as Devin Madson my most recent trilogy starts with BETWEEN DRAGONS AND THEIR WRATH (yes i come up with these titles, yes they are bangers) follow three messy characters through the beginnings of social revolution, containing dragons, flintlock guns, ships sailing glass roads and many smutty queers

We are delighted to reveal the cover for First Mage on The Moon by @cameronjohnston.bsky.social! Ella is on a mission to reach the moon–even if that incurs a little blasphemy (and Unity interference). Look for it April 14, 2026 from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social! reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

In the midst of everything costing more and giving you less, shout out to Zoos Victoria for sending me an email that my annual membership fee is going down. Now to figure out how to give more money to their excellent work...

I love adverbs. And starting sentences with conjunctions.

yikes, my "require alt text before posting" setting had been turned off too! check on yours if you haven't lately. it's under Settings / Accessibility.

Gonna start myself a "swear jar" for every time I say some variation of "what the fuck are they talking about?" while scanning news/socials, and by the end of the week I'll be able to buy drinks for everyone to help drown the current stupidity 🥂🤦‍♀️

Speaking of books I've had a sneak peek at and thoroughly enjoyed, check out this amazing cover for A KISS OF CRIMSON ASH! 🤩🔥

lol brb I'm off to manually add a whole bunch of filthy genre books to the list

My first novella CINDER HOUSE is nearly here! She's been quietly racking up accolades, including an amazing THREE starred reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Oh hey, a book I blurbed is out soon, and everyone else can enjoy it too! 😂 What I said about KILL THE BEAST by Serra Swift was: "This cheerful, brawling adventure has everything you could want: bloody revenge, exquisite tailoring, and a very good dog." us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Some *really* fun replies to this. Do dive in and offer an opinion, or find some 30/40 year old shelf-bending epics to dive into!

Love a vet that calls straight after an online appointment booking to say "hey, we can see your cat today if you prefer?" A trifle embarrassing to have to say "only if you can send someone over because it's a two-person job to get her in the carrier..."

So...guess what I've been doing? It's the story of an ex-harpy, her harpy ex-girlfriend, and some extremely opinionated weaponry. Pastries! Operettas! Complicated friendships! Coming soon to a page or e-reader near you!

I had absolutely no questions about any of these until I got to "Soulmate Goose of Enforcement" and then I had MANY questions! 😂

if you're organising an event in 2025 you absolutely need to post the information somewhere that isn't Facebook, a huge chunk of people no longer have accounts and can't access it

Just another day in Down Under. #WildOz

The defenestration of Prague? What, the whole city? Out one window? How would that even work?

Honestly, I'm so irate about this I'm having my (lawyer) husband look over my submission and trim my ranting. The relevant part of the interim report is section 1, but I was particularly infuriated by pages 24-28 on copyright and AI. www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/cu...

Sad to report that "wrestling with Microsoft's online 'functionality'" is not actually any more fun as a two-player activity, though the multiplayer version does unlock whole new frustrations!

what an efficient reminder that "free speech" only ever applies to a really specific type of guy

Some program, after updating: Hi! I'm your new AI assistant! Me:

Devin making such great points here 👍

Having now finished my romancing-Sera Inquisition play-through, I find it downright hilarious how many opportunities there were to have a massive screaming break-up. Other romances just lock. This one they're constantly going "k but she has weird / strongly held views, are you SURE?"

Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺 We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy. Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

I've been following this with concern and will be looking carefully at the contracts coming down the pipeline from MRM. I have to recommend that others do the same. I mean, always read your contracts carefully, but--especially now.

At that stage of writing a throuple when I feel like I need to get out dolls and start posing to figure out whose limbs can reach where. Can maths help me here? Why didn't my high school teachers cover the trigonometry of threesomes?

Oh hey, it's September. Nevermind spring or autumn or whatever, it's Mince Pies in the Shops Season! 🥳

My level of dismay upon discovering that one of the ribbons in my daughter's ballet shoes is coming loose and therefore I need to sew it back in is, I feel, entirely warranted and indeed appropriate. 😢

Also on sale; one of my favourite epic fantasies of the past 5 or 6 years, @devinmadson.bsky.social's Between Dragons & Their Wrath. Really is excellent. Secondary world, but identifiably Australian in its concerns (complimentary); colonialism, extractive capitalism, gender politics etc.

Say what you will about jetlag, the most disorienting thing about being on the other side of the world was getting my AO3 kudos email at absolutely the WRONG time.

What if it could happen, just as a little treat

Rather than generative lack-of-intelligence, the technology I'd like is the ability to reach through the accommodation website, grab somebody, and demand what they mean when they say a room contains one queen bed and sleeps 3.

(This one's going out to the other parents out there...) Tom Clancy's I Want My Hat Back

Oh hey, did I show you guys the totally goth pencil I nicked from the hotel in Glasgow because it went so nicely with my (now rather battered) goth corporate notebook? This pencil is all black everything and it makes me giggle so much.

IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE US but you have copyright registrations for your work, I would fill out the form and use either your publisher's snail-mail address (your name c/o editors' name at publisher) or your agent's snail-mail address, whichever is in the US. Or ask a US friend.

Oof, I felt this one right in the Australian, yep.

Got some passport photos taken for the kid this morning, and of course I told her not to smile, because that's just how it is, but she's come in at downright hilarious levels of "straight up ready to shank somebody" and I couldn't be more proud?

Welp, time to blowup my notifs! Thesis: Worldcon COULD be good, but we may have to drag it there kicking and screaming.

I may not have written very many words today, but I did get to write the sentence, "Fuck him right in his totally composed ear," so I'm not calling it a bad day.

Oof, I really feel this one (every time I DNF after a few chapters another "bestselling tiktok sensation")

Hooray! 🥳 Cannot wait to get my hands on more of this twisty swashbuckling joy.

Max Sharam's "Coma" is so quintessentially '90s for me...

That first cup of proper Australian coffee is a nigh-religious experience...

Rather sad that I'm only discovering on my way to the airport that I could've been getting jaffa cake McFlurries all this time!

eeeeeeee I am SO EXCITED that this is going to be a real proper book that I can read and pet and foist upon anyone who will stand still long enough. I am going to go utterly feral about this book. And who could blame me? What if Catherine of Aragon DID invent necromancy??

So impressed with Glasgow's museums, both the collections and the curatorial approach and commentary. The "curating discomfort" arrays at the Hunterian museum were particularly thought-provoking and balanced.

Ok but potato scones though 😋

And then you discover/remember that you have an ARC awaiting reading for a blurb and it sounds GREAT and everything else can WAIT this is THE BEST DAY EVER! 🤩

TFW you're 24 hours away from a 24-hour plane trip and you're not sure you like the ebook you borrowed from the library and have barely started, and sure you have a second one already borrowed but what if you don't like that one either, so you panic-borrow two more and put a hold on a third...

My critique of this "inspirational" takeaway coffee cup is extensive, but let's go with: 1) As a parent, I laugh (bitterly) at the idea that my day starts now; and 2) I regret to inform you that the day will happen without your input or indeed consent. Thanks for the coffee though!