charlotteashley.bsky.social & Trident Books. You can read about the impulses behind it in this interview with her. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

I'm still in bed 😭

Absolutely wonderful write up on TriCon from @philmoscovitch.bsky.social of the Examiner! He also highlights some great cdn SFF here, including @ourmankoto.bsky.social's Best Canadian anthos, @rati.bsky.social's work & @cornellwriter.bsky.social's latest! 😍 www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Today is the LAST DAY to pre-register for TriCon Halifax! You can also buy tickets at the door, but pre-registration gets you (among other things) a Swag Bag w/ coupons & goodies INCLUDING a discount code from Bird for 25% off your scooter & bike rentals this weekend! Dodge traffic like a champ!

Saturday May 16th, come dance the night away with your weirdo writing colleagues! Sponsored by @northbrewing.bsky.social, the Starlight Party is a 19+ night of drinks, dancing, light & music for TriCon attendees! Bring a +1! Non-attendees are welcome with a guest pass. See Registration for details!

I haven't published much lately cuz my style is currently all over the map. I can make words do good things, but I need to process what I *want* them to do. This story is one such experiment. Come to Dead Dove; Do Eat @tricon-hfx.bsky.social & you can hear some other stuff I've been working on 👀

Oh! Hello, I am in this! 🎉🎉🎉

Quick TriCon FAQ: Can I come for only one day? Yes! We have day passes. Can I pay at the door? Probably! Unless we hit capacity in the next 8 days. I'm not a writer, but-- If you are interested in writing, publishing, reading, or just the culture of SFFH, we'll have something for you.

The @tricon-hfx.bsky.social timeline is full of panelist schedules & they are a DAMN FINE bunch of people. You still have 8 DAYS to pre-register for TriCon! We have a weekend of panels, workshops, book launches, lectures, parties & more. Interested in sff books? This is for you. tricon-halifax.com

Covid is the biggest concern, of course, but masks & hand sanitizer & isolation help again all airborn disease! It really doesn't matter if "it's not covid;" nobody wants con crud at all. 😂

progress, now armed

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: The Wire Avatar: TLA Battlestar Galactica Star Trek TNG Jim Henson's The Storyteller Ted Lasso Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Good Place Voltron Iron Chef The Sopranos Twin Peaks I, Claudius Black Adder Legion

The only 3 music genres in 2026 are psyop, vhs mail fraud, and surrealist teletubby mathrock.

hey me too so happy

We are honoured and delighted to welcome Frank Foreestall to the Trident walls! His mini-exhibit, "Knickknacks and Psychopomps," was curated to complement @tricon-hfx.bsky.social! Forrestall's work is on display at Trident Halifax now, and we'll have prints available soon!

We have a program schedule! 🔥🔱🔥🔱🔥🔱🔥 A calendar view with full panelist details is coming shortly, but you can now view the full* slate of panels, workshops, lectures, readings, launches and more on offer at TriCon Halifax 2026! tricon-halifax.com/panels/

Ngl, the benefit of using an artisan silkscreen printer is that you can get him to print you a custom @tricon-hfx.bsky.social shirt. (THANK YOU, SCOTT KEDY 🔱🔥💀)

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

imagine being a remote worker in Halifax and having to let your boss know that you can’t log on today because your utility company is currently losing a battle against some kind of urban wildlife uprising

So I made a simple color chart (zoomed WAAAY out) to show what a thousand short fiction submissions looks like in my personal journey. Red for rejection, green for acceptance. White is withdrawn, never responded, or pending. At one point I had 81 rejections in a row. (Click to uncrop)