I am SO EXCITED

hey do you want to know about my secret wip book ok good

Seriously friends I just spent multiple hours helping my mom off her 30+ year aol habit toss a click at your locally-sourced whimsy crone or share with a friend. I need the light.

My heart 💔

January means a fresh start, new intentions, & a dozen things that will help get us through in creatively rebellious ways, up for all to read at the patreo-blog. Plus a *new development for subscribers at all levels*: a free-for-all write-in every week! www.patreon.com/posts/free-f...

Just to be clear: * Trump and his cronies upended an entire country, * Killed 40+ people, * Have randomly killed fishermen for weeks, * Declared a questionable interim plan to the entire world, ...and are now like... lol, j/k. Call your reps, demand action, and find a protest.

The sunrise today doesn’t seem to remember what horrors happened yesterday. (Poem snippet? Thoughts on social media? Both?)

This is the context in which what happened exists. Horrific, embarrassing, shameful context that every news organization is papering over and every member of the GOP is pretending they never saw a thing. It is a necessary read.

This is the context in which what happened exists. Horrific, embarrassing, shameful context that every news organization is papering over and every member of the GOP is pretending they never saw a thing. It is a necessary read.

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

Calling is better if you can swing it, but if you're phone shy here's a slightly augmented script I made for faxing/emailing/etc (feel free to steal in alt text). Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen... Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

Hey, friends: if you enjoy my work, why not check out Fake Folktales here in the new year? Original stories set in the world of Seraphina, Tess, and Charl, plus the shenanigans of the Folkloric Arts Research Team, two monks and a dragon who walked into a bar. patreon.com/u3437010?utm...

4. The Oleander Sword, Tasha Suri 5. Thousand Autumns, Qian Qiu 6. Updraft, Fran Wilde 7. A Broken Blade, Melissa Blair 8. The Light Eaters, Zoë Schlanger 9. Seven Tears in the Sea, Adrienne Moore 10. The Thorn of Dentonhill, Marshall Ryan Maresca 11. Driftwood, Marie Brennan

The Trump administration is shutting NASA's Goddard library down today and things will be archived in a warehouse or "thrown away." Much of this material is literally irreplaceable. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Can confirm true in the US — one of my most favoritest novellas of all time for twoooooo bucks, get it get it get it.

"Don't embarrass yourself. Don't embarrass your dogs." My Sunday Morning Transport story "First, Last, Oldest, True," is part of their annual storyflod—hope you will come read. www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/first-last...

This was such a fun conversation with @shaunduke.net and @skiffyandfanty.com ! Check it out and A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES too, before they escape!

Thank you so much, Nicole!

Full story is now free to read!

It's both a thrill & an honor that my short story "Mail-Order Magic" was selected to be part of the @morningtransport.bsky.social Holiday Storyflod this year! Find it linked here along with the other amazing chosen stories: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/smt-2025-h...

My short story That’s Our Time, is free to read in The Sunday Morning Transport over the holidays. It’s about a “chrono-therapist” who helps kids that have stopped aging, because their parents refuse to let go. ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...

Author me had several works emerge in 2025 for your consideration! * “Red, Right, Returning” in MiT/Candlewick’s STARSTUFF * “We Are Here To Discover” in Proxima Kosmos * A CATALOG OF STORMS : Selected Short Fiction (Fairwood Press) * A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES (Erewhon) 1/2

Just a beautiful remembrance that may make you weep. This Minnesota legislator murdered just six months ago—can you believe it?—with her husband and dog was clearly such an incredible person

My 2025 @clarkesworldmagazine.com Interviews!🤖 Simon Stålenhag & Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich R.T. Ester & K.A. Teryna Ken Liu & Rich Larson Thomas Ha & Martin Cahill Fran Wilde & Brenda Cooper Annalee Newitz & Allison King clarkesworldmagazine.com

I just gave my 20yo a rundown of the day's news, and he said, "It's all so dumb, it's hard to take seriously and so it's hard to fight. We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians!" "We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians" is going to stick with me.

A lord of the rings cover band called My Precioussssss

Tonight’s the final free-for-all write in of 2025 for subscribers!

I have a spreadsheet full of ideas, so many I will probably be dead before I finish.

I have a folder called Random Ideas where I jot down pitches and loglines that pop up. Occasionally, one meets the moment and turns into a full book. Related, the Random Idea of "Voyager comes home during DS9 s6" turned into THE PHOTONIC EFFECT, now on Netgalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

You are not out of ideas. They just want you to think you are. We are made of ideas. They’re made of plagiarism.

If you are not on @drownedworld.bsky.social ‘s holiday card list, I am sad for you. It is pure analog joy.

This is the phenomenon that inspired my story "Mail-Order Magic"! www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...

There's still plenty o' time to drop your information in here! Each year's eligibility post ends up with a really high clickthrough rate -- it's worth your time to make sure people know where to find your work!

Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.

OK folks, this year I have one (1) short story eligible for Hugo & Nebula award nomination, and this is the first time I am remembering to actually do an #awardeligibility post. :-) Please think of "Large Emotional Models" when you fill out your noms. (Read free at SMT!)

Hello Northeast Corridor Amtrak! Philly & PSFS, I’ll see you soon!

ICYMI!

This is a great novel, one of my favorites of 2025. Do you read @franwilde.bsky.social ? @ecbatan.bsky.social does! And so do I

Just a reminder that when Nightmare Magazine opens to subs again in January, we are VERY EAGER to read your dark creative nonfiction! We're the place to send that creepy list or micro research project about something awful. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

I'm getting so sick of having to find alternatives to alternatives. At least I still have my name on my website and a host I like. I guess we just need to bring back web rings.

(screams myself hoarse) This one is so much. It's SO MUCH, you don't even know!

We're looking forward to this too!!

This is a very good list of books with some interesting surprises there. I'm glad to see @sgj.bsky.social on there as Buffalo Hunter Hunter was my best book of the year pick, but also happy to see @silviapark.bsky.social and @franwilde.bsky.social make the list among many others!

A somewhat shorter -- though not sweeter -- GIFTS FOR WRITERS this year, over at the blog.

Philadelphia! I am looking forward to seeing you this Friday!

TFW you are minding your own business and an entire starling murmuration flows over your house.

Tomorrow tomorrow!

**slides this toward you** Surely, next year, you could use a poetry collection from moi? I'm very, very proud of it, and I'd love it if you'd preorder!

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! It was Podcast Week, with lots of pods dropping episodes. Plus, some excellent essays and a banging interview between Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine from @speculativeinsight.bsky.social.