“What begins as The Searchers meets Frankenstein ends as Unforgiven meets The Magicians. A dark, brooding meditation on both what we’ll do for love, and the callous indifference of the hardened souls of the early West.” —C. Robert Cargill tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...

It's Universe Box Monday! Today, my encounter with the Mayor of Philadelphia, whom I admired, and a local writer who I admire even more than that. file770.com/a-grip-and-g...

Holy crap! The Unkillable Frank Lightning made the list of best books of 2025 from @bloody-disgusting.com. I’m so grateful to be included here, and thankful to all the folks who helped champion this book. bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...

Spotted in the wild! Get If Wishes Were Retail at your favorite bookstore! Or, try Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Popping this up regrettably late, but if you find yourself in possession of some gift cards this week, or simply want moar booooks, here are my faves out of everything I read this year! samtasticbooks.com/2025/12/22/2...

I've posted a story for Christmas Eve on my blog. It's called "Manger Animals" and I'm rather proud of it. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2025/12/mang...

I try not to think about my backlog of book projects. But Patreon support helps tho! This is why folks have gotten a short story a month from me for 10 years. That work would otherwise have been financially unfeasible and only exists because of that direct support www.patreon.com/kameronhurley

Guess what's out today: www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978194910278...

You can get the audiobook of What Makes This Book So Great, my collection of blogposts about books I like for 50% off from now until Boxing Day www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p... so you can have time to listen to it before Trace Elements comes out in March!

My collection Fantastic Americana has a mix of dark fantasy, horror, science fiction, alternate history, and a lot of other weird stuff. Ebook is only $5.99. Check it out if speculative short stories are your thing! www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Am...

I really enjoyed this conversation with @theodoragoss.bsky.social about Patricia McKillip, Borges, Shirley Jackson, language, female monsters and much more.

A great thank you to @tachyonpub.bsky.social and @apexmag.bsky.social for keeping my short fiction shelf so well stocked!!

Hey Londoners, my one-act play "The Failure of the Century" is having its staged reading as part of Talos Theatre Festival at Bread and Roses, Saturday 13th December @1.30pm! Tickets here: app.lineupnow.com/event/talos-... UKers reskeet please and thank you!

“Weird and heartfelt and hard to pull your eyes away from.” ―Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0F8...

Last night, I joined the ranks of writers who have gotten the chance to read at the KGB Fantastic Fiction series, and it was a blast! Thank you to @matthewkressel.net and @datlow.bsky.social for having me, and thank you to all who came out!!

Agree! Also, on sale for 30% off with coupon code yearend30 tachyonpublications.com/product/peop...

TOMORROW Dec 12 6PM meet @mcflycahill90.bsky.social, author of #NPR's Books We Love selection AUDITION FOR THE FOX at The Sparkle Bookstore in #Sparkill #NY buff.ly/SJuy3Br @hannahnpbowman.com #signing #event

This rips. Highly recommend having it on your 2026 radar!

this is a good collection

Looking forward to this one…

😍👏 The Adventures of Mary Darling (Tachyon) by Pat Murphy. It delightfully mixes Peter Pan and Sherlock Holmes in a story led by Mary Darling. www.libraryjournal.com/story/Editor... - Editors’ Picks of the Year | Best Books 2025 # Library Journal @tachyonpub.bsky.social

Coming April 2026: RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES, 1st collection from Nebula, Locus & Sturgeon award-winner @samtasticbooks.com buff.ly/9sh2exQ "Samantha examines the human spirit with a sharp eye and a gentle heart." @foxesandroses.bsky.social @lisarodgers.bsky.social @awfulagent.bsky.social

If you've haven't gotten your copy of my anthology THE APES OF WRATH, it's currently $11.17 physical/$2.79 digital via Tachyon page tachyonpublications.com/product/the-... Use coupon code YEAREND30 @markfinn.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @jessnevins.bsky.social @joerlansdale.bsky.social

Incoming Book! "A heartfelt interplanetary epic of identity, longing...and space pirates who smuggle inappropriate stories." IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS by Ada Hoffmann, coming soon from @TachyonPub! More info: tachyonpublications.... #IncomingBooks

OUR 30% #SALE RUNS THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR! 30% OFF SITEWIDE Use #coupon code YEAREND30 buff.ly/ThcbBm2 30% off everything including physical books, ebooks, limiteds, and pre-orders. When we say everything, we mean everything!

