Say a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Also, as a general rule, if you're asking why an author has done much of anything relating to publishing, the answer to some significant degree is very often "money." There are other reasons to do things, but here in Late Capitalism, "money" is a pretty big one.

This is practical and wise. I have written things I wouldn’t have without the incentive of money. I talk about money to writing students a lot. The intersection of art and commerce is uneasy, but money can buy you an infinitely precious thing: more time to be an artist.

EXTREMELY interesting Gallup poll on American responses to data centres here First I've seen break down sub-reasons, and most of it relates to environment / resources, particularly water consumption and energy / power bill impacts. Hatred of AI is there, but small news.gallup.com/poll/709772/...

(to the tune of "Maneater") Oh-oh here he comes Watch out world he'll eat your food Oh-oh here he comes He's a Ba-gelll

More criminal indictments in the works.According to a diplomatic source, warrants were also sought for far-right Minister Orit Strock amd two military officials. The ICC in The Hague previously issued warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant

Book 49: Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey. What a fantastic novel! The pacing is absolutely exquisite and draws out the creepy elements in a very thrilling way. If you enjoy themes of cults and climate change this is one for you. 1/2

Also, are you familiar with Richard Brautigan's poem "The Amelia Earhart Pancake"?

Trouble signs at 2 small publishers, per recent reports rec'd by Writer Beware: Rising Action Publishing (ongoing royalty payment delays) Balance of Seven Press (publication delays, royalty payment delays, lack of communication) Authors can contact me (in confidence): [email protected]

Pals! I’m giving away ALL FIVE DRIVE eBOOKS via the Hugo Awards voter packet! The Hugos are all new to me, but I *love* the generosity behind the @thehugoawards.bsky.social voter packet. It’s such a fun way to do it. (…click the “Dave Kellett” download under Best Professional Artist and voilá!)

We live in hell.

The Sunday Morning Transport takes the long view today with a story from Scott Edelman (@scottedelman.bsky.social) that gives is the perspective of a creature that spans time. Read a sample or subscribe for the whole thing!

I can’t wait to participate in the “Romance While Disabled” panel! Because yes, we can be disabled and find romance. We can have the HFN and HEA while managing disabilities! To register for this FREE conference, go to: weeknightwriters.com/2026/04/18/s... #Disability #AuthorSky

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

*Bagel sauntering in to bless your Sunday Skyline*

(to the tune of "Maneater") Oh-oh here he comes Watch out world he'll eat your food Oh-oh here he comes He's a Ba-gelll

Update: Louisiana voters tonight have rejected all five constitutional amendments that were on the ballot today; they were there with the support of the GOP legislature and Gov. Landry.

Wow, thanks, Levi! What a fun teaser for my upcoming book!

This is the bazillionth reason why no one should flippantly talk about getting rid of the southern states. We should never turn our backs on the powerful organizing happening there. We should not cast away the activists working to make change — and who in doing so risk way more than we do up north.

Airlines in Southeast Asia are running out of jet fuel, because White people in America don't like Black people in America.🤷🏿‍♂️ This whole thing would be funny if it weren't so deadly serious.

Because of the terrible and racist way that the US government was designed, that 36% has more political power than the world's other 8 billion people.🤦🏿‍♂️ 36% of the US, controls 100% of the US. The 5% of the world's population that is the US, affects the other 95%. And so everyone on Earth suffers.

Netanyahu may be crumbling, but his regime is alive and well | Opinion | Zvi Bar'el www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

"You can build a process for someone who is not a digital native. But you’ll never succeed if you do a long staff-level pitching process that ends with handing the candidate a briefing document thirty minutes before they do the thing."

There isn’t much left to say except that your children will be less well-rounded than you. Less well-read than you. Less intelligent than you. Less able to problem solve than you. Leas worldly than you. Less empathetic. Less equipped. And more helpless. For the first time in living history.

Help me celebrate Sailing The Golden Chersonese's first month anniversary by 1) getting a copy and 2) signal boosting. :D queenofswordspress.com/product/sail...

People who give money away but insist on video taping it for social media make me so deeply uncomfortable be good without an audience it'll feel just as good actually

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Some Republicans would rather Black Americans pick cotton than pick their Congressperson. They want politicians to decide who their voters are, instead of the voters determining who their Representatives are. We must use every tool available to defend the sacred right to vote.

A trap for the most naive wizards. 😬

Let's make today a Tiny Story day! Leave me a prompt of any kind (but if it's an image, please include a description) and recieve a tiny story just for you! Optional prompt: Transformations

Reduces infection post exposure by about 1/3.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

“NUMBER MUST GO UP” shrieks man addicted to number going up. Around him, millions die from lack of medicine, the earth itself poisoned and gasping. The gyre widens.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

In addition to being just cartoonishly evil, this is not a service anyone needs. There are like three detransitioners, which is why you don’t know any and why they always roll out the same couple people every time they try to make this a thing.

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

Good lord. This is like the "Complaints Department" bit in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

You can vote on the Hugo Awards, even if you don't plan to go to the Worldcon. A $50 WSFS membership gets you voting rights on the Hugo Award. It also usually comes with ebook copies of finalists. We'd certainly love to see more people voting (and would also love your vote for fanzine this year.)

A new Omelas hole just dropped!

Woke up with a microblep #DailyDoggo

I am not on TikTok. I will never be on TikTok. This bethcato2 account is impersonating me and direct messaging writers in an effort to sell marketing services. Any account pretending to be me on TikTok is fraudulent.

interestingly under callais the only black lawmakers who could escape constitutional scrutiny are those elected by white voters, which is a pretty clear statement of who gets to be a legitimate political actor

the way to think of this is that it is the judicial version of “you’re the real racist for noticing my racism or even thinking about race”

under the court’s reading of the VRA and the 15th amendment, it is basically constitutionally suspect for a state to have a district that elects a black person to congress. you have to prove it isn’t an illegal majority-minority district.

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

Many people think of politicians' sexual harassment as a personal failing or private or adjacent to their real job or a character flaw. But it *is* how these men relate to power, not a distraction but a crystallization of their self-understanding of authority. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

What's this? The first #fightlikeagirl antho, now back in print from @wtpress.bsky.social , and with a brand new cover from @oisinmcgann.bsky.social? Features a new foreword, by me, explaining how the FLAG project came to be, and how it became so iconic! wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...

Aw, sometimes there is good news!