A Big 5 editor friend told me that one of her biggest frustrations is that since nothing is really working right now, it'd be a great time to throw everything at the wall and see what new ideas stick. But instead they just shrug and keep trying ideas from 20 years ago.

Book Review Just finished Catherine Bush's SKIN from @gooselane.bsky.social and ya, you should grab a copy of this incredible collection! @catebush.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Have they stolen the books or pieces you wrote? secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Show me your favorite author websites, please? Can also shout out your own! Looking for minimalist, clean look 👀

V interesting piece on the genre of literary fiction. One thing it's missing is the borderland between SFF and litfic, which imo is one of the most contested... www.thenovelry.com/blog/literar...

The Guardian view on the 2025 Booker prize: bringing posh bingo to the BookTok generation | Editorial With this year’s shortlist announced live to the public, Britain’s most prestigious literary award is finding ways to engage new audiencesWith its reputation for stuffiness and elitism, the...

Bad luck can dog a writer’s career, but so can autism, or allistic people’s prejudice toward it. It sure causes spurious gossip.

thewalrus.ca/the-publishi... I had a pub whose publicity person got fired before my book came out, not replaced for 8 mo, when new person said my book was “stale-dated.” Thus, zero publicity. 0%.

Link to a review of my novel “Weekend.” "Weekend is perhaps the queer book you didn’t know you needed so much." caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/v...

Way to make Canada even less accessible to the disabled, govt. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Reviewed the incandescent Starry, Starry Night at Goodreads here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

LA friends. I'll be reading from She's Under Here and discussing the book with the magnificent @samydunn.bsky.social at Diesel Bookstore on Sunday, September 28 at 3:00 p.m. Please come—I'd love to say hi. (p.s. A reservation helps the store plan.) dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

🧵I wish I had more to report from this writer’s life, but I got sick again and have had to crawl my way back. Was on my way to hospital when my medical situation improved; maybe I scared my body into better health? Anyway, been working on grant app all week, and you know what those are like.

Pinning this interview between myself and Shelagh Rogers. I miss her melifluous voice on the radio so much. This interview was a highlight of my life as a writer. Enjoy! The Next Chapter www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The news is excellent! I was expecting surgery, but turns out the vet doesn’t think that’s necessary! B's lumps are likely cysts, and the eyes only warrant steroid drops, at least for now. I got her boosters, as well as pain meds for her hips, and the steroids and some flea meds for $530. PHEW.

Arundhati Roy at U of T Convocation Hall reading from her new memoir Mother Mary Comes To Me ❤️📚#BookSky

I was thrilled to see that this book that I haven't seen anyone talk about yet got longlisted for a National Book Award! I loved the ARC. It's a tender story about a 63-year-old gay man who lives with his overprotective, spitfire mother in war-torn Beirut. #booksky

Been quite ill this week, so haven’t been writing, must admit. I did end up going through a longer story and finishing it up for sub, for which I’m grateful. (Wouldn’t it be something if places recognized that the disabled may need more time?)

Litfic is where the prose is so artful you hardly notice how little happens. Genre is where so much happens you hardly notice how bad the prose is.

Apropos of nothing ... both Ursula K. Le Guin & Samuel R. Delany both had ppl saying they'd "abandoned" SFF for "litfic" in the '80s just b/c they experimented with form & considered how gender, sexuality, & race informed the shape of genres & the narratives they tend to proliferate.

I was trying to find examples of use of my poem “I Was Dead” which was listed as stolen by AI by The Atlantic/LibGen, and found it as recommended by Marilyn Hacker in a book I have no memory of being a part of. I did know Marilyn, tho, around the time of Mavis Gallant’s funeral, which I attended.

I think the late poet Michael Dennis, whom I never met, was one of the early folks using the internet for book reviews. Here is one he did of my last book of poetry, “Love Will Burst Into a Thousand Shapes." michaeldennispoet.blogspot.com/2014/12/love...

