Sooo excited about this!

Ugh I do nottt miss the mandatory smile from my retail days. I got pretty good at an expression I can only describe as "technically enough of a smile to stay out of trouble but not so warm that men would think I was flirting" (it mostly worked)

Oh I love logging on and happy scrolling for once

Happy book birthday!!

Not only have I been getting hit with the same scam review/book club emails as everyone else... they're mostly for books I didn't write! Nice to know I'm the top Sam Mills Author in the google search I guess XD

Congratulations to Eugenia Triantafyllou! Eugenia's “Loneliness Universe” won the Best Short Story 2025 British Fantasy Award! You can read it here! buff.ly/lY0VAZC

Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance. Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!

Throwback to one of my science fantasy experiments! 🤓

it's not FOR us

"Ooh look at that!!"

I've been deleting nonessential phone apps and blocking access to sites like bsky during work hours and it's been great. Next on my list is to buy a watch again, so I don't have to keep picking my phone up to check the time (just touching it ignites the urge to check my email/messages!)

Oct 26th 1985 - Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) drank the forever young potion. 📽️📅 Death Becomes Her (1992)

Review copies of RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES, the debut collection from the Award-winning @samtasticbooks.com are now available With intro by @megelison.bsky.social #Edelweiss buff.ly/aXHbMY5 #Netgalley buff.ly/IjoRlpI

BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2025, edited by me and guest editor @nnedi.bsky.social is now available! See the cover and full TOC in the attached image. This is volume 11 (!!!) of BASFF. www.harpercollins.com/products/the... @marinerbooks.bsky.social

write what you like reading because BOY will you read what you wrote a LOT if it gets published. dont mind me. im just reading this draft for a EIGHT MILLIONTH time.

My salty take that I usually only whisper to my sister is that publishers are pushing a lot of $32 collectible hardcovers with contents better suited for the mass market rack. The books are fine! But they're not worth thirty two american dollars!!(and then many underperform and everyone's surprised)

I made a silly thing for my husband and thought it would be fun to share: SAM'S DIEGETIC MIX TAPE! 99 songs from 99 movies, all playing in-universe (either "live" like a lounge singer or concert scene, or playing on a device, just as long as it's audible to the characters). No biopics. No musicals.

Samantha's stories are incredible! Check her collection out.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

ARCs! They exist! I'm in love with the layout, and there is a beautiful introduction by Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social that made me very emotional! 🥹

Don't mind me, just sitting here full of emotion watching crowd videos from all over the country

reposting with alt text bc i love this

LFG SD!!

Remember our mantra: Don't Engage, Just Block.

@samtasticbooks.com has created a moving tale of redemption and second chances, set in a world torn by fascist theocracy. A master at storytelling, but also a teller whose timing couldn’t be better. A must read & a worthy contender for the @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social #booksky

If you live in California, please write to Gavin Newsom in support of these five trans rights bills by Oct 12th. All you need to do is write a one sentence comment to the effect of: I support these bills and trans people. Thank you so much for your support! 💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #trans #BlueCrew #CA #US

I made a really questionable financial decision today but as a result I'm going to see Nine Inch Nails in Maaaarch!!!! (The only band I've seen more than once... and this'll be... time number five... 😅😆)

Jamacha

I love this book. It’s about a woman grappling with guilt and being complicit with a fascist regime after the regime ejects her from the order. It’s about abuse and recovery. It’s just a great book and you should read it.

Free shipping on Bookshop through tonight! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

free shipping on bookshop! the perfect time to get a book! and do I have one for you! weird medieval guys, gender™️, cannibalism, living beehives, illustrations, and big monster ladies

Dear [Author], Your book [Title] is wonderful. I did not understand the play The King in Yellow until [Title] and now the way to Carcosa is clear in my mind. [Title] deserves a wider readership. My team of 5,000 cultists can post honest reviews and raise your Cthulhu Mythos ranking, for a modest...

"Rabbit Test" is the best short story I've read this decade. I'm sure the other stories in this collection are great, too.

We watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) last night and when it got to Shredder's secret lair of child thieves, my 8yo gasped, "Why do they have cigarettes!??" So I know she will be safe from the temptation of joining the villainous Foot Clan. 😌

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions. My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

😭😭

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

I doooo waaaant ittt

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Tomorrow!!

Call me Ishmael. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Coming to Tachyon 30th Anniversary shindig this Sun Oct 5 12-5 #SanFrancisco Public Library main branch? You can hobnob with most of the staff & authors Peter S. Beagle, @joerlansdale.bsky.social, @samtasticbooks.com, and others! FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! buff.ly/6Wbvy1u #sfpl #tachyon30

Heyoooo! This evening, 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern, we're doing a really fun batch of mini readings and a Q&A for Tachyon's 30th anniversary, live on C.S.E. Cooney's Twitch stream: twitch.tv/csecooney