Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

The Anthropic book theft settlement is essentially done, but many more battles remain. I also agree with Catherynne M. Valente's recent essay calling the settlement "blood money." 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/155693...

Goodreads' giveaway for The Eye of Leviathan is ending soon, but you can still sign up! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Attention fans of THE GREEN BONE SAGA: Join Fonda Lee in Austin on May 9th to celebrate her standalone dystopian epic THE LAST CONTRACT OF ISAKO! Fonda will be in conversation with Marshall Ryan Maresca. Tickets🎟️: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople... @fondalee.bsky.social @mrmaresca.com

With this absolutely STUNNING cover, I really must pay tribute to our wonderful designer, Sam Gretton. He would not welcome the attention, I've no doubt, but I've now worked with him for over three years, and his covers are astonishing. As well as this one, here is a thread of a few gorgeous others:

Lady Trent's Field Journal will have a second volume -- add it to your pledge now! And one eager backer can design a new dragon, entering their name in the annals of history as the first to scientifically describe that species! #Kickstarter #ProjectsWeLove www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

I woke up and this was already fully funded. So congrats to Marie and Avery!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

Finally, I should mention that the pattern deck *itself* is eligible for a Hugo Award, under the umbrella category of "related work." Should you wish to get one for yourself, you can do so here! #HugoAwards #Hugos pattern-deck.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

And @emiko-ogasawara.bsky.social/Emiko Ogasawara's design for the card back links the spindle, shuttle, and shears of the deck's three suits together with the thread of fate. Eligible in the fan artist category! (To be clear, that's due to other factors, not art quality.) 4- #HugoAwards #Hugos

@aliellkok.bsky.social/Avery Liell-Kok's Faces and Masks -- think court card/Major Arcana -- are gorgeous watercolors whose "blind contour" technique creates a shifting, overlapping look that perfectly fits the dream magic of Vraszan. Also pro eligible, near as I can tell! 3- #HugoAwards #Hugos

@blueludebar.com/A.C. Esguerra's cards are an intricate series of repeated motifs, compositional layouts, and color groupings that help link them together across the suits. As best as I can navigate the byzantine rules, they are eligible in the pro category! 2- #HugoAwards #Hugos

if you are a bigot or support bigotry or act in a movie built on the profits of hate, people are allowed to not like you 1. because bigotry is bad and 2. because people generally DONT LIKE THINGS THAT HURT THEM. like this is so obvious. it is not 'canceling' it is an exercise in basic human autonomy

Pretty depressed about this country I live in today, so I'm going to share my art. I wrote a book that is in part about growing up queer in India without knowing it. It follows a family of refugees who may be from another reality, living in Calcutta:

Fandom really shows up 💙 Huge thanks to Fandom Trumps Hate for choosing DLU as an auction recipient! Their community comes together to support great causes through fanworks—and they’ve raised thousands for disability justice 🙌 Check out: buff.ly/SvGBbhS #FandomTrumpsHate #DisabilityJustice

That last one sounds harsh but its actually not that bad. This isn't an industry where anyone gets picked up and swept away on a magic carpet of money and fame. This is an industry where being in the position to keep doing the work is, for most of us, the reward.

For folks interested, Goodreads is doing an e-book givaway for The Eye of Leviathan! Sign up here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Lady Trent's Field Journal will be going live in a few weeks, so sign up here to find out as soon as it does! 4/4 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

We have a cover!!! With a fantastic blurb (thanks, Kate!), a really cool logo (thanks, Cory!), and a sneak peak at one of our amazing maps (thanks, Tim!) @inkshark.bsky.social @macarrick.bsky.social @swantower.bsky.social @kateheartfield.com www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Bidding is closing soon for Fandom Trumps Hate. I have a few offerings up for folks interested: Written: fth2026offerings.dreamwidth.org/77672.html Fanart: fth2026offerings.dreamwidth.org/164433.html Podfic: fth2026offerings.dreamwidth.org/408102.html

After 12 years and editing close to a thousand different writers, I've learned there are two edits that will transform a perfectly pleasant human into a nearly homicidal figure: - Suggesting that a non-grammatical comma used as a pause could be cut. - Changing an American's use of "grey" to "gray."

it's late enough to post about spicy comics somewhere, right? one week left to get the @cartoonist.coop bundle i'm in, if sales hit $3000 i'll add my out-of-print nsfw sketchzine for free again 👯‍♂️ itch.io/b/3495/the-c... #nsfwcomics #nsfwart

