Miss my Book Bingo reveal? Check out my 2026 #BookBingo card now before I start filling it in. #reading #books #2026ReadingChallenge #sciencefiction #SFF

Like my short stories? Good news; I'm gonna write and share 12 of them this year. Come check out the first one, "Anomalous" #writing #shortstory #sciencefiction #universeisasimulation #selfpublished jaydeholmes.com/anomalous/

So excited to see my new story "Anything Not Impossible" published online @kaleidotrope.bsky.social amongst a group of other great stories. kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

Here it is, my filled out 2026 #BookBingo card. Feel free to save a copy and play along at home. #reading #books #SFFBookBingo #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #ScienceFictionBookBingo #2026ReadingChallenge

Before getting to my 2026 #BookBingo Challenge, here are reviews on all the books I read to fill my 2025 card. Enjoy. #reading #books #fanasy #ScienceFiction #SFF #ReadingChallenge #SpeculativeFiction

Sneak peek at my 2026 #BookBingo card. Challenges will be revealed next week (next year haha), and will be mostly #Sciencefiction, #Fantasy and #Horror related. Feel free to play along with me this year. Go to jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-c... for more information. #reading #books

The frogmouths are back and showing off their camouflage with the branch pose. #australianwildlife #aussieanimals #tawnyfrogmouth #bird #garden #backyardwildlife

New #bookbingo update. Read World Fantasy Award Winner "The Tainted Cup" by Robert Jackson Bennett, and damn, I can see why this was nominated for so many awards. Amazing fantasy murder mystery that was impossible to put down. Loved it. #reading #books #shadowoftheleviathan #fantasy #mystery

Time for the last featured creature from my World of Green and Black bestiary. Wanted to do something special since it'll be the last one for a while, so enjoy learning about bears. Very, very big bears. #writing #sciencefiction #worldbuilding

The tawny frogmouth in my backyard came back with a friend. Can you see both birds? #australianwildlife #birds #nature #tawnyfrogmouth #camouflage

Been a busy year. Here are all my new stories published in 2025. #writing #sciencefiction #SFF #Fantasy

The shooting is disturbing enough, and I knew the discourse around it would be rough. But ofc LLMs are coming along and making things worse. Huge respect for Ahmed al Ahmed.

An absolute tragedy. I was really hoping that I'd never see something like this happen in my country again, and my heart goes out to all the victims.

#bookbingo Update time! Got two bingos by filling the 'Title Starts with 'O'' challenge with 'One Step From Earth' by Harry Harrison. Thought-provoking short story collection about teleporters and their impact on humanity. Highly recommended. #reading #book #sciencefiction

Thank you everyone who has been reading my work this year. Read here to see what I've achieved in 2025.

#BookBingo Update, completed the 'Set on a Spaceship' challenge with the first installment of Olivia Waite's Dorothy Gentleman detective series, 'Murder by Memory'. Great worldbuilding and characters make an awesome murder mystery. Cannot wait for more! #books #sciencefiction #murdermystery

At the start of this year, I posted the Reedsy Writing Prompt story "Ground Beneath my Feet, Ground up in the Sky" to my site. Almost a year later, let's feature it again. jaydeholmes.com/short-storie... #writer #shortstory #sciencefiction #selfpublished

More nature in my backyard. Saw a tawny frogmouth sitting in the tree, acting like a branch. So beautiful... even if it may have eaten the tadpoles in my frogpond. #garden #australianwildlife #birds #tawnyfrogmouth #owl #notanowl #backyardwildlife

#BookBingo Update, completed the 'Has Witches' challenge with Naomi Novik's original fairy tale 'The Summer War'. Such a cool take on the fae, with curses and oaths stacking up. #books #reading #fantasy

Got another set of #BookBingo reviews. Come see me bag out Onyx Storm, and also review some good stories. #readingchallenge #books#reading#reading #bookreviews

Time for another World of Green and Black featured creature. This time, we're looking at something really alien. Meet the canopy crawlers. #writing #sciencefiction #worldbuilding

Science is so awesome

It's #BINGO time on my #BookBingo card. Read the Amazing Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Winner (2023) "What Moves the Dead" by T. Kingfisher. A wonderful, disturbing novella that I couldn't put down. Based on a Poe story that I should probably read too. #books #reading #horror #readingchallenge

#bookbingo update! Filled the "Written between 1930-1950" square with 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' by #Lovecraft. Found out after starting it was actually written in 1927 but first published in the 40s. I'll call it close enough this late in the year. Top Tier Lovecraft. #reading #books

As an Aussie, I love this.

