Happy Pride! Folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum are queer too. The A in LGBTQIA+ belongs to us, not allies. Being queer isn't only about who you fuck.

QoS do some incredible queer books - go grab a few for yourself this Pride Month (and support a queer indie press while you're at it) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Issue 8 of @trollbreathmag.bsky.social is out! It contains my piece Prayskin, about lost (and reborn) love, war, and a woman with a terracotta body! Glad to be in the company of @marofthebooks.bsky.social, @criverawrites.bsky.social, @louisinglishall.bsky.social, and more! magazine.trollbreath.com

Happy pride from Chance, who won't let you forget who you are.

I have not forgotten my newsletter. Here's a micro-series wherein I make (a few of) my friends answer an unserious questionnaire about creative space. This month, it's @ivygrimes.bsky.social, whose THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR you absolutely cannot miss. thoughthing.beehiiv.com/p/questionna...

I read the eARC for this and it IS AMAZING. Get it.

Remembering for some reason I read Piranesi on vacation in Indonesia deep in monsoon (resort discount) season. Just patio glass rattling, rain beating on the faux attap roof, Sticky with gastroenteritis from the momentwe checked in (of course), and Piranesi. I should re-read that book.

Sorry about the threading and the multiple deletes because it takes me three posts to spell Organizing instead of Organising.

New pinned! What kind of spider are you? 🕷️🥩SMALL BITES🥩🕷️ is fem horrror out 11.11.26 via @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social. 🎶This is a story about a girl named Hammie. Early morning, she wakes up🎵... and locks herself in with a large spider until she finds what she's lost. Preorder links up in summer.

Hello friends, we are 3 DAYS from the end of the campaign and we've just passed $9.5k! 😲 We need to reach $13k if we're going to fund year 6. It's a big push, but it's possible! 😤 Can we pass 10k today? 👀 Back and share to help us get there! 💚

My May 2026 #YISHREADS column looks at Caribbean & Southeast Asian sci-fi, in line w Suspect journal's theme of Archipelagic Entanglements! Feat. works by @nalohop.bsky.social , @elianeboey.bsky.social , @boriscrito.bsky.social , Rexy Dorado & Karen Lord. singaporeunbound.org/suspect-jour...

I have no clue on giving adult characters anglophone names in my books. Chinese names are easier because I can cheat with "meaning" names. I think I got lucky with Connie and Chance. But kids, I love naming the kids. Sticky, Button, Bean, and hopefully one day, you'll get to meet Peep🐥

Sneaking this announcement out before the weekend: We are pleased to announce the ToC and share the cover for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...

I couldn't just throw out the beet-boiling water, could I?

It looks even more amazing in print! 🎉🎉🎉

Many thanks to @turnandwork.com for featuring my strange short “Fish Eyes” from @bulbregion.bsky.social!

Speaking of SMALL BITES and Mum supper, here's baked sweet potato, with plums, figs, almond butter, cashews and pistachios, and Greek yoghurt.

Flatlay for the Instagram crowd. Breakfast is ready.

Proof of SMALL BITES!! Killer cover art by @drewhuff.bsky.social. Coming 11.11.26 from @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social!! 🕷🥩🖤

Writers, it's the time of year when 'Best Of's' and award noms are announced. There is a lot of great work being done, a lot falling through the cracks and going unrecognized. It's inevitable. It's validation enough that you created something and put it out there. Ignore the din and keep writing.

2026 has sure thrown some curveballs! So as avid planners, what do you do when life … life’s? Rian and Kris chat about this very thing on this months podcast! No notes, no plans, no problem! | Genre Blender Podcast 37 youtu.be/LuInZftDCvk

Aiieeee I am holding a proof of SMALL BITES in hand and I am over the *moon*!! Except it is literally a full moon tonight which is terrible light for photos. But it exists!! @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social

Amusement Park Arcana, my little horror novella coming July 15, 2026 now has a few PAPERBACK PREORDER links! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 to celebrate, please enjoy this blurb by @pauljessup.com 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 🎢🎡🎠 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

I am still mulling over a group reading session (& launch party, a bit late, I know). queenofswordspress.com/product/sail... Queer, sapphic pirate fantasy set in a fantastic Southeast Asia. Windpunk (perahu, gallons and sail boats, also barges).

