SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL will be out in the world in about 6 months. If you’re looking to read more novelettes, this might be the book for you. I’ve just proofed the ARC and it’s looking great! In the meantime you can add it to your TBR if you’re on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

UNIDENTIFIED FUNNY OBJECTS 10 - an anthology of humorous SF/F just launched on kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...

Looking forward to meeting Erin Cairns and hearing about InkFoundry @electricsheepsf.bsky.social

Excited to talk with @erincairns.bsky.social at Electric Sheep this week. Here's a recent MicroVerse interview with Erin - info about her writing, her gorgeous art, and InkFoundry!

If you were following Hell Itself, you might give them a refollow! @hellitself.bsky.social

"He and Yana were old friends—the gangster kings of Khabamett. Born and raised in the slums on the other side of the bay, the decaying tin shanty-town known as the Slide." @erincairns.bsky.social in The Dark!

"The civilians were dancing on the train again, stomping their feet to the heartbeat of the engine." Eager to talk about "A Smokeless and Scorching Fire" by @erincairns.bsky.social - originally pub in Writers of the Future: Volume 34 & republished at @inkfoundry.bsky.social !

The news today is horrific. It's easy to look at the world around us and despair. But we also need to remember that our stories and art matter even when the world turns bad. Here's my essay about why you should keep writing, keep fighting, and keep hope alive. www.patreon.com/posts/117228...

On the Blog: How was Dragon Con?  https://www.marievibbert.com/omgxyz-dragon-con/

3 hours left! Stretch goals will add more issues to 2026, more stories that terrify, beguile, and astound. We can read them all under the covers with a flashlight! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Every time I see her name appear in Foundation.

“That’s what the news has been saying, August knows. They need as many people as they can get.” - Spirit alembic keeper, now out in @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/spir...

"Frank thought all the battle-drones had been deactivated. Certainly, none of them had ever looked around with curious little twitches of their front-facing cameras before." 💜 @erincairns.bsky.social in @escapepod.org

FREE event: I'll be reading #speculative #flashfiction with @genni.bsky.social and @fjbergmann.bsky.social Tuesday, Sept 9 6:00 - 6:30 pm Pacific Thank you for organizing, @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/1344265597...

This is good news for Tor authors and I'm very glad to hear it. FWIW, it appears that of my five published novels from the early 2000s, exactly two were registered by my publisher at the time, Bantam. Of my more recent books with Tor, both were registered.

It me! I'm really excited to visit Electric Sheep and talk writing, reading, and all things stories!!!

This week's guest is Erin Cairns! We'll read several of Erin's stories and geek out about InkFoundry! InkFoundry is a phenomenal spec fic aggregator with a robust tagging system. It's easy to find whatever you want to read! @erincairns.bsky.social

I woke up realllly early for this and I’m so glad I did, thank you for having me and letting me rant for half an hour, this is why I have to write fiction so it all has somewhere to go 😂

Huge thanks to @tkrex.bsky.social for spending time with us this morning! Great discussion of craft elements as well as the need for tackling tough issues through fiction. If you loved the stories we highlighted this week, you can find more at T.K.'s website. Check 'em out!

Now that's a cool story.

I fell in love with this story the first time I read it, and I've come back to it multiple times. @tkrex.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

"Her smile tugs at me, plucking some chord I don’t have a name for yet, in the hidden alcove on whatever floor this is of the American Hotel." Give yourself a treat with this gorgeous story! "Haunting Beauty" by @tkrex.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social ❤️

Well, I’ve a had an epically shitty morning. If you’d like to help improve my day, please read “Through the Machine.” If you’d like to go above and beyond, share it or upvote it on the Nebula list (if you have access to that). Thanks in advance.

ICYMI!