Still struggling along with generating short fiction. Usually my favourite occupation, just in a slump. Oh well. Have varnished some canvases this morning and gotten rid of some weeds, both loathed jobs. Fiction should be such a gift, but I feel dry of ideas. Advice?

She Won the Booker Prize. Then She Disappeared for 20 Years. #authors #books dnyuz.com/2025/09/04/s...

Here is The Atlantic article with a link to search LibGen stolen works. They took two of mine, but on other lists, I’ve seen more (a Meta list and a Chat CPT list). www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... Good news! You can check via The Atlantic article which pops up when you search via their link to the LitGen site. They did steal mine.

Because I’ve been struggling with a story taking place in Greece, a pic from before I was old, in Greece, 2000:

A hundred years after Mrs. Dalloway, I spent August reading seven novels by women—each exploring silence, longing, and generational trauma. Read by essay: [https://bit.ly/100-years-of-silence] 🎥 Reel: [https://www.instagram.com/beatakwriter/reel/DN_h1Q5AE2R/] #litfic #MrsDalloway #womensfiction

Carney is killing people he’s supposed to be supporting. Everyone knows that women’s/gender services and arts can’t take the cuts. These people already live on a razor’s edge. Libs are supposed to help, but since they’re utilizing the Reich-wing to prop them up instead of NDP, we’re screwed.

@maris.bsky.social explains why books aren’t the solution to building empathy, but they definitely help: “We’re stuck in a moment when passive entertainment rules, when books are viewed by the ruling class as strictly utilitarian.”

Very excited to be presenting an essay at this event! Kathryn Davis is an extraordinary writer whose work inspires and haunts me in the best way. Looking forward to meeting the other presenters and hearing @kellylink.bsky.social in conversation with Davis!

I will never choose to read fiction/literary fiction written by AI I will choose human writers every day. One of the appeals of #reading for me is knowing that what i'm reading has come from someones imagination, there's something special about that. What AI writes is stolen imagination. #Booksky

For #WomenInTranslationMonth, we spoke to Deepa Bhasthi, translator and winner of this year’s International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq. She discusses her translation process and what it’s like being a writer in multilingual societies like India. pen.org/deepa-bhasth...

What happens when Arundhati Roy—Booker Prize winner, activist, truth-teller—turns the pen on herself? Her first memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, is raw, fierce, and unforgettable. This fall at BAM, she’ll unpack it all with Imani Perry. 📅 9/10 🎟 tr.ee/AVSByK

🧵The novel that wouldn’t stop writing itself was done on Thursday. Just the raw scaffolding. Yet, except for a garbled ending, I’m good with it, excited for the time when I can start rewriting it, building out the scaffolding. I expect to add another third, as well as fixing what’s already there.

CBC Books have shared their Fall 2025 Canadian Fiction preview and we're thrilled to see Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo and A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News by Cary Fagan included in it. www.cbc.ca/books/fictio...

Just took a call from a library patron looking for Dave Eggers’ WHAT IS THE WHAT. Come to find out, this patron was going through a list of literary fiction recommended by Ann Patchett — whose recommendations are in the context of having gotten good & mad at David Brooks. 🤣📚 youtu.be/tPrH7kqGKCY?...

Still accepting submissions for ALL GENRES, but I'm hoping to reach some more authors of sci-fi, romance, and litfic atm especially! Anyone out there? 👀

This Women in Translation Month, discover translated fiction from across the globe, as recommended by International Booker Prize-nominated authors. ⤵️ https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/m4cbo8fieu

Scribner to launch new imprint, Scribner Editions, for literary fiction and narrative non-fiction in 2026 https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/74173/ Sophie Missing, publishing director of Scribner UK Scribner UK is to launch a new imprint, Scribner Editions, for…

Woof, hit 50K words yesterday. I don’t measure success by how much I get done, but this quick achievement is cheering. I love that I have the basic scope of this thing finally, after approx 20,000 drafts. Going to 60K, so that I have about 20K more to add in fleshing things out, next draft.

I’m also thrilled to be part of @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ‘s group launch on Sept 14th, starting at 3:30 at Supermarket 🧡📚🎉more readings to come soon 💗