ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To break this curse, she’ll have to confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world. #WSPit #W #A #F #LGBT #ND

Jugnuma is a lush, warm hug of a movie that fully draws you into its magical realist world. A bit slow, but extremely worth your time.

Hugo noms are open, and I'd love to put forth "Be Kind and Rewind" for your consideration. One year ago, on Valentine's day, Wyngraf published a story about queer/trans love that I coauthored with my lovely partner @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social. I'm a hack, but she made our story brilliant anyway.

Hugo noms are open. I have one story eligible. Please consider it if you enjoy pirates and/or necromancy and/or indian history and/or romance (Or even just read it. I think it's pretty good.)

Good Movie, Have Watch, Don't Die

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)

Not gonna link the thread, because it's embarrassingly flattering, but specifics of it have led to thoughts. I absolutely believe that things come out "around the words" in your writing. Tiny details of word choice convey things.

can’t believe my first pro rate sale is out today in @havenspec.bsky.social! featuring: 💜 the worst sapphic situationship 5eva 👵 the existential dread of a quarter life crisis (spreadsheets! creepy directors!) 💀 “dying a hero is easy; living is harder”

Been stuck in an elevator for 25 minutes. Company says someone will be here in 45 more. I should've decided to get stuck on a weekday. My bad, guys.

Hey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

Excited and proud to announce that I'm guest editing @tasavvurnama.bsky.social's Spring 2026 issue. Open for your South Asian SFF submissions now till the end of Feb.

Heading into a screening of War & Peace. Shocking number of people here willing to settle in and read subtitles for eight hours

#QuestPit HAGRIDDEN, a t4t horromance novella In the rural Carolinas, Judith teams up with her reluctant-werewolf client to vanquish her abusive mother/maker, an ancient hag who means to sabotage Judith's underground health clinic and force her back to her horrific childhood home. #RF #H #Q #OS

hi #questpit, almost done revising my sapphic sf crazy rich asians novel, so here's the agent's guide! :)) [BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN #A #SF #LGBT

My latest piece in the Regret issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social when I thought, 'I could make the guest editor @aijiang.bsky.social cry' www.flashfictiononline.com/article/in-t...

We are elated to announce the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners, Class of 2025! This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird. BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July. Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/47f6tt48

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

Wasn't just me. Saw a daily show segment about how the youthses are lighting up

New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SILSILA HAS A PRISON RAPE JOKE IN IT??!

Nature imitates Larson

👀January 2026 Fiction👀 "Magical Girl: Corporate Failure" is a short story by @thelialao.bsky.social about what happens *after* the battle is done and the world gets saved. Read this one for its Magical Girls, queer love, and the travails and regrets of adulting. Subscribers get it Monday!

This is too much of a gem to be left around only for Malayalam speakers. I was thinking about Eko the movie and was reading "Parinamam", an award winning Malayalam novel where dogs feature prominently. I mean. This is one of the most bonker novels in Malayalm okay ? Badass. (translation mine)

Tried of comfort reads? Looking for the opposite of cozy? Read my short story, "doorbell dot mov" in The Deadlands today! psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

so excited to announce that i've signed a contract with @havenspec.bsky.social for my short story "magical girl: corporate failure"! delighted that this weird story has found its home (also my first pro-rate sale!)🥹

the very, very old etymology of two computery terms...

Spell slots are spoon theory.

InkFoundry's "surprise me" feature served up Lavie Tidhar's "Seven Vampires." In short: what if Holmes and Watson were vampires and Conan Doyle had a sense of humor? Very entertaining read thanks to the characters and comedy. It was the inverse of a locked room mystery (an open road mystery?)

Getting my new slides in shape. I have it on good authority that the typeface I have chosen is "woke" (aka sans serif)

@muteddragon.bsky.social introduced me to @inkfoundry.bsky.social a few days ago. This is now an InkFoundry stan account. If you don't know what that means, click the link and GAZE UPON THE GLORY OF A FREE, FILTERABLE, TAGGED SHORT STORY TBR

It’s a new year so let’s start an #AskAgent thread. Post questions here and I’ll do my best to answer them all. Leaving this open through the weekend. #QueryTip #AmWriting

New story alert! This story fought me tooth and nail to get written, but it's become perhaps my favorite short story of mine. It also contains a polarizing POV choice that, IIRC, split my writing groups. kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

Awards Eligibility Post! I’m very proud of these three delinquents: Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine). Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine). Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark). Links can be found on my website. Here’s to more art-making in 2026!

A highlight for me too! I've missed interviewing, and talking with Lee was an absolute delight.

#IndiaSky Do we have this in India? I've definitely felt the urban/rural divide, but it wasn't typically framed as a conversation about "Indianness" (except where it mapped on to English fluency)

Lottocracy stays winning

The last Words for Worlds issue of 2025 is my round-up of my favourite books from the year: Words for Worlds - Issue 111: 2025 in Books — gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

b/c of a convo on here, I started rereading both The Name of the Rose and Possession last night, and both - 1 from late 1960s Italy, taking place in a 14c monastery, and 1 published 1990 UK, taking place 1986 and 1800s UK- felt staggeringly current and relevant. (cont)

Funny watching so many folk celebrate Bardot. It brings this meme to mind.

Brave of the Star Tribune to recommend the taboo, little-known author C. S. Lewis

Closing out 2025 with my first published SFF story! "My Trust Must Be" puts the Lady of the Lake on a generation ship, frozen/thawed/refrozen again to fit a hero's journey. Honored to be part of @icaruszine.bsky.social's Currents issue, with fiction related to water—or in this case, cryogenic pods.

we’re scrolling around HBO and found AZTEC BATMAN and i need everyone to see Conquistador El Joker

None of my work uses LLM. I am not a thief, and am trying my bus-riding best to not kill the planet. JFC.

New story out today at A Curious Moon! “Troubling the Pearls on Elos” was written during the new moon in libra at @viableparadise, published during the new moon in sag, and imagined as the first in a series of interconnected stories on a new lunar society! acuriousmoon.com/2025/12/19/t...

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

If you're looking for a quick present for someone, ebooks are always great, and I've got a great one for the poli-sci, cyberpunk, big data nerd, and/or sci fi political thriller fan in your life. www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...

Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers. Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.

"Hug your friend till they let go" is terrible advice to give to more than one person

New story this week! "This Is Not a Space Kidnapping Fantasy" by Priya Sridhar @priyajsridhar.bsky.social www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...