You ever read a book and it just leaves you not wanting to read anything else for a while, so you can float in its wake? This one did that for me. #BookSky #QueerYA

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! "Five Uncanny Stories, Two Uncanny Poems, Uncanny Magazine, and Michael Damian Thomas Are 2026 Hugo Award Finalists!" buff.ly/1K10weZ

Congratulations to all the Hugo finalists!

As a special treat for Indie Bookstore Day, the wonderful folks at @libro.fm are running a sale, and the AUTOMATIC NOODLE audiobook is available for just $4.99 until 4/26. This sale is only on Libro.FM, Nook, and Chirp. Lots of other books are on sale too! Rejoice! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

The Photonic Effect is out today in print, ebook, and audiobook! Tonight, join me and @annaleen.bsky.social at @booksinc.bsky.social to celebrate! Free RSVP and preorder signed books here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mike-chen-... And check out this big thread of behind-the-scenes nuggets below!

Anything from the cookbook “Be Bold with Bananas.”

Fun fact: When @nathanburgoine.bsky.social sent me a pregame brief for this episode, details included how phasers and hand-to-hand combat are impaired underwater. My response: “Why does it sound like we’re going to be fighting Flipper?"

@betarayben.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to hear I’m watching Empire Records, finally, for the first time.

I'm looking for CONTEMPORARY (i.e. set in last 10 years) NOVELS (i.e. fiction) set in the UNITED STATES that feature political and/or cultural resistance. Thank you for suggestions!

Okay, say you had six @libro.fm credits burning a hole in your phone. What would you recommend that’s 🏳️‍🌈 and probably a little (or a lot) 🌶️? Asking for a friend. It’s me, hi. I’m the friend.

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only.) Mine’s “DON’T FUCK WITH ME, FELLAS!”

We watched “Arrival” in class this week, and every semester, when Dr. Banks walks into her house while on the phone with her mother, I have to point out to students, “That is not the kind of house a professor’s salary buys.”

I wish nothing but death upon everyone responsible for this. May their lives be agony and pain so long as they draw breath, and may they draw breath and suffer for a very long time.

My Bluesky engagement strategy:

As always, book mail is the best mail, even more so when it comes with swag! #BookSky @nmjcoveney.bsky.social

You can read “Multiverse” over at Phoebe journal. phoebejournal.com/multiverse/ #1LineWed

I AM FULL OF SQUEES! MY FIRST-EVER SHORT STORY COLLECTION IS A 2026 INDIEVERSE AWARD NOMINEE! WHY AM I SHOUTING! OH YEAH, I AM MUCH EXCITE!

Best Star Trek captain. Wrong answers only. #SoSayWeAll

So much for that, then. There’s another thing on my to-do list this weekend.

@realfollowers.bsky.social no way all of these people can be real….

Okay, this sounds freaking awesome.

Are you looking for some really adorable summer love? DO I HAVE THE VERY GAY BOOK FOR YOU! Snag Summer Official right now! 🛹🩵🍦 rebekahweatherspoon.com/summer-offic...

Well, this is a first. I left home for the day job and left my other laptop at home (the one that has all my class materials on it), and I teach this evening. I did at least print out my notes last night, but… can you say “winging it”? 🤦‍♂️

Book mail is the best mail, especially if it’s a @rdotspoon.bsky.social book. ❤️ #BookSky

Not me reheating Heated Rivalry—again—while the husband is out of town. (I am totally team Scott and Kip omg. But really I’m team Elena because she’s the best.)

Tonight’s listening is STAR SHIPPED by Cat Sebastian and it’s a goddamn delight. #BookSky libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

I've loved beaming books into your living room. It's been a joy. I'm sad to say Series Seven of Big Scottish Book Club was our last (and our show was the last one standing). Thank YOU for watching and reading. I'm so grateful to all our guests and crew. www.damianbarr.com/latest/2026/...

Absolutely gorgeous song out today, with proceeds going to charity.

Nothing new, but I’m blogging about my experience querying literary agents over at jeffrey-ricker.com/blog/ if you care to follow along. #WeeknightWriters

Well, if you like queer sci-fi, you could check out my story “Snowblind” over on ko-fi and let me know what you think…. #WeeknightWriters

I’m going to schedule some days off so I can keep up with some teaching work I know will be coming up. And who knows, maybe I’ll get more writing done…. #WeeknightWriters

Well, there was that one night where I reheated “Heated Rivalry.” #WeeknightWriters

I need more time. Does anyone have a time machine? Or know a Time Lord? #WeeknightWriters

Well, it’s been a week, hasn’t it? I’ve been coping by watching reruns of Schitt’s Creek. #WeeknightWriters

Come see me at LA Times Festival of Books! 📚💘 www.latimes.com/even...

S.H.I.T.—So Happy It’s Thursday. I’m Jeff, I’m revising a queer holiday romcom, and my writing week is going slowly, but that’s mainly because I’m still teaching for the semester and *waves hands* you know, all this. #WeeknightWriters

Mentally, I’m still here. #tbt

If you haven’t read @rdotspoon.bsky.social, get to know her work. I loved all three of these. #RomanceSky #BookSky

If you see this, post a character from space. #TeamTilly #StarTrek

“OK. Not good. Probably bad.” Same, Ilya. Same.

Don’t mind me, I’m just over here trying not to barf and wondering how tf I’ll be able to class tonight (to say nothing of how my students will).

“In many places, the modern queer project has been reduced to a performance of acceptability, especially among gay men who have been rewarded for signaling that they are not too loud, not too feminine, not too political, and not too complicated.”

My “it’ll never happen” is shifting slowly but surely to “it might.”

He is risen

Happy First Contact Day! 🖖 #StarTrek

I’ve preordered this book and would love it if other people checked it out. It’s spec/horror and also queer af, kind of like me. And that cover OMG! #BookSky

That pounding you hear is my shoe on the table about EVERYTHING @nathanburgoine.bsky.social is saying in this thread. Jesus Christ on a cracker, listen to kids, y’all.

Oh, hello, raging sinus headache, my old friend.

Pursuant to mine and @caitgauthor.bsky.social’s interests: Every good horse deserves cake.