The story Jamie and I co-wrote is in this anthology! It’s got shapeshifting robots made of spiders, oppressive government regimes, and kissing! What more could you ask for? ✨ @jamielackey.bsky.social ✨ Check it out: theunderdogpress.com/products/way...

Not gonna lie: I had and continue to have complicated feelings re: my debut novel taking off due to the Trump administration. But if you can find something in it that resonates with you in these weird times, my feelings about that aren't complicated at all. <3

New story day! “Five Answers to Questions You Probably Have” is live at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. It's a short story told in the form of a crumpled up note, stuffed inside a geode, hidden in your bedroom wall, from the father you've never met, explaining how he knew you'd find this one day.

Today I have a new story out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social - “Three Faces of a Beheading”, which is about historiography and usurpation and storytelling and protest actions. (This is the story I was talking about a bit ago with the stunt-writing POV and structure games!) I am very proud of it.

From searingly important YA to gritty adult SF, Sam J Miller's been winning all the awards and changing the field's landscape one incredible novel and story at a time. Join him to chat all things SFF and literary. @sentencebender.bsky.social igg.me/at/locusmag2024

My 4-week horror writing class with Atlas Obscura will be starting up again soon! Sign up by February 18 to learn about horror's origins, creepypasta, responsible trope deconstruction, and how scaring people is really similar to making them laugh. www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/...

This is amazing.

Hey folks! I'm not really on social media, but since I've been asked what I'm working on, here's a list of my upcoming books for 2024.

Oh no. It’s me.

Wowwwww my short story "If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak" is on the Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballot!! I love the horror writing community, so this is deeply meaningful for me. Big big gratitude to The Dark, for publishing the story. www.thedarkmagazine.com/if-someone-y...

This is the place. Say you're between 14 and 19 years old and you wanna learn about writing skiffy: alphawritersworkshop.org/apply/

Hey, DiscworldSky, heads up: All of the discworld e-books are up for sale on HumbleBundle. $18 bucks for all 39. Spread the word. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

My really popular barebones RSS comic from November 2022! I hope it helps you stay updated with your favourite webcomics, artists and websites. I’m just a simple guy who’s passionate about RSS feeds, comics and staying updated using both. Go forth and make the feed of your dreams! #Art #Comic #RSS

On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem De Kooning, 1/12

soooo I have a new short story out!! for the first time... four years???? that can't be right. I'm totally chill about this and not freaking out in the least!!

so many of these text editors are trying to winnow our vocabularies. Let your wavy red underline flags fly! ⛳️

LOVED this book. I've even assigned it in writing classes to show how characters, relationships, and plot all interact and build on each other -- it's a masterclass.

Today is the last day you can repost this

It seems new people are finding Benjanun Sriduangkaew, aka Maria Ying, who is also Winterfox/Requires Hate, and who is a serial harasser and stalker. I am linking to a rundown of their history, from Livejournal days through now, of harming others. Block and do not engage. Share vetted sources.

Oh my god yes and also I hate making videos so very much.

MAJOR FAN of John Wiswell here - John's my hero as a person and as a writer - so I'm super honored that he connected with my addiction horror story "If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak!!"

Oh hey, I'm one of those authors! "Someone Else's Device" and other wonderful stories available now!

"Hello, we have a reservation for the night." "No you don't."

Spent the last few days on Twitter because something incredible happened there: thousands of people reading and translating Refaat Alareer's last poem, "If I Must Die," into, by now, probably over a hundred languages. You must see the replies and quotes of this tweet. twitter.com/blkpaws/stat...

New essay! "Sweat and Skin" by Lee Mandelo! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/swea...

This essay is about atrocity, memory, and feeding the courageous child inside oneself. Amal has put language to the grief that has been accumulating over these past weeks; this is an absolutely vital read. Accompanied by a recipe for labaneh and zaatar on pita.

My latest story is live at Strange Horizons! It's a worm-filled exploration of the violence of the closet, set in the aftermath of an Invasion of the Body Snatchers type event. 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

BREAKING: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer just signed landmark voting rights legislation: It's the first law in the nation that will automatically register people as they're released from prison! Learn more: boltsmag.org/michigan-aut...

The CDC now has a national dashboard for SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Viral Activity. Upper Midwest is concerning. www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI... 🧪

Lemon jelly was thought to be an easily identifiable jellyfish due to its four weirdly big tentacles. A study revealed that it's actually 5 separate species with notable color & shape differences, showing how little we know about supposedly common animals. 🎨 🧪 🐡 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...

I think we’ve learned an important lesson today, which is: If you ever run a media company, do not ever create a situation where your poetry editor might have cause to write a resignation letter, because it will scorch you from the face of the earth.

Dr. Iwashyna, an ICU physician at Johns Hopkins, told STAT: “Just last week in my ICU, I had a patient whose pulse oximeter was reading 100% at the same time that his arterial blood gas showed that his oxygen levels were dangerously low. I need these things to work, and work in all my patients.”

10ish years after I doodled it, the only thing I've ever drawn that went viral is finally gonna be a poster. Will have these at Houston Zinefest this weekend and again later in my BigCartel store.

We have a new preprint up. This one is a hypothesis paper, addressing one of the bigger unanswered questions that people have been asking me for the last 15 years: why has complex multicellularity only evolved in eukaryotes, never in prokaryotes? 1/33 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy Circulatory System Wandering Through the Kitchen Day to all who celebrate!

[ The Things We Carve ] 1/8

One of the very few positive aspects of the Israel-Gaza war right now is seeing people gently and determinedly repeat their conviction that they will not make stark binary statements; that they will not be told they must value children on one side of the line more highly than on the other.

I had a story out last month and didn't say much about it bc I had COVID. It's about disease and connection and doing what you can in terrible circumstances, and the lovely people at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social even interviewed me about it! Story: uncannymagazine.com/article/the-... 💜

I did the cover for the November issue of Scientific American AND the inside spread for this month's cover story! A funny story about this is I read what palette the art director said he wanted wrong (I gave him options) and made the entire piece in the wrong colors. Had to redo it all in 24 hours!

A mini quilt I made based on Landsat images of farm fields in Hokkaido

Well, I got bored on my break and did a quick example -- feel free to use! I'd love more recs if you have them for this kind of thing? #NaNoWriMo

The boys really like their new murder fort.

It's Caturday & yesterday was National Black Cat Day. So here is a picture of my (sadly-departed) cat Sin, a preposterous, delightful feline who was a credit to his species. Hug a black cat today.

Sci-fi Osahon is back! I’m so thrilled I had the pleasure of working with @logic_magazine for “A Home that Lives” my emotional near-future story about the demolition of Nigerian ancestral homes. Full issue in December, but read my story here now: https://logicmag.io/policy/a-home-that-lives/

I witnessed the first destruction of a Confederate statues, and wrote about why I believe many more of our monuments to hate should follow: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/o...

So happy to be a part of this book! I'm reading my contributor copy now and it's the perfect spooky season read!