Eric Clapton, Nina Simone, Genesis, The Doors, and Led Zeppelin

👀🎉 We've got some VERY exciting news and a slightly different kind of acquisition announcement! From 1st July, Solaris will have a new home @profilebooks.bsky.social ! Hop over to @thebookseller.com for the exclusive announcement! www.thebookseller.com/news/profile...

Excited to become part of Profile Books, and very pleased and thankful that I still get to work with my fellow editors and brilliant marketing team. Hopeful for the future!

Some very exciting news for the Solaris team: we’ve got a new home!

The news is out! Very excited to be joining the @profilebooks.bsky.social family with four of my brilliant @solarisbooks.bsky.social colleagues 🎉

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

And here we are at the end of the exercise. The Queersar Not An Award for excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers 2024! It's been fun, & I hope you find something new that's slipped between the cracks. The book I spotlight in this list is the most shamefully under-read of the whole exercise.

🧵🧵🧵 ALERT! FF re-opens to submissions on July 1st and so, between now and then, I'll be sharing updates from members of the reading team on the stories they love and what they wish they saw more of in the reading queue. So, read on to find out what's on the wishlist! 1/

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

📢 We are delighted to announce a new exhibition for 2027 📢 Renaissance Worlds: Art and the Senses will open in June 2027. Uncover a time shaped by global exchange and alive with colour, texture, music, spices, entertainment and fragrance.

This is Mona Khalil, a Lebanese environmentalist who spent many years protecting endangered sea turtles. Earlier this month, Israel struck her home in Mansouri, Tyre and today, she passed away after succumbing to her injuries. This is who Israel is killing in Lebanon.

IT’S ALMOST TIME!! Anathema officially opens to submissions on June 20th! ✨ We cannot wait to begin this journey after a four-year hiatus. Thank you for all of the support!! 🥹 Check our website (link in bio) for submission guidelines. We’re excited to begin reading!! 💜

PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN! My Liege, Queer Knights in Love 🌈 An art book collaboration with @novamali.bsky.social and 60 artists! Our book celebrates queer love and warriors of all kinds. Cover art by @annalisejensen.bsky.social Help us reach our funding goal here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/nov...

Are you a writer working on a book about the Americas? Apply for the 2027 Eccles Institute & @hayfestival.bsky.social Global Writer’s Award for the chance to win £20,000, alongside a residency at the Library to research and develop your project. Find out more bl.uk/writers-award

I know I'm in my 30s because I've pulled something in my side by being asleep

"Two police officers looked on from their car." This is terrifying and infuriating.

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Don't forget to vote for your favourites in this year's Ignyte Awards! Every year they have such an interesting shortlist - there's always at least one thing I've never come across before - and there's a smorgasbord of short fiction and poetry that's free to read online and well worth supporting. 🔥

May have to sit and read these this evening! I love novelettes and some phenomenal ones have been making shortlists this year.

What if I just stayed in Edinburgh? What then?

We are DELIGHTED to say that @rainewilson.bsky.social 's genre-bending climate science fantasy THE SALT ORACLE has been shortlisted for the @clarkeaward.bsky.social 2026! Huge congratulations to Raine and the other finalists! Buy now: https://geni.us/saltorac

Huge congratulations to all of this year's shortlisted authors, but especially to @solarisbooks.bsky.social's own @rainewilson.bsky.social! So delighted to see THE SALT ORACLE in such great company 🌊

Not now, frozen mummy starter

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

WE ARE OFFICIALLY FUNDED 🥹💜 Thank you to everyone who has shared, donated, and supported us! Thanks to you, we’ll create 2 issues of spec lit by queer writers of color ✨In our last 9 days, we’d love to reach stretch goals and send out merch! Either way, we can’t wait for what’s to come 💜

Hello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚

Maybe I should just fill my bath with cold water and lie in it until I dissolve

Once again somehow @likewinterblue.bsky.social is doing the Northern Preview for @thebookseller.com on top of his usual monthly paperback one, and I'm doing the Disability Preview, both for books out July 2026 to June 2027. If your book fits the bill or you're publishing one, please send AIs!

First HOME SICK event done 🪓 And I can't believe it was at London Comic Con! Huge thanks to all the other authors and everyone who came by to say Hello :) (Also thank you to @jessgofton.bsky.social for the photos!) HOME SICK This house isn't haunted. She is. @solarisbooks.bsky.social

**blows the dust off**

Don't forget to check out this year's charity auction! ⬇️ The auction will close at 12pm on Friday 5th June. www.32auctions.com/organization...

If you see this, post an anime you love

Show this to any clown who thinks "A.i." will help marginalized people.

The greatest tragedy of finally getting home from MCM Comic Con, other than no longer seeing amazing cosplay, is going from an air conditioned hotel room to my warm as hell flat

Aunt Priscilla was released from the hospital yesterday after a brief stay. She is SOOOOO grateful to the people who have contributed and shared so that she can have safe and secure housing in her community. Please share or contribute if you can!

The Bookseller will publish its sixth annual Black Publishing Focus on 26th June, guest edited by associate editor Natasha Onwuemezi. 👇

Full offense, but we shouldn't have to stop, hold your hand, and say, "That was a sad choice, wasn't it? Can you help think of a better one?" when writing for adults

What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for @therumpus.net. A huge thank you to the great @roxanegay.bsky.social. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror. therumpus.submittable.com/submit

I can say with confidence that Chiara is the only one who's surprised she's now an EISNER-NOMINATED EDITOR, because everyone who knows her knows how phenomenally talented she is. 🔥

Hidden Figures 🚀

This is so sad and lovely 💙

Can't believe I waited so long to read @amalelmohtar.com's THE RIVER HAS ROOTS. One of the best books I've read so far this year, with the kind of lush prose that bursts like juicy fruit. This year's Hugo novella shortlist is strong, but if this one doesn't win I may have a little sulk.

I'd read so many more novellas if their ebooks didn't cost £8.99+ 🥲

🚨ACQUISITION!🚨 We've snapped up WHAT COMES FROM PICKING FLOWERS by Joan Tierney for the UK, a lush and lyrical fairytale debut for fans of NETTLE & BONE and THE RIVER HAS ROOTS. 🐸 Releasing Spring 2027. Cover designed by Sam Gretton. 👉 https://bit.ly/4tQyUx0

Voting in the #HugoAwards, as well as the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer is now open until August 8, 2026 at noon PDT. Votes can be submitted through our online balloting system, NomNom, or by mailing in a printable ballot.

Your vote is precious. Today millions of people across Wales, Scotland and England are voting in the hope that their choice will improve their lives. I hope it will. Politicians are asking for your vote; it grants power and removes it. Use it and remind them never to take you for granted.

🚨ACQUISITION!🚨 We've snagged @unshavedmouse.bsky.social's KNOCK KNOCK, OPEN WIDE for the UK, a supernatural tale that weaves horror & Celtic myth through a story of fractured family bonds & the secrets we carry! Out Spring 2027 with a stunning new cover from Sam Gretton! 👉 https://bit.ly/3QeVgtl

I think it makes so much sense that as the world seems to turn shittier with each passing day, we simultaneously see the rise of horror literature and cozy literature. It’s just two kinds of people, finding their ways to deal with all the mess.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Lookit new Edinburgh event is up! Naomi & I delivering *all* your messed up Dark Academia chat in June! You thought you knew what DA was? Mwahaha we *laugh* in the face of genre limitations 😈