New year, new awards, new cover!

New year, new cover, same cutting-edge speculative fiction. Hot off the presses, the PB edition now also has the new cover! (Panic shopping right now? Ebook's on supersale at Smashwords! Or tell your reading loved one you'll have them the perfect bokish gift for NYE) books2read.com/newyearnewyo...

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

Look, maybe you're buying gifts for everyone right now and feeling a little burned out. Maybe you need to get yourself a little pick me up. Maybe that's a deeply discounted ebook of awesome speculative fiction. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

I had a really good writing day yesterday, the kind where you lose yourself in the work. I think my brain was grateful to disconnect from this reality for a bit and work through some stuff on the page. My creative friends, may you have a moment to dig into your art this week. You deserve it.

(I'm serious about review copies. Visit linktr.ee/newyearnewyoustories to request one!)

The writing retreats were excellent and now I'm opening up my 2026 calendar to new clients + workshops! Have a book launching soon? Or are you seeking a fresh look at your creativity or career? We'll make you actionable marketing a/o writing goals that meet you where you are + where you want to be!

They are giving away 50 copies of my debut, The Poet Empress, on goodreads! I hope you'll enter 🥰 #booksky #ThePoetEmpress

Having fun playing Where’s Waldo and spotting Psychic Trash Detectives in PAX Unplugged haul posts. 🦝

I’m editing an anthology! And it’s about cryptids! 👀 This is a dream project for me, and I can’t wait to share this book of games, stories, poems, and other uncanny ephemera with you. Follow the project on Backerkit to learn more.

I'm dying 😂

HOW BEAUTIFUL is this cover?! So excited to be in this anthology!!🌷

Y’all. It is 1 year TO THE DAY since Viable Paradise 2023 started, where I met the most incredible, driven, talented, and ambitious group of writers I’d ever encountered. And we PUBLISHED A BOOK TOGETHER!! I couldn’t be happier and more proud to share New Year, New You with you today. Check us out.

I snuck a story about cache invalidation into this anthology and they still gave it an award. Imagine how good the rest of the stories must be.

Reposting again to emphasize that we won an award!!! Librarians picked the anthology out for best indy scifi. Tldr librarians think we’re cool ✨ 🥈 🥰 📚

Heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing @scottedelman.bsky.social. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE CYCLE OF SAMSARA WITH THIS ONE The Good Place X The Wolf of Wall Street set in the Thai-Buddhist heaven. I hope you enjoy this absurd, divine comedy! Thank you @malf.bsky.social for the opportunity to gush about the Traibhumikatha and Wenjing Yang for the godlike art!!

It's been pointed out to me that I should take more credit: I designed our new cover, drawing on the original tremendous cover art by @sciencegeekmel.bsky.social + inspo from the gripping stories within. Get the ebook on sale today and see if you can connect the dots! books2read.com/newyearnewyo...

It's been just over a year since this enthusiastically crowd-funded anthology was released by the coolest SFF writers I know. Our contributors have won accolades and the book itself has won an IAP award! Check out it's hot, new cover + pick it up this weekend for $5! books2read.com/newyearnewyo...

Wow, look at that fancy new cover! Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project! Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!! www.amazon.com/New-Year-You...

I'm so excited that @viableparadise.bsky.social 2023's anthology baby was awarded runner up from the Indie Author Project! Now we have a shiny badge for the cover!

I'm beyond thrilled that my story, The Dark House, is available for your listening pleasure on the latest episode of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton! There's a bunch of cool behind the scenes stuff on @wilwheaton.net's patreon as well. Happy Spooky Season! www.patreon.com/posts/142200...

Hard copy of my first international sale. Thanks #sciencefictionworld!

