*tapping the sign since it appears canon discourse has returned*

This is something that I’m helping to run this fall: the Green Mountain Book Festival! This year’s headliner is @scalzi.com, and it will take place in Burlington VT on October 18th.

Woohoo, received my pre-ordered SUNWARD by @willalex.bsky.social! Just started reading, thoroughly enjoying so far! Love the idea of baby bots, one of whom names itself Agatha Panza von Sparkles. 🤖😂 Published by Simon & Schuster / @sagapressbooks.bsky.social #KidLit #MGLit #BookBirthday

We're halfway through September, and there are a TON of new science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other books hitting stores this month. Here's a selection that you should check out: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/september-20...

Happy book birthday to SUNWARD, a cozy scifi adventure by award-winning writer William Alexander (@willalex.bsky.social)! 🎉 SUNWARD follows a planetary courier training adolescent androids in a solar system grappling with interplanetary conflict after a devastating explosion on Earth’s moon.

Ahem. 🎶Haaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAAY tooooooooooooo meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…🎶 📖🎂🚀

🎶Haaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAY dear @mcflycahill90.bsky.social haaaaaappy booooook daaaaaaay tooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

SUNWARD from @willalex.bsky.social is a delight that brought me back to the Golden Age sci-fi stories that I loved growing up. Check out my review of this sci-fi cozy, out today --> fanfiaddict.com/review-sunwa... @sagapressbooks.bsky.social #BookSky

September 15th through October 15th is Latinx Heritage Month. Go support a Latinx writer, artist, musician, filmmaker, business, restaurant etc. Especially during these turbulent times. Our community would appreciate it. Much love ❤ 🇲🇽 🇺🇸

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

It's finally September! Do you know what that means??? Flights of Foundry is THIS MONTH. Register: flights-of-foundry.o... Let's gooooo! 🪽🪽🪽

🎶 The world is still consumed in flame, but I must joyfully proclaim: Tomorrow you'll discover what my novel SUNWARD has in store! One more dawn. One more day. ONE DAY MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE...🎶

ONE DAY MORE

🎶 The world is still consumed in flame, but I must joyfully proclaim: Tomorrow you'll discover what my novel SUNWARD has in store! One more dawn. One more day. ONE DAY MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE...🎶

SO excited about SUNWARD coming TOMORROW from @willalex.bsky.social

William Alexander's Sunward is a lovely cozy sci-fi about found family and community. Out 9/16 from Saga Press. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/09/10/r...

Is there a better rush than being understood?

🎶One week more. Another seven days remain my friends, until the lengthy wait for SUNWARD ends. What secrets do these pages hold? What lunacy will soon unfold? One week more...🎶

🎶One week more. Another seven days remain my friends, until the lengthy wait for SUNWARD ends. What secrets do these pages hold? What lunacy will soon unfold? One week more...🎶

Pub day in one week! buff.ly/26khtsy There's two ways to win! #Goodreads #giveaway buff.ly/3lwGYgF #thestorygraph #giveaway buff.ly/P8TsytD Read an excerpt! buff.ly/BsHYL6S @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @hannahnpbowman.com @thestorygraph.com @civilianreader.com

lithub.com/false-lore-a... Books by @naominovik.bsky.social , @willalex.bsky.social

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I'm very happy to be one of this year's Guests of Honour, alongside Sheree Renée Thomas, Anna Martino, and Trick Weeks! Flights of Foundry is free, online, and a good time. You should totally come

Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

SUCH GREAT HAPPINESS to see our friends and backers with the GAME! The GAME ITSELF! And the beautiful map that Shannon Potratz made for us! And Rebecca Huston’s incredible art on our cards! And all the care and love in the design by the @outlandent.bsky.social team!

NEGOCIOS INFERNALES by @csecooney.bsky.social and Carlos Hernandez has arrived and it is GORGEOUS.

Totally unsurprised by how brilliant this article from @wendyxu.bsky.social is at @reactorsff.bsky.social and deeply grateful for it. Worth a read; if you're someone who even casually wonders about the use of AI in art, please read this & strongly reconsider, yeah? reactormag.com/creativity-v...

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨ Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza! 322 still without bids: www.32auctions.com/organization...

*dons the resplendent and many-feathered hat of self-promotion once again* ⭐ SUNWARD has a second starred review! ⭐ The full review will be in Booklist's September issue, but meanwhile I am permitted to share that they found it delightful. @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @ala-booklist.bsky.social

🎶Haaaaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAY dear @charliejane.bsky.social haaaaaaaaaaappy booooooook daaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

What does it take to be Saint Death's herald? A good support system. And a lot of second chances. @mcflycahill90.bsky.social reviews book 2 in C.S.E. Cooney's Saint Death series: reactormag.com/book-review-...

Haaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAY dear @melikhovo.bsky.social haaaaaappy boooooooooook daaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU

I am so very honored to be part of Team Uncanny’s Hugo Award win last night. I can’t express how much it means to me after the absolutely horrible circumstances around the creation of those 6 issues. I worked on them in PICU rooms and through the worst grief. I am glad folks still loved what we did.

FLY FOREVER, SPACE UNICORNS!!!!! @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

The #HugoAward for Best Related Work goes to Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, Jordan S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press). “Insist that tomorrow belongs to everyone.”

YAY @ryannorth.ca !!!!!!

YAY @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social !!!!!!!

YAY @nghivo.bsky.social !!!!!!

YAY @naomikritzer.bsky.social !!!!!!!!!!!

YAY @littlebadger.bsky.social !!!!

Today I must shout joyfully into the void, because SUNWARD will be on bookshelves one month from right now!

*waves at @planetx.bsky.social* Hi, Jadzia!

Friend of the newsletter @willalex.bsky.social is our guest host this week! If you're looking for what to read today, we've got you covered!!

Today I must shout joyfully into the void, because SUNWARD will be on bookshelves one month from right now!

Please read this book. bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

🎶Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAAAY dear @franwilde.bsky.social haaaaaaaaappy booooooooook daaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

Hey friends! Here’s a $10 off discount code for the @reachyourapex.bsky.social workshop that Carlos and I are running on Thursday! Use code DOON10 for “Playful Storytelling: Fresh Ideas from other genres,” this Thursday, August 14, at 1 ET, at reachyourapex.com/playful