Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg! Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Gather around folks, it's time to dive into the story behind the post-apocalyptic, Afrofuturistic world of Prosper with Dragons! Yes, @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social will bring a little heat to your game nights, but beyond that, we want help people come together to imagine a brighter future. 🐉

Forged in FIYAH, edited by @davaun.bsky.social, showcases the extraordinary talent and innovation of contemporary Black SFF!🔥 This collection of 18 stories features tales from mainstays of genre fiction alongside the dynamic, groundbreaking work of several of FIYAH's most promising newcomers.

The Godfather. I was eleven, I believe.

My dear friend and co-conspirator Piper J Drake (Lalana) is fighting Stage IV Cancer. She's in need of a VERY expensive treatment to give her a bit more time on this Earth. Please help make this happen! Donate, Share, Boost pls 💖 gofund.me/b2674e924

Fun times! My latest short story, will be published in this collection from the excellent folks at @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social, featuring some of the best SFF authors of our time. In "Boundless", come for the house sitting, stay for the strange occurrences, noisy neighbors, & one very strange child.

NEXT: It can finally, formally be revealed that @tordotcompub.bsky.social is publishing @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social's 10-Year🤯 Anniversary anthology FORGED IN FIYAH! My contribution revisits Chesirah (FIYAH #1) and gets into some fae business! Out 9/29 Pre-order here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Pre ordering is Live. Tap that link America!!. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Finally get to cartwheel about this in public!!! 🔥🔥🔥 A collection from some of the BEST authors in these SFF streets, and a celebration of @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social

An anthology you DO NOT want to miss! Featuring some of the incredible authors we've been so privileged to publish over this past decade! Please share this post with fans and readers of Black SFF. Guaranteed you will help someone find their next favorite storyteller in these pages!

Fun times! My latest short story, will be published in this collection from the excellent folks at @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social, featuring some of the best SFF authors of our time. In "Boundless", come for the house sitting, stay for the strange occurrences, noisy neighbors, & one very strange child.

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

Your Hugo Nominating ballot can make a difference. There are a total of 7718 people with the right to cast a nominating ballot in the 2026 Hugo Awards. As of this morning, 1293 of those people have cast a nominating ballot in at least one category. www.lacon.org/hugos/

I’m so grateful for this nod from Ebony. www.ebony.com/we-should-al...

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 lithub.com/what-was-los...

Site's been down for a couple of days due to a maintenance snafu but it's back up and we're about 50% of the way to the awards funding goal! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

In which I talk about the paperback edition of Ring Shout that came out last October, and answer some of those questions that often come my way: "Where did you come up with this idea? Will there be a sequel? Is there a movie happening? Have you seen Sinners?" I had some time...

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?" arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

When folks ask me, "What are your politics?"

Winner's medallion for #LostArkDreaming arrived in the mail from @theignyteawards.bsky.social! Thanks to the #IgnyteAwards team (esp @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app + @sillysyntax.bsky.social) for the good work of making this happen every year, and artist @nilahmagruder.com for the excellent art.

Winner's medallion for #LostArkDreaming arrived in the mail from @theignyteawards.bsky.social! Thanks to the #IgnyteAwards team (esp @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app + @sillysyntax.bsky.social) for the good work of making this happen every year, and artist @nilahmagruder.com for the excellent art.

Some of my thoughts on this excellent collection in this week's @thecontinent.org, which you can download here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

5/ Lost Ark Dreaming, by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Afrofuturism is consistently outstanding, and this is a tale of greed, climate change, inequality, and sea monsters.

6. "Lost Ark Dreaming" by Suyi Davies Okungbowa Great blend of dystopia, post-apocalyptic settings, class hierarchy observations and Nigerian mythology, I think I read this in pretty much one sitting, it was so good. 🌊 #booksky #top10books2025 #lostarkdreaming

We're so close! Help us get there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...

Oof. I really can't get over how the orange clown is the US's own Abacha/Tinubu. A wannabe mobster who converts the entire government into a self-enrichment program, all the while provoking and stoking divisive tensions so no one is focused enough to hold them to account. Mad ting.

I still think about this post every now and then, and I believe Black History Month is a good time to bring it back.

So @kmveohongs.bsky.social and I pressed record, then edit, then things escalated to distribute, and now here we are. Please enjoy the first part of this 4-part standalone podcast with series potential thanksbutnotforme.com

It's Black History Month, and here's an opportunity for you to directly support black authors and editors in their creative careers. This anthology includes stories by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social @davaun.bsky.social @brentclambert.bsky.social @edenroyce.bsky.social and more. Pre-order now!!

"It is a piece of sage advice, a writer’s mantra, that I have made good use of through the years and that I now pass on to you: Ah, fuck ‘em." lithub.com/alice-mcderm...

Hey y'all! The official book page for my forthcoming novel The Fist of Memory is up so you can pre-order it. Here: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-... or here: www.amazon.co.uk/Fist-Memory-... You can also add it to your GR “Want to Read” list! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... 🙏🏾🚀📖🤖

2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.

Why 16 Oscar nominations for SINNERS matters, and why you've probably never heard of the oldest written Black vampire tale in North America. Happy Black History Month to all who celebrate!

Why 16 Oscar nominations for SINNERS matters, and why you've probably never heard of the oldest written Black vampire tale in North America. Happy Black History Month to all who celebrate!

Why do actors in film/TV scenes stand so close to each other while speaking? I know it's for the shot, but it always puts me off, as I'll be thinking, "Why so close? Nobody stands that close to someone they're just asking a question. Step back!"

Funniest (saddest?) part is I'm 100% sure someone out there who meets this criteria WILL take the job.

These books needed their own post due to being stuck in my head throughout the year. Whether they were unsettling, a prediction for the future, or just straight up unhinged, these are the books from 2025 I couldn't stop thinking about. 💙📚 #booksky

Just spotted this: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for emerging BIPOC writers in Canada: an opportunity to work with Lindsay Wong arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/CA...

Completing final edits for SEASON OF THE SERPENT (out in August!) Drafting Book #9 right now, likely to finish...summer? Already outlined Book #10. Waiting for the signal. That's how we do it! No secret sauce, just crossed fingers and nose to the grindstone.

We have to practice solidarity. We have to recognize when we're being played and used, and what makes us strong and what makes us weak. Empires are always trying, *inside and outside*, to make the very people they oppress and threaten complicit in their evils and dependent on their structures.

A year ago, I worried about a US invasion. These days, I worry about something that actually scares me more: that our government (and other governments) will decide that we have to do whatever the US regime demands, and what they demand will be ever more fascist alignment.

Sometimes you need a poem by @nikitagill.bsky.social.

Happy New Year.

Well, that was 2025. Let's see what the next 365 days hold. suyidavies.com/updates/suyi...

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Please take the time to check out, contribute, and share his @gofundm3.bsky.social. every interaction helps. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

It's the Most Listerful Time of the Year, so if you're making reading lists for next year, might I interest you in the fact that SEASON OF THE SERPENT, the final novel in the Nameless Republic trilogy, releases on August 11?

Wrapping my own damn self, in lieu of being wrapped by a machine: suyidavies.com/updates/suyi...

Today, I went to the library to look for a specific kind of book about a specific topic. On the same shelf, I found a *different* book on a *different* aspect of the same topic---an aspect I didn't even know existed. I went with the 2nd book.