"I said, “Hey, are you okay?” Our eyes connected for the first time, and you said, “Is anyone?” 💔❤️ Read this one by @tkrex.bsky.social in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social

Next in our reading of T.K. Rex stories is "Banded Iron" in The Sunday Morning Transport! @tkrex.bsky.social @morningtransport.bsky.social

This week's guest is T.K. Rex! And first up is "The Flowers Where 580 Used to Be" in Tractor Beam! @tkrex.bsky.social @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social

discussion about spec fic trends by critics and readers is great, i'd just caution writers, esp. newer writers, to not let it get in your head too much. just do what compels you. you're unknowingly part of a movement and building out a landscape. it's ok to leave it to others to map out over time.

My new GenAI Grapevine column providing analysis and coverage related to generative AI is out. Includes a deep dive into the Anthropic settlement along with publishers failing to register copyright. Plus info on tension at Worldcon over writers using AI and a book people must read. 1/2

"We Who Hunt Alexanders is very much a reaction to what I’m seeing happen in today’s world. From big issues like hate, intolerance, anger, and political violence to specific issues like book burnings, this story was my personal scream against so much of what’s going on today." 🖤👽

Isn't this gorgeous!!

Praise from @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social: "Jason Sanford ain't playing with y'all anymore. We Who Hunt Alexanders lives at the intersection of cyberpunk and horror. Edginess and timeliness; blood and desperation; love and terror all woven like a rogue literary DNA strand." 1/2

August Spec Flash Roundup! With @smallwondersmag.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social @factorfourmagazine.com @naturefutures.bsky.social @hexliterary.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @escapepod.org @molotovlitzine.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com 1/3

Look at this spectacular lineup! So grateful to these generous writers!

Looking forward to being part of this season's flock! 🐑

I’ll be speaking at this virtual writers group this fall!

Calling all American folklorists, pop culture critics, historians, and artists! Please take a look at the call for proposals for Crossroads, a magazine dedicated exclusively to folk horror in the United States. Our first issue will be dedicated to the 1970s.

Can't wait and so grateful to @electricsheepsf.bsky.social for inviting me on later this year in December!

Writers in the Fall/Winter Sheep lineup! 💥 T.K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social Erin Cairns @erincairns.bsky.social Aimee Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com Helen McClory @helenmcclory.bsky.social Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social 1/2

Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!

When the fall issue drops on Sept. 1st, the spring/summer '26 sub period opens! We're looking for sci-fi, fantasy, weird, etc: speculative fiction. We accept short fiction &poetry, plus spec-relevant non-fiction pitches. Guidelines at magazine.trollbreath.com/submissions/

Last night, I won the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form. Thanks again to everyone that voted for me!

Support our campaign at the New Antho tier for these rewards: the next print anthology 3LBE Volume XI, 1-year ebook subscription, your name on the list of supporters, eternal glory in the radiance of new star. Okay, we can’t actually guarantee the last one—but we’re working on it! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Get ready, we open soon! Early subs for equity-deserving groups: August 24 General subs: September 1 If you're still tinkering, @rebecca-b.bsky.social created a list of Vibes and Comparables! It's not an exhaustive list but it should kickstart some words. www.heartlines-spec.com/vibes-and-co...

The Sunday Morning Transport signs up for a tour today with a story from Meg Elison (@megelison.bsky.social) that wonders how far one should go to accommodate a customer. Read a sample or subscribe to get the whole story!

This is my 12th Hugo Award, which means that I now have the most wins among women winners, and tied with Mike Glyer for 5th most wins overall. :boggles:

It was a basic robot. Food delivery, general service. But somehow it found itself at the heart of the kind of row that ends only one way. The kind of row that’s as unnecessary as it violent. What the bot really needed was a champion. #scifi by @mynachang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An amazing evening discussing ecology and lyricism with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @electricsheepsf.bsky.social including Thistle's gorgeous story in @pseudopod.org pseudopod.org/2025/04/11/p...

PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb

It’s Saturday night and the poetry is fine! Come celebrate the release of Marc Vincenz’s “Spells from the Wicked” (Unlikely Books) with Marc, Tara Campbell, Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, and the Mysterious Masked Poet! Please join us at 8pm Eastern! us02web.zoom.us/j/88557825955