back on here bc i want to share stream of consciousness drafting updates. um anyway i just went into a fugue state and wrote a prologue for crypts 30 minutes flat

so so stoked to announce that today kicks off the short story contest i am hosting via @reedsy.bsky.social ! The theme is "A Study in Secrets" and there are 5 prompts to choose from. learn more & enter: tinyurl.com/4vhbz5h7

Congratulations to @lynndjungbooks.bsky.social on the sale of MOTHSBLOOD! #TeamTriada #BookSky

every day a different student asks me if i've seen the minecraft movie yet (i'm pushing 30)

Del Rey has triumphed in a five-way auction for @lynndjungbooks.bsky.social "chilling, propulsive and fantastical" dark academia debut. Mothsblood will be published as a lead title in October 2026 👇#BookSky

🦋 MOTHSBLOOD is coming to the UK! ⛈️ I'm so excited to finally be able to share this incredible news, and I'm so grateful to Sam and Feranmi for believing in this book, and to Laura for championing it. Fall '26!

"We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now" got a lovely mention in this - thank you Reactor!

✨🍸 psa for book reviewers ARCs for LOCAL HEAVENS, my dystopian love story/queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining, are available for request on Netgalley feeling a little emo today 🥲 i hope this little fever dream finds its ppl <3 📌 tropes, comps + blurb are pinned (in my cover reveal thread)

asked for roaring 20s x cyberpunk & the team came through like omg. from the diffused neon, shadowed city, bi flag colours for THE most bi panic story ever… im blessed 💗💙💜 ✨pre order wherever you buy your books: kmfajardo.com/local-heavens

✨💎COVER REVEAL💎✨ LOCAL HEAVENS—a queer dystopian love story + cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining. on capitalism, the American Nightmare & radical hope. out Oct 14th. design: Charlotte Strick art: @madebykaran ✨ Pre order now (& save your receipts!) 🧵details below

idk if it's just me, but lately writing is a neverending cycle of 'oh man this book is so bad' and 'oh man i will never write anything as good as this book ever again.' (pls tell me i'm not the only one) 😭

COVER REVEAL❤️🦋 WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is my sapphic adult fantasy about a girl gang in 1970s postcolonial singapore, and i got the mean pyro femme art of my DREAMS. it's out oct 21 from @torbooks & you can preorder now!! 🎨 @carissasusilo.bsky.social (art) & esther kim (design)

The cover of THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, my sapphic lady knight/witch reincarnation romance, out in October. ⚔️🔮🌊

i haven't had a drop of coffee or energy drink in almost two months for health reasons but the health reasons have persisted nonetheless 🫠

🥀 COVER REVEAL 🥀 Excited to reveal the US cover of THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER, my sapphic adult fantasy inspired by Jewish mythology. It comes out Sept 9, 2025 with @torbooks.bsky.social! You can preorder now! Designer: Lesley Worrell Artist: Christin Engelberth

🍂 my debut novel, a dark academia adult fantasy about a truly messy woman & alchemy & immortality & BUGS, is out fall 2026 from bloomsbury us!

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

✨PLEASE SHARE✨ It is live!!! There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸 Link: bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...

If you're looking for a full manuscript critique for your YA or adult science fiction/fantasy/spec manuscript, I've donated one to #KidLit4Ceasefire ! The auction will run from 1/15 - 1/31 Link: shorturl.at/Arkvg

2024 wins: ✨ finished revising MOTHS, my dark ac adult fantasy set in Paris ✨ started drafting CRYPTS, a gothic adult fantasy ft. necromancers ✨ signed with a literary agent (yay)! 2025 goals: 🌱 finish CRYPTS 🌱 level up my writing 🌱 ....???? see the full video here: tinyurl.com/yu2bzx2e

Hello #writingcommunity! As an introduction (or re-introduction) I'd like to share the cli-fi piece of mine that released today: "We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now." Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...