Coming next week! I'm grateful that I can finally share this very personal story of grief and swamps.

Holidays are arbitrary, and their timing makes no sense, but it's still strange that American Thanksgiving is celebrated on a Thursday. Thoughts and prayers to everyone traveling today.

Apologizing to the cat for summoning his mortal enemy, the dreaded vacuum

Delighted to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Goblin Shark', published in @thebraag.bsky.social 🦈

eligibility post time!!!! this year i published two things: novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social 🧵

Holy shit. Pluribus. Holy shit what a show. Just when I thought US tv was in the toilet.

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

Reskeet with a time you looked cool

Patreon is currenlty a large income source as I try to get this whole "writing regularly" thing off the ground (had mental health crisis in family, now slowly digging myself out. With my fingernails hahhaha sob)

The 1st instalment of my 1st serialized short story has landed in people's inboxes care of @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! If you want to read "A Road Less Taken" over the course of this week, sign up! You'll get access to previous instalments too. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...

Congratulations @averyother.bsky.social, @crustywareniki.bsky.social, and Niloufar-Lily Soltan, winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest, and to all the shortlisted finalists! pulpliterature.com/announcing-t...

Happy Friday

Alyx and I once watched a seagull laboriously and with great determination swallow a huge starfish. In the end, it had to bash the starfish on a rock to force it into its throat. We were certain the bird was going to die in front of us. But eventually, it got the starfish down and flew away.

Reminder that anyone who says "a writer must do this," "a writer cannot do that," is WRONG.

Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...

I write 2 pep talks a month for my Patreon supporters, usually focused on creativity and positivity. Today's post is about the post-book launch blues, and I made it free for everyone, because I think it's common and very miserable. www.patreon.com/posts/143504...

New novelette out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! Contains pigeon angels and living burials. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/and-...

I’ve got about 45 minutes before work so let’s do a game — give me a number between 1 and 293, and I’ll give you a quote from that page

Now the weather has turned cold, I get this

Huge turnout today for the launch of The Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, stretched from wall to wall to wall @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social

If you looked like a bot so I blocked you, but you weren’t, that still kinda seems like a you problem.

This is today!

Today! In Toronto! See you there???

Tomorrow in Toronto! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3. Sat, Nov 8 at Bakka Phoenix @ 3pm @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social maps.app.goo.gl/2qnXrY1mcgE7...

The era has not changed. I'm still exactly this human though perhaps am reading slightly more sophisticated books at the moment

i know its been a busy day but omg look at this pelican footage i got today!!! 🪶

Greetings from nature

Greetings from my very favourite post-apocalyptic subway station, which has been in renovation since at least 2014

Using ai to put personal details in the scam emails, "you've done THIS and THIS and THIS," and honestly I was momentarily touched before I realized no human soul sent the email. Writing can be a lonely pursuit. I hate that they're exploiting our very human vulnerabilities for minor gain.

Toronto, you're invited to the launch of The Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction. 3PM, Sat Nov 8, at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social

Great review: "If you're looking to read a horror novella with heart—and many, many teeth—then We Who Hunt Alexanders is the book for you. While it may not solve the world's problems, it nevertheless provides an excellent catharsis for those who wish for justice." 1/2 imaginatlas.ca/catch-of-the...

Trick or treat! I have one free copy of the WEARING THE LION audiobook and I want to give it out to a lucky trick-or-treater. I'll draw the winner at random in a few days. To enter: show me a costume you loved wearing, or tell me your favorite Halloween costume. (Follow me so I can DM you later!)

<- A million emotions in a trenchcoat

Possibly my most Halloweeny book: witches and ghosts...

HURRICANE MELISSA SUPPORT FOR JAMAICA 🇯🇲 Here are a few Jamaican orgs that are doing relief work - please donate and/or share! Food for the Poor Jamaica: www.foodforthepoorja.org Helping Hands Jamaica: helpinghandsjamaica.com/donate Dar Al Islam Jamaica: donorbox.org/dar-al-islam...

NEW EPISODE DAY! In this edition of NOT NOW BUT SOON, I talk to my friend Nasir Andisha, ambassador and permanent representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, where he represents the people—not the current government—of a country that has been navigating disaster for decades.

Nightmare fuel

Favorites from Art Toronto yesterday: Allison Katz allison-katz.com Jazz Kiellor jazzkeillor.ca Emma Haworth www.emmahaworth.co.uk

I'd been seriously trying to write for eight years, with results I wasn't confident in or happy with. Waters of Versailles was the breakthrough that put me on track for writing professionally, after climbing a freaking shit ton of psychological mountains.

In 2018, this gentleman backed my Kickstarter for Faces on the Ferry, choosing a custom portrait tier. He sprung it on his ferry-loving girlfriend. Fast forward to 2025, and she surprises him with a portrait of their family of three on his birthday. Sweet, huh? open.substack.com/pub/rachelle...

We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Tonight!!!

My GM of 30 years is offering a public Werewolf game set in the 1CE Lowlands on the border of the Roman Empire. Jamie does amazing, well-researched historical settings, highly recommended! startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

After years of watching Canadian cons disappear and American ones become more inaccessible, I am SO PSYCHED for this renaissance in Canadian spec!! Our talent & tastemakers & visionaries deserve the spotlight with WorldCons like this (and cons like @canconsffh.bsky.social every year.)

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

This probably isn’t news to anyone, but the deep state is something white men made up so they can pretend to be oppressed

I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough of these “Gen Z writing the marketing script“ videos, and this new one has become one of my favourites www.instagram.com/reel/DPyuzc4...

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it. www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

🪲 “As the Earth Dreams offers a distinctly Canadian vision of Black life that is as lush and expansive as it is tender and rooted.” —The Walrus 🌀 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

Wondering what's up at Brooklyn Books & Booze in 2026? Here are just some incredible authors who'll read w/ us (including @ellenkushner.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @fondalee.bsky.social @kellyrobson.com & @timchawaga.bsky.social) --check out more at the link! 📚🎙️🧉👀 randeedawn.com/bonus/brookl...