Well, hello, darling. This means you are exactly 1/3 finished, aren't you? (If I'm a VERY good girl and finish within word count that is.) Next stop: the halfway mark at 50,000.

HELL YEAH!

Here's a list featuring @margaret.bsky.social and me: lithub.com/100-notable-... We're small! We're notable!

Amazing! The African Translation Project is 98% funded--we are so doing this! ko-fi.com/africantrans...

HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!

Buy my books, help me keep Ben in blankets!

Oh! This is one that I remember Robert V.S. Redick also highly recommending!

As we've had a lot of new followers join us recently, we thought now would be a good time to reshare our bumper Starter Pack of superb Solaris Authors! Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!

Solaris publishes a lot of great stuff. Work by Premee Mohamed, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Sam J. Miller, just to list some obvious examples.

New date for @solarisbooks.bsky.social's author talk between myself & Caskey Russell of DOOR ON THE SEA (Book One of The Raven & Eagle.) We'll be discussing the "Bravery of Hope" in fiction. December 18th: 7pm GMT 2pm EST--MY TIME! 11am PST Sign up at this link: crowdcast.io/c/f1ettu2z4728

I thought some of you would enjoy this listen about the costume design for "Wicked: For Good" one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...

Join us on our Patreon for all kinds of bonus content, as well as our eight episode prelude, "The Children's Adventure," and find The Wizard, the Witch and the Wild One wherever you get your podcasts!

You never know what's going to remain of a first draft, but...

Thanks for everyone who participated in our launch party tonight! We have another SPRING IN THE CITY event coming up on December 14 at 2 PM ET - link to come.

HOW I ADORED @pennyvixen.bsky.social's TOMB OF DRAGONS! And I'm *loving* DOOR ON THE SEA so far!

The question is, what should I read? Should I read from the very raw manuscript of SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY? Should I read from SAINT DEATH'S HERALD? Should I read my HILARIOUS romantasy short story that recently go rejected from an anthology but that I love and recently submitted to new writing group?

I'mma be back at @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social on Tuesday 12/16 @ 7pm, alongside three fabulous people: @csecooney.bsky.social @davidgerrold.bsky.social and Georgia Day! So come on down to Industry City in Brooklyn on the 16th and hear four wonderful authors read their work! brooklynbooksbooze.com

Wanna fully fujd two translations? Do it now. 3% more to go. ko-fi.com/africantrans...

FuNd. Look, it's late where I am. But I want to see this funded.

Oh yay yay yay! My beloved artist/dancer/all-around-awesomesauce sister-in-law Martha Hernandez has launched her online art shop! I've already bought two pairs of painted earrings. Yes, I have. I'll probably give one away as a present, if I can bear to part with it. www.marthasartseries.com/shop

Happening right now. But video of the entire symposium will be available in about 2 weeks, including Carlos’s keynote here: openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/scienceficti... (Archives of previous 9 symposiums here as well.)

I'm a guest at @randeedawn.com's "Brooklyn Books & Booze" series on Dec 16 at 7 PM at Barrows Intense Ginger Tasting House in Industry City, Brooklyn. There'll be 3 invited guests and a MYSTERY GUEST! Huzzah! randeedawn.com/bonus/brookl...

Authors this round include @kellygay.bsky.social, @margotfharrison.bsky.social, @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social / @drkarenlord.bsky.social / @older.bsky.social, @maureenogle.bsky.social, @brandonsanderson.com, @schneiderjamz.bsky.social, and more!

Reminder that Apex Magazine is closed to submissions for the month of December! We look forward to reopening in the new year and reading more of your strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful fiction 🖤👽

my timing is terrible, considering the holidays, but think of it as a wonderful writing-themed gift to a budding author. I have to raise $905 by the 15th of December to complete the tuition for Under the Volcano, a highly competitive writing wksp in Mexico City. please help! gofund.me/83e7a4cbd

HOW I ADORED @pennyvixen.bsky.social's TOMB OF DRAGONS! And I'm *loving* DOOR ON THE SEA so far!

Time for a round up of all of the new Solaris Books released in 2025, including titles from @emmanewman.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @vajra.me @natania.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com & more!

Timo Fahler's solo stained glass exhibit. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/timo...

New Yorkers & NYC adjacent (& anyone else interested): "Science Fiction at City Tech: Teaching, Researching & Archiving Sci-Fi at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY" is free & open to the public!!! Carlos Hernandez has a keynote at 4 PM tomorrow! openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/scienceficti...

Oh, heckballs. @tanaudel.bsky.social's December calendar is TOO ADORABLE. I can't take it. I must wear a crown ALL DAY LONG now. tanaudel.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/d...

