One of the many real tragedies about the slow rolling decimation of comic book journalism is that comic news and reviews sites drove a lot of conversation about books and beyond a handful of big IP books and big name creators it increasingly feels like you're just releasing a comic into the void.

Come learn to write short stories with me. www.patreon.com/posts/remind...

I see the gender fluidity in fiction discourse has raised its head again. I think this time it’s thanks to Rick Riordan’s old Twitter post doing the rounds once more. I’m not linking to the nazi cesspool of Twitter, but the post reads: 1/

The Showcase is LIVE! Agents, feel free to peruse and request! Writers, show support! #RevPit #RevPitShowcase reviseresub.com/showcase

SPECIAL REQUEST! A certain dragon is opening an advice column. Do you have a personal problem? Do the characters in the book you're reading have a dilemma? Solve everything through the wisdom of a fire-breathing lizard! Reply to this post (or email johncwiswellATgmail to remain anonymous).

I'm delighted to share that The Broken Binding will be issuing a special edition of The Protectorate! I'm obsessed with this art!! www.instagram.com/p/DZU2dtJCE9...

#Scicomm #paleontology folks near Boston! A library in the area is looking to bring in a speaker for a dino event for adults this Nov., like a talk on recent discoveries or other specialty topic. I COULD do it, but I suspect there's someone more suited to the job! Let me know if you're interested!

All right, folks. In a few weeks, I will be moving from Florida to Massachusetts. My dad is from Rhode Island, so I’ve spent a lot of time visiting RI and MA over the years, but I’ve never lived there. What are the biggest differences between the two besides the weather?

📢 Hey friends and fiends! 📢 I'm (finally) working on the 2026 Queer SFF Book list and I want to make sure I don't miss YOUR book! So if you have a adult SFF book coming out this year (2026) that has a queer MC, please take this opportunity to SHOUT IT OUT in the comments or QTs!! 📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜📚

Made some Lodoss War fanart

I’m Dr. Kerry Pray, and I’m conducting an experiment to determine if posting about a book on social media can change its Amazon ranking This week’s book is The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros and its initial rank is 1,308,514

I’m Dr. Kerry Pray, and I’m conducting an experiment to determine if posting about a book on social media can change its Amazon ranking This week’s book is Baby and Solo by Lisabeth Posthuma and its initial rank is 1,432,351

my panel is up now! if you want to check out some awesome conversations about disability in writing, this whole event has been great and there are a few more panels after mine too, if you want to stick around and hear some good discussion✨ links for the panels: weeknightwriters.com/2026/04/18/s...

lavishly commission like 5000 high end horror artists, furry pornographers, mecha nerds, indie cartoonists and every other artist with wildly different styles and repertoires from my own to draw some little redwall ass shrews just to see how they'd do it. i think it'd be fun for everyone involved.

Oh, you guys, this is VERY VERY VERY BAD. I've already called my congress critters - this is a dark red flag on top of so many already red flags.

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.

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a human-made creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

Google has finally finished killing off the Fitbit app, and I have been forced to switch to Google Health. The UI is terrible, and I hate it already. I kind of just want to delete it completely.

Announcing the launch of my new photography print club! Browse a selection of gallery-quality prints, or sign up for one of my monthly Print Club memberships, and receive one of my favourite photos by post at the end of each month! All signal boosts very much appreciated <3 #Photography

I am so tired of packing.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Let's bake a cake for my book launch for STARTUP HELL!

Before I log off again to do work I want to boost this. I would particularly like to point out L's ask for help packing trophies. L and I admin these awards by ourselves with the help of fabulous Eboni and I know any help with packing would be greatly appreciated by L.

Difficult post, but past time to rip the band aid off. FIYAH is going on hiatus indefinitely, with issue #40 currently set to be our last for the time being. The mag cannot continue running at a loss, and needs time to reassess operations from top to bottom if a viable path forward is to be created.

call your senators every day if you have to, this is so fucked reps.fyi

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

I can finally picture the “wine-dark sea”

Losing my garden is going to be one of the hardest things about this move for me. Moving back into an apartment in a city-ish location will be a rough transition.

comin out of my cage and nope I'm goin back in

I missed this announcement how?! if you are somehow not aware, Kuzhali Manickavel is one of the best and weirdest writers of our age, and, without even having read it, I guarantee that her first novel will be incredible and renew your faith in the human capacity to art. Preorder instantly pls 👇🏾

pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral scene individable, or poem unlimited

Mesmerizing first trailer for "Wildwood", the new stop motion feature film by LAIKA Studios. Full 4K video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=POne...

Yf A.I. were trulye an excitinge and promisinge world-changinge technologye the storyes tolde about it woulde not involve so much destructioun of the planet and of the human spirit. The worde itself wolde not come to mean, as it hath, the arrival of dystopian crueltye and the breakinge of art.

This is my very professional post promoting the very professional giveaway for my real book for adults about a deranged dragon whose heads can’t stop arguing with each other. Damn it, I was almost normal for a whole sentence. Anyway! Here is a giveaway!

The fun thing about writing is you have to do it forever

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^

Cambridge folks! Boston folks! Wild turkeys of a literary nature! This Wednesday, I'll be in conversation with my best friend @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social at the Brattle Theater to celebrate his new book “AMERICAN RAMBLER: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed.” Join us!

Actually, it’s not cute. An artist only redesigns their website when they are in extreme distress.

Happy release day to my horror poetry collection THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP from @rdspress.bsky.social . rawdogscreaming.com/book/the-bui...

Thrilled to announce I'll be judging the Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers with the incredible, Nebula nominated @cornellwriter.bsky.social. I'm looking forward to reading your stories. Come knock my socks off. No self-rejecting allowed! (Enter early because June 8th is your deadline.)

That's right, it's MY COVERRRR! LOOK at how pretty! ADMIRE the deep bluey green color, an ornament to all shelves! MARVEL at how Matt Curtius managed to evoke my story, which does in fact include a lot of music and also harpies! PREORDER today! or, you know, a different day soon!

New writing hack: stop looking at your phone

Hello, #Romancelandia lovelies. It's been a while, but I can never pass up a Met Gala when it comes to #RomanceCoversAs. This one was surprisingly challenging. Let's start with the book I couldn't put down this week. This Kingdom Will Not Kill My by @ilonaandrews.bsky.social as Tyla. 1/20

Whyyyy are we still listening to the man most likely to give his entire staff rabies about anything at all? It’s a good thing there’s a new Murderbot book out today. I need to go have an emotion.

Are you passionate about SF, fantasy, and pop culture? Our Managing Editor is looking for original essay pitches: author appreciations, scholarly analysis of all aspects of pop culture, critical and personal essays, think pieces, literary analysis and deep dives into film, television, and fiction

Deals are on till the sixth! The RAKESFALL ebook is going for $2.99 and so many others, too—SOME DESPERATE GLORY, WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME, and more www.kobo.com/us/en/p/macm...

So excited to see this one win! I haven't been able to read much lately because of Life Things, but this one grabbed me and hung on. The whole book was amazing, beginning to end, and it stuck the landing all the way through.