My first collection, UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, @undertow.bsky.social is now available. Kind words for it by Kelly Link, Brian Evenson, Jeff Ford, Premee Mohamed, John Wiswell, and more. Cover, Ove Tøpfer, design, Vince Haig. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta... books2read.com/uncertain

I guess a taxi ghost story is my debut into professional publishing! I hope you enjoy the notorious scandal twist and the Southeast Asian noir flavour. Read the story here! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto... (1/5)

Readers and reviewers: it's up to us to share as much about the backlist we read as the front list. Books don't have just one pub date: an old book is new to someone every day! Let's help make those kismet encounters happen.

Just booked a writing retreat, so, er, I'd love to fit in a couple more clients/workshops for fall to help offset the cost! I'm a writer, editor, & marketing coach. My sweet spot is helping authors w forthcoming titles navigate the book marketing engine + plan for launch. (pottern.com) 🧵

Commodified fantasy takes no risks - Ursula K. Le Guin

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YEEEEEEEEEEEE!! I AM SO HERE FOR THIS BOOK!

You can now request Wife Shaped Bodies on Netgalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

PLUS, Am*zon has still decided to sell our paperback for stupid cheap so if you want to have a book gift waiting for you when you return from @seattlein2025.org, now is the time to order it! #worldcon #seattleworldcon #sff #fomo

Ah, the whims of Am*zon: the pb is now... $7.54! Look, don't ask questions, just grab it while it's cheap! PLUS, the ebook is still less than $5 for a few more days! Doppelgangers, time travel, simulations, alternate realities, magical transformations, you name it! books2read.com/newyearnewyo...

Major FOMO re: #worldcon!! Half of our anthology's contributors will be there, so the ebook is more than half off! Grab a copy and say hi to @darylwriterguy.bsky.social @chriscampbell.bsky.social @fechoe.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @avani.bsky.social books2read.com/newyearnewyo...

Looking forward to this new story by @traewrites.bsky.social Hawkins.

New Issue: BCS #438 out today, featuring stories of lands beyond and coming home from them and from war by @stephenrcase.bsky.social and @traewrites.bsky.social Hawkins, From the Archives story by Sara Saab, behind cover art by Ankush Sharma: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Yay! New story out by @traewrites.bsky.social.

Our little-anthology-that-could is still randomly on super-sale from Am*zon. Less than $5 for this beautiful paperback: a.co/d/0NE0fgO It's the perfect time to get your hands on these tremendous SFF stories from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, F.E. Choe, Shen Tao and more. #speclit #booksky

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Some of the Years Best Eco Fiction and Years Best Weird Fiction all in one place! You could spend over $50 to read these stories separately so why not spend $4.47 to read them together.

No idea why, but Am*zon put our book on deep discount! Get our kickass anthology IN PAPERBACK feat. stories by @matociquala.bsky.social @darylwriterguy.bsky.social and up-and-comers from @viableparadise.bsky.social FOR LESS THAN $5! Go, now, before the algorithm changes its mind! a.co/d/0NE0fgO 📚🚀

B&N is having a preorder sale for rewards and premium members, 25% off with code PREORDER25, you can get Wife Shaped Bodies (ebook, paperback, audio) and other great upcoming titles #BNPreorder

Viable Paradise alumni dinner at Readercon 2025. #Readercon #ViableParadise #VP @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @jensmind.bsky.social @chrisrose.bsky.social @daviddegraff.bsky.social @skyfyre88.bsky.social @rjtaylor.bsky.social @courtney-floyd.com

I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

Notifications have just gone out for the 2025 Viable Paradise workshop! Congratulations/condolences to all! If you applied and have not received an email, please reach out to [email protected]

“Swarm X1048 - Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, ‘6’” by F.E. Choe (Clarkesworld Magazine) “The Colonists” by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social (Trollbreath Magazine) “The Ghost Tenders of Chornobel” by Nika Murphy (Apex Magazine)

So glad to see this story will be delighting even more readers soon. I knew @traewrites.bsky.social was doing something special as soon as I read the first line.

NEW BLOG POST ALERT! 🌱🍄 Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! Thank you to everyone who submitted and nominated stories this year. Check the post or keep reading for the full table of contents!