CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

Novelists! @taylordotbiz.bsky.social just dropped the soundtrack to The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One. Any words written to this music will do rare and wonderful things.

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

Timeline cleanse

Have you ever wished things could be different? Less painful? More free? Come to Kindred Cove, where transformation is possible, healing is mandatory, and nothing is ever lost. MAKE ME BETTER is my novel about grief, belonging, and control. It's out today everywhere books are sold.

You cannot imagine the glee and pride that I have to tell you that me and @sarahwebb.bsky.social have adapted the first book in @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social, @erikaishii.bsky.social, @aabria.bsky.social and Lou Wilson's @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social story, THE WIZARD, THE WITCH & THE WILD ONE!

🎶Haaaaaaaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY everybodeeeeeeeeeeeeee, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasppy boooooooooooooooooooook daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Picard responsibility tip: Don't leave known, wide-scale problems behind for the next generation to solve.

I've been thinking a lot today about how much I treasure so many of my colleagues and their work in children's lit and so here's a very casual thread of some books I've really loved reading with my kids:

It's weird to watch people to post and enthusiastically endorse the national ambassador's comment that nearly 95% of kidlit is crud (lol so true!), and then when people get upset, say that the quote was taken out of context.

🎶Haaaaaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY dear @fondalee.bsky.social haaaaaaaaaaappy booooooooook daaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

New Book Releases: May 5, 2026 locusmag.com/2026/05...

Friends, a new poem for you, from me! Fresh from the sea for Mermay… at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-me...

🎶Haaaaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAAY dear Jadziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, haaaaaaaaappy booooooooooook daaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

🎶Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY dear @marthawells.com & Murderboooooooooooooooot, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy booooooooooooooooooook daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

Samuel Delaney's review of the original Star Wars:

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

This morning I noticed a man leave the library. Broad he was and bearded, with a child perched high on his shoulders and a tall stack of books balanced on his head. (1/2)

This is haunting. Let it haunt you.

Happy May Day! This is a great time to watch this three minute puppet film I made last year, which I promise you is topical.

Today's the day, folks! Click through for WHY and WHAT you're doing today for #MayDayStrong! Lots of options!!!

Steal my books to feed this beast and you get what you get.

This week on In Your Spare Time, @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social reads post 3, "The Absent Silence," from October 27, 2010. inyoursparetime.libsyn.com/adrienne-mar...

it is my very, very, very strong conviction that if you have only read Le Guin's fiction, you are deeply missing out SFF folks: read The Language of the Night! kidlit folks: Cheek By Jowl! everyone: Dancing at the Edge of the World! and then when you've read all those, The Wave in the Mind!

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

We all need a ballroom.

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe. Happy Earth Day.

We're proud to announce that the Worlds Beyond Number: The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One (Book One Original Soundtrack), composed by Taylor Moore, will be released on May 15th! Pre-orders are live NOW at worldsbeyondnumber.com! More details: www.patreon.com/posts/156284...

🎶Haaaaaaaaaaappy BOOOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to all of YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

Congratulations to the Hugo finalists!!! But also, and in all sincerity, congratulations to everyone who has a book out today!!!! It's TUESDAY and that is NEW BOOK DAY and I don't want everyone's book news to get lost in all the Hugo excitement!!! reactormag.com/2026-hugo-aw...

Congrats to the Hugo finalists!!! file770.com/lacon-v-anno...

I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I'm up this week on the @ursulakleguin.com blog podcast, reading the title essay, "In Your Spare Time." It's a great Le Guin for skeptics and beginners, a little bento box of her ideas and prose—irreverent, thoughtful, and moving. inyoursparetime.libsyn.com/julie-phillips-reads-in-your-spare-time

Post a pic of yourself as a doctor

NOUVEAUTÉ ✨ Un space opera plein d’action, d’humour et de chaleur qui interroge nos manières d’être au monde et de tisser des liens. 🪐 Un roman de William Alexander, une traduction de Florence Bury et une illustration de Owen Gent Illustration. www.l-atalante.com/catalogue/la...

In which @julie-phillips.com channels @ursulakleguin.com to mock a questionnaire and look far, far forward into the dark. 5ad920d0-3c20-4fcd-956b-a560bd7db94e.libsyn.com/julie-philli...

Hi it is my birthday, please do something to support the freedom to read ❤️ Ilovelibraries.org + Call your reps to oppose the federal book banning bill HR 7661: reps.fyi

Thank you to everyone who has supported us. We can't do it without you! There are 4 hours left to donate to our fundraiser at locusmag.com/igg26 and make a huge difference, every little bit counts. Claim your reward for donating! Link in bio!

This Freedom to Read Panel is happening April 15 at 6 pm at the St J Athenaeum. Panelists: • Christine Owens & Caitlin Wallingford —St. Johnsbury School Librarians • Merlin Heima — Tunnel Books • Jo Knowles— Vermont Author • Moderator: Loralee Tester • Youth Moderators: Donley & Florie Johnson

Want to stand up for the freedom to read? With legislation like H.R. 7661 shaping the future of access to books, contacting your members of Congress is one of the most effective ways to make your voice heard. Your voice matters, and it helps shape the policies that affect our libraries and schools.

WELCOME HOME MAGNIFICENT SPACE PEOPLE 🌒

🎶Happy belated BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY dear @anicarissi.bsky.social haaaaaaaaaappy booooooooooooook daaaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶📚🎂

The first episode of In Your Spare Time (an ensemble performance of Ursula's blog) is now live and online! Listen, or your eardrums will never forgive you.

Bidding closes at 8pm PDT TODAY 4/8!! We have some really precious items up for auction including original art and limited edition books from Martha Wells, William Gibson, and more. Give them a loving home! Visit here: https://twp.ai/9PcLjE

In a world where savvy book coverage and short fiction reviews are becoming harder to find, Locus' critics are working to keep genre publishing healthy and innovative--but as @charliejane.bsky.social reminds us, they need our support to keep going:

We interrupt your justified and incandescent rage for bookish things.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.