SFWA members and general SFF community: In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events. Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey. SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee. www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...

The Expanse RPG: Transport Union Edition is out! With a whole chapter written by me! I hope folks enjoy the expanded Threats rules -- more environmental hazards, Laconian adversaries and a bunch of Ringworld critters like ... the slithersquirrel 👀 greenronin.com/blog/2025/12...

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Dyinggggg this is my recommendation of the year - FEAST WHILE YOU CAN by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta. Small town monsters, queer awakening drama, nails the horror / romance split.

Watch this space. 🚀🪡 www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

For your general consideration....we published eight novellas this year. Three issues of Baffling. And a short story collection by Christopher Caldwell. (Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)

Hearing a live excerpt of this audiobook was the highlight of my Can*Con, make sure you back if you haven't yet!

“Orkney is one of those places where the veil over the distant past seems to lift,” Alex Ross writes. Read his dispatch from northern Scotland, where traces of Neolithic people—and those who came after them—remain present. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/bfPBed

GREAT chat with high level craft & industry insights from a bunch of smart people and I'm not even biased or anything.

A gorgeous, poetic, surreal love story.

Nominate CASTOFF for an Indie Ink Award! This is my first year vying, and I'd love to see CASTOFF recognized in any of the following: - Best Cover - Best Friendship - Best Setting - Side Character MVP (Innis rules) Nominations close Nov 30! indiestorygeek.com/a...

Loved this piece - text RP reinvigorated my creative drive after I became a parent and introduced me to my writing partners! Highly recommend playing pretend as an adult.

New writers: DO NOT give away your subsidiary tv/film/merch/derivative rights for a $300 short. Not even for legacy mag cred.

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨ Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

Romance should evolve, but its so clear when people want the shine and financial benefit of Romance without respecting the genre, its conventions, or the readers. It's disturbing, but not surprising that we've arrived in a place where CRAFT DOESNT MATTER is a thing people believe.

Every 5 years or so, some genius VC-backed startup tries to monetize fanfic. 831 Stories seems particularly cynical to me, astroturfing their own tag on AO3 and even linking the site on their official page as though it's just another place to have a social media presence.

Ugh, I can’t stand this publishing startup. They pay people to write fan fiction — they tried to commission a story from me. 831 Stories was founded by MBA brains who saw how lucrative romance is as a genre, and their branding targets lit snobs who think they are better than romance.

...and if you attended our underground-concert-style secret hotel party and listened to me & Brendan do a LIVE PIANO VERSION of the reading, you know we also take requests. 😂 @lynnesargent.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social @anoteinpink.bsky.social @faye-gabriel.bsky.social

Breaking the social media avoidance to signal boost Sienna Tristen's Kickstarter for an *orchestrated audiobook* of the first Heretic's Guide to Homecoming novel! I've heard a sample (you can too, below) and trust me, if you like audiobooks, you need this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...

i was delighted to illustrate @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue of Baffling Magazine !

Can't wait for this!

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I've unlocked a big essay I wrote this summer about developing your table's shared storytelling skills for games like but not limited to: Daggerheart, Blades in the Dark, Apocalypse Keys, The Between, etc. www.patreon.com/posts/142374...

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

Can*Con is done, but another event looms! In Toronto! Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!

I couldn't imagine a sharper duo to grab a critique from -- don't miss this!

💀 Eight more days to send us your speculative novellas! 💀 Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy: COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho

I had such a lovely time in Ottawa this weekend! The SFF community up here is truly something special.

I could have talked with these folks for another two hours! I hope you all write those essays you mentioned...

say hi to me this weekend at can*con please

Today! The continued adventures of my favorite badass Deyeri. Love this cast of characters who continue to grow and change well into the second halves of their lives.

📚 Opening in two days 📚 (If you submitted to us over the summer, we are still reading/considering those manuscripts and hope to get back to you within the next 30 days or so)

Tonight! Join me live on @epicrealms.bsky.social where I'll be talking Castoff, games writing and more. Plus there'll be a Q&A! 7 pm EST / 6 pm Central 🦑 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@epi... Twitch: www.twitch.tv/Epic_R... #Booksky #canadian #SFF

Full request; form rejection.

I'm thrilled to share the news that I am Lead Designer for the new Dungeons of Drakkenheim Campaign Guide for Daggerheart! An official collaboration b/w @dungeondudes.bsky.social, @ghostfiregaming.bsky.social, and Darrington Press. More in my own words here: www.patreon.com/posts/140655...

Looking forward to my first in-person @canconsffh.bsky.social NEXT WEEK (how did that happen?). I'll be on two panels on subjects I love: collaborative writing & Alanna the Lioness (and other formative queer fantasy works), as well as celebrating the release of CASTOFF by @brandoncrilly.bsky.social!

And these? These are all BOOKS. CATALYST and CASTOFF, together for the first time, courtesy of @atthisarts.com. Most are bound for my launch at @canconsffh.bsky.social (Oct 18!) and the rest will lie in wait for a special November event at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social w/ @thescreambean.bsky.social!

Delicious, finally some good fucking food!!!! "We read for the flame. Not the heat of arousal (necessarily), but the way a story changes when two forces meet. Both things cannot maintain the same trajectory."

UM WHAT our campaign is officially a Kickstarter "Project We Love"! Now more than ever supporting queer speculative art, poetry, and stories is so important—it means a lot that our want to create space for queer artists, poets, and writers resonates so strongly! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Be careful out there!

My first panel at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is coming up at 3pm EST - When Writing Isn't Your Day Job. Tips, tricks, and how to keep all your separate (or are they?) selves happy while you create.

If you've always wanted to dip a toe into TTRPGs but haven't had a chance, I couldn't think of a better first DM to have than @brandoncrilly.bsky.social (even if a carnivorous plant eats your character).

Then tomorrow is "Collaboration for Prose" in Hour 28 (4 pm EST) where I not only get to chat with the very cool @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @mariebrennan.bsky.social, but I get to panel for the first time ever with *my* writing partner @faye-gabriel.bsky.social!

It's @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social time!! My first panel later today is "Collaboration: The Art of Sharing Success" in Hour 7 (7 pm EST) w/ @mickallister.bsky.social and @hisiheyah.bsky.social. We've got a whole bunch of topics prepared and I can't wait!

whoa october is around the corner! reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon. more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

This #BiVisibilityDay, now more than ever, as a bisexual, it's my job to lurk ominously in the incongruous shadows of a completely white room. Might fuck around and Emerge later.

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The movies and books were a little different for me, but the emotional journey in this really resonates with the "not queer just a very interested ally" teen I was.

FLIGHTS OF FOUNDRY is THIS week!!! See you on the discord this Friday! Register: flights-of-foundry.o...

Okay--question for the Bluesky Brain Trust. Romance novels. Good ones, ones that actually can help me be more romantic in my own life. (Yes, I'm starting with @courtneymilan.com's works, but...many eyes, bugs shallow.)