COVER REVEAL TIME! Every Room a Hunger will be out February 16, 2027. illustrated by Michael Rogers, designed by Rich Deas and Beste Dogan. Preorders are open, so please please order through your local indies (library requests are also 💜). Order links and description threaded below 👇👇

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.

I'm about 300 shy of hitting goals until Husbeast hopefully starts getting paid. I'm gonna nap more, eat less, work the same, and try not to throw up. Y'all know how it be.

relatedly: thoughts on a semi-regular column on the handbasket about how much AI sucks?

ok if you see AI being used in idiotic or nefarious or unethical ways (especially in the journalism/media/publishing realm) please flag for me moving forward :)

i just feel like if assholes can make billions shilling AI then i can make a few bones talking about how it fucking sucks www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

And as far as poetry, there's some great stuff on this year's Nebula/Hugo lists - I love "The World to Come" by Jennifer Hudak strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... and "To Be the Change" by Nico Martinez Nocito: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Short story - two of my favorites are both by Premee Mohamed - "Everyone Keeps Saying Probably" and "The Youngest Son Misses His Boat to the Crusades": augursociety.org/the-youngest...

Content Warnings abound but one of the most powerful spec fic stories I’ve read in recent years is RABBIT TEST by Samantha Mills www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabb...

my favorite short fiction is @alexlondon.bsky.social's F*** THESE WIZARDS from the Sunday Morning Transport! Though alas it's not free. But SMT is a good subscription to have!

#Booksky! Tell me your favorite pieces of speculative nonfiction and speculative poetry! Your favorite speculative short fiction! Bonus points for being able to read free online, though not mandatory. I'm putting together my speculative survey course for August and would love to hear any recs!

My next newsletter "What does it mean to be a "good literary citizen"? (And why we should call it "being in literary community" instead)" is coming Tuesday. Subscribe below! (I'm not great at advertising my newsletter, though my agent tells me if I'm to write a craft book, I'd better hop on it... )

#Booksky! Tell me your favorite pieces of speculative nonfiction and speculative poetry! Your favorite speculative short fiction! Bonus points for being able to read free online, though not mandatory. I'm putting together my speculative survey course for August and would love to hear any recs!

It's Not Either/Or. It's Both/And. On Blink YA & Undermining Literary Choice. Young people need access to *all kinds* of books, not just those that pass some kind of purity test. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

I am so excited to say WE BLEW OUR FUNDING GOAL OUT OF THE WATER!!!! The FULL cost of production for the anthology is now covered... thanks to all of you!!! Missed the campaign? Late pledges are open until we order the books! I'm still waiting on my proofs so there's a little time yet :)

How many hundreds of thousands of Africans does a man have to kill by yanking foreign aid to get called racist around here?

Friends, we have ✨🌟SUCCESSFULLY FUNDED YEAR 5 OF TALES & FEATHERS🌟✨ THANK YOU for supporting us so far; we're incredibly excited to bring you more slice of life fantasy in 2027. 🪶 BUT WE'RE NOT DONE! We're still funding: -T&F Year 6!🌠 -T&F Print Edition! 📚 Back & share to help us get there! 💚

Hey readers, writers, and librarians in Arkansas! Make sure to send in your feedback by June 7th! (I'm guessing you'll have some on a proposal like this

UK readers! Bookshop is giving 20% off preorders of THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS with the code PREORDER20. The deal is good through the 17th. My dragon can't wait to meet you!

This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

Crowdsource: Are there orgs/groups in your area doing really great community organizing work? I am building a directory of places for people to plug in, and I am trying hard to launch with coverage of top metro areas in the country, every state, and cool groups people haven't heard of.

I am reading @naomikritzer.bsky.social's Obstetrix every night. It's a chewy thriller about a doctor who is kidnapped to deliver babies at a Christian Fundamentalist compound. Tense, deeply human, with Kritzer's knack for plotting and character. Drops in June. I am loving it.

FRIENDS I AM NERVOUS FRIENDS!! This is the first time that paid subscribers to my serialized novel JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING get to vote on what happens next! It's not that I think they'll make the wrong decision. But giving up narrative control feels strange! Not entirely unpleasant?

