I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is here, and it’s an impressive remaster of the classic PlayStation SRPG. For my review, I did something a bit different: Gathered your AMA-style questions, and spilled tea on the new graphics, Delita’s kissability/punchability, difficulty, and more!

Way before #AlienEarth even premiered, I landed a dream assignment: talking with Timothy Olyphant about everything from lessons learned on #Deadwood with David Milch to the TV storytelling pitfall he hates the most to breaking down tonight's finale (spoilers are toward the end):

If you protested Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air by canceling Disney+ or some similarly simple action that had clear, direct, effective results, it feels good that you helped get him back, right? The neat part of you can choose another simple action, and keep that awesome feeling going.

Mo has been telling me about this book for months, and I cannot *wait* to read the whole thing. Perfect match of author and subject. #SoSayWeAll

Oh HELL yes! So excited about this!

Writers! What's an interview question you liked being asked? One that surprised, or delighted, or made you think in a new way as you answered it?

Looking at art as Art - something that doesn’t have to swaddle you up in emotional comfort and confirm you - gives you the chance to think about what you hold as moral and why. If you want art to agree with you all the time, you erode your ability to question the world and yourself

CHALLENGE your DEFAULT with @ryancahill.bsky.social ⚔️ Check out our full THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF EPIC FANTASY panel with Ryan, George R.R. Martin, @brandonsanderson.com, @robinhobb.bsky.social & @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social today! WATCH: youtu.be/OxhX_Ct9f-4?... LISTEN: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts

Every author you know is just waiting to retire on their mountain of sweet, sweet blurb money.

FANTASY inspired by NON-EUROPEAN CULTURES w/ @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social 🌎 Check out THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF EPIC FANTASY panel w/ Rebecca, George R.R. Martin, @brandonsanderson.com, @robinhobb.bsky.social & @ryancahill.bsky.social! WATCH: youtu.be/OxhX_Ct9f-4?... LISTEN: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts

scramble you little shits, scramble

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

If you found that Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled due to FCC coercion was a heinous attack on free speech (& it sure as hell is!) wait till you hear about the 10,000 books that have been banned in schools & libraries! If you're an author, join the fight @authorsabb.bsky.social We're stronger together!

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know. It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda. 1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

MAGIC SYSTEMS are like FINE WINES with @brandonsanderson.com ✨ Check out THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF EPIC FANTASY panel with Brandon, George R.R. Martin, @robinhobb.bsky.social, @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social & @ryancahill.bsky.social! WATCH: youtu.be/OxhX_Ct9f-4?... LISTEN: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

The head of an independent United Nations commission that concludes Israel has committed genocide in Gaza argues that countries supplying weapons to Israel, like the United States, are also complicit.

RESEARCH = BELIEVABILITY with @robinhobb.bsky.social 📚 Check out our full THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF EPIC FANTASY panel with Robin, George R.R. Martin, @brandonsanderson.com, @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social & @ryancahill.bsky.social today! WATCH: youtu.be/OxhX_Ct9f-4?... LISTEN: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

Ursula K. Le Guin writing "Expand this, describe undertomb more, + labyrinth" to herself in the first draft of The Tombs of Atuan is extremely relatable and really quite magical to see, in a way (I'm in the archive today and it's just as full of wonders as you might think)

To be a writer, you only have to do one thing: write. Not break into a big magazine. Not publish a bestseller. Not get an extravagant book tour. Struggling with discouragement? Rejection? Bad reviews? These are normal. They don't disqualify us. If you put words to the page, then we are peers.

⚔️ IT’S LIVE ⚔️ Join @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social & Greta Kelly as they discuss EPIC FANTASY with George R.R. Martin @robinhobb.bsky.social @brandonsanderson.com @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @ryancahill.bsky.social! WATCH: youtu.be/OxhX_Ct9f-4?... LISTEN: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

The Original is an audio-first SF thriller I coauthored with @brandonsanderson.com that has recently been released in ebook format. @dragonsteelbooks.com interviewed me about the process of coauthoring, writing for audio, and what puppetry has to do with it. www.dragonsteelbooks.com/blogs/the-co...

The first Bex book, HELL FOR HIRE is free for the next few days in ebook! If you like fun Urban Fantasy and haven't already tried my new series, this is a great chance to read the first book for $0! amzn.to/4pnGmhb

SPECIAL EPISODE INCOMING! Our epic Worldcon panel is almost here, with our three co-hosts and George R.R. Martin @brandonsanderson.com @robinhobb.bsky.social @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social & @ryancahill.bsky.social discussing THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF EPIC FANTASY. Available Sept. 16 in audio/video.

Yeah, the world is full of assholes, but people are still doing good work, so I wanted to take a few moments to highlight some stuff I've read recently that really moved me. First up, HARMATTAN SEASON by Tochi Onyebuchi (@tochitruestory.bsky.social)-- a novel that opens with a masterful use of-- 🧵

Oh yikes, this looks *bad* bad. I'll be watching this season because I'm too invested not to, but this teaser almost feels like a Witcher parody 😬

Boosting

Apple TV+'s Foundation has been renewed for season four!! #Foundation reactormag.com/apple-tvs-fo...

Kids of this century need to be reminded: this jewel was made in the time of HAND-DRAWN animation.

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Book Release Day! Long List Anthology Volume 9 is now available in various ebook vendors for purchase! www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/

Related thoughts countercraft.substack.com/p/scattered-...

Welcome to the final reckoning. SEASON OF THE SERPENT 🐍, the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy, is out from Orbit Books in August 2026. Buckle up.

September is here, and the nights are drawing in. It's time to get cozy with some new reads. Here's just some of the many books coming out this month! Which books are you excited to jump into this spooky season? 🎃 (Part One)

Albacon is this weekend in Albany, NY, featuring Guests of Honor @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social and @lauraannegilman.bsky.social (virtually). But if you AREN'T in the Albany area or close by, did you know you can join the convention virtually? Check out the convention below! albacon.org/2025/

Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.

Hello I have a late Monday (standing friend time) and so I am just getting around to reading about the Anthropic settlement. There have been no orders filed and the transcript isn’t available so I have to go by what the reporters said.

OUR INDUSTRY WILL DIE IF WE CAN'T STEAL YOUR WORK BUT EACH OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY CREATED NOTHING OF VALUE I mean idk if it was me I might have workshopped that one for a little longer.

Wow!!! Major news!!! The judge in the Anthropic AI case is "concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced 'down the throat of authors.'" This is what myself and many other authors were saying about the settlement. 1/ news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...

Go get 'em, tiger!

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.

Really glad to see Macmillan/Tor step up and own this mistake, and commit to making their affected authors whole. Other publishers need to follow this example.

Fellow authors, important thread. God, I'd forgotten what a mess that Google Books thing was.

NEW MASTERCLASS INCOMING! Ep. 171 airs on Tuesday, with guest @davewragg.com and co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social & Greta Kelly dishing on the realities of SURVIVING THE MIDLIST (OR NOT?). Available Sept. 9 in audio/video: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtube.com/@FanFiAddict

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/138349...