if i don't reply to email, please don't be shy about following up. it's always possible i missed it. or it got buried in AI scam slop. or it was about parties, festivals, book clubs, or other opportunities and possibly mistaken for AI scam slop. or it is AI scam slop, and i hate you

On Wed Jul 29, for the folks in Manhattan with a lunch break and no money, I'm part of the free Bryant Park Summer Reading Room - Speculative Fiction panel with @clarenceahaynes.bsky.social @isabel.kim and Leila Siddiqui! bryantpark.org/calendar/eve...

eating corn for dinner. maybe there is still good in this world.

contemplating corporate personhood + corporations hypothetically having more rights than people + anyone can incorporate + actions taken in service of the corporation vs taken in service of the self + "piercing the corporate veil" as a metaphor + a startup is, at the beginning, on guy w/ an idea

oh my god i got so distracted by posts that i forgot to do the laundry

ngl ive been using the cyclosporis thing as an excuse to get malatang like, three times in the last week.

This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.

whys my post getting notes again [looks at who reposted it] you know what. that makes perfect sense. carry on.

computer give me squarespace alternatives

Sublimation by @isabel.kim is a brand new intriguing, smart and beautiful speculative novel, following a Korean girl and her American counterpart in a world where crossing a border generates a doppelganger of your self who stays behind... Properly thought provoking & will stick with you 💙📚🪐 #SFF

i was telling my parents about a book idea i had and they were both like "be careful! your friends might get mad at you!" and i was like "is it a bad idea?" and they were like "no! its great! but your friends might get REALLY mad at you!" so ig im gonna blow up my friend group to write [redacted]

im too tired to make a good graphic

what do you mean the thunderstorms and flash floods and chance of tornados didn’t even wash the ash out of the air

It’s probably good that teens come up with incomprehensible slang/references bc the experience of growing up is like arriving at a party where everyone already knows each other and has a bunch of shared references that you need to get up to speed on. So its only fair they get to confuse ppl too.

been spending a lot of time ruminating over gender recently. not mine. i did all of that in college. but for like, book purposes. "ruminating about gender for book purposes" < my life really isnt relatable to anyone huh

thought about it a little more and i think in sublimation, astronauts in general dont instance because nobody is going to space to Die Out There. everyone wants to come home.

Signed copies of sublimation at powerhouse books in Columbus circle :3

i had canva open

gonna write one of those "how i got an agent / how i sold my book" posts but formatted entirely like a 4chan greentext to weed out the weak

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the air in nyc tastes like licking a cigarette. Presmoked air.

ugh ok enough procrastinating ill write my damn story

theres always some damn email i havent responded to

maybe the ominous darkness is a good sign.

happy 250th anniversary of the great american experiment

everyone listen to wow if true the podcast of your wildest memes

ruminating about Content Strategy and thinking fondly about the 5 yr stretch where the only thing i posted on fb were "reviews of post backgrounds" bc fb posts had backgrounds. that was a perfect content niche for me. mildly entertaining or annoying to my friends. useless in all other ways.

Newtime TM

ok its updated. bios changed descriptions changed etc also updated where im gonna be in the next two months (sdcc, bryant park reading room, and worldcon)

its time to do my favorite task today: updating my website

We are about halfway towards our goal of picking up enough new subscriptions to give our staff, authors, translators, and artists a raise when we publish our 20th anniversary issue in October. Thanks to all who have signed up and/or boosted the signal. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

It's release day for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a wild dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. But what's waiting for him up there is far stranger than he imagines. I'm so proud of my dragon for finally escaping into the world!

about ten signed copies of sublimation left at Columbus book festival, if anyone is there and wants to grab one :3

artograph

“Do you ever stab people or do you think about stabbing people sometimes?” < small blonde child behind me in line.

Waffle House pit stop on the way to Columbus book festival !!! say hi to me but like when I’m at the festival not when I’m in this Waffle House I’m busy eating this waffle

i used a flip phone ama techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/d...

very pilled on using notecards to outline. being able to physically move around the various events has been extraordinarily helpful in getting the Sequence Of Events in the correct order without the usual amount of pain.

Finished this just now. Devastating & extraordinary & I can see the film that’ll be made of it with such crystalline clarity.

proving ur not ai by doing a sort of reverse updated voight kampff test from blade runner 2049 where the goal is to get as far from baseline as possible. this is not a good post. thats how you know a human wrote it. send skeet.

Happy UK pub day @isabel.kim! I'm currently reading this and it is astonishing. I was going to say something very important about the thematic depth and the complexity of the characterisations, but Isabel is a much better writer than I am so I'm just going to say: you should all read this book.

happy uk pub date to me. I’ve been up since like 6am for reasons unknown even to myself. Please enjoy the experience of reading sublimation (blue cover version) if you are so inclined okay thank you have a nice Thursday everyone

oh, man, this is great. finally a Senate candidate without a bunch of skeletons in his closet. hear he did really well with the big storm a couple years back

drinking a crisp 4pm lukewarm coffee and getting ready to [checks notes] interview one of the founders of pangram for my and @amanda.omg.lol 's [checks other notes] meme podcast. listen to @wowiftrue.bsky.social

updated my website with my next two Things Im At (columbus book festival and SDCC) and i'll be at something in NYC late july, too, but I'll post that after it's up on the place's website :3

youtube recommended me a mix called "music of japan" and im like. you know what. sure youtube. what does your algorithm think the music of japan is. ill click on that.

ruminating on "am i always working or never working" because on one hand i feel like i havent done anything today but i did send a few emails + work on two outlines + brainstorm about promo / merch things for Future Projects, all of which is technically "work" but feels too frivolous to call "work"

its kind of cool that a part of my job is researching random interesting things and then bashing them into fitting a plot.

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