A new episode of The Publishing Rodeo is out, and it feels like a tiny bit of light has returned to the world.

Esquire couldn’t book this actor for an interview so fed previous responses through a couple of thief machines and ‘interviewed’ a digital photocopy. Including asking personal questions about his dad. People need to be sued and then fired for this.

It was this for me. By the time I left Twitter I'd begun to tense up just visiting it, and I was burned out by being condescending to the folks trying to be nasty to me. When I came here, I fully signed onto the "don't engage, just block" ethos and tried to model a better online version of myself.

I genuinely do not care how large or small this website is or gets. I just care that people I like are here& a lot of you are the kind of weird gremlins I enjoy or at least can tolerate. And so far you’re mostly tolerating me, so thanks. My takes are in fact the hottest ones so you have good taste 🔥

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What a writer thinks ISN’T political is always a huge tell. Even something as straightforwardly man vs nature as To Build A Fire is about toxic masculinity—“Any man who was a man could travel alone.”

Science fiction, the genre which famously has nothing to say about social issues, the human condition, or much of anything at all.

As I was drafting (another) post about LLM use in literature, this news story popped into my feed. Paywalled but the tl;dr is a freelance book reviewer used LLMs to write a NYT review and the LLMs plagiarized from a Guardian review. Oop www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

I didn't have much of an opinion about Andy Weir before this week, beyond knowing I wanted to read his books at some point, but I sure have seen enough in the past few days to have a not-great opinion now.

This @sffaddictspod.bsky.social writing masterclass on MEMORY & TIME with @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social goes DEEP! Don’t miss it when it airs on March 31.

Want your funny fantasy mixed up with your cozy mystery? Allow me to assist with the next book in my "funny as hell" "Tune in Tomorrow" universe! geni.us/weinterrupt

Less than 45 hrs to go in the WERE-2 #kickstarter featuring stories about shifters OTHER THAN wolves, and less than $100 away from the next stretch goal, a free ebook of @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social's "The Black Tentacle." Don't let this #antho escape! www.kickstarter.com/projects/znb...

In case there are From heads following me (my husband and son are HUGE fans btw-- I like it but I'm kind of a scary fare wimp) -- anyway! -- From, starring the exceptional Harold Perrineau, returns on MGM+ April 19.

Hello Lunchtime Crowd the galaxy is at war in today’s review

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Went ahead and talked about AI in writing and publishing (aka, that Shy Girl shit), and the perhaps unseen perniciousness of how AI can utterly fuck up the fidelity of our information environment --

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

Resident Evil Requiem is a video game about a woman named Grace who's having a very bad time and a man named Leon who's having a very good time

Wolfskin is (finally!) dropping in one week, concluding the Common Saga! Personally, I'm really excited. 😁

An anthology you DO NOT want to miss! Featuring some of the incredible authors we've been so privileged to publish over this past decade! Please share this post with fans and readers of Black SFF. Guaranteed you will help someone find their next favorite storyteller in these pages!

"Locus is authentic in a sea of commercial opportunism." @fondalee.bsky.social writes about @locusmag.bsky.social's impact on SFF writers and readers across its fifty-eight years. And right now, the magazine needs our help:

This image was posted by the official Project Hail Mary account on Facebook, and all I have to say is that their marketing people deserve a raise. Now I want the movie tie-in version of the novel to feature this as the cover.

This is the take. When I saw the Nvidia AI filter, my first thought was "those devs made games like RE9 look the way they do on purpose..."

The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google. The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google. Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/google...

Site's been down for a couple of days due to a maintenance snafu but it's back up and we're about 50% of the way to the awards funding goal! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

The second book of The Astral Kingdoms Trilogy now has both a name and a cover! DAUGHTER OF DESTRUCTION Thank you so much, @magalivilleneuve.bsky.social, for such incredible artwork. I could not have envisioned a more perfect representation of Isabelle.

turns out people were interested in this — we sold out, and 100% of students said it was worth the cost. so we’re doing it again starting April 15! we’re opening registration tomorrow, but initially only to folks who have filled out our interest form: docs.google.com/forms/d/16cZ...

Invasive parasite that spreads its seed into other things that it then grotesquely puppets with the goal of sucking the planet dry and then repeating the cycle? Which is then spread willingly by irresponsible rich folk who believe it to be the next frontier of human evolution? Yup, checks out.

Spoiler: Corporation hopes to keep exploiting writers until writers forget they're being exploited.

looking for your next spring read you say? 👀 🎐🌬️🌊A RIVER FROM THE SKY🌊🌬️🎐 ⚙️natural engines duology ⚙️ forthcoming April 28, 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫 cover: Natasha MacKenzie🎨 . #fantasy #scifi #bookstagram #naturalengines #ariverfromthesky

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy. Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit. [email protected]

2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal. But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.

Once again reupping my newsletter about JK Rowling and "separating the art from the artist" buttondown.com/charliejane/...

an insult to McCarthy and Le Guin and whoever the others are, but also to everyone literate, and to life itself

Mixed Media Study 🌿 #kofi

Always nice to be back on the #SFF new book release beat! Lots of really exciting titles coming out this month!

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside." Read every word.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Good news: my dragon is now on Netgalley! It’s a different sort of dragon rider novel: one from the dragon’s POV. He’s just here for the free food, he swears. If you are an ARC-ish sort, there is a Read Now window open through Friday.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Yep. Pretty much every site I know has been impacted by this to some degree, and it has been absolutely brutal. Google tries to play the data off as flawed in this article, but this is a very commonly understood truth for people who work in online media.

Share please! Attention #sff and #urbanfantasy writers! The #opencall for the WERE-2 #Kickstarter about were-creatures other then #werewolves is now open to submissions! Check out the guidelines and submit at zombiesneedbrains.moksha.io before May 31st. #fantasy #booksky #amwritingsff #writingsff

Looking for stuff to read and watch for Hugo nominations? Looking for creators to nominate? We at NOAF have you covered: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026... (links in this one to more categories at the bottom)

If we survive this, I really hope parents take a long look at how they are teaching empathy to their children. It's so obvious that that is the missing ingredient in huge chunks of the population, amplified by social media algorithms and cultural rewards for reactions rather than thoughtfulness.

Lawsuits when.

Hey, all. If you aren't aware, it seems we are experiencing a concerning (and much higher than average) number of manufacturer defects on the WoT leatherbounds. Give us a little time to: 1/?