Now for some sports news... (this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)

SFWA has named @nkjemisin.bsky.social the 42nd recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Our congratulations! To celebrate, we’re offering a limited quantity of the signed, limited edition of The City We Became at 30% off for a very short time! subterraneanpress.com/jemisin_tcwb/

Want a great way to celebrate Give-to-the-Max day? Give to a food shelf. Already done that? Consider donating to the organization that has shaped the Science Fiction and Fantasy industry over the past sixty years.

Come hang out with us (virtually)!

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever. I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Preorder links!! B&N - www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rabbit-tes... Amazon - www.amazon.com/Rabbit-Other... My local shop, Mysterious Galaxy - www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781616...

Psst @choiceofgames.bsky.social games are in the Steam Autumn Sale! Mine, in which you teach magic in secret at a liberal arts college and certainly don’t summon potentially world-ending entities, is less than $6! That’s $0.000012 a word! store.steampowered.com/app/1766340/...

stop telling me it’s not surprising that, as an author in the forties, Asimov didn’t include many significant women in Foundation. the latest research indicates women may have existed since at LEAST 1922

They've lost the 9yos

Check out Anthony W. Eichenlaub Sci Fi Anthony W. Eichenlaub’s short stories appear in Little Blue Marble, Asymmetry Fiction, and the anthology Fell Beasts and Fair. When the ground isn't frozen solid, he enjoys ... www.limfic.com/mbm-book-aut... #AuthorSpotlight @anthonyeichenlaub.com

In a world full of JK Cuntfaces be a Rick Riordan.

This is good and it should be a thing

The @3lobedmag.com Kickstarter is down to 49 hours and they're still $2839 away from their funding goal. I backed to get one of their snazzy T-shirts. If you haven't yet, it would be amazing if you could help them reach their goal. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

This is like $800 away from hitting goal 2. Today's the last day to get it there. Let's go! #booksky

Elect more teachers

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Good morning

#worldcon Is over and I’ve moved my adventure over to Olympic National Park, where the fantasy worldbuilding is actually quite well done.

Huge congrats to all the #hugoaward winners! Amazing work all around.

Arrived in Seattle for #worldcon, but had to first pay tribute to this troll we found under a bridge

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

Worldcon schedule is light this year, but that leaves lots of time for RANDOM HIGH FIVES. anthonyeichenlaub.com/worldcon-2025/

Post someone with great eyes 👀👀

This clip aged like fine wine.

On this Nonbinary Week, check out my nonbinary dragons. With @mspencerdraws.bsky.social and @atthisarts.com www.atthisarts.com/product/alia... #nonbinary #nonbinaryauthor #ownvoices #dragons

They say that every author must find the process that works best for them, but what they really mean is that every author must find their own section of the brick wall.

Stress tested the new lazy susan with Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies last night and I’m reasonably happy with how it did.

Today I'm writing for Writer Beware at Planetside, SFWA's online magazine, with a look at moral rights--what they are, why they matter, and the implications of giving them up, as some contracts and agreements require you to do www.sfwa.org/2025/07/03/m...

👁️‍🗨️Reminder👁️‍🗨️ ▫️ #art ▫️

July 1 is Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Time to do another thread with more Canadian authors I love. I'll keep adding to it - feel free to add yours too for a CanCon buy list! 📚 My fantasy novel Fortune's Shadow is also free as of July 1 on Smashwords in celebration ❤️🇨🇦 books2read.com/FortunesShadow #BookSky 💙📚

New story day! You an find The Basilisk Painting over in the July issue of Sally Port Magazine: sallyportmagazine.com

There's still some matchmaking be had. Remember: this next $1000 will be doubled! If you needed a sign that you should get that Strange Horizons Kickstarter-exclusive patch, this is it!

I've been mulling over something said at the Nebula conference by writing coach Becca Syme: that a lot of writers try to scale up their writing businesses before they have a product that makes money, and it does. not. work. We exhaust ourselves on Patreons, newsletters, etc., for precious little. ~

Me, in the grocery store wondering why ‘paprika’ is tattooed on my arm

Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️ Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥

This is the same thing i did when i got out last week

“Made daily with food” is a solid claim though

If you're an Audible member, The Man Who Walked in the Dark is ridiculously cheap right now. Sci-fi noir in a city where crime lords are saints and good deeds are a commodity. amzn.to/4ek6pkt

If you're an Audible member, The Man Who Walked in the Dark is ridiculously cheap right now. Sci-fi noir in a city where crime lords are saints and good deeds are a commodity. amzn.to/4ek6pkt

this climate fiction book about the Death of Mountains arriving for a middling hill in the Appalachians is a Scheherazade pastiche (a story for a story to stave off the inevitable). it is not about "power of story" but about how humanity can save us. get it now from @lethepress.bsky.social

I cannot emphasize enough how *good* the bundle is that comes with a $1 pledge: - Ulla's story in an e-pub - Musical reading by Detroit musician George Montrelle - Coloring sheets - Backgrounds - Behind the scenes video - Behind the scenes PDF ONE DOLLAR 👆 www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

I want this for all my friends in NYC, for the city itself that I love so much, but also crucially & more broadly I want this to be the baseline of what politics feels like everywhere

It is hard for me to overstate how influential Dr Demento was on young nerd me.

Another fantastic con this year! I only made it for Saturday, but 4th street really is amazing all the way through.

Ok I love the expression on the lion on that UK cover. Also... out tomorrow!

happy Father's Day to all who celebrate

Happy Father’s Day to all who celebrate