Tagging onto this #HugoAwards thread: with the poetry award returning, let's talk about where to find poems to nominate! I know a lot of people last year felt a bit adrift on that front, so here is a (*very* non-exhaustive) list of suggestions, with links . . . 1/- #Hugos

If you're nominating for the #HugoAwards, may I rec to your attention our wonderful artists for the Rook and Rose pattern deck? I *think* the first two are eligible in the pro artist category and the third in fan (though if you want to be *really* sure, you can nominate them in both). 1- #Hugos

It's odd posting about awards eligibility & asking please consider me when my book's barely out so not many of you have read it. But I have one sole eligible thing this year, and I'm proud of it in all its briny strangeness. So hey, please consider THE SALT ORACLE if you're nominating? 🖤🖤🖤

If you're nominating for the Hugos, I just want to point out that Lee Harris is my editor for both Witch King and Queen Demon, the recent reprints of my earlier books, and of all the Murderbot Diaries, from the time he bought All Systems Red for Tordotcom in 2016!

I’m a no on Cizeron.

I am eligible for Best Long Form Editor, but there are about fifteen editors I would vote for before myself 😁 Talented folk, in the SFF editorial field!

I would be very honoured if anyone wanted to nominate one of my eligible works for a Hugo.

'Tis the season! If you're a nominator I would love for you to consider Transmentation | Transience by @darklylem.com. Eligible in the Novel category. 1/2

It’s Hugo Nominating time again 👀👀👀

For those eligible to vote you can do so for my poem Cassandra published by Ucanny Magazine in 2025: www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-maga... www.uncannymagazine.com/article/cass...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Hugo nominations are open, so it's time to mention my eligible works: the Rook & Rose Pattern Deck is eligible as a related work! Our artists are also eligible for Best Fan Artist: A.C. Esguerra (thread & clan cards), Avery Liell-Kok (faces & masks), and Emiko Ogasawara (card back)

I made two vids for #Festivids! My assignment was a Hook vid for @winterevanesce.bsky.social. This movie is WEIRD and I just leaned into the pirate action. archiveofourown.org/works/77365721

I'll be at Barrow's Intense Ginger all afternoon for the inaugural @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social Book Fair! Come snag a copy of COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES, try an Oregon Trail Buck and check out some really cool authors, and publishers. It's gonna be a great day!!

I'm going to say this again in case you haven't heard this one: I was a talented writer and it did *nothing whatsoever* because I hadn't put in the work, and I put in the work for ten years (subtracting the bit where I had to quit for my mental health) to write Witchmark talent alone could *never*

And after ending that recording, we discovered that our lovely editor included bonus ARCs of books by @anuja-v.bsky.social, @mollyoneillwrites.bsky.social, and @oranjessie.bsky.social! youtu.be/kS6ZZ4TF7ng

We have ARCs! The Eye of Leviathan takes one step closer to being a real book! youtu.be/mpCobQSGdkI

idk the last time i talked to someone who was on the 'but ai is the only way i can make an art, ai is democratizing art' bullshit, it only took like 2-3 responses to get them to admit that they don't want to actually make art, they just want to claim pretty pictures as their own

Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards?? @mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Bike rides are being organized all over the country for Alex Pretti this Saturday. Find one in your city, and if nothing is planned, go for it! bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...

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.)

deadly ice within the city murders good and murders pretti pretty good turns ugly awful villains claiming death is lawful one was pretti, one was good and both are dead because ice could

TODAY ONLY (12/21), The Mask of Mirrors ebook is discounted to $2.99 on Kindle as an "Editor's Pick Goldbox" deal! (US customers only; my apologies to the rest of the world.) Affiliate link: www.amazon.com/Mask-Mirrors...

TOPH!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZoZ... Only part of me wishes they'd cast Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and just never said anything about it. Like everyone still treats him like a 12-year-old blind girl. But we can't have everything, I guess. (Vin Diesel or Jason Momoa would also work)

For years we've had a widget on our website where you can lay out a pattern reading for yourself -- but great news! Now it has the pretty, pretty art by @blueludebar.com, @aliellkok.bsky.social, and @emiko-ogasawara.bsky.social! www.macarrick.com/pattern/

A few years ago, Marie added a widget to our website that lets you do a three- or nine-card pattern reading. Now, with the completion of the actual physical Rook & Rose pattern deck, she's added the card art so you can get the full experience! www.macarrick.com/pattern/