A really powerful message from Brighton & Hove Albion on #TogetherAgainstSuicide with the Samaritans. Please watch it. Ask your friends if they are OK.

Page 56 just gave me an emotional kick, and NOW I’m invested in this book. Let’s go.

And mine is off - ffs

yikes, my "require alt text before posting" setting had been turned off too! check on yours if you haven't lately. it's under Settings / Accessibility.

Presenting the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN AUGUST 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's July's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

So I was busy going to WorldCon and moving my kids into college right around release and I have not yet yelled properly about how excited I am about the many wonderful ways you can read THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES!!!! I am LOSING MY MIND over some of these!!! Here's a thread!

One is the excellent The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso.

Is this too ambitious?

I wonder if The Land in Winter will be on the Booker shortlist?

All my books are now live on my site shop in eBook form, and apart from the £12 starter pack that includes 10 of my longer books, there's also now a bumper pack of all 45 of my 99p shorts priced at £25! johannestevans.co.uk/product/joha...

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

New review - The Bewitching, by @silviamg.bsky.social, is an excellent #spooky read out now from @arcadiabooks.bsky.social to whom thanks for copy to read and review. Witchcraft & family secrets! #BookSky 📚💙 bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...

Stop treating them like they are stupid; start treating them like they are vindictive. THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT

This is the stack of books it would be nice to have read by the end of the year. It’s totally aspirational. This excludes my two shortlist challenges and all the other interesting titles I have piled up. What would you prioritise?

They are good books. THE FOLDED SKY is in my top five of the year.

One is the excellent The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso.

i second that emotion

We’re looking for some cover artists/designers for a couple of upcoming projects! But you gotta be real. •No AI •We have no interest in anime-style work, sorry We need someone comfortable illustrating plants and animals (especially birds). Please reply with a way to see your portfolio.

I am assuming that ‘gratuitous’ was meant to be applied to sex and they mean ‘foot nose’ and were … fuckcorrected. I am prepared to be proven wrong but will be sad.

"How can you be you, if you’re wrapped so tightly around someone else?" Seth Haddon's Volatile Memory is a trans, transhumanist, and high-energy science fiction novella reviewed by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social: reactormag.com/book-review-...

Apparently, I’m in a parenting-in-a-fantasy-setting mood. It was a theme in my last book, and it’s definitely a theme in my current one. Anyone want to guess the titles?

This is the stack of books it would be nice to have read by the end of the year. It’s totally aspirational. This excludes my two shortlist challenges and all the other interesting titles I have piled up. What would you prioritise?

📚 Some bookish kickstarters are really struggling right now, here is a list of some that look promising to me 📚

Contemporary stories featuring Welsh mythology?? Yes please!

Our lastest anthology project will be launched on Kickstarter in October. Find out more about it here: www.kickstarter.com/...

At least I shopped like it’s Halloween. Spooky house season is coming.

I have just bought two more….

I finished a book yesterday. I then started a novella. I finished the novella today. Now I’m reading a new novel. Impressive, but Monday will likely mean my brain is dribbling out of my ear and my mojo will slow.

🚨ICYMI🚨 We've snapped up @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's multi award-nominated ASUNDER for the UK! A finalist for the Nebula & Locus Awards, and a Reactor Reviewer’s Choice Best Book of 2024, SABRIEL meets WITCH KING in this deliciously dark fantasy. January 2026. Preorder: geni.us/asunder

Dreamy queer bookshops. Some do coffee too. Some also have *very* cute dogs/cats/pets. Follow and support however you can. go.bsky.app/G321HCf

So stoked to be featured on the Writing Excuses podcast today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

Has anyone read Hard Copy by Fien Veldman (trans Hester Velmans)?

A lovely write-up of their week which includes: A reminder of The Scour by Richard Swan (a prequel novella) Writing The Magic hasn’t been dispatched yet Slow Gods is one to look forward to And an answer to Why Anthologies? Plus lots of other temptations and insights.

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

Annie Lennox has a new version on Why? out. Watch the concert where it was first sung and I dare you not to cry.

The Sunday Summary: 21st Sept 25 Edition is out now. It contains a little reading update and a quick whizz through my Bluesky bookmarks.

Good to know that at least some people are keeping the As Others See Us classics alive: 'In What We Can Know, which McEwan has called a work of “science fiction without the science”...'

Particularly useful for science fiction & fantasy writers in an age of TVtropes, the Turkey City Lexicon is from an earlier age, one unafraid to call a cliché a cliché. Some of it would be useful for any writer in any genre – I see 'countersinking' all the damn time, for example.

The Sunday Summary: 21st Sept 25 Edition is out now. It contains a little reading update and a quick whizz through my Bluesky bookmarks.

Annie Lennox has a new version on Why? out. Watch the concert where it was first sung and I dare you not to cry.

We tell our teen this all the time.

This is a nifty write up of both sets of novels—go read GENERATION LOSS!—plus an interview with me about why Aud, with her “slivers of strangeness” is a “unique character who could enliven a book in any genre”. Quite right!

Oh, good, Weapons (2025) contains the bury-your-gays trope. Not watching that then.

People will disappoint you. You will disappoint people. Try not to disappoint yourself.

I am very much enjoying Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. Better late, etc.

Here’s me having a gorgeous time in West Kirby talking about Let the Bad Times Roll, drinking wine, listening to New Orleans-style jazz, drawing tarot cards for the signing queue and being a little menace 🔮🐊⚜️

This is just embarrassing 😳

Delighted to finally reveal the new SPACE gallery at London's @sciencemuseum.org.uk! It was a pleasure to help - providing what may well be the largest photo of the🌖on🌎! The gallery is stunning, and it's so special to see the Apollo 10 Command Module alongside Soyuz.