I try to never say anything bad about my fellow authors....while they are still alive. For a select few, I'm waiting with bated breath for them to kick the bucket so I can verbally nuke their carcasses from orbit.

What's this? An exclusive excerpt of Wolfskin's prologue, you say? 👀 (Be warned, major spoilers lie ahead.)

Well, Adrian is saying it, so it must be true. 👀

Jeremy's work is always a lot of fun.

From @jeremyszal.bsky.social ...do preorder this outstanding SF novel, which completes his remarkable debut serues!

First two books in the series were some of my favourites of the last few years. Book 3 is an automatic pre order!

I can't believe I finally get to announce this: Wolfskin, Book 3 in the Common Saga, will be coming out in March 2026. It is, I think, the best thing I've ever written. I've been out of the public and literary consciousness for a while, so any support is appreciated. (pre-order links below)

Sigh. Here we go again.

Well, that's certainly an acquired taste...

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

AI can't generate: The aroma of coffee at dawn A dog licking your face with joy The sea wind howling in your ears A sincere message from a loved one The feeling of arriving at your holiday destination The melancholy of saying goodbye to a friend. Anything that makes us truly human.

"It was a sawing, terrifying sound that thrust knives of ice between the discs of my spine, filling me with mortal terror."

Proofs for Wolfskin are (finally) on my desk. Give me a random number between 1 and 672 and I'll give you a spoiler free line from each corresponding page! 🐺

Proofs for Wolfskin are (finally) on my desk. Give me a random number between 1 and 672 and I'll give you a spoiler free line from each corresponding page! 🐺

Here is the second terrific SF series opener by an agency client - STORMBLOOD by @jeremyszal.bsky.social . The third and final book in the series, WOLFSKIN, will be published in March 2026. This shows as out of stock on the Gollancz website, but it's available. store.gollancz.co.uk/products/sto...

Bullet Points 11: @jamesaaron.net @slashnburnett.bsky.social @gioclair.bsky.social @henryherz.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social @gerrileen.bsky.social @grigorylukin.bsky.social @kurtnewton.bsky.social ‪@natashabennett.bsky.social @jeremyszal.bsky.social #DarkMilSF zurl.co/0jolK

Writers should be able to write and publish in any genre, or change genre, at will. The idea, often held by publishing sales teams, that an author must stay in one genre lane for the duration of their career, is the height of lunacy.

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

Me and a friend visited a Star Wars bar in Sapporo, Japan last month. And when the eccentric owner discovered I was an SF writer, he insisted on getting photos and signatures from me. And a woman who happened to be there at the time got me to sign her arm. Her arm. 🤣

One Battle After Another is a masterpiece. Achingly human in the way that all of PTA's films are, but this one takes it up a notch. It also perfectly demonstrates how white supremacy and nationalism is fundamentally pathetic and juvenile. Manchildren with guns in their Big Boy Club.

Read "Dead Men Walking," from Jeremy Szal / @jeremyszal.bsky.social: Armoured soldiers on a far-flung planet discover a dark secret about their commander, and themselves. Link: zurl.co/RLxoc

Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.

And what’s the bad news?

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection

I have seven stories (possibly more), published by Macmillan through @nature.com, which were included in the LibGen database but were not registered, so are not apart of the Anthropic class action lawsuit. I'm very, very much hoping that Macmillan also "makes me whole" in this way.

Every story can become a horror story when told from the perspective of the right characters Breaking Bad is a horror story from the perspective of literally everyone except Walter White.

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

It seems that the truth is out, and I may be the author of ALCHEMISED. Why else would readers ask me to sign copies of it at a recent book club event? The similarities between STORMBLOOD and this book are obvious, after all. Right?

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this. Every pub should do this.

Fantastic article here about how sales track hamstrings authors but is rarely, if ever, considered alongside the data that made that record. jennasatterthwaite.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

I've been in Japan for almost a whole month, largely away from social media, and it's shown me how much I actually really don't like it. And how much better off I am when taking long breaks from it. I suspect I may be doing it more often.

I'm staying in a tiny ryokan hotel in Takayama, Japan, and the little library they have here contains an anthology with some familiar names between the pages! Considering how rare English SFF books are in Japan, this is a very interesting sight.

Bullet Points 11 has stories from @jamesaaron.net @slashnburnett.bsky.social @gioclair.bsky.social @henryherz.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social @gerrileen.bsky.social @grigorylukin.bsky.social @kurtnewton.bsky.social ‪@natashabennett.bsky.social @jeremyszal.bsky.social Buy: zurl.co/0jolK

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.