A few familiar names on the shelf of Kinokuniya Books in Sapporo, Japan. The SFF English section is very small, so it was cool to see a range!

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Bullet Points 11 has stories from Sean Patrick Hazlett, @jamesaaron.net , @gioclair.bsky.social , @jeremyszal.bsky.social , @henryherz.bsky.social , @slashnburnett.bsky.social , and many others, edited by @ericfomley.bsky.social. Preorder 30% off: zurl.co/kMvPh . Print version 20% off until Oct. 15.

EMPATHY - He was confused when he died. Confused and alone, most likely. Overcome with the awful surprise of it all.

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/138349...

Been going through the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement. First, the settlement is for $3,000 per work for 500,000 works. Despite what this NYTimes article states, it is not for 500,000 authors. @nmamatas.bsky.social pointed this out and I confirmed it. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Do I have readers in Australia? Will I commit a horrible cultural faux pas? Is this event going to become a strange urban legend in the area where nobody really knows what happened but everybody has a theory? COME ON DOWN AND FIND OUT

People of Sydney! I'll be doing am event this Saturday with the badass @realjacksonford.bsky.social at @galaxybookshop.bsky.social. Come see us roast each other, talk all things SFF, and sign some books for you! @hachetteaus.bsky.social @orbitbooks.bsky.social @gollancz.bsky.social

once again tapping the sign

IT'S BOOOK DAYYYYYYY (and the crowd goes wild) A long-awaited return to Rapid City and the world of Karen Memory! www.patreon.com/posts/137115...

The conclusion to the Name-Mangling Hugo saga. (Link nested within.) tl;dr: -they blame the Worldcon organizers; -they deny having giggled (it's on video... www.youtube.com/live/py7MeV3... ); -the "apology" doesn't mention that the older host was "high as a kite on paid meds." (Their own skeet...)

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

WHO GIVES YOU LIFE? PATER AETERNUS. WHO GIVES YOU PURPOSE? PATER AETERNUS. WHO GIVES YOU JOY? PATER AETERNUS. Thrilled to share the North American cover for The Infinite State, published by Tor Books on August 04, 2026 –preorder now: bit.ly/4mCbh7T (Details of UK/other editions to follow!)

This is elegant and incisive as a knife. It's also all true. I sat through it. Thanks for writing it up in this way, @grigorylukin.bsky.social.

At the 2025 Hugos, I was almost tempted to play a drinking game: take a shot everytime Tempest Bradford, the host, mercilessly butchered the pronunciation of someone's name up on stage to thousands of their peers. Two shots if it's a BIPoC author. I'm glad I didn't, because I'd be dead.

Line edits for Wolfskin have arrived. The end for this book is finally, finally, in sight.

celebs as fictional characters: thread

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

Finally finished Jeremy Szal's Blindspace. More twists and turns than a mountain road. Poor Vakov just can't get ahead. Just checked Amazon. Book 3 isn't until next year. 😞 I'll have to entertain myself with other books until then. @jeremyszal.bsky.social

About the 2025 Hugo Ceremony: if one were to be actively and publicly condemning others for mispronuncing non-Anglo names and other forms of "othering", maybe that person should make the effort to do the same themselves instead of butchering the names of their peers. #seattleworldcon2025

When I have an awards speech, I typically have a bunch of cool writers I want to shout out. I contact all of them long in advance for pronunciation guides for their names. I make a guide, but I also practice the names many times, to ensure that I won't mess them up on stage.

Fifth Worldcon and 3rd in a row after Chengdu and Glasgow. Let's do this!

Pumped for my first ever author event in the USA next week! I'll be joining this group of mega talented folk at Barnes and Nobles to sign books and talk with readers and possibly drink copious amounts of beer. Hope to see some of you there! @ryancahill.bsky.social @shaunalawless.bsky.social

Most recently I tore through the epic novella Casthen Gain by @essahansen.bsky.social. It's a smorgasbord of science-fictional culinary delights: kinetic action, bizarre aliens, deliciously described worlds, and a heart-pounding story. @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social Get in on this one!

ICYMI: My novella Scream in Blue is free on Kindle ebook, but only for a few hours more. Get it while it's still going! www.amazon.com/dp/B0BM6LFFL...

Casthen Gain releases TODAY from @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social! Join my multiversal chef as he navigates the weirdest planet in the multiverse. books2read.com/b/mZkvWl I’m thrilled to share this illustration from the incredible @nataliedombois.bsky.social of some alien cuisine from the story!

Huh. I was very much *not* expecting Scream in Blue to top the Amazon charts like that. Thank you, all of you. You've made my day!

#ukSFFBookBargins UK link. www.amazon.co.uk/Scream-Blue-... Not on Kobo

Free novella! Run and grab it! The Common is a fascinating and fast paced sci fi world that is a great read. Have loved the other books set in this world, so sure I will enjoy this one as well. #Booksky #Indiebooks

🚨 Ebook giveaway alert! 🚨 Scream in Blue, my novella, is currently free for the first time on Amazon! If you like morally-grey heroes, gothic-cyberpunk and alien drugs (who doesn't?), you can get it for....nothing. I do it for you, good people! Happy reading! :D www.amazon.com/Scream-Blue-...

Actual footage of me, being forced to cut words from the next draft of the New Thing:

We’ve all be waiting for this day. Watching the Casthen ship as it drops off 15 prisoners to battle it out in the ultimate high stakes survival game on the most dangerous planet in the multiverse. Today Casthen Gain by @essahansen.bsky.social hits the shelves!

A big day at the #willoughbyliteraryfestival with @garthnix.bsky.social @bothersomewords.bsky.social @jeremyszal.bsky.social and more!!

Yep. Publishers are WELL AWARE of this, too, otherwise they wouldn't bother with *any* book tours or ad campaigns. If they think something won't move the needle, they don't fork out. It's just that they only want to give those things to the authors who they want to sell well. *shrug*

I love when people are like "AI will replace writers because writing is low-grade/meaningless/unskilled work" but then are like "I can't write a whole paper because that's hard." Like girl which is it.

The Duck Duck Go browser provides an option to remove AI images in image search results. Run a search. Then set the filter to off. It will remember this selection for future searches:

A better headline might be "Netflix steals other people's work to save money".

You're laughing? Someone who pretended to write a book but didn't want to do any work used a program that pretended to write a book but didn't do any work, and you're laughing??

Hive-mind, assemble! Looking for some beta readers to glance at the first few chapters of The Next Thing I'm working on. I'm not totally sure if something I'm doing is working, and I'd love to get a few takes from people if possible. Looking for a quick(ish) turn around time. Thanks in advance!

From the marvellous @princejvstin.com at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social #booksky 📚🪐💙

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

A reminder that I'm going to be at @seattlein2025.org next month, which will mark my first American conference ever. Let me know if you're going, I'd love to see a few familiar faces. And if you see me, feel free to come and say hi. I've got a signing planned, more details soon.

Got nearly 3,000 words done today. Not on the main project, but a side thing. A new voice, a new genre, something I'm feeling my way through. I'm liking it a lot. Looking forward to seeing where it's going to go next.

Artists are a big part of what makes your social media experience worth it. Most of them post incredible work out there for free (in this economy ??) Remember to support your favorite creators so that they can keep making things you love. Seek out their patreon, shops, share their work.

So. I just got one of those emails that no one in the industry ever wants to get. So, please excuse me while I go out and get absolutely shitfaced.

Remember, it's only anime if it's from Japan. Otherwise, it's sparkling cartoons.

So, it looks like I am going to Seattle Worldcon after all. Details and news about other events here. open.substack.com/pub/jeremysz...