This one is a departure: instead of rereading a book that at least one of us knows by heart, we are reading an early DWJ novella that neither of us had ever encountered before. So please enjoy watching your friendly neighbourhood podcast hosts losing their minds in real time.

IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!! You should buy this btw. @emilytesh.net is great, and every purchase supports Mermaids.

How gorgeous is our special edition of The Incandescent?! 🤭🐦‍🔥 We're absolutely obsessed with this edition, and we're so excited that copies are shipping now! Limited copies are still available on our website 😉 @emilytesh.net #LitPins #LitPinsAndCo #TheIncandescent #EmilyTesh #SpecialEditionBooks

Oh, hello! My @litpinsandco.bsky.social special edition of @emilytesh.net's The Incandescent has arrived. Ordered it last year when it was announced so I'd totally forgotten about it, but it's lovely, the artwork is fabulous. Still a great read too.

I had a simply incredible time at Åcon - a con in a beautiful place with delightful people. I drank so many Finnish alcopops.

check it out, I’m UNPREDICTABLE 😂💪 Sat next to the brilliant @emilytesh (we must stop meeting like this…) #locusmag #locusmagazine #emilytesh #sunyidean

Happy (paperback) Release Day to THE INCANDESCENT by @emilytesh.net ! “If you, like me, are a very tired grown-up, The Incandescent will hit you right in the heart." —Alix E. Harrow #BookSky

I love public speaking so much. I did a talk for four hundred or so teens at a school yesterday and I'm still buzzing. Give me a crowd and a stage to stand on and by some mysterious sorcery I transmogrify into Showtime Em who will not stop until she makes you all laugh.

Finished reading @everinamaxwell.bsky.social's Call me Traitor and ahhhhhhhhh You need this book in your life and also the narrators are the best and the worst sapphics

I am simply entranced by the book I'm working on. I think it's so good. I like it so much. It could be so much better. I got an edit letter from a friend a few hours ago and wanted to yell for how sharp and right it was. This is the best part of the work.

What an incredible list I find myself on! Thank you to all who nominated THE INCANDESCENT for a Hugo Award.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists. Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s. 2021 is here, and... 1/2

Read my ARC of The Fall of Elvenesse by Kai Ashante Wilson. Looked up the release date. It's a year away I have to somehow restrain myself for a YEAR. I need everyone I know to read it NOW. What. a. book.

Today I am at Luxcon. here I am with the wonderful Sunyi Dean! @sunyidean.com

Read my ARC of The Fall of Elvenesse by Kai Ashante Wilson. Looked up the release date. It's a year away I have to somehow restrain myself for a YEAR. I need everyone I know to read it NOW. What. a. book.

me in late 2024: I have an idea for a quick and easy kissing book the book: oh you FOOL. anyway it's done. this draft is, at least.

by Robert Gonsalves

The Incandescent is a Locus Award finalist, and in excellent company! Many congratulations to all the nominees.

Excellent chat yesterday evening with author @emilytesh.net about Peter Jackson's adaptation of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Keep following us (rss.com/podcasts/aft...) to find out when we upload the episode. Close your eyes, it's... AFTERIMAGES! 🎥 🎞️ 📺

We're so excited to reveal one of the five overlays drawn by the wonderful Laura (lumie.draws) which are included with our edition of The Incandescent by @emilytesh.net! 🐦‍🔥 We'll be keeping the other four a secret for now, but we cannot wait for you to see them all 🥰

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

#UKSFFBookBsrgains. £3.99 for two @emilytesh.net novellas which won her the Astounding Award.

the thing is there's a ton of excellent fantasy by and about men right now but they're apparently not the type of men ""mantasy"" is referring to! hm!

Was feeling melancholy, but then I dug up Theoden with an undercut from my vault of memes

Eastercon adventures: I am done panelling for the day and have achieved the Bar.

And here's this again if you're looking for me today!

Eastercon people, I’m doing the very first ever reading for CALL ME TRAITOR (the sapphic winter soldier book) on Monday at 10:30! I would be delighted to see any of you there! I also on some panels as below:

Here’s my Eastercon schedule!

"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.

I have achieved Eastercon!

Shocking and shameful: appalling ignorance on the part of school leadership, and a naked abuse of safeguarding processes. The Lowry Academy has successfully protected its reputation from any suggestion that they actually care about educating children.

sorry I'm like this y'all but you have FIVE MORE DAYS, is all, and because I have totally forgotten to mention it, let me just add that one lucky nominator will win a whole pile of books, which is to say the entire 2025 shortlist! could be yours! go forth and nominate!

fractured thumb life: I am five books into pern and I have figured out how to type fast with nine fingers specifically so I can yell about pern in @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social's DMs

I am an hour and a half early to my author event this evening so I’m sitting in a pub with a large glass of white wine and a book about dragons.

five books into my pern reread I am developing Opinions and also a horrible awareness that I cannot possibly read all the mccaffrey I want to in time for the panel

Is it a problem that Dark Lord of Derkholm often decides not to dwell on the darkness of its subject matter because it's instead busy fitting more jokes in? Perhaps yes. Are all the jokes very funny? DEFINITELY yes. zencastr.com/z/lClP6mCT

fractured thumb life: I read the first two Pern books yesterday for the first time in about twenty years. gonna see how much mccaffrey I can get through between now and Eastercon when I’m on a panel about her work.

Forgot to mention: I’ll be on a panel with Antonia Hodgson (author of THE RAVEN SCHOLAR, a book that kept me up till 2am) at the Oxford Literary Festival next Monday! oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

fractured thumb life: I read a book. I played Slay the Spire 2. I did all the chores I can feasibly do one-handed (not many). I gazed forlorn at my very! nearly! finished! draft! this is hell nor am I out of it.

update: I have fractured my thumb 😔😔😔😔😔

I fell down the stairs this morning and hurt (a) my pride (b) my backside (c) my THUMB. Pride and backside have now recovered but the thumb hurts so much and everything I do is typing.

While I’m mentioning very nice things: Some Desperate Glory is a nominee for Best Translated Novel in the Seiun Awards! Many congratulations to translator Hiroshi Kaneko, and to all the nominees.

Really delighted that The Incandescent is a Nebula finalist For Best Novel. Congratulations to all the nominees!

After a month of buildup, may I present... The Queersar not an award 2020! 10 (+1) great queer SFF novels. V good year for queer SFF; I found it *really* hard to narrow down to 10. But happy with what's on here & more convinced there *is* a gap in the award landscape for books like these.

Thank you to my wise and wonderful friends for bringing me along for this ride!! I had so much fun digging into this book and I hope that comes through on the episode. Bonus joke: if DWJ was writing today about R. Venables, wizard and game developer, he would definitely be working in Unreal Engine.

Thanks for your patience as we got our Deep Secret episode out the door! We're thrilled to have @agbouskila.bsky.social as our guest consulting expert on game dev and magids on this week's trip back in time to [Definitely Absolutely A Completely Fictional Con], 1997 zencastr.com/z/WduuwZZw

"I crave books with enough specificity that I can say they are not for everyone; the alternative, I think, is books that are not for anyone. Books that are, essentially, for the algorithm."

The @clarkeaward.bsky.social judges said this would be a future classic of the genre. FT said it was one of their SF books of the year. Interzone said all kinds of nice shit. It is now cheap. Buy it, think about direct action and punk and the climate and hope wrapped round a brick

Of course they do... genius. On this basis, I'm assuming, there's a retired primary school teacher out there whose antibodies could do the childhood disease equivalent of walking into the Copland Road end at Ibrox in a Celtic shirt and offering to take on all comers.