Congratulations to the finalists!!!

SO VERY here for new @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social !!

Congratulations!! And if you haven't experienced prom night yet...

A sharp eyed friend told me I’m a @slate.com crossword question … this is really cool!

Hey Texas, I’m coming your way next week, with a visit to Texas A&M and the Cushing Library - check out the public event on 3/2! tamu.libcal.com/event/16401752

In an hour or so, I'll be here with @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social , @edenroyce.bsky.social , @pdjeliclark.bsky.social and others! Come join us online!

The other day, a reader wrote that they’d noticed there isn’t a Worldwide Web in A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES. Just a city feed. They were brilliant and asked if all the cities & enclaves were like that. Me: yup. Them: why? Me: Safer. Internet’s haunted.

The Locus Recommended Reading List is out! So many great reads here. Congratulations to all with work on the list, including Story Hour guests @kashinggiwa.bsky.social, @franwilde.bsky.social, @tanaudel.bsky.social, @pat-murphy.bsky.social, and... (1/4) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

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/

Do I want you to read & vote in Locus & Hugo nominating rounds for the amazing Sunday Morning Transport authors, & for my books too? Definitely. Do I hope you’ll call your representatives today & yell about all the horrors & support people & small businesses in impacted areas? Yes indeed. Do both!

I have absolutely nothing eligible for nomination this year BUT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT SOME OF THE AMAZING STORIES I READ.

Oh hey Fran has a patreon you can check out!

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I love these books!

I’m being reminded talk up my Patreon! - Weekly write-ins for all subscribers (inc. free) - Monthly inspiration & news you won’t get elsewhere - Monthly tier-level prompts, craft essays, & mini-workshops. - whimsy - Mentoring, limited to 5 students, to level up. www.patreon.com/cw/franwilde

🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer 🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏

So this article just dropped. www.theverge.com/policy/87495...

The best birthday present I can imagine would be for you to check out these amazing stories I discovered in 2025, including lots that are from authors completely new to me, and to consider them for any awards ballots you might be working on!!

So excited about all the things!

Starting to feel like conservatives don't hate education specifically so much as they hate the idea of facts, data, or information existing at all.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Today, I am matching donations to any org in this list, up to $1000. Reply here or DM me with receipt. www.standwithminnesota.com

We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

In the gleaming glee where goblins reappear While our happy simulcast Clings to them forever I unfollow. Unfollow. Unfollow again. @$/3%#!!€ #poem

In: what the hell compels that kind of question (dodging implied) Out: crickets.

Trump Scolds CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for ‘Not Smiling’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

New @omgjulia.bsky.social poem! "Wolves" smallwondersmag.com/piece/wolves/

The Philosophy of Empty Food Bowls

Don't threaten ME with a good time...

This is who runs this account

The LOCUS Recommended List for 2025 is up. Congrats to all on the list. Special congratulations to Fairwood Press authors @franwilde.bsky.social and Rich Larson, whose books are on the list for Collection! 2025 Recommended Reading List – Locus Online share.google/vz3cOdyz1iZJ...

So much love for this universe and this thread.

So excited and grateful to see both A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES (Erewhon) and A CATALOG OF STORMS (Fairwood Press) on the Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List, along with so many, many outstanding works! Thank you @locusmag.bsky.social ! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

HEY I AM DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS AND GIVING AWAY A SIGNED ARC (advance review copy) OF OBSTETRIX THAT'S RIGHT YOU CAN HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND MAYBE GET A FREE EARLY SIGNED COPY OF MY BOOK

reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today

“If you weren’t so mouthy, I wouldn’t have to hit you so hard.” GOP abuser logic, front and center. Get them out. Take away their guns and their masks and their money.

we are never getting over this

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Thank you so much to everyone who's helped me celebrate Enchanting the Fae Queen's North American book birthday! Here's a little roundup of some of the lovely things early reviewers have already said about it. ❤️ stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen #romancelandia

Cannot tell you how transformative it is to have a dear friend come shouting about a book & specific characters. (Esp when it’s one of mine & I’m struggling rn to write in the midst of everything.) If you love something (non-creepy / enthusiastic), tell people. Especially creators. It matters.

Tide is turning, kittens. Peddle on the gas. Keep calling.

It's hard to believe it, but the day is finally here! Ballad of the Bone Road is officially out in the world!

You hear amateurs complaining about how cell phones ruined a lot of their thriller plots, but truthfully THIS is what makes my job as a grimly hopeful science fiction author harder. "We got the information out to the public! Now everything will be okay!" is no longer in the optimistic ending toolbox

The Sunday Morning Transport departs for a cruise today with a story by Marie Brennan (@swantower.bsky.social) that wonders what happens when the tame becomes very, very wild. Free for everyone to read (as the last of our January stories.)

We got you. ✊ Call scripts are updated to demand investigations, block funding for ICE, and impeach, like, everyone. Have at it. 🔥☎️🔥

In lieu of saying a lot of things I will regret to folks talking out of their asses right now, here’s @naomikritzer.bsky.social’s excellent post on how to help Minnesota right now : naomikritzer.com

Making these calls now. Then I'm calling my Maryland legislators again on all of the current related bills.

Bigger picture, I hope people learn from this that an intersectional coalition where people MOSTLY agree on direction but probably have differences in specifics or execution can come together to take down the bullies. Once again, you can't govern if you can't win.

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...