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One week! T-6 days til blastoff. Travel across the galaxy with Princess Cyrelle to discover what it means to fight for yourself against all odds and win. The Color of Time by @millieabecassis.com arrives on May 19th.

A passionate plea echoes through space and time for a princess to save herself and the kingdom she loves. The Color of Time by @Millieabecassis.com Preorder it today at shirakipress.com/cot

Rosemary Jones did a very nice interview with us for Book Publishers Northwest News!

And nab your copy through @shirakipress.com or get a discount from Bookshop.org on Accelerated Growth Environment and their other amazing titles from Emily O'Malley Liu and @millieabecassis.com!

My sapphic ecothriller Accelerated Growth Environment has been out for two months! Check out the book trailer and the latest reviews on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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The Color of Time is out in just 19 days!

It is a dizzying feeling to see a book that you worked on in relative isolation for months and months see the light of day. But Emily O'Malley Liu's Wine for Roses has certainly bloomed beautifully. And then to see it on a shelf... 🥹 Photo credits to @tkrex.bsky.social

These are the same people who go out of their minds the literal instant social media attention is withdrawn from them. It's always, always projection with these folks.

Tech these days: "You have to work from the office so you can have serendipitous interactions with your colleagues that we replaced with the AI that you have to prompt from the office." 🤡

We've got climate thrillering, we've got magical rose gardening, we've got rebellious lesbian space princessing... it's completely wild to me that I can say all those words and that you can buy those books and that our authors are just so damn good! ❤️

So excited to be invited and interviewed for this! The Locus crew had some great questions for me.

There were uncountable books in the library, none of which I knew. I picked one at random and read the blurb. "A cosy fantasy?" "Yes," said my host. I picked another. "Cosy mystery?" "Yes." "Are all your books cosy?" Cthulhu shrugged. "If you'd seen what I've seen, you'd want comfort too."

Let’s go word nerds. #booksky

she went for the throat, yep. and she usually found it.

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

I can't believe I need to say this, but...well.

No

Had a great time at Indie Bookstore Day w/ @bkwrks.bsky.social this weekend! A fresh stack of signed copies (!) of Accelerated Growth Environment is available at Bookworks as well as the harder to find Bram Stoker Award nominated anthology Chromophobia, w/ a story by Yours Truly, so check it out!

Drumroll please!!! Fruits of our Labor by @ianpattersonauthor.bsky.social is releasing August 25, 2026! The advent of Parthenogenetic birth is changing the fabric of American society - but who gets to decide what we become? ePub ARCs are available via NetGalley or shirakipress.com/pages/arc-re...

I've been running in circles with this story for a while now, trying to make its various parts work and getting repeatedly lost in the weeds. I finally just started cutting shit. Suddenly, magically, things make sense again! #writing

Five books everyone should read once in their lives, in no particular order: - The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin - Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler - The Fifth Sacred Thing - Starhawk - A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys - The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri Now let's see your list!

This is a stunningly effective use of dead air 😬

Solitude, bottomlessness, speed, and teasing: this is a pretty solid framework for tech addiction, and it's remarkable not only for how well it describes social media, but also for how much we see it appearing in #gamedev. I barely recognize this industry any more.

I just don't understand how there can be leaf blowers running in my neighborhood *every single day*

The toddler parent brain is making everything about my life so much harder than it needs to be 😭 I love the little dude, but oh my fuck he is chaos these days.

My question for our #ai overlords is: what are all these replaced white-collar workers supposed to... do? Because, you see, you have stopped paying them. When your AI disappears my mortgage debt and makes groceries free, then we can talk. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🚨 GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 When the king commands her hand in marriage, a lesbian space princess flees across the galaxy to escape it, and becomes embroiled in a rebellion in a rival kingdom in THE COLOR OF TIME, a new sapphic space fantasy by Millie Abecassis. app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/34...

A disabled gardener and a reclusive trustee must work together to free the Kilbride Estate from its curse in this queer gardencore romantic fantasy. Get your copy today at shirakipress.com/wfr

I've never been a person who has seasonal allergies, but I've been all stuffy for days now—with no other symptoms suggesting any illness—and *coincidentally* there's an apocalyptic amount of pollen floating around and coating everything. 🤔

We love to celebrate firsts on this crazy publishing journey! We're so excited to see The Color of Time out in the wild in just a few short weeks. Pre-order it now at shirakipress.com/cot!

I may be biased, but it sure is a satisfying little book to hold. 😊 Glad we could help make this moment happen!

I love the Climasphere concept in this book so much 🙏

Use promo code SHIRAKI to get 15% off Shiraki Press books at Bookshop.org, and support your favorite local book store in the process! We love Bookshop.org and you should too ❤️ bookshop.org/lists/shirak...

You can follow all the finalists (or at least all the ones who have Bsky accounts) for the 2026 Hugo Awards right here with this starter pack. go.bsky.app/mR4XaC

Man, I really *cannot* afford to be sick right now. But here we are! SIGH. 😡

Me last night: "Maybe tomorrow I'll try record a short promotional reading!" Me this morning: "My sinuses are so inflamed I can't breathe everything is terrible I sound like a human kazoo please kill me"

It's easy to think that because you keep seeing a book "everywhere" that the publisher and the author must be rolling in cash, but that's rarely actually the case.

The older I get, the less patience I have for how noisy the world is. It feels impossible to escape the constant din of machines. 😵‍💫

same tbh

*screams in game dev*

WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out now! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance

Not to put it all on tech, but I do wonder how much of the reduction in donations to non-profits Seattle arts organizations is a direct result of so many local tech folks losing their jobs, and with it the disposable income that would've fueled those donations.

I know I've become old because I've just had to switch to system-wide light theme on my laptop. Please send your thoughts and prayers in these trying times.

Starbucks introducing AI to "personalise" your coffee seems like an excellent time to remind you that what companies want to personalise with AI is the price you pay for what you buy.

WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out now! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance

Consent? In this economy? 🤡 www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

Absolutely wild how fast a year can go

WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out now! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance