“Come for the space sex, stay for the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies!”

YOU HEARD ME WRITE A washpot never boils — Go back to the drawing, bored. Wrap your header round it: It’s not rock; it’s science.

Night side of Earth. There's another image that's brighter, but it's a camera effect. This is what you would see with your eyes.

I don't use AI in my writing. AI, on the other hand, steals my writing to train up on so it can do its work. The recent discourse about how writers use it but pretend they don't pisses me off. If you're using generative AI to write your stories, you are pissing me off. You. Specifically.

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If you want an accessible free online translation as the next step in helping your students enjoy the poem, check out mine (it's about 85% done; I'm closing in on the Green Chapel scene). alliteration.net/poetry/sggk/

Conversation! Words! Conversations about words! Conversations using words to converse about words. Also, language! Using language to converse about language. Did I leave anything out?... Lively hosts! Enthusiasm! Linguistics! Yeah, that covers it. What's not to love?

poems with titles longer than the poem vs poems with a title so tucked and short it feels hardly there at all

I have a joke about statisticians but it's too mean.

Bravo Norway Go Frak Yourselves Big Tech Thank you @doctorow.pluralistic.net #enshittification youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This is a good article and I'm proud of @juliaangwin.com (whom I have known since college) for suing. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Another day, another class action to join

Yep.

Oh, this is both chilling and enlightening.

From the guy who brought you Bea Wolf! Which i loved wildly. So I just preordered this..

Yeah, pretty much.

Sad to hear of Jeff Carver 's passing. So smart, sweet and positive! Wise, supportive--and his wide-canvas novels were such great reads! And the audiobooks! (I once asked him how he got the amazing Stefan Rudnciki to narrate his books. Answer: he ASKED him to.) What a guy. I miss him.

Snatch this up! Unless you already have one... The snatch it up for a friend!

AMERICA! @bluejo.bsky.social's Hugo-Winning "Among Others" is on sale for $2.99 for Kindle right now! (other ebook stores often follow suit!)

Heads up!

Now it's only six months until it comes out, I have a page for Everybody's Perfect on my website www.jowaltonbooks.com/books/everyb...

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This is brilliant!

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Farthing, my alternate history mystery novel about why good people do bad things is $1.99 as an ebook right now in the US www.amazon.com/Farthing-Sto...

Ok, since this has come up four times in the last three days: REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY. IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.

Christmas moon. Peace earth, at least locally.

This is just to say I have read the book that was in your training data And which you had absorbed as mere statistics Forgive me your summary misses the point of reading at all.

For any audiobook fans of people who are looking for gifts for them, the audiobook of What Makes This Book So Great is at 50% off until the end of December www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Oh, fuck, really? REALLY??

Just read this lovely, graceful story by Ruthanna Emrys (@r-emrys.bsky.social ) reactormag.com/all-that-mea...

It's my birthday! If you'd like to give me a gift, you can't do better this year than support my Patreon www.patreon.com/c/bluejo

Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it* Using genAI is proof you don't.

If you ever thought of literary translation as some mathematical formula where there was somehow in there a literal solution, take a gander at a handful of professionals translating the first line of Beowulf and realize that it's art, and that these translators are as much authors themselves.

Okay, is it just me, or when the guy takes his glasses off, does the look a lot like @seanmcarroll.bsky.social www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consil...

Oh, yes! If you haven't read this, and you're in the UK, snatch this right up! It is SO WONDERFUL.

My Real Children, my novel about a woman with dementia who remembers two different versions of her own life, is on sale for only $2.99 as an ebook right now www.amazon.com/My-Real-Chil...

SAN ANTONIO: Do not miss @marthawells.com tomorrow (Thursday) at @nowherebookshop.bsky.social! Buy her new book WITCH KING and check out this great new interview w/ Sanford Nowlin of @sacurrent.bsky.social. cc: @mysapl.bsky.social @librarypalooza.bsky.social www.sacurrent.com/arts/things-...

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Hellspark reminded me of @sueburke.bsky.social's Semiosis and @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social's upcoming What We Are Seeking The "order of nerds" element also reminded me of @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social's Steerswoman books If you liked any of these, strong rec for the others!

Me: someone who reads mostly sff Steerswoman books by @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social Me: holy shit

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

This book is so brilliant! Plus, when I wanted to write a poem in the style of Beowulf, and exhausted myself by all the intense scrutinizing and analysis involved, I took refreshing breaks by reading this, laughing with delight, and applauding in admiration!

I invite to join me 54 minutes into video for one of the peak experiences of my life: Renowned folk music collector & performer Sam Lee & I do a performance of words & music from my novel THOMAS THE RHYMER. He insisted I sing the Thomas ballad, though, not him. I took a deep breath & did it.

I feel that @seanmcarroll.bsky.social might find this especially satisfying....

This was the absolute norm for any US politician until, well, Trump. Even Mike Pence said it when he was booed at a staging of Hamilton just after they won in 2016.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

What. the. hell?