My episode of the In Your Spare Time podcast is up today! I had the joy of reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s excellent piece about exorcism from November 2010. I must also note that @mollytempleton.com's intro made me CRY, a thing I do not (usually) do. inyoursparetime.libsyn.com/leah-schnelb...

If you haven't read it yet, here's the poem: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-... (be sure to check out some of the other fantastic poems that have come out in Uncanny!)

Stay alert for HR 7661! This horrible book banning bill has been brewing in the House. Please call your reps to make sure they know about it, and to make sure it doesn't get snuck into any wild-ass omnibus bills. And thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social for the graphic encapsulating the bill

In these last *checks watch* 10 hours before our KS closes, we are $31 away from covering full production costs!!!! anything beyond that might, dare I say, compensate the editors. I learned Affinity and spent 6+ months on this layout trying out different things. It’s GORG tbh. I’m super proud of it!

An anthology that - let us repeat - INCLUDES ME!!!! and if that's not an incentive - and I get that - IT ALSO INCLUDES LOTS OF OTHER AMAZING FOLKS!

Only 12 hours left!! This sounds so fantastic.

OMG @mariahaskins.com reviewed my novelette for @locusmag.bsky.social and had such very lovely things to say. Am I dreaming?? "Mother, Darling" @strangehorizons.bsky.social: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

10 hours left in the Sword & Kettle anniversary anthology! proofs are looking stellar, and I'm so excited my story "Nothing Natural" will be back in print. check out this project while there's still time: www.kickstarter.com/projects/swo...

lots of conversation about book buying on this site today, which is amazing!!!, but also let's do something to stand up against book-banning 1) call your reps and tell them to vote no on federal book banning bills HR 7661 & HR 2616 2) ilovelibraries.org 3) authors join @authorsabb.bsky.social

29 HOURS LEFT TO SUPPORT OUR TINY QUEER/COOPERATIVELY OWNED PRESS!!!! We are fully funded and only $500 from having the full costs of this queer and intersectional speculative anthology covered!!! Featuring this incredible cover, editor introductions to every piece, and a dope internal layout!!

I really encourage everyone who is fixated on the pipe dream of prosecuting ICE agents or whatever “when all this is over” to learn more about #ReparationsWON & the imagination & skillful organizing that went into winning something that actually supports survivors, their families & communities.

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

ngl the hugos and worldcon + associated community should probs do a WAY better job of explaining that Yes, Membership Costs Money BUT the hugo voters packet contains wayyyyy more media than you'd normally get for that money.

For the last several years, I've asked folks to share with me the pushback they've received before, during, and after Pride when it comes to events, programs, and displays in libraries. Here's this year's form. Please share far and wide and use it. All anonymous: tinyurl.com/Pride-Librar...

Good morning, friends! We are ✨SO CLOSE✨ to hitting that 5k benchmark; let's do it today! Many excellent goodies available, and two sold-out reward tiers have been made available again! If you want a T&F editor to edit your story, or consult a linguist on your fantasy language, now's your chance! 💚

This is why I keep saying that part of the story in my new book is that thinking about weird abstract ideas like quantum physics is an important part of democracy www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

In a new report, PEN America documents a doubling of censorship of nonfiction in public schools on subjects from history and health to general knowledge as book ban campaigns “embrace anti-intellectualism." pen.org/press-releas...

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

If you're a book creator and you're mad about our latest scandal du jour I encourage you to channel that energy into: 1. Calling your reps (house) and demanding they vote no on HRs 7661 and 2616 2. Volunteering with AABB. We NEED more people. We NEED this energy. TLDR: Touch grass, call your reps

Ok. We all had our day to talk shit and be angry. But it's Wednesday now and I'd love to encourage the kidlit community to focus on our real fight. There are now 2 book banning bills introduced on the federal level. 7661, which we largely know about but now 2616, too. It's call your reps o'clock!

My Bombay gothic werewolf tale returns in this lovely anthology by Sword & Kettle Press. 🐺 They've done amazing work over a decade; please support the kick-starter and show them some love. ❤️‍🔥

A huge congrats to the finalists! What a wonderful joy to see friends like @rblemberg.bsky.social, and Sword & Kettle/Corvid Queen author Katherine Quevedo! Katherine's INCA WEAVER'S TALES was the 2025 Elgin chapbook winner; read an excerpt in our 10 year anniversary anthology (KS link below)!