My very weird, very dark fantasy WHAT WE DEVOUR is five years old this year, so we're doing a giveaway! From now until 23 July 2026, you can enter here: 🚪https://forms.gle/vkJcFnUxKD95aoVb6 Thank you for reading What We Devour and loving Lorena. She needs it. 🖤

Finished a round of edits for my next YA fantasy and changed the title! I hope y'all like fantastical dark comedies...dark fantasy comedies...comedic dark fantasies? Anyway, the Alchemy of Lies is for you if you like: 🖤idiot exes-to-lovers 🖊️ruminations on the value of writing 🐝murder mysteries

Remember, you can join us for the virtual launch TONIGHT! Make sure to register for the event beforehand: charisbooksandmore.com/event/2026-0... bsky.app/profile/rosi...

BEING ARO IS OUT NOW! 💚 So excited to share this collection with the world! 13 authors writing about the aromantic experience across genres, all celebrating what it means to be aromantic! This was such a labor of love, and we hope you love it too! Get a copy: rosieethor.com/being-aro

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

Things we already knew because of prior research, but this still needs to be emphasized! Vaccines work! Yes, you may still catch COVID, but the vax will help keep it milder, make the infectious period shorter, and make you less infectious. (Also apply to flu and other diseases.)

***Urgent Action Needed*** We need everyone to call their reps to push back against HR2616, which would punish schools that "teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology" by withholding federal funding. It's part of their continued attack on the trans community. #booksky

🎉AUSTIN FRIENDS🎉 Come to GAB Fest tomorrow at the central library from 10-5. There are tons of amazing authors of all genres, interesting panels, and plenty of books. library.austintexas.gov/gabfest

I have seen the cover of my next young adult book and it is GLORIOUS. Can't wait to astound and confuse with this . . . dark fantasy comedy? comedic dark fantasy? fantastical dark comedy? Anyway, if you're wondering what the vibes of it are:

The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue by Zoulfa Katouh, out 6/2, is a tough, beautiful book. A must-have for teen library collections. bookjockeyalex.com/2026/05/15/r...

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

i do not know how i am going to market my next ya fantasy because it is very outside of the current category and genre expectations, but we're going to find out together also it'll probably be memes and bad

trying to come up with a new title for the book previously known as WIT'S END & i'm running on 2 hours of sleep, so every single option i've come up with is naturally a horrible joke anyway pls preorder FOR SALE: AUTHOR'S TYPEWRITER, NEVER USED or whatever it ends up being called when it's announced

I wrote this essay last fall for print only & I'm republishing it with their permission bc we're talking about didactism in kidlit right now and I have HAD thoughts about the connection between instructive lit and book banning. I'd be honored if you read it. www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2026/5/...

someone give the AI what we devour and mask of shadows for science

give me 400 pages of emotional leadup or give me no little death

"Sex scenes being specific to the characters and the moment, having a purpose, and moving the story forward shouldn’t be a revolutionary concept but somehow it is." put it on a billboard

President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide.

Another point to show that most people do not want book bans. The outrage (as usual) is manufactured.

I always include recommendations in my newsletter, but I'm realizing this is probably something I should talk about elsewhere? Anyway, I'm excited about these books or already love them!

do you love dark academia, fantasy, and horror? because if so, do i have the panel for you! see you soon, new york friends! 📖 shorturl.at/QMROz 📖

great news! this book comes out next year and they're still weird

“There’s a reason professional associations for librarians have been under attack & bills that would criminalize librarians have skyrocketed during this rise in censorship–librarians are obligated to uphold the 1st Amendment rights of all, rather than the interests of the current political regime.”

Look at what the good folks @readlux.bsky.social are doing as an example. They don't have the big money behind them that Turning Points has and they are still doing this. Why can't others do the same? They can.

Two Florida women argued that forcing them to have C-sections violated their rights. Hospital staff said their medical decisions threatened the health of the fetus. Courts would decide which one mattered more. By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

A few months ago I pitched Reactor an article about SFF around the world focused on translations, and @cxorlando.bsky.social came up with the loveliest idea to expand it into a column. We start this month with Hiroko Oyamada's The Factory, a great little novel about the irreality of office jobs.

Ready to oppose the National Book Ban Republicans are moving through the House of Representatives? Use 5 Calls to contact your Representative in the House. They'll find your rep for you and even have a script!

We’re very excited about our hookworm anemia vaccine and hope it becomes the second licensed human parasitic disease vaccine after malaria and the first human parasitic worm vaccine blogs.bcm.edu/2026/03/19/f...

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I haven't said this in a while, but if you liked one of my dark fantasies in audio or ebook form and wish you had something to get signed, I am always happy to send a postcard.

the main character of my next ya fantasy is doing great

Everyone look at Professor Pendleton from THAT DEVIL, AMBITION because she's perfect!

200 books are being moved from their appropriate spots in YA and youth sections into the adult section in Rutherford County Public Libraries (TN). This is to appease book banners and the Secretary of State, who demanded removals based on Trump EOs. It's still a ban. fox17.com/news/local/r...

19 MARCH 📖6 AUTHORS📖8 MINUTE READINGS hosted by @swsworlds.bsky.social Join us in ten days and find your next favorite SFFH book! I'll be reading my favorite passage from THAT DEVIL, AMBITION. There will also be some giveaways for the books being read.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our recommendation post for next month’s theme! Here are twenty books that we think also fit the April theme of Light vs Dark! These are a mix of Adult and Young Adult titles.

i have a problem

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Excited for this! 6 authors & their fantasy/sci-fi/horror. Lasts 1 hour. 7 PM central. Free but you'll need to sign up for the link! #SWSWQR @swsworlds.bsky.social @authorterribruce.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @linseymiller.bsky.social @gabriellebleu.bsky.social @engagereaders.bsky.social

Check out this upcoming LIVE, Virtual (via Zoom) event featuring #womenauthors and #nonbinaryauthors of #sciencefictionbook #fantasybooks and #horrorbooks. It's fast, it's fun, and it's always amazing. You're sure to find at least one new author to love 💗 #SWSWQR tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n

my next ya fantasy is going great I have created the perfect little guy ft. @rosieethor.bsky.social

19 MARCH 📖6 AUTHORS📖8 MINUTE READINGS hosted by @swsworlds.bsky.social Join us in ten days and find your next favorite SFFH book! I'll be reading my favorite passage from THAT DEVIL, AMBITION. There will also be some giveaways for the books being read.

i have 0 regrets also throw nicolas & isidora from mask of shadows in there too

Samuel Delany on the inseparability of style and content (via @maxgladstone.bsky.social 's newsletter):

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

my kingdom for a way to reorganize these so that they're not next to each other, scrivener