While on my walk a lovely cocker spaniel dog came and sat on my feet for pets!!! Twas beautiful!!!

I bought a Mac so I could use Vellum. If you create ebooks, it will relieve your life of HUGE amounts of stress. If it’s on sale today, and you’ve got the cash and the inclination, GO GET IT. 😄

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

"This Sepulchral Aegis" is my full-on gothic SF saga in the new issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com. Think Gormenghast in space directed by Tim Burton.

The Doctor is right and correct

The next three months is just going to be me exclaiming "It's only 7PM?!"

what if we kissed... under the missle toad

I’m howling.

I did not intend to post a @gofundme.com on my birthday but life does life things. Long story short [too late], I received a merit scholarship based on my precious high school and college performances, not on the merit of the career I've been in for the past 10 years. I'm setting up

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

if you canceled disney ai slop plus, a small fraction of that sub can keep you in the know about some of the latest greatest sff short fic. you'll be talking about short stories at the water cooler instead of a marvel, and people will be like wow, this is one hip well-read person. what a cool cat.

A podcast of my story "Disassembling Light", originally published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is up on It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton!!! This isn't even a career milestone I knew to want, but my nerd's heart is so full!!

Got an eye test on Tuesday. Can’t wait for “Can you read the top line? Which one’s better, this one, or this one?” I don’t know!!! Stop pressuring me!!!

So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.

What if we could prey on vulnerable people and charge them for it?

If you’re looking for something to read this weekend, I’ve published 13 short pieces this year with 2 more coming soon. I figured I’d make a thread of just a few of my faves that are free-to-read. (You can still find my complete eligibility post through my link in bio) 🧵

So parliament are going to be debating The Online Safety Act on 15 December. Can’t wait for nothing to come of this!

Okay, okay, I give in, it’s 2025 awards eligibility time! I still have December stories coming, which means I cannot yet bring myself to make an extra-fancy graphic or a full long thread, but… until then, I hope you’ll consider reading some of my stories! Will link a couple favorites in the 🧵 (1/4)

One of the many reasons we have to fight the rise of the far right is the risk they pose to undoing the progress we *have* made.

Out today! Super excited to share a new essay with you: “The Duchess Who Invented Science Fiction,” a silly and sincere ode to my beloved Margaret Cavendish, a 17th-century duchess who teaches us to 1. think speculatively and 2. wear ridiculous outfits. compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/the-du...

New novelette out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! Contains pigeon angels and living burials. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/and-...

Wishing our friends at Subterranean Press the best of luck while they work with Amazon to get this straightened out. You can also buy their ebooks direct from them at subterraneanpress.com. (Cutting Amazon out of the picture.)

State of Play Tokyo in ten minutes? Count me in!

Reached the Netherbrain fight in BG3 and . . . this is not fun. Feels kinda unbalanced compared to previous fights. Might be as close as I'm gonna get to an end.

I'm getting so many spam emails lately from accounts offering to market my book. A book I do not have. God I wish I had a book.

2025 Eligibility List passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.

I have a new flash story out today! “How To Set Up Your Mourning Robot” is now free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...

Get an idea. Get excited for idea. Start writing idea. Find out you're not as into idea as you thought. Be sad about idea. Repeat.

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

There’s gonna be a new Mummy movie? With Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz reuniting? This better be real!!!

Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off. The media landscape shrinks even further.

The winners of the 2025 World Fantasy Awards have been announced—congratulations to all! reactormag.com/here-are-the...

Awesome, congrats on the royalties + thank you for doing this! This is my county's food pantry fund created in response to the recent changes, managed by Just Food (www.justfoodks.org; I can vouch for them) dccfoundation.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

What's the longest you've sat on an idea because you're not quite ready to attempt it? Mine's two years and counting.

Story that was held just got rejected. This year has not been good for my writing. 🙃

Ami has sent me so many fucked up insta reels recently but this might be my favorite because this is how a dream works

NEW STORY DAY!!!! I have a cursed film/cosmic horror story up in @nocturnemag.bsky.social just in time for Halloween!!! www.nocturnezine.com/issue-5

Remember, folks.

Now that our Kickstarter is over, our co-founders are busy prepping next steps! Backer surveys will go out on November 5th. Thank you again—we're funded for just over TWO YEARS! We’re SO excited for OTHERSIDE’s future 🪐 🗡️ Details on late pledges, community copies, and submissions in thread 🧵

You know what would be cool? The Professor Layton games being available on the Switch.

I'm beyond thrilled that my story, The Dark House, is available for your listening pleasure on the latest episode of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton! There's a bunch of cool behind the scenes stuff on @wilwheaton.net's patreon as well. Happy Spooky Season! www.patreon.com/posts/142200...

Nothing like a bit of Seasonal Affective Disorder to get you stressed and restless and lethargic and a bunch of other crappy symptoms!

excited to see my story out in the world! um...this one sure is a Sui story. enjoy! and i'm sorry!

Farage: epic grifter

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Bruh, your spaceships barely even make it off the ground.

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...