Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Did you see the post circulating on here about Uber Eats calculating a "desperation score" for drivers? A lot about it was all too plausible with the ways delivery and gig economy companies mistreat and cheat workers, but it turns out this post was fake

Discussing how much of the theory behind magic fantasy needs to explain, and for me it comes down to Chekov’s gun and then to POV. Like, I live in this world. I drive cars. I use plumbing. Gravity’s a thing. I’m typing this on an iPhone. If you asked me to explain any of the above:

Am I doing this right? www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... (On other platforms soon! Check back, I will add them to this thread.)

this is a good thread! I will add that one of the best sales days of my career came from my books being recommended (years ago) in r/fantasy, which I only found out after the fact

This is a good thread, and articulates something I noticed early on about how my books spread: I have a niche, but the people who live there with me talk to each other a lot. I love it. Well done to people who can write to market, but at the end of the day, I write the stuff that makes me happy.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

it would be so funny if it happened today

Pinterest is my guilty pleasure, I like looking at DIY projects over there. And increasingly I only look at the old stuff I've already saved, because I'm tired of digging through slop in the feed. It's not just annoying, it's distracting and disconcerting.

The Wisconsin Gothic series kept popping up on my most reliable sources of book recs – including @feliciadavin.com’s excellent newsletter – which usually augurs well. I read all 4.5 current titles in the past week and had a great time.

i feel like "governance in the era of content" has big Walter Benjamin vibes imo

u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.

Who wants to talk about weasels

The King in the Forest (mmf), which is #4 in Goblins and Cheese, should be out in May! secondary world setting with closely adjacent fairy/goblin realms and sneaky gods everywhere; new queen is trying to get her country back on track after seven years of rule by a vicious imposter.

Didn't you hear, the spammers told me I have sumptuous queer throuple Kraken adventures. 😂 bsky.app/profile/most...

excited for this!

okay open call, if you have an SFF romance coming out in 2026, and it's not grindingly heteropatriarchal in outlook and values, please tell me about it! I'm compiling my reading lists!

ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT THIS SERIES

oh hell yes

a day late and $0.50 short, but I have written a newsletter! it's about the word "gothic"

migration is good actually! grist.org/migration/th...

my ideal January-in-Massachusetts lifestyle is to spend all my time sleeping, reading, or writing while lying in bed under the comforter and occasionally emerging to take a walk through the snowy woods

129. Some romance novels at the end of the year It's the tail end of 2025 and I'm hella burned out. In this post: a handful of romance novels, all but the last named of which I picked up on account of reading Felicia Davin's newsletter. Judith Ivory's Black Silk J. Winifred Butterworth's A Bloomy…

good company ❤️

always repost “You had almost thought I had been his wife”

didn’t get a newsletter sent today but at least my kid’s not barfing anymore 🙏🏼

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

Whether you're conventionally attractive or not, men will explicitly sexualize you as a way of undermining your power and confidence. I've been on both ends of that dynamic, "lol ew" and "nice, would fuck" conversations about your body are two sides of the same coin.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

what is the positive argument for gambling legalization, especially to the degree to which it is now available, about everything, which is not just like "we already live in Hell, with the Devil."

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Prefiguration. We have to imagine a better world before we can live in it. Fascism relies on the foreclosure of the imagination, and the myth that it is invincible and inevitable.

All January, I'm running a sale on all of my self-published work (Amazon, each title: 2.99)! Read Me Slow: shorturl.at/1njJh Speak of the Devil: shorturl.at/NlivP Trust Falling For You: shorturl.at/zzYvn I'll Come Back For You: shorturl.at/44S34 I'll Conjure For You: shorturl.at/sW0dE

*staring into THE RECTANGLE OF MISERY* oh man this fucking sucks, i better keep staring at this thing or i'll miss the good part

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

done.

does anybody have non-police-related advice for staying safe from an abusive ex? my 2 suggestions to my friend so far were (1) try not to go anywhere alone if you can help it (2) buy a second lock for your door (1) is not feasible. she’s a single mom with a job and she has no local community

yesterday my friend M called me in crisis (her abusive ex is terrorizing her) and last night we went to bed worried but saying “maybe something good will happen tomorrow” instead we got a sick kid and a rogue state what the fuck!!

The world is on fire, but I still want to keep my dear friend Eli housed. Their mom and I are running a GFM to pay their property taxes so they and their elderly grandmother can keep the house. Can you signal boost or donate? gofund.me/a76c7d3ba

this morning is dedicated to cleaning up vomit and comforting my child while he wails “make it stop,” which is also how I feel about the United States

well, MY Heated Rivalry take is that it's transparently a Canadian-government-funded psyop to make us all want to move there and good for them. it's working

Today I have mostly been to the beach.

honestly it's an open question whether I *could* write different books every now and then I tell myself that in my next book, I'm gonna eliminate one of the more niche qualities of my work and write something with broader appeal. this is a form of imaginary play

reviewing my business expenses for last year and setting up a new spreadsheet for this year, a real gird-your-loins type of activity

everything I've ever seen about Threads makes it seem like a Bad Takes Generator

I could wade into Gay Hockey Show discourse today, but I think it's probably a better use of this post to say Hey! I am a queer man writing queer romance, and I have a new queer romance coming out next week! There's no hockey (sorry) but there is swimming (yay)! Beta readers liked it; you might too!

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

The very last Calvin and Hobbes strip was published 30 years ago today.

I would never do the "Here comes the airplane" bit to feed my child. Embarrassing for us both. I would calmly explain the importance of adequate nutrition and they will yield to unimpeachable logic