Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

Thinking about this wrt how LLMs are being posited for archival scanning/digitization, creating records, and doing research. LLMs distract from the actual systems problems of a lack of funding, lack of resources, and lack of staff paid at a liveable wage.

Reminder: we are OPEN to reprints all month long! We are looking for reprints that cannot currently be read online for free! This includes stories that were never available online or are no longer online after a publication closed, etc. Find all the details in our guidelines!

There are monsters roaming free. www.patreon.com/posts/author...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

My latest story is very angry and timely and I'd like it to stop being timely.

let the new (FINAL sniff) Outlander theme song get you amped for this week's premiere, and enjoy this analysis slash song feels post that I've updated every season for the last eight (!) years

My open call with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! ffo.submittable.com/submit/35050...

it's march, beloveds which means we are currently open for POETRY SUBMISSIONS read the guidelines and send in those poems 🖤💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Nominations open for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

For awards season, I'd like to take a moment to hype FF's 2025 cover artists. FF's cover art is commissioned, based on stories from each issue, and @abistevensart.bsky.social @almosthomefree.bsky.social and @evelynepark.bsky.social did an incredible job of bringing these stories to life! 1/4

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨 Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.” Please send in your mycelial pitches to [email protected]. For word-count, formats, and remuneration: strangehorizons.com/submit/non-f...

Reminder: we open to reprints on March 1st! We are looking for speculative stories (by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors) that cannot currently be read for free online. We will stay open to reprints until the end of March and will likely open again later this year. 📝Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

So psyched to share a TOC with all these incredible authors! Adventitious Issue 2 letsgoooo

The empire needs someone to play the prophesized hero. Instead, they get Gev, a 40yo quartermaster with more talent for the logistics of supply lines than killing actual gods. Fake-it-till-you-make-it…or die trying (spoilers: he'll probably die trying). #WSPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

THE ELEGY AT LAKE LAMENDO Lucio is a court mage in Lamendo, a conquered Imperial territory. When his rebel sister attempts to assassinate Lamendo's puppet ruler—Lucio’s not-so-secret amor—Lucio risks everything to protect his familia. > Mesoamerica-inspired setting > tM/M #WSPit #Q #A #F #LGBT #ND

Exiled overdramatic telepathic space elf joins off-brand Starfleet. And, very much against his will (he protests! He protests so much!), makes friends. And learns how to (badly) pilot a starship with his mind. Space adventures ensue! Not necessarily in that order. #WSPit #W #A #SF #LGBT

ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To break this curse, she’ll have to confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world. #WSPit #W #A #F #LGBT #ND

keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

📣SPECIAL UNEXPECTED SUBMISSION CALL ANNOUNCEMENT📣 If you hate ICE and love horror and Weird fiction, please take a look at our current, very specific and necessary sub call. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Seems like some other publishing people need to see this. I write even the boring parts without chatgpt. So should you. Stop killing the planet and your peers' careers for laziness' sake.

I don’t usually campaign for awards, but this year I’ve decided to go for broke for a Fan Writer Hugo Award. Yay me! 1/

With the caveat that there are much more important things in need of financial support in our fucked up times, the support page for the Ignytes is back up for the 2026 cycle. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

WITH THAT SAID, if any editors still want to commission this hmu. It’s a good and timely piece that I haven’t seen written anywhere else.

Next up, @readingtheend.bsky.social. Jenny is a perpetrator of stone cold bangers and amazing litfic recommendations. Wanna see a sex scene dissected? Look no further.

Next up @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social (1 prev nom). Want to hear about YA from someone extremely in the know? Alex is your librarian for the job, and a great reviewer to boot. They write a wiiiide range, from reviews, anticipated lists, backlist suggestions and more, at Reactor...

The 3-Day Weekend Stretch Goal Surge continues, we might have to send out for more tea to keep it fueled. $344 to reach the first Stretch Goal of adding an additional 4-6 authors to the anthology. www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... Continued thanks bearing with us for these signal boost posts.

Hugo noms are open, and I'd love to put forth "Be Kind and Rewind" for your consideration. One year ago, on Valentine's day, Wyngraf published a story about queer/trans love that I coauthored with my lovely partner @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social. I'm a hack, but she made our story brilliant anyway.

Rockwell would have painted this.

hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Becca Rothfeld's piece on what we lose when we lose book coverage in newspapers is so, so good www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:

My Rapunzel retelling "Parsley Girl, Parsley Girl, Let Down Your Trichobezoar" is out @podcastle.org today! Inspired by pondering how Rapunzel's mother could so easily give up her firstborn to the enchantress, reframed by infertility (bc I've been there) and plant lore. podcastle.org/2026/02/10/p...

for age verification i should be able to upload a screenshot of my facebook page from 2004

We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest. We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.

The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign is 95% base goal funded (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 81% to SG1 & 71% to SG2. 10 more backers to base goal funding. A little more caffeine in our mugs today and we’ll be there. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

I'm going to win.

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

And most of the major media did not take it as seriously as they should have because they were also often ridiculed by Gawker etc. An entire century thus far of reactionary politics from people getting owned online.

furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman

can’t believe my first pro rate sale is out today in @havenspec.bsky.social! featuring: 💜 the worst sapphic situationship 5eva 👵 the existential dread of a quarter life crisis (spreadsheets! creepy directors!) 💀 “dying a hero is easy; living is harder”

Excited and proud to announce that I'm guest editing @tasavvurnama.bsky.social's Spring 2026 issue. Open for your South Asian SFF submissions now till the end of Feb.

ICYDK, publishing is in a decline. Many authors who have had dependable contracts in the past are now scrambling to make ends meet and seeing lower advances and fewer sales than ever. If you see lots of book publicity posts, it's because we're scared and trying to keep our jobs during The Horrors.