WHAT IF WE JUST INVESTED IN ARTISTS AND AUTHORS LIKE MANY OTHER COUNTRIES

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This makes TEN books for THE KIDS IN MRS. Z'S CLASS - with two more on the way in March! How many have you read so far?

People of Minneapolis and Saint Paul! Join us at the Twin Cities Book Festival on Saturday, where the great @ambersparks.bsky.social and myself will chat about finding family in speculative fiction: twincitiesbookfestival.com/william-alex...

Centrists peddle Diet Coke while the right sells cocaine. You can’t ween folks away from the rush of uncut fascism with sips of carbonated, sugar-free betrayal. Both kinds of coke are bad.

A hallmark of this year's Banned Books Week? The censoring of Banned Books Week. That, plus this week's extensive roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/banning-bann...

2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life” Discovered in Turkey

Halloween parade for the children of Uncanny Valley, Pennsylvania, 1918 #Halloween

“Supernatural horror is a technique for restoring the right kind of emotion to the horrifying things that people do or that are done to people. You’re reestablishing that a terrifying thing is, in fact, terrifying.” - @kellylink.bsky.social

ICYMI: The bookish conversation between Claire, Carlos, and myself at the wondrous @kewandwillow.bsky.social has been archived below!

That was super fun. Archived video of @willalex.bsky.social at @kewandwillow.bsky.social here: www.instagram.com/reel/DQK9L8A...

Carlos & I had a really great game day yesterday. We playtested an iteration of @willalex.bsky.social’s slumber party RPG & our own RPG from @outlandent.bsky.social, NEGOCIOS INFERNALES. We played DICE MINER, a press-your-luck dice-drafting game. YAY! outlandentertainment.com/collections/...

People of Brooklyn! I’ll be at the King’s Bay Public Library at 2pm today (Saturday) to chat with the great Carlos Hernandez, and there will be sushi. Details below…

People of Brooklyn! I’ll be at the King’s Bay Public Library at 2pm today (Saturday) to chat with the great Carlos Hernandez, and there will be sushi. Details below…

There will be words TONIGHT!

“SUNWARD manages to broach some of the thornier questions about the nature of personhood while also cozily insisting on the importance of good coffee to human comfort, now and forever.” ☕️ 🚀 www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...

Oh my goodness, happening tomorrow! Carlos and I get to be in conversation with @willalex.bsky.social at the great @kewandwillow.bsky.social! kewandwillow.com/event/2025-1...

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

A list of bookish things I'll be doing THIS WEEK in NYC:

The selectors said: "Rakesfall is an extraordinary achievement in science fiction, and a titanic work of art.” You can read the panel's full statement and watch Chandrasekera's acceptance speech here: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

FLAME SWORDS IN SPAAAAAAAAACE

Book 105 or so?: Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. Space courier who helps raise AI bots (true AI, not the bullshit AI we have today) gets ensnared in political revolutionary shenanigans. 💙📚

HAPPENING NOW-ISH!

Tonight on FICTION: IMPOSSIBLE, co-hosted by Carlos Hernandez & yours truly, @willalex.bsky.social kicks off his SUNWARD tour week! He'll read from his SF novel, talk about process & publishing & we'll all discuss books and games we've been liking recently. Join us 7 PM Eastern: twitch.tv/csecooney

That’s a wrap on the 2025 Green Mountain Book Festival!

Our second session of the day is all about worldbuilding, featuring @willalex.bsky.social, @margotfharrison.bsky.social, and @brianstaveley.bsky.social.

Look at this cool LISTICLE that VAL VEGA author @benfrancisco.bsky.social wrote about Latinx SF! Luminaries mentioned include Carlos Hernandez and @willalex.bsky.social! Among others! benfrancisco.net/2025/10/15/1...

Look at these SWEET TINY FLYERS that Carlos Hernandez made for our event with @willalex.bsky.social next Thursday at @kewandwillow.bsky.social! Thurs, 10/23, 7-8PM Kew & Willow Bookstore 81-63 Lefferts Blvd. Kew Gardens, NY RSVP here: events.humanitix.com/in-conversat... We hope to see you!

On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT. The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

For the first time in a while, my shop is open! All the funds will go toward some life changing stuff for myself, and it will make way for some new products for next year. chanchauart.com/shop

People of Vermont! The Green Mountain Book Festival is happening this Saturday in Burlington. Come for the No Kings Rally, stay for the books. (Sponsored and hosted by @phoenixbooks.biz and the Fletcher Free Library.) www.greenmountainbookfestival.org

People of NYC! One week from TONIGHT I will be chatting with @csecooney.bsky.social and Carlos Hernandez at @kewandwillow.bsky.social:

In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, I wrote a listicle of awesome Latinx Science Fiction to read ASAP! W/ great books by @boriscrito.bsky.social @pazsays.bsky.social @valerievaldes.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social @willalex.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social benfrancisco.net/2025/10/15/1...

I wrote about my favorite high-tech future heists today at @reactorsff.bsky.social ! Includes @yumewrites.bsky.social @byzantienne.bsky.social @greatdismal.bsky.social @willalex.bsky.social Alexander Freed !!

Hey, if you're in the area, I'll be on @vermontpublic.org's Vermont Edition to talk about this week's Green Mountain Book Festival in about 20 minutes! www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont...

Congrats to all the IGNYTE award nominees and winners—go out and buy their amazing stuff!

Here's a theatrical short story about killing the malevolent ghost of Columbus for all who celebrate. @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

People of New York! Next Thursday I will have words with the indomitable @csecooney.bsky.social & Carlos Hernandez at @kewandwillow.bsky.social. We would love to see you there. RSVP: events.humanitix.com/in-conversat...

Here's a theatrical short story about killing the malevolent ghost of Columbus for all who celebrate. @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Just reminded of this great podcast we did with @willalex.bsky.social a while ago directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

"A goose could absolutely kill a god." - the 12-year-old

This is a lovely and blush-inducing chat about the audiobook of SUNWARD, which was given life and breath by @lindseydorcus.bsky.social.

This feels apt today. (& If you love the Canarviers, give them a shout, tell someone to catch theirs today !)

I'm reposting this one again as an action item for all of you writers, illustrators, translators, and anthology editors this #BannedBooksWeek. We are stronger together through @authorsabb.bsky.social. Trainings included. authorsagainstbookbans.com bsky.app/profile/catw...

y'all, this book is the one if you love magic, revolution, and words—imagine Miyazaki & Russell Hoban & the Bread and Puppet Theater all hanging out together

I wrote a story set in the SUNWARD universe and you can read it right now if you want to.

"It's not a badge of honor... What does it mean? It means that the fascists are winning — for now." - @malindalo.bsky.social