Each morning, I look at my meagre ration of brain and creativity, sigh with my hands on my hips and say, alright kids, guess who gets to eat today

Books 76 & 77 of 2026: Club Contango, by @elianeboey.bsky.social ; The Oceans of Cruelty: Twenty-Five Tales of a Corpse Spirit, by Douglas J Penick. #yishreads #singlit #indianliterature

Yesss 🦵🐟🦵 youtu.be/dxlev6eMVPY?...

Still processing my thoughts and feelings about @elianeboey.bsky.social 's Club Contango. All I really know is that I spent the last few chapters eating huge bowls of spicy noodles and recommending the book to an old friend.

If you are a fan and reader of the Fire Heart and the Sword Goddess Acolyte Chronicles books, may you be interested in the Metakse Worldbuilding Set? blackwolfsings.itch.io/the-metakse-...

On your hard disk are two incomplete manuscripts 🐺

One of the books I'm reading now is "Elizabeth is Missing", by Emma Healey, and this book is rich with empathy for the protagonist with dementia. I want to read more books like this. (Am in the library queue for "Still Alice")

I am so honored to have been invited as a speaker in this science fiction literature festival in Lyon! It is coming up a couple weekends from now. I will be doing book signings of the recently released French translation of my novella Submergence, originally published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com

I skimmed CLUB CONTANGO because I have to talk about it tomorrow, and I have not actually reread my book since editing it, and you know what? It doesn't absolutely suck. It's not a bad nut. I could have done worse. Now here's Chance is looking at me like where tf is your self-esteem, Con?

I am still reeling from the surprise and joy. So, this happened. Wolf's Path is an award finalist for Best Collection in the 2026 British Fantasy Awards. Many grateful thanks to @atthisarts.com and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social ❤️

How about adding SMALL BITES on Goodreads? www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... e-ARC requests are open too. Link in bio

I used to have an HP Mini laptop, the Vivenne Tam series. And honestly why are these no longer a thing?

the draft is never complete. it sits dangles from the cloud like a spider, whispering of greater madness you can achieve together. just one more plot twist.

You can find Wolf's Path in Kino ( Singapore). singapore.kinokuniya.com/Wolf's_Path/... 1/2

Farmer's walk, but it's bags of avocadoes, pears, sweet potatoes, milk...

Done. Wearing this to a meeting with the uni's arts patron (with a different top and bottom) next week. Does it not say hello I am presentable resident writer please extend my contract thanks?

Huge congrats to all British Fantasy Award Finalists, and especially to @jolantru.bsky.social and @lyndseycroal.bsky.social !!!

#Booksky HUGE congrats to Joyce Chng @jolantru.bsky.social and the other finalists! Joyce’s collection, WOLF’S PATH, will also be in this year’s Pride StoryBundle, launching 6/2! 💖

Oh WOW!!! Mega congratulations to all shortlisted creatives! In particular our very own @lyndseycroal.bsky.social for the fabulous Dark Crescent collection of Scottish folk tales and @jennicoutts.bsky.social for Dark Crescent artwork! And little old Luna too 🥳😬❤️💙❤️❤️ @booksfromscotland.bsky.social

I am writing a synopsis and I will not scream

My story, Burning Trees, is part of the TOC! :) blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

It's my 🤫 book and I'll dog-ear it if I want to.

A very particular problem but I should probably not use chambray for the inner lining of masks, and go back to a heavy weave cotton on both sides, because when it softens it's just... too much soft tickly touchy texture and that's a lot of feeling on my face for a 7am train ride.

A lady knight's application, human-hunting pterosaurs, and a record deal that SURELY won't have any unintended consequences... Kick your feet up and grab something iced. @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends the hottest short fiction of April!

YES 🫙🌠👁️

I to try break between writing projects--anywhere from 1 to 8 weeks--and I realised I've not paused at all since last July, and well that's been tiring. Trying to think of something funny to prop this post up, and all I can think of is Square Rooms. oOHoOHo square rooooooomss🪩 You're welcome. 👂🪱