TONIGHT 7PM join @mcflycahill90.bsky.social & @danielbraum.bsky.social for Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading Series buff.ly/eWduJxi @datlow.bsky.social @matthewkressel.net @hannahnpbowman.com #NYC #KGBBar #event

I'm very proud to have edited this book! @megelison.bsky.social @arleysorg.bsky.social

Here it is! My 2025 award eligibility post! "10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care For the End of Days" is a love letter about life under a doomsday cult, and a quick read! I'd be delighted for anyone to consider it for their short story ballots. ;D www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v...

Incoming Book! "When a radical think tank clones America’s founding fathers, can they run America the way it used to be run?" FOUNDLING FATHERS by Meg Elison, coming soon from @TachyonPub! More info: tachyonpublications.... #IncomingBooks

WHAT THE FOX "I was so pleased to find [Cahill's] debut novel an earnest, endearing pleasure." Floored & beyond honored. Thank you @laurpuckett.bsky.social for including AUDITION FOR THE FOX on Elle's Best SFF of 2025 alongside so many heroes! www.elle.com/culture/book... @tachyonpub.bsky.social

One Level Down by Mary G. Thompson (published by Tachyon) - Science fiction about simulated worlds with a unique protagonist, a woman stuck in a child's body. What could possibly go wrong - everything has already gone wrong:

Includes @marygthompson.bsky.social's ONE LEVEL DOWN!

It's Universe Box Monday again! Today... a tarot deck. And words of wisdom via Rachel Pollack. file770.com/a-tarot-deck/

One of my final events for the year and my last NYC event!!

Includes mention of @michaelswanwick.bsky.social's forthcoming THE UNIVERSE BOX!

THIS FRIDAY, Dec 12 6PM meet @mcflycahill90.bsky.social, author of #NPR's Books We Love selection AUDITION FOR THE FOX at The Sparkle Bookstore in #Sparkill #NY buff.ly/SJuy3Br @hannahnpbowman.com #signing

I just read The Universe box by @michaelswanwick.bsky.social . One of the best collections of stories I’ve read in quite a while. Comes out in February from @tachyonpub.bsky.social . Mark your calendars. Highly recommended. #booksky

I keep running into this monster in bookstores. Somebody take him home.

Announced today! The special LETTERED EDITION of The Circumference of the World, limited to just 26(!) copies, signed in traycase with silver foil and packed with bonus material - one for the heavy collector out there... :-)

My story collection made Kobo's Best of the Year! Check it out!

#Preorder for America! buff.ly/AbpMFho @megelison.bsky.social @arleysorg.bsky.social

Love #signed books? Preordered your signed copy, via Village Well Books & Coffee, of @justinfeinstein.bsky.social's electric, terrifying, and witty debut novel YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED buff.ly/asepDXY #preorder

Who IS Joe Lansdale? In this episode, you'll hear Joe's journey in his own words. Along the way, you'll hear stories from Joe’s childhood, find out why he doesn’t believe in ‘the muse,’ how a stack of comics changed his life... and more! www.patreon.com/posts/144820... @joerlansdale.bsky.social

Foundling Fathers, by Meg Elison Hamilton meets The Boys from Brazil 1776 meets Clone High All the Presidents' Heads meets Jurassic Park 6.23.2026 It's the satire America deserves for her 250th. tachyonpublications.com/product/foun...

All my thanks to my agent, @arleysorg.bsky.social and to @tachyonpub.bsky.social for making it happen!

AN IMPORTANT POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT Witness the amazing cover by @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social to the award winning @MegElison.bsky.social's subversive new novella FOUNDLING FATHERS buff.ly/AbpMFho Pubs 6/23/26, just in time for the USA 250th birthday #covereveal @arleysorg.bsky.social

Yay!!! Thank you for your work on the book!!

BLACK FRIDAY SALE! Hey, gang! Tachyon Publications (my publisher) is holding a 30% off sale today! This included all copies of my hilarious contemporary fantasy, IF WISHES WERE RETAIL! If you haven't snagged a copy, now's your chance! Use code YEAREND30 at checkout!