#HorrorCommunity #BOTD Madame Tussaud: A French Revolution survivor turned beheadings into a business that refused to die 🖤 💀 Her “Chamber of Horrors” fascinated all @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @hdwp.com @alpbeck.com substack.com/@greenwichvi...

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

This is such a compassionate & thoughtful thread. I quit teaching—something I genuinely love doing—in 2022 for several burnout-inducing reasons, but the constantly compounding nightmare I see former colleagues enduring is so much worse.

Typo of the day _ealth_ (intended to be _wealth_). Maybe an ealth would be an abundance of eels. PATRON (reading the specials at a seafood restaurant): Eel pie. Eel steaks. Crispy eel nuggets. Eel goulash. Eel burgers. Eel shakes. What’s with all the eel stuff? WAITRON: It’s because of the ealth.

i think cover illustrator’s names should go ON the covers, with the author’s name. People pick up my book BECAUSE of Kate Forrester. I think this should be standard—in books as in magazines.

Oops I fell into this shop again and bought some stuff but not as much as I wanted @peculiarityshop.bsky.social! MY ONE WEAKNESS!

I'm going to a museum today so I, too, will direct you to some things I love before I go. Shivaniiii. How dare you. $26 www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

INTERVIEW: LindaAnn LoSchiavo on Turning Caregiving into Creative Expression in "Cancer Courts My Mother" (Prolific Pulse Press, Nov. 2025). #FormalVerse @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @bookspotlight.bsky.social onetribune.one/2025/11/29/l...

Oops I fell into this shop again and bought some stuff but not as much as I wanted @peculiarityshop.bsky.social! MY ONE WEAKNESS!

Good morning and welcome to a thread of everything that Meg (me) would buy if they (I) had unlimited funds. ✨✨✨ www.peculiarityshop.com

Our friends Down Under at New Dawn Publishing have revealed Michaela Alcaino's STUNNING cover for THE HIDDEN WAY, the concluding part of @julietmarillier.bsky.social 's HEARTWOOD duology! Book 1, THE AMBER OWL, lands in the UK next summer https://geni.us/amberowl Book 2 will follow in summer 2027!

Our essays for this week are: Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence  by Tanvir Ahmed Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Am reading. Am loving. You know, I’ve cosplayed book COVERS, but never a CHARACTER. But if I WERE to cosplay a character, it might be @stephanieburgis.bsky.social’s Fae Queen. I’d get to just SMOTHER myself in sparkles and rainbows and glitter. It would be so fabulous.

@flaptraps.bsky.social : @sapphomancer.bsky.social ‘s METAL FROM HEAVEN (UK font treatment by Sam Gretton) Nat Mackenzie aka Miss Nat Mack: @natania.bsky.social ‘s QUEEN OF MERCY St Martin’s Press design team: @edashtonwriting.bsky.social ‘s THE FOURTH CONSORT 9/9

@rowynnellis.bsky.social : Roanne Lau’s THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY James Jones: @pennyvixen.bsky.social ‘s THE ORB OF CAIRADO and THE TOMB OF DRAGONS @katieklim.bsky.social : @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social ’s HOME SICK Andrew Davis: @vajra.me ‘s RAKESFALL 8/9

Black Sheep Design: @jonmcgoran.bsky.social ‘s THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING Michaela Alcaino : @julietmarillier.bsky.social ‘s THE AMBER OWL and Ariel Kaplan’s THE KINGDOM OF ALMONDS Dominic Forbes: @voidcricket.bsky.social ‘s AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD and Aliya Whiteley’s THE MISHEARD WORLD 7/9

Cover art by Greg Ruth; Design by Christine Foltzer: @kerstinhall.bsky.social ‘s ASUNDER Design by Vi-An Nguyen. Original art ‘Princess Tarakanova’ by Konstantin Flavitsky: @isabelcanas.bsky.social 's THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ (UK font treatment by Sam Gretton) 6/9

Kate Forrester: @csecooney.bsky.social ‘s SAINT DEATH'S HERALD Charlotte Strick: @artofelaineho.bsky.social CRY VOIDBRINGER (design adjusted for the UK version by Sam Gretton) Stephanie Hess: @harleylaroux.bsky.social 's HER SOUL TO TAKE 5/9

i think cover illustrator’s names should go ON the covers, with the author’s name. People pick up my book BECAUSE of Kate Forrester. I think this should be standard—in books as in magazines.

Amazing15 Design: @taranhunt.bsky.social ‘s THE UNKILLABLE PRICESS, Jade Linwood’s BEAST, @deuceofgears.bsky.social ‘s STARSTRIKE and @ymresnik.bsky.social ‘s THE ELYSIUM HEIST. Veronica Park: @samkhorton.bsky.social ‘s RAGWORT 4/9