UPDATE: still reading @zachweinersmith.bsky.social's Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home. I WOKE FEELING HORRIBLE! Tasks, texts, pings, check-ins, chores, duties, all yelping for attention. Picked up the book: poof. My day is full of laughter and delight. This, the power of great literature.

Just started reading @zachweinersmith.bsky.social ‘s Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home and I’m only 5 pages in and I cannot stop laughing! Guy’s a freakin’ genius.

Pretty mad that @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social’s Steerswoman series has been around for most of my life and it took until 2026 for someone to recommend them to me.

This guy. youtu.be/x-Le9SH4mvU?...

Ich hab einen kleinen Dinosaurier gemalt

Ooh. Love Daryl Gregory!

OBSTETRIX IS OUT TODAY!!! If you're looking for a signed copy ASAP, I went over yesterday to Uncle Hugo's and Moon Palace and signed stock.

06/09! Nice! :)

I would be REMISS in not bringing this sale on King's Dragon ebook to your attention.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

The first two volumes of my husband Emmet O'Brien's Vega Victrix series are now available as ebooks "Spiritually Canadian borderline transhumans solve mysteries, meet aliens and bring the benefits of peace, order and good government across human space." www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3JCNPS...

Exciting! For anyone who really enjoys a deep, long-planned world and long-planned story, Emmet's been working on these for ages and it's very exciting to see them in the world for people to enjoy!

This is so real it hurts

Today is 14 years since I started blogging at allthingslinguistic.com I don't post as much there as I did the first decade or so but it's still how I met a lot of interesting people (including my podcast cohost @superlinguo.bsky.social) so let's pour one out metaphorically for blogging, yay blogs!

This enchanting novella is a lyrical, fairytale ballad of sisterly and romantic love, with a little bit of a bite. Appended with a twisty story excerpted from @amalelmohtar.com's new short story collection, which I'm looking forward to. #JustRead

Nabbed this just in time! You can too, for the next 2 hours or so.

So I just got an email from someone offering to buy my claims in the Anthropic case, and whew are the vultures ever circling overhead.

Straczynski and what's been missing from the discourse about AI "creativity." jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-wh...

The new illustrated Subterranean edition of Queen Demon! Art by Rovina Cai.

Thought I'd just read these first page, next thing I know hours had passed and finished it. Not sure how Wells works this magic so consistently and grateful for the positive diversion during the daily deluge of negative stuff. Where is Murderbot when you need him?!?

YES! New Murderbot is out! So happy. @marthawells.com saves my weekend!

More Jo Walton on sale! Time to make your move.

“As opposed to hallucinations, which involve AI models arbitrarily filling in the gaps within a logical framework, the team coined a new term for the phenomenon: “mirage reasoning.”” The only mirage reasoning happening here is what the "team" is doing

Here's my tour info for Platform Decay!

“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.

Tihihihi

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.