#bookbingo update. Filled the "Set during the Cold War" square with "Three Miles Down" by Harry Turtledove. Interesting ideas and characters, felt very relevant to today, but felt way too long and slow for me. #readingchallenge #alternatehistory #books

Super useful thread, never saw these filters before and never realised how they were being misused.

Agreed, this new story by @wiswell.bsky.social is absolutely amazing.

I don't just read the books I put on my Book Bingo Cards, I share my thoughts on them too. Check out these reviews from my latest bingo.

Got another #bookbingo, filling 'Translated from Japanese' with #horror master Junji Ito's 'The Liminal Zone'. Even when just taking a stab at old un-used ideas, Ito still makes creepy stories. Contains 4 short stories in comic form. I liked 'Weeping Woman Way' and 'Slumber' best. #manga #reading

This month's featured story is one of my first, and one of my favourites. Check out "The 2058 Coober Pedy Winter Olympics" here. I know I feature this one a lot, but people really seem to like it, so here it is again. jaydeholmes.com/short-storie... #writing #fiction #olympics #sciencefiction

Just got my copy of the "Madam, Don't Forget Your Sword" anthology from #DeadFishBooks. It's full of good stories about various sidekicks and minions. And I'm not just saying that because my story 'Lucky Charm' is in it. But my story is in this book and you should check it out. #bookhaul

Meet another animal from my World of Green and Black, the pollinators. #worldbuilding #writing

Been offline a bit, but guess who turned seven on Monday? My fluffball Knight did. He loves his birthday boxes. #caturday #cat #tuxedocat #catpictures

Exciting #frogpond update. After a few false starts, we definitely have legs now. Saw this #froglet zipping around. Looks like a #StripedMarshFrog. Also still have some #tadpoles who are not making the leap into froghood yet. They have really grown up. #australianwildlife #backyard #frog #garden

With a new month, it's time to get spooky. Check out this month's featured story; "Hell" jaydeholmes.com/short-storie... #writing #writer #selfpublish #writingcontest #horror #demons #shortstory

#bookbingo update! Filled 'Sitting on the Shelf for a Year' by Continueing Marvel's #Runaways Series with Teenage Wasteland by Vaughn, Alphona and Miyazawa. The relationships are being speedran, but the action, plot, and art are so cool. #readingchallenge #books #reading #Marvel

Welcome back to the World of Green and Black. This month's featured creature is Humankind's strange mount, the megeasus. #worldbuilding #bestiary #sciencefiction #writing

Got another set of #BookBingo reviews. Come see what I think of #Redwall and more. #readingchallenge #books#reading#reading #bookreviews

#bookbingo update! Read Dreadnaught by April Daniels for 'Non-Marvel or DC Superheroes'. Amazing superhero and trans coming of age story that was impossible to put down. #readingchallenge #books #reading

Remember when I got a bingo on my #bookbingo card? I have a lot of thoughts on the books I've been reading, so come check out these reviews.

For those who liked my tiny sketchbooks, here's some more drawings from my recent #canberra roadtrip. I drew the Australian War Memorial, Telstra Tower, and the view near Lake George. #art #travel #sketchbook #travelsketches

Exciting news. Spring is here and my tadpoles have reappeared. They're so good at hiding and have gotten so big. There are at least three left, and after 11 months there are still no legs. #backyard #frogpond #frogs #australianwildlife #tadpole

Game time; make bands to play at Redwall. So, puns combining musicians and woodland critters. Here are some my husband and I made while roadtripping: Silverhare (Silverchair) PECK (KISS) Ratallica (Metallica) Midnight Owl (Midnight Oil) Daft Skunk (Daft Punk) Any other bands for the Redwall gig?

More #BookBingo progress! Read 'Spear' by Nicola Griffith for the 'King Arthur' challenge. Beautiful queer retelling with a female Perceval. Then I got a bingo with the classic #Redwall by Brian Jacques, which has actually been adapted into a movie, in a roundabout way. #reading #books

I skipped my monthly promotions. Nothing bad happened, I just went on a nice little road trip to Canberra. Here, enjoy some photos of the Australian capital instead of a featured story. #travel #australiantravel #canberra #roadtrip #australianwildlife

Dive back into my World of Green and Black with more creepy-crawlies. This months featured creature are category two bugs. #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #art

Got a #BookBingo, with Hogfather by #TerryPratchett. My first Pratchett book and OMFG, I see why people love him, this was absolutely amazing. Mind is BLOWN. So funny, and such a beautiful message. #reading #fantasy #books

Congratz to all the winners of this year's Hugo Award.

I've been knocked out by the flu for about a week, but it's still a new month so let's change up the featured #story. This month, I'm showing some love to 'The Complete Beginner's Guide to Time Travel and the Multiverse', a story summed up pretty well by the title. jaydeholmes.com/short-storie...